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email blast 21 October 2015

GOOD MORNING PRECIOUS ONES 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.

SINCE DISCOVERING THE COOKING SHOWS…
I think that having a hotplate and an oven for the first time in at least 10 years, (prior to that I had them but didn’t use them), could be a trap. Sure, good food is fantastic, but once you start looking at the cooking shows FOOD takes on a whole different meaning. It is no longer something that happens so you can eat.. That is too, too easy. It has to be artistic, varied, different. No more formula meals. Here is the Buddhist REFLECTION USED BEFORE EATING… Reflecting carefully I use this food, not for pleasure, not for indulgence, not for personal charm, not for beautification, but only for maintaining the body so that it endures, for keeping it unharmed, for supporting the (holy) life, so that former feelings of hunger are destroyed and new feelings from overeating do not arise, then there will be for me a lack of bodily obstacles and living comfortably. There is nothing in the reflections about making food an obsession, an artistic pursuit. Nothing about concentrating on the next meal in a way that causes you to miss what you are meant to be doing in the moment – even if you do tell yourself it is an artistic pursuit!

Before I got the accoutrements I knew what my breakfast dinner and tea would be. I was a formula eater, and a formula cook. My meals took the same time to prepare and cook every day (hardly any) and that left lots of time to concentrate on my yoga and my students. I still concentrate on yoga and my students (you), but I have to admit to thinking about food a different way. Can’t be all that bad though. I have upped my skills, upped my nutrition (I believe), but haven’t upped my weight by an ounce – in fact I weight a little less. “…feelings of hunger are destroyed, new feelings from overeating do not arise, there is a lack of bodily obstacles, and I certainly live comfortably”. I have discovered I like to cook, something I haven’t really done since the children left home.

Some time ago a client came for a PAST LIFE Session. She had an eating problem which, matched with a “I don’t need to work” problem, didn’t fit. She was getting poorer and poorer and bigger and bigger as her eating and working ethics got further and further apart. She didn’t understand that she had to work, and didn’t, so her choices of food got worse and worse. In the session we went back into her past (actually into her “future past”) and she then understood the problem and changed. Now she is healthy, happy, in relationship and doing well. Once one part of your life gets right out of whack, it usually pulls the whole lot with it – always with unfortunate results.

I understand that, and work at keeping a balance by planning the day, and keeping to the plan (even if I would prefer to cook or paint). There is a certain amount that has to be done each day, and no matter how much I would like to cook a three layer cake just to see if I can, or experiment with a tangine, or chocolate crisps, I know that it wouldn’t it be the best thing for me, and it would really screw up my daily plan – so I don’t do it. At the end of the day I have done what I planned to do, and then I am prepared to say that “life is good”.

What you are may sometimes miss the mark, a prisoner in liberty. Get up somehow, get clean right now and be a happy, happy child set free.

FACEBOOK
Thank you all for your feedback. Nicole does the YOGAFIRST site, and I do The Australasian Yoga Institute and Jahne Hope-Williams sites. Nicole concentrates on recipes and chat, and I try to pass on my philosophical musings.

THE RESTORATIVE COURSE – GET INSPIRED, GET CREATIVE, GET INVOLVED!
OOOO! It is getting very, very interesting. Fabulous in fact!

I have broken the course into two. Level 1 and Level 2. Level One is pretty wonderful as the first step, don’t get me wrong, but I wanted you to be able to understand and access the things that I do. Trying to write all that down is proving to be bigger than I thought. Exploring Yoga’s Model for Health and Well-Being, The Science of the Breath, Pawanmuktanasana (seated yoga in four section), Brain Yoga, Structural Yoga, Restorative Yoga + + +. Once you have integrated this you are on the path to being a Restorative Yoga therapist. It is not simple.
It reminds me as I have said before, of when I was offered the opportunity to become a naturopath. It was a short course in comparison to what it is today, consequently was cheaper. But I didn’t see the potential of what I was being offered so I turned it down. Don’t turn this opportunity down. Yes it will change, yes, like naturopathy it will get bigger (I can see the potential, even if you cannot) – so, get in on the ground floor!!!

