Dear Yogis,

Ram Dass a favourite, yogi, meditator, and author said..  “I never use the words audience or student because I always feel as though we are just fellow travellers, walking each other home….”  This is exactly the way I feel about my students, every single one of you no matter if you are in my present classes, have graduated from our Institute,  have never graduated, or just came to a class one day and never came back.  We have connected and that is enough – we have completed out Karmic connection.  We don’t know why, or where it will take us.  We have a duty to karma which we have obeyed.   

YOGA STUDIO NEWS:   Ever since our Shire Council brought to me the possibility of running a workshop on making incontinence pads, and linking that to yoga exercises which can enhance the health of the pelvic musculature – I have been on a journey.  It is a much bigger undertaking than I envisaged, and I encourage you all to take the subject very seriously.  Just from a waste point of view millions of pads are discarded every week.  Not pretty, clean pads, but huge, soggy stinking things, number of which people who need them use every day.

Then there are the make-up pads,  menstruation pads, and other products that can be hand-made and used again and again.  Even if you don’t use them every day,  changing over occasionally still helps us to reduce the paper products in landfill.

DOLLS:   Miss Margot below…..     I first fell in love with doll making many years ago however, little did I know while sitting at my sewing machine how the collection would grow.  Each art doll is handmade from top to toe.  The body is calico, dressed with beautiful modern and vintage fabrics and embroidery from a time gone by, they are embellished with hand-picked trims and findings.

As you know, I hand make these lovely treasures in my magical work room in beautiful Woodend, where I bring my wonderful dolls (and yoga/yogis) to life.  I sell them on ETSY and I also have them at Art on Piper in Kyneton, the Mt.Macedon Gallery and Dromkeen (the home of children’s literature illustrations) in Riddells Creek.

YOGA –  WHAT’S ON

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm.

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND:  Monday 1pm.  Wednesday 1pm and Friday 10am 

YOGA CLASS in NORMA RICHARDSON hall.  Chi(chair)Yoga Wednesdays starting at 10am.  This is a mixed class.  Students with Chair, Wheelchair, Wheelies, walking sticks all welcome. –  FIRST DAY Wednesday 14th January. (we could make it the 7th if you have a change of heart!)

ZOOM YOGA PHILOSOPHY CLASSES :  Mondays, 6.30  – don’t miss them. First class 12th January ’26
ZOOM PELVIC HEALTH CLASS, FRIDAYS: Starting 16TH January at 6.30

TEACHER TRAINING MONTHLY CLASS.    Starts again in January.  I think we may do it online – get back to me about this idea.

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH: On 25th January’26 at 12 noon at the Victoria Hotel in Woodend.

WOODEND ART MARKET: Starts next February.

MT.MACEDON GALLERY opens again in January, and I will be exhibiting in ART ON PIPER in Kyneton from January – my work is there. Go see.. You can also make an appointment to come see me in the gallery or in my studio..

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a successful, abundant new year.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

I have spent the morning catching up with everyone and reminding all about the coming classes.  Please read the TIMETABLE BELOW if you have yet to do so.  If you have ever run classes you will know how hard it is to get the gang together after a big break.  Its like starting at the beginning again.

The reason I put the picture on the left there, is not because I have a JC complex, and I don’t think I am “the light of the world”, but I am reminded that he kept banging on about “opening the door”.  So please open or re-open the door to yoga and yoga classes this year.

YOGA –  WHAT’S ON

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm. First Day Tuesday 6th January

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND:  Monday 1pm.  Wednesday 1pm and Friday 10am – FIRST DAY Wednesday 7th January.

YOGA CLASS in NORMA RICHARDSON hall.  Chi(chair)Yoga Wednesdays starting at 10am.  This is a mixed class.  Students with Chair, Wheelchair, Wheelies, walking sticks all welcome. –  FIRST DAY Wednesday 14th January. (we could make it the 7th if you have a change of heart!)

ZOOM YOGA PHILOSOPHY CLASSES :  Mondays, 6.30  – don’t miss them. First class 12th January ’26
ZOOM PELVIC HEALTH CLASS, FRIDAYS: Starting 16TH January at 6.30

TEACHER TRAINING MONTHLY CLASS.    Starts again in January.  I think we may do it online – get back to me about this idea.

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH: On 25th January’26 at 12 noon at the Victoria Hotel in Woodend.

WOODEND ART MARKET: Starts next February.

MT.MACEDON GALLERY opens again in January, and I will be exhibiting in ART ON PIPER in Kyneton from January – my work is there. Go see.. You can also make an appointment to come see me.

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a successful, abundant new year.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

Well yogis,

I would appreciate your help.  I have been telling you about GUSH, my foray into the land of disposables.  These are a huge problem for us, our councils, and the planet, and its something you can take a hand in and DEFINITELY make a BIG difference, in your home, your family your town and your planet.  Not just dreaming about making a difference, actually doing it.

Help needed.  I would like to conduct a workshop with my favourite people (you), just to see how you get on with making a pad, and doing the set of four asanas that actually make a 65% difference in recovery from prostate problems and surgery.  What a fabulous investment is this!!!

I would like to do it in the studio of course, but if we were to do it on zoom, I would send you the preferred, simple pad pattern, you could gather up some recycled cotton and we could explore how easy or difficult this is for you.  We could also include a run-through of the asanas.

The local council who introduced this problem to me has engaged me to do a workshop on the 2nd April in person at the Neighbourhood house – our Launch date – After that, I would like to visit schools.  I used to be called “the squid lady” when I visited schools for the Natural History Museum, maybe I can be called the “Pad Lady” (or “Miss Gush!”).

Possible date – As I already have a group of students coming to Monday Zoom sessions at 6.30pm.  Could you join us at this time on the 12th January?     I doubt that I will have the book finished by then, but I could make available a pattern and you could try it or comment on it – I will need your email in order to send this pattern to you, and without the benefit of the how-to’s in the (unfinished) book,  you will need me to talk you through it.

 

YOGA –  WHAT’S ON

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm. First Day Tuesday 6th January

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND:  Monday 1pm.  Wednesday 1pm and Friday 10am – FIRST DAY Wednesday 7th January.

YOGA CLASS in NORMA RICHARDSON hall.  Chi(chair)Yoga Wednesdays starting at 10am.  This is a mixed class.  Students with Chair, Wheelchair, Wheelies, walking sticks all welcome. –  FIRST DAY Wednesday 14th January. (we could make it the 7th if you have a change of heart!)

ZOOM YOGA PHILOSOPHY CLASSES :  Mondays, 6.30  – don’t miss them. First class 12th January ’26
ZOOM PELVIC HEALTH CLASS, FRIDAYS: Starting 16TH January at 6.30

TEACHER TRAINING MONTHLY CLASS.    Starts again in January.  I think we may do it online – get back to me about this idea.

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH: On 25th January’26 at 12 noon at the Victoria Hotel in Woodend.

WOODEND ART MARKET: Starts next February.

MT.MACEDON GALLERY opens again in January, and I will be exhibiting in ART ON PIPER in Kyneton from January – my work is there. Go see.. You can also make an appointment to come see me.

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a successful, abundant new year.

NAMASTE – JAHNE