Dear Yogis,

The “temporary imprisonment” no matter how mild has ended for the time being.  I was not looking forward to visiting Woodend this weekend, especially as it was a holiday, but thankfully it was not a popular tourist destination this time around – or at least when I was there.  I got a car park easily, didn’t have to stand in line anywhere I went, and remarkably I noticed that there wasn’t even a line outside the ice-cream shop.

SCHEDULE FOR THIS WEEK
ZOOM: Friday FREE Tarot Class 6.45, Monday 6.30 Teacher Training, Tuesday?
STUDIO:  Wednesday 5.30, Friday 5.30pm (a class for guys), Monday 1pm, Wednesday 5.30

HERB CASTING…..

As you know I have been gathering herbs (although it is later than “May”).  Once you have the herbs and florals you can make many things, you can also cast spells.  

When we do this, we are simply endeavouring to influence the future.  The spell creates an energy form, and as we yogis know – energy in any form EXISTS.  This “spell casting” is extremely useful when we want to influence the atmosphere of a place where you are going to be, or to avoid casting your fears about what is to come into the the future.

Creating energy and sending it in the future is something we all do unconsciously.  Spell-casting is taking this intention and making it conscious.  Even if you believe that your single-mindedness will see you through to your goal, I wonder if you could consider another way.  Perhaps you could even choose a bigger goal.  Then use herbs, colours, candles (whatever) to bring it front of mind, allowing it to manifest in a way that is much bigger…..

I am putting together a magical box of herbs and goodies designed to help you work with the power of tea herbs for manifestation! This lovely box of herbs with comes with instructions so you will be able to weave a spell or two when you are so inclined.   Spells to Release procrastination, Increase possibilities, Increase personal power, Releasing or softening fear… and so on.  Of course your pendulum will help you choose and understand the path you have carved for yourself.

Remember… POWER IS NOT STUFF.  Real Power is personal creativity and the ability to enjoy it (think “Purushatras”).  Real power is doing what you have been called to do and living prosperously with it.  Power is not about being able to influence others, it is the ability to influence your own life in a positive way.. when you can do this, others in turn, will be drawn to your power and influenced by it, within their free-will and yours.

You can control how power flows from you, and how open you are to its source.

Powerful people are complete within themselves.  They don’t fear much and are certainly not motivated by it.

 

I will see you on the mat .

JAHNE
(The Witch Is In)

Dear Yogis,

It was so tempting to either stay in bed, or garden, but that is not the way of yoga – I have said I will send a newsletter on Mondays, so I am here – whistling into the wind I may be, but I am here.  It is a promise.  And now lock-down is finished for the time being, I hope you will join me in the studio for yoga.  If you have not been for a while, please book.

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

 

THE GARDEN AND FORAGING AND PREPPING,

Don’t be led into a false sense of security.  The sun is shining, we have Cup Day Holiday, but it is not forever.  Life goes on.  There will be more lockdowns –  even Qantas can’t stop that, no matter how many trips Mr.Joyce the CEO is able to take to cuddle his mum in Ireland via the USA.. See the “60 Minutes Special” last nite. Interesting.  

There will be thunderstorms, there will be BIG hail, there will be high winds and power outages, there will be higher prices.  How are you preparing?  By pretending that everything has gone back to what you would like to think of as normal? It is easier to do that, and you are lucky if you can manage the higher prices of essential like electricity, groceries, the brown-outs, Telstra (who recently hiked up prices) and the terrible delays perpetrated by Australia Post (Australia-Maybe-We-Will-Post).  I am waiting for “KOGAN POST” – they get things to us quickly.

It is time to prepare by getting a dehydrator, by investing in a solar lantern, a rainwater tank, a camp stove (and/or wood heater) learning to forage and grow,  and make do and mend.  I have always done things like this, they are in my memory and genes, and I am urging you to take time to think about it.  I actually have bought myself a rotating mulch tank so I can use the weeds and left overs from the kitchen instead of giving them to the council.   There is so much to do whilst we have time to do it.

Forget about sending cards and letters.  If today is any indication they won’t get to your loved ones by Christmas.  In spite of the fact I don’t like E-Cards, they are really the only alternative when a letter takes 5 weeks to get from Woodend to Daylesford. Google “Jacqui Lawson” and think about E-Cards.

Yes, next year will be the “roaring twenties” we are told – Qantas is leading the way with potentially more planes in the air than after WWII.  It is easy to believe that,  seeing the wildness at the moment from people who have been locked-down now able to go everywhere.  They have mostly learned nothing – HAVE YOU?  Q-Codes, vaccinations  and masks will be with us all for a long time, and we should respect that.  At the same time we should notice the changes, and get back to basics.  These are not hardships, they are ways you can take back control of your life.

AND…….get back to yoga.  Don’t just fit it in when you have time.  

Make Yoga the essential, and fit other things around it.

SEE YOU ON THE MAT – 
JAHNE

 

 

 

 

 

Good morning Yogis,

SCHEDULE.
ZOOM: Tonite at 6.45 TAROT.  No Sunday CCP Class.
STUDIO: Tonite (Friday) 5.30 Hatha.
MANDALA ART CLASS – Which day would you like to do this, STUDIO AND/OR ZOOM?  I did flag a studio class 27th November. We could do Zoom class on a Sunday morning now that is vacant. How about Sunday 7th November at 10am?

FUTURE PREPPING

You may think that I am just doing the “prepping” posts because I have nothing else to do, but no, that is not the reason.  I bring these things to you because of the wild and woolly weather we have been facing in the past few years (especially last year) which has been compromising how we have lived up to now.  This is my little sitting room where I prepare everything I do…

I am not sure if you remember that we had days when there was no power – some folk had WEEKS.  I managed with everything, except HEATING, and I am working towards fixing that.  I would like to have a garage so I could store things I use all the time because I believe we will need it.  I am sure you have noticed that when you go shop there are vacant shelves, and then when the shelves are re-stocked, the cost of the items has gone up.

It is not just at Coles – it is everywhere.

One thing we need to stock is candles – or do we?  They are useful for  lighting, heating and cooking.   If you make one of my little terra-cotta pot heaters (and they are quite efficient), and if you don’t solve the candle cost you will find the heater does cost a lot just in candles, but you will get good at re-cycling.  

Candles are more and more expensive, but there are alternatives.  You can use olive oil, vegetable oil cheap,  solid cooking oils.  You can even make your own wicks.  These alternatives burn for much longer than a candle, and they are much cheaper, and burn for longer..  Please watch my instagram and I will put up the experiments I am doing.  Crisco the American cooking oil has a little flame over the “i” which indicates the history of the oil which was used for lamps and vehicle lubrication during the war – and now people use it for cooking?  Mind you, olive oil was used for lamps even in biblical times.

TATTOOS – STICK AND POKE
Love doing these.  So quiet, so personal, so tiny.  I have been planning the Christmas images.  Do make an appointment.  This is one thing I  can not do on zoom.  You have to come see me.

They usually take about an hour…. plan to have a chat and a cup of tea.

 

SEE YOU ON THE MAT – OR ON THE ZOOM

NAMASTE – JAHNE