email blast 27th August

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.

HEALING IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
We are yoga teachers, and I think we will all agree that for centuries the real nature of disease has been masked by materialism, and the major failure of modern medical science is that it has concentrated on symptoms and not causes.

Yoga (a healing discipline) has always put forward the belief that disease is not physical/material in its origin.  What we know of as disease is the result produced in the body – the end result of deep and long acting energies.  Even if material treatment alone seems to be successful,  this is nothing more than temporary relief unless the real cause has been removed.  

We have been distracted by the marketing of medical science, distracting us from the true source of disease, localising it in the body thereby making true recovery almost impossible, and building a stronghold of fear to keep us imprisoned by the establishment .  Science and yoga, these two wonderful disciplines can exist together, and need to.

Disease is not only about germs, it is about our response to our environment,  and that response has            everything  to do with our mental attitude towards life, environment and the diseases.  

OUR SCHOLARSHIP HOLDER…
When you come to class in Woodend you may be taught the Five Tibetans or warm ups when suitable by WAYNE TOMKINS, our first Ingenous (Koori) person to do the yoga teacher training.  There were a number of difficulties primarily to do with understand yogic philosophies, and being able to write about them, which meant that we got off to a slow start however, now he is just racing to the finish line.  Every minute is taken up learning, doing stick figures, making lesson plans, and generally working really hard. 

I am a proud teacher today.  Wayne awarded me with a wonderful quilted vest in the colours of the aboriginal flag.  I am wearing it everywhere!

I am sure that Nicole has put some photos up on Facebook so you can hop on over there to see how things are shaping up.   It has become fun.  He is even making some painted seeds into chain so he can use them as a demonstration of the vertebrae for people and children he meets on his travels.

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
Have you been looking at the Facebook pages lately?  Nicole has been doing a wonderful job at YOGAFIRST Facebook pages, and you have been chatting on THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE.   Thank you for the students who have sent photographs.

THE YAMAS
These suggestion on how to work with and how to teach the yamas hit the spot with many of you, so I have left it another week hoping that more people will see it.  You would be surprised how many people think it is easier to ring me and ask me about things in the newsletter rather than reading it themselves.   I take the time to write it so that you will actually read it!  

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”.

NOA BELLING – YOGA HANDBOOK.  PLEASE…..WE NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE!
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, 6.30 General class with  Nicole
Tuesday 10am RESTORATIVE and 7.30  General class with Brad, 
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)

*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 on Sunday 6th September 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 which is our “degree course”  and     *RYTA500 the “masters”.
1.   THE BHAGAVADGITA (YOGIC PHILOSOPHY)
2.    RYTA200 –  THE BASIC YOGA COURSE
3.    RYTA500 – THE NEXT STEP
4.  RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY TRAINING (WE WILL BE ADDING PRE AND POST-NATAL RESTORATIVE YOGA ).

UPDATING YOUR QUALIFICATIONS… GREAT PRICES, GREAT SPECIALS…
Do you want to update your qualifications?  Do you want to upgrade to a 500 hour qualification?  Now is your chance.    Our Anniversary special prices are finishing on the 1st of September.  To help you upgrade to a 500 hour qualification, keeping in mind the time it takes to get a 200 hour qualification with us, I am offering to give a 500 hour qualification to those students who have gone through our training, have achieved the 200 hour level, and want to move forward.  If you do the BHAGAVADGITA and RESTORATIVE YOGA courses.  Both of them.  I will up grade your qualifications to 500 hour level on graduation.  And you can book yourself into these courses at a special price – but only until the end of August!!!   Book today.

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 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 weather.  That’s all I can think about now, and taking advantage of the couple of hours we get every so often that are warm enough to be out in the garden and LOVE IT!  Nothing is more dreadful (for me) than to give up a lovely warm room and working on the computer to a cold wet garden.  I am not a wet/cold person.  Don’t like the garden working in wellies layers, and gloves.  That being said, I have done it, but I prepared, so I don’t need to do it at the moment.  Keeping up to what is happening on the verandah is work enough.

I am planning to get more herbs in when the ground is a bit warmer, especially the herbs called the Bach Remedies.  I already have lots of these, but there are a few missing.  I wander on the mountain to collect other herbs.  Gorse this morning.

