Dear Yogis,

I have had a wonderful, surprising birthday “week”.  I think we are all done now.  We have gone through Christmas, New Year and my birthday (Valentine’s day is coming up although Coles is stocking hot cross buns!).  I planned to hide away, but thank you so much to those students and friends who determined there was another way,  and brought the party to me.  Now we can get back to what we do best (I am not too good at parties, but loved them this time), The Studio.

 

Our YOGA CLASSES ETC

BACH FLOWER REMEDIES.  I can determine these by pendulum, or you can come for a consult or on zoom.  I can post or you can collect the remedy.  I make all my remedies, on the basis that a plant grown in the UK, USA or China is totally different energetically to a plant that I have gathered and processed around our town.  No travel, individual, and much more powerful in its effect.  Please contact me and we will work together.  I have found Bach remedies to be much more effective than ANYTHING else in combatting the after effects of covid or (in my case) the covid vaccinations.

Our ZOOM HERBAL CLASSES started on the 9th January.  

PLEASE BOOK for any of the classes (or consults) to suit you.  The studio classes are  small classes, and just joining in may not be possible, some are full.

CLASS TIMES:   Monday Hatha 1pm and 2.15, Wed. Restorative 1pm –   I am also thinking of a Saturday morning YOGA class, although I do have to accomodate a gallery obligation one morning a month – tricky but we can manage, maybe Saturday afternoon would be better?. 

FREE ZOOM HERBAL WORKSHOP.  Mondays at 6.30 on zoom.

ZOOM – YOGA FOR DISABILITY – Please register your interest – Maybe a Thursday or Friday evening zoom would suit us all.  Let me know or I will make an executive decision.   The zoom will include the book.

YOGA LUNCH.  12 NOON ON FRIDAY 27TH JANUARY AT THE “FULL MOON” (Not “Lone Star”, not “Blue Moon”), restaurant next to the Victoria Hotel in Woodend.  It looks like a Western Saloon…..  I lunched there the other weekend and it was great.  A surprise.  Even if you can’t join us, please try it.  I have booked for the usual group, if you would like to join us and haven’t before, please contact me so we can add you to the table and make sure there is room for an extra chair with no squeeze.

 

SCHOOL TERMS AND PAYMENT… 

OPTION 1.  The Official School Term  starts on the 3oth January and finishes on the 6th April – which we also call a TERM. If you want to start again on 30th January (a Monday) and finish on the 6th April,  then the cost for the term is $220.

OPTION 2. However, If you want to pay for the entire time from the 9th January to the 6th April, (a lengthier term) the cost is $270.

OPTION 3. There is still the option to pay 4 CONSECUTIVE classes at a time $88 – with this option if you don’t come to class you lose your payment, although you can make up a class in the same week.

You can pay easily via PayPal.  Go to the bottom of the home page (www.yogabeautiful.com.au), click on Pay via PayPal.  They send me a receipt super fast.  It is easy and very secure.

SEE YOU ON THE MAT SOON.

JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

Missed you at Mt.Macedon Gallery Saturday morning and Sunday…..  It always feels like coming home as it was my little centre for 5 years… before I finally moved everything to where I am now – I get the feeling of a shift in the air once again.

Everyday I pick a tarot card.  TODAY THE CARD THAT CAME UP WAS “THE WORLD”.  It is not about doing slavishly what the card advises, but thinking about the image, and how to progress through the day in the most positive way that I can.  Being a very visual person, the card helps me.    The World is a clear indication of completion. We all want to be satisfied in many aspects of our life  and  The World card is reminding me (and you) that happiness is there at your fingertips – all you have to do is reach out and get it!

Another facet of the card  is its calmness which comes when everything fits together.  When you get the World card, it’s a great opportunity to reflect on your life and ask yourself a few key questions. What do you think would make you happy? Do you have a sense of accomplishment? What could give you a sense of accomplishment? What might you do to make your life more complete? Is there already completeness and goodness in your life that you can’t see or appreciate?

WHAT CHOOSING THIS CARD MEANT FOR ME (and maybe you) TODAY:   The World card has appeared today to indicate that we have come to the end of a particular cycle in life. This could be obvious but in some cases, these cycles can be quite subtle. In either case, we have learned what there is to learn from a pattern in your life and it is time for a new one to begin. Whether it’s psychological, emotional, spiritual, or physical, it looks like we are moving on to a new chapter. This can also suggest that there are greater forces at work in our life and it is time to allow the world to shape itself around us.  I still do the Tarot Readings.  Please let me know if you want one – zoom, studio or email.  BOOK VIA THE EMAIL. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

PHAGE THERAPY

You may not have heard the word, but if you have been coming here a LONG TIME, and have a good memory you may remember me talking about it years ago No one was ever interested.  I ceased talking about it but always think of it).  Phage is a way of producing remedies from a disease, rather like homeopathy, but in the case of Phage, a remedy is made for you from your condition or disease.  The closest we get in the West is when a person drinks their own urine.

Phage Therapy was practised in Georgia (Russia) for many years.  They had hospitals that operated entirely on this principle and it worked.  A sick person would come in and was isolated in their own room with their own nursing team.  A remedy would be designed from their condition and administered to them by spraying the air, by mouth or etc.

Why is this important?  Well, today antibiotics are ceasing to work.  Our bugs are getting too clever.  Guess what scientists are exploring now?  You guessed it – PHAGE THERAPY!  Years ago America tried to buy the main hospital in Russia and all the “recipes”, but were refused on the basis that it was a therapy for everyone, and it was thought that America would make it into a money making enterprise. Pretty accurate assessment I think.  In early 2000’s it seems to have gone international, but it began in the 1900’s.   Google it – it is worth knowing about – there is a lot to learn.

