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Dear Yogis – Please remember that our LAST YOGA LUNCH FOR THE YEAR is this Saturday.

We have new TRAINEE YOGA TEACHERS so, if you are lagging behind in your course and want to join in you can (well, you always could, but maybe you haven’t).  If you are reading this and want to be a professional teacher, then you can.  Not a 200hr quickie course, but a real, fully qualified yoga teacher, able to deal with whatever a class or country may throw your way!  Our graduates have taught all around the world – in Monaco, on Super yachts, New York, London and etc… anywhere.   Email me for details: yogafirst2@bigpond.com
The pic is the stunningly beautiful Inn at Death Valley.  I taught yoga there, you could too (whilst your beloved was doing the Death Valley Marathon perhaps).  Kings, Queens and Presidents holiday at the Inn,  and once you have visited you will understand why.  It is amazing.

Don’t forget my lovely Angel Cards for your friends and family at Christmas (or valentines or birthdays). $25 for a pack of 5 plus $5 for postage.  Email me to secure yours: yogafirst2@bigpond.com

THIS IS NOT JUST A CARD, IT IS AN ORIGINAL WORK OF ART ON SILK.  

I am an artist – before the 9/11 attack I dreamed that there had been a collapse of the Twin Towers and I saw hundreds of angels floating upwards from the smoking wreckage of the buildings. In response I began “The 1000 Angel Project “ which I completed in 2020.  Once again the world is in turmoil and I have started on “THE 1000 ANGEL PROJECT 11”. These HEALING cards are part of the project.  They are art, and they are a part of the energy the angels are injecting into the spiritual nature of the planet –  starting with you…. hand them around, gift them, donate them. Frame yours, put it in a locket…. and in this way change the world ONE ANGEL AT A TIME.

YOGA CLASSES AND STUDIO TIMES…..

ZOOM GITA Monday evening at 6.30pm and for the next 4 weeks (you’ve missed four).  Although there is no charge, if you can, I would appreciate a small donation (or a big one!).  To donate go to the web site www.yogabeautiful.com.au and click on PAY VIA PAY PAL

Windarring Yoga –  Tues. x 2 +Thurs. x 1. (some Fridays)

STUDIO YOGA WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full) Mon. 2.15, Wednesday Restorative 1pm

THE YOGA LUNCHEON:  As always the last Saturday in the month.  The next (our Christmas Luncheon)  at 12noon the 25th November – PUT IT IN YOUR DIARY NOW.. I have booked for us to go to  “The Full Moon” in Woodend.  Warm, “homey” and great food. I love the Nachos – with chicken – with prawns – vegan, or Mexican.  Any of them are great.

SEE YOU IN THE STUDIO (and at the yoga lunch at the end of the month)

NAMASTE – JAHNE

Dear Yogis,
Whoopee do!!! I got a response to a post/newsletter.  Ali was a popular subject!

Don’t forget – tonite we are on our journey through the Gita, just beginning on Mondays again – our third reading of this transformational book – It is our regular Gita Journey.  It is not about the battlefield, it is about what we bring to the battle and how we fight.

Unfortunately we don’t have “The Gita according to Pooh” but we can hope.  I do think I will reprise THE CHILDRENS’ YOGA course.  At present only about 5% of children do regular exercise.  I have been trying to get schools interested for years, but teaching yoga to parents, and then to their children is a more direct and successful route, and both the children and their parents love yoga once we can get them off the sofa and into the classroom..

YOGA CLASSES AND STUDIO TIMES…..

ZOOM GITA Monday evening at 6.30pm and for the next 3 weeks (you’ve missed one).  Although there is no charge, if you can, I would appreciate a small donation (or a big one!).  To donate go to the web site www.yogabeautiful.com.au and click on PAY VIA PAY PAL

Windarring Yoga –  Postponed because of Covid.  Usually Tues. x 2 +Thurs. x 1. (some Fridays)

STUDIO YOGA WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full) Mon. 2.15, Wednesday Restorative 1pm

THE YOGA LUNCHEON:  As always the last Saturday in the month.  The next (our Christmas Luncheon)  at 12noon the 25th November – PUT IT IN YOUR DIARY NOW.. I have booked for us to go to  “The Full Moon” in Woodend.  Warm, “homey” and great food. I love the Nachos – with chicken – with prawns – vegan, or Mexican.  Any of them are great.

