Dear Yogis,

In this time of COVID and our lock down, are you standing in the “VALLEY OF OPPORTUNITY”?  or are you in the “VALLEY OF THE VICTIM”?

I was reading the story of David and Goliath.  I am sure you know it.  We are living in the time of the Jewish people, a Biblical story.  A Battle has been waging (as in the Gita).  When David is sent to see what is happening, he reports back to his father Jesse, that NOTHING IS HAPPENING.  There is this giant, Goliath who comes on to the field every day about the same time and intimidates both forces.  Goliath has killed a few warriors, and no-one now wants to challenge him.  They are scared.  They are waiting for someone else to take the trouble away. The call goes out for another champion to face THE GIANT OF COMPLACENCY!  Do you recognise yourself in this story?  Is Covid your Giant? Are you waiting for someone else to help you through this time?

Is this you hoping Your Problem (whatever it is) will be gone, that your problem will go away, that somebody or something will come up with an answer, a remedy, a cure, a pill, a vaccination?  Are you like David – too small, too inexperienced, too short, no armour…? We need a mentality that says I am going to a temporary storm that is preparing me for a great thing to come..  Like David, keep your eyes on what you can’t see, not what you can see.  It is all about FAITH and HEART.

In the story David a young shepherd boy took on the giant.  He was not afraid, he knew what he was, he knew his strength.  He didn’t need validation or permission.  He wanted to face whatever was there head on.  He was patient and faithful to the Spirit, to God in his time on the Battlefield.  He knew his duty.  He didn’t care about the bluster and intimidating antics of the giant.  He didn’t care about history, or what other people said, and he knew that no-one thought that he could win, even the giant laughed – and that was his undoing.

We are told that the giant leaned back as he laughed, his face protection slipped, and David was waiting for that moment, the moment captured in the famous sculpture of David by Michelangelo.  (That moment of Samasthiti – the pose between poses).  David launched a stone from his sling shot and the giant was vanquished.  (The stone hit him in the Third Eye – but that is another yogic story).

Are you ready for your trials? Do you know who you are? Do you know your strengths?

Krsna (God) came to the Battlefield of Life and spoke to Arjuna, who was an ordinary warrior (like you), and showed him/us how to succeed.  It is not just about about slaying the Giant, it is HOW you slay the Giant.  Join us for the Gita Study, and learn about the Giant in your life….

Get around people with dreams – their love, their positive outlook, their victories are highly contagious.

 

I WILL SEE YOU ON MAT.

NAMASTE.

 

Good morning yogis,

ALL ZOOM DURING LOCK-DOWN. 
SATURDAY: 2PM TAROT CLASS , SUNDAY 10 AM GITA CLASS
MONDAY: 1PM ZOOM YOGA CLASS.  6.30PM  (?) WAS ZOOM HYPERMOBILE CLASS. Could be a breath class.  Start:23rd Feb.
TUESDAY:  7.30 RUMI STUDY.
WEDNESDAY: 5.30 ZOOM YOGA CLASS
If you want the details, if you want to catch up payments, if you want to book for any of the classes:
www.yogabeautiful.com.au home page.  Pay via PayPal –  click on the button.

We are now into lockdown 4.  Didn’t realise there was a lockdown until I went to Coles at about 5pm Friday. The traffic was “end of the world” kind of traffic!  The last parking spot was mine… No toilet paper, no potatoes, no onions, no bread…. etc etc  I didn’t need or want any of those and bought the last bag of baby carrots, and the last fennel so all is well here.  I can exist from what I have now for a very long time, so if it is extended it makes no difference to me.  I hope and pray that you are the same.

THE NEWSLETTER:  I promised that during lockdown it would come out each day.  We are in lockdown, so I will send out a newsletter each day.

STUDIO CLASSES.  It seems that other yoga centres are closing…So we are back to ZOOMING. Monday at 1pm and Wednesday at 5.30pm.  All our other classes are zoom so there is no change there. Please have on hand all your own props. towels etc as usual.  If you have weights (waits) and bands, please bring them to the zoom class. Although this is supposed to end on Wednesday, it may not?.

THE BREATH:  

I urge you to book in for THE BREATH WORKSHOP.  Next Saturday the 20th at 10am.  It was never more important than it is now.  Breathing naturally boosts the immune system, and this is needed.  We have learned to clean up the oceans, the skies, and get solar powered, we have tamed many of the bugs that killed our ancestors.  On average we live three times as long as people in the Industrial age in Britain – HOWEVER, we have lost touch with our most basic and important biological function.  THE BREATH.

You may follow the food guide pyramid, you may get heaps of outdoor exercise, get vaccinated, take all your supplements, however, you may still suffer breathing difficulties and resistance, and your immune system could be “stuffed” to use an Australian term.  Is this  leaving you wide open to this new bug? The new strain (or any strain) of covid? A RESOUNDING “YES” is the answer to that question.

To gain focus in body and clarity of mind, you need to BREATHE PROPERLY.  The nose is the silent warrior, the gatekeeper of your body, pharmacist to your mind and weather vane of your emotions. In a single breath, more molecules will pass through your nose than all the grains of sand on the world’s beaches – trillions and trillions.  

