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email blast 10 September 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.

RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY and the Brain….
Teaching at Innisfree is not a walk in the park, and the other day after a particularly annoying start to a Restorative Session (half of the class were late, and came in scattered and chattering) one of the more “mouthy” students came up to me whilst I was making an cuppa and said (apropos of nothing) “Your Mediation/Relaxation class was fantastic! When I asked why he said “because you said that I would enjoy the yoga class that followed, I felt great, and I did enjoy the class that followed! It is the first yoga class I have ever enjoyed!!!”

In the meditation class, I had done a deep relaxation, followed by quite a long Nidra, and at the end of that I took about 5 minutes to say how much the class “loved” yoga how their body was their teacher, and how much they were going to enjoy yoga. They were going to commit to it, and enjoy it – and guess what, they did!

During the Mediation and in the restorative that followed I did lots of BRAIN yoga exercises. Taking Yoga beyond the body. I am including them more and more into my classes, and am getting a hugely positive response, even from the reluctant yogis.

In order to make the best use of the brain, it, like any other part of the body, needs to be exercised and nurtured. After a set of simple restorative and brain exercises the energy centres(chakras) and auras are brighter. Countless studies have been done in schools and universities in many countries, over many years, have shown that prolonged practice of Restorative and Brain Yoga (Thoppukarranam) makes the practitioner smarter, and more physiologically balanced. It improves brain body performance when dealing with low self esteem and stress. Benefits include increased memory, intelligence, test scores and grades in both children and adults.

Based on the success of our classs, I will be making an addition to the Restorative Yoga Therapy Teacher Training which will encompass BRAIN YOGA and NEUROPLASTICITY. I think these things go together.

OUR SCHOLARSHIP HOLDER…
Wayne has mastered the 5 Tibetans, and Restorative, but not the therapy aspect, just the asanas. For this aspect of his training he received an HONORARY teacher training certificate which will I hope spur him on to further studies with us. You will be able to see photographs on our web site, and in the next edition of Australian Yoga Life magazine. They might even have pics up on their web site.
We had a fantastic Teacher Training day on Sunday (yes, I know it was Father’s Day) at which a number of our students received their certificates. Sorry if you couldn’t make it.

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 for sending photographs to Nicole. I am sure everyone likes to see that our students come from all walks of life, and from everywhere in the country (and the world). More please….

THE YAMAS (a repeat by request)
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

WALK AGAINST SUICIDE INNISFREE is a sponsor, and I will be turning up really early to help cook the bacon and egg rolls like we did last year. The walk was great fun, for an urgent cause, and I hope that you will join in . This Sunday 13th September at 8.30 start at the Children’s park behind the BP service station in Woodend.

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS – The next will be the first Sunday in October 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

THE ANGELS New angels can be seen at SEW WOODEND. In the main street just up from the chemist. Easy to pick – its the shop with the sewing machine on the footpath. I am teaching a workshop there on painting and embroidering an angel. Do let me know if you would like to join me. I haven’t got any details, but it won’t be expensive, it will be short, and any money I raise will be going to our new GITAJAIA Foundation. Email me and I will keep you in the loop.
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 ).

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 has been beautiful wet and wonderful. The veggies at Innisfree are looking splendid, and I am managing to get some fantastic green feeds. All different kinds of lettuce, bok choy, kale (of course), and things even I don’t recognise. All great, all edible. I hope your own garden is doing half as well.

COOKING
Cooking! I have been watching the cooking shows. Especially Heston, and British Bake-Off. Both of these shows are fantastic, and have improved my cooking no end. I am now not a microwave maven. I actually take time, and totally enjoy what I have cooked. I haven’t gone as far as baking a sponge and icing it. With my present skill level it would probably be easier to ice a tortoise.

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 15 September 2015

THE GITAJAIA FOUNDATION
We are close to being able to launch the Foundation. It is very exciting (and has been rather expensive of time – and soon – money as you can imagine), but hugely worthwhile. It will mean that The Australasian Yoga Institute will live after me. So, all your certificates, all your trainings will go on into the future. You will be able to build and go forward in your yoga knowing that we will always be there to support you way into the future. This was my main consideration – not that I am thinking of kicking the bucket until I am at least 103! A tough old tart to the end.

