Dear Yogis…..

Can anyone out there send me (or deposit on my doorstep) some knitting wool, real or acrylic,  to use in our/my yarn bombing endeavours – even “bombing” a bike (from freeknitting.com)?  I am thinking of having a Friday afternoon yarn bombing get together at my place (2.30 to 4.30?) to raise the profile (and contributions) towards Yoga for Disability.

I thought I would like to decorate the Buddha and the Japanese Gate in my front yard, how can you contribute.  Hopefully I can get some knitted and wool donations from Windarring, as well as teach them how they can contribute pom, poms or squares.  What about you?  Can you contribute wool, donations, squares? COULD YOU COME ON A FRIDAY 2.30 TO 4.30?? Experience in knit or crochet not required.   You could knit squares, sew a knit-fabric square we can crochet an edge on.

GREAT GARDENER? I live on my own except for when yoga students are at class, or are helping out – however sometimes more is required.   I have in the past called Jims Mowing.  Not all Jims Mowing is created equal – I have had some not so good experiences,  mostly where every time they come they do less and charge more….but Clyde Wright (New Gisborne) is a cut above.  If you need gardening done (including hedge clippings etc etc, he has “heavy lifting” type equipment and could help.  He has been terrific in my yard.  clyde.wright@jimsmowing.net

KEEPING THE BODY CLEAN AND TIDY.

Have you heard of The Kriyas?  The cleansing practices?  Neti pot to wash out the sinus muck, Trataka – candle gazing for clearing the head, and breathing practices Bhastrika for instance,  to clear the chest.  There are few not so pleasant practices but I don’t do them or recommend them in real life.  If you were at an Indian Ashram you might do them – but we live in the real world.

There are lots of various respiratory germs flying around – if you keep your body in tip top shape, you will be less likely to get any of these. Don’t wait until they arrive.   Bacteria and fungi in the body are designed to help you deal with invaders, they are not the baddies.  If you keep you biome happy, you will be happy.  Don’t just hide in bed and cry, get out there. Just because the folk waiting to get sick actually get sick – you don’t have to.   

If you do struggle into the doctor, and sit in a germ laden waiting room and then are prescribed multiple antibiotics, you will take quite a long time to recover, both from the infection and the drugs. Walk, breathe and LIVE.  It’s simple.

Speaking about doctors.  We have a new “young” doctor in town at the Brooke Street Medical Centre.  I am avoiding him like the plague as my clients tell me that as soon as your age gets close to 80,  he uses whatever condition you go to him for, as an excuse to remove your licence to drive!!!   There are a number of disgruntled clients as you can imagine.  He contacts the various authorities right away and makes sure you have to hand your licence back.  I do believe there are people in town driving who should not be, and some of them only 50 years old.  Age is not the only red flag.  Strokes, eyesight, hearing are all concerns.

CLASSES WOODEND.  from 8th July for the next term….

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,  9.30AM in Gisborne (10 week term ending in September).

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 (or a bit later)  by donation.   Arrive around 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.  

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING – The last Sunday in August.

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH: Last Saturday in the month.  Please email me if you would like to come.

 

NAMASTE – JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

…our Saturday lunch at The Victoria was lovely, chatty and I don’t think we talked about yoga – but the time just flew.  I love these get togethers.  Just we yogis. Everyone had been dreaming about The Vic “fish in beer batter with chunky trips”.  I was the only person who deviated with steamed vegetables.  No famous pie, or great pizza.  I was there to be with the group – not for the food although I do like a plate of steamed veg.

I included the picture of the waterfall not far from my home – it speaks to clarity, freshness.  Sitting by it and meditating when I can is a very special experience.   It can be any waterfall, anywhere, even a virtual one.  Take time out – even 3 minutes and reboot your system.

