Dear Yogis,

In Europe there is news coming out of strange cluster outbreaks of disease of “unknown origin”.  Hepatitis in young children, and brain disease in adults after a bout of covid.  We don’t have a crystal ball, but we know that taking herb teas (even more than pills and potions) can boost the health of the liver and the brain, increase immunity and head off infections.  Don’t wait until you have symptoms, start now.  I still use my hawthorn tea, and my morning coffee is loaded with goodies (apart from coffee) – I put in a scoop of turkey tail, two squirts of shilajit, and a tea bag of hawthorn herbal tea.  It is a magnificent energy/immune booster.

I am especially loving learning more about the herbs in my BRAIN TEA, and was especially grateful to discover that  seeds of Brahmi (Bacopa Monieri) are coming up in my garden – they are not ready to pick yet but look luscious.    I have such success with herbs in pots! I wish I had success with labels, as the snails denied access to the new herbs eat the names off the labels… they can completely destroy a label overnight which is very confusing when you are waiting the arrival of seedling you have never seen before.

Yesterdays NETTLE PANCAKES.  They are not photogenic although I could fool you with filters….they are not tidy although I could make them so – the flip side is more uniform, but I showed this side so you could see the green of the nettles.  They smell wonderful, and taste great.  Nettles are extraordinarily high in iron, and when popped in a lovely pancake,  it is so easy to get even healthier.  A small change can have big results.  Eat them with cheese and fruit, or drizzled with honey and a dollop of yoghurt.

The recipe was laid out for you in yesterday’s newsletter, check it.  It takes longer to type than to make.

 

NEW SCHEDULE:

WEKLY STUDIO/ZOOM SCHEDULE  (PLEASE BOOK AHEAD – NO DROP-INS, sorry)
EASTER MONDAY –   Yoga/zoom as Usual.


ZOOM: Mon. 6.30 Gita, Tues. Herb workshop 7.30, Friday 6.45 Tarot on holidays until 29th April.
STUDIO: Mon. 1pm (full), Wed. 1pm Restorative (full), Friday 1pm Hatha,  SATURDAY 1PM RESTORATIVE YOGA.
MONTHLY LUNCHEON:  Thursday 28TH APRIL at 12noon at “The Vic” in Woodend (If you are running a bit late, relax, it’s OK – drop in for dessert).

CONSULTATIONS: Tarot/Bach/Bowen or a combo – by appointment only.  $85 including remedy (including postage if zooming)
Past-Life (QHHT taught by Dolores Cannon) $250 via email or in the studio.  The reading includes Time, date, place of the prior life. To discuss,  email  yogafirst2@bigpond.com

(TANTRIC) HERBS – HERB BAGS.  $53.50 for 7.  Each bag will last at least 2 days steeping.  This includes a Bach Flower Essence given to complement the tea.  This is not a usual tea, it is a Herbal remedy taken as tea in a tea bag – I cannot emphasise enough how essential I believe these are for your well being.  I take them myself EVERY DAY, and feel fabulous.  I think over time we will all get some form of covid, but I believe my herbs will help me through.  If I send them to you add $6 for postage.

Please make a zoom consult ($85 for the zoom including your tea).  I would prefer to see you so we can be sure the teas will suit you and help you on your road to wellness. You can email if you don’t like zoom… and  YOU CAN ALWAYS DROP IN FOR HERBS TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION – DRIED, FRESH OR TO GROW…. Email me for your next step yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

”Every minute someone leaves this world behind. We are all in “the line” without knowing it.
We never know how many people are before us.

We can not move to the back of the line.
We can not step out of the line.
We can not avoid the line.
So while we wait in line –
Make moments count.
Make priorities.
Make the time.
Make your gifts known.
Make a nobody feel like a somebody.
Make your voice heard.
Make the small things big.
Make someone smile.
Make the change.
Make love.
Make up.
Make peace.
Make sure to tell your people they are loved.
Make sure to have no regrets.
Make sure you are ready.”

Source: Bill Whited

 

SEE YOU ON THE MAT OR IN THE GARDEN

NAMASTE – JAHNE

DEAR YOGIS,

FOR ALL YOU WHO HANG BACK WITH REGISTRATION, in the belief it is too expensive or not needed(!).  One of our graduate yoga teachers who regularly upgrades her registration with us,  uses the little identity card in her pack far better than most of you and saves hundreds of dollars in the process (and she is not alone in this habit).   She SAVES $120 with every pack of 10 classes that she attends in both pilates and yoga, in Melbourne City Studios where yoga and pilates without a card is $30 a class.  PLUS, she saves 5% on Dymocks Books, 5% in Evelyn Faye, and even bigger savings with LuLuLemon clothing and more.  She trots out the card whenever she spends money…  So she saves $300 every term at least just on the basics..  Have you been paying attention?  Update your registration and start saving.  Would you spend on a registration to save $1,200 like our student does? You can!

