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email blast 5 May 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.

TAKE NOTE: Next Teacher Training: Sunday 7th June at 2pm to 4pm at the Bentinck. Turn in the gate in Romsey Road near the yoga sign. Do not park at the front house entrance, or the staff parking space…..
THE FOOT.
Yes, THE FOOT. Almost without exception I start my yoga classes with concentration on the foot.

WHY? Because I want you to start thinking about your feet. They are a marvel of architecture. The foot’s centrepiece THE ARCH, is the greatest weight bearing device ever created. The beauty of any arch is that it gets stronger under stress. The harder you push down the stronger its parts mesh. No stonemason worth a dime would ever stick a support under an arch, so why do people need prosthetics – they don’t. They need exercise. In a building or the feet, if you push up from underneath you weaken the whole structure.

Buttressing your foot from all sides is a web of twenty six bones, thirty three joints, twelve tendons, and eighteen muscles. Putting your feet in shoes is like putting them in a plaster cast. It prevents them from doing what they were designed to do – which is probably why there are so many foot, knee, hip injuries. In the years since NIKE started selling their super-fantastic (expensive) shoes, injuries have risen, not fallen – 60 to 70% of runners are injured every year. That is every runner every year. Let your feet laze in shoes and the tendons weaken, work them out and they will sparkle. Corns, bunions, hammer toes, flat feet, fallen arches, and plantar problems are almost non existent in countries where most people go barefoot. Recent studies have shown that stability shoes are unlikely to relieve plantar fasciitis and may even exacerbate the symptoms.

Nike doesn’t earn 17billion dollars each year by letting nature take its course, or listening to the yogis (and runners) of this world. Until 1972 when the modern athletic shoe was invented by NIKE, people (like Roger Bannister) ran in very cheap, very thin soled shoes. They had much stronger feet and a much lower incidence of knee injuries.

Motto: Trust nature – once you block a natural movement you adversely effect all others. Don’t fix things that don’t need fixing! The British Journal of Sports Medicine (supported by the work of Australian researcher Dr.Craig Richards) in 2008 reported that There ARE NO evidence based studies to demonstrate that running shoes help at all in injury prevention. As reported by Dr.Richards 1. The best shoes are the worst 2. Feet like a good beating 3. Human beings are designed to run without shoes (especially without Nikes). (the words in italics are mine.

PS: Nike has produced a shoe called “The Nike FREE ” which is little more than a thin latex sole – an abbreviated glove for the feet. This is advertised showing it being worn by dancers, yogis, and athletes of all kinds. If you must run (work out) in shoes, use these or be radical – GO BAREFOOT. “He who loves his body more than dominion over the empire can be given custody of the empire”. Lao Tzu

“Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude – they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realise that spirit, as much or more than physical conditioning had to be stored up before a race”. – Herb Elliott, Australian, Olympic Champion and world record holder in the mile, who trained in bare feet, wrote poetry and retired undefeated.

“RESTORE AND RECOVER”
Looking Deeper into the possibilities of RESTORATIVE YOGA.
I love RESTORATIVE YOGA. We had a wonderful teacher training session yesterday where we explored RESTORATIVE YOGA. Nicole and I are going to do a DVD for all of you who missed out – what you won’t get however are the fantastic questions and immediate feedback you get from a classroom situation. Pity you couldn’t all be there. I did put a new Video on the web site about Restorative Props. It might take a little while to get up there on the site because I want a new section to show up “RESTORATIVE YOGA”, so you can go directly to those videos, and not have to wade through the entire 90.

Lately at my classes I have had to make use of all kinds of props and squeeze people into spaces because the classes are so popular and we just plain run out of props. What a great place to be – I love it. Restorative is really the QUEEN OF YOGA! If you would like to know more, then please hop on over to our temporary site. www.restore.moonfruit.com When all the wrinkles are ironed out, I will be putting the course details and applications up on the main yogabeautiful site – but right now, although I am delivering and teaching it – it is a work in progress. Be patient with me, and patient with yourself. Don’t rush at the course. Slowly, slowly.

NOA BELLING – YOGA HANDBOOK. PLEASE…..SELL THEM TO US!
For those starting out this book is hard to get. Even second hand. 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

One of our students has these references for those who are looking for a second hand edition….(many thanks to Warren for this valuable, up-to-date information).

