Dear Yogis,

NEW, NEW, NEW.  I am not alone in the yoga community coming to grips with the changes post-covid – the “new normal”.  I have been very concerned about our yoga classes over the last few weeks because of the way families have re-arranged themselves since covid, catching up with occasions they have missed.

This has meant that yoga is an on-again-off-again activity for a lot of students.  All good for them, not very workable  for me.  I was speaking to a group of my senior students and they put forward the idea that they could pay their yoga fees by the term.  That would mean that they could choose to come or not, and I could know that the class was stable.  So I am going with that. Thank you class for the suggestion.

NEW STUDIO CHARGES FOR YOGA FOR NEXT TERM
3RD OCTOBER TO THE 12TH DECEMBER – $220 PER TERM, PER CLASS.
(Childrens Teddy Bear Yoga $150 per term per child).

THE YOGA CLASSES – please book before you arrive.  They are small classes and one unplanned extra may not be able to join. Covid rules in place of course.

IRON AND YOU

Everyone is all over the place at the moment.  Concentration and commitment are nowhere to be seen.  Maybe after lockdowns, covid anxiety etc we are all undernourished in certain areas.  In the States 50% of the population is obese, that not only tells us that they are eating the wrong things and not exercising correctly, it means they are undernourished, particularly I would say in B vitamins and iron, depressed, lethargic.

I had a group come on the weekend.  I know that one of them is so severely iron deficient that she needs injections regularly.  However, when she came I could see she was very overweight, and was carrying two trays of sweet pastries.  Whilst I appreciate the thought, it was unnecessary – however  this gesture showed me the problem.  Food choices.

The anaemic person cannot be supplied with sufficient oxygen, therefore energy production decreases and they experience weakness, dizziness, shortness of breath on exertion, consciousness of a pounding heartbeat, palpitations and continuous tiredness and depression.  Does this sound like you?  PLUS are you compounding the problem with antacid tablets? 

In a mixed diet only 50% of the iron ingested can be used, the remainder is lost in the feces.  In experiments in which anaemia was treated with single foods, Liver was found to contain the most haemoglobin, kidneys second, apricots third and eggs fourth.  Many foods which contained as much or more iron failed to be good blood builders.  Part of the iron in leafy vegetables is held in insoluble compounds which cannot be absorbed.  In general, the softer the the texture of any food containing iron, the more completely absorbed.

It is complex.  Anaemic persons usually don’t have the concentrations of hydrochloric acid in their stomachs to allow iron rich foods to be digested, and because large numbers take alkalinising preparations which prohibit or dilute this acid, iron is not absorbed.  Vegan and vegetarians have this problem and have to make sure they are eating acres of spinach and leafy greens, taking brewers yeast and molasses in order to supercharge their iron requirements.

Don’t be part smart.  Before you rush off to the doctor or the counsellor for a quick fix, check your diet.  If necessary get a multi vitamin, and an iron supplement until you have sorted out a diet that works –  not just satisfying what you think your mouth wants, but what you NEED.  (and it is not trays of sweet pastry).  AND DON’T SMOKE.  Remember there is ONLY ONE WAY to lose weight – use more calories in exercise than you consume as food.

SOOTY and TEDDY BEAR YOGA

Does anyone watch the “SOOTY SHOW” any more.  I do – I tube it for a bit of fun. I have been a fan for many years, love bears as you know, and I also renew and renovate bears for those in need.  Well, I have been teaching TEDDY BEAR YOGA to my lovely Windarring clients.  Students with physical and intellectual challenges.  I just love it and so do they.  At the end of a class they are still engaged, laughing, having fun.  And next week they get their very own bear – It is going to be a fabulous class.  You should try it.  I am going to have TEDDY BEAR YOGA here in the studio for children next term.  The bears have opened a whole new identity for me, and I am loving it.

I will see you on the mat (with Teddy)

NAMASTE – JAHNE