 

Our YOGA CLASSES

…….(and zoom herbals) started on the 9th January.  PLEASE BOOK for class to suit you.  The studio classes are  small classes, and just joining in may not be possible, we do have full classes..

CLASS TIMES:   Monday Hatha 1pm and 2.15, Wed. Restorative 1pm and 2.15.  I am also thinking of a Saturday morning YOGA class, although I do have to accomodate a gallery obligation one morning a month – tricky but we can manage. 

FREE ZOOM HERBAL WORKSHOP.  Mondays at 6.30 on zoom.

ZOOM – YOGA FOR DISABILITY – Please register your interest – Maybe a Thursday or Friday evening zoom would suit us all.  Let me know or I will make an executive decision.   The zoom will include the book.

 

SCHOOL TERMS AND PAYMENT… 

OPTION 1.  The Official School Term  starts on the 3oth January and finishes on the 6th April – which we also call a TERM. If you want to start again on 30th January (a Monday) and finish on the 6th April,  then the cost for the term is $220.

OPTION 2. However, If you want to pay for the entire time from the 9th January to the 6th April, (a lengthier term) the cost is $270.

OPTION 3. There is still the option to pay 4 CONSECUTIVE classes at a time $88 – with this option if you don’t come to class you lose your payment, although you can make up a class in the same week.

You can pay easily via PayPal.  Go to the bottom of the home page (www.yogabeautiful.com.au), click on Pay via PayPal.  They send me a receipt super fast.  It is easy and very secure.

SEE YOU ON THE MAT SOON.

JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

Gorgeous for yoga weather.  I often get asked if I do yoga outdoors – the answer, NO.  I have tried it in the past but here are too many variables for some students.  Insects, people who are worried about animals and grass, weather, wind,  you name it.  It is much easier to have classes indoors. One time I was asked to hold a yoga class on a tennis court in a Woodend winter – it was 5 degrees at the time.  The answer again was no, no matter what they were paying for the class or how much cocoa was provided at the end!

YOGA THERAPY FOR STROKE VICTIMS

Many stroke victims even after “recovery” have issues with their hands.  This can also apply after other neurological incidents, even Parkinsons.  There is heaps you can do to help as it is a matter of re-establishing the brain patterns.  Nothing is quick, but it is doable.  One of the problems is that most people want a quick-fix.  There isn’t one.

I have found a four pronged approach is best.  A simple restorative yoga class, Bach flower therapy to work on mood and emotions, Bowen or PPT massage for the body,  and specific work on re-establishing fine motor skills for example – threadings large beads and getting smaller and smaller beads as skills improve, Chinese Brush painting, picking up cards or coins, crumpling paper and then smoothing it flat (both processes with the damaged hand).

Try these with your clients – but you need to do all four.  It is a therapy, it is not as I said, a quick-fix.  Let me know how you go.  You can’t cherry pick here.  It is a four pronged approach and needs to be done over a time frame – perhaps 10 sessions, 1 per week.

 

ZOOMING AGAIN.

I have got quite a few students who want to know how I teach YOGA TO CLIENTS WITH DISABILITIES.  I am pleased to write about it, and I will soon be able to teach it, via zoom.  Please register your interest with me.  I would like to start with the therapy above – whilst we don’t think of stroke victims as people with disabilities, a stroke however small,  is disabling.    Email yogafirst2@bigpond.com

LUNCHES AT THE LONE STAR.  

Our Yoga lunches are starting up again at 12 noon on Friday the 27th of January (the day AFTER Australia Day).  I have agreement from the usual yoga ladies that we can try this new venue.  The LONE STAR is right next door to The Victoria in High Street in Woodend,  squeezed between the Hotel and The Top Shop (it looks kind of Western from the outside)  .. I have visited and enjoyed my lunch immensely.  I have booked us in for 12 noon.  Please let me know if you would like to join us.

Our YOGA CLASSES

…….(and zoom herbals) started on the 9th January.  PLEASE BOOK for class to suit you.  The studio classes are  small classes, and just joining in may not be possible, we do have full classes..

CLASS TIMES:   Monday Hatha 1pm and 2.15, Wed. Restorative 1pm and 2.15.  I am also thinking of a Saturday morning YOGA class, although I do have to accomodate a gallery obligation one morning a month – tricky but we can manage. 

FREE ZOOM HERBAL WORKSHOP.  Mondays at 6.30 on zoom.

ZOOM – YOGA FOR DISABILITY – Please register your interest – Maybe a Thursday or Friday evening zoom would suit us all.  Let me know or I will make an executive decision.   The zoom will include the book.

 

SCHOOL TERMS AND PAYMENT… 

OPTION 1.  The Official School Term  starts on the 3oth January and finishes on the 6th April – which we also call a TERM. If you want to start again on 30th January (a Monday) and finish on the 6th April,  then the cost for the term is $220.

OPTION 2. However, If you want to pay for the entire time from the 9th January to the 6th April, (a lengthier term) the cost is $270.

OPTION 3. There is still the option to pay 4 CONSECUTIVE classes at a time $88 – with this option if you don’t come to class you lose your payment, although you can make up a class in the same week.

You can pay easily via PayPal.  Go to the bottom of the home page (www.yogabeautiful.com.au), click on Pay via PayPal.  They send me a receipt super fast.  It is easy and very secure.

SEE YOU ON THE MAT SOON.

JAHNE