Dear Yogis,

What an amazing week.  We are all working on the first intake of Compassionate Companions, I have still managed some paintings which I have put on instagram… and I have new students for the Yoga teacher Training by distance.  So, all good.

SCHEDULE
STUDIO: Monday 1pm, Wednesday 5.30 Restorative,  and Friday 5.30 Gentle hatha.
ZOOM: Monday Yoga Teacher Training 6.30, Tuesday CCP Training 7.30, Friday Tarot 6.45 and Sunday CCP training 10am

 

YOGA TEACHER TRAINING.

I have got a lovely new (small) class of young ones interested in Yoga teacher Training, and am so looking forward to working with them.  Others who have yet to finish can join us on zoom on Mondays.  So, if you are hanging back, if you are not yet finished and you need some contact, please join us on Mondays.

I am so looking forward to getting some newbies in the class.  I have updated everything, so there will be areas where you need to rethink if you have already started and want to move forward.  I think you will enjoy the class and your course even more with a weekly zoom session.

Finish the course if you are slowing down and encourage your students to start – be inspired and empowered to live an influential life of leadership. Discover your unique gifts and use them wisely to contribute to building a better world.    This is no “quickie” course.  Learn to use your confident yoga voice to skillfully teach even the more challenging poses, while compassionately meeting your student’s varying emotional and physical needs.

Remember at the beginning of the week I drew THE FOOL out of the tarot deck.  The fool is all about new beginnings.  Let’s all take a deep breath, forget about covid, and press on.  Onwards and upwards!

I look forward to seeing you, if not on the mat, then on zoom

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

 

Dear Yogis..
CLASS SCHEDULE:
Studio Class.  Monday 1pm, Wednesday 5.30 and Friday 5.30
Zoom Monday 6.30, Tuesday CCP 7.30, Friday 6.45 Tarot, and Sunday 10am
Some inspiration….
Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle commented on the current situation a few days ago:
“This moment that humanity is experiencing can be seen as a door or a hole.The decision whether you fall into the hole or through the door is up to you. If you consume the news 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, with pessimism, you will fall into that hole.  But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, to take care of yourself and others, you will go through the portal.  Take care of your home, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual home. When you take care of yourself, you take care of everyone else at the same time.
Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. Take the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader view. There is a social issue in this crisis, but also a spiritual issue. The two go hand in hand.  Without the social dimension, we fall into fanaticism. Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility.
You are ready to face this crisis. Get your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.  Learn resistance from the example of the Indian and African peoples: we have been and are being exterminated. But we never stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire and rejoicing.
Don’t feel guilty for feeling happy in these difficult times. Being sad or angry doesn’t help at all. Resistance is resistance through joy! You have the right to be strong and positive. And there is no other way to do this than to keep a beautiful, happy and bright attitude.  It has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance about the world). It is a strategy of resistance.
When we cross the threshold, we have a new view of the world because we have faced our fears and difficulties. That’s all you can do now:
– Serenity in the storm – Keep calm, pray every day – Make it a habit to encounter the Holy every day – Show resilience through art, joy, trust and love.                Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle.  Date Added: 9 July 2021

MALAS.

I am crafting some rather amazing Malas.  I have always made my own, and I have amassed some fabulous beads which I use to make malas for other (not for everyone) . If you would like a mala,  let me know your favourite colour and stone.  I can’t guarantee to have exactly a match.  Christmas is not  that far away and you could purchase one as a gift.. for that very special person in your life.

Description:  A mala of beads , sporting a bone crucifix (or not, you choose). The making process is done by us in a perfect state of meditation, so as to imbue this beautiful mala with the spirit required for such a potent icon. Before dispatch, each Mala has had at least one hundred and eight “Hail Marys”thirteen “Aum Shantis”,  and nine “Om Mani Padme Hums” prayed over it.  If you wish your own chants to be intoned during its making,  you may specify your personalised sectarian or Buddhist chant in the notes section at checkout.
These mazing Malas (one of a kind – I will never be able to get this combination of crystals and beads again) AU$542.00
Including a booklet of the history and use of your mala.