NOA BELLING – YOGA HANDBOOK. PLEASE…..WE NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE!
We are still asking for your help. I wondered if any of you out there had finished with their book and would like to sell it back to us, WE WOULD LOVE TO BUY IT OFF YOU. We can get it secondhand from time to time for $25 to $30. We will buy yours off you for $25 plus whatever is the postage cost. Email us if you would like to sell yours, and Deb will call you to organise. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

YOGA CLASSES- Classes held at Bentinck
THE HOME OF THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE
Cost: $10 per person per class (or $100 a 12 class pass: non–transferable).
$15 mum plus little yoga bub. $25 per family (mum, dad and two primary school children.
Young adults $10 each).

Monday 5.30 RESTORATIVE with jahne, 6.30 General class with Nicole
Tuesday 10am RESTORATIVE with jahne, and 7.30 General class with *Brad and others,
Wednesday 12.30 General class with Kalma,
Friday 6.30 General class with Nicholas,
Saturday. 10am General class with Nicole (9am and 12.30 RESTORATIVE with jahne)

*Brad is not well at the moment, and we have other teachers who have volunteered their time to take his place (thank you).

*RESTORATIVE YOGA (all classes with with Jahne) is a beautiful, gentle yoga which is done using lots of props and lots of time. No balancing, no headstands, nothing but gentle stretches and rests. You and/or a friend will love it especially if you have had surgery, are anxious, haven’t exercised for years, have a weight problem, or have a neurological problem. It is also a PERFECT pre and postnatal session – if you are pregnant, please get a doctors certificate and bring it to your first class – not because I think you are unwell, but as it is an insurance requirement.
“The Bentinck” is on the corner of the Romsey Road and the High Street in Woodend. Enter from the start of the Romsey Road only.

PARKING:
No matter which class you come to – as you enter the Romsey Road gate, Yoga parking is either to the left or the right of the gate. If that is full, then the space over the road is always available. PLEASE DON’T park in the central space – even it is empty and you are late, this is for Innisfree staff coming and going.

www.yogabeautiful.com.au If you are looking for any changes in times and days, then please go to the web site. You will find everything there. There is also our blog www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com.au

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS The next will be the first Sunday in November (1st Nov.) at the Bentinck – in the Yoga Room. Please join us. If you are a distance ed. student then the cost of the afternoon is $10 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.

THE FORGIVENESS BOOK This book is still travelling, keep it moving along, the list is longish. And…..If you would like to be next on the list of 108 people, please email me… yogafirst2@bigpond.com

Everything will change for you when you work out that there is plenty of time in every day to complete the important things.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – “JAHNE’S YOGA UNIVERSITY” AT A FANTASTIC PRICE FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS…. our classes are available via distance education and you can start any time.. Thank you to those students who are moving from their 200 to another, higher course. Once you have got into the habit of learning, then it is easy to keep going….

Within our school there are three levels of YOGA TEACHER TRAINING, plus a course in the Gita, the fundamental source of all yoga teaching through the ages.

*THE BHAGAVADGITA (and YOGA PHILOSOPHY) which is like a Certificate or Diploma Level, RYTA 200/350 which is our “degree course” and *RYTA500 the “masters”.

1. THE BHAGAVADGITA (YOGIC PHILOSOPHY)
2. RYTA200 – THE BASIC YOGA COURSE
3. RYTA350 – COURSE ACCREDITED BY YOGA AUSTRALIA
4. RYTA500 – THE NEXT STEP
5. RESTORATIVE YOGA (Level 1) and RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY TRAINING (Level 2)
Two levels. CPE (pending) and Diploma level – includes “Brain Yoga”… A professional level course.

The RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY COURSE (Level 2), has morphed into a professional stand-alone course for people who want to specialise in Restorative Yoga Therapy. It won’t be easy, and attracts the same conditions and provisions as the Professional Yoga Teacher Training course. Everyone who is now on the course is doing the Level 1. If you are interested in making Restorative Yoga Therapy your primary modality, then please let me know. It is such a worthwhile course, and few are doing it to this level. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

Most people have never met, and don’t understand, that there are angels all around us whose only job is to make sure that you don’t get too comfortable, fall asleep and miss the important moments (and gifts) in your life.

THE FOUNDATION: Gosh it has taken such a long time from its inception. But the lawyers say we are nearly there.
It is so important to me, because I want to know that even if I die (and I don’t plant to quite yet – my hair is not yet pooling on the ground at my feet), the Institute will be able to live on. When I do go, I will be in the air around you, as I have always been the person who believed in the dead inhabiting the world of the living….