COOKING
Made some more of my lovely little coconut dreams.  They are a much “tidier” since I have been watching the occasional cooking show.  I just used to fling them in the oven, now I get try to make them look about the same size (without weighing them), and make them like larger cookies.  As usual I use the basic coconut and condensed milk recipe, to that I add almond meal, citrus peel, poppy seeds and chopped up other nuts and seeds.   They have a very citrus’y  aftertaste.  I will have to branch out and try other flavours.  One person even suggested that I make them commercially as there is not anything like this in cafes for people like me who can’t eat gluten.  Usually the choice is between cakes, cardboard biscuits, or versions of egg white based confections.

CHOC-POPS AT HOME.  Do you want to make lovely smooth choc-milk icy-poles.   I have store bought (salvos) icy pole moulds but you could use anything, even ice block moulds.  Mine had fancy handles which I have discarded in preference to wooden sticks.  The icy-pole recipe is easy.  Condensed milk, coconut milk, carob or chocolate powder, banana.  Whizz all this together and use plain milk to make up the quantity if you don’t have quite enough.  Poke the sticks into a dried date, piece of banana or other fruit to keep it upright in the mould.  Freeze and enjoy.

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 for.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. 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 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

email blast 27th August

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.

HEALING IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
We are yoga teachers, and I think we will all agree that for centuries the real nature of disease has been masked by materialism, and the major failure of modern medical science is that it has concentrated on symptoms and not causes.

Yoga (a healing discipline) has always put forward the belief that disease is not physical/material in its origin.  What we know of as disease is the result produced in the body – the end result of deep and long acting energies.  Even if material treatment alone seems to be successful,  this is nothing more than temporary relief unless the real cause has been removed.  

We have been distracted by the marketing of medical science, distracting us from the true source of disease, localising it in the body thereby making true recovery almost impossible, and building a stronghold of fear to keep us imprisoned by the establishment .  Science and yoga, these two wonderful disciplines can exist together, and need to.

Disease is not only about germs, it is about our response to our environment,  and that response has            everything  to do with our mental attitude towards life, environment and the diseases.  

OUR SCHOLARSHIP HOLDER…
When you come to class in Woodend you may be taught the Five Tibetans or warm ups when suitable by WAYNE TOMKINS, our first Ingenous (Koori) person to do the yoga teacher training.  There were a number of difficulties primarily to do with understand yogic philosophies, and being able to write about them, which meant that we got off to a slow start however, now he is just racing to the finish line.  Every minute is taken up learning, doing stick figures, making lesson plans, and generally working really hard. 

I am a proud teacher today.  Wayne awarded me with a wonderful quilted vest in the colours of the aboriginal flag.  I am wearing it everywhere!

I am sure that Nicole has put some photos up on Facebook so you can hop on over there to see how things are shaping up.   It has become fun.  He is even making some painted seeds into chain so he can use them as a demonstration of the vertebrae for people and children he meets on his travels.

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
Have you been looking at the Facebook pages lately?  Nicole has been doing a wonderful job at YOGAFIRST Facebook pages, and you have been chatting on THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE.   Thank you for the students who have sent photographs.

THE YAMAS
These suggestion on how to work with and how to teach the yamas hit the spot with many of you, so I have left it another week hoping that more people will see it.  You would be surprised how many people think it is easier to ring me and ask me about things in the newsletter rather than reading it themselves.   I take the time to write it so that you will actually read it!  

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”.

NOA BELLING – YOGA HANDBOOK.  PLEASE…..WE NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE!
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, 6.30 General class with  Nicole
Tuesday 10am RESTORATIVE and 7.30  General class with Brad, 
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)

*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 on Sunday 6th September 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 which is our “degree course”  and     *RYTA500 the “masters”.
1.   THE BHAGAVADGITA (YOGIC PHILOSOPHY)
2.    RYTA200 –  THE BASIC YOGA COURSE
3.    RYTA500 – THE NEXT STEP
4.  RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY TRAINING (WE WILL BE ADDING PRE AND POST-NATAL RESTORATIVE YOGA ).

UPDATING YOUR QUALIFICATIONS… GREAT PRICES, GREAT SPECIALS…
Do you want to update your qualifications?  Do you want to upgrade to a 500 hour qualification?  Now is your chance.    Our Anniversary special prices are finishing on the 1st of September.  To help you upgrade to a 500 hour qualification, keeping in mind the time it takes to get a 200 hour qualification with us, I am offering to give a 500 hour qualification to those students who have gone through our training, have achieved the 200 hour level, and want to move forward.  If you do the BHAGAVADGITA and RESTORATIVE YOGA courses.  Both of them.  I will up grade your qualifications to 500 hour level on graduation.  And you can book yourself into these courses at a special price – but only until the end of August!!!   Book today.

