Dear Yogis,

The year is winding down, and the cat and I are winding down… Yesterday I was passing the OpShop and right out front was a fabulous cat Anxiety Bed. Gracie certainly needed something so I bought it (an investment piece) $5.  The cat hopped in right off, and has remained there, scream free for the last few HOURS.  We are both at peace, and  isn’t that what Christmas is all about – do they make person size beds like this? I would love one!!!  Is this fantasy land?

Right now, senior person that I am, I am working on defrosting and tidying up the freezer (no, it is not “frost free”) , and chucking stuff out of the fridge – just getting ready for the next influx of people.  I always say that I am going to hide down the backyard, and with the weeds growing at a pace I could, but my students and friends  “rescue” me from this fate.

TAROT FOR THE DEAF AND THE BLIND:  I am still working on these, much harder than anticipated.  Please email me if you want a guide to your next chapter.  Tarot available by appointment.

CARE BEARS:  Last year I donated about 200 bears, maybe more to those in need.  I have been doing this for about 5 years so I have given almost 1,000 bears to people in crisis.  That’s a lot of bears that would otherwise perhaps gone to landfill.  How anyone could part with these precious items I just don’t know.  I could not.

 

WHATS ON IN THE STUDIO.  

(Christmas? Our last yoga class Friday 20th December at 10am  – First 2025 class Friday 10th January at 10am)

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,(last class the 24th December!)   9.30AM in Gisborne Until the17th December..

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm,   FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am.

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday  by donation. Please arrive close to 9.30 and we will start when we are settled.

YOGA PHILOSOPHY CLASSES AS USUAL ZOOM. Monday 6.30pm.    For an ID please email.  We are studying chakras as they relate to everyday life and tarot.

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH:   at The Full Moon Saloon starting again in the new year.  January.   

CHRISTMAS LUNCH – fabulous time – sorry you were not with us, thank you if you were….. My art studio will also be open by appointment over christmas if you want to pick up something nice….different.  Some flower studies – me painting flowers, who knew?

 

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

I am going to learn AUSLAN because I am losing my hearing.   I have been paying attention to others in the same boat – not just those losing a little hearing, but people like me who have been losing everything except the “central sounds”.  This makes students traversing a philosophy based yoga class, a harder call than most.

If you are just lumping along lifting weights and running on a treadmill, well you don’t even need to feel to do that – but yoga is different.  We don’t just care about the HOW we take time to understand the WHY.  The folk I teach at Windarring have a smattering of Auslan, one or two of the support workers are studying it, so I am in the right place to learn and practice. When I know enough to teach it, I will.  In the meanwhile I am doing an AUSLAN summer school at the Polytechnic in Collingwood.  It should be interesting – what else would I be doing?.

I have always tried to face my shortfalls (coming faster as I get older), and make them into an advantage, bearing in mind that you could be experiencing the same as me, but maybe pretending you are not. To stave off alzheimers we are told learning a language can help, well, Auslan is a language with a physical , external expression.

I am looking forward to seeing (and hearing) you at our break up get together on Sunday afternoon (Woodend time).  Please bring a plate – preferably with something on it.  

BOOK RECOMMENDATION:  “Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind”.  Revealing a person of endless compassion.   The journals of Maura “Soshin” O’Halloran. ISBN 1 85538 452 3

 

 

WHATS ON IN THE STUDIO.  

(Christmas? Our last yoga class Friday 20th December at 10am  – First 2025 class Friday 10th January at 10am)

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,(last class the 24th December!)   9.30AM in Gisborne Until the17th December..

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm,   FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am.

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday  by donation. Please arrive close to 9.30 and we will start when we are settled.

YOGA PHILOSOPHY CLASSES AS USUAL ZOOM. Monday 6.30pm.    For an ID please email.  We are studying chakras as they relate to everyday life and tarot.

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH:   at The Full Moon Saloon starting again in the new year.  January.   

CHRISTMAS LUNCH – 15th December in the Studio, Woodend.   at 12’ish.  Come when you can (after Mass?). My art studio will also be open if you want to pick up something nice….different.  Some flower studies – me painting flowers, who knew?

NAMASTE – JAHNE