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Dear Yogis,

Easter. I am still eating the one “organic” (whatever that means) Easter Egg gifted last year. The others I broke up and used in hot chocolate and other cooking and baking in the year. A good use for chocolate.

HEATING GOING FORWARD.

I am going back to the future. It is the time of the year to look at heating – I do it every year, and make little changes that can happen without getting rid of my little heater in the pic on the left. Even the Queen has a favourite electric heat source, and this is mine.

I have had solar and battery quotes, double glazing quotes (I could build a tiny house for this amount), retrofit double glazing.. also problematical. What to do considering I am NOT 35 with years to pay off a loan although we are encouraged to take one out? No, I am re-instating a small Nectre wood stove. I have timber, I have students with timber, and I have lots of paper and cardboard, so a combustion stove with a trivet on top for a coffee/soup pot is a good thing which will also provide ash for the garden and compost. As well as this I am going to have solar insulating film applied to some of the windows, and will work towards getting them all done. This was economical, with all of the right energy ratings. Then I am going to refurbish the curtains and pelmets. I will let you know how I go.

MELT DOWNS

This easter with holidays, families, health issues, covid, and the stress of groups, many students (people in the community, are dropping their bundle. I know the feeling. Please make sensible choices, covid doesn’t take time off during the holidays. Remember your vitamins, keep war, wear you masks and stay away from crowds.

TAROT: I am concentrating on my PAST LIFE TAROT BOOK (made simpler) and will have it loaded on Etsy by Tuesday. Probably $15 which is a whole lot less than a consult ($85) or a QHHT ($250), although you will have to read the book – unless you are Edgar Cayce who absorbed the contents of books by putting them under the pillow whilst he slept.

NEW SCHEDULE:

WEKLY STUDIO/ZOOM SCHEDULE (PLEASE BOOK AHEAD – NO DROP-INS)

NO FRIDAY 1PM ON EASTER FRIDAY, otherwise it is Yoga as Usual.

ZOOM: Mon. 6.30 Gita, Tues. Herb workshop 7.30, Friday 6.45 Tarot on holidays until 29th April.
STUDIO: Mon.1pm (full), Wed. 1pm Restorative (full), Friday 1pm Hatha, SATURDAY 1PM RESTORATIVE YOGA.
MONTHLY LUNCHEON: Thursday 28TH APRIL at 12noon at “The Vic” in Woodend (If you are running a bit late, relax, it’s OK – drop in for dessert).

CONSULTATIONS: Tarot/Bach/Bowen or a combo – by appointment only. $85 plus remedy (and postage if zooming)
Past-Life (QHHT taught by Dolores Cannon) $250. Group Past Life readings by arrangement. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

(TANTRIC) HERBS – TEA BAG OR ESSENCE. $53.50 for 7. Each bag will last at least 2 days steeping. Essence given to complement the tea. This is not a usual tea, it is a Herbal remedy taken as tea in a tea bag. If I send them to you add $6 for postage.

All inclusive price (herb, zoom, postage) – $85

Please make a zoom consult so we can be sure the teas will suit you and help you on your road to wellness. Email me for your next step yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

BUYING HERBS FOR YOUR CLINIC. I am drying and preserving herbs and I have excess in some areas that I could sell to you for your own use. Please email me with the names of the herbs you are searching for and I can give you my list and prices. These are constantly changing according to herbs, availability and orders.

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT (or zoom).

NAMASTE – JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

Another busy Wednesday has rolled around.

EASTER EGGS,
As I said I would do, I have made my Moroccan eggs. These are not just beautiful, and look like they are made of wood, they are the way to preserve your eggs. They have lasted in my fridge about 3 months, but usually, they don’t get a chance to make near that because they are delicious. With the long simmering, the yolks are golden and creamy, not crumbly as in usual boiled eggs. The oils in the onion skins they are boiled with, penetrates the eggs I am told, hence the preservation.

HOW: In a slow cooker (my preferred method) put 8 or more eggs, and the red skins from the outer skins of 8 large red onions. Just barely cover with water, and then put on high for as many hours as you can (about 4) then leave overnight to cool. The next morning pull out the eggs, put the sloppy skins in the FOGO, and the water down the drain (unless you want to freeze it for making soup later). I like the slow cooker because you can go away and not think about it. The result is the marbled eggs as shown. You could cover parts in tin foil which would resist the onion dye. That would be interesting.

ART.

A collection of artwork that I’m making available as prints.

I have always uploaded my prints to market places on-line to sell (albeit for a low percentage of the profit). I was warned about thieving of my artwork – I didn’t like to think about it, but it happens. People downloading one copy and then making multiples for friends and clients, and calling them “originals”.

To be safe I will now be selling art from my own web site and sending you the hard copies, no downloads, and then you can be sure you are getting an original. Your print will be made especially for you, it will come with a certificate of authenticity, and it will be signed by me.

If you would like to legitimately support the artist (me), buy it from my web site. Bear in mind we AREN’T AMAZON and your order will 1. go to the printer, 2. then to me, 3. then to the post – It won’t be with you tomorrow! Maximum wait 3 weeks, but often comes much quicker.

A4: 21cmx30cm $45.50
Original Print
Artist Signed
Sent flat pack and postage paid.

ON THURSDAY I will be loading my latest artworks on my two sites. Please buy from these sites. I will be changing etsy so you will only be able to purchase ART from me. No ART downloads – just real, signed, authenticated originals from me direct. WWW.YOGABEAUTIFUL.COM.AU and WWW.JHWILLIAMS.ONLINE

NB: ST. MARY’S GUILD FASHION SHOW.

Wednesday 20th April at 10am Norma Richardson Hall, 15 Buckland St, Woodend. Fashion Prices start at $29.95. Eftpos and credit cards only. Light lunch, tea, coffee (no champagne I gather) $10 per person. If you would like to attend, RSVP Syvia. Phone 0488776645. She needs to know catering numbers.

NEW SCHEDULE:

WEKLY STUDIO/ZOOM SCHEDULE (PLEASE BOOK AHEAD – NO DROP-INS)
ZOOM: Mon. 6.30 Gita, Tues. Herb workshop 7.30, Friday 6.45 Tarot on holidays until 29th April.
STUDIO: Mon.1pm (full), Wed. 1pm Restorative (full), Friday 1pm Hatha, SATURDAY 1PM RESTORATIVE YOGA.
MONTHLY LUNCHEON: Thursday 28TH APRIL at 12noon at “The Vic” in Woodend (If you are running a bit late, relax, it’s OK – drop in for dessert).

All inclusive price (herb, zoom, postage) – $85

Please make a zoom consult so we can be sure the teas will suit you and help you on your road to wellness. Email me for your next step yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT (or zoom).

NAMASTE – JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

Monday already and only a few days to the Easter Holidays (School holidays have already begun! Holidays, holidays)… keep in mind Covid does not take a holiday and beware. We already have new covid cases reported in to us, and students absent.

NATURALLY DYED EASTER EGGS – Making these naturally dyed eggs with herbal tea is so easy! I have made these eggs when I had children at home . For Easter and also during the year (as a way of preserving eggs) I have used red onion skins which gave a beautiful mahogany red without the addition of any mordant (and I got to eat the eggs afterwards). This week i will make these and show you in the Wednesday newsletter.

Calendula, turmeric, and hawthorn berry were definitely better with vinegar added to the dye. Lavender and elderberry were arguably better with alum added to the dye, but the vinegar versions worked well. Chamomile and rose hip were about the same with alum or vinegar. Alum may be bought from some hardware stores, Natural health food stores, and on-line of course. I am sure our local cook shop would get it in if I alerted them to the use at easter.

Here are the herbs that I used: Hawthorn berry, Calendula, rose hips, lavender, chamomile, turmeric, red onion skins. There are fields of dandelion flowers which you could use, and chive flowers, but neither of them have given a beautiful colour for me. I am told that green tea and rooibos work, and can imagine they do, although I haven’t tried them. If you want a real pink then use beetroot and remember vinegar in the dye.

Hard boil the number of eggs that you would like to color. I recommend using white eggs as the color will show up better on them than on brown eggs, although for the onion skin method, it doesn’t matter because the colour is so dark.

2. Next, make the herbal teas. Put about 1/4 cup of dried herb or about 4 tea bags into a pint jar. For the dried flowers like calendula and chamomile, closer to 1/2 cup.

3. Then boil some water and pour it over the herbs in the jars. Let the herbal teas steep

4. Add either one teaspoon of alum or one tablespoon of vinegar to the tea. The tea can also be split up into two jars if you want to do one with alum and the other with vinegar – the colour will be different.

Leave until the colours are as you want (maybe a couple of hours steeping). After they have cooled, polish with a soft cloth. They look beautiful.

THE ONION SKIN DYE – My favourite..…. These are called “Morrocan Eggs” and is a way to preserve eggs, the colouring is not just an easter activity. Chose the number of eggs you want to process and add to a saucepan and cover with cold water and the red outer onion skins. Gently simmer until the eggs have reached a good colour. You could possibly do this in a slow cooker although I haven’t. The water needs to be kept at just before the boil temperature – simmering. It can take an hour or two depending on the heat of the water. The colour is a beautiful mahogany pattern.

If the eggs are slightly cracked, then you will see a marbling in the white when you remove the shells. After the few hours of cooking and by action of the oil in the onion skins, the yolks become creamy, not crumbly as is usual in hard boiled eggs.

Apart from the fun of an easter egg, these eggs will last in the fridge for a long time, I am told months, but they never get a chance at my place.

TANTRIC Bach Flower Essences . It is especially in working with flowers, that we have a compendium of remedies supportive to our individual and collective evolution, for it is in the realm of plants, trees and flowers that we are able to address and heal our minds and emotions. There is nothing like the power and gentle beauty of flower essence medicine. Working with them, in my opinion, is the plant kingdom’s greatest gift for yogis, especially.

NEW SCHEDULE:

WEKLY STUDIO/ZOOM SCHEDULE (PLEASE BOOK AHEAD – NO DROP-INS)
ZOOM: Mon. 6.30 Gita, Tues. Herb workshop 7.30, Friday 6.45 Tarot on holidays until 29th April.
STUDIO: Mon.1pm (full), Wed. 1pm Restorative (full), Friday 1pm Hatha, SATURDAY 1PM RESTORATIVE YOGA.
MONTHLY LUNCHEON: Thursday 28TH APRIL at 12noon at “The Vic” in Woodend (If you are running a bit late, relax, it’s OK – drop in for dessert).

All inclusive price (herb, zoom, postage) – $85

Please make a zoom consult so we can be sure the teas will suit you and help you on your road to wellness. Email me for your next step yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT (or zoom).

NAMASTE – JAHNE

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