Dear Yogis,

What a fabulous yoga philosophy class we had  this morning.  I was worried that I would not able able to see, or speak to the students because of the number – but it was fine.   If you were not able to be here, and would like to catch up with it,  I am repeating today’s talk on the Purushatras again next Sunday at 10am.  So every week we will have a class at the same time, but repeated twice.  That will mean if you can’t come to one, you can come to the other.  The class is $20 same as in the studio.  Go to the front page of the website, click onto DONATE and make a one-off payment for the amount of your class.  EASY.  You don’t have to have a PayPal account.  You can pay by debit or credit card, or if you have a PayPal account you can use that..

I am also introducing two YOGA NIDRA MEDITATION CLASSES.  One at 5.30 on a Tuesday and the other 3pm on Friday. They will run for 45 minutes and cost $57.50 for 10 classes – one or two per week. If anxiety or depression are an issue for you, then this might be just the classes you are looking for. Everyone welcome.

The RESTORATIVE YOGA CLASSES are progressing well.  They are so satisfying and I get so caught up in the teaching that the other day I found myself sanitising my hands after class!!!

If you would like to join us at the ZOOM YOGA CAFE on Friday at 11 (no charge) please bring your (strong) tea and maybe your knitting.  I knit on toothpick needles and have promised to bring my work to class.  “Show and Tell” all over again. Please let me know to expect you – email me on yogafirst2@bigpond.com

My potential “BUILD A HERB BUSINESS”  classes I have left a space for on Mondays at 6pm.  If you would like to do this class, but the time is wrong –  let me know and maybe we can adjust.  You really can create a beautiful business, or tart up your pantry, with a small amount of herb knowledge in a short time.  You just have to want to!  In this time of shortages and plain “not there’s”, you can even assist the family and fill the pantry with little or no cost.

WHAT YOU CAN DO IN COVID…

A very “easy” thing is to get the handyman in your life (or you if you are handy) to make a STREET LIBRARY/PANTRY to put near your front fence in an accessible spot so that the passing neighbours can access or leave  your “donations”.   A box with a lid, a window in the front and a roof with eaves to keep the rain off.  People can give or take food from your “pantry”, (and books after covid).

I have always considered community gardens and pantries  to be valuable – never more than at this time. It could be a fabulous mum and kids project.

MEDITATIONS

You are made of the stuff called GOD.  Of course you are rarely aware of it, but that makes no difference at all.  Whether you are aware, or unaware, asleep or a wake – you are still DIVINE.  Those who are asleep one moment can be awake the next.  Better not to judge.  

If we understand even one drop of water, we can understand the entire body of water on the planet.  We can understand any water existing anywhere. We are a raindrop of God.  If you understand you are a raindrop and made of the same reality of the whole of existence then there can be no death, no fear, no greed, no lust. Then (as I have teaching my Sunday students), one lives in absolute freedom, and bliss.

ENJOY THE WEEK.  I WILL SEE YOU ON ZOOM.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

As you read this we will have begun our first Sunday Morning Teacher Training, which starts at 10am to accomodate students joining us from places as far away as Texas in the USA.  I do not plan to do a big newsletter here, as I have been working on our 2 hour class which will be repeated next Sunday.  I am not recording it.  Why? because I am making every effort that we can have an actual, spontaneous class.  With two classes, available please make every effort to zoom with us.

A WORD ON MEDITATION

The point of watching the breath is only to bring your mind to neutral, to pull it SLOWLY away from the whirlpool of your worldly thoughts, and begin to focus within.  Watching the breath itself is not the goal which will free us.  Think why you are here.  You are seeking The Path. Decide now that the answers to the big questions cannot be found outside of meditation.  People often ask me the big questions, but they really don’t want the answers, they aren’t listening.  Decide here and now to meditate even starting at 3 minutes a day. You don’t need to sit on the floor, but you do need to meditate at the same time and in the same place every day.

Do not waste your life, do not even waste a few moments concentrating on lesser goals.

ZOOMING

We have many and increasing ZOOM classes, and would like to see you.  Restorative Yoga, Philosophy, Anatomy and Physiology, Herbs and more…..