THE SHOP and ETSY www.myyogabooks.etsy.com As usual we are ahead of the pack. Colouring books are the new big thing, and we have had our colouring-in posters available for a long time now.
This week I received an email from one of our students who had purchased the chakras and colouring book and REALISED THAT COLOURING THE DRAWINGS WAS A MEDITATION. I celebrated. It has taken a year for a student to understand the reason for the drawings. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU……!!!
ALL OUR IN-HOUSE DVD’S AND CD’S ARE AVAILABLE AT THIS SITE. Please remember that they are not flashy high cost productions. They are made by Deb and me to answer your various questions. They are useful in your course.
*YIN YOGA, THE ANATOMY AND THE CHAKRAS all by Paul Grilley
*THE YAMAS
*THE UN-MEDITATION COURSE
*YOGA SWINGS
*THE REVELATION TAROT
*HOW-TO STUDY YOGA BY DISTANCE EDUCATION – A BOOKLET…..
*THE CHAKRAS – A COLOURING-IN BOOK and a REFERENCE BOOKLET –
*CHAKRA BOOKLET
*ETERNITY THE PRAYER

I move with the infinite in nature’s power. I hold the fire of the soul. I hold the life and healing”. (Rig Veda)

REGISTRATION/INSURANCE www.yogabeautiful.com.au We are giving you total choice now, although it may be a bit more expensive…..
REGISTRATION AND INSURANCE HAVE BEEN UNCOUPLED. YOU CAN BUY THEM SEPARATELY. A DEARER OPTION, BUT IT SEEMS THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT. WE AIM TO PLEASE.

YOUR TEACHER TRAINING YEAR (or so): If you are a trainee Yoga Teacher who has been working on the course for more than a year please understand that your course fee only gives you FREE classes with me for your first training year – the first 12 months only. Imagine if what would happen to our Institute if you took three years to finish your course and you could still come to classes free for the entire course. We do our fee calculation based on 12 months of free yoga classes. Your training fees cover you for a year, after that we ask you to pay $10 per class.

Also, just signing up and not sending in any modules means you are not really a trainee yoga teacher, and unless we receive regular communication (even if it isn’t modules), at a certain point we will deem that you have disconnected from us, and we will disconnect from you. And, coming to class with no intention of completing the course just to get the cheaper, easier student insurance, and free classes isn’t exactly living the yamas! Sooner or later we will call your bluff.

I have found if you paddle your boat it is easier to maintain the illusion of control, but I tell you it is so much more fun if you pull the oars in and just let the river take you where it will….

VIDEOS: THEY ARE NOT OPTIONAL – THEY ARE NECESSARY! Only $275 per annum. Please look down the list of the videos before you try to do stick drawings, or organise your journal. I have shown you what I recommend.. All you have to do is download. I even did a video on ‘The Gita. Good feedback thus far – thank you. Please. Email us and Debbie will make sure that you are logged in promptly. OH YES, IF YOU HAVE BOUGHT THE SUBSCRIPTION, THEN PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEOS. IF YOUR NAME IS NOT EDGAR CAYCE THEN YOU CAN’T LEARN WHAT IS ON THE TAPE FROM SLEEPING WITH YOUR COMPUTER! yogafirst2@bigpond.com

GARDENING WITH BENEFITS The pond is clear and sparkling thanks to a little solar pump from Auto-Pro in Kyneton. I did start with a Bunnings one but it was a non starter actually. Didn’t last any time at all. It is also sparkling and has no mozzies thanks to the tadpoles that are now inhabiting it. I have lots, isn’t that fantastic. That means it is a very healthy pond. It looks so natural with the iris and other plants who are softening the edges. My little “watercress” pond in another part of the garden always surprises me because the water sparkles all year no pump, no taddies, no fish. It must be something in the watercress which stops bacteria.

COOKING – YOUR FOOD IS YOUR MEDICINE.
SNAKEY CAKEY – (As usual I am not really sure of quantities – I just play).

INGREDIENTS… 200g icing sugar, 2 eggs, 200g almond meal, 1tab flour, zest 1 lemon and 1 orange, crushed pistachios and 3 tabs rose water.

