Dear Yogis,

Friday already!  Almost February…  What an exciting time.  A time to set our course for the year, a time to set goals, and imagine them..  if you can’t imagine them coming to fruition, then it is unlikely you will be able to achieve them.

If you are interested in ME helping YOU,  I can.  My ZOOM TAROT READINGS (or consults in the studio now allowed) will show you the way forward.    I am totally interested and available to help those people who are ready to take action.  I am not the kind of TAROT Reader who predicts the future, requiring nothing from you.  As I have said before – if you seek comfort you will not find the truth, but if you are seeking the truth you may find comfort.

TO BOOK A TIME WITH ME: Choose a number of times you are available (to give us both a choice of day and time) and email me to make an appointment.  To pay go to the home page, choose PAY VIA PAY PAL – which also accepts credit and debit classes – and pay for the class.

ZOOM AND STUDIO MEETINGS COMING UP:

FRIDAY 6.30pm FREE Tarot/Pendulum Class
SATURDAY 2pm IN STUDIO Tarot/Art Class.  This is a monthly in-studio class which follows a series of Zoom classes and allows those students who can, the opportunity of doing a studio class with the teacher to get better understandings of the processes involved.
SUNDAY 10am, The Gita Study Class.  We are coming to the end of this series.  On its conclusion, we will be taking a break by studying “THE ABUNDANT BREATH” 10am  Sunday morning time slot  Starting the 6th February. You should make a time for this class – it will make sense of your life as it has made sense of mine (if you let it!).   Will be doing the Gita again sometime later in the year.

THE ABUNDANT BREATH

At last! In exploring the breath totally, I have outdone everything I have done in my life. In the ABUNDANT BREATH I have found love (that God loves me, I love God and experience that love), I have found in my exploration, bliss,  and have learned I can live from it and in it.

The Divine experience of The ABUNDANT BREATH.

After all these years, working with the breath has allowed me to put aside the negative experience of birth and childhood and all the negative generalisations I made consciously or subconsciously way back then (and they really did inhibit my abundance). I now have days of feeling overwhelming love for everyone. I just want to say, that I am totally grateful that I have been led to yoga, to the Breath, to YOU my community of yogis, to this place in time and space, and everything I have experienced in my life.

I hope this makes as much sense to you as it does to me, because before nothing did. I now understand that “Nothing can befall us except it is ordained by Allah – trust Him”.  The synchronicities alone are amazing….and are more than enough to work with this.

It seems too simple doesn’t it?   STOP THINKING AND START LIVING.

“Without an escort you are bewildered on a familiar road;
don’t travel alone on a road you haven’t seen at all;
Don’t turn your head away from the Guide”. (Rumi)

I WILL MEET YOU ON THE MAT (OR IN THE AIR).

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

ZOOM:  
MONDAY 6.30pm.  We are keeping on keeping on with our HYPERMOBILITY Monday sessions.  The students want to know more.
TUESDAY 7.30pm.  Once we have worked through the Sutra, we are going to move on to a Study of Rumi.
SATURDAY 2pm.  This workshop will happen at the studio this week – our monthly in-house session..  Please let me know if you plan to attend.

“PRECIOUS GIFTS”  When Prabhupada the founder of the Hare Krishna movement moved to New York from India, he was penniless, homeless, friendless,  had just turned 70 and had his first heart attack!  He just trusted God.  A tiny empty shop in the Bowery (one of the poorest,  most crime ridden boroughs in New York)  was made available to him.. above the door was a sign left over from a previous occupant.  It read “Precious Gifts”.  When I am doing anything I think of how He started and how teaching Sacred Texts, teaching Yoga and The Gita and  trusting God caused his message to spread world wide.  No internet, no mobile phones, no computers.  Thinking about that, I am taking you all back to basics….  BACK TO THE BREATH.  

“ABUNDANCE BREATH”.WORKSHOP AND TRAINING SESSIONS. (Starting Sunday 7th March 2021, 2pm to 4pm – One ZOOM Workshop afternoon plus four weekly evening zoom training sessions, plus ebooklet).

“THE NEW SCIENCE OF A LOST ART”.  When I use the technique myself, and when I teach it, I have refined conscious connected breathwork techniques,  combined with active affirmations.  I could have called the workshop/course anything, but at its heart it is all about ABUNDANCE. There are lots of breathing programs out there with no philosophical background and with all sorts of fantasmagorical names – but ours is simple and effective, not just to use but also to teach others.  EARNING, SPENDING SAVING – not just about money.. can be about any area where you need healing.

 Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can not only BRING US ABUNDANCE, it can jump-start athletic performance, rejuvenate internal organs, halt snoring, allergies, asthma and autoimmune disease, and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Try it!

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function, on its head.

Although we are reeling from covid and holidays, and we probably are not thinking clearly about anything, however I would like you to think about hosting a zoom training on the breath for your trainee teachers, teachers and graduates on this most important topic.  We can have a special zoom workshop just for your students…which you can carry forward.