PAST LIFE readings – including TIME DATE PLACE.  I know many of you are interested in past lives.  Well I can do a report for you on your past life via email.  I can discover the time of your birth, the date, the time, the place.  Plus I can give you the significance of that birth, the challenge the resources, the lesson…  A life story and its relevance to this one,  intuited to the best of my ability using the tarot.  I am sure you understand that this is a reading that takes long research,  at least two hours of cross referencing and even more study using maps, geographical information, charts etc.  The cost is $250.   If you are interested please email me your full name and the date of your birth (I use this as a cross reference).  You can book and the pay via PAY PAL for a reading via our home page – www.yogabeautiful.com.au.

 

NEW TO “EXCITING NETTLES”.   I love nettles.  Nettle pizza, nettle scones, spanakopita, nettle cordials, gnocchi, risotto, cupcakes,  and so on.  It is endless.  Whatever you can do with any other green, you can do with nettles.  After years of trying I now have quite a crop, and this afternoon am going to make a batch of nettle pancakes which are just as good with jam and yoghurt, or cheese, apples and quince jelly.

Ingredients (you can double these ingredients if you are cooking for a party as they can be frozen for later – I have catered a pancake party for 30 people which was as easy as).

  • 300 ml milk
  • 2 eggs
  • Half tsp fine sea salt
  • 60 g plain – or spelt or a mix of flours
  • 20g butter, melted, plus extra for frying
  • 300g loosely packed stinging nettle leaves  washed and dried – no need to blanch. (You could use spinach or a mix of greens, herbs or vegetable tops)
  • Blueberry jam and yoghurt, (or apples, cheese and yoghurt) to serve

Cooking notes:  I use an electric pancake cooker, but a frying pan is just fine.  I use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. Nettles are fresh, but less in the recipe if dried..  

COOKING INSTRUCTIONS: 

Resting time 30 minutes

Place the milk, eggs and salt in a bowl and whisk to combine. Gradually add the flour, then the melted butter, whisking until the batter is smooth. Let rest at room temperature for 30 minutes. If bits of butter rise to the surface, this is fine.

While you are doing this, bring a saucepan of water to the boil. Add the nettles and quickly cook for 10-30 seconds or until blanched. Remove the nettles and refresh under cold running water or plunge into iced water. The next step is important – drain and squeeze the blanched nettles to remove as much water as possible.

Then finely chop the nettles and stir into the pancake batter. Heat a frying pan over medium-high heat. Add a knob of butter and a ladle of the batter, and tilt pan to spread; Sometimes I do thin pancakes,  and sometimes small thicker ones, depends if they are for breakfast, or to accompany an evening meal.about 2 mm thick and 10 cm in diameter. Cook for 1 minute or until set and browned. Flip over and cook for a further 1 minute or until brown. Transfer the pancake to a rack. Repeat with the remaining batter, wiping the pan with a nob of butter on a kitchen towel  in between each pancake.

Serve the pancakes warm with jam, or cheese..

Note  • Don’t be scared of stinging nettles.  Use gloves or a plastic bag over your hands to pick, and gloves or tongs to cook, until they are blanched  after which the sting is gone.  If you have them in abundance you can dry them and keep a supply for when there are no fresh nettles available.  I have a lovely big jar of dried nettles – what a great resource.

If you’re new to foraging for wild plants, stinging nettles are the perfect plant to begin with; they’re easy to identify and they grow in abundance (although such has not been the case for me, and I have had to nourish my plants). Pick the top 4-6 leaves of each plant; this way, the nettles continue to grow all summer long. Don’t forage stinging nettles near roads, compost bins, or possibly polluted areas, as the plants absorb harmful nitrogen from soil and air.

And most importantly when foraging, don’t forage or eat any plants, mushrooms, or berries that you can’t identify with 100 per cent certainty. This is not the time to experiment, as the results may be disastrous.  You can’t “un-eat” a poisonous plant.  There aren’t many, but don’t chance it.

 

NEW SCHEDULE:

WEKLY STUDIO/ZOOM SCHEDULE  (PLEASE BOOK AHEAD – NO DROP-INS)
EASTER –   Yoga as Usual.