I am still contemplating the YARN BOMBING.  I loved doing it, and since the time we did it here in Woodend, the world has been waking up to it, and International Yarn Bombing day is exactly that – International.  In Australia, especially NSW, the deaf/blind community are well into it, and I am going to try to engage the diverse-ability community here in my district.

I can help you do it where you are – it does need some thought.  It is not just a matter of getting together a ball of wool and needles.  This can be a fantastic fund raising group.. or just for fun.  It brings people together and the result can be ART.  In your area, nominate a tree or a bollard, or a verandah and decorate it.   PLEASE EMAIL ME:  yogafirst2@bigpond.com

YOGA FOR DIVERSE-ABILITY.

The zoom  part of the course has concluded, however, the teacher trainings are ongoing on Mondays.  If you want to join our classes you will have to wait until the next intake which will be at the end of the year.  Some of our teachers have already brought the trainings into their classrooms and are finding the work transformational.  This added to CCP makes a very rounded therapy and a very rounded, grounded yoga teacher.  It is not just about weight loss, or fitness – to be honest, yoga has never been JUST about this, although many people see only this.  As my teacher always said – “if yoga doesn’t change you it isn’t yoga”.  I think if my yoga classes don’t change you (not miraculously but with patience and time), find a new teacher – no teacher is the right teacher for everyone.

CLASSES WOODEND.  from 8th July for the next term….

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,  9.30AM in Gisborne (10 week term ending in September).

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 (or a bit later)  by donation.   Arrive around 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.  

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING – The

last Sunday in August.

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH: Last Saturday in the month.  Please email me if you would like to come.

NEW YIN YOGA CARDS ON THE WAY – they are being printed.

 

NAMASTE .  JAHNE

Dear yogis….

I am not sure if this got through ( you may get more than one), but it is such an important message I decided to send it again.

SIMPLICITY Thinking about bombing of any kind, keep top of mind that about 400 hundred people per hour are going to die of starvation whilst we are reading this, and many more are on the brink, and many more will be killed and maimed in the various wars being waged at the moment!.

What can you do about this – well a lot on a tiny scale.  You could agree with yourself to live more simply.  I look at the lifestyle of the now deceased Tasha Tudor.  Although she lived in an affluent society (1915 – 2008.  Boston. Mass. USA) , she maintained the simple life of her parents until she died.  Made her own clothes, raised her own food, used electricity marginally and so on.  She earned money through writing childrens books and painting, and rather reminded me of an American Beatrix Potter.  Because Tasha (like Beatrix) wasn’t distracted by the modern world, she was very productive and wrote 100 books and painted about 2,000 works of art mostly watercolours to illustrate her books..  in this way she changed peoples lives, and like childrens’ writers before her taught children about a different, simpler kind of life.

Whilst simplicity provides an answer to this modern dilemma, it does not provide an easy answer.  Simplicity is both a grace and a discipline.  Grace is a gift of God (yes, the “G” word).  In my understanding and experience there is no way we can build our will power and put ourselves into contortions, mind games, and attain it.  We perhaps have an idea of what simplicity is and batter it to fit our lifestyle, But that is not what simplicity is.  It slips in unawares.  A new sense of concentration enters our awareness, a wonder, a concentration.  We begin to understand that when the call is made the power is given.  Simplicity is a grace, and a discipline because we are called to do something.  It involves a consciously chosen course of action.

What we DO does not give us simplicity, but it does put us in the place and the frame of mind where we can receive it.  It is a vital preparation, a sowing of the seed both easy and difficult. It is an inward reality that can be seen in an outward lifestyle.  We must have both – to neglect either end and the effect is not useful. We must accept the goodness AND THE LIMITATIONS of material things.

For yogis reading this – consult the Purushatras.  Dharma – Duty and moral values, Artha – prosperity, Kama – pleasure, love, psychological values and Moksha – freedom, liberation, spiritual values, self-actualisation.

 

TEACHER TRAINING AT THE STUDIO ON SUNDAY AT 2.30.    Namaste – Jahne