Good morning yogis (or good afternoon),

Another wet day in Woodend, but if you live in NSW you are learning the real meaning of “100 year flood line”.  I once wanted to build a toilet block on my farm and I had to provide details of the 100 year flood marker before I could build.  I thought it was a strange ask, but maybe I was wrong.  I was in America after the floods resulting from the hurricane Katrina, and our students have weathered floods in Euroa some years back.  Many of us have dealt with catastrophic fires.  In this country we know about the results natural disasters.   Today a number of our students are suffering the floods in NSW.  We are thinking of you guys.  Please touch base, email me.  The photo is of orbs across a mine cutting through a sacred aboriginal site.  Not all disasters are “natural”.

ZOOM/STUDIO DETAILS (plus new classes)
FRIDAY: ZOOM 5.30 STUDIO HATHA YOGA CLASS (starting April)  6.45 FREE TAROT/PENDULUM CLASS
SATURDAY: ZOOM 2pm TAROT/ART CLASS
SUNDAY: ZOOM 10am GITA CLASS
MONDAY: STUDIO 1PM HATHA YOGA CLASS/6.30PM ZOOM FREE BREATH CLASS (we examine breathing, eating and diet, moving, and living)
TUESDAY: ZOOM 7.30PM  RUMI CLASS
WEDNESDAY: 1pm STUDIO YOGA CLASS (starting April) 5.30 STUDIO YOGA CLASS

PLEASE BOOK WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO COME TO THE YOGA CLASSES: email yogafirst2@bigpond.com

 

REAL YOGA, REAL FOOD, REAL AGEING

Yoga isn’t just asanas as I have said many times before… it is about EVERYTHING.  Yoga is the BREATH, yoga is what you EAT, yoga is how you MOVE (not just in class), and yoga is about HOW YOU LIVE.  If you live well, if you truely embrace yoga, you will live a fabulous life, and I think I am a good advertisement for yoga having now lived a yoga life (sometimes well, sometimes less well) for a very long time.

Here I am in my mid seventies, and I am enlarging my practice to pre-covid levels, but better.  I am feeling fitter, and ready for what happens in the future.  I am loving it.  Things will always get better but they will never be PERFECT – I think this is the message we all need to hear.  It is not just about doing yoga, IT IS ABOUT WHAT DOING YOGA MAKES POSSIBLE.

WHAT IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU?  Is it about making a commitment, and actually coming to a regular zoom class?  Is it deciding that one yoga class per week isn’t enough (it isn’t).  Is it about taking on a further education course with me, or exploring new ways of doing things, thinking things?  Is it about getting involved in your community?

For me, I am working across the spectrum.  I have gone from 55 years a vegetarian, to an occasional meat eater, to a vegetarian, to now, mostly vegan/raw food.  But in a relaxed fashion – it works for me. I am opening the door to more students and more classes, with a new improved and (slimmer) fitter me (as one student said “that’s a worry!).  I cycled for two hours on maximum incline on my mini bike yesterday – And did a massage after that.  How good is that!!!  Did you know that the Roman Gladiators were VEGANS!  Who would have thought that.  Who else is vegan?  Arnie is, Scott Jurak the marathoner, Serena Williams, Bruce Lee, Murray Rose, Carl Lewis and so many more top athletes you know and admire.  You don’t need meat – Protein? Eat broccoli instead to supply you with protein.

The worlds greatest weight lifter was asked what meat he ate to make him as strong as an ox – he replied “I am  a vegan – Have you ever seen an ox eat meat?”  Oxen, horses, elephants, hippos, the great apes – all the super weightlifters of the animal kingdom get strength from plants…. they don’t worry about protein.

NOT “THE MEDICAL MEDIUM” and you don’t need to be one to eat better, and live better, although the word “medium” has mystique.  You can be a medium for yourself and use a pendulum, but you don’t need to in order to make better choices.  Even if you are not worried about the planet, worry about your health and the health of your family.

