Dear Yogis,

I didn’t intend to do a Saturday Email… but thought I better seeing things are starting up again, and I don’t want you to miss out.

We are back on… I am so pleased.  I have been flagging it in the newsletters, but few of you have gotten back to me, so you either are asleep, away somewhere unreachable – or just happy and waiting for your ID – I sent it yesterday afternoon, if you missed, let me know ASAP and I can repeat it for you.

IF YOU WANT TO JOIN IN AND HAVEN’T GOT YOUR EMAIL/HAVEN’T PAID .. HERE’S THE WAY TO GO…

If you need to catch up with payments – this isn’t “the Magic Pudding”.  If you miss a class that is actually on, then you are still responsible for paying for that class.  This is a commitment to your art, your tarot and ultimately to yourself.  The way to pay is the same as always.  Just go to the web home page www.yogabeautiful.com.au, click on PAY VIA PAYPAL and that is it.  PayPal will let me know when you have paid.

THE SATURDAY ART CLASS MENU
…$50 for three classes. Plus $25 for our additional (optional) studio class.

I thought that we would continue with lino cuts (and paper) for those who want to, learn how to make a secret book for those who want to do that, or keep going with boards and watercolours for those immersed in that.  Whatever you want to do.  It has worked in the past, so I guess we will keep doing this.

If you want to make a secret book.  You will need a biggish hard back book, a steel ruler, Stanley knife, pencil, big bulldog clips, a piece of baking paper to stop glue seeping (double the size of your book), and you will need to know what your “secret” inside the book is going to be so you can make the box inside the book the right size. You will also need mod-podge or PVA glue, and a square tipped glue brush…

SUNDAY GITA STUDY
…$20 per class with a revision every second week – so really $10 per 2 hour class! you can pay $40 for four which saves a bit of banking hassle.

It’s going to be exciting as we move through.  Even if you missed our classes last year NOW IS THE TIME.  Sign up now.  It is not a dry study.  We will be considering the GITA alongside other texts – The Bible, The Quran, Sufism, The Matrix… what I call FUN!

MONDAY 6.30pm – HYPERMOBILITY
TUESDAY 7.30pm – THE DIAMOND SUTRA

 

Glad to be back?  I certainly will love clicking onto zoom and seeing you all.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

Tomorrow we get back to our usual program.  

Saturday 2pm ZOOM Tarot/art class
Sunday 10am ZOOM Gita Study
Monday 6.30pm The first of the three Hypermobility lectures.
If you want to re-join a class make sure that you are up to date with your fees – pay VIA PAYPAL on the home page of the web site www.yogabeautiful.com.au.  If you haven’t joined before, let me know so that I can put you on the list to receive your zoom ID.

The thought for today…..“Some people are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted them from birth through social conditioning.  They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers.  Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening.  Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance”.  (Henri Bergson)

 

THE SUFI

Not all Muslims take their answers from a book of rules.  The State maintains and enforces security and law, but the Muslim population remain drawn to the mysticism and community of Sufi brotherhoods.  These adherents seek the inner significance of the esoteric, not just the rules and rituals.  They look for the significance of the Sharia, and explore the inner dimension of Islam that is SUFISM.

Rumi was a Sufi.  Who is a Sufi?  An aspiring Sufi seeks only to please God, and does so in secret as often as possible, turning aside from the material world and its banalities.

You all know the story of Rumi the renowned Muslim poet and Sufi Master who founded the Mevlevi order – the adherents dance in remembrance of the Divine.  Rumi was harsh, upright and erudite, but all that changed with the arrival in his town of a vagabond called Shams of Tabriz.  Shams performed a miracle – rescuing a precious book from a well without it getting wet.  Rumi had read about miracles but had never witnessed one – an ambassador of The Divine Presence had reached Rumi.  He knew it and felt it.  The sober professor was about to shed his old self and emerge new, but it would not be easy, and not without scandal.

The two influences on Rumi’s life – his father and Shams lifted him up.  Both were from the East, had memorised the Quran in its entirety, were teachers of religious and mystical knowledge, and both left their spiritual secrets to Rumi.  Once he had been “set-alight” by Shams of Tabriz, he could no longer go back to dry academic knowledge and rituals.  Shams urged Rumi to violate every code so that in the eyes of his community he became nothing and was cursed because of it – but from the Divine view point, Rumi  would become everything, committed only to God and seeking acceptance only in heaven.  He killed his ego’s desire to please others, to be liked and respected.  He did everything that his society at the time forbade, he drank, he sang HE WAS FREE.  Rumi’s poetry speaks to the inner yearning of the human soul that within Islam only the Sufis understand.

“Come, come whoever you are.
Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
It doesn’t matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even though you have broken your vows a thousand times.
Come, yet again, come, come.” (Rumi)

IT’S TIME – JOIN ME ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE. JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

We are coming close to the end of the holidays, and there are students already asking me what comes next…
This is next – starting next weekend…. ALL WELCOME….

ZOOM:
Saturday 9th  – 2pm The usual Tarot/Art Class ($50 for three classes plus $25 for the Studio class). 
Sunday 10th – 10am THE GITA Study time ($20 for one class plus a free catch up)
Monday 11th – 6.30 The Hypermobility Lectures.  The first in a series of three. ($35 for three classes)
Tuesday 12th – 7.30pm The Diamond Sutra Continued.  A review plus practical applications. ($35 for three classes)
Wednesday 13th –  12.30 – Restorative Yoga.  ($88 for four classes)
Friday 15th – 6.45 FREE Pendulum Class

STUDIO (Yoga $88 for four classes)
Monday 11th – 1pm Hatha Yoga plus weights and straps (full)
Wednesday 13th – 5.30pm Restorative Yoga (full)
Friday 15th – 5.30 pm Restorative Yoga with weights and straps

 

ONE-ONE-ONE CONSULTATIONS: YOGA, TAROT, PHILOSOPHY – ZOOM OR STUDIO $85 per hour, by appointment Please email me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com 

If you need to catch up with your payments, please go to the home page at www.yogabeautiful.com.au.  Click on PAY VIA PAYPAL
If you are new to any class you will need to email me to ask re availability and for me to know to send you A ZOOM.ID

 

UNITY

Over the past few days, graduates have been calling me because they are finding it difficult to deal with clients and students who are getting angry and frustrated with the Covid restrictions (which we know will be ongoing).  I am here to remind you that the discipline we stand on for our sanity (and wisdom) is yoga.  It represents unity. The day for dis-unity has passed.

I ask you to look at your students, your clients, your neighbours.  See yourself – your own reflection looking back at you.  Each person reflected in the other. For us, for our community,  yoga represents all that is good.  It implies freedom, equality and justice for all.   How true are these words for you?  When did you bring your students, family, community – liberty.  When did you cause justice!

I tell you – If you are looking for truth, you may find comfort.  If you are looking for comfort, you will never find truth.

As your teacher, I stand at the gate of knowledge.  A place where power is not invited.  I stand at the gate and I look at you and you look back to me.  All I can do is reflect what I see.

If you come to my classes just to receive you will leave poorer, if you come to receive understanding you will leave lost. If on the other hand you have understood and received, the NOW IS YOUR TIME. Throw away your assumptions about God.  Stop clinging to what you think you know.  Cling to YOGA….and come on the journey with me.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE