Dear Yogis,

There is always something new to learn – and I am learning to tap dance.  It is like a new language that involves the emotional, physical and the spiritual.  Quite amazing.  I am loving how I feel (apart from aching – especially in the rear end).  To stave off older age it is suggested that to keep the mind in shape that learning a language or musical instrument helps, well this is everything.  Mind,  body and spirit.  You should try it sometime.

ZOOM/STUDIO SCHEDULE
ZOOM: Friday 6.45 Tarot Class, Saturday 10.30 Introduction to CCP Course,  Saturday 2pm Tarot/Art Class,  Sunday CCP Study, Monday 6.30 Teacher Training.
STUDIO: Friday Hatha 5.30, Monday 1pm Restorative, Wednesday 5.30 Restorative.

COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS COURSE
We are starting a new course on the 10th October, and invite you to come to an INFORMATION SESSION ON ZOOM  this Saturday at 10.30.  Email me and I will send you a zoom ID.  If you have ever wanted to be a Death Doula, then this takes your desire a bit further.  This is about being a LIFE AND DEATH DOULA.  Once you graduate, you will be able to be a Funeral Celebrant registered with one of Australia most reputable Association.  You will also be able to add “Narrative Medicine” to your list of skills.

I have always thought of myself as a “Doctor of Narrative Medicine”.  Maybe sometimes my stories seemed superfluous, but they never are.  They kind of get into the mind and work on the subconscious.  I particularly noticed this when I practiced hypnosis.  Trying to influence someone hardly ever worked long term, but using a story and allowing the subconscious to make of it what it will, worked every time.  Sometimes it took a couple of days to work up into the consciousness,  but it always did. Ericksonian Hypnosis method with my own twist.

Therapeutic story telling is magic.  Learning to craft appropriate behaviour changing stories for all ages and all circumstances takes patience, and skill.  I have even helped people stop smoking with the appropriate story.

I am going include this in our next course.  If you have done the last course, or our yoga  teacher training, or you are a hypnotherapist..or a counsellor, then this “magic” will be useful.  

I am available for consultations – on zoom or in the studio.  Tarot/Narrative/Pendulum.. and even Bach flowers can be part on the consult (Bach can be posted).  $85 per session. plus Bach Flower Essences and postage for the essences if required.

Bye the way – if you are buying herbs or oils from me, if you are posting anything for yourself, there is only ONE WAY at the moment EXPRESS.   Sending ordinary post or parcel post could take an indeterminate time, weeks.  The record here is 5 weeks for a package to get between here and Daylesford which is 45 minutes away!! It did arrive!  This all could be a money raising ploy by AustraliaPost, but whatever, you need your post on time.  EXPRESS POST really is express… it works.

MAGNESIUM:  I learned a really good tip at Tap Dancing Class.  My teacher uses Epsom Salts (magnesium),  a cup of crystals in a stocking or sock and massage the body with it as you shower.  It works and it is easy.  I  am now a devotee.

I will see you on the mat, or on zoom

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

 

Hi Yogis,

Wow, wow, wow… what did I do before Shilajit?   I actually know… I seemed to be winding down.  I could see what needed to be done, but I didn’t want to do it.  Now, I am living, and I love it.  What I get done in a day is unbelievable and reminds me of a much younger me.  What is not to like?

I sold out of my first shipment really quickly, and am waiting for Australia post to deliver the next.  If you want to be in the line for the next to arrive, please email me yogafirst2@bigpond.com. $50 for the dropper bottle (50ml) plus $10 ordinary post $13.50 express post.

STUDIO/ZOOM SCHEDULE FOR THIS WEEK
STUDIO: Monday 1pm Hatha, Wednesday 5.30 Restorative, Friday Hatha (I think)
ZOOM: Tuesday 7,3o CCP.  Last nite (Tuesday) was theoretically the last CCP zoom of the “foundation” class, before the start of our new course.
Friday 6.45 Tarot, Saturday 10.30 Introduction to CCP Course email for ID, Sunday CCP Study, Monday Teacher Training – all welcome even graduates, Tuesday CCP study.

Gradually as covid morphs and changes our community schedules,  we will be changing our schedule.  Keep reading the newsletter.

TAP DANCING:  I wanted to move to music, to dance and to have fun, and not having to make a date or a time.  An independent time – the same as ice-skating.  A solitary pastime.  Just me and the music.  I found a place that would teach me (in Bendigo), and I have my first class this Thursday.  I thought it was going to be last Thursday but Covid complications occurred, so I just postponed.  I will let you know how I go, in fact they are talking about a video – I must say I am not sure about that… but we will get there.

TAROT
During covid we started a “make your own tarot deck” class which became an art class.  I would like to start again, you have said you are ready.  I haven’t finished the “Mary” deck and you may have a way to go, even if you want to just make art, then I am up for that.  Please join us. Starting this Saturday (2nd October) at 2pm until 4pm.