THE TAROT FOR TODAY – “THE TOWER”

This card is all about change..

1.What aspect of your life would benefit from a profound and irreversible restructuring – although it is scary to consider?
2.In this present time of covid, how can you support yourself to prepare for unexpected and significant changes?
3.Considering re-structuring, changing what aspect of your life needs to be shaken up right now?
4.What needs to be seen differently in order for change to occur?
5.Considering your life to date, what changes you have made have taught you about what YOU need in order to be fulfilled?

I will see you on the mat – I really will.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

Well, no matter how we personally feel about it, our home-stay is going to be extended I think.  I was hoping we would be together again in person sooner rather than later, but no, it is back to foraging.  Actually it is a bit too cool to spend much time in the woods and streams however “mother nature” it may make you feel.

The photo on the right is of a painting on a tea bag – one of mine – actually my rendition of a sculpture by Lorenzo showing Mother Nature whirling the earth around.  He sculpted it as a statement about Global Warming but it could just as easily be though of as being about our communities in this difficult time of Covid.

I am sure there will be many businesses, no matter how much money the Government dishes out – which will not be able to survive.  The customers have just gone away.  As yoga teachers we know the feeling.  Yoga has never been considered a necessity!  When the world gets a sniffle, we get pneumonia.  It is like that now for most.  Stay the course. To be a HERO there is only one qualification – JUST SHOW UP.  

ZOOM CLASSES THIS WEEK.
Monday 1pm Hatha, Monday 6.30 Mary Magdalen
Tuesday 7.30 – CCP Repeat of Sundays Class for CCP and those interested in The Tibetan Book of the Dead. All welcome.
Wednesday 5.30 Restorative Yoga
Friday 5.30 Hatha Yoga, Friday 6.45 The FREE Tarot learning class.
Sunday 10am Tibetan Book of the Dead CCP study unit

AUGUST 22ND EVENT.  I hope we are out of Covid lockdown by the 22nd of the month as I am hoping to have an open house and art/garage sale, with champers and nibbles of course.

A PREDICTION:  This is just a dream (one of those “event” dreams that wake you up), a prediction, a notice from the Ravens and Rainbirds.  I believe a big RAIN weather event is on its way. Unfortunately I can’t yet tell you an accurate forecast, but “spring” will have to do.  Now is the time to get your roof checked, and any other precautions you may need to make.  I have notified my plumber.  This house and its site is very water sensitive and having him check the roof, the drainage, and the tank in the next couple of weeks is the best I can do, as well as make preparations inside the house just in case.  We have been here before..

 

THE REVELATION TAROT.

We need the tarot at the moment, not as a way to remove our responsibility, but to know where effectively to place it.  How best to use our time.  The photo on the right is the first card in the tarot deck, THE FOOL.  It was the card I drew out today (Sunday is the time of writing), appropriate as I am having to learn new things, and face new situations as you are too.  It is all about FAITH AND TRUST.

The fool asks us these questions.

  • If you knew you couldn’t possibly fail, what would you step towards – what insecurity/fear would you challenge?
  • What does the phrase ‘the wisdom of fools’ mean to you, and how might it apply in this situation?
  • What’s the worst that could happen if you fall (not that you could), and how might that  ‘worst thing’ actually play out as a benefit or advantage in your life?
  • Check.  What resources do you carry with you wherever you go, and which of them could you use right now?

To know more about these Cards(or you could use your own), come to our Tarot Class onFriday nights – it’s FREE!!) and go “Jahne Hope-Williams YouTube” and do out FREE Revelation Tarot Course.  You can purchase a set on www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

CCP GRADUATES:  I now have places for my student to work when they graduate.  I don’t have to go and and search, businesses come to me.  A great place to be.

I will see you on zoom – soon 

NAMASTE – JAHNE