Dear Yogis,

Are you de-cluttering?   Do you have old photos going to the tip?  Photos of relatives long gone,  or just attractive photos of people you have collected over time?  What to do with them?  Send them to me.  I make charm bracelets, group miniatures, pendants, and etc from photos.

I do family groups of pendants and frame them like miniatures, or like the photos above, I miniaturise them and make them into pendants.

I can make them in colour,  bw or sepia, whatever you like.  Imagine a photo of your beloved as a pendant or a brooch or framed on a wall – one person or a family group.  Valentines day is coming, and this could be the answer.  I will send another email out to show you.

 

GRACIE the cat has been transformed.

No matter how hard I tried, no matter how many foods I experimented with, she was turning into a screaming, untidy, horrible little person.  However, last week Fr.John came to visit.  We were talking about his two cats and he said how he bought chickens from Coles and fed them the pulled meat.  He said it was economical, and they loved it.  So I thought I would try.  Gracie took to it from the first meal.  Her appetite has diminished (she has been ravenous for a very long time), her coat is soft, shiny, sleek, she is back into cuddles, and she has stopped screaming.

Life is calm and peaceful again.  Thank you Fr.John and thank you Coles (and the pre-cooked free range, 100% natural organic chickens – are there any other kind?).

 

WHATS ON IN THE STUDIO.  

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm.  9.30AM in Gisborne

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND:  Open 10th January, at 10am for restorative yoga and then ongoing classes in the following week for the rest of term. Monday 1pm, Wednesday 1pm and Friday 10am

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday  by donation. Please arrive close to 9.30 and we will start when we are settled. FIRST 2025 CLASS 15th January. TODAY.  I am also considering having one at home studio – there has to be an alternative for people who for whatever reason either can’t come every week at the same time, or won’t go to St.Mary’s Hall.

Same conditions.  By donation, chair and pilates ring style,  yoga.  Still with breathing yoga, and meditation/omming.  Just the same as the Wednesday class.

YOGA PHILOSOPHY CLASSES AS USUAL ZOOM. See above.  Two changes, two Tuesdays 14th and 21st then Mondays, 6.30 as usual (unless the class prefers Tuesdays).

ART EQUIPMENT CLASS:  on Sunday February the 9th at 2pm (cost $65) please book.  Only 3 places left.  

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH:   at The Full Moon Saloon starting again in the new year.  I am booking it today.  Let me know if you want to join us.

 

 I am looking forward to 2025.    NAMASTE – JAHNE

Hi there Yogis,

As a person who lost everything in the Ash Wednesday fires, my heart goes out to all those hundreds of families who are in that position in LA, thank goodness my children are nowhere near the fires – Jesse and his family are in Vancouver, Kelly is in OZ.

It is amazing that here in Australia we lease our fire fighting equipment from the Americans, and this year they are over-committed, and there is the suggestion we don’t have enough of our own.

It could be said that LA is in the same position as we were in 1983.  During the last fires in LA,  Kim K’s house was saved by a PRIVATE FIRE FIGHTING FIRM.  Their state service is underfunded, the dams are empty and there are not enough aircraft to go around, plus the fires are changing.  It is winter now in LA and we have this new fire season.

It is more important than ever that we in Australia become self sufficient with our firefighting teams and aircraft.

ART EQUIPMENT CLASS:  

I am inviting you to join us in the Studio on Sunday February the 9th at 2pm (cost $65) for a class which will demonstrate to you the different qualities of paper, inks, grounds, plastics, home made equipment and inks, glues, minerals and etc.   Things that can change the way your paintings look and the finished product.   This will save you months (years) of struggle and frustration.  It cannot be done on zoom.  You can bring a piece you are struggling with.

WHATS ON IN THE STUDIO.  

Our FIRST RESTORATIVE yoga class 2025 Friday 10th January at 10am. TODAY – DID YOU MISS IT!

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm.  9.30AM in Gisborne

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND:  Open 10th January, at 10am for restorative yoga and then ongoing classes in the following week for the rest of term. Monday 1pm, Wednesday 1pm and Friday 10am

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday  by donation. Please arrive close to 9.30 and we will start when we are settled. FIRST 2025 CLASS 15th January.

YOGA PHILOSOPHY CLASSES AS USUAL ZOOM. See above.  Two changes, two Tuesdays 14th and 21st then Mondays, 6.30 as usual (unless the class prefers Tuesdays).

ART EQUIPMENT CLASS:  on Sunday February the 9th at 2pm (cost $65) please book.  Only 3 places left.  

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH:   at The Full Moon Saloon starting again in the new year.  I am booking it today.  Let me know if you want to join us.

 

 I am looking forward to 2025.    NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

Hi there, we are starting a new year, the philosophy classes are still happening, our school is still happening and the teacher training is still happening – when many other schools and training centres are closing, except for those places which are getting cheaper and cheaper, and certifying teachers in a weekend. Our registration, whilst dearer than others, thanks us on a regular basis for providing what we do, and makes it possible.  You might save a dollar or two elsewhere, but you are making known quite clearly where your loyalties lie.  As Vera says “follow the money”.

You may think that saving a few dollars by getting registered elsewhere is no big deal – it is.   It says, “you trained us, you provided terms and conditions that allowed us training we couldn’t get elsewhere, but now I am trained I no longer need you”.  What about the Sangha – is the concept meaningless too? Forgive me. I am only human – and I miss you all.

Schools reduce their overheads, increase student numbers and can get by with teaching the minimum, in a method that can be copied from a youtube video.  Unsupported.  Such students don’t know the history of their practice, or why they do what they do – it is easier just to grasp the minimums of how,  and put the certificate on the wall.

In this way they will never know the beauty and vitality (and possibilities) that they have been gifted.  I don’t know all the answers, but I do know some pretty important questions.

KARMA is God’s gift to us. Minute to minute we make decisions, good ones/bad ones,, good actions, bad actions, good thoughts, bad thoughts.  We make a choice and move forward.  Once we understand about the seeds we are planting we can make better choices, in that way growing and improving moment to moment.  We can recreate ourselves,  not tied to the past. The yamas, they are key.

LAST WORDS.  Remember when an elder dies, a library is lost forever.

 

WHATS ON IN THE STUDIO.  

Our FIRST RESTORATIVE yoga class 2025 Friday 10th January at 10am. TODAY – DID YOU MISS IT!

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm.  9.30AM in Gisborne

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND:  Open 10th January, at 10am for restorative yoga and then ongoing classes in the following week for the rest of term. Monday 1pm, Wednesday 1pm and Friday 10am

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday  by donation. Please arrive close to 9.30 and we will start when we are settled. FIRST 2025 CLASS 15th January.

YOGA PHILOSOPHY CLASSES AS USUAL ZOOM. See above.  Two changes, two Tuesdays 14th and 21st then Mondays, 6.30 as usual (unless the class prefers Tuesdays).

MT.MACEDON GALLERY:  I will be there 10 am to 1 pm on Saturday 11th January

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH:   at The Full Moon Saloon starting again in the new year.  I am booking it today.  Let me know if you want to join us.

 

 I am looking forward to 2025.    NAMASTE – JAHNE