Email blast 28th July 2016

Email Blast 28th July 2016

GOOD MORNING PRECIOUS ONES

Honouring the Universe – The philosophy of The Australasian Yoga Institute….

Yoga is an ancient philosophy and practice of health and well-being. Dedicated to a tradition of excellence in teaching for more than 40 years, The Australasian Yoga Institute offers yoga teachers comprehensive and systematic training in classical yoga.  We teach yoga techniques for body, breath, mind and spirit in our certification programs and our classes.   We don’t teach pilates, or quick courses.  We teach YOGA the way it was intended to be taught – a system of healing with an emphasis on the mind. Our Yoga teaching focusses on the foundations, addressing every aspect of the human system, including the body, the mind, the emotions, breathing patterns, relationships etc. respecting the individuality of each person and situation. CHANGES TO THE BENTINCK.

 

THE BENTINCK.

As most of you have gathered, there have been big changes.  Innisfree has moved on…. and Arrow Health is taking over the Bentinck.   They also are a rehabilitation organisation and will be running the Bentinck in that capacity.   Our yoga “Island” is safe for the meantime, and I will personally be taking over most of the classes, although I am not sure the times, except for those I have written below…  I would like to add more Restorative Classes, initiate a knitting circle, and get the community involved in whatever way I can.  We will all have to play it by ear.  Thank you for you patience, and your attendance thus far.  I think it is going to be wonderful whichever way it goes…

A few days ago I was doing a head-stand, and one of the students notices that my earring was hanging out, obviously the little clippy thing was missing at the back.  The concensus from the class was that I could have lost it any where, and the chances of recovery were remote, even on the carpet which is nobbly and multi-hued. I could have lost it in the car park, in the garden, getting into and out of the car – anywhere.   My view however, given all the miracles I had been experiencing, was that yes, it could be found, and God would look after me in even the tiniest most mundane ways – even returning the tiny back of an earring to me.  The next day, A student asked me if I had lost a clip for the back of an earring, they had found it on the carpet!   See – God cares.  If he cares about those details, those frivolous minutae…, why should I worry about anything!  And for the most part I don’t (I am human, and I do forget). 

 

THE GITAJAIA YOGA FOUNDATION.

We need Members – we need your help.  We are nothing without you –  and this does mean YOU….   If you have a student who you think would benefit from a scholarship then help us in the foundation.   If everyone we have taught put in a few dollars to help someone else we would be able to help a whole lot of people. You could purchase an angel painting on Etsy (www.myyogabooks.etsy.com),   or just make a donation that you can afford,  no matter how small.  Imagine what we could do if you all helped.  If everyone helped, then we would have money in the fund which may one day be used to support one of your students.   To become a member and receive a beautiful silk angel,  please go to www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

  ATTENTION EVERYONE – “AYI–FIVE ELEMENT YOGA” Teacher Training Opportunity.

The Australasian Yoga Institute has set the standard in Yoga Distance Education and Yoga Registration and Certification for more than 40 years.   Our mission is to teach as many yoga teachers as we can Australia-wide, world-wide as economically as possible, as safely as possible so they can go on and teach others safely, and introduce them to the real yoga.   No short-cuts, no cut corners, and not just asanas, no matter the length of the course.
 
We were in the vanguard of yoga teachers and teaching – there were no teacher training establishments certainly no distance classes, except for us when we initiated Yoga Teacher Training by Home Study, eventually consolidating our company in 1976.   We didn’t start thinking “this would be a good business” and developing a curriculum.  We started because we received requests from across Australia, from remote communities.  People everywhere wanted to learn yoga and teach yoga and had nowhere to go, so, urged on by our students we researched what was happening around the world, and went from there – by student request, initiating something NEW and DIFFERENT –   a teacher training program which could deal with the distances involved in yoga teacher training in Australia, offering students in remote reaches of Australia and now the world the possibility of achieving their dream of becoming Professional Yoga Teachers with all the qualifications and protections offered internationally.
 
With a dramatic increase in our student body, graduated Professional Yoga Teachers, the Institute is able to introduce you to exciting new training opportunities.  
 
