Dear Yogis,

ZOOM AND STUDIO CLASSES

MONDAY: 1pm Studio Class Full.    6.30 HYPERMOBILITY (Last Class)
TUESDAY: 7.30 RUMI Study
WEDNESDAY: 5.30 Studio Yoga
FRIDAY: 6.45 Pendulum and Tarot Class.
SATURDAY: 2pm TAROT/ART CLASS
SUNDAY: 10am THE GITA STUDY.  We are starting again from this Sunday.  If you missed the last time, you can join in.

NEXT SATURDAY MORNING AT 10AM THE BREATH WORKSHOP.  THIS IS FOR EVERYONE.

 

FAITH

To have FAITH is to be sure of the things we hope for and to be certain of the things we cannot see (Hebrews 11)  What a record all these have won by their faith! And yet they DID NOT RECEIVE WHAT GOD PROMISED, BECAUSE GOD HAD DECIDED ON AN EVEN BETTER PLAN….  

I have decided that in spite of how things may seem I am not going to give up the habit of meeting with you via the newsletter.  I will send one out on Monday and one on Friday – the beginning and the end of the week. (If Covid takes hold again I will increase the newsletter mail out as I did before).   I have a feeling that this letter, even if you don’t respond through the computer,  is a way of encouraging one another (my grateful thanks to those wonderful students who have contacted me)…  For myself, it is by faith that I understand that the universe was created by means of the Word (THE BREATH)… “In the beginning was the word”,   and what can be seen has been made out of what cannot be seen.  So when we meet our personal “Red Sea”, we have faith that the waters will be parted and we will with faith get across.  If we make the right decisions now, no matter how things LOOK, the results will be over and above what we can imagine.

So many of us are in the place of restructuring our lives, I certainly am.  We need patience,  and to keep going in the path that we have been inspired to travel.  I remember when I was at School in the senior years, there were a number of students who were much better at art than I was.  I especially had a cousin or two who were fantastic.  I was so in awe of the talent that they had, and worked so hard to get better, hoping that one day I would be as good as they already were.  Have any of the students or my cousins done anything with their lives from an artistic point of view – in a word “NO”.  Why?  I think it was too easy for them.  They didn’t value the fantastic gift that they had. It was right in front of them and they didn’t see it.  They could have reached the stars, but no, they muddled around on the ground and never took flight.  Never explored the fabulous gift they had been given, never took it as far as they could have.  IS THIS YOU?

What is your gift?  Is it right in front of you? Are you fabulous at teaching, at child rearing, at gardening, at writing?  What is your gift.  Do you have the patience to get better at it and to take it as far as you can? Your patience and hard  work will be rewarded if you have patience and faith. Maybe not right away, maybe not in the way you expected but it will be rewarded.

THE COVID REPORT.

Make sure that you have your Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Zinc supplements up to date.  Nutrition is the main defence you have, and cutting back on the super-stressors in your life.  Make sure you get enough SLEEP.  If your body is strong, if your immune system is strong, there is a much lesser chance of you getting Covid (or anything else for that matter) even if you are not vaccinated or taking any of the suggested drugs.

There is a drug called IVERMECTIN that is now being used in many countries.  (WWW.SMH.COM.AU – a report by Liam Mannix).   Yes, it has a “mediocre” press – Liam Mannix’s report in Australia by The Sydney Morning herald is balanced I think, but when there is the choice of vaccine or Ivormectin, perhaps Ivermectin is a possible alternative  – widely available, low cost IN AMERICA (about $42 in Australia),  and millions of doses have been delivered in many countries.

Randomised control trials are going on at the present time in the USA of 4,000 patients, and to date consistently they are holding up.  The  Doctor who is the initiator of these drug trials is Dr.Korey (WWW.FLCCC.NET).  Go to the paper on that site,   “I-MASK PROTOCOL”,  the review and the summary – I haven’t been able to find an Australian equivalent.  If you are interested, print out this report and take it to your doctor and get his/her opinion.

Explore it, explore the side effects (everything has side effects), and decide if it is for you.  I personally am using Nutrition and Supplementation as my line of defence, but I am pretty healthy with no other issues that I know of, so perhaps the decision is easier for me, however, my sister in the UK has had covid twice, and her husband died of it a couple of weeks ago. I am not blasé about where we are, and where we are going.

