eBlast 11 August 2017

YOGA NEWSLETTER 11th August’17

THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE IS MISSION DRIVEN AND MEMBER SUPPORTED.  BECOME A REGISTERED MEMBER……

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“Somebody just shared his knowledge with me and by the grace of God, I collected it. We are in a desert, and I have a little water with me that I want to share with people. Does that make me a water man? Am I the rain? Am I the clouds? Am I the ocean? No. I am just a little can of water in the desert to which people can touch their lips and think of surviving. Beyond that, I am nothing.” (Yogi Bhajan)

TEACHER TRAINING CLASS and etc..

No time for frivolity today. We had a wonderful Teacher Training class on Sunday. It went half an hour overtime and even longer for the few hangers-on (which is always a good sign). I am sorry that so many missed the class everyone there contributed and we problem solved around yoga, HJMS and personality types. It was great.

Why is it that some people feel compelled to be late to class. Is it that there is just no importance placed on time. The feeling that time, and when you turn up for class is not important – that just turning up is validation enough. There are those who are always on time or early and those who are always late (or absent after saying they will be there).

Please note: Arriving late to anything at any time – not just to class, or promising to do something and then not doing it – is stealing from yourself as well as from others(read your yamas).

Please get your friends and students to sign up for the newsletter – we have more readers in England than we have in Australia. Funny that! So thank you for being a reader. Please read right through and notice that we have all our books on ETSY, and on our Web Site we sell soft cover books, straps, props and CD’s (even alfalfa powder and collagen), you could actually save money.

THE MODULES

If you are new to doing the modules, please be patient with yourself and with me. As we say from day one, this is not a ‘tick this box” sort of course. It can be difficult, and I will send work back if that is needed. It does not mean that you have failed, or that I think you or the work is not up to it. It means…. “have another look at this, do a bit more research, and try again”. It is the only way that we can communicate as teacher and student unless you come to class, or email me if you are having difficulty, so it is important. Be easy on yourself (and me). You have lots of time to get it right.

EMAIL:

Please use the email address yogafirst@optusnet.com.au for anything to do with accounts, or the usual yogafirst2@bigpond.com. To get to me. If you do want to speak to me personally, then email, make a time suitable for both of us, and then we can chat. If you do it this way, rather than just “wing it”, you can be reasonably sure I have time, and you will get my attention. POSTAL ADDRESS is not at my home – small mail box out in the open means that rain is an issue. Please address all land mail to the address it has always been – PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441. Until you see a change written here in large letters, that is where it will be.

PHONE:

Thanks to NBN I still don’t have landline. I am still struggling with TELSTRA, and still I have the Internet but I have no phone. So, if you want to get me, then please TEXT me on 0402 088 170. I notice that Telstra and NBN have taken out a huge amount of advertising – don’t be lulled into a sense of false security. It is not easy, and no-one I know is better off with it than they were before.

HYPERMOBILITY

The book and the DVD are available via ETSY. www.myyogabooks.etsy.com I now have interest in our research from a Medical Centre/Spa in ShriLanka (I would love to visit), various MD’s around Melbourne, and England. I hope that you have the 23rd September written in your diary. That is the day that we will be giving a talk at the Theosphical Society in Melbourne. Restorative Yoga Therapy – Level 3 RESTORATIVE LEVEL 3

Please keep in mind that RYTA200, level 1 and 2 need to be done BEFORE level 3. The workshop timetable which includes LEVEL 3 attached above. 

These levels all contribute towards helping you to be a better therapist. If you have not almost completed the teacher training course then you won’t have the anatomical and philosophical vocabulary to understand what we are doing. So work on your course, do the Restorative level 1 and 2, and keep this in mind for the next step. Come to my talks, and book for a workshop with me. Or book for a one-on-one to see how I work.

HYPERMOBILITY

The Theosophical Society has asked me to give a talk on hypermobility in Melbourne on the 23rd of September. YOGA AUSTRALIA has asked me to talk on hypermobility in Melbourne in February? Or the YA Conference in March. I believe that this is essential in your yoga teaching. So you can catch me in September at the Theosophical Society Theatrette, or, you can keep watching this space to find out other dates and times. There is growing excitement around that we are doing, not just from our senior teachers, and those persons who follow our research in this are. 

The book and the DVD are on www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

INSURANCE

From the 1st July there have been changes. I am working to make it a positive step. The insurance company will be looking after the insurances totally . Watch this space. Registration will be mandatory if you want insurance, and will be given at STUDENT or GRADUATE level. This will reflect on your insurance policy. The cost of the insurance will also change, but I don’t quite know how or to what extent yet. Watch this space.

We based the course on graduating students in an average of 18 months to two years. Keeping this in mind we thought (because you would not be teaching until you finished the course) you would not need insurance for those two years, so we gave you the first 12 months insurance and registration free, and ditto for the second – if you were not yet teaching. . However, this is changing as more people who are teaching already are joining our course to get registered and insured. If you are not teaching then you don’t need to be insured, and you will be registered when you graduate.

If you do start teaching whilst you are still working on the course, then you will need STUDENT REGISTRATION in order to get STUDENT INSURANCE. These are an extra cost and you should factor them in, as you must also factor in your videos which are also a yearly subscription. The first year is paid for in your fee, but from thereon it is up to you to renew. This is not an unusual ask.

WE do not hide the fact, however, when I ask you to read the applications and other information SLOWLY, we anticipate that you have done that, and won’t be surprised. Keep in mind that we are providing the skills for a career for around $3,000. That is extraordinary. A charge for Registration and Insurance and $275 for a yearly video subscription is nothing in the light of that. ALTERNATIVES. AJGallagher seems to be the only one who will insure students who have not graduated but are teaching. I am looking at Dancesurance. They appear to insure students cheaply, and, if you have a studio, they are really the only ones who insure this with understanding. Cost? $276pa.   

Why Register with THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE?
Please read this….

Thank you all the students who have responded to this call. Registration says you are a member of our school (and proud to be so), and at the very least the income received from the cost of registration allows us to give out scholarships, and help others in their desire to teach. It is not mandatory, but it is recommended, and we encourage you to do it. How do you support and encourage your lineage? – or do you perhaps dream up a more glamorous version, something featuring India perhaps? We have a wonderful lineage that goes back through the Gita School to India and Tibet. 

My Heart Guru, Margrit Segesman the founder of the Gita school (a very important part of our lineage) was sent to Australia from India and Tibet to teach yoga by her Heart Guru, but she never disclosed who that was – seeking to break the “guru tradition”.. When you register you are not just supporting our endeavours, you are acknowledging the wonderful teacher that Margrit Segesman was…and yoga is. A living tradition. Support us by being a fabulous teacher, and in time Affiliating with us, and taking our traditions into a complete Teacher Training School of your own.

CLASS TIMES

Please note these have changed.

THE STUDIO – 37 Morris Road.
Tuesdays – 10 am Restorative.
Wednesdays: 12.30 Hatha (AYI teacher trainees welcome)
Saturday: Philosophy 11.30 am, Restorative 12.30 pm.

THE BENTINCK – Enter through the Romsey Road gate.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday – Hatha Yoga 6.30 pm
Wednesday – 5.30 pm Restorative.
Friday – NEW CLASS – Meditation (Yoga Nidra) this is suitable for beginners, but everyone welcome.
Saturday – Hatha 10 am, Philosophy 4 pm MASSAGE AT THE BENTINCK

I am offering HOT-ROCK Massage using my very special Death Valley rocks, not just some EBay leftovers. Also (one-on-One) Restorative Yoga Therapy which includes hotrock massage – Health benefit rebates are possible for the one-on-one).

The class prices at either place, Bentinck or Studio are $15 per class, $135 for a 10 class pass or $100 unlimited for one 4 week month (no extensions – once the month is up the pass is done). Your present passes will be valid until they run out. Restorative Yoga therapy Consult (including a massage) with Jahne $155 first consult, $125 thereafter. Health Fund Rebate available.

Please note that at the Bentinck the Medical Clinic that we have all been waiting for is nearing completion, however, more work is being done on the driveways and ambulance bay. If it is full, park opposite. When you are walking to the yoga room mind your step. I am constantly reminding the workmen that people use the path – but they sometimes leave stuff about.

TEACHER TRAINING AT THE HOME STUDIO: 

The next will be on Sunday 3rd September, 2pm to 4pm at my home studio (37 Morris Road in Woodend). Please join us – there is no need to book. Bring writing materials, and be early. Follow the Japanese Path at the side of the house. There is a notice on the door if you have trouble with direction. If you are a distance ed. student then the cost of the afternoon is $15. If you are a visitor you are most welcome – and if you are not formally a student teacher with us then the cost is $20. We have had the most wonderful trainings, there is nothing like them. Please do come. Park on the white gravel around the house, and in the open yard opposite.

Bendigo Teacher Training classes – every fortnight from 3.30 to 5pm at Crusoeden Body. I will be teaching there the first Tuesday in each month, unless there is a difference noted in this newsletter.. Turn at the Metricon building on the highway in Kangaroo Flat, Big METRICON sign on the building you turn at – also its a traffic light intersection, just up from Bunnings. Crusoeden is the building behind Metricon building, and faces Church Street. Its easy to find. Cost: $15 per class for everyone who attends – thank you.

(Directors – Jayne Boyle  – crusoedenbody@bigpond.com). Regular classes held –please email for timetable.

CLASSES AT OUR AFFILIATE STUDIOS IN EUROA, LYONSVILLE, AND SOON IN TARADALE. Pease email me for details.

THE SHOP AND ETSY.

For you who have never used ETSY please visit. It is fabulous and oh so EASY. You will find all our books, our DVD’s and CD’s on ETSY. (The Paul Grilley DVD’s are on our web site shop). Please go to www.myyogabooks.etsy.com. Or www.yogabeautiful.com.au. for the Paul Grilley DVD’s. If you are new and haven’t read about YAMAS, CHAKRAS then I have distilled them for you. Go to myyogabooks site as above and have a look – especially at the new book on Hypermobility.. The GARDEN

I am not a person who likes working in the frost – although I did used to do the pruning at the berry farm at this time of year when I was the owner. No-one else would! I understand that it is all about wearing warm clothes, but even rugged up “a la Hepburn” it was not my favourite past time.. I like being out there, and sometimes enjoy to sleep on the verandah in the cold when I need to. The garden on my verandah has been productive, and I am installing a new water feature, but will need help for that. Spring is not that far away.

THE OFFICE: 

EMAIL ADDRESS. There was a problem with the server, but this has been fixed until the next time – For anything, anything at all please email me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com. If you do not your emails may get lost. For money matters please email yogafirst@optusnet.com.au Do not ring unless you have not got email, or you have an urgent question. Email, leave your number and I will get back to you. Phones? We are being re-organised, even here…. 

So at the moment my TEXT number is 0402 088 170 – preferably leave a text or email. I will return your calls when I can – I am not a slave to either the computer or the phone, so you may find that emails or TEXT (which I always recommend) work out best. The mail address is PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441. 

I am always as close as your email, and there are those who ring and manage to find me near the phone – NO LAND-LINE AT PRESENT, although theoretically there is a redirection to my cell. Don’t forget to Register, insure and re-subscribe to the videos. Don’t leave these to the last minute. Love and Blessings,  Jahne

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eBlast 1 August

YOGA NEWSLETTER 1st August’17

THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE IS MISSION DRIVEN AND MEMBER SUPPORTED.  BECOME A REGISTERED MEMBER……

MY DAY OFF

Just in case you think I actually take the day off every Thursday – I don’t. This flexibility of time is sometimes serendipitous, as it was last Thursday. Like you I am learning to REALLY, REALLY listen to those inner voices (God?) I needed to go to Melbourne, but at the last minute decided not to. I went to Paysanne for a coffee, and read a magazine, and then came home early. I made my morning call to Telstra as I am still trying to get services reestablished. I was told my appointment is for Monday 7th August – this is after 5 weeks with no phone, three of those with no internet either. I was just saying goodbye to Telstra when the doorbell rang, and there was the NBN/Testra guy unannounced at the door. They didn’t fix the problem, but we did take the next step. 

If you think that becoming “NBN ready” is easy, don’t be fooled no matter what your “case worker” may say. Before you even make your first phone call get a dongle (USB WiFi). It is the best $40 you will spend, and it will mean that no matter what happens you at least will be able to talk to your customers – even if it is expensive!. Good luck. I still don’t have a phone connection after 5 weeks when Telstra promised a 15 minute down time! 

NEW MEDITATION/YOGA NIDRA CLASS. Friday 6.30pm

This is a new addition to our teaching schedule, although I do other classes (not available to the general public) during the week. I was eavesdropping as people left the class, and a couple of students who haven’t done anything like this before, were discussing muscle twitching as if it was a reason they were not suited to the class. These twitchings are telling you that you are EXACTLY suited to the class. The involuntary movements (whilst scarey to some) are the muscles letting go of tension and we need a longer Nidra class to make this relaxation possible..15 minutes is not enough. Twitching whilst uncomfortable is a good thing. Allow it to happen, relax and breathe into it, and assist the muscles to let go of all their stored tension. When you do this, you will become raving fans of  Yoga Nidra. In time it will take you to a place of beautiful calm and rest.
  EMAIL CHANGE: 

Please use yogafirst@optusnet.com.au (for anything to do with accounts), Or the usual yogafirst2@bigpond.com. If you do want to speak to me personally, then email, make a time suitable for both of us, and then we can chat.  If you do it this way, rather than just “wing it”, you can be reasonably sure I have time, and you will get my attention.  POSTAL ADDRESS is not at my home – small mail box out in the open means that rain is an issue. Please address all land mail to the address it has always been – PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon.  Vic. 3441.  Until you see a change written here in large letters, that is where it will be.

PHONE: 

I still don’t have landline. As I have said to you all, I have the Internet but I have no phone. I believe that until the techies are paid for excellence and not to just turning up, then the system will not change. So, if you want to get me, then please TEXT me on 0402 088 170. You can phone me, but I may not be able to answer, so TEXT is the best option. Not many of you ring, but just in case I thought I would let you know.

HYPERMOBILITY

Hooray, THIS WEEK I have loaded a finished edition of the book and the DVD onwww.myyogabooks.etsy.com – it is not the end of the journey, just the end of the beginning. It is the start, please read it as that.

This is becoming more and more wonderful, and more and more complex. I was speaking to a scientist on Sunday with regards to a connection I have discovered between hypermobility, the collagen malcoding and DEMENTIA-ALZHEIMERS! – Correct. They are all connected. I thought I had got it right, and I checked, and yes, there is a connection. So I am trying to encompass all of that in my book. When you get it, it will be worthwhile, and bigger than I had anticipated, but not as big as it will be. It will also be a whole lot more helpful to many more people than I had considered. The information and research I am gathering is all starting to fit together in my head.

COLLAGEN:

If you want some capsules, go to our web shop (or email me). We are waiting for a new shipment, but if it sells out before your order is filled you will be put on the wait list (and we will let you know this is the case). It hasn’t yet made it to the shop – sells out before we can load it. The average price of postage is $7, and the cost of the cartilage is $34. This is still cheaper than my local chemist which charges $49 without postage, for the same thing.

RESTORATIVE LEVEL 3

Please keep in mind that RYTA200, level 1 and 2 need to be done BEFORE level 3.

These levels all contribute towards helping you to be a better therapist. If you have not almost completed the teacher training course then you won’t have the anatomical and philosophical vocabulary to understand what we are doing. So work on your course, do the Restorative level 1 and 2, and keep this in mind for the next step. Come to my talks, and book for a workshop with me. Or book for a one-on-one to see how I work. There are four students ready for the level 3, believe me, I want this as much as you do. It is top of mind.LEVEL 3 really will happen in September.
 