It seems to us, with Yoga studios popping up in every town and village, that Yoga Teaching is moving back into the home, being taught to friendly and small home based groups.   “AYI-5 ELEMENT YOGA” is the perfect vehicle to expand yoga in this way.  It short, simple and is available to be taught across the community without the need for lengthy training.   This new course is a simple yoga based on The Five Tibetans and Ayurveda  that can be designed and presented in homes and at small schools and old age care homes.   It is important to note that last year in America alone 20 million people signed up for a yoga course.  As every country in the world is experiencing this growth, teachers are in high demand at all levels.  They are most needed in the wider community who to this point would not have considered that they could do yoga.

The entire SHORT course will cost $645 , the yearly video subscription (usually $275) included free of charge.   I think it would take about three months part time by distance education, but the time and pace is up to you.  It may be a short course, but it is not short on safety and it is comprehensive.  I don’t teach “tick this box” kind of courses.  
 
“AYI-5 ELEMENT YOGA” makes a yoga regime and lifestyle exercise plan, achievable at any age.   If you would like to add this to your teacher training skills, or start your teaching life with this course, please register your interest with me personally before it is launched on the world.  Be the first with the best.  Email me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com.  It will be available on Etsy, or time payment through our Institute.
    THE FAST-TRAK TO SUCCESS. (Applications open until the 10th July – you have a few days to apply )
This is not a general invitation, however, 
1.    If you enrolled in the course more than 2 years ago, 
2.    Have been sending in the occasional module (yes, I need to see your work) – enough that I can see you have a good grasp on both the philosophy and the asanas
3.     but due to circumstances have not finished the course 
4.    And, HAVE BEEN TEACHING, and there is a record of that teaching that I can access from your students…

Then you are eligible to do the FAST-TRAK.   It is not easy.  If you are a local student, then you have to do the exam in front of me, also show me that you can do a range of asanas (not just the basics), and understand the philosophy and complete three modules chosen by me.  If you are a remote student then the exam can be done where you are, but I will need a DVD of your asanas chosen by me, and you will need to complete the three modules.   The cost for this fast track is $975 which includes a year’s registration.  You can pay in three monthly installments, and when everything is completed and paid for you will receive the registration at RYTA200 (NOT RYTA/YA350).  After you have been teaching for a year, and on re-registration you will be registered at RYTA/YA350 and be able to register for health fund rebates for your clients. 

I do a Fast–Trak every few years, just to scoop up those trainees who are lagging behind, but have proved that they are wonderful teachers.  This is an occasional occurrence, I do not offer it on a regular basis, and if you miss this opportunity then next one may not happen for a couple of years.   Please if you want to avail yourself of this option,  email me PERSONALLY please use yogafirst2@bigpond.com.  Don’t use any other number.     TEACHER TRAINING – PAY BY THE MONTH

For those of you struggling to move forward because of the money… and we all have those troubles from time to time – we are trialling a new way of paying for the course.  MONTH BY MONTH.  You sign up as usual, but pay by the month (no deposit required if you are just signing up).  You pay for the month, we send the modules, I assess them and send them back and we repeat this process until the end of the course until you finish.   If you are already on the course, and  have got into a hard place – haven’t sent a module for a long time, and would like to swap to this program, then let us know…  We will look at your file, assess it, and give you some options.  The work is the same, and there are no shortcuts, but it may help with affordability.     Email me. yogafirst2@bigpond.com.  

TEACH YOURSELF BOOKS…  New  “NUTRITION FOR A SMALL PLANET – the yoga of food” 

Hope on to our web site to find our books, you will enjoy them – YAMAS, CHAKRAS, AND YIN YOGA….., they will add to your skills, and you can use them as a basis for workshops… www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

If you have your own studio, or teach (or just want to know more)  or want to do workshops, but don’t feel confident that you know enough –  then use these books as the foundation.  Just say that everyone in the class buys a book, comes to the workshop.  You do a class, embellish it with things you like to do, add diet, meditation…  you could easily have a one day or two day work shop based on one of these books.  Should be good, and a whole lot easier than starting from scratch.  Plus, your students can decide to get a certificate at the end from  me if they want that.  It all helps. 

Lee said…..“I felt like the manual gave me confidence to be able to mimic the class and gave me a clearer understanding of the principals of Yin Yoga. I really enjoyed it Jahne and i got something out of it which i will continue to do so as well. So as you said in the manual “i have written this book for you so i hope it will be useful” – and it is, so thank you very much Jahne!”

