Dear Yogis,

ZOOM: Monday 6.30pm Mary Magdalen. Tuesday 7.30pm Mary Magdalen.
STUDIO: Monday 1pm Gentle Hatha, Wednesday 5.30 Restorative, Friday 5.30 Hatha.
Please email me to join the class: yogafirst2@bigpond.com

What can I say.  I am just so inspired at the moment with the TAROT.. not just my own deck but a number of different decks by different artists.  The wonderfully intuitive VOYAGER, the “close to home” SHAKESPEARE, and the close to the heart LENORMAND.  I love them all, and have had the opportunity to use them all recently. Thank goodness my clients aren’t the dogmatic kind – the “I want a reading from the RIDER WAITE and nothing else will do” kind of people…  I use a pendulum to decide which to use and when.  It works for me, and I am sure it works for you too.

If you want a zoom reading (business, relationship, love life, changes) then I would love to help you. I charge $85 an hour no matter  – yoga, art, massage or tarot – in person or on zoom.  When I am more competent with astrology we can go there too.

I do charge extra if you go over the hour, but it is always your choice (I don’t use a stop watch).  Sometimes the most important parts of the reading sneak in at the end – the right guides at the right time.  If you want a longer life history or past life kind of reading then that takes longer and can cost up to $250 depending on where we go…. and how long it takes.

MARY MAGDALEN.
As you know I now attend the Catholic Church.  There have been numerous paragraphs in our weekly Order of Service alluding to whom in the Bible the Church approves of and who falls outside of that, and reinforcing the virginity of Mary,  Jesus and whomever else seems important. I was interested given Jewish family laws and the fact that Jesus was jewish and would have known and adhered to these rules, and I wondered how I could change the common perception even a little,  so,  I have been speaking to some friendly members of the congregation (the movers and shakers among the women) and the priest about Mary Magdalen.  Then, this week IN THE SERMON (called the Homily here), The Priest said twice and in a very loud voice  “of course, Mary Magdalen was the Apostle to the Apostles” and spoke about her work, her spirituality, and how she went out and spread the gospel message.  I am pretty sure not many there were actually listening, but I felt like standing up and cheering.  It is hard to share smiles when we are all wearing masks, but I can assure you I was sending him peace, love and goodwill thoughts.  A little change but profound.  More please.   It flabbergasts me how the Church has distorted the message – but it is just lovely to get together with a group who are trying to be better persons, spiritually.

CCP:  Don’t forget we start on the 22nd July.  If you want to be a DEATH (AND LIFE) DOULA, LEADING TO A FUNERAL CELEBRANT, email me and I will send you the Application.

I look forward to seeing you on the mat, and on the zoom.  

Namaste, JAHNE
and as a MYSTIC friend of mine used to say (he passed last year, and is very close to me at present) “Mucho, mucho Amore”.  

 

 

 

 

 

Hi there Yogis.

SATURDAY:  CCP INFORMATION SESSION 10AM ZOOM – Email me for your ID
SUNDAY: 10 AM THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD (The Book of Living and Dying).  A Text for the CCProject

This is a time of growth and change.  For me too.  For years I have been surrounded by yoga and art books and things because I was constantly teaching.  This is less the case now, and I want to de-clutter (almost minimise but not quite).  Something I am teaching others to do.  You may be just leaning back into your yoga teaching which will accelerate as the pressure of Covid is lessened, and as you grow, you might like to avail yourself of some of my prized items.

The picture of my little studio space to the right may not look uncluttered to you – but I really have taken out a huge amount…In the yoga room I am letting go of my beloved yoga swings (just keeping one for me), blankets, pillows, blocks, many books which I will sell in bundles, DVD’s and so on – by donation.  I will start on the 22nd July at our Mary Magdalen Feast Day and continue through to the 22nd August which I have designated as my ART AND YOGA SALE DAY.  If you have gone to the CCP web site you will have seen the notice.  You are all welcome to both.  Of course on the 22nd July I will also be celebrating the launch of our CCP COURSE.  This also has gained a write-up in The Australian Yoga Journal digital edition which pleases me… They have done such a lovely job.