 

SEE YOU ON THE MAT (OR ZOOM)  AS USUAL.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

We would like to emphasize that The Australasian Yoga Institute is not opposed to vaccination, and furthermore supports policies such as mask wearing, social distancing, and hand hygiene to prevent the further spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Our reports are designed to help and support people to mitigate the effects of the pandemic until it is overcome, and to allow for an earlier return to daily life

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

As I said to the RUMI STUDY GROUP – I do a lot of thinking in the shower (not good for the water consumption!) and  it occurred to me that so many of you are going  ‘off-piste”, going on holidays and generally getting back into your hectic social lives after covid,  that I may take a creative break and focus on me too, instead of running around trying to interest you in the things of the Spirit.

NOT BECAUSE I NEED A REST (!) but because I need to be working to a group who need me.  Students who come to class and to zoom because the information is important to their lives and their community.  I am not here for entertainment when nothing better is on offer.  I don’t have the time.

If you want me, you will know where to find me, I may be even easier to find.  I will notify you of changes via the newsletter – which will only be helpful if you read it.  From next week, (unless I get a lot of request otherwise) I will only do one newsletter a week…I will limit classes, with lots of notice so don’t worry.   The rest of the time I will concentrate on drawing and writing.  I have commissions, I have projects,  I have another fulfilling life (I don’t just exist on the yoga mat and the screen),  and I do have a community which responds aside from yoga – and I am going to focus on them.   I am very busy, and will get busier.  I am even contemplating a second doctorate.

After 50 years as a handmaiden to my yogis, this is going to be a change for us all.  I don’t know how it will work, I don’t know about tomorrow, anything could happen – I do know I want to live well and happy today.    “Nothing can befall us other than that ordained by Allah – trust in HIM”.  I haven’t met Shams, but I am open to it.

THE BREATH.
Workshop: 20th February. 10am ZOOM.  www.yogabeautiful.com.au for details.

Not one of my artworks, but definitely orb-like.

Everything around us is composed of molecules, which are composed of atoms, which are composed of sub-atomic bits called protons (which have a positive charge), neutrons (which have no charge) and electrons (which have a negative charge).  All matter at its most basic level is energy.  

“We cannot separate life from living matter, inevitably studying living matter and its reactions we are studying life itself”. (Szent-Gyorgyi)  What distinguishes inanimate objects like rocks from animate objects like birds, animals, plants is the level of energy or the “excitability” of electrons within the atoms that make up the molecules in matter.

The breakdown of this electron excitability is what causes metal to rust and what turns leaves brown and crinkly and causes them to die.  Human also “rust” – This “rust” is disease  A good example is cancer which thrives in an environment of low oxygen.  We need to flood our bodies with constant levels of oxygen.

Breathing deeply, slow and strong,  LESS,  AND THROUGH THE NOSE, balances the levels of respiratory gases in the body and sends the maximum amount of oxygen to the maximum amount of tissues in order  that our cells have the maximum of electron activity.

The name is different  for different cultures – PRANA, CHI, RUAH, but the principle is the same.  IT IS ALL ABOUT THE BREATH.  

For good health and a long productive, THINKING life, we all need to know the lost art and science of breathing.

 

SEE YOU AT THE WORKSHOP?
TWO HOURS IS BARELY TOUCHING THE SURFACE. IT IS A LIFE’S WORK.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis…

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT NEWSLETTER, AND  AN IMPORTANT NOTICE OF AN UPCOMING WORKSHOP AND CLASSES.  It will only take you a minute or so to read it – please….

BREATH WORKSHOP, Saturday 20th February..10am ($25)

Please, you can’t miss this.  No fancy breaths, just knowing what we do when we are doing it (as the Buddha has said) .  It is $25 for a two hour workshop.  It will change the way that you live day to day (and at night).  It certainly will change the way that you teach.  You will have a way you can impact your self, your family, your community.  This is no small thing – IT IS EVERYTHING.

This workshop is important  because it weaves together Tibetan Buddhism, Yoga, Vedas (The Gita), Tao and science.  I did a taster on Sunday at the Gita class, and the class was mesmerised… I had to steer the class back to the original study because the breath is fascinating.  It is something we obviously all do, and we do badly.  I have written the workshop up on the EVENTS page, click “EVENTS” on the menu on our home page.

To book go to the home page, click on the PAY BY PAY PAL button.  Don’t forget to leave your name and email address so that I can send you your ID the day before the workshop.  PayPal will send the receipt immediately.  Very easy, very efficient.