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 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 weather.  That’s all I can think about now, and taking advantage of the couple of hours we get every so often that are warm enough to be out in the garden and LOVE IT!  Nothing is more dreadful (for me) than to give up a lovely warm room and working on the computer to a cold wet garden.  I am not a wet/cold person.  Don’t like the garden working in wellies layers, and gloves.  That being said, I have done it, but I prepared, so I don’t need to do it at the moment.  Keeping up to what is happening on the verandah is work enough.

I am planning to get more herbs in when the ground is a bit warmer, especially the herbs called the Bach Remedies.  I already have lots of these, but there are a few missing.  I wander on the mountain to collect other herbs.  Gorse this morning.

COOKING
Made some more of my lovely little coconut dreams.  They are a much “tidier” since I have been watching the occasional cooking show.  I just used to fling them in the oven, now I get try to make them look about the same size (without weighing them), and make them like larger cookies.  As usual I use the basic coconut and condensed milk recipe, to that I add almond meal, citrus peel, poppy seeds and chopped up other nuts and seeds.   They have a very citrus’y  aftertaste.  I will have to branch out and try other flavours.  One person even suggested that I make them commercially as there is not anything like this in cafes for people like me who can’t eat gluten.  Usually the choice is between cakes, cardboard biscuits, or versions of egg white based confections.

CHOC-POPS AT HOME.  Do you want to make lovely smooth choc-milk icy-poles.   I have store bought (salvos) icy pole moulds but you could use anything, even ice block moulds.  Mine had fancy handles which I have discarded in preference to wooden sticks.  The icy-pole recipe is easy.  Condensed milk, coconut milk, carob or chocolate powder, banana.  Whizz all this together and use plain milk to make up the quantity if you don’t have quite enough.  Poke the sticks into a dried date, piece of banana or other fruit to keep it upright in the mould.  Freeze and enjoy.

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 for.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. 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 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

email blast 23 June 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.

THE RED STRING
For a number of years I have been making the Red String bracelets for my students.  The idea came from a very ancient Kabbalah custom which recognised the need for protection from the envious (evil) eye.  They called this protection THE RED STRING.   I don’t believe that the strings in themselves have magic powers, but I do believe that we need reminding (when we can see the options) to take a higher path – the world is full of negativity and temptations.      Red Strings, red blood on the doorposts, and red wine are all mentioned in the bible in connection with the idea of protection against evil forces.  
  
Red is a significant colour by itself.  It is the lowest frequency on the colour spectrum (think Muladhara – a connection here).  The lowest level of light and extreme negativity.  Why would you use negativity against negativity?  Put simply, a sort of a vaccination.  Why do we use wool?  It is based on the idea of spinning.  The world spins with judgement and mercy and when you spin the two together,  judgement is converted into mercy.  A single candle converts the darkness into light.

I know that of itself the Red String changes nothing.  But it reminds me that when I change, THEN EVERYTHING CHANGES.  Seen this way, the Red String is transformational, but only because it reminds me to transform.    I am not particularly superstitious, and I wear my Red String to remind me of the person I aspire to be.  It reminds me of my yogic philosophies, and my desire to live the yamas daily.  It is a reminder I take everywhere to be the best I can be. 
 
It is worn on the left wrist as the left hand pertains to the concept of receiving.  As I act on the Red String I am changing the negative which comes to me, into positive, intercepting and converting negative forces.   When it falls off?  I just figure it has done its job thus far.  No need to panic.  If it won’t stay on, and keeps on falling off (apart from making sure it is knotted firmly) well then I would examine my energy and how I have been behaving towards others.

 
Within the plaiting of the string I use 7 strings of silk along with wool, and  I tie 7 knots to remind me of the chakras, also to contain the colours of the rainbow, and the koshas which signify the worlds that influence reality.  So what would in the first instance look like a simple plait of red silk/wool, has quite a deep significance;   certainly it has for me – it is not just a magic “charm”. You can buy one from the Etsy site www.myyogabooks.etsy.com and www.yogabeautiful.com.au shop or contact me on yogafirst2@bigpond.com

THE BLOG AND FACEBOOK
Nic is doing our FaceBook pages and the Blog www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com. She tells me we are on  Instagram and we even have a program for the week!