 

KNITS TO TIBET – PLEASE HELP US. 
We need babies blankets.  80cm x 100cms.  GET KNITTING. 
After the earthquake we can’t build a house, we can’t even provide hot water and water bottles, but we can knit warm blankets.  Nothing fancy, just plain knitting is just fine – an opportunity to use up odds and ends of wool .  What is stopping you?  Get knitting today.    And   when you have a blanket or two send them to The Australasian Yoga Institute, PO box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic.  3441.  A cheaper postage alternative Australia wide may be offered by your newsagent (our does).  Check in and see if your newsagent has this facility.

  YIN YOGA/ANATOMY/MEDITATION DVD’s – all with Paul Grilley

This is one of my major sources and fits beautifully with the course we have put together.   BUY ALL THREE.  You will never regret it.   They are the best and will form the backbone of your yoga references.  Don’t hold back it will be false economy.   As I have told you before when I bought mine they cost $100 or so each.  I thought that this was a good investment.  I think half that is a steal! And that is what we are selling this for www.yogabeautiful.com.au
   

NOA BELLING – YOGA HANDBOOK.  PLEASE…..WE ALWAYS NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE!

We are desperate for some copies.  If you are done with yours, don’t just leave it on the shelf……We will buy yours off you for $25 plus whatever is the postage cost.  Email us if you would like to sell yours, and Deb will call you to organise.   yogafirst2@bigpond.com   We get so many folk get back to us saying how wonderful this book is.  There is a later edition available with lots of black and white photos in it, but my favourite is the first edition which was all colour.  If you can find one, keep it close by – it is a wonderful resource..

 

YOGA CLASSES at the home of The Australasian Yoga Institute….. The Bentinck.

I AM FLAGGING NOW THAT THERE WILL BE A LOT OF CHANGES FROM THE 1ST AUGUST,  so watch this space. The yoga space is mine for the time being at least – who can know the future, and for the immediate moment the classes are as usual.  Please come, your presence will be the deciding factor.  If you are not there, if you have voted with your feet (with no email saying when you will be back), I will unplug the class.  It is absolutely up to you.  It is a time of reflection and change for us all.

Cost:  $10 per person per class (or $100 a 12 class pass:  non–transferable).  

$15 mum plus little yoga bub. $25 per family (mum, dad and two primary school children. Young adults $10 each).

Cost:  $10 per person per class (or $100 a 11 class pass:  non–transferable).  

$15 mum plus little yoga bub. $25 per family (mum, dad and two primary school children.  

Young adults $10 each).

PRICES:  With the changes we are confronting, we will have to put our prices up I think.  There is a change – see the pass above..

WHERE: “The Bentinck”  on the corner of the Romsey Road and the High Street in Woodend.  Enter from  the start of the Romsey Road only – the sign is big and clear . 

 

CLASS TIMES at The Bentinck.
 
Monday         6.30pm Hatha class  (no 5.30 Restorative Class)

Tuesday        *10am RESTORATIVE Yoga therapy with Jahne,  and
                     7.30pm Hatha class with Nic.

Wednesday   12.30 Yin with Fiona, 6.30pm Hatha with Jahne

Friday            7.30pm Hatha with Jahne (new time from 1st August)

Saturday        10am Hatha Yoga with Jahne,  
                      12.30 *RESTORATIVE Yoga therapy
                      with Jahne, (no 9am restorative class

Sunday          4.30pm Restorative with Jahne

 

HATHA WITH NICOLE:
 
As you know, Nicole is a single mum of  lovely teenage boys, the kind who (like mine used to be) eat 12 weetbix for breakfast.  They need lots of attention and as they enter University, lots of funding.  Yoga a few times week is not enough, so although she loves yoga,  she is going back to full time work in the city.   As from the 1st August either I will take her classes, or another teacher will front the class.  I am sure you will welcome changes – there are lots of changes happening.

TEACHING OPPORTUNITY:  With Nicole leaving, there is a space for a new teacher.  If you would like to put up your hand – please do.  Email me. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

 

RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY  CLASSES with Jahne

At the moment I am the only one locally able to take RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY CLASSES. Although others may take Restorative Yoga.   If you have a serious health issue, make sure that the class you are coming to is taught by me.  My classes are a therapy class, and if you buy a class pass you may be able to get a refund from your health benefit fund (depending on the fund).  If you are buying your yoga a class at a time at $10 per class it probably won’t be worth the admin hassle.  Restorative Yoga is quite different to a HATHA Yoga Class.   On request I started a Sunday class, most people can make 4.30 on Sunday, and I hope you can too.

www.yogabeautiful.com.au If you are looking for any changes in times and days, then please go to the web site.  You will find everything there.  We are in the process of updating the site.  Patience please.

