Dear Group,

We are putting in place our winter Schedule…

ZOOM: This will remain the same.  Mondays 6.30 Gita, Tuesdays 7.30 Herbal Workshop, Friday FREE tarot.
STUDIO: Changes. Monday 1pm (full), Wednesday Restorative 1 vacancy, Friday 1pm Hatha and Chair Yoga.

THE END OF THE MONTH LUNCH: Will now have to be on a Thursday – Yoga has sneaked into Friday.  Next Lunch.  Thursday 31st March at 12 noon at THE VICTORIA HOTEL in Woodend.

 

WHILST you have been relaxing and shopping at Coles, I have been using the produce that is dropping from the heavens into my lap.  And I have not stopped yet.  I have not stripped the psyllium, and I have more lemons.  In the cupboard, I have Nucello, Vin de Noix and apple cider vinegar fermenting and forming a “mother”.  I have two more jars of apple cider vinegar just begun, more fruit in various forms in the freezer and dried. Plus I dried two trays of tomatoes which went down to one large jar.

I have also put down a vinegar/lemon cleanser which has to ferment for two weeks.

WALNUTS?  Imagine a beautiful cracker with double brie, the creamy flesh of young walnuts stored in oil, topped with a home dried tomato.  Bliss.

I am ready for the winter, and there is so much to do.  Over the weekend I am going to pick some sorrel and turn it into powder.  As soon as pumpkin is cheaper, I will do the same with that for winter soups.  If you have too many zucchini I would love some please, even the whoppers that have gotten away from you unseen until harvest.

I would love to introduce you to the joys of foraging (my favourite apple trees is still waiting for me as seemingly no-one else cares).  Maybe the school holidays will present an opportunity for you?  If you are interested in coming on a walk and finishing in the kitchen please let me know – 4 sessions would be good. Email me – I could also zoom. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

THE HERBS AVAILABLE TO YOU

Turkey Tail Powder –  25g $30 including postage
Reishi Powder – 25g $30 including postage
Reishi Dried Herb Slices 25g $30 including postage (I put mine in a little red wine, honey, spices and ashwagandha to make a tonic wine).

*Herb tea for IBS and Bloating tummy (who doesn’t know that feeling?)
*Herb tea that has a reputation for helping with anaemia.
*Herb tea for sleeplessness.
and *Herbs for HEART HEALTH  (I use Hawthorn, and this is in the Herb tea).

HERB TEAS $53.50 a pack  of 6 including postage.  This will last about 10 days to 2 weeks depending on how often you dip them into your own teas, or water bottle. You can add honey or lemon to taste as you want to.  The little pouches as you can see I make and tag myself, as well as growing, drying and packing the herbs.  They are not like regular teas, you don’t jiggle them to make the water dark – these are herbal teas to have you feel better… one tea bag will last at least one day, with me two, jiggled into any tea or water you are drinking.  After they are finished, I drop them into my drinking water jug…I might have 4 or five in the jug at any one time.  No chemicals are water or lost.

Reishi’s alcohol-soluble triterpenes go a step further.  Scientists have discovered that alcohol extracts from Reishi mushrooms are “the only known source of a particular group of triterpenes, also known as ganodermic acids, which have been found to have direct cancer cell cytotoxicity on a wide variety of cancer cell lines”.

BACH FLOWER THERAPIES are available in the studio and via zoom, as is PAST LIFE TAROT.

My booklets will show you how to do all this for yourself.  There are no more lock-downs in sight, but if I can make time to get the pantry ready for winter, you can too.

 

 

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT (MAYBE AT THE NEW TIME)

NAMASTE. JAHNE

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

Where were you last nite at the herbalists workshop.  We learned everything walnuts (fermented in vodka, wine, as a savoury sauce, as a powder for ink and a tincture), remembering of course that walnuts contain a precious element – IODINE.  Fabulous against parasites and to rebalance the thyroid.  If you are recovering from radiation treatment then chances are you would have benefitted from knowing how you can use this wonderful ingredient, provided by nature.

To discover walnut wine and many other ferment recipes.. easy recipes you can make in no time from left over fruit or vegetables go to www.myyogabooks.etsy.com and click on “MAKING BOOZY HERBAL GINS, VODKAS AND WINES” and download this timely inexpensive Ebook.  

DON’T FORGET that walnuts (and acorns) are fabulous for making paint and ink.  Ink is the easiest.  I am making powders so that I can turn this powder into ink, or tincture or put in into food.  Maybe, as prices rise,(especially petrol), you may have to look around the garden to supply more of your needs.  I found when my kids were growing up they loved all the foraging and making we did.  To them it was a game, it was fun I enjoyed it, but I started because I wanted to save money by using what was around me….  I never stopped.

