Dear Yogis
I will be at The Mt.Macedon Gallery this Saturday from 10am to 1pm.  Please pop in and look at the exhibition, buy a painting (at a great price!), buy a card.  Once this exhibition is over I will be putting the paintings on my web site and etsy at the price they should be. Even the cards on the web will only be available in sets of 5 in order to deal with postage charges.

Time for a laugh.  Here are some interesting reflections on ageing from John Cleese!!

1. When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison.
2. To me, “drink responsibly” means don’t spill it.
3. Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9:00 pm is the new midnight.
4. It’s the start of a brand new day, and I’m off like a herd of turtles.
5. The older I get, the earlier it gets late.
6. When I say, “The other day,” I could be referring to any time between yesterday and 15 years ago.
7. I remember being able to get up without making sound effects.
8. I had my patience tested. I’m negative.
9. Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn’t fit any of your containers.
10. If you’re sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, “Did you bring the money?”
11. When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say “nothing,” it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing.
12. I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever.
13. I run like the winded.
14. I hate when a couple argues in public, and I missed the beginning and don’t know whose side I’m on.
15. When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I squint and ask, “Why, what did you hear?”
16. When you do squats, are your knees supposed to sound like a goat chewing on an aluminum can stuffed with celery?
17. I don’t mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and get really excited.
18. When I ask for directions, please don’t use words like “east.”
19. Don’t bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would be boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head. That’ll freak you right out.
20. Sometimes, someone unexpected comes into your life out of nowhere, makes your heart race, and changes you forever. We call those people cops.
21. My luck is like a bald guy who just won a comb.
I have nothing to add.  This is just too “right”.  Thanks John.

MY NEW YOGA BOOK ON ETSY.

 If you want a copy of the new booklet with illustrated exercises and details of teaching/doing yoga with the Magic Circle, then it is on Etsy.
Go to www.morrisroadstudio.etsy.com  or www.myyogabooks.etsy.com  Either will get you there
I have learned a lot with this change up, and I invite you to do the same.  I started with a magic circle that I picked up in an op shop for $2 – something new to work with I thought.  It was accepted by every student I introduced it to so I bought more on Temu (online – be aware that they come in different diameters as well as different colours, and different prices.  Check the whole lot before you buy).  This week I took delivery of another small shipment which is already SOLD to students who wanted to use them at home.  How many times have your students asked to take home a series of exercises?   I didn’t intend to sell them I do need them for my classes BUT I will always go with the students if they WANT to work at home!!!  Now I need another shipment….
It’s just like the old days when we had to buy our own mats and blocks from overseas, always playing catch up with the post or the rail shipments – it was quite exciting going to the station to collect a shipment arriving on a train late at night!  Very “Casablanca”.  Now they are delivered quickly to my doorstep – where’s the fun in that!

WHATS ON.

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,  9.30AM in Gisborne (10 week term ending end of September).

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Although these are small classes I take them seriously – you will too.
Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm, NEW MUMS+ONE 2.30pm?,  FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am.   New classes start when I have the numbers on my WAIT LIST.  Email me to start. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday (or a bit later)  by donation.  This week COVID struck and the class was absent.    Please arrive close to 9.30 and we will start when we are settled.   I will be leaving around 11am..  I am not sure how long the class will last, or how long it will take to get everyone ready and moving, but we will be relaxed, and see how it goes.  Two students or more –  we always have a great class.  We are change makers.

>>>>>ZOOM DISABILITY YOGA TEACHER TRAINING. Our zoom section is done.  If you want to join the class, you will have to wait for the next one towards the end of the year.    If you want to join our regular Monday zoom class,  you can, but you will need to email me to get the ZOOM ID.

If you are enrolled and started the zoom training, and/or the Disability course, there is a chance that I will get approval to accept my students for a period of placement with me. 

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING – The last Sunday in September

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH: last Saturday in September, 12 noon at Full Moon Cafe next to the Vic in Woodend. .  Please email me if you would like to come, and haven’t emailed or contacted me already..

MT.MACEDON GALLERY EXHIBITION:  Meet the artist (ME) at the gallery – Saturday 14th September, at 10am to 1pm. THIS SATURDAY

NAMASTE
JAHNE

 

Good morning Yogis

I am off to yoga nice and early this morning.  Not a 6.30 class, a 9.30 class, but you would think it was a 6.30 class by most people’s response – “That’s so early.  Don’t you have a later class?”

Well the answer is YES, I have a few later classes, but no class will suit you if all you are looking for is a social get together.  You can do that anywhere, anytime and without any commitment to yoga (or anything else).  Other  much used responses – “You don’t understand, I have children” or “My children don’t like me to do yoga” or  “You don’t understand I have to get my husband’s breakfast”.  (I gather from this he doesn’t know where the kitchen is?) or “I just don’t feel up to it this morning”.  What does that even mean?

Get into a routine.  Don’t get into discussion with your mind (or your children – you are the boss of both), especially the mind that wants you to stay in bed.  JUST DO IT. 3 minutes of meditation 5 minutes of yoga stretching – done.  Or you could come here.  OR BOTH!