Cost Mail
UK      1/ Revival Books Ltd     $4.94   $5.90
USA    2/ Goodwill Books        $1.50   $12.99
UK      3/ Awesome Books       $9.89   $6.47
USA    4/ Hippo Books            $5.50   $11.50 condition poor
USA    5/ Hippo Books             $5.50   $11.50 condition good
USA    6/ Goodwill Books        $1.00   $17.00
USA    7/ The Book Women   $5.00    $14.75

YOGA CLASSES
Classes held at the Bentinck THE NEW 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).
Over the past week two people have wrongly gone to Morris Road for a class, although it clearly states on the web that Jahne’s classes are only held at THE BENTINCK. Please note. JAHNE’S CLASSES ARE ONLY HELD AT THE BENTINCK. Nowhere else.

Jahne’s classes are designed around her 50 years of teaching experience. People often ask what kind of yoga we are having at class. The answer Jahne always gives is “I don’t know, all depends who is there, and what is needed”. 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.

Monday 6.30,
Tuesday 10am RESTORATIVE followed at 11.15 by RESTORE AND RECOVER MEDITATION and 7.30
Wednesday 12.30, Friday 6.30, Saturday. 10am (and 12.30 RESTORATIVE).
Sunday 11.15 RESTORE AND RECOVER MEDITATION GROUP (Come to the front room of the Bentinck – through the big front doors).

*RESTORATIVE YOGA 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. Or perhaps Substance abuse. 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.

*RESTORE AND RECOVER MEDITATION – I have started two meditation groups. Please join us. The first is at 11.15 in the yoga room following the 10am restorative yoga class on Tuesday, and the second is on Sundays at 11.15 in the main house in front of the open fire, also at 11.15.
I am also planning some early morning meditation classes, and will let you know when these eventuate.

If you are a Visitor or Casual (i.e you don’t come to every class) please note that BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL in RESTORATIVE ONLY as our classes are pretty full with regulars I.e. People who buy a pass and wouldn’t miss a session, and we don’t have an inexhaustible supply of props. TEXT or EMAIL ONLY YOUR BOOKING REQUEST TO 0402 088 170. Please don’t ring me.

“The Bentinck” is on the corner of the Romsey Road and the High Street in Woodend. Yoga students please enter from the start of the Romsey Road only – the double gate entry with the big yoga sign. Sorry, “Staff parking” at the front entrance off Carlisle Street does not mean you. Please think of others when you park.
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

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS – The next will be on Sunday 7th June 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.

COFFEE I have found the most fabulous coffee. It roasted close by. Roasting day is Saturday, roasted beans take 3 to 5 days to reach perfection, so if you order beans they can be sent to you and reach you at their peak. I know you have all tasted coffee, but you have never tasted coffee like this. You will be pleased to know they do donate back to support coffee growers. Email us yogafirst2@bigpond.com for details of our YOGA COFFEE – it is spectacular. Chocolate and cocoa overtones, great as a shot or with milk. Mildly sweet with caramel and almond characteristics.

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
PHOTOS FROM THE MISSION ALL THE INCOME FROM MY PAINTING AND ARTS GOES INTO OUR VARIOUS PHILANTHROPIC EFFORTS.
This is an ongoing philanthropic effort for us and the money as you know goes towards buying bandages and other necessities for the mission. If you can send even a few dollars, please do (talk to Deb on Tuesdays or Wednesday to arrange). We live the yamas, so, you will know the money will go to where we say it will go, and be used for what we say it will be used for.. No staff or administration fees deducted at any point!

Photos:www.flickr.com/photos/amigasdelsenor
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”
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.

*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.

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, although they may seem expensive compared to those freely available in stores….. Our videos are made by Deb and me to answer your various questions. They are useful in your course.

ADDITION TO THE TEACHER TRAINING MANUAL: I am putting together a manual which will be included in each new RESTORE AND RECOVER trainees initial pack. It will also be available on etsy for anyone of you who wants to buy it. It will contain * A Beginners Guide to Teaching Restorative Yoga * Basic Anatomy and physiology * The Chakras The Yamas meditation and meeting scripts, and anything else I think is useful as the project progresses.

