Dear Yogis,

ZOOM:

There are two FREE classes.  Friday 11am ZOOM CAFE, and Friday 6.45 Pendulum Class.  All the other classes have a minimal charge. To join the class email me to book, and pay via the DONATE or PAY buttons on the home page of our web site.

SATURDAY.  12.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA   2PM TAROT/PENDULUM ETC
SUNDAY: 10AM THE BHAGAVADGITA STUDY  and remember TUESDAY 7.30 “THE SUTRAS” A study.
If you want to come to class, go to the home page www.yogabeautiful.com.au.  Look at the class you want to join on the Home Page, and then pay on the DONATE or the PAY PAYPAL BUTTONS.  They had a glitch but now are fixed.

PENDULUM:  Did you miss seeing my new WOLF Pendulum Board and its brother pendulum at class last nite? I just love it.  We will be working on these boards and pendulums again today at 2pm class.   If you want a copy of this board,  I will put it on Etsy and in the store as soon as I get it printed.  This time I will print – small, medium and large.  AND I will bring it to the Saturday pendulum/Tarot class “Show and Tell” time.

CONSULTATIONS available with me on zoom or email. ($65 for three questions just for this month).    As above,  to book please email me yogafirst2@bigpond.com, and pay via the PAY button on the Home Page of www.yogabeautiful.com.au. 

 

WHAT IS NORMAL?

I remember having one of the very few  man-to-man conversations with my mum (before she died – I have plenty now).  She usually delivered a speech about how things should be, and how I had fallen short, but that is another story.

At the time of this conversation,  I was trying to answer a phone call, adjust the clunky old computer to match, cut vegetables for dinner, and deal with two hungry children.   Mum asked me what I would really like to be, I wanted to say “HELPFUL” just in case it would prompt her to ask if she could help, but I resisted.  I said “One day I would like to be a simple home-body”, and she said,  smiling at me “One day would be about as much as you could stand“.   I was so annoyed.  How could she say that – but guess what, she was right on the money.  I might have been hassled, but really, I designed my life and I loved it, just as I do now.  If I didn’t love it I would change it.  I couldn’t and I can’t do the home-body thing.  More than that, I have no inclination to do it at all.

Sometimes a man will come along,  pulled in,  not by me,  but by the feeling they say of calmness they feel around me which I attribute to years of yoga and meditation.  They think it is attraction.  It is not.  They might fall in love with who they think I am, however, I fall in love with a person that can’t be seen with the eyes, only sensed.  An amazing mind can make me swoon a little, and can even spark up a conversation, but really, it’s the heart and soul of a person that attracts me, makes me breathe deeply. My own source is “within”.  I fall in love with a person’s (usually broken) heart.

I am very careful about someone who wants to change me or wants to make me like them.  I never now am deaf to what my inner voice has to say – if I ignore it, then what happens is my fault. Let me say this right now, I have learned from Mary Magdalen we do not give away any of our power to anyone EVER.

We don’t have to compromise and settle for a version of ourselves that is “almost” us.  We don’t have to settle for a truth we don’t believe in, for instance when someone is telling us there is a better way to be human (they mean NORMAL  – whatever that is). We don’t have to fit in and be moulded to a shape that was never meant to fit us.

Isn’t that the most fabulous realisation you could ever have?  You don’t have to fit in! YOU ARE PERFECT JUST AS YOU ARE.

 

SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

ZOOM

FRIDAY:  11am YOGA ZOOM CAFE.  This is just a community of women – we all need community during covid. Everyone welcome.  Email me for an ID.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com
FRIDAY: 5.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA and 6.45 FREE PENDULUM CLASS.  We are working on making a pendulum Board.  Making a Pendulum comes next.  My new board just loves the pendulum I made to go with it – and using it throughout the painting was so fantastic.  I used it to know what to do next, when to add, and importantly WHEN TO STOP.  At the end I was calm, happy and just felt so connected.  Peaceful. And the Board was happy.  The photo to the left is where I  started with the Board.  It looks different now.

SATURDAY: 12.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA, and 2pm TAROT/PENDULUM…WATERCOLOURS
SUNDAY: 10am BHAGAVADGITA STUDY. (TUESDAY: 7.30pm – THE SUTRA STUDY)

RETURN TO LOVE….

Keeping in mind that some of you don’t know about the “Gospel of Mary” (A Gnostic Gospel) – A biblical text which along with others was excluded from the Bible when it was first compiled by The Emperor Constantine advised by King Herod no doubt.  Probably in her case,  on the basis that a woman’s voice couldn’t be heard.

