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Join Jeffry Farrell for the Elements of Practice yoga livestream each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9am, and Saturdays at 10am.* *Join Jeff IN PERSON *OR* via livestream for the Saturday sessions! They are live-streamed on the shoreline of White Rock Lake in Dallas, TX, behind the Bath House Cultural Center. **For updates such as inclement weather cancellations for the Saturday sessions, join Jeff's online community at http://yogamasalawithjeffryfarrell.locals.com. Updates will be posted there. While there is a paying membership level for the community, it is not necessary to join at that level in order to receive class updates.

Join Jeffry Farrell for the Elements of Practice yoga livestream each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9am, and Saturdays at 10am.* *Join Jeff IN PERSON *OR* via livestream for the Saturday sessions! They are live-streamed on the shoreline of White Rock Lake in Dallas, TX, behind the Bath House Cultural Center. **For updates such as inclement weather cancellations for the Saturday sessions, join Jeff's online community at http://yogamasalawithjeffryfarrell.locals.com. Updates will be posted there. While there is a paying membership level for the community, it is not necessary to join at that level in order to receive class updates.

Join Jeffry Farrell for the Elements of Practice yoga livestream each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9am, and Saturdays at 10am.* *Join Jeff IN PERSON *OR* via livestream for the Saturday sessions! They are live-streamed on the shoreline of White Rock Lake in Dallas, TX, behind the Bath House Cultural Center. **For updates such as inclement weather cancellations for the Saturday sessions, join Jeff's online community at http://yogamasalawithjeffryfarrell.locals.com. Updates will be posted there. While there is a paying membership level for the community, it is not necessary to join at that level in order to receive class updates.

Join Jeffry Farrell for the Elements of Practice yoga livestream each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9am, and Saturdays at 10am.* *Join Jeff IN PERSON *OR* via livestream for the Saturday sessions! They are live-streamed on the shoreline of White Rock Lake in Dallas, TX, behind the Bath House Cultural Center. **For updates such as inclement weather cancellations for the Saturday sessions, join Jeff's online community at http://yogamasalawithjeffryfarrell.locals.com. Updates will be posted there. While there is a paying membership level for the community, it is not necessary to join at that level in order to receive class updates.

Join Jeffry Farrell for the Elements of Practice yoga livestream each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9am, and Saturdays at 10am.* *Join Jeff IN PERSON *OR* via livestream for the Saturday sessions! They are live-streamed on the shoreline of White Rock Lake in Dallas, TX, behind the Bath House Cultural Center. **For updates such as inclement weather cancellations for the Saturday sessions, join Jeff's online community at http://yogamasalawithjeffryfarrell.locals.com. Updates will be posted there. While there is a paying membership level for the community, it is not necessary to join at that level in order to receive class updates.

Join Jeffry Farrell for the Elements of Practice yoga livestream each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9am, and Saturdays at 10am.* *Join Jeff IN PERSON *OR* via livestream for the Saturday sessions! They are live-streamed on the shoreline of White Rock Lake in Dallas, TX, behind the Bath House Cultural Center. **For updates such as inclement weather cancellations for the Saturday sessions, join Jeff's online community at http://yogamasalawithjeffryfarrell.locals.com. Updates will be posted there. While there is a paying membership level for the community, it is not necessary to join at that level in order to receive class updates.

Part 3/3 // 7-12-23 // Three basic yoga moves to close a practice. Remember our physical forms are not merely repetitive sequences. Every posture is a form for your breath. The purpose is not virtuosity although that will happen naturally. The purpose is to use the postures, to activate selected awareness using breath and physical forms. As we do, we activate the body as a vessel of memory and functional imagination. Do not aim for the glory of the pose. Treat the body as a friend. Discover Stillness.

The first principles include Breath Delivery, Shtira/Sukha/Dukha, Three Planes of Movement. See today’s Unit #1 “description” for helpful details. Please Leave a Comment so I can learn how to respond in this format. thanks.

Some Principles of practice today. I. Selected attention in the body. “Shtira.” Shtira is the Sanskrit term for wholeness, unity, strength, alignment, balance with conscious breath, altogether. We aim to identify shtira in every posture, and to use breath in transitions of posture to carry into the next pose. “Sukha” is the term for ease, for effortless effort. Using breath we set our intention for an isolated movement. Ease does not mean laziness, sloppiness, or weakness. Sukha is active. Using breath we enter into the depth of the new pose. We observe three planes ( see below) of opposition. We hold to clarify shtira in the new pose. We observe the exit of the posture, entering the next pose. “Dukha” is the term for pain, limitation, restriction, obstruction. It is the experiential teacher. It guides us to identify shtira, to be guided with sukha. II. The body’s awareness arises in three planes. Movement with breath activates the awareness. 1. Twisting on the spinal axis — Transverse Plane. 2. Side bending with aligned ankles, hips, shoulders, and ears — Coronal or Frontal Plane. 3. Forward bends and back bends — Sagittal Plane. III. Note regarding Names of poses and practices— Names arise with particular teachers and lineage. The same work may have different names based on the sources / training / lineage of the teacher. Further, every posture has many variations. Join Jeffry Farrell for the Elements of Practice yoga livestream each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9am, and Saturdays at 10am.* *Join Jeff IN PERSON *OR* via livestream for the Saturday sessions! They are live-streamed on the shoreline of White Rock Lake in Dallas, TX, behind the Bath House Cultural Center. **For updates such as inclement weather cancellations for the Saturday sessions, join Jeff's online community at http://yogamasalawithjeffryfarrell.locals.com. Updates will be posted there. While there is a paying membership level for the community, it is not necessary to join at that level in order to receive class updates.

Functional Asana for the Back, Part 3/3 // 7.10.23 // The concluding sequences here include variations of supine bound angle pose and supine triangles. These moves are most effective after having awakened three planes of movement in the spine, after capacity for conscious breath delivery into the body, and after working with basic principles of stability, effortless effort, and the recognition of limitation ( shtira, sukha, dukha) . The initial set presented here abbreviates and condenses many other moves into a simple initial set of practice. While the poses are the forms we use, and as every form is a vessel for our breath, the purpose isn’t virtuosity of form but rather we use posture as a tool for living. We awaken life force in us, unlock painful, dysfunctional movement, awaken aligned strength and balance with ease and breath. We close with three breaths — inhale, lock, exhale: 5:20:10. Final “wise guy” passage from Swami Rama: “the language of love.”

Yoga asana Part 2/3 // 7.10.23 // Functional practice for the back. Floor foundation. Not comprehensive, these are condensed presentations for functional movement of the spine. Notes touched on include shtira, sukha, dukha. Intuitive breath.

Join Jeffry Farrell for the Elements of Practice yoga livestream each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9:00 am. *Join Jeff IN PERSON *OR* via livestream for the Saturday sessions! They are live-streamed on the shoreline of White Rock Lake in Dallas, TX, behind the Bath House Cultural Center. **For updates such as inclement weather cancellations for the Saturday sessions, join Jeff's online community at http://yogamasalawithjeffryfarrell.locals.com. Updates will be posted there. While there is a paying membership level for the community, it is not necessary to join at that level in order to receive class updates.

Join Jeffry Farrell for the Elements of Practice yoga livestream each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9am, and Saturdays at 10am.* *Join Jeff IN PERSON *OR* via livestream for the Saturday sessions! They are live-streamed on the shoreline of White Rock Lake in Dallas, TX, behind the Bath House Cultural Center. **For updates such as inclement weather cancellations for the Saturday sessions, join Jeff's online community at http://yogamasalawithjeffryfarrell.locals.com. Updates will be posted there. While there is a paying membership level for the community, it is not necessary to join at that level in order to receive class updates.

Join Jeffry Farrell for the Elements of Practice yoga livestream each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9am, and Saturdays at 10am.* *Join Jeff IN PERSON *OR* via livestream for the Saturday sessions! They are live-streamed on the shoreline of White Rock Lake in Dallas, TX, behind the Bath House Cultural Center. **For updates such as inclement weather cancellations for the Saturday sessions, join Jeff's online community at http://yogamasalawithjeffryfarrell.locals.com. Updates will be posted there. While there is a paying membership level for the community, it is not necessary to join at that level in order to receive class updates.