Breathing correctly combined with meditative techniques (which overcomes problems with students who say they can’t meditate), is a powerful program, and one that our graduates from the workshop/trainings can take to their lives, their studio, or freelance to doctor’s offices, physios, hospitals and etc.   There will be a small home study component with a quiz at the end to comply with insurance requirements for those who will teach – and most will.  The actual breathing taken to your clients will blow their minds and have them look again at how they think the world works…

  • If you believe your thoughts create your universe – what were the thoughts that created your personal reality?
  • If your thoughts create your universe – how do you change your thoughts to change your universe?
  • If your thoughts create your universe – what kind of thoughts would be most beneficial?

Rumi reminded us about reality and abundance……

“How long will we fill our pockets
Like children, with dirt and stones?
Let the world go.  Holding it,
We never know ourselves, we are never airborne”.  (Rumi)

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

It has been a wonderful weekend don’t you think so?  The weather has been hot (which I don’t mind when there are no bush fires – although I know it is “when” not “if”), I have been hugely happy and motivated, just because I am, and we have had some extraordinary zoom sessions.  All good.  Read everything below, if you are interested in any of the offerings please email me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com. to start a conversation.

THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND(?)  
MONDAY/TUESDAY CLASSES ARE COMPLETELY AS USUAL – NO CHANGES – NO HOLIDAYS   
The world is devoted to holidays – I am devoted to you and to God.  What do you worship?  Money, power, your job, a person, a family?  Everyone worships someone, and everyone SERVES SOMEBODY (as Bob Dylan said on this first album after he became “Godly” or Christian – “SLOW TRAIN COMING”.. ) 

BEES:  My bee keeper has my bees ready for re-introduction in my yard in time for next spring, and it occurs to me that some of you out there would like to come here to the studio and learn how to go about this, the equipment required, the time, the timing for your yard, the cost?  If you are interested please let me know. He can also teach you how to manage the bees when you have them.  They are not like kittens – they need quite a lot of special attention.

MONDAY HYPERMOBILITY CLASS, 6.30pm.  This is with super motivated students, so no trouble with “homework” or extra curricular reading.  They do it whether I ask or not.  I wonder where we will go from here..

TUESDAY SUTRA CLASS.  7.30 pm.   I didn’t plan this, but we are nearly to the end of this study.  Of course we could take it to the end of the year, but unless you had a specific interest, we have taken this forward in a way that we can apply it to our daily life – and I think that is what the students were looking for.

Maybe  (as it is a longer class) this is the slot for my GOOD BREATH classes.  I wondered what to call this and would like to morph the classes into workshops.

It is more than yoga breath, it can be rejuvenating to mind. body and spirit.  There are no chants, no breath “recipes”… just a state of mind..  Change your mind – change your life! Once you have accepted that things can’t get worse – THEY GET BETTER.  Change your life into one of ease and abundance.

Perfect love really does cast out fear.  Perfect love is loving yourself without setting any conditions. Maybe this is the time of the week we will begin to explore the BREATH.  A practical inspirational view…  I know that studying the breath sounds pretty hum-drum, however it is anything but. This is life changing.  I am looking for people who want to teach this to others.

Most people try to set up the game so that they will have a safe place to process and be real…  I am hoping that this training will help us to dissolve barriers and fears to loving.

THE FREE TAROT CLASSES ON FRIDAYS AT 6.45pm.  It thought for a while these were going no-where and considered cancelling, but I now find them inspirational, and the consistent students have grown so much it is hard to remember the “broken children” they were.  I am now able to pass students along to them knowing all will be well.

THE TAROT/ART CLASSES ON SATURDAY AT 2PM. ……those who have consistently attended have grown in their abilities and their enthusiasm at tackling new and different projects.  I am sure they are bringing these learnings to their own group, or will do so in the future.  At the moment most are engrossed in making their own “secret” book boxes.  Next Saturday’s class (the 30th January) will be at the Studio in Woodend – even if only one student attends.  I will be happy for that.  “Nothing happens that is not ordained by Allah – trust Him”.

SUNDAY MORNING GITA CLASS.  Once again, an inspiration.  We are nearly through the Gita.  This morning we discussed Chapter 14/15, there are 18 chapters, so next week we shall have to consider if we repeat (I read the bible every day, so reading the Gita once a week is not exactly over-kill),.

When we have concluded this study,  we will begin the study of THE PASSIONATE LIFE OF RUMI (and Shams).  It is not dry, but it is a look into the life of a person brought up reading the Qur’an. A sultan, an academic, a person with great community responsibilities, who meets real and passionate love for the first time..  who discovers His spiritual self, and changes the world.

“At any moment, if God wills the entire creation could sink into non-being..
At any moment,  if God wills, the mountains could disappear and become as clouds vanishing…
At any moment, if God wills, we could be as if we had never existed… (Rumi)

 

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT.  NO HURRY –
I AM ALWAYS HERE IN THIS MOMENT,  INSHALLAH (“God Willing”).

NAMASTE.  JAHNE