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Good morning Yogis,

As I write this it is theoretically my Thursday off, however, I know tomorrow is going to be very busy from very early on, so I thought I would get this done TODAY.

SCHEDULE
ZOOM: Friday 6.45 Tarot meeting.  Monday 6.30pm Teacher Training (all welcome) and Tuesday 7.30pm CCP
STUDIO:  Friday 5.30 Yoga, Monday 1pm Yoga, Wednesday 1pm (Full), Friday 5.30 Restorative.

WORKSHOPS/MEETING:  Saturday 27th November, 1pm to 4pm “Reading Core  Temperature” leading into MANDALA PAINTING”   This is an art class, and getting to know yourself on levels you  probably had not thought about.  After more than a year of free classes, this one is a paid workshop –   1pm to 4pm, art materials supplied (including nibbles and bubbly, $55).  This will be the last workshop for the year… hopefully the sun will shine and we can be festive.

WHAT’S NEW.

We have finished the first CCP COURSE, and I am taking bookings for the second.

The more that I consider this course, the more I understand the qualities, the energies we are dealing with.  Before COVID I began a course in Herbal Medicine in particular the Bach Flower Remedies.  I have now finished the certificate and diploma courses, and have the documents to show you….It has been such an interesting journey and I realise now that it was put there for me so that I could expand even further the work of The Compassionate Companions.   I am not ready yet, but when I am, I will introduce to you the Bach Flower Remedies and Flower Essences for those who are “failing” or are on their was to the “next place”.   The flower essences deal with emotions not diseases and are therefore perfect to be given to our clients.  They can do no harm, can be given no matter what other drugs have been prescribed…. and these essences work.  

If you are interested in expanding your CCP course, or learning about Flower Essences in a Hospice or Hospital situation, please email me.

 

RELAXATION
It has been such a wonderful wet winter, and plants which had struggled in the “dry” are not just growing they are thriving.  I have been very pleased to make up tea bags of HAWTHORN TEA, and Packs of SMOKING HERBS for relaxation.

HAWTHORN TEA.  I have been taking this tea after my covid vaccination caused my blood pressure to escalate to dangerous levels… Today I am pleased to let you know that My lunch time reading was 112/67.  A very good BP reading for anyone.

If you would like to join me, or you know someone who needs this simple therapy,  One tea bag lasts at least all day.  You can drop it in your usual tea or have it alone.  It is a lovely mild tea, and one of my clients says it tastes and smells like ordinary tea.  I have packed 6 tea bags for $25 including postage. Buy with PayPal (and debit or credit) in the at www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

SMOKING HERBS.  I have always been totally opposed to smoking cigarettes as my mum and dad were both chain smokers.  The house and everything in it had the dark, acrid smell of nicotine, and I determined early on that when I grew up I wanted my house to smell lovely, and most of the time it does.

However, I was not introduced to herbal smoke until I was in my early teens.  I remember the ’60 (yes, I was there), and loved herbal smoke taken carefully.

Today I have grown and milled my own smoking herbs and I offer them to you (yes, there is a book on etsy too).  These herbs smell lovely and they are lovely.  They are relaxing without containing cannabis, although they do contain damiana which I am told is a cannabis substitute.  Whatever, this is a mild, relaxing smoke.  I make my own pipes with very small bowls so that I can indulge and not be overpowered.  Even making them is relaxing, particularly drying the hops.  If you want to join me, or buy a bag to gift to someone for Christmas… then the cost is  $30 for 25grams (they are very light and fluffy).  This includes postage.  Buy with PayPal (and Credit or debit) at www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

Please, come to yoga, tarot, or the workshops.  I would love to see you…

 

SEE YOU ON THE MAT,

NAMSTE JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

As I have said – I am having a fabulous time in the garden…. Even if it is cold and damp (and 1degree) .  Having the Bach therapies as a focus it is amazing how many of the herbs are actually in my garden.  I have been gradually collecting, and with this wet weather (much like English weather I guess) all there herbs, even those i have forgotten about,  are appearing.    The photographs where possible are taken in my garden, as below.  When you come on the 27th for our Mandala drawing day, and Christmas break-up, you can see the herbs all flourishing, I hope I will have named a good number by then.

I had to get out in the garden.  I have been studying another aspect of YOGA –  the Certificate then the Advanced Bach Therapy Diploma –  since the start of Covid, and now I have completed, done the exam, and passed.    I am at a loose end.  What to study next? I love the discipline of study.

