Dear Yogis,

What a wonderful weekend.

I have been dividing my time between three paintings I want to finish, and catching up on gardening before you lovely people turn up for our END OF YEAR BASH from noon on the 15th December.  I hope you have it in your diary.  All welcome!!!

 

A NEW YEAR, RESTORATIVE YOGA and TAROT COUNSELLING  HAS CALLED ME BACK (NOT THAT I EVER WENT AWAY).  I have been enjoying planning and preparing for the new year.

The Australasian Yoga Institute is 50 PLUS years old but has been functioning as a teaching centre for even longer than that.   That’s at least five decades of moving, teaching and loving yoga.  Since the Covid lockdown I have been enjoying what you might call a “sabbatical” enjoying other areas of my creativity.  However,  life goes on, yoga goes on, and you can join me here in Woodend,  and anywhere you are online.  Gifts for friends and family? –  gift cards for those people you think would benefit from a Tarot “Possibilities” session – a great gift. YOGA gift cards also available.   Email me, they start at $50 for a tarot session.  For “gift” yoga we can tailor one to suit your needs.

 

Last one-on-one Appointments 2024 & First Appointments 2025
As we begin to wrap up 2024, I know that the season can bring with it mixed feelings. We are not just about yoga, we also work the tarot and if you need a safe place to explore what this time is stirring in you, I have a handful of face-to-face sessions available at lovely 37 Morris Road Woodend,  and  availability for online sessions Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays

2024 Last sessions – Saturday 21st December
2025 First sessions – Friday 10th January

Like you, I’m constantly growing and changing. I’m very much looking forward to sharing more with you.
Warm, person-centred Tarot counselling + mindfulness, and therapeutic yoga seamlessly entwined for compassionate explorations of immediate themes….

• riding the ebb and flow of relationships
• honouring shifts in identity, orientation and life purpose
• living intentionally with chronic health conditions and addictions
• integrating loss & grief
• anything and everything that needs a compassionate listener    “…I am listening”.

APPOINTMENTS 2024 AND 2025

Appointments til 21st December 2024:
limited spots remaining:
Face to Face Appointments:   Thursdays: 8:00 – 1:00

Zoom Appointments 2024:
Thursdays, Fridays, 11am to 6pm, Saturdays: 8:00am -6:00pm

Appointments from 10th January 2025:
Face to Face Appointments:
Thursdays: 8:00 – 1:00
Fridays and Saturdays : 11am –  6:00

Zoom Appointments:
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays: 8:00-6:00
To make an appointment, please contact Jahne via email: yogafirst2@bigpond.com

 

WHATS ON IN THE STUDIO.  

(Christmas? Our last yoga class Friday 20th December at 10am  – First 2025 class Friday 10th January at 10am)

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,(last class the 24th December!)   9.30AM in Gisborne Until the17th December..

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm,   FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am.

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday  by donation. Please arrive close to 9.30 and we will start when we are settled.

YOGA PHILOSOPHY CLASSES AS USUAL ZOOM. Monday 6.30pm.    For an ID please email.  We are studying chakras as they relate to everyday life and tarot.

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH:   at The Full Moon Saloon starting again in the new year.  January.   

CHRISTMAS LUNCH – 15th December in the Studio, Woodend.   at 12’ish.  Come when you can (after Mass?). My art studio will also be open if you want to pick up something nice….different.  Some flower studies – me painting flowers, who knew?

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

Christmas festivities are already taking a toll of our classes, I am sure it is like this every year and I feel deserted every year, but it passes and we get back to what i think of as “My Reality” – Yoga and Art.

December is busy.  Don’t forget our get-together on the 15th – I will have the studio open for those at the party to visit and explore my new work.. and buy cards for gifts too.  Please visit.  We will be open around noon.  Drop around to see the gallery (not open to the public – special for you all), meet the group, and have a mince pie and champers.  

January is going to be even more busy.  I am going to the Polytechnic in January to learn Auslan at their summer school, and then at the end of the month,  Jesse my son is having an exhibition at Gold Street Studios in Trentham, coming from Canada of course to be here, and bringing my granddaughter Cabiria who will be staying with me (a getting to know each other time).  I am not sure much painting will get done, although she is quite a successful artist too and has a web site and sales.  I have made a few sales myself this month…

WHATS ON.  

(Christmas? Our last yoga class Friday 20th December at 10am  – First 2025 class Friday 10th January at 10am)

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,(last class the 24th December!)   9.30AM in Gisborne Until the17th December..

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm,   FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am.

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday  by donation. Please arrive close to 9.30 and we will start when we are settled.

YOGA PHILOSOPHY CLASSES AS USUAL ZOOM. Monday 6.30pm.    For an ID please email.  We are studying chakras as they relate to everyday life and tarot.

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH:   at The Full Moon Saloon starting again in the new year.  January.   

CHRISTMAS LUNCH – 15th December in the Studio, Woodend.   at 12’ish.  Come when you can (after Mass?). My art studio will also be open if you want to pick up something nice….different.  Some flower studies – me painting flowers, who knew?

NAMASTE – JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

We are getting ready for Christmas.  It is just around the corner.  Please remember, it is only one day.  It will come and it will go, and unless someone proposes marriage to you at Christmas Dinner, it will blend in to all the other Christmasses.

Relax, enjoy the day, and remember what it means.   It is not an excuse for stores to make money, it commemorates the birth of a person who for almost the first time, reminds you that your responsibility for the world is in your hands.  That we are all connected.  (People still are not listening).

If you get a chance to wander into a Church, the stained glass window I have painted here is in St.Mary’s Anglican Church in Woodend.  “Jesus the Light of the World”. He is standing near a door which He is waiting for you to open.

Please take care – there is a lot of sickness around.  Flu, Covid, tummy bugs and so in.  Christmas is a time when we could inadvertently catch or spread infections.  If you are unwell STAY HOME.  Just because it is Christmas does not make it “safe”.    I remember a Miss Marple mystery about a Christmas party that a lady attended even though she had German measles.  She was determined to go and wore an extra layer of make-up to cover the spots.  She spent time talking to a guest who was pregnant and thereby caused a child to be born with catastrophic birth defects. (an extreme example, but relevant).   As I said.  Take care.  Not just of yourself, please think of others.

WHATS ON.  

(Christmas? Our last yoga class Friday 20th December at 10am  – First 2025 class Friday 10th January at 10am)

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,(last class the 24th December!)   9.30AM in Gisborne Until the17th December..

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm,   FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am.

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday  by donation. Please arrive close to 9.30 and we will start when we are settled.

YOGA PHILOSOPHY CLASSES AS USUAL ZOOM. Monday 6.30pm – not tonite, I am taking time off..  For an ID please email.  We are studying chakras as they relate to everyday life and tarot.

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH:   at The Full Moon Saloon starting again in the new year.  January.   

CHRISTMAS LUNCH – 15th December in the Studio, Woodend.   at 12’ish.  Come when you can (after Mass?). My art studio will also be open if you want to pick up something nice….different.  Some flower studies – me painting flowers, who knew?

NAMASTE – JAHNE