Good morning yogis.

It is a new day, a new week and we are back to zooming.

Monday:  1pm zoom Hatha yoga, 5.30 zoom Free Teacher Training – Mary Magdalen
Tuesday: 7.30pm The Magdalen Group.  A deep Study – booklet to accompany the course out soon. My notes for the study made into a booklet.  I will get it to you as soon as I can.  Even if you haven’t done the study you will love to read about this remarkable woman.
Wednesday: 5.30 Zoom Restorative Yoga
Friday:(Hopefully out of lockdown) – STUDIO HATHA YOGA 5.30 (A new Class – vacancies available but please let me know if you want to come.  There is a maximum covid imposed student number. email: yogafirst2@bigpond.com)
Saturday: Zoom Yoga Business Development (free). Taking stock and moving forward after lock-downs
Sunday: 10am. Topic – The Book of the Dead.  A fabulous study about living life to the full.

 

COVID IN THE STUDIO

There will be no group classes until after the lock down.  WE WILL BE ZOOMING until Friday unless extended..  

The Covid rules as they apply to me in the studio.    You can exercise for two hours per day with your household or one other person (who doesn’t live with you) with as long as neither of you travel more than 5km from your home.  You can travel for “health” and “care” –  which seems to cover what I do .

IF YOU VISIT ME for health or personal reasons/massage (No studio yoga until end of lock-down):  If you have a fever, breathing difficulties, breathlessness, cough, sore throat, fatigue or tiredness, and if you have visited or been visited by anyone from the hot-spots,  – we ask you to email or text me and reschedule your appointment.   When you enter and exit the centre, please sign in with the Q code,  and ensure you use our sanitising station, which will be clearly seen as you walk into the reception/yoga area.

I am allowed a “bubble” of one visitor.  Please do not visit with a family member, partner or friend.

COVID-19 safety and hygiene measures we are taking (all through covid) include:

Wiping down tables, desks, chairs and door handles between each client. Multiple sanitising stations around the centre.

All linen/towels used in treatment room  changed after each client.  Props sanitised with high pressure steam.

All wearing masks at all times in our centre. (This is now optional, we will continue to wear a mask during massage when appropriate).

All clients to wear a face mask prior to entering,  and optional during your visit.

All visitors will be asked to sign in or (Q code available on front and back doors), and sanitise their hands at entry and exit.

 

YOGA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

FREE One-hour consultation over zoom – Saturday 5th June at 10.30am

Free, no obligation – yes, I know you are a yoga teacher/artist/masseur or coach… but we are all in business and some of us are struggling (again)  When you are part of the Sangha, we are all in this TOGETHER.

No matter how well you think you’re going, every business has areas where it can improve – Productivity and exploring new areas, project management, cashflow and budgeting, planning, customer service, marketing and lead generation.  Any areas of your yoga business you are worried about at the present time… Let’s talk through them and find solutions – Covid lockdown is the perfect time to consider these issues.

I am willing to spend an hour with a group, free of charge or obligation, to show you how to boost your businesses, even in these difficult times.   I’ve done this for many, many art and yoga businesses, including many of my own, and I am still doing it, still in business, and still loving it!

Lockdown is the perfect time to book this one-hour free GROUP consultation. Email me to arrange your free, group consultation over zoom. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

 

COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS PROJECT
Before Covid I had put together a new HOME STUDY course for people aspiring to be DEATH DOULAS.  Those Compassionate Companions who midwife people through the process of dying… and it is a process (physical death, emotional, spiritual).

Those who have been studying with me on zoom through Covid –  The ‘Gita, Rumi and now The Tibetan Book of The Dead, will have an advantage and more resources to draw on.   I am glad I waited too, it is wonderful how everything weaves together.

Covid caused me to go in other directions, but I am back on track.  The course will include zoom study times with me, and completion will  achieve a certification that will allow you to move into this work.  There will be a home-study component.. but I think you would be able to complete in 8 to 10 weeks.  I will let you know when this course is ready for you to enrol – as usual when I launch a new major program there will be scholarships. .

Just as when weaving
One reaches  the end
With fine threads woven throughout,
So is the life of humans
-BUDDHA

 

MEET ME ON THE MAT,

NAMASTE JAHNE

 

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

We have been alerting you to the fact that the virus is returning, and we should expect a lock down – and here it is!  

It is only for 7 days, could be less, so no need to panic.  We know how to do this, and we can do it over again.  Being less than a domestic goddess, I discovered dust and cleaning that needed doing during the last lockdown, even re-tiled the shower recess.  I am not sure if I will have time to be very enthusiastic this time around… but I don’t mind lock downs.  I think I will frame and photograph some pictures, do some darning that is backing up and change the yoga to zoom.

ZOOM FOR THE NEXT 7 DAYS.
SUNDAY ZOOM at 10am THE BARDO.  “The Tibetan Book of the Dead”.  A guide not just for dying – but also for living.
MONDAY ZOOM 1pm Yoga (Hatha – all welcome)  6.30pm FREE TEACHER TRAINING.  Mary Magdalen
TUESDAY ZOOM 7.30 MARY MAGDALEN
WEDNESDAY ZOOM 5.30 YOGA (Restorative – all welcome)

I can be available for ZOOM Art/Craft class on Saturday Afternoon 2pm if any previous “zoomers” want a class at this time.  If I don’t get requests, I won’t be there.

