Dear Yogis,

Raining again, absolutely gorgeous in this place at this time of the year.  The weather bureau is forecasting a wet Christmas period, and fewer bushfires… with all the wood and dead trees still piled up from the various storms and aftermath this forecast of rain is very good news.  We have had snow on Christmas Day here, maybe we will again.

SCHEDULE
ZOOM. Friday 6.45 Tarot, Monday 6.30 Teacher Training. Tuesday 7.30 we have finished the CCP course.  If you need help with your modules, please email me and we will work one-on-one to get the course through for you.
STUDIO. Wednesday 1pm Yoga (full), 5.30 Restorative Yoga. Friday 5.30
SATURDAY STUDIO WORKSHOP> 1pm to 4pm Mandalas/charts.  Please let me know if you can come along. All materials provided. $55.

 

BACH THERAPY FOR THE (COVID) DAY…

I have had such a wonderful time walking around the neighbourhood checking for flowers and trees that are used in these remedies, even Rock Water from a fast running stream (I have a choice of streams).

I have realised that I have done this all of my life, but I have never entirely used the information that is stored in my mind.  Now, with the Bach Therapies, I have a way to use and to share with you what I know, what I have learned, and what I am learning.  All helped by “the other side of course”.

ROCK WATER is a remedy on its own, but I like to use a little of this energy when collecting specimens although I stand them in the sun in collected rain water to complete the process.  The streams are so beautiful at the moment, bouncing and burbling over rocks, running especially full and fast after big rains..

ROCK WATER is a remedy for people who are repressed, who need to “get down off the cross” as we often say.  People who are martyrs to a cause.  I am sure in covid you will have recognised this thinking.  They are unable to change their minds no matter the good evidence and good direction is put in front of them.  They have very strict ideas, can be obsessive and their regimes can be directed towards diet, exercise, religion, a philosophy or whatever.  They are often depressed because they fail to live up to their own imposed standards, they are “candidates for sainthood” whilst still on earth.  Key to this remedy is the fact that Rock Water people are only interested in their own salvation.

This remedy can be used to encourage greater flexibility of mind.

 

I am sure you have seen these trees in bloom somewhere in your neighbourhood – we call them HORSE CHESTNUTS, but in the herbal repertoire they are called WHITE CHESTNUTS because they have white blooms… When you look at them close up the tiny flowers that make up the large cluster are like miniature orchids – quite beautiful.

White Chestnut is the remedy for those struggling with constant mental thoughts and arguments, the thoughts that go round and around in your head, and have no end.  The treadmill. This remedy is key in times like this when our mind may be full of worrying thoughts. It can be our own form of torture, especially if we feel helpless to move on.  No matter what the rational mind says the “monkey mind” keeps chattering. Worrying about catching Coronavirus is only natural, but sometimes the worry of this, and other aspects of this disease, can dominate our thought processes.

If you feel like this, locked inside your head, unable to think clearly about things in your life that really need to be accomplished,  then White Chestnut can help relieve these thoughts and help us to think clearly, although that may seem impossible right now.

These beautiful Bach Flower Remedies can do no harm.  They are made from the energy of the plant and work on emotions and moods.  If you want to know more about how this happens then please read THE MEMORY OF WATER by Dr.Emoto.  or any of the works by Dr.Edward Bach himself or his assistant of many years,  Nora Weeks.  You know me, I will shortly share what i know on Etsy, and I am available in the studio and zoom for personal consultations.

I am sending my information through to Instagram most every day.  If you want to see more, instagram me…. Also look at the drop- down on the home page of the website www.yogabeautiful.com.au.  “The Yoga of Herbs”.

 

I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON THE MAT

NAMASTE. JAHNE

 

Good morning Yogis,

It has been such a lovely weekend.  I bought a GINKO tree today.  I have wanted one for YEARS, but they are so expensive.  I have succumbed and bought it, now I have to inspire it to grow for me.  Chewing on a green leaf a day is said to improve cognitive health and I need as much of that as possible….  There is so much to do.

SCHEDULE
ZOOM: Monday 6.30 Teacher Training, Tuesday 7.30 CCP, Friday 6.45 Tarot.
STUDIO: Monday 1pm Yoga, Wednesday 1pm Yoga (full), Wednesday 5.30 Restorative, Friday 5.30 Hatha

SATURDAY 27TH,  STUDIO WORKSHOP – MANDALAS AND TEMPERATURE CHARTS. $55 1pm to 4pm –
This workshop is important in working our way forward with a better understanding of who we are, what affects us (in reality – not guesswork), and what to do next.  All art materials provided.  I hope you will be able to bring (your temperature charts), and some nibbles to share.This is our last art day at the studio before Christmas.  I will share my chart with you – I am sure that the accuracy and insights of this chart will surprise you. PLEASE RSVP as soon as you can..  

Because we are right in the middle of the pandemic (we are nowhere near the end – there are heaps more challenges to come), I think it is prudent to be as responsible for your own health and future as you can be.  To that end, I am going to focus on herbal/Bach Remedies for Covid symptoms.  I will do one every newsletter and hope that you will take this opportunity to embrace this herbal remedy.  Today GORSE, mainly because this plant is blooming everywhere at the moment.  Remember not to pick from anywhere near where the council has sprayed, it is not a native and becomes invasive hence the spraying.  Plus if you need to go onto private property, ask the landowner first please.