ZOOM: Mon. 6.30 Gita, Tues. Herb workshop 7.30, Friday 6.45 Tarot on holidays until 29th April.
STUDIO: Mon. 1pm (full), Wed. 1pm Restorative (full), Friday 1pm Hatha,  SATURDAY 1PM RESTORATIVE YOGA.
MONTHLY LUNCHEON:  Thursday 28TH APRIL at 12noon at “The Vic” in Woodend (If you are running a bit late, relax, it’s OK – drop in for dessert).

CONSULTATIONS: Tarot/Bach/Bowen or a combo – by appointment only.  $85 plus remedy (and postage if zooming)
Past-Life (QHHT taught by Dolores Cannon) $250. Group Past Life readings by arrangement.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com

(TANTRIC) HERBS – HERB BAGS.  $53.50 for 7.  Each bag will last at least 2 days steeping.  Essence given to complement the tea.  This is not a usual tea, it is a Herbal remedy taken as tea in a tea bag.  If I send them to you add $6 for postage.

Please make a zoom consult so we can be sure the teas will suit you and help you on your road to wellness.  YOU CAN ALWAYS DROP IN FOR HERBS TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION – DRIED, FRESH OR TO GROW…. Email me for your next step yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

 

COME SEE ME AT THE STUDIO.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

Easter.  I am still eating the one “organic” (whatever that means) Easter Egg gifted last year. The others I broke up and used in hot chocolate and other cooking and baking in the year. A good use for chocolate.

HEATING GOING FORWARD.

I am going back to the future.  It is the time of the year to look at heating – I do it every year, and make little changes that can happen without getting rid of my little heater in the pic on the left.  Even the Queen has a favourite electric heat source, and this is mine.

I have had solar and battery quotes, double glazing quotes (I could build a tiny house for this amount), retrofit double glazing.. also problematical.  What to do considering I am NOT 35 with years to pay off a loan although we are encouraged to take one out?  No, I am re-instating a small Nectre wood stove.  I have timber, I have students with timber, and I have lots of paper and cardboard, so a combustion stove with a trivet on top for a coffee/soup pot is a good thing which will also provide ash for the garden and compost.  As well as this I am going to have solar insulating film applied to some of the windows, and will work towards getting them all done.  This was economical, with all of the right energy ratings.  Then I am going to refurbish the curtains and pelmets.  I will let you know how I go.

MELT DOWNS

This easter with holidays, families, health issues, covid, and the stress of groups, many students (people in the community,  are dropping their bundle.  I know the feeling.  Please make sensible choices, covid doesn’t take time off during the holidays. Remember your vitamins, keep war, wear you masks and stay away from crowds.

TAROT:  I am concentrating on my PAST LIFE TAROT BOOK (made simpler) and will have it loaded on Etsy by Tuesday. Probably $15 which is a whole lot less than a consult ($85) or a QHHT ($250), although you will have to read the book – unless you are Edgar Cayce who absorbed the contents of books by putting them under the pillow whilst he slept.

 

NEW SCHEDULE:

WEKLY STUDIO/ZOOM SCHEDULE  (PLEASE BOOK AHEAD – NO DROP-INS)

NO FRIDAY 1PM ON EASTER FRIDAY, otherwise it is Yoga as Usual.


ZOOM: Mon. 6.30 Gita, Tues. Herb workshop 7.30, Friday 6.45 Tarot on holidays until 29th April.
STUDIO: Mon.1pm (full), Wed. 1pm Restorative (full), Friday 1pm Hatha,  SATURDAY 1PM RESTORATIVE YOGA.
MONTHLY LUNCHEON:  Thursday 28TH APRIL at 12noon at “The Vic” in Woodend (If you are running a bit late, relax, it’s OK – drop in for dessert).

CONSULTATIONS: Tarot/Bach/Bowen or a combo – by appointment only.  $85 plus remedy (and postage if zooming)
Past-Life (QHHT taught by Dolores Cannon) $250. Group Past Life readings by arrangement.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com

(TANTRIC) HERBS – TEA BAG OR ESSENCE.  $53.50 for 7.  Each bag will last at least 2 days steeping.  Essence given to complement the tea.  This is not a usual tea, it is a Herbal remedy taken as tea in a tea bag.  If I send them to you add $6 for postage.

All inclusive price (herb, zoom, postage) – $85

Please make a zoom consult so we can be sure the teas will suit you and help you on your road to wellness.  Email me for your next step yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

 

BUYING HERBS FOR YOUR CLINIC.  I am drying and preserving herbs and I have excess in some areas that I could sell to you for your own use.  Please email me with the names of the herbs you are searching for and I can give you my list and prices.  These are constantly changing according to herbs, availability and orders.  

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT (or zoom).

NAMASTE – JAHNE