THE YAMAS:
THE UN-MEDITATION COURSE:
YOGA SWINGS: I have five second-hand (almost new) swings in perfect condition available for $100. Please contact me personally if you would like one of these.
THE REVELATION TAROT:
LINO CUT PRINTS, HAND TINTED “OM’S”
HOW-TO STUDY YOGA BY DISTANCE EDUCATION
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).
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. DEARER, 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. If you are in this category you will be contacted by Debbie to let you know how to proceed. Once 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. 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.

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.. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

WILL HAVE A LAUNCH OF NEW PAINTINGS SOON TO SUPPORT ANOTHER SCHOLARSHIP….
Afternoon tea will happen, and I will let you know when. May make it a dual ceremony. The Restorative Yoga Course, and a new Scholarship! We couldn’t offer the scholarships we do without your help. So, thanks for your support.
I have just finished some miniatures for the “1000 OM” Project. I will put them on the site when I have got them totally ready for you to buy. The first will be appearing on the poem above. The small lino prints that I hand-colour are already on the ETSY site www.myyogabooks.etsy.com – the tiny Sumi paintings have sold out.
GARDENING WITH BENEFITS It has been so OLD here, and I have had so much to do getting the Restorative course off the ground, that I have not had time to get into the garden, except to water the veggies. Everything is beginning to hibernate for the winter, so it is not crucial. The bees were checked the other day, and they are hunkering down for the winter too. Soon be time to consider a small fortnightly feed for them too.

YIN YOGA/ANATOMY/MEDITATION DVD’s – all with Paul Grilley PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE PEOPLE, INVEST IN THESE DVD’s. 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. Asking course questions is free. This does not mean IDLE Yoga questions “just because you want to know” – She could spend her whole day answering those and getting no-where, in spite of the fact you may think your life will not end if they are not answered.
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

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email blast 10 March 2015

TRUST Once trust is lost it is hard to get back. Working as I do with people who have hurt everyone close to them, and lost everything in the process, trust is a prized virtue, and one I have to examine often in myself.

I know what it is like to be without trust. I was raped when I was seven, but that was just the first time. Because of the time that I lived, teachers could do anything that they wanted, carers had free reign, and boyfriends/husbands likewise. “Crying rape” was not an option. Women didn’t have a voice – it was always our fault, no matter how young. I do believe there is no such thing as ‘Domestic Violence”. It is VIOLENCE, it is ASSAULT. There is nothing “domestic” about it.

That kind of history – and I am not alone in that experience – taints your life, hurts, but it doesn’t have to define you. Over the years I have learned to make my mess into my message. Life made is made up of many moments, happy sad, joyful and painful. These moments make up the fabric of who we are, and I think that once you see who you are, you can decide what you want to reflect. Do you want to reflect the unkindness, the violence, the neglect – or do you want to change that into LOVE? It is your choice but you have to honestly see what you are before you can become who you want to be.

Living in tune with your heart (God?) is the way to be happy. I congratulate those people trying to trust a partner or a friend no matter what, but without love, it is a hard and painful road, and you can usually see the effort on their faces and in their lives. Doing it alone is plain hard work.. The first step is forgiveness, and forgiveness from the heart not from the head. “LOVE” as the Beatles sang….” is all there is”. 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.
ANYBODY GARDENING OUT THERE……?
This week a student asked me to tell them how to stew fruit. I was so gob-smacked that I felt I should alert you to the joys of the garden this week. You can get pretty close to God in a garden.

We are getting to the end of one season and the start of another and nature is starting to tell us what to eat. I have a lot of herbs (weeds) that are popping up. This is nature saying to us that we need to clean out our digestions making way for the heavier (fattier) food we need for the winter. “Real” dandelion is coming up, nettles – yes, I have three plants after years of trying!!! – they are both green lush and fantastic. The mint is growing up from the base and I have chives, chives and more chives, and everything onion..

The clue is to go out into the garden, and instead of having a recipe before you go into the garden do it the other way around. Go into the garden, see what greens and fruits are available, and decide at that point what you are going to make for dinner. Doing it this way will mean that you won’t have to shop for the things you don’t have. It is pretty simple, but we get out of the way of doing this.

