eNewsletters for Trainees Teachers – Page 117

Dear Yogis,

WOW!! What a day we had yesterday at Windarring with my disability clients, we did FLOOR EXERCISES for the first time. Up to this point it I just taught chair exercises. They loved the floor versions, smiling and laughing all through the class. I learned a lot too – How the class is VERY VISUAL, and each client needs to be reached by physical steps… taking about the moves is useless without accompanying step1, step2, step3 type of instruction directly in front OF EACH CLIENT. I floated home I was so pleased with the class. The ground work had paid off.

HYPNOTHERAPY AND RELAXATION

I don’t know about you, but I began my studies and practice in hypnosis because I met clients with problems that seemed to be chronic, but I could see had their beginning in their view of the world. Stories they told themselves. Plus, clients (in an effort to change their minds) had been given all kinds of medication over and over again, even if they didn’t make any progress from taking it, or their overall health was being compromised. I was reminded of Einstein’s quote:

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

The same applies today. It was the ‘sane’ doctors doing the same thing over and over to the ‘insane’ patients… I was not new to hypnosis having experienced its effectiveness myself, and I began to study and use it. In the beginning primarily to deeply relax my overstressed clients. I found that not only could I get them into a relaxing trance, but the benefits of it would last for days.

Now this isn’t because I am different from you, some kind of super-therapist, I know countless other practitioners who have made similar differences in people’s lives. In fact I have had clients stop smoking (a difficult drug to quit) in only one session.

That’s the reason why I do this work. I love hearing stories like this, and reflecting on the clients I’ve helped. (I should point out here that I’m not anti-medication, and certainly a raving fan of herbal medication. However, I AM against over-prescribing, and using medication that has not been proven to work).

I remember in my early years in my clinic thinking ‘there’s got to be a better way!’ and now that I know what it is, well I’m on a mission to share it.

If you would like a hypnotherapy session I would be willing to try zoom(?) as long as you could closely regulate your environment – no noise, no interruptions, no dogs or cats. I would prefer sessions at my studio.

Hypnosis is easy to teach, and I could organise a class and teach you how to do this. It would take a weekend. If you are interested please let me know, keeping in mind that the “COMING TO OUR SENSES” workshop is a kind of hypnosis. A very good “step 1”.

MEDITATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE – A WORKSHOP. “COMING TO OUR SENSES” (This is a kind of self hypnosis) SATURDAY 15TH OCTOBER, 1.30 TO 4PM. (Maximum of 8 students. Cost: $25 – Early Bird, before the 15th October $20). If you would like to join us, please let me know. We can take an afternoon away from the world and work on this. It is not a dour, hard, zen workshop – it is a STUDIO (NOT ZOOM) workshop of experience. . We will start with, “COMING TO OUR SENSES” – SATURDAY 15TH OCTOBER, 1.30 TO 4PM. (Maximum of 8 students. Cost: $25 – Early Bird, before the 15th October $20. I can charge hundreds of dollars if it would make you feel better about the course). I need to have 6 to 8 people to move forward with this workshop.

****I WILL BE AT THE ART GALLERY at MT.MACEDON (next to The trading Post) 8th and 16th October from 10am to 1pm. Please come at these times if you would like to meet me, chat, see the dolls and other things… It is a beautiful little gallery.

ZOOM TEACHER TRAINING 6.30 Monday (The Sutras)

NEW – SATURDAY STUDIO BOTANICAL ART CLASS: “GIVE IT A GO” with Jahne. 4 x 2 hour classes from SUNDAY 9th October, 2.30pm to 4.30 $75 for members of The Botanical Art Society of Australia, ($85 non-members). Location: Woodend, Victoria.

FOR BOOKINGS, ENQUIRIES – NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: yogafirst2@bigpond.com

SEE YOU ON THE MAT –

NAMASTE. JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

I have sent out the ID for this evenings FREE, FREE, FREE ZOOM class. If you want an ID, please email me and I will send you one so you can join in. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

This class is yogic philosophy, but we do discuss how we can use it in everyday life – much the same as Michael Roach did when he translated the DIAMOND SUTRA, and published The Diamond Cutter, so we could all bring the philosophies into the everyday (and make a million dollars as he did!)

Keep in mind that this Thursday is our usual YOGA LUNCHEON. I do have a few who have RSVP’d. I have sent out a notice.. If you are a “regular”, because it is the School holidays, I would like an RSVP please. Everyone is welcome. Thursday 29th September, 12noon, The Victoria Hotel in Woodend. We started a bit prior to covid, kept an on-line presence during the lockdowns, and now everything is open and easy, we are trying to keep going.