HYPERMOBILITY the LECTURE IN MELBOURNE..

The Theosophical Society has asked me to give a talk on hypermobility, in their theaterette in Russell St. Melbourne on the 23rd of September. YOGA AUSTRALIA has asked me to talk on hypermobility in Melbourne in February? Or the YA Conference in March. I believe that this is essential in your yoga teaching. So you can catch me in September at the Theosophical Society Theatrette, or, you can keep watching this space to find out other dates and times.

INSURANCE

From the 1st July there will be changes, BIG ONES I BELIEVE…. I am working to make it a positive step. The insurance company will be looking after the insurances totally. Watch this space. Registration will be mandatory if you want insurance, and will be at STUDENT or GRADUATE level. This will reflect on your insurance policy. The cost of the insurance will also change, but I don’t quite know how or to what extent yet. Watch this space.

If you do start teaching whilst you are still working on the course, then you will need STUDENT REGISTRATION in order to get STUDENT INSURANCE. These are an extra cost and you should factor them in, as you must also factor in your videos which are also a yearly subscription. The first year is paid for in your fee, but from thereon it is up to you to renew. This is not an unusual ask. WE do not hide the fact, however, when I ask you to read the applications and other information SLOWLY, we anticipate that you have done that, and won’t be surprised. Keep in mind that we are providing the skills for a career for around $3,000. That is extraordinary. A charge for Registration and Insurance and $275 for a yearly video subscription is nothing in the light of that.

INSURANCE ALTERNATIVES. 

AJGallagher seems to be the only one who will insure students who have not graduated but are teaching. I am looking at Dancesurance. They appear to insure students, they do it for under $200, and, if you have graduated and have your own studio, they are really the only ones who insure this with understanding. Cost? $276pa. for studio owners.  

Why Register with THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE?

Thank you all the students who have responded to this call. Registration says you are a member of our school (and proud to be so), and at the very least the income received from the cost of registration allows us to give out scholarships, and help others in their desire to teach. It is not mandatory, but it is recommended, and we encourage you to do it. Do you support and encourage your lineage? Or do you perhaps dream up a more glamorous version, something featuring India perhaps? You are not deprived – we have a wonderful lineage that goes back through the Gita School to India and Tibet. My Heart Guru, Margrit Segesman the founder of the Gita school (a very important part of our lineage) was sent to Australia from India and Tibet to teach yoga by her own Heart Guru, but she never disclosed who that was – seeking to break the “guru tradition”..

When you register you are not just supporting our endeavours, you are acknowledging the wonderful teacher that Margrit Segesman was…and yoga is. A living tradition. Support us by being a fabulous teacher, and in time Affiliating with us, and taking our traditions into a complete Teacher Training School of your own.

CLASS TIMES

Please note these have changed.

THE STUDIO – 37 Morris Road.
Tuesdays – 10 am Restorative.
Wednesdays: 12.30 Hatha (AYI teacher trainees welcome)
Saturday: Philosophy 11.30 am, Restorative 12.30 pm.

THE BENTINCK – Enter through the Romsey Road gate.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday – Hatha Yoga 6.30 pm
Wednesday – 5.30 pm Restorative.
Friday – NEW CLASS 6.30 pm– Meditation (Yoga Nidra) for beginners.
Saturday – Hatha 10 am, Philosophy 4 pm You will note there are less classes . In order to have more classes put back on the list, then commit to more classes. Talk to me, let me know what you want. I know what I want. I want to teach more yoga TEACHERS.

In the space provided by fewer classes I have finished my booklet and a DVD on Hypermobility. I have been promising this for some time, and now you will find it on ETSY. My yogabooks.etsy.com. I was looking at a review of Jackie French, and she has completed close to 200 titles. Two hundred. She must have been writing 10 books a year or more! She says she is prolific, and she is. I have to take up the challenge in between classes.

The class prices at either place, Bentinck or Studio are $15 per class, $135 for a 10 class pass or $100 unlimited for one 4 week month (no extensions – once the month is up the pass is done). Your present passes will be valid until they run out. Restorative Yoga therapy Consult (including a massage) with Jahne $155 first consult, $125 thereafter. Health Fund Rebate available.

TEACHER TRAINING AT THE HOME STUDIO: 

The next will be on Sunday 6th August, 2pm to 4pm at my home studio (37 Morris Road in Woodend). Please join us – there is no need to book. Bring writing materials, and be early. Follow the Japanese Path at the side of the house. There is a notice on the door if you have trouble with direction. If you are a distance ed. student then the cost of the afternoon is $15. If you are a visitor you are most welcome – and if you are not formally a student teacher with us then the cost is $20. We have had the most wonderful trainings, there is nothing like them. Please do come. Park on the white gravel around the house, and in the open yard opposite.

Bendigo Teacher Training classes – every fortnight from 3.30 to 5pm at Crusoeden Body. I will be teaching there on the 1st Tuesday in the month, although this month it will be the second Tuesday (the 8th August). Directions. As you drive past Bunnings on your way to Bendigo turn at the Metricon building on the highway in Kangaroo Flat, its a traffic light intersection, just up from Bunnings. Crusoeden is the building behind the Metricon building, and faces Church Street. It’s easy to find. Cost: $15 per class for everyone who attends – thank you.