Please book, and pay – $50 for 4 classes.  Go to www.yogabeautiful.com.au and click on PayVia PayPal.

 

CCP.  COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS (DEATH DOULAS?)

If you have always wanted to do this, here is your opportunity.  Although it is a short course, it is not a course where you can pay, not turn up, and get a qualification at the end.  There are not many requirements (it is only 12 week course most by distance) but taking one out of two zoom classes – Tuesday OR Sunday – is mandatory, although you can take both.

We are making close ties with Funeral Celebrant Associations and will be looking at other groups to work with as we progress, so it will be worthwhile, and a pathway to a new profession.  Funeral Celebrant or Death Doula (or Life and Death Doula).  Or a COMPASSIONATE COMPANION.  First step?  This short course.

AND YOU

I look forward to hearing from you – everything is changing for us all.  We have the opportunity to change, to re-examine our direction, to make sure we are travelling the path that is needed and wanted (not just working for the money).  We only have a short time on earth, and we might as well have enjoyment and fun if we can.  It is not supposed to be all about suffering.

 

I will see you on the mat
NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

 

Hi there Yogis,

What a fabulous weekend.  The weather has been cold here, but sunny (and windy).  I can imagine spring, even if it is not really here.  I went to Church on Saturday and it was almost snowing!  It is what it is.

This week the Chinese celebrate the  Mid-Autumn Festival also known as MOON FESTIVAL or Mooncake Festival, is a traditional festival celebrated by many East and Southeast Asian people. It is the second-most important holiday after Chinese New Year with a history dating back 3,000 years when China’s emperors worshipped the moon for bountiful harvests. Staying true to the original intention of the autumn holiday, which fell this year on Sept. 21 (but don’t be put off by the date… it can be any time until the end of the month).

The Chinese put out a platter of mooncakes as a gift to the moon and lights sticks of incense over them as a show of gratitude for the annual harvest.  They put their best ingredients into the mooncakes, it’s the highest form of respect to the Mid-Autumn Festival.  Some moon-cakes are filled with ham, some with sesame and honey… personably I like mine filled with red bean paste.

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK.
STUDIO: Monday Hatha 1pm (full), Wednesday 5.30 Restorative, Friday 5.30 Hatha.
ZOOM: Monday 6.30 Teacher Training, Tuesday 7.30 CCP, Friday 6.45 Tarot, Sunday 10am CCP

 

SHILAJIT TINCTURE:  I wrote about this last week.  It is wonderful – I have so much energy. As it is from the Himalayas I wonder if the Dalai Lama takes it?  My hearing has improved (I haven’t read about this anywhere else), and there is less hair in my brush in the morning which actually is terrific, I usually lose “enough to stuff a pillow” (my mum’s words).   My students on zoom have been commenting on how shiny my hair is – I don’t have product on it, and Shilajit is the only change.

If you want a bottle I can post it to you.  $50 for the tincture and $10 for postage.  Go to the home page and click on “pay via paypal” (credit cards and debit cards also accepted by PayPal).  www.yogabeautiful.com.au

TAROT MAKING: Saturday 2pm to 4pm (starting Saturday the 2nd October).  You can finish things you have started, you can start something new, you can make oracle cards, or yoga cards…. anything that inspires you, you can even make a vision board if that is what you would like to do.  Please enrol right now by emailing me.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com
THE COST: $50 for 4 classes of two hours per class.

ART:  You are all welcome to join our tarot making/art classes.  I have been painting every day and attach the latest.  I am loving painting ballet dancers feet.  When I have a range I will make cards and prints from them, which will make them very accessible.  I just don’t want to sell  the originals, they are so lovely – like little jewels (and copyrighted to me) so cards will be a good step so you can start a small collection of your own.

If you do want to paint Tea Bags like the ballet shoes to the left, then you will have to prepare the tea bags dry them and iron them before you come to class.  We can go through the process if you don’t have the confidence to do this step.

MASSAGE
With the gentle lifting of restrictions – enough that I can take massage clients within boundaries – no undressing, just the PPT, CHI-SPINAL FLOW, and CHI NEI TSANG and of course our go-to BOWEN.  All of these techniques are done fully clothed and work with the nervous system and not banging about with bones and muscles.   Half an hour $50 and one hour $85.  Half an hour is adequate…useful.  Please make an appointment.  Call to organise a time frame. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

CCP:  COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS
Our next (LIFE/DEATH DOULA) course starts soon.  To join our information session at 10.30 this coming Saturday morning please email me so I can send you a zoom ID. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

I keep the subject of my enquiry constantly before me, and wait til the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.  ( Sir Isaac Newton – mathematician and alchemist)

WE ARE BACK AT CLASS IN THE STUDIO , AND I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT.
NAMASTE – JAHNE