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Dear Yogis,
I had a fantastic Christmas – the best in a very long time and I hope you did too.  Although I said I was going to let it drift past, my students and friends had a different idea, and I have been welcoming folk into my home all weekend. And it hasn’t finished – there is still some fabulousness left this week.  Thank you everyone – I have loved it.
Welcome to Your New Years Resolution…….Have you made a list? Have you been meditating about your life during 2021 and connecting with your intuition on how you want to be the best version of yourself this upcoming year of 2022?

If our Institute, and our courses are part of your 2022 vision,  we are here to support you in following your passion and maintaining a high vibration! We have the ultimate support system to take your YOGA career to the next level!  
We all need to up-skill and most importantly DIVERSIFY.  The Compassionate Companions Project new class starts in January – I have been listening to Radio National over the break and there have been programs about the work that we introduce to you in this course.  In the time of covid,  carers and Death (life) Doulas are needed, and will be more in demand as the usual support systems wither away.   There is the BACH THERAPY Training which will prepare you to help your family friends and community with Bach remedies.  The most simple and comprehensive energy healing.   As well we have the usual Yoga Teacher Training and studio classes all starting from the 10th January… so you still have couple of weeks to get all your plans organised…  Email me to find out more: yogafirst2@bigpond.com or look at the CCP website – www.ccpproject.com

This morning I was meditating and was taken right away into a project I am working on at the moment and I saw it all laid out before me in its various steps, so whilst I can’t see the end, I will walk forward into this vision – it will play out as I move forward.  It was one of those meditations that is a whole life, not just a dream state.

What was it? – the FUNGI.  I have finished step one, the first set of drawings and the poster.  Step two is a second poster which then leads into a set of inspiration cards with the drawings from both posters.. along the way a set of greeting cards of MAGIC MUSHROOMS also taken from the posters….  Yesterday I started the inspirational verses for the back of the cards – I managed 24, but that is just the start, they all have to be “arted up”.  Getting the words right is important, I will have to do a whole lot more than 24, but it is something that I enjoy.  The A3 poster (which you can see on the right) can be purchased from www.myyogabooks.etsy.com, and I can send it to you in a tube EXPRESS POST ready to frame – NO FOLDS like in the photo to the right.

Get to it yoga students and friends.  

There is lots to do.  “Today (as they say) is the first day of the rest of your life”.  Don’t waste it. Make this year really count.  Even if you don’t feel you have the time, the space, or whatever… just start.  Imagine it and you will achieve it.  Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come.  I have the words FAITH and LOVE tattoo’d on my thumb… just so I will remember both.  There is no room on the thumb for the word “listen” which is another virtue I need to know more about.  I do have a pendant charm of an Elephant on my bracelet – small mouth, big ears!  A reminder.
I look forward to seeing you on zoom, on the mat or in the tattoo room.
NAMASTE. JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

Merry Christmas to you all.  I am sure that you will have days of Peace and Goodwill.  When things go into overwhelm, which sometimes they do, just stand back, smile and breathe.  It’s not about you.

The new year I am told (from a business point of view) is predicted to be like “The Roaring Twenties”.  I am not sure it will be true with Omicron on our doorstep, but we will get what we expect, whatever that is.  For myself, I will be busy, gardening and  drawing, and getting my fungi Oracle finished.  I bought the cat one of those squiggly fish things with a battery in it for Christmas, and once some ribbons were tied on the tail, she felt at home with it, and had fun.  There is a lesson there somewhere.

I look forward to seeing you all in 2022.  Remember, we start back on the 10th of January – I will give you plenty of notice. The photo is my garden in the winter – looks a whole lot different today – although we were anticipating a cold Christmas, but not that cold (this time around).

Love and Blessings in 2022 and always..

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

It is almost Christmas, there is so much to do and I am just BURSTING with energy.  I have been using my Bach therapies as a spritz on my face twice a day, it is so much more effective for me than under the tongue.  It is not just the energy it is a quiet centredness and of course the bursting out of the skin feeling.  It is so great, especially at this time of the year.  Hope you feel like this too.

 

I am so looking forward to the little hiatus until the 10th of January and our next classes – I am going to get HEAPS done.  I have made the prints, and am getting a second run printed today I hope.  The images plus 4 extra I am going to put together as an oracle, and some greeting cards.  It will give me a chance to re-do a couple of the images I would like to “tidy up”.  I will finish the “Beaked Fungus” I have been working on first of course.   It has taken many hours as it has been made up of DOTS.  I have totally used up a couple of sets of technical pens.

CHRISTMAS DAY AFTERNOON TEA, etc.

If you are at a loose end on Christmas Day, please come around to my place between 2 and 4.  The usual covid requirements apply of course.  37 Morris Road, Woodend.  Please park ONLY on the white gravel in the front yard, put there especially so you can park safely.   Don’t park in front of the neighbours, they don’t like it.  There is plenty of parking space on the gravel if you do it carefully.

I hope to see you on zoom, or in the studio on or after the 10th January.  I will be putting things on my sites, making changes and adding art.  I will let you know in the newsletters and on instagram and facebook.

One more newsletter and then we are done….for Christmas.  

You have so few days left to shop, better get to it.  Think of me in the garden – or join me, I would love to see you.  Make an appointment for a therapy, a tarot, or a tattoo.  I am here   yogafirst2@bigpond.com

 

COVID.  I was reading this morning that there are long lines at testing stations and not enough of anything.  My advice:  Until you can get tested,  is to take responsibility for yourself.  Be careful not to go into unknown groups, wear a mask when you can, and make sure you are well dosed up with VitC (at least 1,000mg per day), Echinacea, SuperVitD,  and zinc.  I have a air filtration unit with UV light in my house as an extra precaution.  Check on the air currents in your house and make sure there is air flow in the rooms – it doesn’t need to be a wind.  Have a quiet Christmas.

SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE