Dear Yogis,

My life is changing, has changed and I am pretty sure your life is too.  It seems we are really going through the “quickening”.  Some of you would have felt it, some not.

For many years now I have relied on Bach Flower Remedies.  I respond well to them as do my clients.  I make my own from the herbs and trees forest and beside the creeks and nature reserves around the Macedon Ranges.  I can’t make all of the remedies, but most of them (based on the herbs and trees available to me), and I feel sure that they work faster and better because they are growing where we are.  We share the energies.  I can make them up, and give them to a client and the energies of origin match.

I am calling them “COMPASSIONATE COMPANION REMEDIES” (www.ccpproject.com) because they work on emotions and moods.  I will be writing them up on the CCP website. I will also be selling the remedies on the site for $25 including standard postage.

Edward Bach who was the originator of the remedies, started his professional life as a highly paid, well respected Harley Street Specialist in London.    When he sold his equipment and practice, moved to Wales to work on his herbal remedies, one of the drivers was to present a set of remedies that could be used by anyone, and would not be expensive.  In fact he rarely charged for his therapies.  You would not need any special skill to follow his lead, just the need to serve.

If you would like to work with these remedies and would enjoy a consultation with me, I charge for the time ($55 for half an hour or part thereof – zoom or studio), but I do not charge for the remedies.  You get them as part of your consultation.  I include pendulum work and sometimes Tarot to help us with the remedies.

If you are zooming I can send the remedy free via Australia post.  If you pay an extra $5 for express post you will actually have a chance of getting your remedy in a reasonable time – standard post is VERY slow especially with Christmas looming.  However, you could come to the studio for your appointment, and you could pick up your remedy at the same time – I will be only taking a short break over Christmas.  To make an appointment email me yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

SCHEDULE
Wednesday: Yoga in the Studio 5.30  Friday 5.30 Yoga in the Studio, 6.45 Free Tarot class.

I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN CLASS OR ON ZOOM – OR MAYBE TO PLAY WITH BACH REMEDIES.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

Good morning Yogis,

I have had such computer trouble over the weekend, thank goodness for friends who could patch me through… and we are still being “patched”.  I am hoping that this goes through the modem unhindered….  My security is just not letting me do what I need to do.

SCHEDULE FOR THIS WEEK
ZOOM:  6.30 TT this evening (if all goes well) and then CCP tomorrow Tuesday at 7.30. Friday 6.45 tarot.
STUDIO: 1pm today, 5.30 Wednesday and 5.30pm Friday.

HERBS AND PLANT SPIRIT MEDICINE

If you live around my suburb you may have seen me out collecting and foraging herbs for tinctures, for teas, for food.  Now is the perfect time.  I know from years of past experience that plants need to be gathered and used in the area they are gathered.   It is important that herbs be local ones as the healing properties of the plant relate to its localness.  Why? It is I believe,  because our distress has to do with our not being present, and plants that are local to a place have the ability to bring that to us.

Our modern life more or less ensures that we are not in touch with this magic mysterious power that we collectively call NATURE.  Nature is the fountain of existence, our health.  Ultimately this connection is the fountain of our existence and health.  Ultimately, by ignoring it, or thinking it is not necessary,  it is also the source of our illness.

That is why local plants are so powerful, a thousand times more powerful than a plant from somewhere else.  A plant from where you live can “bring you home”.  That is the aim.  Local plants know where they are, they are “rooted” in the region.  They are the expression of that creative magic of nature and they can share that with you.  I have a rule of thumb learned from other plant healers from my own and other cultures,  a “local” plant is one which grows within a two day WALK,   so anyone, even in the largest city can access growing things using that criteria.

You do need a teacher because illness springs up in our blind spot, my daily charting and meditation shows up my blind spot.  I can pretend, but the chart tells me otherwise, even if the message of meditation can be side-tracked. Plant medicine is a celebration of our interdependence.  We think we are totally independent – it is not realistic.  There is something very powerful about asking for help – I think it attracts the attention of the spirits.  Asking for help from the spirits puts us in alignment with how things are and to where healing is coming from.  Every heartbeat, every breath depends on this source, this spirit this fountain that is constantly creating.  Just asking for help puts you in a truer perspective of being a child of God, a child of nature.  Spirit isn’t limited by molecules.

As we learned from Yogananda and The Gita.. “The little mind of the little man” writes Yogananda, “cannot possibly identify itself with the Universal Consciousness of God”, and identification with God or the Ultimate reality is the goal of yoga and the greatest endeavour anyone can hope to take.

 

I will see you on the mat.

Stay Well,

NAMASTE, JAHNE

 

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

Before you start launching yourself into problem discussions about Covid and vaccinations… think on this.

If you want to become an AMBULANCE DIVER (they recently advertised their DiplomaCourse)  with the Ambulance Service in Victoria, there are certain proofs you will need before you can start the course.  One of these proofs relates to vaccination.  To begin, you will need……Proof of vaccinations for COVID-19 (fully vaccinated), current Influenza (within the last 12 months), Hepatitis B, Varicella, Pertussis, Measles/Mumps/Rubella, with serology report (required before commencing observer shifts).  

This is quite a vaccination load, and not unusual (ask any nurse at the beginning of her training, or other health professionals) However, I haven’t seen anyone stomping up and down in front of Ambulance Victoria’s head office demanding to be allowed to train without meeting these vaccination requirements – why? Because everyone knows that they will be dealing with the public, and there is the possibility of contracting quite severe illness if they are not vaccinated.  Even if they are only driving the ambulance.

Applicants know that vaccinations are required.. The applicants are no different to the rest of us.  We are in a difficult covid situation.  It will change, there will be a pill or a serum discovered (as in polio vaccines – in the beginning people died, then the method of culturing vaccination changed, then it was delivered on a piece of blotting paper with no vaccination), but for now in Covid, vaccinations are the best option.  Plus you still need to look after your nutrition, your supplements.. you can’t ignore these.  But think long and hard if you decide not to vaccinate.  There are some people who need exemptions…  but there is no need to make this a two tiered society. Neither a society manipulated by cosmic beings dedicated to the crushing of our civilisation.  I have read such explanations – colourful, imaginative, however I for one do not believe them.  I am far too practical.  We have a problem, and we are human.  We try to solve the problem the best way we can.  As Buddha said – “This too shall pass”.

If you have a family history or are worried, do what I did – have a blood test beforehand to make sure you are as fit as you think you are. Make your decision based on that rather than an imagined position.  Then after your 2nd vax, have another blood test so that you can compare the two.  Mine came back almost the same.  I even had a brain scan because of clotting in the family – all good.  There is all this technology available for you – take advantage of it, don’t just decide from a position of not knowing.  It is great to have the all clear.  I am ready for the next 30 years…are you?

TINY TATTOOS.

Now we are coming out of Covid I can once again look at inviting you back into my studio.  All the covid requirements apply.  I specialise in STICK AND POKE TATTOOS.  Quiet, friendly, heal quicker, small, beautiful.   I am even thinking of an open day so you can come see what I do.  This will be closer to Christmas.  Once again, all the Covid requirements apply.

Despite fears, uncertainties, and many barriers to entry, pursuing tattooing,  and being able to provide a safe and inclusive environment for my clients has been one of my greatest accomplishments. I feel grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this ancient and historically rich tradition and practice, and I look forward continue to better myself and my artistic output with every tattoo that I make

I don’t do other peoples designs, I am not interested in an apprentice, I don’t repeat things I have done in the past, and I don’t have a wait list.  I am an artist – I hate repeating anything except yoga asanas.  Contact me if you would like one of my TINY designs on your body and I will give you an appointment.

 

THE ZOOM/STUDIO SCHEDULE FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS ETC.

FRIDAY’S CLASSES:  STUDIO, 5.30 Yoga Class.  ZOOM:  6.45 FREE Tarot class
(No 10am Sunday zoom.  Monday and  Tuesday zoom as usual)

YOUR STUDIO DIARY DATE:  MANDALA CLASS Saturday 27th November (bring your basal charts for interpretation too) This is the last studio art class before Christmas, so bring some Christmas nibbles to share.  Start at 1pm finish about 4pm – could be later ($55 per person)…. materials provided.  You will have a beautiful A4 Mandala to take home and frame.  You may also bring your tarot cards, these could be used with your chart.  It might make a very good tarot/pendulum board. Please let me know if you are coming.

 

I will see you on the mat. (or in the Studio)

NAMASTE. JAHNE