DEAR YOGIS,

A VERY PRACTICAL NEWSLETTTER, AND COMING EARLY – 

SCHEDULE FOR THIS MONTH – WE ARE STARTING UP AGAIN

STUDIO: from the 10th January Monday 1pm Yoga, Wednesday/Friday 5.30 yoga.
ZOOM:
Monday 10th Jan. 6.30 Teacher Training $25 per month – for the moment we are again studying THE ‘GITA
Tuesday 11th Jan. 7.30 CCP – new students and refresher for students who have done the course.  If there is not enough response this time, we will try again next month.  Because this is a more expensive course, ten zoom classes are provided free
Friday 14th Jan. 6.45 Tarot Training (ongoing) $50 per month
Saturday 15th Jan.  2pm HERBAL NETWORK. $50 per month This week (and every week) we will be looking at a number of herbs, identifying them, learning how to use them, and how to make medicines. This is the face-to-face part of the BACH THERAPIES COURSE, although you don’t have to do the course, you can just do the zoom.  The course which is on etsy (www.myyogabooks.etsy.com) is $55 to download) – even with the extra $50 it is a very economical and useful course.

To pay for your class – or for a tarot reading…..  Go to www.yogabeautiful.com.au and click on Pay via PayPal.

COVID.

There is a lot of panic about RATS , and if you have been vaccinated and are tested positive and have to isolate, there are no directives (apart from prepare for the worst), to help you see the infection through.  Here is my routine and a useful recipe.  EVERYDAY I take as a matter of course at least 2,000mg of Vit.C per day, plus Vit.D3, Echinacea and VitB.  I am double vaccinated plus getting the booster next week.  If I tested positive of course I would isolate, but I would take the drink below, rest, and let my body take care of the damage. As my daughter said – “my body knows what to do”.  That’s true but we have to make sure it has the nutrition to do it.

It may be that we once again have to endure lockdowns as Omicron overtakes the world, so it would be good if you could stockpile your vitamins, and foodstuff that will keep. It is an investment in your health.   Also plant and locate the plants you can forage and use from your garden as prices rise (and seeds become scarce).

AN OLD HOME REMEDY. Changed and modified slightly thanks to my students who make and use it.    This is quite strong, so if you are on other medications, please check with your doctor first, or start with half strength.  

Wash the skin of two or three grapefruit and one lemon or lime thoroughly,  and cut into chunks (the rind, the pith, the flesh). Cover the peels with water (no more than just covering) in a one quart saucepan and simmer for about THREE hours (I use a slow cooker).  Keep checking and moving the peels around so they all get cooked.   Cook until it becomes thick –  This of it as homemade cordial. 

Once the syrup is ready, strain this mixture into a jug. To serve, pour the warm syrup into a glass (fill to a half a glass), and top – not drown –  with fresh tonic water.   It makes a froth on top. Drink it all. Sweeten with honey if desired, and drink at least half a cup of the mixture. Go to bed, cover up well, and when you wake, re-heat and take another glass… keep doing this until your temperature comes down, and you start to feel better. You can add a teaspoon of good honey to the mix if it is just too bitter, I add pine, ginger and hawthorn to the mix, and find it very pleasant.

Grapefruit peel may never play a prominent role in your diet, but it is edible, and when you trash the peel, you’re also throwing away beneficial nutrients. The peel has significantly more fibre than the fruity pulp. It also contains essential oils, phytochemicals and vitamin C, all of which provide antioxidant protection. Some of the substances in grapefruit peel even show promise for fighting cancer.

Without being too dramatic – this news item came from the Queensland Department of health on Friday…  Although you could call it a Covid preparedness kit, I think we all should have these things to hand, especially as we get older, or live alone, because you never know when an accident may happen and you need help – a good idea in the first instance is to speak to a friend of neighbour and ask if they are able to be your chosen “COMPANION”.  Remember that we have a course to help people take on this responsibility.  You also need to make sure you nutrition is good every day – don’t just wait until you get ill before you check.

‘WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR COVID-READY READY KIT:  Queensland health has encouraged people to prepare using this list.  Pain relief & your medications – A thermometer – Masks, hand sanitiser & gloves – Stay-at-home activities – A plan for who can look after your children, pets, people in your care if you have to go to hospital – Phone numbers for people outside your home you can call for help – A plan for how you’ll get food and essentials for 7 days such as frozen meals, pet food, nappies and baby formula.

I am not being pessimistic, but one has to look to the future, and right now we don’t know what that may be – it changes from one day to the next.  My cards look good, and I am doing what is necessary..

I look forward to seeing you on zoom or at the studio.

NO MATTER WHAT WE DO, WE STILL GO TO THE MAT.

NAMASTE JAHNE

 

 

Good morning Yogis,

Happy New Year!    We have all been given a gift – a brand new year !  The first day of the rest of your life.    I’m choosing to make this year about love and joy.  My object for 2021 was “Cultivate Resilience” and I am not leaving that focus behind with the turning of the calendar page to 2022.  This year I am once again helping you to cultivate resilience.  I said that we are only half way through covid “awfuls” – and I still believe that.  We will need all our fortitude in the months ahead.

SCHEDULE FOR OUR NEW YOGA YEAR, starting the 10th January.
ZOOM: Monday 6.30 Teacher Training (The ‘Gita).  Tuesday 7.30 CCP. Friday 6.45 Tarot  Saturday 2pm THE HERBAL NETWORK
STUDIO: Monday 1pm, Wednesday 5.30, Friday 5.30

 

THREE MOST IMPORTANT WAYS FOR US TO CULTIVATE RESILIENCE…. 

1) Grow some or most of your own food or find the food you need from local producers and preserve it.

Our Shire had a devastating weather disaster at the end of last year that disrupted the supply chain and the food getting through, when we were already dealing with covid.  No electricity, empty shelves at Coles, and even now, higher prices.  Produce is still showing signs of broken supply chains.  But I was fine, and I hope you were too.  I can forage and it has been a fantastic growth year in gardens and in the bush.

Here’s a few ways you can be more self reliant in food in 2022:
*Grow sprouts and microgreens (get your seeds organised now)
*Grow consistent weeds like Herb Robert and chives in your garden or large pots to make sure you have green meals no matter what.
*Support local farmers and market days when available
*Cook from scratch – no instant meals.

2) Learn to use herbal remedies and natural medicine

When Covid first hit, it was thought to be “novel” and we were told natural remedies are not only ineffective but also dangerous.  But here we are 2 years later and what we’ve found is that natural remedies were safer and more effective even for this, if started immediately and continued throughout.  To do that you need to have supplies on hand and know how to use what you have.  Supplies like ginger, echinacea, elderberry, olive leaves, and a source of vitamin C.

When Delta came through our community like it did worldwide, I was preparing remedies and advising on how clients could do it for themselves. Natural remedies available for everyone, and I had at least some of them on hand – you probably did too but needed to know how to use them.

If you know now that one of your goals in 2022 is learning to use herbal remedies effectively, grow them yourself and make your own herbal medicines, join me in my new HERBAL NETWORK membership as soon as you can,  and you’ll be part of everything we’ve got planned this year to help you “leave the matrix”.

3) Expand your community resilience by working with your friends and neighbors to swap, grow and preserve more food and medicine. 
Pick the thing you love most and learn to do it really well so you have something to contribute to your wider community — a skill to barter, or a product to trade.  What do you have to trade?

Once you have a few basic skills you will be able to *Make candles * Bake bread * Make simple restorative soups * Grow sprouts and microgreens * Make sales, tinctures, Bach remedies, tonics and gins * Grow vegetables and fruit * and make your own art equipment – pens, inks, papers.

Think about what your community needs that you can offer.  And try a few things on for size to see what you love and what brings you joy.  I really am preparing the garden not just to be more productive, but getting it ready for you to join me for workshops (and garden coffee mornings before the weather turns to winter).  

SEE YOU ON THE MAT and in the garden.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

PS.  I’m opening the doors to the HERBAL NETWORK for new members now for the first time.  If you’ve been wanting to join the Membership just email me and I will put you on the membership list personally whilst I get the web worked out.  Membership is at a discount rate ($25 per year) for a limited time only.  These small donations support me supporting you, during the bumpy times that seem to be on the horizon. Explore Patreon.com/HERBALNETWORK   or Just DONATE at the PayPal button on www.yogabeautiful.com.au

Dear Yogis,

What an exciting start for the new year….

Thinking about the New Year – Think about HERBAL SUPPORT◆Chaga ◆Astragalus ◆Turkey Tail

When I was part way through the Monday newsletter (thank goodness I  did some of it Sunday night) there was a knock on the door, and I was met by an elderly friend doubled up in agony.  He had been up all night in deep pain,  vomiting, trying to get a doctor, and etc, but as it was a holiday and as he was not thinking clearly, he hung on until a “reasonable hour” and came to me. Kidney Stones!  I took him to emergency but this could have meant transference to a city hospital and an op (I did think we had facilities for this in Kyneton, but clearly not).  However, everyone was cheerful and helpful in spite of what would be an increased covid case load happening in the background to his admittance..

This whole episode made it abundantly clear all the difficulties that could have happened because he had no “Little Black Book of Everything” filled in.  He “abandoned” his car in my driveway totally in the way of any other cars and didn’t leave me with a key. When we got to hospital I didn’t know his lawyer, doctor, employers, allergies, or anything else one might need to know if the patient had to have an emergency op, plus his little dog was at home, locked in and I didn’t have a house key – etc etc.  When you are hurrying, comforting, dealing with doctors and nurses etc you don’t think of  keys – or I didn’t until the immediate difficulties were taken care of.

Would this happen if you needed immediate medical help?  What would your friend, partner or spouse do?  This was not covered in the recent TV series “..And Just Like That”, when the husband dies suddenly after pounding away on his exercise bike, but the cast of characters live in each others pockets to the extent of helping with retrieval of a diaphragm, so I guess everyone knew everything about each other, plus they are living in a city where there are lots of hospitals available and any number of support persons – even in covid conditions.    Not so in most Australian country towns.  What’s it like in your household?

If you have not taken care of this aspect of your life, please hop on to WWW.MYYOGABOOKS.ETSY.COM and download “THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF EVERYTHING”.  Once you have filled that in and put it in a safe place, if there was an emergency you would not feel as unprepared as I did this morning.  Your next of kin or designated support person would know the important numbers and contacts of your life.  Don’t forget to give that someone a duplicate set of keys to your house and car (this week! as soon as possible!).

PENDULUM: A new pendulum has emerged into my life.  Very strong.  If you are wanting a reading which will include Tarot  – please contact me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com. and make a zoom or studio appointment ($85).

AND – DON’T JUST IMAGINE YOURSELF ON THE MAT – GET TO IT.

NAMASTE, JAHNE