(Directors – Jayne Boyle  – crusoedenbody@bigpond.com). Regular classes held –please email for timetable.

CLASSES AT OUR AFFILIATE STUDIOS IN EUROA, LYONSVILLE, AND SOON IN TARADALE. Pease email me for details.

THE SHOP AND ETSY.

For you who have never used ETSY please visit. It is fabulous and oh so EASY. You will find all our books, our DVD’s and CD’s on ETSY. (The Paul Grilley DVD’s are on our web site shop). Please go to www.myyogabooks.etsy.com. Or www.yogabeautiful.com.au. for the Paul Grilley DVD’s. If you are new and haven’t read about YAMAS, CHAKRAS then I have distilled them for you. Go to myyogabooks site as above and have a look – especially at the new book on Hypermobility.. The GARDEN

This morning the pond was totally iced over. This is the first time this year this has happened. Not thick enough to walk on it… but FROZEN. I have Jordan from Jordanslandscaping.com mending my fences this week (they fell over). I wouldn’t like to work out in that cold… although he is doing a fabulous job, and doesn’t seem to mind it. He comes all the way from Bendigo – but it is worth waiting for him, when he fixes something is is beautiful, and it is fixed..

THE OFFICE: 

EMAIL ADDRESS. There was a problem with the server, but this has been fixed until the next time – For anything, anything at all please email me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com. If you do not your emails may get lost. For money matters please email yogafirst@optusnet.com.au Do not ring unless you have not got email, or you have an urgent question. Email, leave your number and I will get back to you. Phones? We are being re-organised, even here…. 

So at the moment my TEXT number is 0402 088 170 – preferably leave a text or email. I will return your calls when I can – I am not a slave to either the computer or the phone, so you may find that emails or TEXT (which I always recommend) work out best. 

The mail address is PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441. 

I am always as close as your email, and there are those who ring and manage to find me near the phone – NO LAND-LINE AT PRESENT, although theoretically there is a redirection to my cell.

Don’t forget to Register, insure and re-subscribe to the videos. Don’t leave these to
the last minute. Love and Blessings,  Jahne

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eNewsletter 30th June 2017

THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE IS MISSION DRIVEN AND MEMBER SUPPORTED.  BECOME A REGISTERED MEMBER……

Honouring the Universe – The philosophy of The Australasian Yoga Institute….

Dedicated to a tradition of excellence in teaching for more than 40 years, The Australasian Yoga Institute offers yoga teachers comprehensive and systematic training in classical yoga. We teach yoga techniques for body, breath, mind and spirit in 200hr and 500hr certification programs. Our programs include training in meditation, asana. GOOD MORNING DEAR STUDENTS
EMAIL CHANGE: Please use yogafirst@optusnet.com.au (anything to do with accounts), Or the usual yogafirst2@bigpond.com. If you do want to speak to me personally, then email, make a time suitable for both of us, and then we can chat. If you do it this way, rather than just “wing it”, you can be reasonably sure I have time, and you will get my attention. POSTAL ADDRESS is not at my home – small mail box out in the open means that rain is an issue. Please address all land mail to the address it has always been – PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441. Until you see a change written here in large letters, that is where it will be.
 

We don’t have terrorists in this country – we have TELSTRA AND NBN.

I am being held to ransom by the NBN crew… Hundreds of you out there I know… That feeling of helplessness is hard to describe. 

WHEN A CHAIR IS “GOD”.

I need your help with some understanding here.  It has come to my attention that NA (Narcotics Anonymous) , in an attempt to encourage people who are not able to know or imagine God, even “A”  God, to ask their members, (people who are taken through  12 Step Training,  and people who go to their meetings) to imagine that a Chair is God.   How can this be?  How can anyone who is recovering from a life trauma of any kind think that they will be helped in any way by a chair, even a very beautiful chair?  

I put this on Facebook and I had a Priest comment to the effect that the chair could transform and become something ‘wondrous”.  I forgot to ask what planet this otherwise gentle and lovely man was on.  We are talking here about people in deep trouble – In the main the people I am concerned about, the people I work with,  are NOT philosophers.  Neither are they people who have even a nodding acquaintance with their spiritual selves.  They are people who are ready to quit this world.  Will a chair, no matter how comfortable, be able to help them? Will this chair give them a greater understanding of themselves or help them find a way out of their dilemma, give them a reason to question their reality, and even stay alive?  I think not.   They need some guidelines, they need a path, they need a light on the path, but in my experience, it does not lead to a chair.

My daughter works for an organisation which helps people who are in recovery find meaningfulemployment and become qualified bicycle mechanics.  The bicycles they work on are rather lovely when they are repaired and cleaned up by the clients (they even get one to keep), BUT no matter how much they would like them to be God, THEY ARE NOT.  The paint work is great, the seats are comfortable, and the employment is fantastic, but the bike itself had nothing to do with it.  No matter how necessary the bike was to the client’s recovery it still is not God.

The bike is NOT GOD, neither is a chair God, and I can’t see how it would be helpful to imagine that this is the case! 

If you have some ideas, I would be interested to hear them.