I remember when we had an old German Homeopath in the district, the Late Dr.VonMoger (long dead).  He used to be seen out and about collecting the pollen from the gorse.  He had little vials and a fluffy small paint brush.  Of course he wore a white coat during this collection process, very professional, very German.   This pollen collection was a whole lot harder and more intricate than collecting the actual blooms which I do.

Gorse – Not to be mistaken with BROOM which looks somewhat similar but has long whippy branches (used for making bee skeps).   Gorse is very prickly as you can see in the photograph.

GORSE is the remedy for those who have given up belief or hope in life.  Easy to recognise in our community as a result of Covid lock-downs and restrictions.  This mindset gives up hope of feeling better.  In a Gorse state one doesn’t consider a way out, instead it is a negative personality succumbing to the negativity. For example, someone who has lost their job – or been made redundant and loses hope of a positive future. In a Gorse state we may want to curl up into foetal position,  stay in bed and give up on the day and everything in front of us, unable or unwilling to change how we feel.  Just accepting accepting defeat.  There are a number examples every day in the news… and I am sure you have people like this close by.

The Gorse remedy helps us to restore our faith in the future, and more than that, to find a way forward.  We can accept that there is a positive outcome waiting for us, and can walk forward to meet it.  Bach therapies deals with people, not diseases…

“The main reason for failure of modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes” – Dr.Bach “Heal Thyself”.

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE. JAHNE

 

Good morning Yogis,

As I write this it is theoretically my Thursday off, however, I know tomorrow is going to be very busy from very early on, so I thought I would get this done TODAY.

SCHEDULE
ZOOM: Friday 6.45 Tarot meeting.  Monday 6.30pm Teacher Training (all welcome) and Tuesday 7.30pm CCP
STUDIO:  Friday 5.30 Yoga, Monday 1pm Yoga, Wednesday 1pm (Full), Friday 5.30 Restorative.

WORKSHOPS/MEETING:  Saturday 27th November, 1pm to 4pm “Reading Core  Temperature” leading into MANDALA PAINTING”   This is an art class, and getting to know yourself on levels you  probably had not thought about.  After more than a year of free classes, this one is a paid workshop –   1pm to 4pm, art materials supplied (including nibbles and bubbly, $55).  This will be the last workshop for the year… hopefully the sun will shine and we can be festive.

WHAT’S NEW.

We have finished the first CCP COURSE, and I am taking bookings for the second.

The more that I consider this course, the more I understand the qualities, the energies we are dealing with.  Before COVID I began a course in Herbal Medicine in particular the Bach Flower Remedies.  I have now finished the certificate and diploma courses, and have the documents to show you….It has been such an interesting journey and I realise now that it was put there for me so that I could expand even further the work of The Compassionate Companions.   I am not ready yet, but when I am, I will introduce to you the Bach Flower Remedies and Flower Essences for those who are “failing” or are on their was to the “next place”.   The flower essences deal with emotions not diseases and are therefore perfect to be given to our clients.  They can do no harm, can be given no matter what other drugs have been prescribed…. and these essences work.  

If you are interested in expanding your CCP course, or learning about Flower Essences in a Hospice or Hospital situation, please email me.

 

RELAXATION
It has been such a wonderful wet winter, and plants which had struggled in the “dry” are not just growing they are thriving.  I have been very pleased to make up tea bags of HAWTHORN TEA, and Packs of SMOKING HERBS for relaxation.

HAWTHORN TEA.  I have been taking this tea after my covid vaccination caused my blood pressure to escalate to dangerous levels… Today I am pleased to let you know that My lunch time reading was 112/67.  A very good BP reading for anyone.

If you would like to join me, or you know someone who needs this simple therapy,  One tea bag lasts at least all day.  You can drop it in your usual tea or have it alone.  It is a lovely mild tea, and one of my clients says it tastes and smells like ordinary tea.  I have packed 6 tea bags for $25 including postage. Buy with PayPal (and debit or credit) in the at www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

SMOKING HERBS.  I have always been totally opposed to smoking cigarettes as my mum and dad were both chain smokers.  The house and everything in it had the dark, acrid smell of nicotine, and I determined early on that when I grew up I wanted my house to smell lovely, and most of the time it does.

However, I was not introduced to herbal smoke until I was in my early teens.  I remember the ’60 (yes, I was there), and loved herbal smoke taken carefully.

Today I have grown and milled my own smoking herbs and I offer them to you (yes, there is a book on etsy too).  These herbs smell lovely and they are lovely.  They are relaxing without containing cannabis, although they do contain damiana which I am told is a cannabis substitute.  Whatever, this is a mild, relaxing smoke.  I make my own pipes with very small bowls so that I can indulge and not be overpowered.  Even making them is relaxing, particularly drying the hops.  If you want to join me, or buy a bag to gift to someone for Christmas… then the cost is  $30 for 25grams (they are very light and fluffy).  This includes postage.  Buy with PayPal (and Credit or debit) at www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

Please, come to yoga, tarot, or the workshops.  I would love to see you…

 

SEE YOU ON THE MAT,

NAMSTE JAHNE