Dear Yogis,

I am hoping for your help/advice.

I am considering building a new site for all my artwork, and it’s easy to be overwhelmed.  I really like a web builder called WIX.. very easy, comprehensive, and middle of the road regarding charges….They even have PAY PAL.   I appreciate that method of payment (it is so easy), and I wondered if you did too – or if it doesn’t matter to you?  Please let me know.  WIX has so many other super features.  I have looked at many website builders, WIX has everything I want and more.  Even it seems, PayPal.   The choice is to bring my own site up to date.. or start a new one specifically for the things usually on ETSY, which it seems few of you visit – and now that postage is so expensive overseas sales are not easy.  Your opinion please…

AS with most things it is easy to quietly resign ourselves to how things are, take the easy road, resign ourselves to the status quo.  “I can’t change the world, and I am not even sure that I can (or want to) change the way I do things/my lifestyle/the way I work (?) so I had better just leave things as they are.  Nothing ventured nothing lost!

It is when we reach that point that we are most often tragically mistaken.  We have a great deal to lose! Simplicity is part and parcel of our call to the spiritual life.  It is not an extra that we can tack onto our experience, in the same way that we can add a new app to our phone.

The fantastic paradox is that whilst simplicity is complex, it is also simple.  There are not many things that we have to keep in mind.  Really, only one decision we have to make – that is to be attentive to the word of the Universe (or God).  We only have to BE, at every moment, attentive to the Universe.  And as we keep our focus on this,  there comes welling up in us whispers of Divine Guidance and love that makes life radiant.

And speaking of radiant, I hope you can get the video I have attached (Just click on the orange “A DOGS DAY” below).  If you can’t get it let me know.  When I was first shown it I just was breathless with laughter, and it hasn’t eased.  Every time I watch it I just burst out laughing.  I have cousins who speak like this… but they are not half so funny.  Enjoy.

A DOGS DAY

Have a wonderful day.  Keep happy (I know the video will help).  PS If a dog using the occasional “F” word offends, don’t turn it on, however I wouldn’t have sent it if it was offensive.  Just enjoy.

 

Love and Blessings.  NAMASTE  JAHNE

 

DEAR YOGIS,

I have resumed Tarot/Tea Leaf reading both email and in person on a limited basis – one person in the morning and one person in the afternoon…  I have found it is easy to keep the required distance and more.  It is not palm reading so no hand holding required (or hugging or kissing).  If you want to make an appointment to see me,

1. Email me so we can set up a time at yogafirst2@bigpond.com   2. Direct Debit $85 to the DD number below.    3. When you come, expect the usual COVID  etiquette to be in place.  The reading will take about an hour.  If you want to do it via email, or gift it and need more details go to www.jahnehopewilliams.net. you will find the details there.

Things are sort of getting back to normal.  Because my studio is in Victoria, we probably will be going slower at re-opening than other States.

It is anticipated that the earliest we will be returning to class is Monday week, could be later (keep on reading the newsletters, I will inform you here first).  Victoria will be one of the last States to return, however, in the last Great Flu Epidemic in the United States,  those States who took the longest to return to normal were the States who didn’t have a second wave of infection and recovered the quickest economically.

It is prudent and history tells us that we are doing the right thing.  Do not relax your guard.  

IN OUR STUDIO ON OUR RETURN….

  • The usual COVID hygiene practices are still in place with the usual cough/sneeze etiquette.
  • Entry/registration/exit etiquette practices – use elbows with the sliding door, sanitise hands when entering and leaving.
  • Please  bring your own mats/blankets to Restorative, and a towel for over the top of bolsters, and wash the towels when you get home after every use. Do not re-use the towels.  Disinfect your mats after ever class..  Please bring your own mats/ straps and blocks for hatha.
  • Please do not attend if feeling unwell.  Students will be asked to leave the studio if showing symptoms
  • We request that all students pay via Direct Debit  or via card.  We need you to pay by Direct Debit and purchasing a 10 (CONSECUTIVE) class pass will be the easiest way to do this.
  • TO PAY.  Direct Debit.COMMONWEALTH BANK, WOODEND. BSB 063806 1019 1251 Yoga First.
  • COST:  TEN CLASS PASS:$185for a 10 week pass for new students, and $155 for a 10 week pass for students who have been consistently  been our students for approximately 3 years or more. (yes, it has increased – as has everything).  Valid/current class passes will be honoured until they end.
  • The Kitchen and shower facilities will not be available
  • It is important that we register you on entering, in case of COVID cross infection
  • Social distancing requirements will still be necessary, and when we go back I will only be able to take three students per class.  This will mean that I will need to know in advance, and lock in class times with you.  No casual attendees can be accommodated at this time. (we may need to add some more classes to accomodate those people who -three at a time – want to do yoga here with me.  Please indicate the day and time you want via email (yogafirst2@bigpond.com) and I will let you know if I can do this, or if an alternative class needs to be organised.