SCHEDULE THIS WEEK
ZOOM: Tarot 6.45pm (This is a free class)
STUDIO: Wednesday and Friday 5.30

Thought for the Week

“The dreamer, the visionary, those who attune themselves to the infinite, the more often they receive the more infinite power, for those attunements that will bring into being those as of the realities of the UNSEEN forces being as COORDINANT in their activity, as the night follows the day, the moon sheds its light from the activity of the giver of light, the sun.”
Edgar Cayce reading 262-8

 

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE. JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

A holiday today, and the weather is fabulous – no holiday for me… I have had enough of lock-downs and days-away so now we are going back to “normal” you can have my holiday, I don’t want it.  It is a great time in the garden, and i can barely keep up with the harvest.

I have been making things with walnuts and sliced, dried Rieshi for the last month.  I have made NOCELLO which is walnut cured Vodka, Chinese medicinal wine using dried sliced reishi, VIN DE NOIX  – walnut cured wine and now walnut INK.  I have a recipe from the diaries of Isaac Newton, and the ink is almost black.  Walnut stains because of the iodine, content, and it is not a big step to imagine (and make ink).  I am going to make a powder, so I can use the ink when I need it.

I have been searching for a herb we can use to combat radiation poisoning – walnut is one.  During the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the areas in the fallout zone ran out of potassium iodide and seaweed sources of iodine. They used black walnut tincture as an iodine supplement by painting people’s knee skin with it. It was effective in preventing radiation poisoning of the thyroid in those treated with it. (That’s iodine on the glove – it stains, that’s why it makes good ink). Walnut hulls are also a good source of vitamin C, which helps your body release toxins.

Black walnut hulls are antifungal and anti-parasitic, especially for intestinal parasites. They are also an antimicrobial, blood cleansing, detoxifying tonic. They also have some sedative properties.

However, they are not an herbal supplement that should be taken daily, although a teaspoon of the Walnut Wine seems to be safe.  The Chinese use medicinal wine in this way..   Black walnut hulls can be used externally to help with warts and herpes.  To use it as an iodine supplement paint the tincture on the skin of the knees, rather than taking it internally. It has been banned “over-the-counter” for years in Australia because of possible overdosing.

I have planted some walnut husks in the garden – to determine which, I put a number in a bowl of water and I planted three of the husks that sank.  I put them in a pot with compost and straw.  They need the chill of winter, so, I am planting out at the right time.  I doubt that I will ever see a walnut from my own tree, but, we can hope.

HANGING ROCK.

As you are aware, I live in Woodend, and part of our landscape, geological and cultural is HANGING ROCK.  In the middle of the 19th century, the traditional occupants of the place – Dja Dja Warrung, Woi Wurrung, and Taungurung tribes  were forced from it.  They had been its occupants for thousands of years and, colonisation notwithstanding, have continued to maintain cultural and spiritual connections with the place.

To the settler colonialist society, Hanging Rock became a place for recreation and tourism. It came alternately under private, government, and mixed public-private control.  It used to be the setting of the News Years Day races, and in the late 20th century, the area became very widely known as the setting of Joan Lindsay‘s novel Picnic at Hanging Rock.  More recently under the leadership of the Late Michael Gudinski it has been the background to the work many famous performers – the Late Leonard Cohen, Rick Springfield, The Rolling Stones and The Eagles – to name a few notable performers.  

We can’t undo the past, but we can learn from it, acknowledge it,  reconcile and hopefully move on.  I just wish that the group that is “looking after the Rock” would stop.  Hanging Rock needs to be left alone.  We don’t need a footpath up and over it, we don’t need hand rails, tree guards, signposts and arrows…  The fee to enter should be used for an educational centre, not a new way of stopping people exploring the space. “Picnic at Hanging Rock” was a fiction, there are no spacemen, or black holes – we don’t need personal guides.  It is a special geological feature, with traditional owners – and they should determine its use. 

SCHEDULE
ZOOM: Monday Gita 6.30, Tuesday 7.30 Herbalist Workshop, Friday 6.45 FREE TAROT.
Plus you could make a time for a zoom appointment with me.. last week I did Past Life Readings via zoom.  Not as deep as a personal in the studio reading, these zoom readings can help you get “unstuck”.  You could also join me on a forage walk, and the kitchen afterwards.

STUDIO YOGA: Monday 1pm, Wednesday and Friday 5.30. Personal, one-on-one sessions available by appointment if you are just getting back into a yoga regime after our covid disruptions.

 

SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE. JAHNE