I am excited by this course which is not just about sitting by a bedside at end of life. It is not just about DEATH, but it is about helping people LIVE wherever they find themselves….  We all remember Florence Nightingale as the “Lady with the Lamp”, but no-one would have remembered her if she hadn’t dealt with life. Helped soldiers regain their life even if that happened to be end-of-life.  She did not just sit by their bedside with a candle.  They knew she was fighting for them. Advocating.

This may involve sitting by the bed, but it may also be about talking to the client and family about end-of-life arrangements, about preparing them to let go of computer and day to day expenses… about helping them let go of everything IT.  Even down-sizing.  De-stressing on all levels.

It is not about counselling – it is about being a Compassionate Companion.  It is a big job, and the course will prepare you for each part.

To find out more and to enrol, please go to www.ccpproject.com .  I am trying to get donations in order to offer PART scholarships…I have mentioned this before.  If this interests you… please email me:  yogafirst2@bigpond.com

In the Meanwhile – I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

Happy Birthday His Holiness The Dalai Lama – 86 today (Tuesday 6th July).  Wherever you are, whatever you are doing have a wonderful day.

ZOOM: Sunday 10am The Book of Living and Dying
SATURDAY: 10am THE COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS PROJECT (INCLUDING “THE CCP MINIMALIST”) Email me for your free registration.  I will send you an ID code  yogafirst2@bigpond.com

What a week.  The jab, and then being confronted by a “yogi” angry that I had done it.  Angry doesn’t help anyone.  My mum used to say “If you are in the right,  then you don’t need to get angry. If you are in the wrong you can’t afford to be”.  Good advice.  But all is well we are back on track.  The school holidays feel almost like lock-down.  Everyone is pulling back and doing family things.

Tomorrow I am loading my book of lists on to ETSY as part of the CCP PROJECT   Another way the COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS can help their community (it is not just about DEATH).  Do you have a Will? Even if you do have a will, if you died, would your beloved know your passwords, your favourite hymn, where the diamonds are buried and so on… all those things that they want to tell you but don’t get around to.  And then it’s too late and you have had the bank account frozen, there is no money under the carpet and  you are totally stressed out, panicked and stuck.  It happens more often than you would like to think about because people don’t write things down.  THE BLACK BOOK is a “LIVING WILL”.  However, you can help others complete this list if they have not already done so.THE

This LITTLE BLACK BOOK will help you.  It is absolutely essential in times of crisis.  All the numbers and needs of your life in one place (your lawyers).  You don’t want anyone but your lawyer or accountant getting their sticky little fingers on this one.

 

CCP MINIMALIST (www.ccpproject.com)

Whilst I was writing the book,  I contemplated how we can take this approach even further and DE-CLUTTER OUR LIVES. I know the photo to the right doesn’t look very glamorous but these are my yoga trousers and tops – the ones I wear everyday, my uniform.  What you see is all I have left.  I am going through a cupboard a day and dealing with my clothes first.

I have heard of PROJECT 33.  A challenge where you wear only 33 items over a period of 3 months.  That is everything…even the jewellery.  Great if you are in a Tiny House, but I do not, and am becoming a minimalist a day at a time.  If you buy one item you have to chuck 10 out (yes, 10).

As a CCP CONSULTANT this is another string to your bow.  Helping people (and yourself) prepare a “LIVING WILL”, and helping them to de-clutter their lives.  It is wonderful – we are not just Death Doulas.  We are here for the living too. I have helped people take 100 bags of clutter out of their house.  Mine is not like this, but even the small amount I have shifted thus far is very liberating.  Try it.  THEN JOIN THE COURSE AND HELP OTHERS.  It is a planned approach, not just chucking stuff into a skip.

I look forward to seeing you on the mat.

NAMASTE – AND HAPPY DE-CLUTTERING