Good morning Yogis,

To begin with,   I would like to say how much I miss all of you, those usually coming to teacher training, those usually coming to class, and workshops.  I hope that you are supporting each other, looking after your body, your mind and your spirit..  I am hoping that you will rush to join us when this has subsided and in the meanwhile I offer my love, my prayers and my blessings to you all.  In spite of everything that is happening in the world I am inspired by yogis across the planet meditating, breathing, chanting,  helping others and helping themselves find their inner connection.  What a wonderful opportunity for growth we have been given. Tap into our FREE Covid (and other) videos on “Jahne Hope-Williams YouTube” 

As a yoga philosopher, what I would ask you to think about it this.  You have heard about the “Butterfly Effect?” ie “A butterfly in the Amazon flaps its wings and a guy in New York  dies”  Well what about this…Someone in Wuhan sneezed, someone in a little principality of China that we had never heard of before got a cold and a fever and the world became a place of turmoil and fear, and many people died.  “We are all connected”.  We have used these words hundreds of times.  We have imagined it to be so, but NOW, now we have the proof.

The virus has been there all along.  An ancient organism waiting its turn.  It wasn’t something new, it had been there all the time, waiting.  The question I would like you to contemplate is this – what caused it to emerge?  I am not talking about the wet markets which have been there hundreds of years, I am talking about karma, about spirit, about cause and effect.  What gave this little ancient creature the prod, the impetus to multiply and proliferate just at that moment in time and in that way?  What was the tipping point?  This little organism needed the perfect environment and maybe by not caring for the planet or ourselves, we have been responsible for its growth.  I am not a scientist I am a yogi and I believe that nothing is accidental.  We are responsible for what happens on the planet, and the Covid is the result, not the cause.  Our planetary spiritual vibration reached such a low ebb that this little virus was given a chance at life because the conditions became available.  Every virus is an opportunist, and  just takes advantage of what is available, they don’t  create the situation.   I wonder if in my Past Life Process I will meet this organism?  If I do, I will let you know.  It could happen.

I would say to you that this little bug is not going to go away.  It may retreat, we may find ways to kill it here and there, but it will always be with us.  We have to be prepared for this, and for whatever comes next.  Not new.  I have been waving my arms about this for a long time… now maybe you are listening.  It is important that we yogis who are holding the planet in our spiritual arms keep practicing – doing our asanas.  More practice, more practice, more practice.  Together let’s get really healthy in body, mind and spirit, so that no matter what emerges we are ready in body, mind and spirit to stand strong.  That is why we do yoga is it not?

It is time to imagine (and bring into being) a better and brighter tomorrow.  Tap into our healing practices to power-up our own inner healing.  Health and vitality at every level gives us the ability to overcome and recover.  Maintain your equilibrium and tranquility no matter what you face.  It is the yoga way.

Do your asana practice and most importantly take time to breathe – alternate nostril breathing to enliven and strengthen the nervous system, belly breathing and stomach lifts to strengthen the respiration and  awaken the heart chakra.  Fill your whole system with strength, power and enthusiasm.  My walks have become “Gratitude Walks”.  “Thank you for the breath, thank you for the breeze, thank you for the footpath, thank you for the creek.”…and so on for the entire walk and when possible out loud even if you do look nuts – I often do, so no one pays attention.

and most importantly MEDITATE.

As I said yesterday “SEE YOU AT THE TOP”.   NAMASTE.  JAHNE

(CHECK TODAY – Please download my latest.  It will be helpful no matter where you practice is today. Part 1 of HOW (AND WHY) YOGA WORKS will be on www.myyogabooks.etsy.com)

Another PS: those of you who are doing yoga-on-line, check that your insurance covers this? It may not, or there may be restrictions.  AON has a special COVID department to answer all of these questions. Go to their web page.

Dear Yogis,

In this time of REST AND RENEWAL, plan for SELF IMPROVEMENT followed by GROWTH.  You didn’t think you would ever have the time – but thank you, the Universe has given it to us in spades.

Your checklist:

GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE:  The government is busting its boilers to give us as much assistance as it can, because figures tell it that if we can weather the financial storm, then the September quarter financially will be like The Roaring 20’s.  But we have to pull in our belts somewhat until then.  Figures show us that during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 in the USA,  the States who recovered most successfully and the quickest were the States who had home-stay and masks imposed for longer. The UK didn’t do as well because Churchill used the chaos to take the opportunity to devalue the currency.