STUDIO:  REMEMBER AND Book me into your diary for Teacher Training on Sunday the 6th June.  2pm to 4pm
Could be zoom, could be studio.  

HERBS:  Attention Ayurvedic Therapists.  I have a tub of precious NIGELLA SATIVA meal – the seeds after the first cold pressing.  I have been using them soaked in oil or honey for skin conditions, but they can be used for much more.   They are mentioned in the Qur’an with great reverence and it is said the only thing they can’t cure is DEATH.  Good to know.  Are you interested? I can share.

 

THE GOSPEL of MARY MAGDALEN.

Pages 1-6 are missing
Page 7

1. …….What is matter?
2. Will it last forever?
3. The Teacher answered:
4. “All that is born, all that is created,
5. all the elements of nature
6. are interwoven and united with each other
7. All that is composed will be decomposed;
8. everything returns to its roots;
9. matter returns to its roots of matter.
10. Those who have ears let them hear”.

“The Gospel of Mary presents Jesus as a teacher, and the teaching he transmits contains the knowledge necessary for the re-integration of human being with themselves, with their Source and the Principle.  This Gospel is one of Divine Knowledge.  It goes deeper than the teaching of laws and rules as we saw in the Old Testament.  In this Gospel, Jesus has something to say to us about the fundamental nature of the world and of humanness.

We began exploring these ideas with the poetry of Rumi and learned of his relationship with Shams I-Tabriz.  Rather like the intellectual relationship between Mary and Jesus, and again Jibril and Muhammed.  In each case, the word was transmitted from God, (from the Divine) to the “Teacher” and then to the “student”  destined to take the message to the world.

Along side this we will be looking at the Tibetan world as expressed in the Bardo.  A reminder of the interdependence and impermanence if all things.  What has a beginning has also an end.  Ignorance of impermanence generates illusions, attachments, and therefore suffering – all the ancient wisdom traditions tell us this.

When we read the Gospel of Mary we will hear the Teacher say over and over, the phrase taken up by Mary when she was the teacher “Those who have ears let them hear”  .  It is an invitation to pay attention – to develop a subtle perception, a special faculty of attention.  The Real, (Reality), is only known by those who take the time to hear, those who can tune in to the silence until the emptiness which is everything speaks.  The Jewish call-to-prayer, The  Shema, recited  in every Synagogue (and some High Anglican Churches)  calls to those who know…… “LISTEN O ISRAEL”

“….if the conscious subject has no ears there will be nothing to hear,
if the eyes are not open there will be nothing to see,
if the heart is not awake, there will be nothing to understand…….” (Yeshua-Jesus)

 

MEET ME ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

Here I am able to easily use the internet.  I am free from my Telstra troubles for the present, and have made a wonderful Telstra friend in Gujarat India who responded to my call to Telstra for help,  with the most wonderful service I have had from anyone, anywhere.  We talked yoga a lot whilst she was working on her computer to remedy the situation, and she called back when she said she would every time.  Even this morning called again to make sure all is well. That is service!  She is even working to help me get a yoga book delivery from Gorakhpur!

ZOOM:
MONDAY: FREE TEACHER TRAINING.   Mary Magdalen Study tonite at 6.30pm
TUESDAY: 7.30 tp 9pm “Rumi on LOVE”
SUNDAY: 10am. The BARDO THODOL.

How can I report on such a fabulous week.  It is all about FAITH (which I recently tattoo’d on my hand to keep it top-of-mind).  I could have gone into the week looking at the entries on my diary or the bookings on my to-do-list, and at the beginning of the week it look like slim pickings, but I knew that God had something in mind that needed a clear deck and that is so – and how things panned out.  The week expanded into fantabulousistic.  I just loved it.

When I finished last nite (with a social  visit from a client I had been trying to contact), it was just the icing on the cake.  I will have to learn to keep operating from the vortex, not worrying, but doing what needs to be done.  Just doing what is in front of me with no judgement…watching for opportunities hiding in plain sight.

TRY WORKING THIS WAY.  IT IS SO RELAXING TO LEAVE EVERY LITTLE THING IN GOD’S HANDS.
“NOTHING CAN HAPPEN THAT IS NOT ORDAINED BY GOD (EVEN THIS NEWSLETTER). TRUST THIS”.(Qu’ran)

SERVICES:

MASSAGES with me:  Usually a hour (or so) $85 after hours and weekends available
TAROT also 1 hour for $85 (you can do this on line – zoom).  Saturdays and Sundays fine.

YOGA:
Monday 1pm (full), Wednesday 5.30 (full), FRIDAY 5.30 Restorative Yoga –  vacancies available.

DARNING:  Take a photo of the damage, email it to me, and I can estimate a cost and a time to fix.  We will go from there.

For any and all enquiries, email me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com  or go to the web page www.yogabeautiful.com.au

 

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT

NAMASTE.  JAHNE