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Dear Yogis,

It’s Wednesday and this  (in the news lately) will not cheer you up.  Have you heard of QUANTUM COMPUTERS?   It’s a bit like Oppenheimer and the bomb.  He was on the spectrum and could only see the analytical conundrum he had to solve – he didn’t understand at all the human cost. He just could not understand.  That is exactly the problem we have here.  There may not be physical destruction, noise and firestorms, but this could be almost the same digitally.

Classic computers perform calculations using ones and zeros. Quantum computers use qubits, which are in a quantum state of both one and zero at the same time.  When such computer is perfected, (and clever males are working on them right now in fact firing one up in Sydney), CHAOS will be the result.  Once developers achieve error-corrected, large-scale quantum computing, quantum-powered hacking will become a reality, and those clever quantum developers are harvesting data now, knowing that when the computer is ready they will be able to unpack with ease things that are impossible now.

Imagine what will happen to the banking system, Government departments – and what about YOU when suddenly none of your data is secure. NONE OF IT.  Banking could be disrupted and accounts pilfered. Private messages, health records, government secrets hacked and exposed in seconds. Military plans, weapon design and classified intelligence from ASIO left ripe for the picking by anyone with access to the right quantum tools.

Unlike Y2K, we don’t have a time and date for when Q-Day will strike. Some predict it will come within 10 to 15 years.. Others reckon it will arrive much quicker as governments pour funds into the quantum.  I don’t have any clever suggestions, except to just buy a safe and hide spare CASH, DIAMONDS, GOLD in it.  It is about the only long term personal security available as far as I can see..  The mind boggles.

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

I have sooooo many ideas – I just want to keep on working but today I have to get the paintings ready for hanging, tomorrow hang and organise, and on Friday tart the exhibition up, add the labels, get the wine ready,  and wait for my clients to arrive!!! Then tomorrow I can start working on the next body of work – I have learned so much in the last year, and so much about myself….

 

YOGA CLASSES AND STUDIO TIMES….. 

ZOOM GITA :  Monday  evenings at 6.30pm – Not next Monday the 6th May

Windarring Yoga –  Tues. 1pm

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

TAROT ADVISOR/counsellor – Always available by appointment.

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING Sunday 26th May  at 2.30

THE YOGA LUNCHEON: Saturday 25th May 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.

Dear Yogis,

What a wonderful weekend I have had.

Painting, yoga luncheon at the Victoria (splendid) and teacher training with chanting on Sunday.

I am on the hunt for a second hand Shruti Box in good condition.  If you have one, know of one, contact me.  It will make a big difference to our chanting sessions.  A Shruti Box is the hand held “organ” that contributes the drone sound you hear in chanting sessions.

OPEN STUDIO.  The last one was on the 13th of February… seems like yesterday.  The next open day is on Friday the 3rd May at 5.30 to 7.30 then Saturday from 2.30 to 5pm.  Please come along.  I have lots and lots of new work – the the Krishna in the photograph above.  It is a photographic transfer on canvas from my original painting.  I was thrilled to discover (accidentally) that it has a stained glass quality when again the light.  It could work well with a globe or a candle behind it – imagine it next to a night light, or your personal altar.

YOGA CLASSES AND STUDIO TIMES….. 

ZOOM GITA :  Monday  evenings at 6.30pm – Not tonite or next week.

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 (and STOCK ROOM BROCANTE 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.

 

Dear Yogis,

I have newsletter, I have emailed, I have asked, and still the same lovely people respond to our luncheon invitation.  We are not inviting you to a gallows viewing, this is lunch at The Victoria, 12 noon on Saturday, THIS SATURDAY, TOMORROW!!!  If you are not meeting “The Swift person (Taylor Swift)”, which would be a good excuse for some, could you please join us.

Right now you might think the Sangha (the group) is not important, but when things get tough as they did in lockdown, suddenly we become a life-line.  Don’t let us languish.  “Sex in the City” the sitcom was based around a group of women supporting each other through thick and thin, and there are many such groups.. ours could be one of them – our core group already is.  Please take this opportunity to join us.

THE ART.

Yes, its is that time again – my studio is open for viewing and nibbles on Friday evening the 3rd May from 5.30 to 7.30 and again the following day, Saturday  from 2.30 to 5pm.

I am doing fabulous photo transfers of my art onto 8inch x 8inch canvases.  When you hold them against the light they glow – it is quite beautiful.  I am going to make some hanging wires so that they can be hung in a window, rather than just hung on a wall, which is still possible of course.

Each one is hand done, individual, each one is different… The one of Buddhas Hands on the right is quite a bit larger and more ornate, made to go an a wall or above an altar.  It would look lovely in candle light.   You will have to come and see them for yourself.  mark it in your diary – 37 Morris Road, Woodend.  I will be putting some on Etsy, but they will have to include postage, so will be a little dearer.  Cost from $75 to $250 (plus postage?), which considering they are individual artworks on canvas, is reasonable.

I am working on some angel wings at the moment, which will be finished on time for the opening.

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.

 

Namaste – Jahne