Dear Yogis,

First off, thank you so much for those students who have understood and taken steps to break the YAHOO grip.  Thank you for understanding that unless you subscribe to me I don’t send newsletters (or anything), but if you are a member of a YAHOO GROUP, Yahoo itself hacks into everyone’s emails and distributes EVERYTHING from each of its group members.  It is the ultimate hacker unless you stop it, and it is hard to stop which I am sure you have discovered.  It is like an elephant, it never forgets.

COVID…

Now that we are sort of getting back to “normal”?  If you had been in Woodend over the weekend you would have thought you were in the USA, people were everywhere, doing anything they wanted, even driving on the wrong side of the road.  It was like the Wild West, and a good place to stay away from (where were the “Bobbies on Bikes” protecting our town).  Yogis, don’t be one of these people putting the country at risk.  The virus has not gone away… it is just subdued at the present time.

We have gone back to studio classes both in yoga and in art, but just for three people at a time and strictly adhere to the rules. If you come to yoga it is almost one-on-one.  You will love it.

 

RESTORATIVE YOGA ISOMETRICS

I am sure that many of you who are working with people in recovery that in spite of the wonderful work we are doing to lengthen and strengthen the body,  change is slow… or not understood.  We can spend months diligently working with them, and they can make great progress, but it can be better.  The challenge for all of us is that they are not doing the work at home we need them to do.  We show them how to create space for blood and oxygen to awaken the tissue but we need them to strengthen their body (especially the core) with exercise – and we know there is little chance of that.

I think about aspects of Restorative yoga that I am working on as YOGA ISOMETRICS which without much effort improves and sometimes reverses the collapse of the body caused by thickening of the tissues over time.  This thickening creates a sticky mess which clogs up the body and traps toxins which inhibits the range of movement – and this is where PAIN resides.  Most usually some distance from the cause site.

We have long needed an easy “something” that our clients could use when they are not in class.  A simple 15 or less minutes of relaxing movement that they can do while they are watching TV(?).  They won’t chant, or deal with silence, well the majority won’t, so we have to work where they are, not where we want them to be.  

In their life our ours, most often what has happened is that at some stage there has been a “break in the system”,  and it is how we handle what it presents, that will determine the result.  THE CORE AND BREATHING IS WHERE I AM STARTING – WHERE I HAVE ALWAYS STARTED, and massage, exploring the body  in this way (combining it with breathing and movement), has shown me the energy slings, and wavelike patterns that either expand or inhibit growth.

Yoga and stretching are great because they take your attention to what stops you from moving. However, pain is generally the limiting factor in how our students move, or how we don’t move.  I am bringing the things I am learning in massage to my practice.

The work I am doing puts a different spin on ageing. If tissue can be reawakened, then aging is only a function of compression. If tissue can decompress and resume flow, then ageing as we know it is dead!

I am working to bring to my clients (and you) a way to ensure optimal oxygenation and detoxification to each and every cell.  This is what our bodies are designed to do, however because our alignment is off balance from years of unconscious living, we are going to have to work to get our muscles to function properly, and we can start with the diaphragm.

If you are interested to join me on this journey… please indicate this, please email me and I will put together zoom, and studio work to show you how I am progressing with my clients.

I know it works, because my own body has gone through transformation. My students and my clients tell me this is happening.  I am becoming “younger”. Gradually the accumulated effects of time and physical trouble are becoming less,  and I can feel that my body has awakened.  A step beyond Restorative to a new dimension. 

JOIN ME ON THE MAT (my constant invitation).

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

First let me say again: If you are a member of a YAHOO GROUP please unsubscribe from them if you don’t want to receive these newsletters.  I am not a Yahoo member and I do not send these newsletters if you are not subscribed.  I do not use your names and addresses apart from sending you these newsletters, and only if you are subscribed..

MINDFULNESS, the book with ACTIVITY CARDS  have now been loaded, and you will be able to find it in our YOGA BEAUTIFUL SHOP. click on our web site, go to the shop and download the book.  It costs less than a morning tea.  www.yogabeautiful.com.au

 

CREATING YOUR LIFE’S WORK WITH JAHNE (& NADOYAN).

If you are like me, you are in recovery from the continuous covid lock-up.  Most of us have to re-jig our studios and schools and it isn’t easy.  We all want to create abundance from doing the things we love, and that is part of the problem, we have locked that away too.  What exactly do we love to do?  Importantly, how can we make a living doing what we love?