SEE YOU IN THE STUDIO (and at the yoga lunch at the end of the month)

NAMASTE – JAHNE

Dear Yogis,
Because Kyneton Windarring is locked down because of Covid, I am at home for an extended period, and I am accepting more items of clothing to be remade, re-imagined and fixed – even darning which I love, jeans where the rips have taken over?   I DO NOT do “quick fixes” everything is considered, loved and re-made to have a second life. So email me with a photo of the item you want to have, or re-love , and I will give you a quote and a time line.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com

We are on our journey through the Gita, just beginning on Mondays again – our third reading of this transformational book.  Relative to the gita, I found this quote, and it said a lot about Arjuna’s journey so I am sharing it.

“……….In the real hero’s journey, the dragon slays YOU. Much to your surprise, you couldn’t make that marriage work. Much to your surprise, you turned forty with no kids, no house, and no prospects. Much to your surprise, the world didn’t want the gifts you proudly offered it.

If you are foolish, this is where you will abort the journey and start another, and another, abusing your heart over and over for the brief illusion of winning.

But if you are wise, you will let yourself be shattered, and return to the village, humbled, but with a newfound sense that you don’t have to identify with the part of you that needs to win, needs to be recognized, needs to know. This is where your transcendent life begins.

So embrace humility in everything. Life isn’t out to get you, nor are your struggles your fault.
Every defeat is just an angel, tugging at your sleeve, telling you that you don’t have to keep banging your head against the wall.
Leave that striver there, trapped in his lonely ambitions. Just walk away, and life in its vastness will embrace you.
—Paul Weinfield
I have also been thinking about the journey in life taken by Muhammed Ali – the “Barnum and Bailey of Boxing” I think, but underneath was a spiritual man, who put everything on the line for his faith.  He was not just a boxer.  We forget that at the time of his greatest boxing victories,  America was rocked by the assassination of Malcolm X, JFK and his brother, Jack Ruby, Martin Luther King and so on.  There were riots, and racial discrimination on an epic scale.  Not much democracy as we know it.  Ali refused conscription because he said he felt more in common with the Vietnamese than with white Americans, which he still saw as slave owners, and called it out.  Very brave.  When he won Olympic gold he was still not able to drink where he wanted, eat where he wanted, go where he wanted, and associate with whom he wanted, so he threw the gold medal in the river.
Through it all  he kept his faith, and his beliefs, and at the end of the day had won everything back and more – The Gita Journey.  It is not about the battlefield, it is about what we bring to the battle and how we fight.

YOGA CLASSES AND STUDIO TIMES…..

ZOOM GITA Monday evening at 6.30pm and for the next 3 weeks (you’ve missed one).  Although there is no charge, if you can, I would appreciate a small donation (or a big one!).  To donate go to the web site www.yogabeautiful.com.au and click on PAY VIA PAY PAL

Windarring Yoga –  Postponed because of Covid.  Usually Tues. x 2 +Thurs. x 1. (some Fridays)

STUDIO YOGA WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full) Mon. 2.15, Wednesday Restorative 1pm

THE YOGA LUNCHEON:  As always the last Saturday in the month.  The next (our Christmas Luncheon)  at 12noon the 25th November – PUT IT IN YOUR DIARY NOW.. I have booked for us to go to  “The Full Moon” in Woodend.  Warm, “homey” and great food. I love the Nachos – with chicken – with prawns – vegan, or Mexican.  Any of them are great.

SEE YOU IN THE STUDIO (and at the yoga lunch at the end of the month)

NAMASTE – JAHNE