Dear Yogis,

ZOOM/STUDIO MENU

TUESDAY: 7.30pmThe Sutra Course.  
This week we started considering THE DIAMOND SUTRA.  The sutra of “abundance” .  The “Thunderbolt”.

WEDNESDAY:  12.30 Restorative Yoga
FRIDAY:  6.45 FREE TAROT CLASS. ZOOM
SATURDAY: 2pm TAROT TRAINING. ZEN DOODLES
SUNDAY: 10am GITA STUDY

It is almost Christmas… and things are already hotting up. Remember that I said to you early on on Covid when everyone was whinging, that after the Spanish flu came THE ROARING TWENTIES.   Right now, shop after shop, hotel after cafe after web site is telling me the same thing.  In this State in this country we are experiencing the ROARING TWENTIES.  Of course, even way back there were people who made their money making moonshine – this is still the world, and there are still moonshiners.    However, not only are we “the lucky country” we are a model the world is taking note of and following.  Who knew?

What about you? Are you booming ahead?  On Radio National this morning they said that at this time in the worlds history we can’t guarantee a “job for life”, to get where we want to go, we have to be continually up-skilling.  To be at the top, we should always be in study mode.  I am, are you?  Don’t live in the past.  Look around, talk to your people and find out what they are looking for (even before they know they want it), and work on getting it to them.

Yoga is no different.  We need to be continually discovering more and deeper disciplines to pass on to our students.  Always networking, always aware of what we can do to help our communities.

SPECIAL CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR A SPECIAL SOMEONE:  I find that in my collection I have a FIRST EDITION of “SPIRITUALISM ITS HISTORY, PHENOMENA AND DOCTRINE”  by Arthur J. Jill.  with an introduction by Arthur Conan Doyle. (printed in 1918).   It is a linen  bound hardback, 270 pages, in firm condition.  A certain amount of gentle foxing on some pages, but all pages in excellent condition.   I would like to sell it.  Cost including postage $105.  This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire a book like this.  Please email me if you are interested.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

Over Christmas we are launching our new updated PPT SACROCRANIAL MASSAGE THERAPY – because I was asked.  I have continued to read about the connections between PPT, Sacro-Cranial Therapy, and the latest information coming from scientists about the response of cerebrospinal fluid and the energy field it generates.  How we can work with that, become sensitive to it, and in this way assist healing to take place.  If you do yoga with me you will realise that we start EVERY CLASS by waking up these energies – it makes a difference. (The photo to the right is not Christmas, although in The Ranges we have had big snow on Christmas Day).

I look forward to you joining me for the zoom course…

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

What an inspired/inspiring weekend.  The zoom meetings were truly stupendous… wonderful.  The tarot class was just so much fun, and the Gita on Sunday morning really covered a lot of ground.  I wish you could be with us.  What is more important than “life”?  Anything else is illusion.  A lovely illusion, comfortable, but not “life” from a Gita point of view.  We took a lot of our text from my personal notes from my Oxford studies, leaning on Prabhupada’s translation and the expanded view by Yogananada which brings in koshas and chakras.

ZOOM AND STUDIO

MONDAY: This afternoon at 1pm there is a STUDIO yoga class.  It is Hatha, and there is one vacancy.
TUESDAY:   7.30pm ZOOM SUTRA CLASS.
WEDNESDAY:  12.30 ZOOM RESTORATIVE CLASS and 5.30 STUDIO CLASS

*YOGA MONTHLY LUNCHEON: 11th December at 12noon at Mt.Macedon Hotel Please email me to book.
*CHRISTMAS HOLS  Last class December 23rd at 5.30.  First class of new year –  1pm Monday January 11th.

VISION BOARDS:  I have asked if any of you would be interested to take part in a VISION BOARD making class.  An afternoon (Tuesday, Friday, Sunday)  Let me know if any of those days are available for you, and let’s do this.  I think it would be most helpful.  We are coming out of Covid, having to re-think our lives, and a vision board is just made for this kind of growth.  It would be simple, not expensive, and we would all learn something.  I would continue with my big board, and you could begin any size you like.  A$ would be a good starting point.”

This photo is not of a vision board, but it could be.  I just started cutting and pasting, and as I am working through it I see it is my yoga morning practice. Interesting how I would make a painting of it.  It certainly is meaningful…  “how” meaningful is yet to be made known.

 

“PPT + CRANIOSACRAL  COMBO MASSAGE”…plus some Bowen moves.  Yes, it all fits together like the most inspired jigsaw.