TO help or change – REMEMBER – I am still available for MASSAGE SESSIONS (LOVE THEM), TAROT READINGS (STUDIO OR ZOOM), AS WELL AS THE NEW YOGA CLASSES.  PLEASE BOOK AND COME TO SEE ME.  I CAN EVEN HELP YOU FEEL FITTER, STRONGER AND CALMER BY INCORPORATING A GOOD DIET INTO YOUR YOGA LIFE.

 

“Real Yoga, Real Food, Real Ageing”.  MAKE YOUR LIFE A MASTERPIECE!

SEE YOU SOON.  IT IS ALL ABOUT YOGA.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

 

Hi there Yogis,

A beautiful, wet March morning… and very wet yesterday…  

You may not have understood this, but if the world goes on cutting down trees, spraying poisons, and turning once productive land into deserts (actual deserts), we have only about 60 years of harvests big enough to support life as we know it.  What will your children and grandchildren do, how will they survive, what are you teaching them?  We can change this, and some are. By diversifying we can save the planet.   Are you?

Because I am aware of this, and want to do something, a number of things have been inspiring me lately towards a more integrated life….

1. The need to spend less time on the computer, and more time interacting personally with people – whilst earning a living.  I think I have this one solved and will reveal it to you later.

2. I have a need to become more self sufficient.  I am pretty much on the path, but need to refine my tastes, and get back to basics – another lock-down or retreat would be a good move to push me into more foraging again…..  Might do this when all the bits are in place. The hive was due this spring, but we haven’t had spring.  I will get my hive re-instated, and a couple of chooks.  Teaching knitting and crochet is part of the plan.

3. In order to get more self sufficient, I need to refurbish my garden.  Change things around, build the sleeper retainers higher, add more mulch, and get more large pots going on the verandah for the very cold weather, when nothing much is happening in the garden.  A friend of mine who rented,  had his whole herb, vegetable and fruit garden in pots.  A travelling orchard.

4.  Another larger tank is required.  I have thought about it for a long time… now I need to do it.  The small tank supplies the pond, and the pond is supplying me with more herbs, (and like it – especially since it is an integral part of garden drainage). I also need a compost tumbler.

5. I did look at solar a while back… whilst I need to be less tied to the grid, I am not sure solar is for me.  I may get a combustion cooker with a wet back.  I am used to this technology.  When I had one, my energy consumption was mainly just the council service fees..  One morning’s wood top-up supplied the water, the cooking, got rid of paper waste (which also went on the garden) and provided the heat for the house, and supplied it around the clock.  It is messy, it does take time – the time when I WONT BE ON THE COMPUTER!  Shades of “The Good Life” without the pig and goat.

COLLECT FOR FREE:  A beautiful, fully operational Singer Sewing machine in a cabinet with a box of embroidery discs. I have used it for years, and I love it.  It is metal, with metal motor parts, and a solid wood cabinet which opens to a small table. You will need help to move it and put it in your car.  The legs unscrew, so it may go in a station wagon.  Email me if you would like to come and collect it.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com

We all need to think about how we use what we have been given.  THE MOST SACRED THING WE HAVE IS CHOICE, and I have always chosen to restore a little slice of paradise every day!  It is all about love.  It is not about politics it is not about religion.  It is about what each of us can do today.  

If I take care of my world (interior as well as exterior) it will take care of me.  The picture of my front garden above is uninspiring to some – but how many of you can remember when it (and especially the backyard) was just a flat, weedy swamp which provided not one thing for the house,  and in the summer cost money to keep alive.  I planted all those trees in the photo, I drained, put down the gravel, planted herbs.  The wisteria grows on my back verandah…  My house is warm in the winter and cool in the summer – of course I have insulated at the same time… but it is a package, not just one thing.  It is constantly evolving (as am I).

You can do it too.  It just takes a plan.

