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Dear Yogis,

Thank you who came to our monthly luncheon. I was great, and we hung about – always a good sign. Please put the last Thursday in June in your diary NOW. Don’t miss it.

I have gone back in time. While you lovely people are tossing out your fires, and getting split-systems, I am “firing up”. I now have a lovely little wood fire, and the shops I enquired at and the plumber who installed it told me I was not alone. Many people are getting fires, because when the electricity fails, the wood is with us. I fired it up for the first time last night. It hasn’t got the SOUND and light that an open fire does, but it was beautiful and I loved it. Years ago I seriously feng-shui’d the house. It seemed from the calculations that the house would always be cold until I put a fire in the little dining room – it was the only suitable “FIRE” place. I tried everything else (of course), but the chart was right. The house is now warm with the little fire in the right place.

ALTHOUGH YOGA IS NOT OVERTLY POLITICAL,

…..we are women, we are parents, and need to keep abreast of changes to our liberties. The USA leads in this (both forwards and backwards) and these laws ricochet around the world. To think they don’t effect us is clearly not true. I have had a gun pointed at me only three times in my life, and it is a scary feeling. To have to deal with this on a daily basis with a police force and laws unable to protect me, would cause some serious changes to how I think about where I live and how I live. Americans have to face this DAILY.

Further to our previous newsletters about the changes to the abortion laws in the USA – this why precedents matter. The Assault Weapons Bill (passed after the killing this week of 19 children and two adults at a Texas School) was the brainchild of Gov. Gavin Newsom who proposed it after the Supreme Court allowed Texas to enforce its abortion law, which allows Texans to sue anyone who performs or aids an abortion in the State for $10,000. This Californian take on the Bill will allow private citizens to file suit against makers or sellers of untraceable ghost guns of illegal assault weapons.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Texas law banning abortion or at the least reporting it, to remain in effect while abortion clinics sue to block it. That decision incensed Newsom, a Democrat who supports abortion rights. “If states can now shield their laws from review by the federal courts that compare assault weapons to Swiss Army knives, then California will use that authority to protect people’s lives, where Texas used it to put women in harm’s way,” Newsom said in a statement released by his office at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

Newsom said he has directed his staff to work with the state’s Legislature and its Democratic attorney general to pass a law that would let private citizens sue to enforce California’s ban on assault weapons. Newsom said people who sue could win up to $10,000 per violation plus other costs and attorneys fees against “anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon” in California. “If the most efficient way to keep these devastating weapons off our streets is to add the threat of private lawsuits, we should do just that,” Newsom said.

Newsom is not taking the very brave step taken by our own Prime Minister John Howard who banned guns in the community, and confiscated them en masse, but it is a step in the right direction. Maybe we should in this case follow the USA, as I am sure that guns have been proliferating in our communities since the gun ban all those years ago. Especially since it is so easy for those inclined to go on-line, get a kit and make a weapon more suitable to fighting a war in the desert. Young people, hypnotised by video games move into the community and with no thought and huge guns, picking off young children as they go to school in the neighbourhood as if they are just characters on a screen. Following the Californian decision by Gov. Newsom – Joe Biden has announced a crackdown on “ghost guns”, untraceable firearms assembled from on-line kits that have been used in a rising number of shooting crimes.

Of course, Guns are only part of the problem. Violent video games, unsupervised children, boredom, lack of morals or judgement, lack of respect for human life, or consequences for one’s actions etc. etc. also are growing issues and harder to deal with than removing guns. A prevailing feeling even among adults that nothing matters, no-one cares, especially during our Covid difficulties, must also be a contributing factor.

Thank goodness we have yoga.

CURRENT STUDIO/ZOOM SCHEDULE: (Studio Yoga – Mondays and Wednesdays at 1pm are Full)
WEKLY STUDIO/ZOOM SCHEDULE (PLEASE BOOK AHEAD – NO YOGA STUDIO DROP-INS, sorry)

ZOOM: Mon. 6.30 FREE OF CHARGE Teacher Training/Gita, Tues. Herb workshop 7.30, Friday 6.45 Tarot – $50 for 4 Friday classes.
STUDIO YOGA:Mon. 1pm (full) 2.15pm, Wed. 1pm Restorative(full),2.15 Friday 1pm, 2.15 Hatha, SATURDAY 1PM, 2.15 RESTORATIVE or HATHA YOGA.

MONTHLY LUNCHEON: Thursday 30th June at 12noon at “The Vic” in Woodend (If you are running a bit late, relax, it’s OK – drop in for dessert. We have the meeting room, so it is separate and quieter). Please let me know if you can join us. The invite was posted email on Tuesday. RSVP PLEASE

CONSULTATIONS: Tarot/Bach/QHHT HYPNOTHERAPY, Bowen or a combo – by appointment only. $85 including remedy (including postage if zooming) Past-Life (QHHT taught by Dolores Cannon) $250 via email or in the studio. The reading includes Time, date, place of the prior life. To discuss, email yogafirst2@bigpond.com

TEACHER TRAINING: Unfortunately there appears to be a glitch in the videos – some can read them, some students can’t. I am working to resolve this, please let me know if you have a question and we can resolve it one-on-one. I have a USB with them all on, and I will be sending this in lieu of the videos to all NEW students. This may prove to be a better option.WEEKLY MEETINGS: We have free Teacher Training zoomed on Mondays, and I am open to a yoga teacher asana class/meeting in the studio. I need to find a day when the new class can meet – please let me know your preference.

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

Thank you for those people who turned up on Monday for our FREE Teacher Training. It was great, and went on longer than anticipated which is a good sign. We focussed on Hypermobility, Collagen and Connective Tissue which is why I asked you all to join in. I did write a book or two about it – you can find on Etsy of course – The Cranio Sacral Connection. On the YouTube channel you will find it in the playlist HYPER, and at COLES (yes Coles) you will find The New Scientist Magazine which features THE MATRIX this month. Not the Keanu Reeves version, but the absolute latest research on connective tissue. If Keanu was featured then I am sure Connective Tissue would get much more attention than it does. All you reading this who are in pain for whatever reason should read this issue… you should also download my little book and go onto the YouTube channel. It is worthy of your concentrated attention.

I don’t know if you remember when we invited you to live off $2 per day which we learned was what the majority of refugees (and people on the street) live on. You have to prepare for this which is an advantage most folk on the streets don’t have. But if you do prepare it is doable, especially if you have a garden and if you know how to forage – in which case I found it could be a very enjoyable challenge. I might do it again in June for a week, and invite you to let me know if you would like to join me in this challenge.

Save, save save. Remember the past – There was the Spanish Flu, followed by “The Roaring Twenties”, and then THE GREAT DEPRESSION. We have had the first, and are sort of in the second. but the wind is turning. The books will need to be balanced.

VITAMINS FOR YOU –
I was at chemist warehouse this morning, and having had the same experience at Coles and our local chemist (and various health food shops), I can see a big change. It isn’t “happening” – it is here. Have you noticed it? The vitamins are bundled into headings “sleep well”, “energy boost”, “wellness” or whatever. I believe this allows the manufacturers to bundle minuscule amounts of nutrients together, and thereby save money and charge more. Seeing we need about 5,000mg of Vitamin A per day I opted for Foraged greens… I was really paying attention. Making sure my intake was high enough.

You can get individual vitamins if you look hard, but they are about double the price. I was looking this morning for Vitamin A and B. Coles had a “two for One” vitamin offer, and it was the cheapest ($30 for two, B and C) but Coles as with many businesses has become a clearing house, so I don’t know how old the vitamins were and suspect that the two for one offer told me they were older.

In the stores I tried, I couldn’t get A vitamins on their own, and B vitamins under $27.50 which is top of the range Blackmores. Then I remembered Brewers Yeast. What does Brewers Yeast contain? It is one of the best sources of VITAMIN B. How much was it? $8.95 for 500mg per tablet! Then the fruitless chemist search for vitamin A usually over $30 and in very small bottles. What is natures store-house of vitamin A (apart from chicken livers at 32,200units for 3 livers, meat, fish and eggs)? DANDELION GREENS. One cup is 27,300 units and the cost – FREE. To discover the value of herbs, please hop on to our our Herbal Tuesday zoom sessions.

STICKABILITY.

Akari in Kyneton is changing hands again. Although yoga has to be a business in order to sustain us, it is difficult on students that owners come and go. New owners start a “forever” business, build it up, get the clients, and then move on to the next thing (Jayne at Crusoeden Health in Bendigo being one of the leading local exceptions in Bendigo). We are teaching people about life, reality….Yoga teachers, owners of yoga studios (the lynch pin of the local yoga community) surely should be a long term commitment. I was trained by Margrit Segesman who started the Gita school in the 1960’s and only departed when she died. She semi-retired when physically not able to teach, but was still at the helm to the last. She was and is, the inspiration to her students even now.. SHE is my mentor. There are No Greener Pastures. We are planted where we are planted, not just for the good times, not just for the money, not just to lead to the next step in out yoga empire – but for the Now in every day.

You have to know that when Taylor Swift (who didn’t get past year 10) gets a Doctorate from NYU, that things are not what they seem to be. Life isn’t about the next chord, or the next “grabby” lyric. What really is next?

CURRENT STUDIO/ZOOM SCHEDULE: (Studio Yoga – Mondays and Wednesdays at 1pm are Full)
WEKLY STUDIO/ZOOM SCHEDULE (PLEASE BOOK AHEAD – NO YOGA STUDIO DROP-INS, sorry)

MONTHLY LUNCHEON: This Thursday 26th May at 12noon at “The Vic” in Woodend (If you are running a bit late, relax, it’s OK – drop in for dessert. We have the meeting room, so it is separate and quieter). Please let me know if you can join us. The invite was posted email on Tuesday. RSVP PLEASE

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

I have decided to offer the Monday 6.30 Zoom classes for free for the next 4 weeks. We will see if this makes a difference.

Tonite we will be looking at the Systems of the body. If you have read THE NEW SCIENTIST, a very reputable science magazine that is totally readable and understandable, you will know that “suddenly” there has been the discovery of FASCIA. Connective Tissue. I have been trying to get you interested in this for YEARS, and now that science has stood up and taken notice – maybe you will have time to listen. We have looked at the systems of the body as taught in medical colleges, but it has been harder to focus on the systems not recognised. THE ENDOCANNABINOID system and of course THE FASCIA, The Connective Tissue that has been overlooked by scientists for centuries.

These studies have shown that stretching the body – the lower back especially – for 5 MINUTES twice a day not only reduces the areas of inflammation, but also seems to induce a series of anti-inflammatory chemical events from the fasciae. This is a very important finding because chronic inflammation has been linked to pretty much every chronic ailment that we experience, from heart disease and depression to diabetes and cancer. Of course FASCIA is a buzz word in all kinds of alternative therapies, but few know what it means and how to work with it. FASCIA IS ACTUALLY A WINDOW TO THE STATUS OF OUR HEALTH.

If you need to know more, please come to the 6.30 session tonite on zoom (email to get your ID if you don’t have it now – it has been sent to those who regularly tune in. yogafirst2@bigpond.com)

In order to get the most out of these sessions COLLAGEN is the key and I have books on etsy, and YouTube videos on the connective tissue and collagen. Also search under HYPERMOBILTY.

Collagen is the most abundant protein in our bodies. It’s what’s found in our skin, digestive system, bones, blood vessels, muscles, and tendons. Think of it as the glue that holds these things together. You can of course purchase collagen supplements (pills and beauty formulations are very rarely worthwhile, certainly foundations with 1% collagen are useless but expensive – if that counts). Or you can like me make bone broth. Cook up chicken carcass, or beef bones for hours. The test is this, if the “soup” goes to jelly this has activated the collagen. If it is just soup – try again, cook longer. EAT OFTEN. If you do decide to buy a pill, go to SASHARK and purchase Shark Fin Collagen. Farmed responsibly in pristine water. An offshoot of the fishing industry.

TODAY
My message for today is “stop waiting for permission”. There is of course is a biblical story about the man at the well in Bethesda. The well was supposed to have special powers. When it bubbled, the first folk to jump in while this occurred were cured – it was a large well (bath) and I would imagine it was a fun time. Jesus was walking past and noticed a man sitting beside the well. He asked Jesus for help and began a litany of self-pity. He went on and on about how he had been sitting there for 35 YEARS and in all that time no-one had helped him. Maybe he had tried praying, whinging and whining, but nothing had worked for him. Jesus said TAKE UP YOUR BED AND WALK. Translation – “For goodness sake, stop waiting for everyone else to take responsibility – fling yourself into the water”. We are not told the outcome, but the message is clear. You can sit by the magic water for 35 years and nothing will change, in fact things will get worse, or you can join the party. Take the plunge whatever it is. What have you got to lose?

CURRENT STUDIO/ZOOM SCHEDULE: (Studio Yoga – Mondays and Wednesdays at 1pm are Full)
WEKLY STUDIO/ZOOM SCHEDULE (PLEASE BOOK AHEAD – NO DROP-INS, sorry)

NAMASTE – I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

JAHNE

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