Truly, I have heard all the excuses in my years of teaching and I am hoping for something original – but more than that, I am hoping you will put the excuses aside and come to yoga, and then keep on coming to yoga. Once a week is not enough, unless you have a discipline at home.

WHATS ON.

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,  9.30AM in Gisborne (10 week term ending end of September).

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Although these are small classes I take them seriously – you will too.
Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm, NEW MUMS+ONE 2.30pm,  FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am and NEW Hatha with Magic Circle 6.30 new classes start when I have the numbers on my WAIT LIST.  Email me to start. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday (or a bit later)  by donation.   Arrive around 9.30 and we will start when we are settled.   I will be leaving around 11am..  I am not sure how long the class will last, or how long it will take to get everyone ready and moving, but we will be relaxed, and see how it goes.  Two students or more –  we always have a great class.  We are change makers.

>>>>>ZOOM DISABILITY YOGA TEACHER TRAINING. Our zoom section is done.  If you want to join the class, you will have to wait for the next one towards the end of the year.    If you want to join our regular Monday zoom class,  you can, but you will need to email me to get the ZOOM ID.

If you are enrolled and started the zoom training, and/or the Disability course, there is a chance that I will get approval to accept my students for a period of placement with me. 

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING – The last Sunday in September

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH: last Saturday in September, 12 noon at Full Moon Cafe next to the Vic in Woodend. .  Please email me if you would like to come, and haven’t emailed or contacted me already..

MT.MACEDON GALLERY EXHIBITION:  Meet the artist (ME) at the gallery – Saturday 14th September, at 10am to 1pm. THIS SATURDAY

 

NAMASTE – JAHNE (An unusual Artist)

Dear Yogis,

The exhibition opened on Saturday, and already some have sold.  Thank you to those who purchased a painting.  I put them on the wall at an amazing price, just so I can sell them and  get some more and fabulous inks and paints to keep going and keep growing.  Yesterday I prepared three new and larges canvases all ready and waiting for new works.

Yesterday I bought an old push-me-pull-me lawn mower for the nature strip.  I was driving back from Church, passed the op-shop and there it was.  I had to have it, but how to get it home.  I had just paid for it (a ridiculously small price), it was raining, I have a small car, and i was wondering how to get it home when Grace walked into the shop – she bundled it into her car and delivered it.  It was meant to be.  It was all I could do to stop her using it – she has been complaining about a sore back, and this would not have helped.

SATURDAY SEWING BEE.  Although a few people asked me to teach drawing, I might later in the year – right now I would like to teach sewing basics. Last year i had a Saturday afternoon SEWING BEE, and it was well attended.  Another might be quite good. I have been asked to help make a Church Stole (nothing to do with evening wear).  I can do it on my own, or I can invite you all around for a class. These are interesting (simple) items and can be constructed on a sewing machine and incorporate embroidery and appliqué, or they can be completely hand sewn – which greatly appeals to me.  I am also free for you to bring some items to me to be sewn, or mended.  I have some rather startling fabric here that was thought to be repurposed into a doona, but I might make a skirt instead – not a culotte like the one in the picture.  If only fold around here were a little more individual and unafraid in their choice of clothes it would be lots more fun for me!

I don’t know if you recall my lovely slub satin over-shirt, black with red peonies.  I wore it so much it almost fell to bits.  I have recently mended it (finished last nite) and now it looks beautiful.  I oversewed all over with the Japanese moro technique.

I like it even more now, and it will last a few more years although it was not a quick fix.  You will see me wearing it in yoga class again.

WHATS ON.

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,  9.30AM in Gisborne (10 week term ending end of September).

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Although these are small classes I take them seriously – you will too.
Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm, NEW MUMS+ONE 2.30pm,  FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am and NEW Hatha with Magic Circle 6.30 new classes start when I have the numbers on my WAIT LIST.  Email me to start. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday (or a bit later)  by donation.   Arrive around 9.30 and we will start when we are settled.   I will be leaving around 11am..  I am not sure how long the class will last, or how long it will take to get everyone ready and moving, but we will be relaxed, and see how it goes.  Two students or more –  we always have a great class.  We are change makers.

>>>>>ZOOM DISABILITY YOGA TEACHER TRAINING. Our zoom section is done.  If you want to join the class, you will have to wait for the next one towards the end of the year.    If you want to join our regular Monday zoom class,  you can, but you will need to email me to get the ZOOM ID.

If you are enrolled and started the zoom training, and/or the Disability course, there is a chance that I will get approval to accept my students for a period of placement with me. 

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING – The last Sunday in September

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH: last Saturday in September, 12 noon at Full Moon Cafe next to the Vic in Woodend. .  Please email me if you would like to come, and haven’t emailed or contacted me already..

MT.MACEDON GALLERY EXHIBITION:  Meet the artist (ME) at the gallery – Saturday 7th September, at 2pm.

 

NAMASTE – JAHNE (An unusual Artist)