 

I do have a new WEB PAGE just for THE BREATH – But for now whilst it is under construction,  all our notices are on the EVENTS DROP-DOWN on our WWW.YOGABEAUTIFUL.COM.AU page,  because it is such an important topic

You are going to be blown totally out of the water when you see the convergences, and how we have been steered away from these convergences which once you understand,  can save our sanity and our lives.  I am not putting this too strongly.  

WE ARE THE WORST BREATHERS IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.  This topic is life saving – but only if you use it.  Come to the workshop on Saturday the 20th of this month at 10am… and then the classes from the Friday following that workshop.  

 

HOW WE BREATHE MATTERS

NEW ONGOING ZOOM CLASSES ON THE BREATH:  Starting, Friday 26th February (ZOOM).  (4 classes $88 – the same as yoga). 

In each class, *I will be doing a small chat to show you the theory of “how” we are going to use the breath in the class,  in the workplace and at home –  *then we will be doing the “Micro-Cosmic Orbit” which we use to start every Restorative class. This revitalises the spine and the cerebrospinal fluid.  *Having done that we will move to the breath.  

To make sure you get the most of the class,  practise with your tablet or whatever you be using so you can get up close for the class, further back for the micro-cosmic orbit (a seated 5 movement session), followed by time on the floor, or seated in a cushion or chair depending on your fitness.  I will need to be able to see you otherwise it is not a real class.  We could do it without visuals, but there will not be much interaction – I won’t be able to see HOW you are breathing.  This is a breath class!

“In every country, every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy”  (Szent-Gyorgyi)

 

THE SUNDAY BHAGAVADGITA CLUB. 10am every Sunday.

We have decided as a team, as a “club”,  now (after a year of study)  we are finished the Gita and will start at the beginning and do it all again.  This is how we really learn, really DRILL DOWN into the word.

I have had a chance to see who comes, who is committed, how they study, so I have therefore decided to charge $50 for a calendar month.  No freebies, concessions, carry-overs and no recording.  The students who come are really committed and want to learn consistently and I LOVE THEM!    The class is now $50 for a MONTH.   So the next time you pay, you will pay for one month.  If you pay on the 26th February, you will pay again on the 26th March etc…. Easy for you, easy for me.

 

MIRACLES AT WORK – PRAYER/THE BREATH

In Colombia’s capital city, hundreds of TONNES of drugs were trafficked every year.  EVERY DAY there were 15 homicides connected to this trade, many many overdoses, crimes and families in crisis were at the mercy of the drug trade, and a huge drain on the resources of the City. I am sure you can imagine what I am talking about – CHAOS.  Lots of things were tried, nothing worked.  It seemed to be an impossible situation.  Having tried everything,  now is the time they thought about going outside of the material, to the spiritual.

What happened next?  A small number of Church-goers decided to have prayer meetings and start prayer chains specifically directed at healing this “running sore” which was the drug trade.  Having tried everything else, more and more people joined the special services and the prayer chains.  As the numbers of the prayer teams grew, the number of deaths fell, and the churches had to expand the number of services, which would eventually encompass the football stadium.  While this was happening the deaths and the side issues and crimes associated with this horrible trade diminished dramatically – you can’t argue with numbers! Government officials joined the services and the prayer chains, and then offered to pay the churches to keep their services happening, pay for the stadiums, pay for the halls….

This is the power of the breath, the power of prayer (just another name perhaps for the breath – depends how you do the breath.)

Does prayer work, does BREATH WORK? Will it work for you in your everyday life?   Absolutely.  When you know the price is covered, then the way you look at the menu changes.  

When you have lots of options you are in Control – when you run out of options – GOD IS IN CONTROL

 

THE TAROT FOR SELF DISCOVERY

Choosing just 3 cards as a  spread is a way you can use our REVELATION Tarot for Self-Discovery –  it’s a wonderful way to check that you’re in alignment with your soul purpose on a day-to-day basis.

The SELF DISCOVERY Check-In spread can work with any new opportunity in your life: hobbies, travel, training and courses, relationships — you name it. Use it whenever you want to know if something is in alignment with your soul purpose in this lifetime.

1. MY RESOURCES: What am I calling into my life right now?
2. MY CHALLENGE: What is this opportunity bringing into my life? AND How is this opportunity in alignment with my soul purpose?
3. MY LESSON: What is my best course of action with this opportunity? and what as I discovering in this process?

Of course I’d love to see how this goes for you – once you’ve done your SELF DISCOVERY Tarot spread, post a pic to my email and let me know your thoughts…

 

SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE – JAHNE