There you are.  They are the rules which have been passed to us by Yoga Australia and all yoga centres are working hard to comply.  All yoga classes are doing similar to be safe.  However, I don’t know how the larger classes will socially distance themselves.

TAROT:  The TAROT READING WORKSHOP, postponed due to COVID, will be resuming (if all goes to plan) on Saturday the 6th June 2pm to 4pm and then for another two consecutive Saturdays. Let me know if this is suitable for you.

Keep healthy, keep happy.  

Namaste, JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

A time to inspire.  Do you have plans for tomorrow, for the rest of the week? You may want to throw them out the window if you had an idea of what was around the corner.   Do you have confusions, procrastinations?  This is a time when massive transformation is possible – all that is needed is the desire to transform….

Mother’s day is just a hop way, and here is something you can give to yourself or to your mum.  A THREE QUESTIONS TAROT READING.  Go to www.jahnehopewilliams.net  download the voucher, and then we can do the reading by email..  I use the tarot, plus pendulum,  and the Tea Leaves if there is a medical question involved (I have found the tea leaves work very specifically with me in this regard).  The reading will take about an hour, although if spirit screams the answer at me, it may be one sentence!!  I have had that happen and it is very startling and very effective. The recipient of the one sentence message was most appreciative and excited, although I felt a bit difficult delivering it.

 

If you go to the web address above, you will also find two inspirational posters.  One “ON BEING HUMAN”.  If any of you have paid attention to Yoga teacher Training you will have read this with me before.  I found it pasted to the wall of an Amsterdam toilet, and as I couldn’t remove it,  it took some time to write it down using toilet paper and one of those smudgy pens.  People before me had tried to take it, and bits were missing, but over time I tracked it down… and here it is not on etsy or www.jahnehopewilliams.net

The small poster is RULE NUMBER 10 from the same poem. They are not really RULES, but words which will push you towards personal growth and self development.  A reminder for when you go in the wrong direction, or think in destructive ways.

REGARDING COVID.  Are you feeling flat this week?   Taking a bit extra time to get motivated? Feeling lazy?  According to “experts” (and you may want to stay away from them), this is how our personal curve could  happen (just in case you haven’t read the “COVID DIARY”),

Stage 1. Confusion and a feeling of abandonment (hence the panic buying)

Stage 2. Relaxing into the “holiday – time out, time off”.  We get out our to-do list and start working down it. Happy, happy, happy.

Stage 3. THIS IS WHERE SOME OF US ARE RIGHT NOW.   We want to get back to something “meaningful”, and away from the everyday monotony. WE ARE GETTING FRUSTRATED we think we are lazy, and we feel flat and apathetic after seven weeks of isolation.

So if you are feeling like this, it is perfectly natural, but it doesn’t mean that you have that extra slice of cake and settle back down on the couch.  It is time to give yourself “a good talking to” and find something you like to do that will help you to be interested.  Do that, and then do more.  This is a difficult part of the curve… and as any long distance runner knows, the race gets more difficult at the end.

Right now, at this minute, I am getting out into the garden.  Today I have been doing small projects, going on longish walks, collecting baby fish for my ponds, and switching routines around.  Still doing lots, but not getting in a rut.  Do you know the difference between a rut and grave?  Easy, just the depth.  Don’t let your rut get too deep.

Stay happy –  Stay healthy.

Namaste, Jahne

“For this entity should comprehend and know, and never forget, that life and its experiences are only what one puts into same! And unless the activities, the thoughts are continuously constructive, and the experience well-balanced, the entity cannot, will not fulfill the purpose for which it came into the present experience.”
Edgar Cayce reading 1537-1