Look at the front page of our web site www.yogabeautiful.com.au.  If you want to join us, there is a charge, (like you I have to pay the rent…buy food and teaching you is my work) and you can most easily pay by deciding which class you want to join, to pay, click on DONATE on the first page, and make a one-off donation of the class fee.  We have a PayPal facility and a PayPal credit facility (not that you’ll need it).  It’s quick. It is easy, and PayPal lets me know you have paid. You do not need to have a PayPal account. You can pay with a credit or debit account through the PayPal facility.

I look forward to seeing you at our SUNDAY SCHOOL.  It is going to be good – our teacher training sessions always are.

HAVE A LOVELY DAY.

NAMASTE JAHNE

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

In this time of covid, it could be the time to mend fences.  People you haven’t spoken to in a long while, relationships that have gone untended, old grudges and guilts which need to be healed.  If you can’t do it now when can you do it? Not blaming, not shaming just “I am sorry, I care” even if whatever it was was not your fault.   Try it.  If you can’t say it now, when can you say it?  Wave a white flag, just let the person know you are there.

I was thinking last nite after one of my students said “the only thing we haven’t had this year is an Alien Invasion” that  maybe we have had that too.  What if you looked at the virus as a friendly(?) alien (which by the way it is) … what if you could speak to the virus what would you say to it, and what would it say to you?

At the moment our view is maybe that covid is “out to get us”.  We think it can damage our brain our lungs, our body, and it can.  However, can we look at it from a different point of view? What if the virus is just CHANGING your brain and your body, preparing it for something better, not for something worse.  Recalibrating us.   The virus is making us very aware of our shortcomings, and our strengths on every level.  How we respond is important.  You could re-imagine this time as one of HEALING, and CHANGING.

Those people in my classes who are able to grow and become better no matter what,  are the ones who are looking better and better as this time goes on.  They don’t see the virus as a killing machine.. they are building their body to change and adapt.  They are still doing their yoga, still meditating, still eating well, hunkering down with their children and families, and learning new things.  Taking every advantage of what this time is offering us.   This virus is going to be always with us – we might as well adapt,  as it is adapting.

MAKE YOUR OWN REMEDIES

To assist you (or your children), perhaps prepare a  Bach Flower remedy.  They work on the emotional level and I think could be helpful in your growth at this time.  I am not suggesting that you quickly rush to google and dial up the appropriate remedy and order it.  You can make your own easily for yourself from the flowering plants in your garden.  In my garden at the moment I have chestnut, Manchurian pears, Lilly of the Valley, snowdrops, crocus, violets and hyacinths.  What you have will be what you need – you only need one flowering plant.  You could even pick some flowers from weeds you find whilst you are out walking.  Take your pendulum and ask “are these the healing flowers for me at this time”.

When you have got your flower heads (not many needed), get your pendulum out, and a small glass bowl with filtered water.  Go around your garden and ask the flowers which can help you grow and heal through this time.  Listen to the pendulum.  Gather the flowers that speak to you and float them gently on top of the water and stand them in a sunny place (you can even use moonlight if that is what they need).  Leave in the sun for a number of hours, strain and put about 50 ml in a bottle.  This is your main supply.  Then into a smaller dropper bottle, decant about 10 ml and fill the bottle with water.  This is your remedy.  Ask your pendulum if anything else is needed.  If everything is OK, then put a few drops under your tongue as often as you need it.  Your pendulum will tell you the dosage and timing.

If you want to know more about herbs, help more, I am starting a small herb course.  It will teach you how to help your family, and then help your community and so on… the ripples flow outwards,  Healing the planet one yogi at a time. It is all the same.  Herbals, Yoga, Pendulum, Tarot… it is all healing. The herbal course will probably be on Mondays about 6.45pm.  Let me know if you are interested.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

If you want to come to our zoom yoga classes and don’t know how to get the link, pay.  Go to the web site, and look at the from, landing page under ZOOM.  www.yogabeautiful.com.au

The greatest gift you can give to others is to be happy and hopeful yourself.  These wonderful remedies flood the body with beautiful vibrations of our Higher Self.  There is no healing unless there is change on the inside..

ENJOY THE WEEKEND SUNSHINE.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE