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

Dear Yogis,

Well, we are one week into the new year, and it looks like it is going to be a fabulous one.  I am looking forward to it.  You were not as thrilled as I was by the discovery of the 32,000 year old seed (alpine daisy) that survived the permafrost and grew afresh, you were not floored or disturbed by the 15,000 persons who died of covid last year – many are pretending it is over and done with – but I hope you are thinking how you can enlarge your yoga teaching.  Maybe in this much needed field,  to encompass the disabled in your community.  Not just people in wheelchairs, I am talking about people with serious mental and physical disabilities.  People with real difficulties in comprehension and expression.  The people I teach yoga to.

Today for instance I had fabulous classes.  Classes where I could see the changes which we made no matter how small.  For instance, I learned that  one client can hear me better if I sing the instructions (yes, sing).  Support workers, physics, and parents are saying that the clients concentration is longer, they are moving better, they are breathing better (and they look better).  I do crazy things so that my students can hear me, and know I am listening to them.  I also did a 15 minute impromptu class with the support workers which was rather wonderful.  I am sure both the clients and I will reap the benefit of this new understanding and participation.

BEES, BEES, BEES:  I am getting my bees back.

Well, I am getting bees back into the garden.  This time I have determined to be more disciplined, and really care for them.  They can be time consuming.  I am also going to be offering honey from my hives…  Last time it was a bit of a novelty and I have only run out of my personal stash a short while ago (it lasts forever).

This time I have determined I am going to do it properly, so, those out there who would like to bathe in honey – I will be your one stop shop!

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.  Email yogafirst2@bigpond.com

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 ladies that we can try this new venue .. I have visited and enjoyed my lunch immensely.  I will confirm ASAP.  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.  These 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 and Friday Hatha/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!.

 

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,

Are you in the groove? Are you ready for your first yoga class for the year – or are you going to wait until the end of the month?  Don’t wait, start today – I am.

Everything around here is go, go, go….

The bees are arriving tomorrow (all things being equal – the weather has to be right!).  I never considered that they are difficult to transport.  I see apiarists carrying heaps of hives from place to place on their trucks, and they often don’t even cover or block the hives!  If you don’t tie the hives down properly the rocking apparently can disturb the honey and may drown the queen.

That won’t happen here.  John the beekeeper has probably spoken to the queen, compared notes, and got her permission.  He’s that kind of beekeeper.

MASSAGE AND SO ON.  

The doors are open and I am taking appointments for Zero Core (PPT) Massage for only $65 which includes a Bach Remedy.

PLUS…I have just finished making a deceptively simple sundress for a client.  It looked so easy, but as you know, simplicity is always more difficult.  I copied her favourite sundress, made a pattern, and then made the dress.  The next one is going to be so easy as I solved all the problems this time (I hope!).  I was going to make a toile, but I did it the Vivienne Westwood way – did a drape on the model, then made a pattern.  If you have a favourite item of clothing and can’t replicate it in the shops (they always continue things you like don’t they?), come to me and we will see what we can do.

Our YOGA CLASSES (and zoom) start on the 9th January.  Next Monday

CLASS TIMES:   Monday Hatha 1pm and 2.15, Wed. Restorative 1pm and 2.15 and Friday Hatha/Restorative 1pm and 2.15.  I am also thinking of a Saturday morning YOGA class.

FREE ZOOM HERBAL WORKSHOP.  Mondays at 6.30 on zoom.  Starts TONIGHT!

STUDIO ART CLASS – Saturdays at 2.30 Starting on Saturday the 14th January.

 

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