SCHEDULE ON ZOOM AND IN THE STUDIO
WEDNESDAY 1PM restorative studio yoga (FULL), 5.30 Studio Restorative (2 vacancies – please email to book),
FRIDAY Studio 5.30 yoga, 6.45 zoom tarot.

 

MY “BACH” ESSENCES. All Essences prepared and used as demonstrated by Dr.Edward Bach.  Treatment posted to you in the real  “Bach” phials –  bottles with droppers.  Energies activated by the sun, bottled in Rain water, preserved with a drop of alcohol. Taken 4 drops under the tongue, in water as often as you need.  For children,  plants and animals the drops can be given in water.  My indoor plants just love their Bach Remedies.   (I will add more remedies here and in the shop every day and you can find them on the shop at www.yogabeautiful.com.au)

Wisteria (Chinese) (W. Sinensis) – Vitality.   Every year at this time I am inspired by the glorious wisteria covering my verandah.  Certainly strong, vital.  Wisteria essence can strengthen the meridians, thus improving vitality. It supports the etheric body in its role of feeding nutrients (in the form of energy) into portions of the subtle body. This is an excellent remedy for acupuncturists or for those using massage.   $25.00 including postage

Centaury (Centaurium Erythraea) – Assertiveness.    This is for people that can’t say no. For those that neglect their own needs in fact believe this is a virtue,  and are servile with others. These beings want to “keep the peace” and  generally will do anything to avoid confrontation.  This remedy for times when they feel their kind hearted nature will be taken advantage of.    $25 including postage

 

Valerian (Valerianacea) – Mental function. If you have visited my garden I know I would have invited you to experience  my Valerian patch. It is amazing, and the perfume is intoxicating.   Over time Valerian flower essence changes the mental body, it allows its border (where it is connected to emotional, astral, causal bodies), to shift.  This herb often used by Western herbalists for inducing sleep, energetically allows the opportunity to blend energies with the mental body.  $25 including postage

Rhubarb (Rheum Rhabarbarum) – Heart Energy.  You think this is just a dessert, but the energy of the flowers bring  a greater coordination between the left and right brain hemispheres (for those like me who have R.L challenges).  The flowers even look like a brain don’t you think?   The harmony of “signatures”.

The energy creates a greater harmony of thought by balancing the analytical and the intuitive aspects. Not just for the psychic self, Rhubarb can help clear one’s relationship to self, and in this way opens up the possibilities of more loving relationships with others.  The heart chakra is opened on a deep level, so one can understand love on more than just a physical level, perhaps even on a multi-dimensional level.   $25 including postage

 

DR.BACH’S SYSTEM TREATS THE EMOTIONSand not the triggers that cause them.  These triggers are the same for every culture and in every time frame..  for all time, every year, every century.

The term “yoga” has many traditional meanings.  With regards to Ayurveda, yoga refers to “right usage” and the “right combination” of herbs.  When we speak of a special combination of substances designed to bring about a specific effect in the mind and/or the body, it is called a “YOGA”.     Ayurveda which is the ancient science of herbal energetics is a system for determining the qualities and powers of herbs according to the laws of nature, so that herbs can be used objectively and specifically according to individual conditions.  A YOGIC USE OF HERBS IMPLIES AN HARMONIC APPLICATION OF THE POTENCIES OF HERBS.  The strength of Ayurveda lies in its all-encompassing view between organic physiological processes with internal emotional stages, as opposed to Western medicine which takes a more particular view based on molecular structure and chemistry.

Dr. Bach started his life embracing the Western “scientific view”, and ended his life in a tiny isolated cottage in Wales devising this very Yogic herbal system, which is closely aligned with the yogic view of energy – although I doubt that he had ever heard of yoga.

In Ayurveda as in Bach healing,  disease occurs not as an arbitrary phenomenon, but for definite reasons which if understood could prevent recurrence.  The fundamental error of Western medicine is to the treat the disease rather than the patient.

Evolution is the manifestation of latent potentials.  Within each thing is contained ALL things.  In the seed is the tree and in the tree is the forest.  Consciousness exists in all forms of life.  Life, creation and evolution are all stages in the unfoldment of consciousness.  Every living thing, everything is sentient, and from that point of view “human”. Plants transmit the vital-emotional impulses, the life force that is hidden in light.  This, Dr.Bach understood very well, and it was the basis of his collection of energy from his remedies.

To become a true herbalist (which Dr.Bach called himself) means to become a seer.  This means that you become sensitive to the being of the herbs, to communicate in receptive awareness with the plant-light of the universe – TO LOOK AT THE HERB AS ONE’S TEACHER.