HYPERMOBILITY….  YOGA AUSTRALIA has asked me to talk on hypermobility in Melbourne in February.  They know as I do that this is essential in your yoga teaching. So you can catch me in September at the Theosophical Society Theatrette, or, you can keep watching this space to find out other dates and times, especially February….  I can come to you to give a talk too –  depending on dates and time. This week I learned from one of my students who also goes to a physiotherapist that they too have just realised that collagen is a factor in hyper mobility, and that they can’t FIX IT.  The student told me that she said to the physiotherapist “You decided that today!  My yoga teacher told me that months ago”. Apparently physiotherapist are working on some kind of test so that it can be decided whether or not you have a problem of wrongly coded collagen. We already have one something that you can see and evaluate – it is called HYPERMOBILITY.
 
I have started a new e-booklet on Hypermobility.   It will be finished by the September seminar.   VIDEOS: Please note. When you first signed up you were given a password to access the videos. There is lots more on them than you may anticipate, so go for it… watch them. They will answer a lot of your questions, and they will save you having to do some questions a second time.. If you want to get your Restorative Yoga Therapy Certification at Level 2 and move on to level 3, then you will need to do your LEVEL 1 FIRST. You need that certificate BEFORE you can do Level 2. Please pay attention. For previous students: If you have done the last workshop, loved it and would like to repeat it (every class is a little different)  you can for a small fee, I would love you to join in and share your experiences since your workshop.

NEXT RESTORATIVE WORKSHOP.  THIS MONTH MUST BE VERY BUSY FOR YOU ALL, AS NO-ONE HAS BOOKED.  BUT I WILL CONCENTRATE ON IT SHORTLY, AND SEE WHAT DAYS AND TIMES ARE SUITABLE FOR YOU.  EMAIL ME IF YOU HAVE  WANTED TO COME BUT THE TIMES HAVE BEEN BAD FOR YOU.

“THE RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY ALLIANCE” – is a project we are currently working on, using The International Yoga Therapy Assoc. as our model. It will take us years to get to their level of perfection – but it is something you need. It will be an organisation aligned to The Australasian Yoga Institute. A branch of The Institute which will be inviting papers, focusing and sharing the more therapy aspects of what we do in Restorative Yoga. Not a medical model, but certainly a healing model. I have begun the steps needed for my own registration at the highest level of the American/International peak body (I am registered already), so that I can encourage my graduates to do the same.

“MASSAGE ALLIANCE” – I am still working on this.  It seems a logical outcome of our work aligned to Restorative yoga therapy.  I do it in the context of a journey to the heart of listening, and not as a stand-alone hands on “Fix-it”. I sit with the client and let the forces of life do the work. Massage used in this way is remarkable, and makes everything else you do in a session deeper and and more meaningful. Certainly the style of massage that we do here, much aligned to our therapy, will be taught at Level 3 Restorative Therapy.

 

WITH REGARD TO STUDENT INSURANCE AND REGISTRATION.  From the 1st July there will be changes, BIG ONES I BELIEVE….  I am working to make it a positive step.  The insurance company will be looking after the insurances totally.  Watch this space.  Registration will be mandatory if you want insurance, and will be STUDENT or GRADUATE level.  This will reflect on your insurance policy.  The cost of the insurance will also change, but I don’t quite know how or to what extent yet.  Watch this space.

WHEN YOU SHOULD INSURE:  We based the course on graduating students in an average of 18 months to two years.  Keeping this in mind we thought (because you would not be teaching until you finished the course)  you would not need insurance for those two years, so we gave you the first 12 months insurance and registration free, and ditto for the second – if you were not yet teaching. However, this is changing as more people who are teaching already are joining our course to get registered and insured.   If you are not teaching then you don’t need to be insured, and you will be registered when you graduate.

If you do start teaching whilst you are still working on the course, then you will need STUDENT REGISTRATION in order to get STUDENT INSURANCE.  These are an extra cost and you should factor them in, as you must also factor in your videos which are also a yearly subscription.  The first year is paid for in your fee, but from thereon it is up to you to renew.  This is not an unusual ask.  WE do not hide the fact, however, when I ask you to read the applications and other information SLOWLY, we anticipate that you have done that, and won’t be surprised.  Keep in mind that we are providing the skills for a career for around $3,000.  That is extraordinary.  A charge for Registration and Insurance and  $275 for a yearly video subscription is nothing in the light of that.

Why Register with THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE?  Thank you all the students who have responded to this call.  Registration says you are a member of our school (and proud to be so), and at the very least the income received from the cost of registration allows us to give out scholarships, and help others in their desire to teach.   It is not mandatory, but it is recommended, and we encourage you to do it.   How do you  support and encourage your lineage? – or do you perhaps dream up a more glamorous version, something featuring India perhaps?  We have a wonderful lineage that goes back through the Gita School to India and Tibet.  My Heart Guru, Margrit Segesman the founder of the Gita school (a very important part of our lineage)  was sent to Australia from India and Tibet to teach yoga by her Heart Guru, but she never disclosed who that was – seeking to break the “guru tradition”..  When you register you are not just supporting our endeavours, you are acknowledging the wonderful teacher that Margrit Segesman was…and yoga is.  A living tradition.  Support us by being a fabulous teacher, and in time Affiliating with us, and taking our traditions into a complete Teacher Training School of your own.