I thought (If you are interested) Nadoyan and I would share with you how can move forward creating joy, peace, harmony, clarity, and self-love letting it flow and increase.  First off you have to establish this –  Do you intend to have abundance? Are you ready to have what you want? Are you ready to have your money work for you?  Before we start you need to have a glimmer of an idea that you WANT to create abundance.. this is the first step to having it in your life.  By the way, we are not talking about over-abundance, just taking you to the place where you are relaxed about money.  The TV Host Graeme Norton was asked what it felt like to be successful after life of “failure”.  He said “It meant he could relax around money”. It meant “Never having to worry about paying a bill”.   That I think is a good place to be,  plus (being a very curious person) he gets to do what he really loves to do – “talk with anyone in the world and have fun”.  This could be you. The difference is this.. he knew what he really loved doing and who he wanted to be.  Even in the face of huge odds never let go of the image of himself actually living the dream.  I guess he had to burn off a bit of karma first..

Finding and creating your life’s work will bring you more abundance than any action you can take.   Your life’s work will involve doing what you love to do and will in some way make a contribution to the greater good of mankind.  Money will be a by-product of that… not the focus.  It will flow effortlessly when you are going in the right direction.  My guide Nadoyan and I will help you along the path and will show you how to contact your own guide to assist you in this work.  I speak with my guide Nadoyan every day.    We will show you many energy techniques to help you along this route to your higher path, which will open up to you many opportunities to to discover and fulfil your life’s purpose.  Even a small step along this path will bring you great rewards on every level, drawing abundance to you by achieving a relaxed easy state of mind.

Forget about the economy, forget about covid. Let’s create our own personal economic environment of prosperity.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED TO COME ALONG ON THIS JOURNEY, PLEASE REGISTER YOUR INTEREST.  I would like to do a ZOOM series on CREATING ABUNDANCE and will do a short précis in the newsletters.  To get the full thing, you will have to zoom along with Nadoyan and me.  If you don’t contact me, then I will figure you are happy doing what you do, and getting what you get.  If you want things to change – YOU NEED TO CHANGE.

SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE JAHNE (and Nadoyan)

Dear Yogis,

Before we start, I have a technology problem and I need your help to try and solve it, PLEASE..

If anyone who reads this is 1. a member of The International Yoga Federation and 2. Has ACTUALLY  personally subscribed at any time to this newsletter, could you please let me know.

I am NOT interested to know if you receive the newsletter – I WANT TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE EVER SUBSCRIBED even if you have unsubscribed.   Please send your name and your email addresses to me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

 

THE LATEST ON MINDFULNESS

Thank goodness I had the YOGA BEAUTIFUL site and shop.  I am having such terrible problems with ETSY.  When my pendulum told me to get going on the YB Shop, it spoke correctly.  To download your copy of this book please go to www.yogabeautiful.com.au and click on the SHOP.

They are there and ready to be downloaded, RIGHT NOW! Not earth shattering for you perhaps, but after more than an hour trying to make sense of the etsy site, I was SOOO pleased to revert to our site.  I don’t put enough there – but I will.  Etsy is getting sooo bogged down with structures and time consuming admin.

In the back of this new book are 12 MINDFULNESS ACTIVITY cards (three sheets of 4) which you can photocopy and on nice paper, trim,  and use  as a teaching tool, as a tool in counselling or tarot sessions (just to break the ice), or put one on the end of your student’s yoga mats in class so they can start the class in a calm manner… there are lots of ways to use them.

Even as a personal  “pick-a-card-a-day” discipline.  To download yours go to the shop on WWW.YOGABEAUTIFUL.COM.AU

 

WEEKEND STUDIO/ZOOM:  

FRIDAY 6.45pm THE FREE TAROT CLASS.  
Our SATURDAY 2pm Zoom class will be a Studio class (no zoom this Saturday).  We will have a studio meet-up once a month.
SUNDAY ZOOM 10am Bhagavadgita class.

 

LET’S DO SIMPLICITY?

It is totally appealing right at the moment after a day off that has been so very busy.  The only “day-off” thing I did was climb the ladder to the roof and rip the triffid-like wisteria away from the TV dish.  I think it likes the warmth?   But simplicity.  Hardly,  it was a day of challenges, in the garden, in the office and on the roof…plus technological challenges.

My printer which I had been “managing” has been costing me money lately, so it had to go (after 7 years hard work I might add).  Because of  covid and problems of stock, I had to buy a printer that I know will be a learning curve, and more expensive than I wanted to pay… but as I was gifted an older model IPhone (my first) I felt that balanced out.

Our task is not easy.  As I went about my day I often paused to consider what to do as situations presented themselves.  I have to admit to struggling to find integrity as I was pressured from all sides.  As I laboured to know what to do in every situation, I thought of the words of Mark Twain: Civilisation is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities”.

I read the bible as you know, and Jesus said that he “did nothing of his own accord” (John 5:19), and astonishingly he calls us to enter this unity of purpose.  We are told  we are to live with glad and generous hearts.  THIS IS SIMPLICITY.   When you get to that stillness, life is just beautiful….

 

SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE. JAHNE