METHOD…. Mix everything together and let it rest. Then, spread out enough filo end on end to reach over about one meter length. Make a good overlap and brush the overlap with melted butter, and gently brush the entire surface with butter. The put the filling in a sausage like line from end to end close to one side, then roll up like a snake. Top to bottom, then top to bottom and repeat until you have a firm filo snake. Then roll the snake and place snuggly into a pan. Brush with butter sprinkle with crushed pistachios, and then make at 180 for about 35 to 40 minutes until it is crips and browned. De-pan, cool, sprinkle with icing sugar and rose petals and serve with ice–cream.
There is quite a lot of snake. You could use a dried fruit mix in with the ingredients and use as a christmas cake!

MY VIDEOS.. I am so pleased with myself. I actually managed to take a video, get the video on to my computer desk top and then put on a USB! Huge. My first attempt had good information, but, as I didn’t anticipate success I didn’t pay attention to what I looked like. As it was the end of the day, and as I hadn’t looked in the mirror since early morning, it was messy. I am doing a more concentrated repeat. This will be the first of a selection of USB’s to go with the RESTORATIVE2 course.

YIN YOGA/ANATOMY/MEDITATION DVD’s – all with Paul Grilley Just got a new shipment. 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. I think half that is a steal! And that is what we are selling this. www.yogabeautiful.com.au

JAHNE’S MENTORING SESSIONS …. Because Jahne has been teaching yoga teachers for more than 40 years, and running a business the Buddhist way for much longer than that (and successfully) she is often asked for advice. She also consults on the Tarot and the I-Ching. Please make an appointment. Past Life Therapy available, but not on the phone, mainly due to the occasional line disconnect for whatever reason. Totally ruins a session. My next visit will be to Brisbane to chat about your yoga progress, explore the Restorative option, and to do a past life session or two, so if you want me to contact you first when I know the dates, get your name on the list.

REGARDING DEBBIE If you want to speak to Debbie about any aspect of the courses – she has done them, please remember that she only comes in on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. On those days she is available on Ph: 0354 273 518. I am always here, and available preferably on email or text because I teach and am not always at my desk. Don’t hesitate to email me and I will answer your email or text as soon as I can.

THE YAMAS – I cannot stress these too much how important these are, and I am going to leave them at the bottom of the newsletter because I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THEM. If you come to me to be registered in our organisation (and baby, it is growing and is going to take some BIG leaps) and you haven’t done the yamas, guess what, you will have to do a workshop and an exam….. For me, the philosophy of yoga is the most important. There is NOTHING more important. We start there
I have never liked the (Christian) “Thou Shalt Not” approach and am trying out a new one. What do you think of this.

“Just for today I will not kill thoughts, hopes, aspirations, confidence. I will not kill.”
“Just for today I will work on telling the truth”
“Just for today I will work on not stealing”
“Just for today I will work on respecting all people and all things”
“Just for today I will work on not taking more of anything than what I need”.
THE LAST WORD: I try to imagine life without being able to speak to God, but none of the days without that special energy have the same laughter, or opportunities…..
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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email blast 27 October 2015

PAST LIFE THERAPY
I have spent since last Thursday doing a Past Life Therapy Workshop. It was a fantastic experience with a small number of very perceptive intuitive people, who at the same time had a good grounding in things other than “the other side”. Doctors, Psychiatrists, mathematicians etc….. Plus our teacher was none other than Julia Cannon, (daughter to the famous Late Dolores), who had come over from the USA to deliver the workshop. I rarely make the opportunity to do these, and will make more time in the future, maybe it is time to go to the USA..

There is no doubt about it, it is difficult to find the time, and I had to defeat a lot of senseless chatter from my mind about the time, and the money and how hard it would be to get there, but of course it was all groundless, and I managed everything with help from Debbie, Nicole who took my Saturday classes, and others who stepped in when it was needed. On “how hard it would be to get there”. Well I though that would be the hardest when I saw the map, but it was soooo easy, and took only a whisker over half an hour from home even in mid-week traffic. How’s that! On the Friday morning I was just about to leave the house, when something said to me slow down girl, have a cup of tea, do something/anything before you go out. I have learned not to ignore such loud promptings, and when I got to the turn off to the Melton Highway I understood the problem… a pretty bad accident – enough to divert a heap of mid-week traffic – that I would have been in the middle of if I had left “on time”. It pays to tune in. I ignore these promptings at my peril. Hopefully I will get better at tuning in as time moves on.

