Dear Yogis,

What a great lunch at The Full Moon Saloon.  I don’t know why more don’t come… the food is fabulous, the company is just wonderful and the topics of conversation? Well, thank goodness no-one is recording – They are enlightening to say the least.  I love you girls – thanks for another wonderful few laughing hours, I so look forward to our social time together.  We all are getting to the “pointy end” of our lives, and should look after each other, and the lunches are one easy way to do just this!

YOGA>  I am tempted to introduce another zoom restorative.  It is not my favourite way, but, with people moving here there and everywhere it might be the answer to getting the class back together.

 

YOGA CLASSES AND STUDIO TIMES…..

Windarring Yoga –  Tues. x 2 +Thurs. x 1. (some Fridays)

STUDIO YOGA WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full) 2.15 (full) Wed. Restorative 1pm.  

ZOOM WORKSHOP.  Mondays at 6.30 on zoom. “A Year of Living Biblically” and “The Source”.  The class is going off to do their own thing on Mondays until next term – Croatia, Bali, Van excitement and more.  If you want to join the group next term – plan for it.

THE YOGA LUNCHEON:  As always the last Saturday in the month at 12noon (yes a time shift). I have booked for us to go to  The Full Moon in Woodend.  Warm, “homey” and great food. I love the Nachos – with chicken – with prawns – vegan, or Mexican.  Any of them are great.

TAROT READINGS AT THE STUDIO – Look forward to hearing from you.  You can even come on the weekends, and I can do “doubles” – you and mum, you and a friend.

UPCYCLING, RENOVATING.  If your treasured items need re-imagining and mending, come see me – please make an appointment first.. I am pretty booked until October (unless you are a regular who needs a skirt/pants tweaked), so keep that in mind.  I am thinking of having a STEAMPUNK STRUT close to Valentines day 2024, get back to me if you are interested in taking part.

The hat to the left is by McQueen, rather harking back to Marie Antoinette… she started the craze for “big hair”  with scenes included.

SEE YOU IN THE STUDIO (and at the yoga lunch)

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis (and friends),

Just a reminder – the YOGA LUNCH happens tomorrow (Saturday 29th) at the Full Moon Saloon in Woodend at 12noon.  You are all welcome.  If you haven’t been before,  just drop me an email so I can be sure that our table is big enough.  

A note about the decorative garden lighting I mentioned in our last newsletter.  Please change your globes!  You can get garden lighting that does not attract insects.

UPCYCLING:  I have finished work, I have work like the corset to the left now completed,  and I have work waiting….. however, if you are not in a hurry, I can take your favourite items to upcycle and re-imagine.  I dream sewing, and sit in bed in the morning with pad and pencil drawing the designs the universe has given me in dreams.  Maybe that us why people are coming to me – the universe is sending them.  Thank you clients, thank you universe.  Some decisions to be made here soon I guess – don’t worry, I am not changing my yoga studio into a sewing room (with a chandelier)  just yet.

As long as I get clients you are safe – once it becomes less than economical I will change – having 25% of the house empty, heating it and etc for yoga clients that are not regular, and come only once a week “when they can”,  is what I mean.  People for whom yoga has about the same pull as a coffee morning! By the way whatever happens, if I found a gorgeous light that was suitable for the yoga room I would buy it – I did buy a fabulous extra long solid ladder for the library shelves.  I have been prodding our local dealer for a year and a half to sell it to me at MY price.  Patience wins.

 

YOGA CLASSES AND STUDIO TIMES…..

Windarring Yoga –  Tues. x 2 +Thurs. x 1. (some Fridays)

STUDIO YOGA WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full) 2.15 (full) Wed. Restorative 1pm.  

ZOOM WORKSHOP.  Mondays at 6.30 on zoom. “A Year of Living Biblically” and “The Source”.  The class is going off to do their own thing on Mondays until next term – Croatia, Bali, Van excitement and more.  If you want to join the group next term – plan for it.

THE YOGA LUNCHEON:  This coming Saturday at 12noon (yes a time shift). I have booked for us to go to  The Full Moon in Woodend.  Warm, “homey” and great food. I love the Nachos – with chicken – with prawns – vegan, or Mexican.  Any of them are great.

TAROT READINGS AT THE STUDIO – Look forward to hearing from you.  You can even come on the weekends, and I can do “doubles” – you and mum, you and a friend.

UPCYCLING, RENOVATING.  If your treasured items need re-imagining and mending, come see me – please make an appointment first..

 

SEE YOU IN THE STUDIO (and at the yoga lunch)

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

Last evening on nightfall I was out walking (as one does),   it was warmer then than it was this morning actually, but what was “thrilling” was to see Venus hanging in the sky, the only visible planet and no stars, not one – it was other worldly, and I loved it.  It could have been a factor of light pollution. The estate I walked through (ShirleyPark) has Los Angeles style houses with glaring outside lights, garden lights, porch lights.  Any light that could have been switched on,  on was on, and the corner house had a light on the porch that could have been used on a basketball court.  It was huge and glaring.  We have invented motion sensors, but obviously no-one on the estate is interested.

HOW LIGHT POLLUTION IMPACTS THE INSECT WORLD:  The impacts vary between insect orders. Excess light makes it difficult for some species, like fireflies, that rely on bioluminescent cues to find mates. Some insects use polarized light to find bodies of water where they breed and reflections from outdoor fixtures confuse their sense of direction. For instance, in the USA they have found that mayflies, which only live and breed for a day, can be confused by light bouncing off asphalt and lay their eggs in the street instead of a lake or stream. A mistake like that can wipe out an entire population over night.

Insects are also attracted to the headlights of moving cars, with an estimate 100 billion meeting their end on the highway in Germany each summer, according to the study. Artificial light also interferes with the way some insects hunt at night.

Then there are the moths and other flying insects drawn to outdoor lights. It’s estimated about one third of the bugs swirling around those lights die by morning, either by being gobbled up by predators or simply from exhaustion.

The message here is to turn off your outside lights if they are not in use, or install sensors.  On lesser used roads we could install sensors as they do in Scandinavia and save money as well as energy.  I loved the fact in Sweden that lesser used street lights have sensors (they come on the you use the road)  and householders put LED lights in their windows, rather than light up the entire road.  I do it, and the other day at the BP Service Station they guy behind the counter had travelled up my street very early and noticed the light and said it made him feel safer.

YOGA CLASSES AND STUDIO TIMES…..

Windarring Yoga –  Tues. x 2 +Thurs. x 1. (some Fridays)

STUDIO YOGA WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full) 2.15 (full) Wed. Restorative 1pm.  

ZOOM WORKSHOP.  Mondays at 6.30 on zoom. “A Year of Living Biblically” and “The Source”.  The class is going off to do their own thing on Mondays until next term – Croatia, Bali, Van excitement and more.  If you want to join the group next term – plan for it.

THE YOGA LUNCHEON:  This coming Saturday at 12noon (yes a time shift). I have booked for us to go to  The Full Moon in Woodend.  Warm, “homey” and great food. I love the Nachos – with chicken – with prawns – vegan, or Mexican.  Any of them are great.

TAROT READINGS AT THE STUDIO – Look forward to hearing from you.  You can even come on the weekends, and I can do “doubles” – you and mum, you and a friend.  .

 

SEE YOU IN THE STUDIO

NAMASTE – JAHNE