Dear Yogis,

Windarring calls.  What a fabulous place to work – I love it and am having so much fun.  Would you like to work in disability?  Few are thinking about it BUT MAYBE YOU SHOULD.

At a time when yoga teachers are looking around for the best place to teach, and dealing with dwindling class numbers,  there is an area which growing in leaps and bounds – disability.  All areas of disability, especially if you have NDIS recognition.  You can join me in the journey – please register your interest at yogafirst2@bigpond.com.  Even if you don’t want to be registered with the NDIS, you can still work in this area. For instance “YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WHEELCHAIRS… “ could be popular where you live.   Or, if you already work in the area of disability and would like to teach yoga to your clients the way that I do, then you could do this course.

THE MINISTRY OF YOGA – INDIA

Of course, in India which is aware and enthusiastic about the benefits of yoga for everyone, Wheelchair yoga for people with spinal injuries is gaining in popularity.

“Yoga combines meditation, breath control, and body postures in order to aid mobility and body awareness. It is a practice that combines elements of physical fitness, mental awareness and spiritual awakening,” said Pragya Ghildial, senior yoga therapist, ISIC.  Ghidhiyal, the first female yoga therapist herself confined to a wheelchair, is a peer counsellor and an athlete who has represented India in international Para athletics. She is also the recipient of the National Award 2016 for best sports person with disability in the women’s category.

“I personally believe specially-abled persons or people having undergone debilitating injuries or body paralysis should have equal opportunity and access to do yoga. As a matter of fact, wheelchair yoga is technically not different at all from any other form of yoga, rather it only refers to a set of poses you can do while being seated,” she says

As the ancient texts say, the only thing that stops people from doing yoga, is their ability to understand and follow the teacher.  Wheelchair Yoga for athletes, and for those with brain injuries are vastly different, but still yoga.  We can still teach these groups and the benefits are enormous.  Join me.

 

STUDIO YOGA CLASS TIMES (yogabeautiful.com.au)
CHRISTMAS YOGA.  Closing the week of the 12th DECEMBER to 9th January. 

NEXT WEEK
Monday Studio –  1pm class,  2.15 class as usual. ZOOM FREE BACH FLOWERS STUDY 6.30pm – last class 12th December. 
Don’t forget the free lunch at the Uniting Church in Forest St next to the Police Station. 12.30 Mondays.
Tuesday –  9.30 and 1.30 Jahne Teaching yoga at Windarring  
Wednesday Studio –  1pm Restorative.
THURSDAY – Jahne teaching yoga at Windarring at 1.30 – Goodbye free day!!

MONTHLY YOGA LUNCH.  NEXT – Monday 19th December at 1pm at the Vic in Woodend.  RSVP if you haven’t already??? yogafirst2@bigpond.com

See you at the Studio.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

It seems a hundred years ago when I taught  “growing and cooking” to primary school children at Macedon Primary School – definitely pre-Ash Wednesday.  There was no curriculum, not even a nod to Steiner although I tried to impart his ideas.  It was my job to bring the students lessons I had worked through myself that would strengthen their capacity to grow and cook simple things for themselves, enliven their thinking, deepen their interest in the world around them, and for some encourage a more meaningful life.  All things that direct me in my teaching today…

It is my belief that in modern society we have lost the feeling and understanding of a living world and separated ourselves completely from it. It is of the utmost importance for the development of all life, and especially humanity, that we regain a genuine experience of the living active spirit.  Take the house and garden of Derek Jarman in England.  Sparse, zen-like, full of spirit, reverence, awe.  Something out of nothing.

I am very involved in telling stories to my classes.  The lovely image rich fairy-tales we find all over the world speak to us of what once was understood to be spiritual and active in nature.  Please live and teach in a wisdom filled world of constant change,  as I do.   Be present to the energies of life itself, emerging in cosmic cycles and rhythms. The spirit of the earth lives and creates within these life processes the spirit of LOVE.

STUDIO YOGA CLASS TIMES (yogabeautiful.com.au)
CHRISTMAS YOGA.  Closing the week of the 12th DECEMBER to 9th January. 

NEXT WEEK
Monday Studio –  1pm class,  2.15 class as usual. ZOOM FREE BACH FLOWERS STUDY 6.30pm – last class 12th December. 
Don’t forget the free lunch at the Uniting Church in Forest St next to the Police Station. 12.30 Mondays.
Tuesday –  9.30 and 1.30 Jahne Teaching yoga at Windarring  
Wednesday Studio –  1pm Restorative.
THURSDAY – Jahne teaching yoga at Windarring at 1.30 – Goodbye free day!!