DRUM MAKING CLASS:  Please keep in touch with the newsletter.  The details will be here.  Namaste Jahne

 

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS –   

The next will be on the first Sunday in August at the Bentinck – in the Yoga Room, enter through Romsey Road only.  Please join us.   If you are a distance ed. student then the cost of the afternoon is $10.  If  you are a visitor and not formally a student teacher with us then the cost is $20.

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – “AYI YOGA UNIVERSITY”

I am considering an Hon. Doc. Qualification within our yoga Institute.  If you are interested in taking your qualification up a notch and would consider this, please let me know.  You would have had to graduated as a registered teacher, and done some years of teaching.  Certainly you need a good knowledge of philosophy.  Let me know if this is for you.

All our classes are available via distance education and you can start any time..  Thank you to those students who are moving from their 200 to another, higher course.  Once you have got into the habit of learning, then it is easy to keep going….   Within our school there are three levels of YOGA TEACHER TRAINING, plus a course in the Gita, the fundamental source of all yoga teaching through the ages.

1.    THE BHAGAVADGITA (YOGIC PHILOSOPHY) 

2.    RYTA200/YA350 –  THE BASIC YOGA COURSE – Accredited with Yoga Australia 

3.    RYTA500 – THE NEXT STEP    which you can take in a number of ways.  You must start with 200 hours first.

4. PPT Massage technique.  A stand-alone class, fully insurable. 

5. AYI 5 ELEMENT YOGA.  Based on The 5 Tibetans and 5 Elements of Ayurveda.   A short (complete) teacher training course, for a short yoga program. 

6. RESTORATIVE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING – ON–LINE

 

THE SHOP and ETSY  myyogabooks.etsy.com

ALL OUR IN-HOUSE DVD’S AND CD’S ARE AVAILABLE AT THIS SITE.  Please remember that they are not flashy high cost productions.  They are made by Deb, Nic and me to answer your various questions.  They are useful in your course.  

    “YIN YOGA”, “FIVE TIBETANS”,  “THE YAMAS”,   “THE UN-MEDITATION COURSE”  

    YOGA SWINGS: Colours – *blue and grey, grey and black or pink and orange”,

    “THE REVELATION TAROT”, “HOW-TO STUDY YOGA BY DISTANCE EDUCATION”,  

    “THE CHAKRAS – A COLOURING-IN BOOK and a REFERENCE BOOKLET”

    “CHAKRA BOOKLET”, “ETERNITY THE PRAYER”, “THE PENDULUM BOARD AND COURSE”.

    TEACH YOURSELF BOOKS – YIN-YOGA, RESTORATIVE YOGA, YIN4KIDS , PREGNANCY YOGA including AQUA YOGA.  And  NUTRITION FOR A SMALL PLANET – THE YOGA OF FOOD.

 

REGISTRATION/INSURANCE www.yogabeautiful.com.au

After years at a very cheap price by industry standard, we are upping ours.  If you want yoga insurance with us the cost is now $220 pa.   Because we have been with them since they started, it means we get a “hot desk” answered by a real person, in Queensland not India,  who knows who you are.  We also can get the student insurance, which is a very special advantage.  With regards to the forms – we are updating and simplifying.  It won’t be done in a flash – so thank you in advance for your patience.  Our insurance company is underwritten by Lloyds of London, and has recently acquired OAMPS (I am sure you have seen this about).  We have the advantage, we have a niche within that business, and are cared for, which is excellent when you have questions, and want service.   

 

YOUR TEACHER TRAINING YEAR (or so):

Signing up for a course – our course included, is like buying a car.  You can’t buy it, take it for one run, leave it in the garage and a year later go back to the dealer and ask for your money back.  It doesn’t work like that.  If you are on the course, you are on the course until you write and let us know that you are not.  If twelve months and more have elapsed with no contact in spite of all our newsletters, etc…. then you have (as far as we are concerned) been on the course for 12 months, even if you have done NOTHING in that time. 

