Dear Yogis,

The little TeaBag painting is part of a number I have done with a focus on the alphabet.  Prints, originals cards…. I am doing some MINIATURE linocut prints.  I have an exhibition in Kyneton next year with a largish room to inhabit, plus Christmas is coming and I would like to have an exhibition in my own studio prior to that.  Getting the balance right is they key – I am learning.

I didn’t get to the disability Conference in Melbourne on Friday, although I did get to the City.  The rain was monsoonal with hail promised and try as I might I just couldn’t get down to South Bank without the possibility of being totally drowned…. The rain was relentless,  and I didn’t want to sit in cold wet clothes all day.   The hail didn’t eventuate but I did manage to get to The  Theosophical Society – they are stocking my prints and cards, and they have the WONDERFUL library, I never come out without a book or two and usually not the ones I went in for! Then there is the shop, so if you want the gongs, books, all the things that were at the old and glorious building, then come here.  I am getting used to the building but it is not as “welcoming”, although the staff certainly is.

I was encouraged to use the community bus to get around locally in the rain, so I did, and what a great experience it was.  Out community bus (unlike the bigger buses in other towns) will come when you call, and is small enough to get around the little backroads.  All in all it was worth trying and at $1.40 per trip there is nothing to grumble about.  I will be using it more often.  They even offered to pick me up from the railway station, but I managed the 100 yards to the bus stop between showers.

I did do a bit of investigation because it was suggested that we move our Yoga Lunches to The Mount Pub, but reliable sources have said they are not up to more than a table for two, and even that has “iffy” reviews.  The last time 8 of us went for lunch it was a woeful experience, and I decided that it is not yet ready to reliable deal with our yoga lunch, so we are staying with “The Full Moon Saloon” in Woodend.  Out last meal there was splendid, and the cook has even suggested that we pre-order our lunch to get the meal we would like.

WHATS ON.  (don’t forget – we have started a new term)

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,  9.30AM in Gisborne (the next term starts next Tuesday).

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Although these are small classes I take them seriously – you will too.
Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm,   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 (BUT NOT THIS WEDNESDAY – WE ARE HAVING A DAY OFF)  by donation. 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.

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. Don’t forget there is now a book available on Etsy..

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING – The last Sunday in October!

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH: last Saturday in October.  12 noon  at The Full Moon Saloon as usual – I have booked.   Please email me if you would like to come, and haven’t emailed or contacted me already.

 

NAMASTE
JAHNE

Hi Yogis,

Last week I made an experimental week – I only posted on Monday.  Nobody noticed so I guess once is enough.  I think once is NEVER enough, but that is just me.  It takes a while to do three or even two newsletters a week, and as none of you noticed or posted, I will persist with the one a week – if you want more, then it is up to you to make a noise.

What happened last week? As I said I found a distributor of Vellum that I am printing card images on.  It is beautiful, gives soft and lovely images, and so different to printing on paper.  The distributor is in Shepparton, so not far away, although it does take more that two days to get to Woodend.  On the plus side the paper is securely packaged and just could not be damaged by Australia Post unless they really focussed.

ART SALE.  The Lions Club had a sale of art works on Sunday, frames, prints, odds and ends that people brought to raise money for the food bank charity.  I thought it was a good idea, but none of the items were  marked with a price, and the idea was that you negotiated with the person in charge when you found something you liked.  I was not a fan of the method.

If they had followed Windarrings lead, they could have put stickers on each (a great system) – red for $5, green for $10, blue for $20 and so on, we could have all been clear and I think more would have been sold.  I found one or two I liked but no way was I going to barter and pay too much for a badly framed print.  I did see people pay $50 for very ordinary poster style prints, not originals.   I would rather save my money and put it towards an original at The Mount Macedon Gallery, or Art on Piper, as much as I thought that the charity was sorely in need of every dollar.

At the end of the day there was not many gaps where items had sold, and the organiser said that he was going to take to left overs to the op shops, and the canvasses to the schools to paint over!

WHATS ON.  (don’t forget – we have started a new term)

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,  9.30AM in Gisborne (the next term starts next Tuesday).

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Although these are small classes I take them seriously – you will too.
Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm,   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. 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.

DISABILITY CONFERENCE THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.  I will be at the Friday presentations at the Melbourne Convention Centre.

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. Don’t forget there is now a book available on Etsy..

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING – The last Sunday in October!

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH: last Saturday in October.  12 noon perhaps at The Full Moon Saloon as usual I think.   Please email me if you would like to come, and haven’t emailed or contacted me already.

 

NAMASTE
JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

What an amazing couple of weeks.  My yoga classes have levelled out, the cards, prints and paintings have been selling, even a couple in Hamburg, Germany.  Not top of the tree sales that’s for sure, but sales all the same when the world is pulling its head in.  I even learned about bitcoin called Ethereum.  I am still working on Merlin to the left, I have in mind what I want to do but I am not sure how to do it.

I am so enjoying where I am at in life – how many people can say that at my age?  It seems most people are trying to escape to somewhere else, not understanding that they will be taking themselves and their troubles to that other place.  I am even re-discovering EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique.  I learned this very early on, but I didn’t emotionally realise at the time what a powerful too I had for change.  If you can change your mind, you can change everything!  You don’t need Merlin (or maybe EFT is Merlin).

I have found a paper supplier in Shepparton and when that new paper comes I will make more prints.

A RESOURCE FOR ARTISTS:  On Sunday I dropped in to the nursery to get kindling – none, so I stopped off at the hardware store in Woodend.  The kindling there was half the prince, PLUS when I got home and unzipped the bag, I found beautiful offcuts of skirting board, picture frame, and cabinet making pieces about 12 inches long.  What a resource for artists.  Hop in there and see for yourself (but don’t take it all!).  Burning a resource like this is hard to do, even the pieces I don’t need.  I have a couple of small canvasses to frame and these offcuts are PERFECT.

WHATS ON.

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,  9.30AM in Gisborne (the next term starts next Tuesday).

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Although these are small classes I take them seriously – you will too.
Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm,   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. 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. Don’t forget there is now a book available on Etsy..

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING – The last Sunday in October!

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH: last Saturday in October.  12 noon perhaps at The Mount Macedon Hotel.  in the room with the fireplace.    Please email me if you would like to come, and haven’t emailed or contacted me already.

MT.MACEDON GALLERY EXHIBITION:  … open until the end of the month – I will be at The Gallery next Saturday from 10 to 1pm – come and have a chat, pick up a painting (I will be taking the exhibition down, and taking new HERB CARDS to place on the card racks for sale).

NAMASTE
JAHNE