Right now – TODAY, mark in your diary when your registration and insurance are due – Registration and insurance should be applied for YEARLY on the same day (it is easier this way).   – at this time contact us if WE (this office) have not contacted you. THE AYI COURSE VIDEOs.  A necessity.  Please make notes, notice how long you spend…. Write it down. As it says in your initial emailed information pack, from the very first one with “how to set yourself up“ clearly noted, please make a journal note of all the yoga you do in a day, and that includes the videos. A computer is just a computer, and whilst we make every effort to get them to comply with our will, they sometimes don’t. If you have a daily journal and mark down in it all the yoga you do and watch, and then on a monthly basis transfer the totals to your passport, you will have a hard copy record, and a computer record.

NOA BELLING – YOGA HANDBOOK and SECOND HAND BOOKS

You might be able to still get the book (and many others) second-hand from the bookshops below. I would advise you to buy a few so that you can amortize the postage cost across a number of books rather than one.

    Cost Plus Mail        
  UK 1/ Revival Books Ltd $4.94 $5.90 USA 2/ Goodwill Books $1.50 $12.99 UK 3/ Awesome Books $9.89 $6.47 USA 4/ Hippo Books $5.50 $11.50 USA 5/ Hippo Books $5.50 $11.50 USA 6/ Goodwill Books $1.00 $17.00 USA 7/ The Book Women $5.00 $14.75           As Suzuki Roshi once said “if something is not paradoxical it is not true”.

CLASS TIMES

$15 per class or 10 classes for $135 (and UNLIMITED ONE MONTH FOR $100 – great value if you come often) 

Keep in Mind that Jahne’s Massage is available in between yoga classes, and by appointment only.

THE BENTINCK Enter through the Romsey Road gate, and park either side of the drive.

THE HOME STUDIO Park on the white gravel, in the small open yard opposite the house if no-one else has, or on the nature strip. No need to bring props – mats etc unless you want to – everything is provided.

  HOME STUDIO
  THE BENTINCK
  Monday
    6.30 PM Yoga with JAHNE
  Tuesday
  10:00 AM Restorative
  6:30 PM Hatha with Nic
  Wednesday
  12:30 PM Hatha (sometimes TT depending on arrivals)
  5:30 PM Restorative, 6:30 PM Hatha
  Friday
 
  6:30 PM Hatha Yoga with Jahne
  Saturday

 
11:30 AM PHILOSOPHY for Yogis
12:30 PM Restorative 10:00 AM Hatha
4:00 PM Philosophy     OUR YOGA CLASSES You will note there are less – I need to write, and there are not enough hours in the day, so what is less popular GOES… and that is yoga classes.  Hardly anyone is committed.  Students come once month and call it”regular”.   They don’t understand that I prepare for a class, then do the class.  It takes time and energy.  Worthwhile if students in numbers come to class.  I have been doing this for most of my life.  50 years in fact.  These are not the usual “teeny-boppy” sort of class, they are about CHANGE.  Change the mind, change the body.  If you are NOT wanting to change, to grow, to get better and better.. (every day in every way), then these are probably not the classes for you.  And, you don’t need to wear lycra.  Every class is more difficult for me the teacher because I know more, want to help you more, and can see more.  So if the classes are not what you anticipate, relax, go with the flow, and grow.

THE TIMES IN RED. From 2017 those classes in red above are at my home studio. So if you want to come to the home studio for your class please book. I need to know your name, the classes/s you want to attend and your email so I can confirm, as the classes will be limited and SMALL. Please email your booking and your details to yogafirst2@bigpond.com

PRICES: The class prices at either place, Bentinck or Studio are be $15 per class, $135 for a 10 class pass or $100 unlimited for one 4 week month (no extensions  – once the month is up the pass is done). Your present passes will be valid until they run out.  Massage $85 per session with Jahne.

PARKING: 
At the studio: Could you please park on the white gravel I had made especially for you. If there is no room on the white gravel or the naturestrip, then opposite us is a space we have been given permission to use. Just drive in. Please, don’t park on the road, or in other peoples driveways or naturestrips unless there is absolutely no parking available at the studio and opposite. 

At the Bentinck: there is work going on to build our new medical Centre. We dealt with the driveway, and in a few days cement is going to be laid for the ambulance parking.

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS AT MY HOME STUDIO

The next will be on Sunday 2nd July,  2pm to 4pm  at my home studio (37 Morris Road in Woodend). Please join us – there is no need to book. Bring writing materials, and be early. Follow the Japanese Path at the side of the house. There is a notice on the door if you have trouble with direction. If you are a distance ed. student then the cost of the afternoon is $15. If you are a visitor you are most welcome – and if you are not formally a student teacher with us then the cost is $20. We have had the most wonderful trainings, there is nothing like them. Please do come. Park on the white gravel around the house, and in the open yard opposite. 

TEACHERS: I plan to give a class on THE SHAMAN DEATH MEDITATION training. This is about dying to your old self, and being reborn. Please let me know if you are interested. I could give it after the teacher training although it will take a full two hours I think (or close to). If you are interested let me know. I will charge $65 for Teacher Training plus the meditation training, or just $15 for the teacher training. If you are coming to both it will take from 2pm to 6pm, although you are welcome to come to just one or the other. Remember to bring paper and pen to both. 

TEACHER TRAINING in the CBD: I am considering doing the Restorative Yoga Therapy workshop in Melbourne CBD.  If you would be interested in doing this workshop (which is an important part of the course)  if this was an option for you, please let me know. yogafirst2@bigpond.com  (For people who have done the workshop and would like to do it again,  repeat it – you would be welcome for just $50).

I will be doing lectures at The Theosophical Society Theatrette in Russell Street (Subject – “Hypermobility JHBS/ED-T and how it changes your yoga and yoga teaching” theory and practice.).…  September 23rd, 1.30 to 2.30 then 2pm to 4 with afternoon tea in the break.  Please write in your diary.

TEACHER TRAINING IN EUROA: Now trainees in Euroa, Shepparton, Albury and surrounds will be able to do their teacher training with Heidi. We will keep you in the loop as this progresses. Please contact Heidi  (Director – Heidi Van Maanenberg – ask@byoga.com.au).

TEACHER TRAINING IN BENDIGO: Bendigo Teacher Training classes – every fortnight from 3.30 to 5pm at Crusoeden Body. I will be teaching there on Tuesday 4th July.  Turn at the Metricon building on the highway in Kangaroo Flat, Big METRICON sign on the building you turn at – also its a traffic light intersection, just up from Bunnings. Crusoeden is the building behind Metricon building, and faces Church Street. Its easy to find. Cost: $15 per class for everyone who attends – thank you. (Directors – Jayne Boyle  – crusoedenbody@bigpond.com).  Regular classes held – please email for timetable.

TEACHER TRAINING SOON IN TARADALE. These are still in the planning stages, but TARADALE Yoga School is not far away.  But if you are in the surrounding areas, please let me know and I will pass your interest along – in the beginning I will be sharing the TARADALE TT classes until we get them up and running..   yogafirst2@bigpond.com DO YOU WANT TO AFFILIATE WITH US and Teach Yoga teachers?  If you are a graduate with us, have a studio already, and are at the point of considering teaching others to be yoga teachers, then please contact me and we can introduce you to our procedure for this. It is not like Macdonalds, it is not a franchise, you are always in charge, you make what you make, and I teach the modules just like you have done. It works – when you win, I win. Let me know if you would like a chat with me. Email me and let us set up a scheduled phone call – give me a few options for when you are available. Email: yogafirst2@bigpond.com

MASSAGE:  What I do is not exactly massage.  More complex than just rubbing the body with oil (or as someone said to me “fish-slapping”).  It is more a combination of relaxation and cranio-sacral therapy.  We are having wonderful results, reaching new milestones for students.  If you want a booking please email me, and give me a couple of options.  There are not many times available.   I feel like Dolores Cannon – she had bookings twelve years out when she died.  I haven’t got there yet, but it is squeezed up right at this moment….  Book early.  

GIFT VOUCHERS for The Australasian Yoga Institute.
Vouchers are available (all year) for $135 or $70 class passes, and massage $95 one hour or $50 half hour. Please contact me and we will arrange it. Email yogafirst2@bigpond.com Trying to climb the ladder of success? Forget the ladder. In yoga, everything is right here on the ground. IN THE THE SHOP AT “ETSY” 

ALL OUR IN-HOUSE DVD’S AND CD’S ARE AVAILABLE AT THIS SITE.

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT YAMAS AND CHAKRAS – my own little books are on etsy. Why spend hours looking for the information when you can pay from under $10 for these books and have a very valuable easy-to-read reference and resource www.myyogabooks.etsy.com. If you get them and read them they will help you with many of the concepts that you are having trouble with especially in your modules. Go to “CHOOSE LIFE”, a home based on-line restore and recover program. YOGA NIDRA USB on ETSY.  For those of you who want to do yoga nidra like we do (like I do). Now you can. I have done a USB stick so you can plug it in and have a wonderful, long meditation whenever you can. Please go to my growing shop on www.myyogabooks.etsy.com  YIN YOGA/ANATOMY/MEDITATION DVD’s –Please indulge in ALL three
They are the best, and will form the backbone of your yoga references. As I have told you before when I bought mine they cost $100 or so each. I thought that this was a good investment, and I still do. We have had to increase the price TWICE – everything everywhere is going up, and we have held this price for a number of years. Now $57.50. At this price we are accounting for currency increases and decreases, and they are still cheaper than I paid for mine initially. Look at Ebay – everyone is about the same. At twice the price they are still worth having. With Christmas coming, please order yours today. I don’t have many left and I am waiting for more stocks to arrive in the mail – at this time of the year they sometimes get caught up in customs. www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

I am at present writing a booklet on HYPERMOBILITY.  It will be available on ETSY before the seminar in September.

REGARDING THE OFFICE: Thank you all so much for living the Yamas. Now, direct that wonderful energy to looking for the time your registration and insurance is due…let us know when you change address and emails
 
ATTENTION: EMAIL ADDRESS. There was a problem with the server, but this has been fixed until the next time – For anything, anything at all please email me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com. If you do not your emails may get lost, as I am gradually going to get rid of the other email addresses…. Do not ring unless you have not got email, or you have an urgent question. Email, leave your number and I will get back to you. Phones?  We are being re-organised, even here…. So at the moment my number is 0402 088 170  – preferably leave a text or email. I will return your calls when I can – I am not a slave to either the computer or the phone, so you may find that emails or text (which I always recommend) work out best. 
 
I am always as close as the post or the email, always working to make things better, dig deeper. Why? So you can be the best you can be. Email me, talk to me, send me photographs (send me questions). I look forward to hearing from you.  For more wonderful, delicious thoughts log on to our Web site www.yogabeautiful.com.au and tune in to our videos daily.

ENJOY – Love and Blessings,  Namaste Jahne

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