Here is an easy to understand synopsis of our mission statement:

The Australasian Yoga Institute is an international leader in yoga distance education at all levels, offering knowledge, training and the environment to enable anyone irrespective of background, ethnicity, age or distance from the schoolroom, the possibility of realising their full potential to bring about personal and community transformation. Our programs are designed to exemplify yoga’s spiritual heritage uniting mind, body and spirit (or in modern parlance, spirituality + wisdom + science).

The GitaJaia Foundation is a non-profit organisation designed to support and take forward into the future, the aims of the Institute.

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.

RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY TRAINING
It has been hard for me to get my head around this – and as usual, I don’t work it all out quietly somewhere in outer space, and when it is perfect bring it to you. For better or worse, I work it all out in front of you. Sort of like Picasso. So you will see the detours, the “almost there’s”.
I think I am on the right track now, and I think you will love it.

STOP THE PRESSES!!! You can do Level 1 and Level two. If you do Level One and Level 2 (which includes ThopuKaranam – Brain Yoga), I will boost your RYTA qualification from a 200 hour to a 500 hours. But you will have to do great modules. I will have to see you have read, and practised. No doing your modules whilst getting the kids ready for school, or eating breakfast. No horrible drawings that I can tell have taken 5 seconds!!! No rubbish just to fill a space. I want you to really put in.

This is going to be the Yoga of the future, and I want you to be right up the front. I think that if you see this new work as I am, and work hard as I do, you will be able to work with therapists and alternative health professionals, and even adventurous medicos. You certainly will be able to make your mark in your community. Don’t hold back! That being said, I am not going to make it super easy. The yoga is easy, the UNDERSTANDING you will need to be true Yoga Therapists in this area will be hard to get your head around….

THE YAMAS
Thank you all for supporting us by purchasing The Yamas from www.myyogabooks.etsy.com If you have read the article about us in The Australasian Yoga Life magazine you will realise that the yamas are the basis of our teaching (if you hadn’t got that message already!).

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

WALK AGAINST SUICIDE & YOGA The walk on Sunday was great fun, for an urgent cause. It was great to see you joining in.

An amazing connection was made. I got there early as usual and walked over to speak to a mother and daughter who were sitting on a rock in the sunshine (it was a gorgeous day). I learned that the daughter was in rehab, and had just started doing yoga (and here is the amazing part) – she was being taught by a girl who had gone through rehab at Innisfree had learnt yoga from me, and was training to be a yoga teacher with us….how’s that for synchronicity.

This young new student, still struggling with recovery was even now thinking of being a yoga teacher when she is recovered so she could help others. The circle is complete. New circle started. This is how I imagined it would all work – and it is!!.

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS – The next will be the first Sunday in October at the Bentinck – in the Yoga Room. Please join us and bring questions. 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

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 ).

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.

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 I am hoping for some rain, but the garden is looking good in spite of this. I have been mulching and will do more. This year I am going to grow my strawberries in straw bales. I will let you know how it goes.

COOKING
You will never guess. I now have a hot plate. I am not sure I should have organised this because now my attention really is on food. It rarely has been since the kids left home. I loved cooking for my children, loved doing the survival cooking (see COOKING FOR A SMALL PLANET BY FRANCIS MOORE LAPPE). But for myself I had a formula, and didn’t think much about it. NOW I AM. In fact my first bake was Scottish Griddle Scones (Gluten free of course). They are light, fluffy, creamy and I only have 2 left! I have been cooking Asian Stir Fries, and doing things you just can’t do in a microwave (easily). I think about food. And I have found I really don’t mind eating it either!

What am I giving up to get what I want? I am giving up marginal, formula cooking to achieve a relaxed dinner time with wonderful tastes and flavours. Meals and eating to care about. Not bad for the Frugal Cook.

PS with all this change, and better eating, I have not increased my weight by an ounce, or my width by a fraction of an inch. I just love meal times more and I really do look forward to cooking and eating.

Namaste Jahne

email blast 23 June 2015

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

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!

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.

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