At the very least make a simple soup or a tea and use the gorgeous nature’s harvest, instead of growing it and letting it go to waste.. Soups are so easy. Chop and cook roots (potatoes, onions, artichokes, parsnips, carrots) and leaves (nettles, spinach, dandelions etc) in water with the addition of salt, tomato puree or soy sauce, even a dollop of miso paste. Muck around until it tastes terrific. Then add lentils, or chickpeas and cook until everything is “soup like”, tender and delicious. Then put a piece of cheese toast in the bottom of your bowl and pour the soup over the top. Unbelievable. Enjoy.

It is not hard to do. It is economical and life sustaining. No need to be complex. Simple soup for a simple life. Leave the complex for the chefs on the telly, people who live to eat, instead of eating to live.

NOA BELLING – YOGA HANDBOOK. PLEASE…..WE NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE!
You must love this book, no-one has yet decided to part with it. Please, please pass it on…
For those starting out this book is hard to get. Even second hand. 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

ETERNITY
If you want copy on a heavier paper – a more professional presentation, then we do have some in the office at $15.00 each including postage. Please contact Deb via email and we will get one to you. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

YOGA CLASSES – Times/cost unchanged from last year. Classes held at the Bentinck THE NEW 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. People say “can we have…yoga, or ……..…yoga tonite”. The answer Jahne always gives is “I don’t know, all depends who is there, and what is needed”. 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.

Monday 6.30,
Tuesday 10am (RESTORATIVE) and 7.30 (Brad),
Wednesday 12.30, Friday 6.30, Saturday. 10am (and 12.30 RESTORATIVE).
Sunday 11.30 Philosophy starting next term. Please register your interest.

*RESTORATIVE YOGA 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), 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 BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL as our classes are pretty full with regulars I.e. People who buy a pass and wouldn’t miss a session.  TEXT ONLY YOUR BOOKING REQUEST TO 0402 088 170. Please don’t ring me.
“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. Sorry, “Staff parking” at the front entrance does not mean you. Please think of others when you park.
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 5th APRIL 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
PHOTOS FROM THE MISSION ALL THE INCOME FROM MY PAINTING AND ARTS GOES INTO OUR
VARIOUS PHILANTHROPIC EFFORTS. This is an ongoing philanthropic effort for us and the money as you know goes towards buying bandages and other necessities for the mission. If you can send even a few dollars, please do (talk to Deb on Tuesdays or Wednesday to arrange). We live the yamas, so, you will know the money will go to where we say it will go, and be used for what we say it will be used for.. No staff or administration fees deducted at any point!
Photos: www.flickr.com/photos/amigasdelsenor PS: You can’t send the money direct, although that would be easier – it has to go through the US Mission office for reasons of security.

I have attached a photo of my current work – lots of you have asked, and here it is. The size is 120cm x 90cm. Quite large keeping mind it is in pen and ink! It is a commission, already sold so you can’t have this one. If you want something special for your home or studio, I can do one for you as long as I can work in my own time.
No deadlines please, and then I am all yours. Everything will change for you when you work out that there is plenty of time in every day to complete the important things.

MITZTI THE MAZDA
I am still in the little Corolla. I am so pleased that I have my Mazda coming home this week. I could have been disloyal and swapped cars and I am so pleased I did not. My car, old as it may be is so “nippy” and can turn on a dime. The Corolla is newer, marginally more glamorous (sort of), but mine with all her foibles is so much better. I will reiterate however that the service that I have received from Kyneton Toyota has been wonderful. Fancy being given a new car for as long as it takes free of charge, plus daily updates. They are caring for my car as I do. If you want to explore their superior service call the service department on 0354 210 200. And, they don’t try to sell you anything!!!!

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 ).

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.

ADDITION TO THE TEACHER TRAINING MANUAL: I am putting together a manual which will be included in each new trainees initial pack. It will also be available on etsy for anyone of you who wants to buy it. It will contain * A Beginners Guide to Teaching Yoga * Basic Anatomy and physiology * The Chakras * The Yamas and anything else I think is useful as the project progresses.

“YIN YOGA” AND “FIVE TIBETANS”

THE YAMAS:

THE UN-MEDITATION COURSE:

YOGA SWINGS: Have arrived. If you want one for your studio, please reserve yours now. Colours – *blue and grey, grey and black or pink and orange. $150 plus postage. 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). 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. DEARER, 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.

and SMALL SMALL DRAWINGS…
I have just finished some miniatures for the “1000 OM” Project. I will put them on the site when I have got them totally ready for you to buy. The first will be appearing on the poem above. The small lino prints that I hand-colour are already on the ETSY site www.myyogabooks.etsy.com
– the tiny Sumi paintings have sold out.

