Dear Yogis,

Another Zoom Teaching yesterday, which, apart from a beginning hiccup went smoothly.  We loved it.  I loved it (which I never thought I would say).

Coming ZOOMS  
HYPERMOBILITY: Tuesday 7.30 to 9pm. $35 (starts on July 28th) for the  lecture series of 3 sessions on the topic . You have long said you wanted to know more, but have not used the books and youtube we have offered – as shown in your modules.  Here is another way.  Please join us.

TAROT TRAINING COURSE: Saturdays at 2pm to 4pm.  This is full. But you can be put on the wait list for the next series. The course costs $157 which includes a deck of Revelation Tarot Cards.  If you have taken the course and want a refresher $50 to join the class for ongoing sessions. Join as many you like in groups of three sessions.

TEACHER TRAINING:  First Sunday in each month $20. This month we are speaking of The Yamas and The Purushatras.

TEA LEAF READING: The course.  Saturday mornings 10 to 12noon date to be decided, please register your interest.  Includes cards and kit.  $225 for six sessions.   We are waiting for the cards to be printed – they are this new..  Until they arrive we will use the old method of tea and pot.  Once the cards are printed I will send you the Card Kit.

To join any of these ZOOM classes.  
1.Let me know you want to join.  
2. Direct Debit the fee into Commonwealth Bank
BSB 063 806 Account 1019 1251 Yoga First.  
3. When I have this I will send you the course ID and Password so you can get into the  ZOOM class.

I am not a techno whizz.  I am learning about ZOOM every time I use it.  There can be misunderstoods, there can be small difficulties,  BUT we seem to get there in the end.  We help each other out until everything is smooth.  You don’t have to be fabulous to join.  Not in tech or in yoga.  We learn from each other.  Please join us.

 

YOGA:

This morning I offer you words from LIGHT OF ASIA by Sir Edwin Arnold.  It is a treasured book of mine and in verse describes the birth life and teachings of The Buddha.

“Enter the Path! There spring the healing streams
Quenching all this! there bloom the immortal flowers
Carpeting all the way with joy! there throng
swiftest and sweetest hours!

More is the treasure of the Law than gem:
Sweeter than comb its sweetness: its delights

Delightful past compare.  Thereby to live
Hear the FIVE RULES aright:-

Kill not – for Pity’s sake – and let you slay
The meanest thing upon its upward way.

Give freely and receive, but take from none
By greed, force, or fraud, what is his own.

Bear not false witness, slander not, not lie:
Truth is the speech of inward purity.

Shun drugs and drinks which work the wit abuse;
Clear minds, clean bodies, need no soma juice.

Touch not thy neighbours wife,
neither commit Sins of the flesh unlawful and unfit.

…. Scatter not rice
but offer loving thoughts and acts to all.  
To parents as the East where rises the light:
To teachers as the South whence great gifts come:
To wife and children as the West where gleam
Colours of love and calm, and all days end;
To friends and Kinsmen and all men as North;
To humblest living things beneath, to Saints
And Angels and the Blessed Dead above:
So shall all evil be shut off, and so the six main quarters will be safely kept.

Have a lovely weekend/week.  Join us when you can.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

Good morning Yogis,

I hope that we are back on air,  there was a hiccup, not with my writing, but with Mailchimps sending practices.  So, over the next couple of weeks, I am going to comb through the contacts we send the newsletters to, and if you never respond, if you haven’t clicked on it and read it (yes computers record this), I will take you off the list.  If I am left with just a few dedicated readers, well, it is what it is.  Buckle up guys.  It is a time of decision and weeding in this particular garden.

BEES:  Studying bees is like studying ourselves.  My palate never gets sick of the taste of honey, and because I love honey I have always admired the insects who magically make it.  I also am in awe of their community has often been the model for human society.  You can find references in Virgil, in Homer, in Plate Shakespeare, Marx and Tolstoy and of course our special friend Pliny the Elder.  His book, completed in AD77 …

Bees have a government. They pursue individual schemes but have collective leaders.  What is especially astonishing, they have manners more advanced than those of other animals, whether wild or tame.  Nature is great in  that from a tiny, ghost like creature she has made something incomparable.  What sinews or muscles can we compare with the enormously efficiency shown by bees?  What men in heavens name, can we set alongside these insects which are superior to men when it comes to reasoning? FOR THEY RECOGNISE ONLY WHAT IS IN THE COMMON INTEREST.

The inscriptions on many old beehives reads “NON NOBIS” meaning We work but not for ourselves”.  When in old drawings we see the old fashioned SKEP hive, it stands for some view of the goodness of work.  Sometimes this skep encourages us to reflect on the golden age of the past when work was simpler and slower.  However, in the bees world, there are no sickies, no holidays.  You are born, you work you die, no time off even to go to school..  No sooner had man admired the life of the bee and their tirelessness than he felt that he (or his wife) should emulate them in some way.

In Victorian times (as noted by Mrs. Beeton) the beehive was a symbol of industry.  It shows in one illustration that the world could be ordered.  A world in which different people did different tasks and no one envied the position of their neighbour.  A place for everyone and everyone in their place.  Like good supermarkets, industries, and families, a  good hive needs a balance of foragers and receivers.

At this time of covid there is much we can learn and receive from bees.  Honey has long been known as a medicine and strengthener of the bronchi. Muhhamed Ali the boxer took a mixture of vitamins and honey before his fights… and said that he “…danced like a butterfly, stung like a bee”.

Is there a beehive in your garden? Is honey part of your diet? Try my honey cough drops you will find the recipe on www.wildnweedy.blogspot.com.

Let me know you are there.  Don’t forget we will be zooming Teacher Training, The Tarot Training and Anatomy/Physiology lectures.  

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

Yesterday I did the first “very good” (not excellent, just very good) zoom class.  Baby steps, baby steps as I am always saying to you all. It was fantastic for me, and I hope that those who joined in felt we made headway in this new era of technology.

This has given me confidence to open the doors to more.  Thank you to those students who helped me in understanding zoom and how it works.. took time to coach me in being a “zoom host”, who took time from their day to help me explore the site.  I couldn’t have taken these steps as easily without you.

TEACHER TRAINING:  We will definitely have teacher training via ZOOM on Sunday the 2nd August at 2pm.  If you want to join in please pay your $20 teacher training fee (this is the charge in the studio for 2 hours of teacher training… same in zoom as in the studio).  When I have your acceptance, I will send you the DD numbers.  When I have the receipt for your direct debit payment I will forward your registration details (please put them somewhere safe).   

TUESDAY STUDIES:  I am going to have YOGA trainings in specific subjects one evening per week starting the 28th July.  Tuesdays 7.30 to 9pm for three weeks, there will be a new topic for each of the three week units.  These will be suitable for beginners – no big words, hardly any Sanskrit.

This also will be Zoom and it will be in three lesson blocks $35 for the three lessons.When I have your acceptance, I will send you the DD numbers.  When I have the receipt for your direct debit payment I will forward your registration details (please put them somewhere safe).    The subject for the first three Tuesday studies will be HYPERMOBILITY.  I go over and over this in correcting modules.  So many of you pay no attention, or think it doesn’t apply to you, it does.

To get the most out of this study, please download the chart THE CFS CONNECTION via www.myyogabooks.etsy.com.  It is in the section called “HYPERMOBILITY”.  Print it on lovely paper to show your students, but first make a photo copy that you can write on in our study time.  It is only $2.75.

I was pleased to see that everyone in our tarot zoom class brought paper and pen and made notes.  I would hope in any of our zoom times you will do the same.  This is the school room, and we all need to take notes, even me. (Especially me).

HEMP INFORMATION TIME. Saturday 10am starting 25th July.   We will cover How It Works, all aspects of this wonderful and useful plant given to us by Shiva for the good of the world…  we won’t get it all done in one session that is for sure.  There is no cost for this time, and it may a take a few Saturdays to cover the topic.  I hope that this will become a really good discussion time.  There is a lot to know.  Please email me if you are interested in joining and I will give you the registration details.  The information we will be using for these sessions can be found on the web site www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

This has not been our usual newsletter time – but it is the easiest way to get to you all, and invite you all to our new way of teaching.  Zoom times..

Have a wonderful day,

NAMASTE.  JAHNE