I have been conducting Past Life Healings (they are healings not just dabblings) for a long time, but this workshop took us all to a new level. If you want to come see me you can. Just make an appointment with Deb. Ring on a Tuesday or Wednesday or email me direct at yogafirst2@bigpond.com giving yourself at least 2 hours with me, maybe more depending on the problem. Some folk take 5 or 6 hours to do each session with clients, but no, not to date with me. Two maybe three hours is just fine. But it is all up to the subconscious. They do the work, they organise the session, they organise the healings so they will organise the time.

Oh. I almost forgot. You don’t have to believe in past (or future) lives for it to work. Please, come see me. It is a healing session not just an enquiry session. We will be working together with the subconscious to HEAL. If you want to know if you were Cleopatra (or Napoleon) in a past life, then perhaps I am not the person to speak to.

Talking about flagging things. I don’t have many regrets in my life, but one I do have is that I didn’t understand that my teacher Margrit Segesman, would not be teaching for the whole of MY life. I just accepted she would always be there. Don’t make the same mistake. If you want me, come sit with me, come work with me, do the courses, pay attention – because who knows when things will change.

Julia tells the story about how she came to take over the QHHT from her mom. Although she had a very successful “business” business in another State, Dolores increasingly called on her. Then the Subconscious did the same. It said she needed to help her mom by working the QHHT Healing Business. It yelled, it gave her pictures, it screamed, and when she didn’t pay attention it simply turned her life inside out and upside down to make her pay attention and do the job she was born to do. She loves what she does now, and laughs about the “I can’t” responses she used for a long, long time. Now she has a job she loves that challenges and enriches here, working with people she loves (us). I am sure you know what I mean – well, watch it, say YES it is easier. The Universe is calling! Mercury is in retrograde – the Universe is speeding up.

What you are may sometimes miss the mark, a prisoner in liberty. Get up somehow, get clean right now and be a happy, happy child set free.

THE RESTORATIVE COURSE – GET INSPIRED, GET CREATIVE, GET INVOLVED!
OOOO! It is getting very, very interesting. Fabulous in fact!

To be honest as a result of my chats with the folk on the other side, I am not quite sure where this course will end up. It could be integrated into a section on deep relaxation and regression…. Who knows. Not me. I only know that I am not entirely in charge of what is happening. It keeps changing and growing. The Restorative Part is very important, but it is leading UP TO SOMETHING. That is my feeling – I am getting goosebumps as I write. Yay! they say, you are getting it!! Thanks guys. Anyone out there who is up for an unusual ride? If you say yes, then join us. If you just want “meat and two veg”, then go for the short course.

*Brad is not well at the moment, and we have other teachers who have volunteered their time to take his place (thank you).

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS The next will be the first Sunday in November (1st Nov.) at the Bentinck – in the Yoga Room. Please join us. If you are a distance ed. student then the cost of the afternoon is $10 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.

Everything will change for you when you work out that there is plenty of time in every day to complete the important things.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – “JAHNE’S YOGA UNIVERSITY” Within our school there are three levels of YOGA TEACHER TRAINING, plus a course in the Gita, the fundamental source of all yoga teaching through the ages.

*THE BHAGAVADGITA (and YOGA PHILOSOPHY) which is like a Certificate or Diploma Level, RYTA 200/350 which is our “degree course” and *RYTA500 the “masters”.

Most people have never met, and don’t understand, that there are angels all around us whose only job is to make sure that you don’t get too comfortable, fall asleep and miss the important moments (and gifts) in your life.

THE GITAJAIA YOGA FOUNDATION: It is so important to me, because I want to know that even if I die (and I don’t plan to quite yet – my hair is not yet pooling on the ground at my feet – I dreamed I would be teaching until my hair is really, really long), the Institute will be able to live on. When I do go, I will be in the air around you, as I have always been the person who believed in the dead inhabiting the world of the living…. I must say thoug, it is the WHAT I will be teaching that is becoming very, very interesting to me.

I move with the infinite in nature’s power. I hold the fire of the soul. I hold the life and healing”. (Rig Veda)

GARDENING WITH BENEFITS I was dreaming of my garden last night. When I came home early from the class yesterday and found Cuba “in extremis” unable to breathe, I took her into the garden and worked with her and the nature spirits to get life back in her body. The garden is well set up for that. When you consider it was just a patch of soggy, smelly, wet grass – the productive, verdant garden it has become is unbelievable. A bit like Findhorn. You are of course welcome to come visit, and sit. It is beautiful. The bees are busy, the frogs and taddies are doing their thing, and new life is just bursting out all over. I think the next fruit crop is going to be unbelievable. The garlic stalks are as big as leeks!