GARDENING WITH BENEFITS We have had every season this week. Freezing and hot all on the same day. I still have strawberries and raspberries coming along, my jerusalem artichokes are flowering, the onions of all kinds and the garlic is fabulous, and my apples are providing the apple a day. How lucky am I to have this garden. It also means that I can share it about.

Thank you to Heidi, my student from Euroa who kindly deposited a watermelon and a pumpkin on my front porch as she made her way to a retreat in Daylesford. I have shared it around and it has been a wonderful opportunity to do that – if you bring it to me, you are bringing it to the community. I thought I had to get help to cut up the pumpkin (and did before I worked it out!), but actually when I came to dice it and slice it the knife went through the skin easily. It is a long time since I have had a fresh pumpkin, and it is years and years since I have had the pleasure of a fresh watermelon. I wish I could have bathed in it – I certainly gave my insides a shower.

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. Asking course questions is free. This does not mean IDLE Yoga questions “just because you want to know” – She could spend her whole day answering those and getting no-where, in spite of the fact you may think your life will not end if they are not answered.
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..

Namaste Jahne

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eblast 18 March 2015

THE “WAR ON ICE”……? If any of you have taken the time to read CHASING THE SCREAM (by Johann Hari), a riveting three year study and expose of the drug trade, you will understand very clearly that history has told us over and over again that attempting to prohibit anything, be it liquor or drugs is totally useless, and has been shown over and over again not to work.

In the 1950’s there was an experiment with rats. Scientists put rats in a concrete cage and put two bowls out for them, one with cocaine water and one plain water. Most of the rats drank the cocaine water, and died. Scientists extrapolated from that, that we (like the rats), would always prefer the cocaine. That we have an inbuilt need, attraction, call it what you will.
Recently that experiment was repeated with a few changes. The (young) scientist put the rats in a cage with all sorts of toys and interesting things. A “Rat Disneyland”. He then put out the cocaine water and the plain water. The rats hardly even went near the cocaine, and when they did it wasn’t regularly. They liked where they were – the community worked. Nothing to do with inbuilt needs or addictions. They liked their lives, and anything else had no attraction for them.

In Vancouver the powers that be, managed a total drug lock down and no drugs went in or went out. Did it lessen the drug crime, did it lessen the arrests, did it lessen the deaths? No. Those people who peddled the drugs still did that, but they cut the drugs with all kinds of dreadful corrosive substances. Prohibition meant the drugs were harder to get, cost more and were even more deadly. We had seen that already in prohibition when liquor was cut with metho and spirits. But we learned nothing.

When you go into hospital for an operation you are given cocaine derivatives to lessen pain. You may even have them prescribed when you come out. Hardly any of us go on to become addicts. Why? Because we have meaningful lives. The majority of us don’t even think about continuing with the pain killers, we want to get back to our lives. We see this repeated hundreds and hundreds of times a day in hospitals across the country and across the world, but we don’t learn from it.

Until you change people, the drug trade will not go away. We have to put back into peoples live’s what is missing, and it isn’t more drugs.

At Innisfree we feel that we are winning our own particular race by using natural means. What we do WORKS, and we prove it over and over again. Counselling, yoga, meditation, massage, TCM, naturopathy, diet, hypnotherapy, creativity and so on. By putting back what is missing in our client’s lives, by helping them to make personal changes instead of taking out what is “wrong” our clients go on to full, enriched, lives.

As yoga teachers too we are winning in the first instance because we are enriching people’s lives. We say to our students – why take drugs when you can get peace and contentment that costs nothing and builds individuals, families and communities from the ground up – and for life. It is no contest. We can change the world with yoga, one person at a time. This is what Shri Prabhupadha did in the 1960’s. That was how he built the Hari Krishna movement. He said, during the height of the 1960’s drug spree in the USA “why pay to get high when you can do it with chanting and meditation – and there is no withdrawal…” Thousands of people listened, and more importantly, acted. They meditated, chanted and changed. It wasn’t hard work, it was fun.