Thank you to those girls who gave me some photographs of the Dalai lama from our visit in Brisbane.  I took lots of photographs, but some of them were obscured by a white light surrounding Him and were hard to reproduce.

WE WILL SOON HAVE OUR FOUNDATION
Because it is designed to reflect our lineage, I think I am going to call the Foundation ‘THE GITAJAIA FOUNDATION”.    GITA because that reflects the teaching of my own source teacher (Margrit Segesman who began the Gita School of Yoga), and the teachings of the Gita are the Foundation of our Institute and its courses,  and JAIA because that is how I think of myself .  

I am working on getting the foundation legally correct and I think it will take another month.    It is a lengthy process, and we will let you know how we progress.  The Foundation  will not make any immediate differences to our students or teachers, it just changes the business model – but neither the nature nor the purpose of our Institute, which is to inspire yogis.  It will mean that we will have a Board, and that if anything untoward happens to me,  the Institute will go forward, your qualifications will be safe, and you will be able to build on them.  I have outlived most of my forebears and plan to last for sometime yet – but one never knows when God will call.  I theoretically have booked my passage when I reach about 103 years of age, but providing all my marbles are present, I am happy to last longer!

THE TAROT  
As you know, I redesigned the tarot a few years ago, and they are quite lovely – they sell all over the world.  I have some vacancies in my own practice if anyone out there wants a reading.  I consider myself to be quite different and certainly worthwhile.  Please don’t come to me if you want to know about someone tall dark and handsome in your future, or winning  lotto numbers.   We will however discover things in your future you may not have thought about.   

Please make an appointment by emailing  yogafirst2@bigpond.com and give me a few optional dates. It is also possible to have a postal/email reading.

NOA BELLING – YOGA HANDBOOK 
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 –  Times they are a changing…. Classes held at the 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).
Jahne’s classes are designed around her 50 years of teaching experience. Friends, Yoga is not a recipe that is repeated the same way every time in every class.   That would be mindless.  If you want repetition don’t go to Jahne’s class.  There is a thread running through the class. But it is not EXACTLY the same.  If it was the same each week,  you could just check your mind at the door.  The shelf is for shoes, not for minds.  

You will notice that some of my senior trainee teachers are taking over the evening classes – Nicholas Martin, Nicole and Kalma. I hear that you are enjoying them.  Don’t expect them to teach like me – they are trying to put their own stamp on yoga.  This seems to be important when you first start out as I remember.”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.  

Don’t wander around Woodend looking for the class.  If you really get lost, just ask a shopkeeper for THE BENTINCK.  It is iconic in the district and they will give you directions. PARKING – Sorry, “Staff parking”  1. at the front entrance and 2. parking right outside of the yoga door is not available to us yoga persons, this is kitchen staff parking (doesn’t even apply to me) and does not mean you.  Please think of others when you park.  We hemmed the chef in the other day and he was not a happy chappy.  Never upset the cook!.  If both sides of the car park are full when you arrive, please park over the road – you just have to walk across Romsey road to yoga, and that’s not such a hard thing.

CLASS TIMES
Monday  5.30pm RESTORATIVE , 6.30 general class (Nicole).
Tuesday 10am RESTORATIVE – Jahne and 7.30 general class (Brad), 
Wednesday 12.30 general class (Kalma)
Friday 6.30pm general class (Nicholas)
Saturday. 10am general class (Nicole)  
plus 9am RESTORATIVE YOGA  – Jahne, and 12.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA – Jahne 

**Because some of the classes are back to back, please check before you walk in early.  There is a notice on the door,   PLEASE READ IT.  Walk around the building and wait quietly in the sunroom on the other side  –  don’t just walk in.  Thank you.

*RESTORATIVE YOGA (4 classes now – and growing)
The more I learn about how to teach Restorative Yoga, what to add, what to leave out (every class is a little different) I am more and more in awe of it. 
……….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.  

Please,  if you have recently given birth and wish to come to yoga with your baby you are both more than welcome (I always have maintained a baby even a couple of days old is welcome in our classes with their mum – however NOT in restorative yoga), but please be sensitive to others in the room when you join a mixed general class.  If you wish to change and feed we have a lovely conservatory room especially set out just for you.  Warm, carpeted, floor to ceiling garden windows – a million dollar view for the short time you exit the class!  We love babies, we love young mothers, however,  if you want to be with other young mothers going through the same things as you are, please wait until we start our Mums+One classes.