BANK ASSISTANCE:  Your bank wants you! Therefore they are doing everything they can to keep you.  If you want to renegotiate anything, now is the time.  If you are not a good negotiator, find one.  I personally have discovered a few errors in how we reported to the bank and the ATO and how they interpreted our figures.  This will make a huge difference going forward.  This is your chance to do the same.

READ/WATCH. FIND SOMEONE YOU ADMIRE AND COPY THEM – COMING FROM NOWHERE: Use this time to improve your game – or find your game. Don’t wish things were easier, wish you were better.  Those studies you have left hang, new courses you wanted to do, new directions you wanted to take?  Now is the time.  If you want to become a new and better you, then use this time to achieve it.

After I lost my house in the bushfires, I was able to ask “Who am I, who do I want to be?” The past had been burned away.  Right now, the past has been taken away from you, and you have the time (and community support – you are not alone in this)  to ask the same question ‘WHO AM I, AND WHO DO I WANT TO BE”.  Then you set about achieving that.  The great athlete Chris Evert said that most of her career was based on desire.  What about the swimmer Kieran Perkins who came from nowhere to win Gold.  I think you will find that almost everyone who has succeeded in their career will tell you the same.

The difference is that the Government and the Banks, and the schools will do everything to help you to lift your game.  Do courses, become a new person, improve your qualifications do what you have always wanted to do.  Use the time wisely, you may never have this situation again.

Statistics tell us, financial forecasts tell us (you don’t need a crystal ball)  that from late August and Early September onwards we are going to enter a period of great growth – just as happened after the Spanish Flu.  The government is investing big time (in the USA, trillions of dollars)  and when those returns start to roll in for big business, economies are going to go gang-busters…. I have used the term ROARING TWENTIES because these special times came AFTER the Spanish Flu.  There were hard times in the ‘forties for sure, but with hindsight, and the new you, we can be ready for anything!

Don’t wait until then to prepare – get ready NOW.  Are people going to need yoga? More than ever.   BE PREPARED TO EXPAND AND GROW. Be grateful for this wonderful opportunity.

“I WILL SEE YOU AT THE TOP”     Namaste.  Jahne

 

 

 

 

Good morning Yogis,

A short one…but we could make it a” long one”.  The yoga teachers who come through our school are not just personal trainers, they are “yoga therapists/health coaches”.  We take broken people and we get to the heart of the matter (something I would say impossible over a video, but at the heart of my classes and my teachings).  For instance two friends may come to your class.  They are both over-weight and depressed.  After speaking with them, and maybe spending some time in class with them we discover the one is depressed because they are over-weight and the other is overweight because they are depressed.  Do we think the same yoga regime will work for both?  Yes, yoga will help both, but for each there has  to be a different emphasis which is directed by their different needs.

And this is where yoga differs from other health approaches.  We do not draw a line between the physical body and the other four dimensions of the human system.  If one dimension is affected, all are affected.

Keep in mind – YOGA HEALS…  Remember, there is a difference between fixing (that doctors try to do), curing  (that the medical system and  specialist you are referred to tries to do), and HEALING that yoga DOES.  This aspect is what I am teaching in my next course on etsy “HOW AND WHY YOGA WORKS”.

We also need to balance the system with good diet, exercise, relaxation, and supplementation, and I have found during the Covid time that Flower and herbal essences from my garden are making the biggest difference to me, and to my students who are getting me to post out remedies especially for them. I do make a powerful Olive Leaf Extract that works wonderfully on the bronchi, see the video “jahnehopewilliams, you tube” then we have the usual TYOH oil, and Reishi, plus as I said, especially made essences from the garden and hedgerows.  I am loving this time of deep learning, foraging and preparing these essences.  Home-stay is such a gift.    I am not only eating the greens I find on my daily wanderings (plants that  are young, fresh and luscious), I am making essences from them too.  I am stunned that I never see anyone else when I am out picking my salads… I have the forest to myself.  Lovely of course, but where are my yogis?

If you are interested, if I can help.  Please contact me on yogafirst2@bigpond.com

In this time of Covid, my pendulum and I can help you.

 

Stay well and stay safe.  Namaste  Jahne