I have been getting back to massage with great purpose since the covid has been lifted, and as always I have re-membered how I love working with the body.  Palpating, feeling the muscles and the bones, working with the nervous system..  This week I have had a number of terminally ill patients come to me, and I am so glad that I have the combo of PPT, craniosacral  and the Cerebro-Spinal Fluid knowledge (.. and I feel I am just a beginner).  How I would have managed without this understanding I just don’t know.

Maybe you need a refresher? AN EXTENSION TO YOUR YOGA/MASSAGE KNOWLEDGE?   Maybe you have just been doing the physical massage and would like to work into a massage that will “speak” to the nervous system.  I am not sure how we would do it, but I would like to try zooming a short course… There is a way I am sure.   I am making a plan and will get back to you.

The work that I am doing has the potential of providing dramatic help to a significant number of so-called “medical basket cases”.. and others for whom conventional medicine has proved ineffective.  Orthodox medicine has yet to acknowledge the the existence of the cranio-sacral system and its pathophysiologic significance.  They have still failed to embrace the concept of dynamic activity involving skull bones, meningeal membranes, cerebro spinal fluid, the intracranial vascular system, the development of the brain, the movement of the body fluids, the tonicity of the muscles and the function of total body connective tissues as influenced by the craniosacral (cerebrospinal)system, and the cerebrospinal fluid that we talk so much about, and work on influencing in our restorative yoga practice.

My teachings in massage (“my way”) are for anyone who is a body worker... that is,  anyone in a healing profession who uses their hands as  diagnostic or therapeutic  tools.  Let me know if you would like to take you understanding, and your facility in this technique further.  Email me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

 

I am here – Learn from me.

NAMASTE – JJAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

 Friday already.  I did have a GARDEN MEDITATION day yesterday, (My regular THURSDAY RETREAT TIME) with a small deviation when I just had to spend an hour to fetch groceries.  I would have been OK, but I have a full day today and wouldn’t have a chance to get ready for a breakfast meeting on Saturday.  I have to plan this “eating thing” better.

 

WEEKEND ZOOM FOR YOUR DIARY. 

Friday:6.45.  This class has been cancelled for today only.  It will resume next Friday.
Saturday:2pm TAROT ART CLASS  Sunday: 10am Bhagavadgita Study

STUDIO CLASSES:  Check out the web site for times – www.yogabeautiful.com.au.  Still only three in a class which is almost a private class.  Take advantage of this while it still applies.

THE YOGABEAUTIFUL SHOP:  Great goodies in the shop with Christmas coming.    Plus, the new Turkey Tail powder is expected and will be ready to post on Monday.  If you want some (and I unreservedly recommend it) get your order in $35 for 25grams.  It is strong and fantastic….  I have ordered extra because I don’t know when the next shipment will arrive.  This goes for all the oils too. Order yours today.

 

FEELING THE HEAT:

Things are hotting up in more ways than one.  Yes, the weather is heating up, but the speed of life is heating up too.

We have a whole lot less physical work to do than our parents, more appliances, time out for gym – but there still seems not enough time.  Post Covid we seem to be more tired, short tempered and our lives have taken on a tone that we seem unable to change.  Is this you?

Here’s a verse from a famous Indian Buddhist book.. (My mum used to repeat a similar idea as I was growing up)

“If a situation can be fixed why get upset about it?  If a situation cannot be fixed, what’s the use of getting upset about it?”  Mum used to say “If you are wrong it is not useful to get angry.  If you are right there is no need”.    

What they are talking about here are those flashes of anger and negativity… and the immediate benefit of refusing to give in to them.  When you refuse to give in you are protecting yourself against the same thing happening again down the track.  I understand that you may have to arm wrestle your mind into a calm state, a positive attitude, and most times this is not easy at least in the beginning when you are developing mental muscles.

Instead of a “He said, she said”, or finding someone to blame, turn your mind to finding a solution right here, right now – concentrate on the immediate – don’t get political (Easy to do in this troubled world) because this is a blame game, and you can’t fix it..   When you focus on the solution for YOU, (something you can change) and look at the problem as a situation to be solved, your mind clears, your face “unscrews and softens” your heart returns to a normal beat and your breath is deep and relaxed.

Practise with small things, so that when a big issue surfaces (and it will) you will automatically go into repair not “blame” mode, and the problem will pass.  I found that meditation was hugely helpful in allowing me to turn such issues around, no matter how big and mind threatening they were.  I was able to drop into my calm space, and no matter what happened I was safe.

This is what I have called mental gardening.  If we think of it like this, we will be more able to achieve the positive mind state which will be most helpful in any negative situation.  Just let the anger float off into the universe, avoid the bullet.  Remember, you are gardening for your future, in this life and the next.  Try this technique and there will be fewer negative, unsettling situations in your world.

SEE YOU IN THE GARDEN

NAMASTE.  Jahne