COOKING – SNAKEY CAKEY again… for Christmas.
SNAKEY CAKEY – (As usual I am not really sure of quantities – I just play).

INGREDIENTS… 200g icing sugar, 2 eggs, 200g almond meal, 1tab flour, zest 1 lemon and 1 orange, crushed pistachios and 3 tabs rose water. And of course FILO pastry.

METHOD…. Mix everything together and let it rest. Then, spread out enough filo end on end to reach over about one meter length. Make a good overlap and brush the overlap with melted butter, and gently brush the entire surface with butter. The put the filling in a sausage-like line from end to end, close to one side, then roll up like a snake. Top to bottom, then top to bottom and repeat until you have a firm filo snake. Then roll the snake and place snuggly into a pan (or cut and put in smaller pans).. Brush with butter sprinkle with crushed pistachios, and then bake at 180C for about 35 to 40 minutes until it is crisp and browned. De-pan, cool, sprinkle with icing sugar and rose petals and serve with ice–cream.
There is quite a lot of snake. You could use a dried fruit mix in with the ingredients, cut into suitable lengths and put in small pans perhaps and use as a christmas cake on the christmas table, or for gifts!

REGARDING DEBBIE If you want to speak to Debbie about any aspect of the courses – she has done them, please remember that she only comes in on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. On those days she is available on Ph: 0354 273 518. I am always here, and available preferably on email or text because I teach and am not always at my desk. Don’t hesitate to email me and I will answer your email or text as soon as I can.

THE YAMAS – I cannot stress these too much how important these are, and I am going to leave them at the bottom of the newsletter because I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THEM. If you come to me to be registered in our organisation (and baby, it is growing and is going to take some BIG leaps) and you haven’t done the yamas, guess what, you will have to do a workshop and an exam….. For me, the philosophy of yoga is the most important. There is NOTHING more important. We start there
I have never liked the (Christian) “Thou Shalt Not” approach and am trying out a new one. What do you think of this.

Namaste Jahne

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email blast 2 December 2015

THE YAMAS –
I cannot stress these too much how important these are.
I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THEM. NOTHING WORKS, NOTHING WORKS, IF THESE ARE NOT IN PLACE IN YOUR LIFE.
If you come to me to be registered in our organisation (and baby, it is growing and is going to take some BIG leaps) and you haven’t done the yamas, guess what, you will have to do a workshop and an exam….. For me, the philosophy of yoga is the most important. There is NOTHING more important. We start there I have never liked the (Christian) “Thou Shalt Not” approach and am trying out a new one.

(Next TT Sunday 6th December 2pm to 4pm – we might have a lesson on Karma, Bhakti and Reincarnation. This will be followed by Restorative Yoga Class, and a healing. Both open for you all to join in if you come to Teacher Training….)

“Everything will change for you when you work out that there is plenty of time in every day to complete the important things”.

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On Sunday at the Restorative Yoga introduction, we wandered off course a bit (surprise, surprise), and got into the topic of meditation. Now here is a subject I love. I do it every day, and I have for years. By the way, that being said, missing it doesn’t often happen and I don’t beat myself up if I do miss a day, BUT I do long for the chat, and can’t wait for the next opportunity to sit down and share with God! Yep, that’s me speaking – what about you?

Here’s how I think about it. People often say that they can meditate doing the dishes, or in the garden or running, and sure you can, but the way I meditate takes it to a different level (and it is not the only way to do it, or that I do it). I have made a commitment to sit down with God every day. It’s like making a commitment to sit down with a good friend every day. I don’t just hope that they will tag along as I am weeding the garden. I make a special effort.

The other day I had a lovely friend come and trim the ivy for me. I had asked him would he do it, and he was so happy and enthusiastic to share my garden with me and help. Seeing that I had invited him, and it was not such an easy job I bought a pizza (I am gluten free – it was for him), At lunch time I made a cup of tea and we sat down at a table, chatted and had a lovely meal. If I would do that for a guy trimming the ivy, what preparations should I make for a meeting with God! What would you do?

Well, these are the preparations I make.
1. I make a date.

2. Then I prepare the space. For me this means that I get some little glasses and have a flower in one, food in one (a piece of bread or something), water in another etc.

3. At the appointed time I sit down and check in, say good morning and give thanks for the opportunity. The Presence is calming and available, waiting for me to open the door..

4. First I clear the decks, review the day before. We talk about the day, what was good, and what I could have seen clearer. I apologise for the not very good things I did, mainly the attitudes that need changing. I revel in the good things I did, some of these only He noticed.

5. Then I chat about whatever topic I have decided on. I listen to the reply. It isn’t as loud as someone standing behind me. It is a voice in my head, that’s the closest I can explain.
6. Having spent time, given thanks for the time and the presence, I don’t prattle on. He is busy, I am busy.

7. When the time is over, I say thanks, make a namaste and then I go about my day.

And that’s about it. When I do the www.jtalkingwithgod.blogspot.com time, it is almost the same except God not only talks through my head, he talks through my hands on the keyboard. It works that’s all I can say.
PS. Don’t try to empty your mind. Buddha didn’t. He had a question and determined that he would sit under the Bodhi tree until it be answered or he die. It was answered, and yours will be if you have patience.
I hope that you take extra care with your morning meditation, and have put an extra column in your “to-do” book for God (or The Universe – however you like to think of Him). I put the things I am having trouble with in this column in my own diary….. It is amazing how quickly they get attended to.

GIFTS:
Christmas is coming, so don’t forget that we have some lovely yoga things in our shop. If you want CD’s, a swing, bands, books, the tarot…. You will be buying something encouraging for your yoga friends, and supporting us.

Monday *1.45pm SPIRITUAL YOGA with Jahne followed by a one hour Yoga Nidra.
5.30pm RESTORATIVE with jahne, 6.30pm General class with Nicole
Tuesday 10am RESTORATIVE with jahne, and 7.30 General class with *Brad and others,
Wednesday 12.30pm General class with Kalma, *6.30 YIN YOGA with Bron.
Friday 6.30pm General class with Nicholas,
Saturday 10am General class with Nicole (9am and 12.30 RESTORATIVE with Jahne)
Sunday: *4.30 Restorative followed by a Hands-on-healing session with Jahne

NEW CLASSES
Please note the three new classes above. Yes it’s close to the end of the year, but we will be working up to the 23rd of December, so there is plenty of time to come to yoga. It isn’t Christmas Day tomorrow (even though it may feel like that in the Supermarket).

*Brad is not well at the moment, and we have other teachers who have volunteered their time to take his place (thank you).

THE CLASSES: If you are wondering what level to join here’s a clue. The General class is a more vigorous class, the Restorative is a very gentle class and Yin Yoga lies between the two. If you haven’t done yoga for a long time, you may like to start with Restorative, move on the Yin and then take your pick of the general classes.

“The Bentinck” is on the corner of the Romsey Road and the High Street in Woodend. Enter from the start of the Romsey Road only.

PARKING:
No matter which class you come to – as you enter the Romsey Road gate, Yoga parking is either to the left or the right of the gate – on the inside of the gate . If that is full, then the space over the road is always available. PLEASE DON’T park in the central space – even it is empty and you are late, this is for Innisfree staff coming and going.

There is no need to park on the road if there is room inside the gate to the right or to the left, and a huge space available just across the road if all is full inside.

What you are may sometimes miss the mark, a prisoner in liberty.
Get up somehow, get clean right now and be a happy, happy child set free.

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS The next will be the first Sunday in December (the 6th) at the Bentinck – in the Yoga Room. Please join us. If you are a distance ed. student then the cost of the afternoon is $10 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.

NEW: SPIRITUAL YOGA CLASS:
Mondays at 1.45, followed by meditation 2.30 to 3.30.
Please bring an open mind – this is a ‘ guided’ class. We will be exercising the muscle between the ears (the brain). Do come along…. No children please. I love children in yoga but this particular class is not appropriate for children.

TTHE ROSARY (or MALA). This is a much maligned and underused item in a yoga persons repertoire of tools. Just think of them as an aid to meditation.

When you make a mala, sort out a prayer or a song that takes three minutes. Divide the mala’s beads into three with a large bead between each section, and then as you meditate (and only if you have trouble concentrating with any other method, or like to do it during the day, or when out walking) you will know when you have done the three minutes, and then you can begin again, going over and over with many three minutes as you walk.

Traditionally, there are 108 beads on a strand of buddhist mala prayer beads. The “ sacred” number relates astrologically to the 12 astrological houses, multiplied by the 9 planets in our solar system. My small mini=malas have just two cycles of seven to denote days of the week. They can be anything – whatever makes you happy . Originally the Buddha just saw the King threading seeds from the Bodhi tree into a Japa tool, thought it was a good idea copied it, and the various complications have arisen from that. We humans like to make everything complicated!
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – “JAHNE’S YOGA UNIVERSITY” Within our school there are three levels of YOGA TEACHER TRAINING, plus a course in the Gita, the fundamental source of all yoga teaching through the ages.

*THE BHAGAVADGITA (and YOGA PHILOSOPHY) which is like a Certificate or Diploma Level, RYTA 200/350 which is our “degree course” and *RYTA500 the “masters”.
1. THE BHAGAVADGITA (YOGIC PHILOSOPHY)
2. RYTA200 – THE BASIC YOGA COURSE
3. RYTA350 – COURSE ACCREDITED BY YOGA AUSTRALIA
4. RYTA500 – THE NEXT STEP
5. RESTORATIVE YOGA

Most people have never met, and don’t understand, that there are angels all around us whose only job is to make sure that you don’t get too comfortable, fall asleep and miss the important moments (and gifts) in your life.

THE GITAJAIA YOGA FOUNDATION: Not only will this assist us to help others, it will be a registered charity – or that is what we are working towards. Then all donations will be tax deductible. What a good thing!

THE SHOP and ETSY www.myyogabooks.etsy.com As usual we are ahead of the pack. Colouring books are the new big thing, and we have had our colouring-in posters available for a long time now.
This week I received an email from one of our students who had purchased the chakras and colouring book and REALISED THAT COLOURING THE DRAWINGS WAS A MEDITATION. I celebrated. It has taken a year for a student to understand the reason for the drawings. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU……!!!
ALL OUR IN-HOUSE DVD’S AND CD’S ARE AVAILABLE AT THIS SITE. Please remember that they are not flashy high cost productions. They are made by Deb and me to answer your various questions. They are useful in your course.
*YIN YOGA, THE ANATOMY AND THE CHAKRAS all by Paul Grilley *THE YAMAS *THE UN-MEDITATION COURSE *YOGA SWINGS *THE REVELATION TAROT *HOW-TO STUDY YOGA BY DISTANCE EDUCATION – A BOOKLET….. *THE CHAKRAS – A COLOURING-IN BOOK and a REFERENCE BOOKLET -*CHAKRA BOOKLET *ETERNITY THE PRAYER

I move with the infinite in nature’s power. I hold the fire of the soul. I hold the life and healing”. (Rig Veda)

GARDENING WITH BENEFITS Oh my goodness, I really have to get out into the garden more. The raspberries are fruiting and I put the nets on them this morning. The Marion berries have an infestation of a thrip, but they are fruiting and winter (yes winter) will take care of the thrip most effectively. I won’t use chemicals, just let nature take its course. Obviously the vine needs a nutrient I didn’t provide… but I will.

COOKING WITH JAHNE
It is vine leaf time. If you have grape vines or can get your hands on some, choose the larger younger leaves and use them for wrapping little parcels prior to putting them on the BBQ. Don’t just use them for wrapping cooked rice, although this is great. Blanch a until they are limp, dry on paper towels, and wrap your fish, prawns of whatever with the leaves, tying them with onion or leak tops which you have Blanched at the same time. Gorgeous.

Think YIN YOGA/ANATOMY/MEDITATION DVD’s – all with Paul Grilley…before when I bought mine they cost $100 or so each. I thought that this was a good investment. I think half that is a steal! And that is what we are selling this.
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PAST LIFE THERAPY
If you want a Past Life appointment. Please keep in mind it will take about 2 hours, maybe a bit more (or less) I don’t like to feel a time restriction. There are some Sundays available Between now and the New year, Fridays, and Tuesday afternoons also are possible given the time frame needed. If you have a problem you have been wanting resolved, this maybe a lovely Christmas gift to yourself. You will need to speak to me first if I don’t know you to determine a time frame. Email in the first instance to yogafirst2@bigpond.com

ATTENTION PLEASE: WE are so close to the end of the year, if you want an appointment make it now. There are not many vacancies.

THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS – Please note
****Last class 12.30 Wednesday 23rd December, opening again on Monday 11th January.
THE LAST WORD: I try to imagine life without being able to speak to God, but none of the days without that special energy have the same laughter, or opportunities…..
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Log on to our Web site www.yogabeautiful.com.au
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Namaste Jahne