STUDIO YOGA CLASS TIMES (yogabeautiful.com.au)
Fees FROM 3rd October (new term) $220 per term.
Monday – the 1pm class ONLY deferred until term 4 (re-starting 3rd October). This hopefully will allow everyone to take care of families and school holidays for that 1 hour per week.
Monday 2.15 class as usual
Tuesday 1.30 Teaching at Windarring
Wednesday 1pm Hatha and 2.15 teacher training as usual
Friday 2.15 as usual.

PRE-CHRISTMAS, OPEN STUDIO: 2to 4pm, Saturday and Sunday 22nd and 23rd October and 2 to 4pm Saturday and Sunday 26th and 27th November. Put it in your diary now – you are all welcome. There will be some changes in the Studio, and I will have lots you can choose from… Stocking stuffers, and major purchases, even repurposed, updated clothing now I have a lovely dress form. Certainly there will be bears and dolls both large and small – no, my blue velvet bear is not for sale….. neither is my little Steiff-like lion, although you can take turns cuddling them.

MEDITATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE – A WORKSHOP. “COMING TO OUR SENSES” – SATURDAY 15TH OCTOBER, 1.30 TO 4PM. (Maximum of 8 students. Cost: $25 – Early Bird, before the 15th October $20). If you would like to join us, please let me know. We can take an afternoon away from the world and work on this. It is not a dour, hard, zen workshop – it is a STUDIO (NOT ZOOM) workshop of experience. . We will start with, “COMING TO OUR SENSES” – SATURDAY 15TH OCTOBER, 1.30 TO 4PM. (Maximum of 8 students. Cost: $25 – Early Bird, before the 15th October $20).

ZOOM TEACHER TRAINING 6.30 Monday (The Sutras) STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING 2.15 Wednesday in the Studio.

FOR BOOKINGS, ENQUIRIES – NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: yogafirst2@bigpond.com

SEE YOU ON THE MAT –

NAMASTE, JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

Everyday there are invitations in my inbox relating to business and personal lectures and zooms, mainly about dealing with the world we find ourselves in, However, in the main they are looking in the wrong place.. The answer as we all know, lies within. Not within the computer but within you.

In Term 4 I am going to have an afternoon of “MEDITATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE”. This Sensory Awareness, like Zen Meditation, is not a teaching but a practice.

Our aim is not the acquisition of skills, but the freedom to explore sensitively and to learn from that exploration. At the workshop we propose experiments and ask questions directed towards the possibility of experiencing – the student’s own explorations which he must go into for himself, at his own pace, even though he will be sitting and working within a group.

The attitude we seek is that of a child. One of oneness and consciousness, allowing whatever becomes conscious in our present state, the time it needs to become clearer to us. As we come to a more inner quiet and clarity, a great deal happens by itself . What you may consider to be thinking, is actually a repetitive compulsive occupation of consciousness with loose associations, cliches and calculations which lead us away from fuller consciousness.

An integral part of this (first) workshop will be discovering what is natural and what is conditioned, what is our nature and what has become our second nature which keeps us apart.

If you would like to join us, please let me know. We can take an afternoon away from the world and work on this. It is not a dour, hard, zen workshop – it is a workshop of experience. . We will start with, “COMING TO OUR SENSES” – SATURDAY 15TH OCTOBER, 1.30 TO 4PM. (Maximum of 8 students. Cost: $25 – Early Bird, before the 15th October $20).

MEDITATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE – A WORKSHOP. “COMING TO OUR SENSES” – SATURDAY 15TH OCTOBER, 1.30 TO 4PM. (Maximum of 8 students. Cost: $25 – Early Bird, before the 15th October $20).

GALLERY at MT.MACEDON 8th and 16th October from 10am to 1pm.

ZOOM TEACHER TRAINING 6.30 Monday (The Sutras) STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING 2.15 Wednesday in the Studio.

NEW – SATURDAY BOTANICAL ART CLASS: “GIVE IT A GO” with Jahne. 4 x 2 hour classes from SUNDAY 9th October, 2.30pm to 4.30 $75 for members of The Botanical Art Society of Australia, ($85 non-members). Location: Woodend, Victoria.

FOR BOOKINGS, ENQUIRIES – NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: yogafirst2@bigpond.com

I WILL SEE YOU IN CLASS (or at the Gallery)

NAMASTE – JAHNE