MONTHLY YOGA LUNCH.  NEXT – Monday 19th December at 1pm at the Vic in Woodend.  RSVP if you haven’t already??? yogafirst2@bigpond.com

See you at the Studio.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

What a funny weekend.  Thank goodness I had lots to do and deadlines, otherwise I would have done nothing.  Everything I needed to do was completed early Sunday morning, I made my apologies to God (who knows where I am), and went to visit “my pal Val” rather than go to church.  I know that Church is not about the cult of personalities, but our present minister reads his sermon from his iPad, word for word – where is the Spirit in that?

Val and I sat under a shade umbrella, had a lemon tea and a chat.  A much better alternative than a laboured sermon.  Later in the afternoon (after tiny bit of gardening) I sat in the shade with a long drink, read Clive James and laughed

Val did give me handbag she thought “I might like to restore”, Unfortunately it had gone past the restoration page, however, the internals were pristine and just what I like – lots of pockets.  I also loved the black patent handles with silver clips.  So,  I took the insides out of the bag, deconstructed the handles and will construct a denim bag around this.  I will show you how I go.

AM I MISSING SOMETHING?  A friend who said they were going to drop by in the afternoon arrived at 7.30pm and claimed that it was afternoon for them on the basis that it was still light.  Almost as perplexing as a visitor who was taking me to lunch last week at 12noon and turned up at 9.30am.  Is this the way of the world now? Sorry, it doesn’t work for me.  Afternoon can be about 4pm (High-Tea time),  and 12 noon is 12 noon not 9.30am!  Maybe I am just getting old.

DOLLS..  

I finished them.  From a pile of unloved (stained and dusty) rags to two dolls.  What a job –  restored inside and out, and taken back to the time that they were made, complete with “liberty” fabric frills.

Of course when they were originally made,  all the bits were added on before they were filled, when they were just pieces of pattern.  Now the fabric unraveled as I worked on it, the binding was shredded, the seams were threadbare and generally they were a sad lot, not helped by being scrawled on in texta (the original bits in the bag in the first photo).  Now they are pristine and ready for their next (careful) incarnation.

CHRISTMAS IS COMING (AS IS COVID!).

The weather is blowing hot and cold, clients are getting coughs and colds which are no longer viewed as benign, Covid Cases are surging and whilst we can’t live in fear, I think we have to be careful.  For the first time I was informed that a person in one of my off-site classes tested positive.  I had no symptoms, and have been continuously testing negative, so I dodged a bullet, but it has made me more careful than I perhaps might have otherwise been.  No larger gatherings for me…. although I am going to hotels for Christmas lunches, and I am going to love it.

YOGA FOR THE DISABLED –

My main project for the new year (academically) is to get my CertIV in Disability.  This week I did the dreaded NDIS training.  It was all on line.  THREE  hours of a training course with small tests after each module.  Pleasant graphics, gorgeous videos, and sensible questions.  Not too bad.  Then, the horrible NDIS ID Screening.  Horrible.  I got through it and was about to take a breath thinking the photo at the end would be simple.  TWENTY or so photos later I finally got an image that the computer recognised.  After each 5 photos no accepted the WHOLE ID quit and I had to re-enter.  At least I now know who I am!!!  I had a stiff drink at the end and feel so pleased that I finished it.  It was also great to know that it takes some people much longer, and then for some it takes 3 month+ to get the ID actioned.  For me it took less than 24hours.  I am now a “REAL” NDIS person, and hopefully can help even more people be introduced to yoga.

I can’t wait to get all this out of the way so that  can begin an add-on TEACHER TRAINING COURSE IN DISABILITY.  You will love it!   Please let me know if you are interested.  Once you are trained you will be in BIG demand and can contract yourself out to Disability Centres, teach one-on-one and take classes in studios specifically for the disabled……  or go to homes, or work out of your studio.  You can design the way you work.  It is exhausting work but heaps of fun.

COME ON YOGA BABES.  

Lots of yoga studios are going out of business, and I am showing you how to focus on a group of people who need you and want to do yoga – the DISABLED COMMUNITY.  You will have more work than you know what to do with – it’s fabulous, it’s fun and you will love it.  If you are interested in fabulous, fun and heaps of work let me know.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com

 

STUDIO YOGA CLASS TIMES (yogabeautiful.com.au)
CHRISTMAS YOGA.  Closing the week of the 12th DECEMBER to 9th January. 

NEXT WEEK
Monday Studio –  1pm class,  2.15 class as usual. ZOOM FREE BACH FLOWERS STUDY 6.30pm 
Don’t forget the free lunch at the Uniting Church in Forest St next to the Police Station. 12.30 Mondays.
Tuesday –  9.30 and 1.30 Jahne Teaching yoga at Windarring  
Wednesday Studio –  1pm Restorative.
THURSDAY – Jahne teaching yoga at Windarring at 1.30 – Goodbye free day!!

MONTHLY YOGA LUNCH.  NEXT – Monday 19th December at 1pm at the Vic in Woodend.  RSVP if you haven’t already??? yogafirst2@bigpond.com

See you at the Studio.

NAMASTE – JAHNE