Dear Yogis,

Many of my class travel interstate and internationally  on a regular basis. The change to term charges makes even more sense as the students come and go to class between trips.

In the old days, when I was out and about and travelling every year, my first trips were from Essendon Airport.  We dressed up, wore a hat and gloves, the porter carried your bags to the plane and you walked across the tarmac.  It was all very glamorous like the Agatha Christie movies….

Then they built Tullamarine.  I remember being annoyed when more people started to fly and you couldn’t park right out the front! Then they had to build the car park, and then more and more car parks – and then I joined the Qantas Club and ceased to worry about parking and collecting the car.  To me there is no sense in spending more time looking for a car park than on the trip itself.

I think that today there are two ways to fly – watching your pennies, going economy and spending hours scrambling to nab a park in the car park, or finding another way.  I still would go the Qantas Way via the valet if I possibly could, but if not that I would catch the airport bus (which actually stops in Woodend), or take my time about the arrival and return by getting the train to the city and go to and from the airport via the airport bus stopping in the city to have a wander and a relaxed meal.  Anything to avoid the car park.  Oh yes, and taking only a carry-on.  Don’t take anything you can’t run with – not that I run!

STUDIO YOGA CLASS TIMES (yogabeautiful.com.au)
Fees FROM 3rd October (new term) $220 per term. (The Term – 3rd October until the week starting the 12th December).

Monday –  1pm class,  2.15 class as usual. ZOOM FREE Teacher Training 6.30pm 
Don’t forget the free lunch at the Uniting Church in Forest St next to the Police Station. 12.30 Mondays.
Tuesday 9.30 and 1.30 Jahne Teaching at Windarring  NOT HAPPENING ON CUP DAY
Wednesday 1pm Hatha and 2.15 teacher training IN THE STUDIO as usual
THURSDAY – Goodbye free day!! 12 noon our YOGA LUNCH at the Victoria Hotel in Woodend, all welcome –  the next our last for the year 24th November.  
Friday  2.15 Hatha yoga as usual.

WEEKEND ART CLASS (MAYBE SATURDAY, NOT SUNDAY…).  2.30 TO 4.30 ($85 for the four or $25 each).  You are welcome as always. Yesterday we explored the joys of sanding surfaces, using other than brushes, and when doing watercolours, learning to use the brushes properly.  I learned the Chinese way and rest in that knowledge – they REALLY know how to use their brushes and ink, both of which are venerated and are handed down generation to generation.  My own black ink stick is about 40 years old.  Amazing..

See you at the Studio.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

Good morning Yogis,

A strange day.  Although I had lots to do, the electrics on my car have decided to be difficult.  The door decided when to open or not.  I was a bit worried about getting locked in the car – I remember a friend this happened to, he had to craw out through the back window… I don’t have one of those that I can open.  My Garage said bring it in right away – they are busy bees, so if they were worried, I decided to obey right away.  So I am grounded.   Being sensible I could do without the car for a little time really, I just like being able to hop in it and zoom off to wherever I want, especially as it is going to rain!

ABLE2 YOGA

I have been teaching at Windarring and loving it of course. Teaching people with special needs is so OUT THERE.  Everything has to be visual, over the top, fun.   Every time I go there I learn something new, and learn how better to teach and respond to these gorgeous clients.  It is tiring and wonderful. Every week more work is suggested for me… I try to be disciplined..  Little steps.  I could spend my whole life just working with special clients – I dream about teaching them.

STUDIO YOGA CLASS TIMES (yogabeautiful.com.au)
Fees FROM 3rd October (new term) $220 per term. (The Term – 3rd October until the week starting the 12th December).

Monday –  1pm class,  2.15 class as usual. ZOOM FREE Teacher Training 6.30pm 
Don’t forget the free lunch at the Uniting Church in Forest St next to the Police Station. 12.30 Mondays.
Tuesday 9.30 and 1.30 Teaching at Windarring
Wednesday 1pm Hatha and 2.15 teacher training as usual
THURSDAY – Goodbye free day!! 1.30 Windarring.
Friday 11am ADVANCED ART class, followed by 2.15 Hatha yoga as usual.

SATURDAY 4.30 FORAGING ALONG 5 MILE CREEK. ALL WELCOME. 