Mary Magdalen’s gospel starts with missing pages – six missing pages.  This is the voice of a woman that we can’t ask, can’t get back.  I wonder what was so incendiary on the first six pages that they had to be destroyed?  Her gospel starts on page seven.    The number is significant, and occurs many times through her Gospel.  The Seven Stages we have to go through, the seven powers we have to confront within ourselves to reach the heart and get past the ego and reveal the infinite within us.  An Interesting correlation to the chakras, which Christ makes also within this Gospel, although they are not called Chakras but “Powers”. In the Story of Samson and Delilah they are called “Locks”.

Three copies of her gospel have been discovered – two in Greek and one in Coptic.  Each of them has these pages missing plus four in the middle. I believe that these pages refer to the question Mary asks of Jesus “So, now, Lord, does a person who sees a vision see it with the soul or the spirit?”  We do have the start of the answer     “The Saviour answered, ‘A person does not see with the soul or with the spirit.  Rather the mind, which exists between the two, sees the vision and that is what…..”  

We can’t recover the lost pages, but Last nite as I put the finishing touches to my new pendulum board (which I will reveal for the first time to my free class this evening at 6.45, together with the amazing bone pendant its partner), I thought about the words of Mary Magdalen  “the work we are being called upon to do here is to clothe ourselves with the perfect Human”  This means that we have to do the work which causes us to remember again and again with great ease this experience of self as also a soul.  This soul of love that loves through us. (Above, the photo shows my incomplete MAGDALEN TAROT).

The soul that whispers “come to me all who are heavy laden, and I will give you peace”.

When I paint or create I speak from this place that is otherwise hidden from me, and use a voice that is more than my own.

I believe that when I am (when WE are)  painting and creating I become a voice in the service of love.  When I work from this place, heart can speak to heart directly.  Those who have “two ears” (Her words),  can hear this voice and can understand.  It’s our work to do what we can to remember the soul, to remember the love that is at the heart of how we heal.

We are not perfect.  The point is to constantly arrive, for some of us with each breath.  We constantly return to love.  It is actually right here.  Within.  Our own private heaven.  If like Mary magdalen you can listen to the silence inside of you, hear what love wants you to say and do, then no-one outside of you can ever silence you again.  “I will teach you what is hidden from you”   The Gospel of Mary 6:3

 

SEE YOU IN CLASS – NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

ZOOM
FRIDAY:  11am Don’t miss our YOGA CAFE.  It’s about “being happy for no good reason”.  We all need community.
5.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA.  6.45 FREE –  learning the pendulum.

SATURDAY: 12.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA  2pm TAROT MAKING, watercolour, doodling
SUNDAY: 10am THE BHAGAVADGITA.

TUESDAY 7.30pm:  We will be starting a series on THE SUTRAS.  This is quite a long series and may take us up to the Christmas break.  We shall have start to see where it takes us.  If you come to every class I will give to a Certificate of Attainment at the end.

FOR ANY AND ALL, if you have not enrolled contact me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com and I can put you on the ZOOM ID LIST
TO PAY (please):  Go to the home page, choose the class you want to take, pay by clicking on DONATE.

 

THE SUTRA STUDY CLASSES – Starts this coming Tuesday at 7.30pm

FOCUS: Underlying the physical practice of yoga (the asanas) is a philosophy that provides a blueprint for managing the material world.
we will be studying these concepts… We may not have time for 195 sutras.  A Doctorate could be written on any one of them.  Traditionally like all philosophical/religious texts they used to be chanted in order to commit them to memory, as not everyone could write.  You will not have to commit them to memory, neither will you have to chant them.

Patanjali the compiler of the sutras did not create yoga. He brilliantly compiled its essence entitled PATANJALA-YOGA-DARSANAM meaning viewing yoga according to Patanjali and known in the West as the YOGA SUTRA-S.  Yoga existed long before Patanjali. The Mahabharata refers to yoga on numerous occasions,  each chapter refers to yoga,  and is considered to be one of the primary ancient YOGA SASTRA-S.  We have been studying the ‘Gita and its verses on yoga, in our Sunday classes. It is a surprising text which has brought together for our students a deeper understanding of all aspects of yoga philosophy.  We will continue with these as the background to the sutra study.

BHAGAVADGITA written in approximately 600-200BCE, author – Veda Vyasa, 18 chapters, 700 verses part of the Mahabharata
PATANJALA-YOGA-DARSANA written 500-200BCE, author – Patanjali, 4 chapters, 195 sutras.

We will be studying the concepts as Patanjali listed them.  They are in a deliberate order, most often from outer/external/superficial to inner/internal/deep, and each in order – one leading to the next.  It is interesting to me that the first real word in the text is ARTHA which translates as “in the beginning” and the last real word is SAKTI (the final word “iti”) is equivalent to THE END.  I promise we won’t take three months to discuss these two concepts as I did when studying theology and the Bible, although they are equivalent.

I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU IN THESE CLASSES – BE PREPARED TO THINK.

NAMASTE. JAHNE