The mucus membranes of the nose filter out pollutants and particles.  The invaders as we know cause infections if they get into the lungs.  The mucus is the body’s first line of defence.  It has been likened to a giant conveyor belt (pushed along by hair like structures called cillia), collecting inhaled muck which it moves down into the throat and to the stomach, where it is sterilised by stomach acid, delivered to the intestines and sent out of your body.

We have a second brain, the gut.  What you may not know is we have a second heart.  The diaphragm.  It not only beats to its own rhythm, it also affects the rhythm, rate and strength of the heart beat.  Some people use only about 10% of the capacity of the diaphragm.You can survive on short shallow breaths, and most people do.  This does not mean it is good for you!

CORRECT BREATHING STRENGTHENS THE MIND, THE BODY, AND THE SPIRIT.  IT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE IMPORTANT.

 

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

ZOOM AND STUDIO CLASSES

MONDAY: 1pm Studio Class Full.    6.30 HYPERMOBILITY (Last Class)
TUESDAY: 7.30 RUMI Study
WEDNESDAY: 5.30 Studio Yoga
FRIDAY: 6.45 Pendulum and Tarot Class.
SATURDAY: 2pm TAROT/ART CLASS
SUNDAY: 10am THE GITA STUDY.  We are starting again from this Sunday.  If you missed the last time, you can join in.

NEXT SATURDAY MORNING AT 10AM THE BREATH WORKSHOP.  THIS IS FOR EVERYONE.

 

FAITH

To have FAITH is to be sure of the things we hope for and to be certain of the things we cannot see (Hebrews 11)  What a record all these have won by their faith! And yet they DID NOT RECEIVE WHAT GOD PROMISED, BECAUSE GOD HAD DECIDED ON AN EVEN BETTER PLAN….  

I have decided that in spite of how things may seem I am not going to give up the habit of meeting with you via the newsletter.  I will send one out on Monday and one on Friday – the beginning and the end of the week. (If Covid takes hold again I will increase the newsletter mail out as I did before).   I have a feeling that this letter, even if you don’t respond through the computer,  is a way of encouraging one another (my grateful thanks to those wonderful students who have contacted me)…  For myself, it is by faith that I understand that the universe was created by means of the Word (THE BREATH)… “In the beginning was the word”,   and what can be seen has been made out of what cannot be seen.  So when we meet our personal “Red Sea”, we have faith that the waters will be parted and we will with faith get across.  If we make the right decisions now, no matter how things LOOK, the results will be over and above what we can imagine.

So many of us are in the place of restructuring our lives, I certainly am.  We need patience,  and to keep going in the path that we have been inspired to travel.  I remember when I was at School in the senior years, there were a number of students who were much better at art than I was.  I especially had a cousin or two who were fantastic.  I was so in awe of the talent that they had, and worked so hard to get better, hoping that one day I would be as good as they already were.  Have any of the students or my cousins done anything with their lives from an artistic point of view – in a word “NO”.  Why?  I think it was too easy for them.  They didn’t value the fantastic gift that they had. It was right in front of them and they didn’t see it.  They could have reached the stars, but no, they muddled around on the ground and never took flight.  Never explored the fabulous gift they had been given, never took it as far as they could have.  IS THIS YOU?

What is your gift?  Is it right in front of you? Are you fabulous at teaching, at child rearing, at gardening, at writing?  What is your gift.  Do you have the patience to get better at it and to take it as far as you can? Your patience and hard  work will be rewarded if you have patience and faith. Maybe not right away, maybe not in the way you expected but it will be rewarded.

THE COVID REPORT.

Make sure that you have your Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Zinc supplements up to date.  Nutrition is the main defence you have, and cutting back on the super-stressors in your life.  Make sure you get enough SLEEP.  If your body is strong, if your immune system is strong, there is a much lesser chance of you getting Covid (or anything else for that matter) even if you are not vaccinated or taking any of the suggested drugs.

There is a drug called IVERMECTIN that is now being used in many countries.  (WWW.SMH.COM.AU – a report by Liam Mannix).   Yes, it has a “mediocre” press – Liam Mannix’s report in Australia by The Sydney Morning herald is balanced I think, but when there is the choice of vaccine or Ivormectin, perhaps Ivermectin is a possible alternative  – widely available, low cost IN AMERICA (about $42 in Australia),  and millions of doses have been delivered in many countries.

Randomised control trials are going on at the present time in the USA of 4,000 patients, and to date consistently they are holding up.  The  Doctor who is the initiator of these drug trials is Dr.Korey (WWW.FLCCC.NET).  Go to the paper on that site,   “I-MASK PROTOCOL”,  the review and the summary – I haven’t been able to find an Australian equivalent.  If you are interested, print out this report and take it to your doctor and get his/her opinion.

Explore it, explore the side effects (everything has side effects), and decide if it is for you.  I personally am using Nutrition and Supplementation as my line of defence, but I am pretty healthy with no other issues that I know of, so perhaps the decision is easier for me, however, my sister in the UK has had covid twice, and her husband died of it a couple of weeks ago. I am not blasé about where we are, and where we are going.

 

SEE YOU ON THE MAT (OR ZOOM)  AS USUAL.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

We would like to emphasize that The Australasian Yoga Institute is not opposed to vaccination, and furthermore supports policies such as mask wearing, social distancing, and hand hygiene to prevent the further spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Our reports are designed to help and support people to mitigate the effects of the pandemic until it is overcome, and to allow for an earlier return to daily life