SUNDAY BOTANICAL ART CLASS.  2.30 TO 4.30 you missed two, two to go.  You are welcome as always. This weekend in spite of the lack of half the class, we did Japanese ink painting… just to get a hang of the brush work.

 

I look forward to seeing you – or your dolls – on the mat.

NAMASTE. JAHNE

 

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

Another gorgeous day, with more rain promised, but the “dump” predicted by the BOM getting less by the hour.  Looks like 20ml which on sodden ground will show, but a whole lot better than 100 to 200ml.

We are managing way better than our yoga graduates, yogis and family in Shepparton, Echuca and Moama, where the water is rising as you read this.    You are in our hearts.  The water is rising all along the rivers and tributaries of the Murray,  and life is particularly difficult (an understatement).  In many ways a fire is better because when the front has passed there is nothing left and you can start again.  In a flood, when the river subsides there is wet and mud left behind.  An impossible situation and this doesn’t go away for years….

 

BARBARA’S BEAR.

Watching the ANTIQUES ROAD SHOW, just saw Barbara Cartland’s Teddy Bear complete with pink ribbon and diamanté’s, and found

it via Google.   I would just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to have that one, even for a little while.  I have bears to love, bears to fix, and bears to give away, and, I have a person coming up from the Geelong Branch of the Funeral Celebrants Association of Australia to collect a batch… how exciting.

*Mandatory Credit: Shutterstock Photo by Bruce Adams

 

ABLE2 YOGA

I was teaching at Windarring yesterday.  I love it, but I have observed one thing that is often forgotten by the carers, and that is that inside the twisted body or twisted mind and therefore twisted responses is a real person. A thinking, living, emotional (and in the case of Windarring) mature person.  I get upset when I see them being judged by their actions, and treated like children.  The actions that happen in response to your directions,  may not be relative to what the person is thinking.

Be patient, try and imagine what they are trying to do and don’t do it for them, which from their point of view could be experienced as being forced.  Wait, repeat slowly, gently.  My advice – look at the eyes, and not at the hands or the body.  Stand in front of your client, and teach to the eyes, and reward gently when the appropriate response has been achieved by the client – it may not be exactly what you anticipated, but it is a response, and the best that can be done at that moment.  The next week, the next class we will start again AT THE BEGINNING. NB: Bears really do help in this exercise in communication.  

 

HERBS+Cannabis COURSE (again)

I am going to try again with this.  Although in Australia Cannabis/CBD cannot be legally prescribed except by Licensed Doctors (who rarely know anything about this magnificent herb), the position in time will change, and we will come into line with the rest of the world.

As usual with my courses, this is online, and self-paced.  Imagining and preparing for the future… we will explore the many ways you can safely and responsibly invite this storied botanical into your herbal practice with intention and respect.

Learn the multi-layered history of cannabis and its legalization status before diving into botany and key terms, like the difference between cannabis and hemp. With that information under your belt, you’re well-prepared to explore the phytochemistry and therapeutic properties of cannabis, including both THC and CBD, and how they interact with our body’s fascinating endocannabinoid system. You’ll learn how to make cannabis preparations from the garden up, including oils and tinctures, that you can then use (when the time is right) in the herbal recipes we share.

Whether you’re completely new to cannabis and hope to cut through the clutter and discover the truth about this special plant —  this much-anticipated course has something for everyone!

Enroll before the first week in November 2022 to get the early bird price.
If you are interested, please Email yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

STUDIO YOGA CLASS TIMES (yogabeautiful.com.au)
Fees FROM 3rd October (new term) $220 per term. (The Term – 3rd October until the week starting the 12th December).

Monday –  1pm class,  2.15 class as usual. ZOOM FREE Teacher Training 6.30pm 
Don’t forget the free lunch at the Uniting Church in Forest St next to the Police Station. 12.30 Mondays.
Tuesday 9.30 and 1.30 Teaching at Windarring
Wednesday 1pm Hatha and 2.15 teacher training as usual
THURSDAY – Goodbye free day!! 1.30 Windarring.
Friday 11am ADVANCED ART class, followed by 2.15 Hatha yoga as usual.

SUNDAY BOTANICAL ART CLASS.  2.30 TO 4.30 you missed two, two to go.  You are welcome as always. This weekend in spite of the lack of half the class, we did Japanese ink painting… just to get a hang of the brush work.

 

I look forward to seeing you – or your dolls – on the mat.

NAMASTE. JAHNE