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.
NOA BELLING – YOGA HANDBOOK. PLEASE…..WE NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE!
You must love this book, no-one has yet decided to part with it. Please, please pass it on…
For those starting out this book is hard to get. Even second hand. 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

Cost Mail
UK      1/ Revival Books Ltd     $4.94   $5.90
USA    2/ Goodwill Books        $1.50   $12.99
UK      3/ Awesome Books       $9.89   $6.47
USA    4/ Hippo Books            $5.50   $11.50 condition poor
USA    5/ Hippo Books             $5.50   $11.50 condition good
USA    6/ Goodwill Books        $1.00   $17.00
USA    7/ The Book Women   $5.00    $14.75

ETERNITY
IIf you want copy of this poem/prayer on a heavier paper – a more professional presentation, then we do have some in the office at $15.00 each including postage. Please contact Deb via email and we will get one to you.. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

Monday 6.30,
Tuesday 10am (RESTORATIVE) and 7.30 (Brad),
Wednesday 12.30, Friday 6.30, Saturday. 10am (and 12.30 RESTORATIVE).
Sunday 11.30 Philosophy starting next term. Please register your interest.

*RESTORATIVE YOGA 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. Sorry, “Staff parking” at the front entrance does not mean you. Please think of others when you park.
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 5th APRIL 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
PHOTOS FROM THE MISSION ALL THE INCOME FROM MY PAINTING AND ARTS GOES INTO OUR VARIOUS PHILANTHROPIC EFFORTS. This is an ongoing philanthropic effort for us and the money as you know goes towards buying bandages and other necessities for the mission. If you can send even a few dollars, please do (talk to Deb on Tuesdays or Wednesday to arrange). We live the yamas, so, you will know the money will go to where we say it will go, and be used for what we say it will be used for.. No staff or administration fees deducted at any point!
Photos: www.flickr.com/photos/amigasdelsenor PS: You can’t send the money direct, although that would be easier – it has to go through the US Mission office for reasons of security. Everything will change for you when you work out that there is plenty of time in every day to complete the important things.

MITZTI THE MAZDA
II have my car back, and it is so wonderful. She is AS NEW, thanks to the efforts of the boys from Kyneton Toyota. I cannot tell you what wonderful service they gave me. It was fantastic – above and beyond. Especially the Toyota Hybrid I got to drive for a week. What a car that was, almost like driving a Bentley. I did give some thought to a change over, but in the end I discounted that after I had driven my car with a new heart. Love that car. You know, I didn’t pay any attention to cars until I got the MX6. Up until that time, a car was just a way to go from A to B. Once I had that car though, I began to listen and pay attention, so you never know, my Mazda is in six figures now, and here’s hoping she gets to the million mile mark.

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 ).

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.

ADDITION TO THE TEACHER TRAINING MANUAL: I am putting together a manual which will be included in each new trainees initial pack. It will also be available on etsy for anyone of you who wants to buy it. It will contain * A Beginners Guide to Teaching Yoga * Basic Anatomy and physiology * The Chakras * The Yamas and anything else I think is useful as the project progresses.

“YIN YOGA” AND “FIVE TIBETANS”

THE YAMAS:

THE UN-MEDITATION COURSE:

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

GARDENING WITH BENEFITS It has been freezing cold here, and I mean it. FREEZING. The trees are dropping their leaves, and plants are going into hibernation – although I do have a few flowers on a very confused pear tree! Whilst we have had the cold, it has also been dry, so I have resorted to a proliferation of plastic bottles with those long nozzles so that I can give the plants that need it, a bit more water. They are very good and I even use then indoors as I often forget to water indoor plants, and these bottles remind me.

My seven years beans took a long time to sprout, and they are flowering. I think I will just get the flowers, in this weather I can’t see them actually getting beans, but you never know. I am harvesting garlic, and potatoes, and looking for people who will willingly take the Jerusalem Artichokes. They don’t agree with me, but I love the bush and the flowers, so I give away the roots.

I still have an apple a day from my gorgeous apple tree. I am almost scared to get it pruned just in case it gets upset. I did prune the black currants a bit, and will go even further when REAL winter sets in.

I have my winter honey store put away, herbs all year, and masses of harvest in the freezer, so, life is good.

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. Asking course questions is free. This does not mean IDLE Yoga questions “just because you want to know” – She could spend her whole day answering those and getting no-where, in spite of the fact you may think your life will not end if they are not answered.
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..

Namaste Jahne

Contact me here.
This email was sent out by
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