Blog – Yoga Beautiful

Dear Yogis,

Raining at last. The garden is loving it, I am loving it. Yesterday I planted beans, dock and a native spinach, so this rain is just perfect. This is a corner of my kitchen garden. A bit “Heath Robinson” in build, but I use everything. No straight lines here. I use old pots so I can move things around in the frosts and individualise feeds, leftover tree trunks from the last felling I use as retaining walls – these deteriorate and are home to insects and fungi. I noticed some “very interesting” fungi the other day, and last year the beloved turkey tail fungi emerged as if by magic.

In the photo you can see Zucchinis, potatoes, strawberries, and broad beans just happening. Radishes are hiding under the foliage as is Lebanese cress. In other parts of the garden are garlic, onions, chives, and silverbeet… kale is happening, sorrel looks good, and of course the Herb Robert, my go-to greens which grow and help all year. They are magnificent mulch builders too.

COVID AGAIN:

Just in case you had forgotten, below is the recipe that we have been recommending and taking all through covid. I always have some frozen and on hand – I think covid is going to be about in the winter, so please keep your immune system up and running – it is your main natural protection.

This mix contains the naturally occurring form of hydroxychloroquinine which is the remedy that Trump took when he got Covid.

Recipe: 3 grapefruit, 2 oranges and one lemon chunked and put in a saucepan with just enough water to cover (the whole entire fruit, nothing taken away nothing added).

Method: Cook slowly until they soften, then use your stick blender to make into a thick soup. Transfer to your ice block cube maker (BIG CUBES) and freeze, you can then put a defrosted block of the mix into a glass of WARM water, or soda (I prefer tonic – even warm it tastes good), or a frozen block into hotter water. The aim is to drink warm, not cold, and sip during the day (or night), continuously, so you will need a number of glasses during the day.

Many of my students have used this remedy. Sipped when you are sweating it out in bed can shorten your suffering considerably we have found, and then taken after you have recovered helps the immune system fight off re-infection.

YOGA CLASSES AND STUDIO TIMES…..

ZOOM GITA : Monday evenings at 6.30pm

Windarring Yoga – Tues. 1pm

STUDIO YOGA WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full) Wednesday Restorative 1pm

TAROT ADVISOR – Always available by appointment.

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING Sunday 28th April at 2.30

OPEN STUDIO (STOCK ROOM SALE) – Friday 3rd May 5.30 to 7.30 and then Saturday 2.30 to 5pm

THE YOGA LUNCHEON: Saturday 27th April, 12 noon in the back room at The Victoria Hotel in Woodend. You are all welcome, but please let me know if you would like to join us if you haven’t emailed me already. yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

SEE YOU IN THE STUDIO
and – you can always make an appointment to see me at my studio gallery.

Dear Yogis,

I AM OPENING MY STOCK ROOM.

Just a “reminder” that my little studio gallery in Morris Road will be open on Friday 3rd May from 5.30 to 7.30 (and a repeat on Saturday the 4th from 2.30 to 5) for an occasion I am calling a “PETITE BROCANTE”. I don’t have a Chateau in France (and I am not keen to take on such problems) , however I do have some luscious finds I have been selling at antique stores – actual not on-line – but I thought I would release some of the nicer pieces for you.

I have all kinds of treasures as well as my new “Pixilation Paintings” of Van Gogh and Monet among others. I am loving doing them but they throw up all kinds of technique challenges which keep me working and thinking. Among the treasures in the studio which will be available to you, are really old posters with Pre-Raphelite images, original Japanese prints, and a couple of pieces of gorgeous vintage jewellery. The studio is going to be crammed with a cross section of collections from my stock room at great prices. A Louis Vuitton handbag, jewellery, posters, vintage fashion, woodblock prints, and my “Pixilations”.

Keep the date free. At our first opening I had Mumms champers for those who stayed the distance . We will have champers of course this time, but probably nothings as glamorous as Mumms.

NEW COURSES/CLASSES COMING UP –

DISABILITY YOGA – I was negotiating with a large yoga school in Brisbane to present my Disability course. But they wanted a video presentation and I want to work via zoom and speak with my students – so I am doing it myself with my students who want this personal teaching. You can teach theory via video, you can not teach disability yoga this way. It is NOT a matter of remembering a series of yoga asanas. This will start at the end of May. If you are interested let me know. Note: This course is not about teaching athletes in wheel chairs.

TAROT ADVISOR/COUNSELLOR. I have been teaching this one-on-one. If you would like to do it on-line I can do this and would like the opportunity. I have sent around an email, but you either haven’t received it, or wrongly believe I don’t want an answer. Please reply.

YOGA CLASSES AND STUDIO TIMES…..

ZOOM GITA : Monday evenings at 6.30pm

Windarring Yoga – Tues. 1pm

STUDIO YOGA WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full) Wednesday Restorative 1pm

TAROT ADVISOR – Always available by appointment.

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING Sunday 28th April at 2.30

OPEN STUDIO (STOCK ROOM SALE) – Friday 3rd May 5.30 to 7.30 and then Saturday 2.30 to 5pm

SEE YOU IN THE STUDIO
and – you can always make an appointment to see me at my studio gallery.

Dear Yogis,

It was a weekend mostly in the garden… The weather was lovely (as it is today) but we do need rain. I have built the most lovely winter kitchen garden. I plant most of my vegetables in tubs because I can feed and and manure “to order” for each plant, and move them around if they need a different climate, I can also net them easily having to protect plants from possums, cats and birds.. As well as protecting the greens from the big leopard slugs and snails. At the moment I am winning.

Last year one of my students kindly planted broad beans for me, and they still haven’t surfaced – I kept hoping and therefore missed a crop. However, I planted a heap of seeds about two weeks ago and they are already about 6 inches out of the ground, and a couple even more. I nip off the top leaves to add to my salads, they are easier and better to eat than the actual beans I think.

Zucchinis and strawberries have enjoyed the move around. I have had mini zucchinis every day for the last few weeks, and I have a heap of strawberries, although it hasn’t really been warm enough to ripen them. I also cherish my weeds which thrive no matter the weather, and have herbal properties – you just need a little knowledge. Dandelions are a favourite.

This proves that you can have a garden – even if you don’t have space or if like me you have terrible soil.

Of course I have been painting (fractals), and am so intrigued about what has emerged, I have even been drawing and meditating about them. Quantum jumping I think it is called. Einstein said that we existed across 12 dimensions – there are probably many more, and quantum jumping introduces us to one of those selves who is doing successfully what we are aiming for. It can save a lot of frustration – as Jesus said, “Those who can hear, let them hear”.

YOGA CLASSES AND STUDIO TIMES…..

ZOOM GITA : Monday evenings at 6.30pm

Windarring Yoga – Tues. 1pm

STUDIO YOGA WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full) Wednesday Restorative 1pm

TAROT ADVISOR – Always available by appointment.

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING Sunday 28th April at 2.30

SEE YOU IN THE STUDIO
and – you can always make an appointment to see me at my studio gallery.