If you are a Visitor or Casual (i.e you don’t come to every class) please note that as our classes are pretty full with regulars i.e. People who buy a pass and wouldn’t miss a session, we may not be able to fit you in.
TEXT ONLY YOUR BOOKING REQUEST TO 0402 088 170.  Please don’t ring me.  

PLEASE PEOPLE:  It is important that you get to the class early.  When you arrive, be observant, and if there is a class in progress go around to the side door.  PLEASE,  please be on time.
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 Nicole is loading things on this. 

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS – The next will be on Sunday 5th July 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 a visitor and 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.

BEANNIES FOR NEPAL
Please keep knitting Beanies.  I still aim to send a big box in September.  

You should see Debbies, it his beautiful.  People knit a beanie, and love it, then they knit one for themselves.  Then a family member will have a first try, and on and an it goes – all from one person knitting one beanie.
Try it, it is easy.  If you can’t manage a beanie, then knit a scarf. Thank you for those who have posted beanies to us.    Last year we at the yarn bombing group managed to inspire enough knitters to send a large bale of beanies to schools in Nepal.  With the earthquakes,  and the cold and hardship faced by the people at this time,  I felt that we could REALLY knit heaps of beanies and provide an even more valuable service. You will find a pattern on www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com 

Send your beanies to PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441. Please don’t send them POD or COD.  It would be cheaper for us to buy beanies if we have to repatriate them from the post office.  The cheapest way to forward them is to collect a whole lot, and then go to office works and take advantage of their new parcel service.  Some Newsagents also have a splendid Australia-wide parcel postage service.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – AYI YOGA UNIVERSITY
All 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.

1.   THE BHAGAVADGITA (YOGIC PHILOSOPHY) 
2.    RYTA200 –  THE BASIC YOGA COURSE 
3.    RYTA500 – THE NEXT STEP    
       which you can take in a number of ways.  Must start with 200 hours first.
4.    RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY TRAINING 

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 SHOP and ETSY  www.myyogabooks.etsy.com 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, Nic and me to answer your various questions.  They are useful in your course.  

“YIN YOGA” AND “FIVE TIBETANS” 
THE YAMAS:  
THE UN-MEDITATION COURSE:  
YOGA SWINGS: Colours – *blue and grey, grey and black or pink and orange.   I have five second hand swings in perfect condition available for $100.  Please contact me personally if you would like these.

THE REVELATION TAROT:
LINO CUT PRINTS, HAND PAINTED “OM’S”
HOW-TO STUDY YOGA BY DISTANCE EDUCATION – A BOOKLET….. 
THE CHAKRAS – A COLOURING-IN BOOK and a REFERENCE BOOKLET –
CHAKRA BOOKLET
ETERNITY THE PRAYER – (not on the site yet, but will be there soon).

YIN YOGA/ANATOMY/MEDITATION DVD’s – all with Paul Grilley How many times have I urged you to buy these?  I have lots count.  But they are a great source of information.  This is one of my major sources of course and can be a source for you too.  BUY ALL THREE.  You will never regret it.   They are the best and will form the backbone of your yoga references.  Don’t hold back it will be false economy.   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 for. www.yogabeautiful.com.au   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): We are culling our files and putting old files in archive.  If you have not sent in any modules, and have not communicated in the last year, your file will be archived.  You can still continue your course, but there will be a fee to start it up again.  If you are not sending in modules, and are not communicating, then how can we know if you are a student!

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.

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.       

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….

TAKE CLASSES WITH JAHNE ANYWHERE, ANY TIME.
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..

GARDENING WITH BENEFITS Please go to our Blog. www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com to catch up with recipes.

Nothing much is happening in the garden at the moment apart from weeding. Mulching, and keeping the frost off things.

My newest Icy-Pole (Yes, I like them even in the winter time), is Pumpkin puree, Rose-Hip syrup and cream.  Totally gorgeous.  I did make one to which I added cherry brandy to the Rose-Hip syrup – decadent, but quite, quite lovely.   I have not yet put it on the blog, but I will.   Keep checking.
 
WANT RAISED VEGGIE GARDENS?  One of my students is a member of a large apple growing family, and he has available BIG APPLE CRATES.  Deb has bought two and tells me they are 1.2m square, weathered to a lovely grey.  They are well constructed and would make a fabulous wood box, compost bin, raised garden bed and even with casters on the bottom a reasonable coffee table I am told.  If you want one they are $100 each.  If you live outside of Woodend you will have to collect them.  But they are rather lovely.  Order through Deb. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

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 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