Dear Students, Friends and all those clinging to their computers…

KCCO = KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON.  The best advice at this time.  I would have done a larger message, but I have been inundated with emails asking for help in getting through this – and answered them first.  Just the tip of the iceberg I think.  Please, go to my blog www.wildnweedy.blogspot.com, and to my facebook page.  I will go there as often as I can and put up there what i think will help.

 

I have made some olive leaf extract.  You only need a few drops 3 or four times a day (not teaspoons).  It builds the respiratory system, and is protective.  Those students who have used it for a couple of years have gone from multiple experiences of heavy colds and flu per year, to just one or two manageable experiences.  So, I think it is effective.  I make it – it does take time, and the best ingredients… I use it.  It is not magic, you have to do other things as well.   It does contain vodka – sorry, as in other herbal remedies….there is no way to make it, and have it be as effective without this ingredient.

The cost is just $12.50 per dropper vial, plus postage (In Coles a large bottle from which you advised to consume by the teaspoon is about $30 depending on “sale” times).  I would be super happy if you could make this purchase (the remedy $12.50 plus an amount for postage/donation – $9.50+) a donation to the foundation.   Commonwealth Bank Woodend.  063 806 1020 0584  The GitaJaia Yoga Foundation.  Among other things, this will make it possible for me to spend much more time supporting students via email, blog and videos.  Students/families/schools who are having a hard time managing in this crisis.   When I get the order from you, and the Direct Debit Receipt, I will send the remedy to you.  I will be putting it on Etsy.

In this studio, I will be here doing RESTORATIVE yoga for classes of a maximum of 5 people who have been regular attendees..timetable for restorative as usual.    Please bring a towel to pop on your mat, and your own hand sanitiser if you need that (we do have water and soap).  If you have a cold, or are unwell, please adhere to the national guidelines. No new students, sorry.  

 

Thank you.  Namaste.  Jahne

 

 

 

DEAR YOGIS.

So many wonderful yoga teachers throughout the world are now saying stop! think! breathe…..

I live in a town where rampant thievery is taking place from people who just have to have masses of everything.  As someone once told me when I asked him what he wanted,   he replied  “I WANT IT ALL”.  He would feel right at home here.    Buses of people (not just individuals in cars) are coming into our town from even 100ks away and stripping our supermarket shelves.  One supermarket owner is requiring and ID from the early morning older shoppers.  We are being hit three times…..  Firstly because we are so far away from supply that it takes longer to get here, secondly by the time the shipment arrives it is not enough and thirdly, those people from out of town who have decimated their own stores, are now set to do the same to ours.

Plumbers are going to be so busy once all the stuff people are using in place of toilet paper starts blocking the system that they will be hard to get for really important local work.. they are already in short supply, and those people who are buying out the shelves and spending their last dollar on the last toilet roll will have so much stuff at the end of this that they can’t return,  and hopefully a depleted bank account.  In the end they will have to economise.  I hope they are going to make compost out of all the vegetables they can’t use before they go off.

So, be like me, and my yogis. Be as much as possible, SELF SUFFICIENT!

I have nature’s garden to supply me with greens and medicines.  The mountain is like a giant supermarket, and no out out owners are trying to steal this abundance.  I am able to use a sewing machine, so I can make toilet wipes out of old sheets when my toilet paper runs out (and the Salvos run out), I know what supplements to take to keep me strong, and I am breathing the yoga way to make sure my lungs are in tip top condition.  Oh yes.  I can organise kitty litter from nature when my cat needs attention.  How about you?

I am amazed that people are sitting in their lounge rooms (under their igloos of toilet paper) smoking and drinking and eating the pies they scavenged from our supermarket.  Scared to go out, scared to catch a train or go to a movie…. it is madness.  More people die each year from the flu than have died from this!!!  Apart from being urged to get vaccinated, there has been no panic buying or lock downs in previous years.

Please, yogis, go to my “Its only Natural” blog called www.wildnweedy.blogspot.com  to find out how you can make it through this madness easily, gracefully and SAVE MONEY. There is no reason to join hands with the rest of the world and hide yourself away.  This is very important.  It is about taking yoga out of the classroom and into the world.  THE YAMAS AT WORK IN YOUR LIFE.  

On a lighter note.  Lovely photo of Vetty with Shiva Rea on Facebook.  You may remember Vetty was a trainee teacher with us and came to a number of teacher training sessions here at the Studio.  She now has her ‘wings” and she is flying.  Congratulations Vetty.

Namaste  Jahne

GOOD AFTERNOON STUDENTS AND FRIENDS…

In this current time of global crisis when anxiety and fear, and all our other hindrances come to bear their burden; without yoga, how do we maintain our center, other than how we always do, by breathing?   I have been emphasising this for about the last 18 months in newsletters, blogs, and in replying to queries and lessons….  It’s not just a matter of what happens on the mat – it is a 24/7 practice.  As Patanjali said “no gaps”.

It seems that the population hasn’t registered the fact that COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory illness – therefore, it links it quite strongly with the power of our breath (I don’t understand any more than you do, the manic run on toilet paper and tissues).   I am not simplifying this, we must eat well from nature’s garden freely given to us, supplement well and exercise…  I am even exploring the effects of  CBD in relieving anxiety, clearing the lungs and its support of the immune system.  All good.

It’s not just about having enough flour to make cakes, our food and our breath supports us.  Someone with a depressed immune system and shallow breathing is often carrying depression and anxiety that no amount of visits to Coles will cure.  I am sure you have found it is much easier to say to someone, “just breathe”, rather than to say “be happy”.  Although they may have looked at you strangely – it is the answer.  For with each deep powerful breath we embrace, we charge up our energy, fill our cells with new oxygen, take in another lungful of life, and perhaps eventually, the longed-for happiness comes naturally.

It is our lungs where we hold accumulated sadness and emotional congestion.  We all know that without the breath we have no life, no heartbeat, no voice, no personal truth or the ability to voice it or sing it.  Without our song lines we are alone….Singing is not just about noise and movement.  It is about taking deep breaths, expanding our rib cage, opening the tissues of our organs, spreading apart each and every cell, washing out the sadness, grief and suffering. So, in this time of crisis, we need not only breathe, but sing.

We may not think about it, but we live in age of connectedness.  The reality of that exchange includes the negatives with the positives.  With this connectedness comes sharing, and we are sharing this virus.  It is a living thing as we are living things.  We can hate it, but that won’t help.  We have a lesson to learn.  Taking out our fear on our Chinese neighbours is not the way or the lesson.

As the Yoga teacher Anna Forrest said” Mending the Hoop of the People is our collective intention”.     How do we take on  this challenge, this  task?  By maintaining a deep connection to our breath,   by supporting our neighbours as ourselves, and helping  them to  discover the ultimate source of our well-being.

In Australia, this challenge is coming to us at the beginning of winter.  The seasons are with us.  Let us clean and freshen the body, prepare for the months ahead with the fruits of the earth nature has freely given us, take big cleansing breaths –  and sing our way to health and happiness.

 

Namaste.  Jahne

Jahne Hope-Williams

The Australasian Yoga Institute.  www.yogabeautiful.com.au  www.wildnweedy.blogspot.com