Dear Yogis,

What a lovely day yesterday – our Christmas lunch.  The day was not too hot, the food was lovely, the company was just the best – thank you all.  Today we are expecting high temperatures, always lesser close to the mountain, but all we need is a stupid fire-bug and we will be in trouble.

Katie and Jacky who are both in the CFA are not stressed and are happy that their stations are well able to deal with whatever happens (except for an inferno- when Elvis will be needed).  I thought that today I would get my preparations and the car ready for action.  Fill the petrol, get the runaway stuff organised, and a supply of cat food.  What are you doing?  Are you prepared?

WHATS ON IN THE STUDIO.  

(Christmas? Our last yoga class Friday 20th December at 10am  – First 2025 class Friday 10th January at 10am)

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,(last class the 24th December!)   9.30AM in Gisborne Until the17th December..

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm,   FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am.

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday  by donation. Please arrive close to 9.30 and we will start when we are settled.

YOGA PHILOSOPHY CLASSES AS USUAL ZOOM. Monday 6.30pm.    For an ID please email.  We are studying chakras as they relate to everyday life and tarot.

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH:   at The Full Moon Saloon starting again in the new year.  January.   

CHRISTMAS LUNCH – fabulous time – sorry you were not with us, thank you if you were….. My art studio will also be open by appointment over christmas if you want to pick up something nice….different.  Some flower studies – me painting flowers, who knew?

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

I am going to learn AUSLAN because I am losing my hearing.   I have been paying attention to others in the same boat – not just those losing a little hearing, but people like me who have been losing everything except the “central sounds”.  This makes students traversing a philosophy based yoga class, a harder call than most.

If you are just lumping along lifting weights and running on a treadmill, well you don’t even need to feel to do that – but yoga is different.  We don’t just care about the HOW we take time to understand the WHY.  The folk I teach at Windarring have a smattering of Auslan, one or two of the support workers are studying it, so I am in the right place to learn and practice. When I know enough to teach it, I will.  In the meanwhile I am doing an AUSLAN summer school at the Polytechnic in Collingwood.  It should be interesting – what else would I be doing?.

I have always tried to face my shortfalls (coming faster as I get older), and make them into an advantage, bearing in mind that you could be experiencing the same as me, but maybe pretending you are not. To stave off alzheimers we are told learning a language can help, well, Auslan is a language with a physical , external expression.

I am looking forward to seeing (and hearing) you at our break up get together on Sunday afternoon (Woodend time).  Please bring a plate – preferably with something on it.  

BOOK RECOMMENDATION:  “Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind”.  Revealing a person of endless compassion.   The journals of Maura “Soshin” O’Halloran. ISBN 1 85538 452 3

 

 

WHATS ON IN THE STUDIO.  

(Christmas? Our last yoga class Friday 20th December at 10am  – First 2025 class Friday 10th January at 10am)

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,(last class the 24th December!)   9.30AM in Gisborne Until the17th December..

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm,   FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am.

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday  by donation. Please arrive close to 9.30 and we will start when we are settled.

YOGA PHILOSOPHY CLASSES AS USUAL ZOOM. Monday 6.30pm.    For an ID please email.  We are studying chakras as they relate to everyday life and tarot.

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH:   at The Full Moon Saloon starting again in the new year.  January.   

CHRISTMAS LUNCH – 15th December in the Studio, Woodend.   at 12’ish.  Come when you can (after Mass?). My art studio will also be open if you want to pick up something nice….different.  Some flower studies – me painting flowers, who knew?

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

What a wonderful weekend.

I have been dividing my time between three paintings I want to finish, and catching up on gardening before you lovely people turn up for our END OF YEAR BASH from noon on the 15th December.  I hope you have it in your diary.  All welcome!!!

 

A NEW YEAR, RESTORATIVE YOGA and TAROT COUNSELLING  HAS CALLED ME BACK (NOT THAT I EVER WENT AWAY).  I have been enjoying planning and preparing for the new year.

The Australasian Yoga Institute is 50 PLUS years old but has been functioning as a teaching centre for even longer than that.   That’s at least five decades of moving, teaching and loving yoga.  Since the Covid lockdown I have been enjoying what you might call a “sabbatical” enjoying other areas of my creativity.  However,  life goes on, yoga goes on, and you can join me here in Woodend,  and anywhere you are online.  Gifts for friends and family? –  gift cards for those people you think would benefit from a Tarot “Possibilities” session – a great gift. YOGA gift cards also available.   Email me, they start at $50 for a tarot session.  For “gift” yoga we can tailor one to suit your needs.

 

Last one-on-one Appointments 2024 & First Appointments 2025
As we begin to wrap up 2024, I know that the season can bring with it mixed feelings. We are not just about yoga, we also work the tarot and if you need a safe place to explore what this time is stirring in you, I have a handful of face-to-face sessions available at lovely 37 Morris Road Woodend,  and  availability for online sessions Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays

2024 Last sessions – Saturday 21st December
2025 First sessions – Friday 10th January

Like you, I’m constantly growing and changing. I’m very much looking forward to sharing more with you.
Warm, person-centred Tarot counselling + mindfulness, and therapeutic yoga seamlessly entwined for compassionate explorations of immediate themes….

  • riding the ebb and flow of relationships
  • honouring shifts in identity, orientation and life purpose
  • living intentionally with chronic health conditions and addictions
  • integrating loss & grief
  • anything and everything that needs a compassionate listener    “…I am listening”.

APPOINTMENTS 2024 AND 2025

Appointments til 21st December 2024:
limited spots remaining:
Face to Face Appointments:   Thursdays: 8:00 – 1:00

Zoom Appointments 2024:
Thursdays, Fridays, 11am to 6pm, Saturdays: 8:00am -6:00pm

Appointments from 10th January 2025:
Face to Face Appointments:
Thursdays: 8:00 – 1:00
Fridays and Saturdays : 11am –  6:00

Zoom Appointments:
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays: 8:00-6:00
To make an appointment, please contact Jahne via email: yogafirst2@bigpond.com

 

WHATS ON IN THE STUDIO.  

(Christmas? Our last yoga class Friday 20th December at 10am  – First 2025 class Friday 10th January at 10am)

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,(last class the 24th December!)   9.30AM in Gisborne Until the17th December..

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm,   FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am.

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday  by donation. Please arrive close to 9.30 and we will start when we are settled.

YOGA PHILOSOPHY CLASSES AS USUAL ZOOM. Monday 6.30pm.    For an ID please email.  We are studying chakras as they relate to everyday life and tarot.

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH:   at The Full Moon Saloon starting again in the new year.  January.   

CHRISTMAS LUNCH – 15th December in the Studio, Woodend.   at 12’ish.  Come when you can (after Mass?). My art studio will also be open if you want to pick up something nice….different.  Some flower studies – me painting flowers, who knew?

NAMASTE – JAHNE