IT STARTS IN YOGA, ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

I am writing this on Thursday evening – I know I am going to be busy tomorrow… I am getting in early.

EASTER is coming up fast.  Please understand that I DO NOT take holidays over Easter UNLESS you do.  If you are not going to be around for our usual classes, please let me know.  Otherwise everything is as usual.

FRIDAYS:  6.45pm FREE pendulum class
SATURDAY: 2pm TAROT CLASS.  I think I will also be giving a beginners class in knitting and crochet at this time if you want to join.  I really don’t mind what we do in this class – if everyone has a different direction that is totally fine..  As long as we have a finished article at some point.
SUNDAY:  10am THE BEAUTIFUL GITA STUDY GROUP. (Sunday April 4th – Studio Teacher Training)

WEDNESDAY 24th March (1pm Studio Art Class.  Bring unfinished/stalled projects for help. We will also be teaching beginners crochet and knitting in this class)

THE GARDEN
I now have a battery operated leaf blower, a hedge trimmer, a pruner and a whipper snipper.  All lightweight, all Ozito, all with their batteries attached as part of the package – and very economical.  I am loving it.  I can get twice as much done in a fraction of the time (and energy).  If it wasn’t for God making a whipper snipper available for me (via Val – thanks) at exactly the right time, I would not have moved in this direction. I have, and it has made me feel a whole lot more enthusiastic about the garden, because now I can manage it myself.

ART
I have started work (again) on the MAGDALEN REVELATION CARDS.  As I said to an artist friend who dropped in to see me today, everything takes time.  I did stage one which was organising and pasting on the images.  Stage two is overpainting which I have almost completed – 4 cards to go, then Stage three will be the finishing, and making them as good as they can be, and then I will have to WRITE THE BOOK.  This is going to be quite a job I think,  as the images are not simple.  The ideas contained in each image are philosophical and complex.  Nonetheless, I am looking forward to it.  I like writing.

There is so much to do, and the days are getting shorter.  I did get some knitting cotton from the OP shop so have started knitting dishcloths.  Everyone likes them, and I don’t even have to think as I do them.  They are super easy.

TEACHER TRAINING CLASS.
I hope you noticed in the last newsletter that I am starting up the monthly teacher training classes IN THE STUDIO (by request).  The first Sunday in each month starting the 4th April.  2pm as usual.  I hope you make time for us and come.  We have to keep a reasonable distance, but I am sure we are all aware, and if you want to wear a mask you can.

CBD AND ALZHEIMERS
I have been sent a fabulous article (well researched, well sourced) about CBD and Alzheimers, and how recent studies suggest that CBD is going to play a major role in staving off of this terrible disease of the protein covering of our cells in the brain – which ends up looking very much like a Swiss cheese.

If you are interested I can send it to you (everyone should be interested).  Please email me yogafirst@netcon.net.au.  I want many people as possible turned on to the wonderful healing properties of this remarkable oil (which is not hemp oil – a different formulation entirely).

You would do well to read this article, and also go to Netflix and watch WEED THE PEOPLE, which is about the beauty of medical marijuana.  This is a Human Rights Issue, not just a push for decriminalisation.  If you are confused about this issue, please chat, there is a lot of misinformation out there.  I have always urged my students to watch TED TALKS, and of course the Netflix film.  Mostly an American or European view… but  things change.

 

TURKEY TAIL
I have some fabulous fresh Turkey Tail Mushroom powder. $35 including postage.   This is a booster of the immune system and can enhance your dreams.  I thought it was just me – but a lot of my clients tell me that they now dream in technicolour and smellavision – they never did before, and were lucky to get the odd black and white version.  Boosting the immune system is what I take it for, anything else is a wonderful bonus.

I am shortly expecting a new shipment of DAMIANA HERB TEA – also for relaxation and anxiety.  This used to be a marijuana substitute BEFORE marijuana was bred for potency – it is a different plant to what it used to be.

AS I ALWAYS SAY – MEET ME ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE