DEAR YOGIS,

Don’t forget our MONTHLY YOGA LUNCH on the 25th of February at 12 noon at The Mount Macedon Hotel.  It was such a joy to be able to go out we “tested the water” for you last month – it was GREAT, we had a table by the door in the “Bird Room” where we usually go.  You do have to comply with covid requirements, but I think we are getting used to this aren’t we?  The staff wear masks right through service… everyone is “safe”.

TURKEY TAIL SUPERFOOD MUSHROOM.

So-called for its incredible likeness to a turkey’s plumage, turkey tail is a magical mushroom so rich in immune system boosting health benefits that cultures around the world have used it in traditional herbalism since ancient times.

Benefits of Superfoods Australia’s Turkey Tail Mushroom Extract:

• Beta Glucan Polysaccarides
• Organic wild harvested (the photo is the mushroom in my back yard, but we don’t use mine – there is not enough).
• Potent concentrated extract
• Nutritional mushrooms to boost your energy

Turkey Tail: Discover the Best-Kept Health Secret of the Ancients.  Turkey tail mushroom (coriolus versicolor or trametes versicolor) has been a mainstay of traditional herbalism and remedies in Europe and North America, where it was used to treat various illnesses. In China, it was enjoyed as a soothing, herbal tea during the Ming Dynasty.

Turkey Tail Extract Is a Simple Way to Boost Your Overall Health and so many of our teachers and students are using it. I take it, sometimes three times a day.   Turkey tail is one of the most-researched mushrooms in the West. Much of that research confirms what ancient shamans and practitioners of traditional Chinese herbalism have known for decades – that turkey tail mushroom is an all-round superstar when it comes to maintaining your health:

• Antioxidant Protection: combat oxidative stress and inflammation with an extract that packs a powerful cocktail of 35 phenols and flavonoids
• Immune System Booster: assist your body with PSK and PSP that promotes an increased white blood cell count to fight off poor health
• Gut Health Balancer: rebalance the bacteria in your gut by nourishing good bacteria and reducing the impact of bad bacteria

Get a Potent, Organic Turkey Tail Extract, Straight from The Source.   Our turkey tail mushrooms are organic and wild harvested,  is a 15:1 extract, with 15 kilograms of raw, dried mushroom (including mycelium) creating 1 kilogram of this highly potent turkey tail extract.

Order your turkey tail mushroom today and discover the potent health benefits that this prized mushroom has to offer!  PLUS a few of you are waiting for our TURKEY TAIL to come back into stock – we now have it again, and I can post it to you.  Buy two packets for $50 – I will pay the postage.

Pay via www.yogabeautiful.com and click on PayPal and I will post as soon as the receipt hits my inbox.  

 

HERBAL WORKSHOP/WALKS (THE YOGA OF HERBS)

Yesterday we walked along the Five Mile Creek and collected herbs and flowers to use later.  So many students don’t know that the green stuff they are walking over is edible.  This time there was a treat – a Granny Smith apple tree just waiting to be harvested.  The apples were beautiful.

Out of the herbs I gathered I made a gorgeous pesto with dock, lemon dock dandelion and the usual chick peas etc.  I wasn’t the only one to do this – here is photo of one of my student’s first “wild pesto” efforts with tomatoes, corn and potatoes/vegetable fritters.  Everything on the plate either grown or gathered.  What could be better!

HERBS AS MEDICINE.  I have told you before I use herbs to stay healthy.  The most powerful (and useful) for me are hawthorn and yarrow.  Both for heart health.  My blood pressure went through the roof after the first and second vax and i used those two herbs to bring it down (in three days).  I kept it under control with the herbs and the third vax went by unnoticed apart from the usual tiredness.  Yarrow is taking over my vegetable box and is lush, feathery and green.  Hawthorn is available most of the year on the highways and byways…

HERBAL WALK :  I am planning another herbal walk and herb demo on Tuesday the 1st March at 10.30am, and repeat on Saturday 5th March at 2pm. We will walk along the 5 Mile Creek – I think the apples will be gone by then – but there will be plenty to gather and to learn.  Then we will come back to the Studio and we will make something for a snack out of what we gathered.  It will also give you a chance to see the studio if you haven’t been before, and wander around the garden and see how I grow my herbs and vegetables.

ION KI SPA.  I am getting a second spa, so (when it arrives) I will be able to do two at the one time.  It will take some juggling, but I will learn.

 

SEE YOU IN THE STUDIO (and at ZOOM TAROT Friday at 6.45)

NAMASTE – JAHNE 

 

Dear Yogis,

I am excited.  The Bach Remedies have not only brought people to me, but I can also work in garden and know I am helping others, not just enjoying myself.  I can teach. How good is that!  And i can start writing little books again.  I am going to do three little books (like Beatrix Potter’s “Bunny Books”).  Bach for Bees and Insects, Bach for plants and Bach for Animals.  There are a lot of books out there about Bach for people.  My books will be sold with a little set of remedies. A kit.   

I am especially looking forward to treating BEES with Bach Remedies.  No, I won’t be rubbing their little tummies with remedies, but I am giving a squick spray at the door, or when the hive cover is removed.  Bach is especially gentle (being an energy remedy) in settling a hive after relocation, or when re-housing a swarm, or helping an aggressive queen re-adjust.

Just think, I have been working with Bach Remedies since 1973, and have only now begun to learn about helping bees.  I have always used Bach in the garden.  At present I am using them to control thrip, snails and slugs, and assisting in plant recovery when the danger has passed.

And they WORK.  To learn more you could come to the herbal workshop on Tuesdays at 7.30.

HERBS IN THE KITCHEN:   I do know that in the kitchen I do everything the hard way – I use a knife to chop, a hotplate to heat and scales to weight things… you may have a thermomix!  But whatever you use, please start to recognise plants around you.  They make such a difference not just to the way you live, your level of wellness, but also how much money you have in your purse at the end of the week.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 10.30 in Woodend,  I will be taking a couple of students for a walk along the creek and surrounds to identify herbs (Not a suitable walk for dogs, prams or small children – we will plan another walk to incorporate small people).  You are welcome to join us.  Please email me if you are interested. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

 

COMPASSIONATE “CRAFT” COMPANIONS:

In 2014 (yes that long ago), a collaboration took place between textile artist Celia Pym and Dr. Richard Wingate of the Developmental Neurology Department Kings College London.  Celia is active in creating works that make use of knitting and darning,   Richard is researching the psychological effects of anatomic training on medical students.  They discovered that darning and surgery have something in common MENDING.  So they conducted an experiment in which Celia worked in a corner of the dissecting room to darn for three months.  Every day Celia mended clothes brought in by Medical Students and teaching staff.  From those who brought things to be mended she heard about their feeling for their clothes and the process of the damage, and from this she would gain some understanding of their habits and lifestyle.

In the dissecting room, students work on cadavers every day.  Some students were disturbed by the unfamiliarity of the work, and in these moments they would sit by Celia while she worked.

Celia said “I go into training room, and I darn whilst talking to the students.  No matter how well the repairs go, the item will never be new again, but it will be able to be used and loved.  It is the same with the body.

Darning and surgery is a shared experience... They both share DISSECTION – dissecting the damaged area, VERIFICATION – assessing and interpreting the the degree of damage, and SUTURING – stitching.  Over the course of this experiment and going forward, Richard observed that Celia reduced the tension in the training room, and having similar healing intentions to the students, helped still their minds.

Whilst not all The Compassionate Companions will be happy with incorporating craft into their repertoire, there are a few (like me) who see it as the key to their usefulness.  Think about it.  How many tense persons are there in waiting rooms, about to go into surgery, in recovery, or having various kinds of chemotherapy?  Mending applies to all of these, and bringing calmness to the patients goes a long way to helping a good recovery.  I am sure how much easier it is to talk to strangers if your hands are busy…

I feel that in the process of mending I am in fact, mending more than just the garment. The process enables people to approach me, or the (Compassionate Companion) for advice and also to talk candidly about the meaning implied in restoring a treasured piece of clothing. Sometimes, the garment will have been the property of a loved one who has died, so repairing it, she says, enables the relationship to continue. The act of mending artfully is a form of caring and memorialisation.

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK:
Yoga Studio. Monday 1pm, Wednesday and Friday 5.30
ZOOM. Monday 6.30 Teacher Training – Gita.  Tuesday 7.30 Herbal Workshop, Friday 6.45 Tarot

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT (with or without darning)

NAMASTE. JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

Whoopee do!  The end of the week, not that it makes any difference to me.  I work most days, and on my day off, it seems i work harder than most other days – although what I work “AT”, has changed. In my younger years, I slaved away, and like some of you out there, I took may be four of more classes A DAY!  If there was an hour to spare, I squeezed a class into it.  I remember having to take vegetables and rice to the studio to make sure I didn’t  loose too much weight.  I don’t have that problem now!  I have a web site for lots of “other” things.  www.jhwilliams.online

Now I do all different things.  I do a lot of writing (I have just found a publisher interested in my work!).  I paint from time to time.  The things I like to paint you may not like – I like abstracts although I do scientific illustration from time to time.  I like to play with paint.  I don’t like my painting being too serious.  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE teaching and that is why my writing is becoming so important to me.  I can teach, and you can learn, and I don’t have to turn up for a class.  It is all online.

I like darning and darn my own clothes instead of replacing them.  

I like kintsungi – the Japanese way of fixing ceramics with gold.  A beautiful way of saying how much you value a precious piece.

I like the Tarot – because it is helpful, and shows people stuck and confused a road out.  Don’t come to me if all you want is to find the “ideal partner”.  There is no such thing.  Every relationship takes time, forgiveness and patience.

And I like you.  I would love to help you in any way I can.  Bach therapies, the Tarot, my oils, the Ionic Spa.  Anything.  Tell me how i can help, and I will help you.  That is why we were all put here – to serve.

But whatever i do – I like to teach others how to do them.

SCHEDULE;
STUDIO YOGA – Monday 1pm, Wednesday 5.30 and Friday 5.30
ZOOM: MONDAY  6.30 GITA,   TUESDAY 7.30 HERBAL WORKSHOP (I can record, please show your interest), FRIDAY 6.45 TAROT

 

I will see you on the mat.

Namaste. Jahne