By the way.  If you are doing the modules, and you have not properly signed up, then you are not properly on the course.  So please check.  It would be dreadful if you got to the end, wanted to rush to graduation and teaching, and we found you had not completed the initial paperwork and you had to get that done…   please check.  If we check (and we are gradually doing this)  and ask you to correct this, please do it QUICKLY – it  is not optional.

If you are a trainee Yoga Teacher who has been working on the course for more than a year please understand that your course fee only gives you FREE classes with me for your first training year – the first 12 months only and ONLY if you have paid for THE STUDIO TRAINING.  Not the DISTANCE training.  Imagine if what would happen to our Institute if  you took three years to finish your course and you could still come to classes free for the entire course, and everyone did that!  We do our fee calculation based on 12 months of yoga training.   Your STUDIO training fees cover you for a year, after that we ask you to pay $10 per class.   

 

TAKE CLASSES WITH JAHNE ANYWHERE, ANY TIME.

VIDEOS:  THEY ARE NOT OPTIONAL – THEY ARE NECESSARY! Only $275 per annum.

NEW TEACHERS…BEFORE YOU START THE COURSE PROPERLY LOOK THROUGH THE VIDEOS.  I can’t stress this enough.   Please look down the list of the videos before you try to do stick drawings, or organise your journal.   NOTE WELL:  they are not in order.  They do not match up with the modules and they were not designed to do that.  You are yogis doing a course.  You do not need the trainer wheels.    Get a feeling for how they are set up, what’s where.  It will save you heaps of time later on.  There are stick figures, respiration, philosophy, how to teach….even the garden is there.  You will love them, but you have to get to know them – it’s not just about asanas.  My various hair incarnations alone will keep you interested!

 

FIONA, and JACKEY and ME…. THE OFFICE.

FIONA:  Is doing the everyday office work.  She is the new Debbie, but it will take her time to get up to speed.    JACKEY is our bookkeeper.  For the next few weeks she will be working from 9am to 12 noon on Wednesdays.  If you want to know anything about accounts, ring at this time.  You can ask me questions any other time, but I may not be able to give you a definitive answer.

ME: During the week, mostly you will be dealing with me.  I am having a lovely time getting close to all my students after years of leaving you all in Debbie’s hands.  Right at this moment, if you have a question about your course (until Fiona gets up to speed), truly, I am the only one absolutely qualified to answer you.  If I don’t answer right away, be patient and call back.  Please email in the first instance at the number below – only the number below…  and set up a time when we won’t be disturbed, and will be in a place where phone connections are possible.  My email   yogafirst2@bigpond.com  If you want to know anything about your course..if you have problems, concerns,  then email me.  As I have said.  Be patient.  We are working hard to be the best we can be.

I have asked before DO NOT SEND MODULES TO MY HOME ADDRESS.    For those of you who have missed seeing my postal address.  It is PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. 3441.  Australia.

THURSDAYS –  are my ONLY DAY OFF.  I would really appreciate it if you left your emails, and telephone calls until another day.    I know that in this “information age”  you need to know things right this minute…  please postpone your request, and don’t get annoyed if I don’t pick  up the phone on Thursdays.  Make your call on , Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Fridays so I do get a rest.  Also, Read the yoga schedule above.  If you call whilst I am in class I am not going to pick up the phone – ditto if I am in the middle of a consult – that is why I plead with you to email me.  Then I can reply as soon as I am free, and those who try it will know I do, unless I have to think about and research what you have asked then it might take a little time.  email: yogafirst2@bigpond.com  or  0354 273 518  or  0402 088 170.   Thank you!

Most people have never met, and don’t understand, that there are angels all around us whose only job is to make sure that you don’t get too comfortable, fall asleep and miss the important moments (and gifts) in your life.

I move with the infinite in nature’s power.  I hold the fire of the soul.  I hold the life and healing”. (Rig Veda)

I have found  if you paddle your boat it is easier to maintain the illusion of control, but I tell you it is so much more fun if you pull the oars in and just let the river take you where it will….

Everything will change for you when you work out that there is plenty of time in every day to complete the important things.

THE LAST WORD: I try to imagine life without being able to speak to God, but none of the days without that special energy have the same laughter, or opportunities…..

For more wonderful, delicious thoughts
Log on to our Web site www.yogabeautiful.com.au
and tune in to our videos  daily.

ENJOY – Love and Blessings,  

Namaste Jahne

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