I will see you on the mat,  soon

NAMASTE, JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

What a lovely weekend it has been.  I tied up my broad-beans, tidied,  weeded, prepared the ground for seeds, but didn’t plant out the Kale… a job for another day – hopefully when the sun comes out.

I have in mind (after looking at the garden with a herbalists eyes), that I will plant and identify as many BACH flowers, herbs and trees as I can manage.  I don’t have many to collect actually to complete the set.  However, some (like The Star of Bethlehem) won’t be available until Autumn next as they are bulbs… luckily I do have some original essence, so I can manage until then.  I do like making my own – outside of Bach’s repertoire, from plants he could not access.   This weekend I made Valerian, Wild Rose, and two of my own (not a Bach Remedies) Wisteria and  Rhubarb Flower.  Essences made for the client and gathered from my own garden are so much more powerful than an essence that has been gathered and bottled on the other side of the world.

THE YOGA OF HERBS.

You may not have given it any thought, but Ayurveda is the science of life.  Evolution is a manifestation of latent potentials.  In the seed is the tree, and in the tree is the forest. The plant kingdom exists to bring feeling into manifestation – each thing exists to nourish all others.

Flower essences are tinctures of liquid consciousness, and stored within them is an evolutionary force.  They offer us the love and light from the stars.  Easier to understand if you have read Emoto’s work on the “Messages of Water” (a hugely magnified photograph of a happy molecule of water to the right).   This liquid consciousness can be considered educational for the psycho-spiritual dynamics of an individual. Dr.Bach was not the first to discover this.  Yogis and Ayurvedic practitioners had realised and documented these energies hundred of years before he did, however, Bach (born in 1886) put the remedies and the ideas about the remedies, energies, emotions and moods into a language the ordinary person could understand.

Working with these vibrations offers one an opportunity to shift one’s beliefs, conceptions, ideas of science and long-term patterns to a place of greater awareness and understanding. As Dr.Bach realised, these products offer much more than the temporary relief of some emotional state or physical difficulty. They are contributing to a change in a soul’s life pattern and consciousness. This goes far beyond the cessation of some symptoms within one incarnation. When one looks deeply enough one realizes that it is only to increase consciousness that we incarnate in a body, moving through various physical, emotional, mental, spiritual difficulties to attain some self-awareness.

Flower essences adjust the flow of consciousness and karma that create the disease state. They influence the subtle bodies and ethereal properties of the anatomy and then gradually influence the physical body.

These are a safe, sometimes subtle form of therapy that before one even realizes what is occurring, positive change has happened. Long term difficult patterns can be shifted in days or months. Tremendous self-awareness occurs with an increase in the intuitive and or psychic part of oneself. These products work whether one is a believer or not. They have been very efffective with animals and plants. If one truly wants change, more satisfaction from life and enhanced wisdom these can benefit you greatly.

WISTERIA… Wisteria sinensis. Trust, fulfilment and enjoyment of sexuality, and allowing warm sensuous feelings in the body. This essence is particularly useful for women who feel uncomfortable about their sexuality and suffer from fear arising from sexual abuse.

My Flower Essences are gathered from Flowers, plants and trees in my garden or within a short walk along the creek or into the forest.  Obviously they are organic, and steeped in rain water using the solar method of flower infusion. A tiny drop of Alcohol or Colloidal silver is used as a preservative.

RHUBARB…Isn’t this wonderful flower – and the seed stalks in my garden can reach up taller than me. It goes without saying that I have been waiting for this flower, and it speaks to me.   For me it has always been about BALANCE, and this is the perfect essence at this time.  With Rhubarb there is a greater coordination between the left and right brain hemispheres, creating a greater harmony of thought by balancing the analytical and the intuitive aspects. Plus, Rhubarb works on The heart chakra which is opened on a deep level, so one can understand love on more than just a physical level, perhaps even on a multi-dimensional level.

This essence can enhance brain function and allow people to get to the centre of any problem.  Focussing on this essence  can allow a greater ability for people to release emotions of grief and sadness – which are really swirling around for so many of us at this time.

I hope you are getting out in your back yard, and speaking to the spirits of the garden.

SCHEDULE
MONDAY. Studio 1pm Yoga, ZOOM Teacher Training 6.30
TUESDAY. Zoom CCP (Death and Dying as the first step in living) 7.30

SEE YOU SOON
NAMASTE. JAHNE