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Good morning Yogis,

SCHEDULE.
ZOOM: Tonite at 6.45 TAROT.  No Sunday CCP Class.
STUDIO: Tonite (Friday) 5.30 Hatha.
MANDALA ART CLASS – Which day would you like to do this, STUDIO AND/OR ZOOM?  I did flag a studio class 27th November. We could do Zoom class on a Sunday morning now that is vacant. How about Sunday 7th November at 10am?

FUTURE PREPPING

You may think that I am just doing the “prepping” posts because I have nothing else to do, but no, that is not the reason.  I bring these things to you because of the wild and woolly weather we have been facing in the past few years (especially last year) which has been compromising how we have lived up to now.  This is my little sitting room where I prepare everything I do…

I am not sure if you remember that we had days when there was no power – some folk had WEEKS.  I managed with everything, except HEATING, and I am working towards fixing that.  I would like to have a garage so I could store things I use all the time because I believe we will need it.  I am sure you have noticed that when you go shop there are vacant shelves, and then when the shelves are re-stocked, the cost of the items has gone up.

It is not just at Coles – it is everywhere.

One thing we need to stock is candles – or do we?  They are useful for  lighting, heating and cooking.   If you make one of my little terra-cotta pot heaters (and they are quite efficient), and if you don’t solve the candle cost you will find the heater does cost a lot just in candles, but you will get good at re-cycling.  

Candles are more and more expensive, but there are alternatives.  You can use olive oil, vegetable oil cheap,  solid cooking oils.  You can even make your own wicks.  These alternatives burn for much longer than a candle, and they are much cheaper, and burn for longer..  Please watch my instagram and I will put up the experiments I am doing.  Crisco the American cooking oil has a little flame over the “i” which indicates the history of the oil which was used for lamps and vehicle lubrication during the war – and now people use it for cooking?  Mind you, olive oil was used for lamps even in biblical times.

TATTOOS – STICK AND POKE
Love doing these.  So quiet, so personal, so tiny.  I have been planning the Christmas images.  Do make an appointment.  This is one thing I  can not do on zoom.  You have to come see me.

They usually take about an hour…. plan to have a chat and a cup of tea.

 

SEE YOU ON THE MAT – OR ON THE ZOOM

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis…

We are nearly out of lock-down, but here I am wonderfully used to it.  I don’t have children, and I think if I did them things would be different, but we are now coming into the most difficult time – EVERYTHING SEEMS NORMAL BUT IT ISN’T.  If you want to look at a country which is handling Covid really well, then look at PORTUGAL.  They have focussed on vaccinations and they are coming out of covid quickly, with minimum of deaths and no lock-downs.

SCHEDULE for the rest of the week.
STUDIO: Wednesday 5.30, Friday 5.30 Yoga
ZOOM: Friday Free Tarot, Sunday morning class is no more until you decide you want it.  We will do something wonderful in this time.  Perfect for Mandalas I think!  I will let you know.

COVID AND TEMPERATURE
I guess you think that taking a basal temperature and covid are not related – but it is my experience with infections and temperature to lead me towards believing they are.  If you have an infection in your body, your basal temperature will start to rise even before you feel the effects.  So you can get ahead of the curve with your herbal and vitamin therapies.

One of our students recently was attacked by her rooster (they do it!), and suffered a really bad infection.  Enough to keep her home and unwell.  If she had done the basal temp (and herbal remedies) as a regular routine then as soon as she was injured, she would have been able to tell the infection had taken hold BEFORE she was incapacitated, and been able to remedy the situation.

And you thought that basal temp was all about conception?  That is one reason to get familiar with your routine, but you will learn so much more.  What foods your body likes, what you are allergic to, why you have headaches, what take the oomph out of your day!

HAWTHORN:  I can’t say enough about this herb.  It is free, growing by the wayside, and available for heart conditions – especially high blood pressure.  Added to pine needles in a tea (get to know your pine needles – there are many different ones), it will take your blood pressure right down.. to the point where you feel different and slower.  Yesterday I pushed it to the limit and took three cups in a day.  I felt really relaxed.  There was lots to do, but i didn’t want to do any of it.  I wasn’t drowsy, I was just content to sit and watch the world.

I have come to the conclusion that an elevated blood pressure is where I like to live – buzzy.  When I relax I relax, but when I want to do things, I can really bring commitment to the table.

It is time you went out into the paddocks, picked hawthorn leaves, flowers and buds and hung them in paper bags to dry if you haven’t got a dryer.  You can make a tea from the fresh herbs of course whilst you are drying your yearly supply.  I LOVE IT.

The pic is of the unopened hawthorn flowers.  Perfect timing to pick.

I WILL SEE YOU IN THE FIELDS

NAMASTE JAHNE

Dear Yogis,
Hope you enjoyed yesterdays special newsletter – I didn’t think I could wait any longer to bring you my newest essence.  It is not different to yoga.  Everything I do is part of my yoga practices, none more so than my drawings, mandalas and body awareness charts.  When you learn them, you can teach others.
With that in mind, and because we are ending our lock-down (there will be more!), and christmas is on the way, I am heralding an afternoon workshop at my studio.  ………MANDALA AWARENESS (and daily basal charting)
We will see what can happen when we pay attention to all the information our bodies and minds are presenting us with.
We will see what can happen when we dare to be truly present to the intricacies of our lives.
We will understand what can happen when we integrate cyclical ways of knowing and being into our daily lives.
Welcome to our FULL CIRCLE HEALTH PRACTICE: A creative approach to holistic health for all who love planners, trackers and bullet journals to guide and support you in a greater understanding of your physical, mental and emotional health.

Whether you are menstruating or not, pregnant or post-partum,  our Full Circle Health Practice provides a highly flexible, deeply supportive way of tracking your health, whatever your current health conditions.     Appreciating the cyclical nature of women’s bodies is the key to unlocking the “mysteries” of our health. Detailed charting is an invaluable tool for achieving a deeper understanding of symptoms and patterns, often yielding insights missed by conventional medical practice.

In our workshops and zoom sessions (or studio) we will work on…

  • Cycles and why they are important for women’s healt
  • Health charting for a variety of physical and mental health conditions
  • Menstrual charting
  • Lunar charting
  • Dream charting  (The mandala to the right is a “vision” by Saint Hildegard of Bingen – she had a lot more time to complete her mandala than we will)
  • Guided journaling

 

IT IS A PACKAGE.
Basal charting to see what is influencing the body and the mind, and Mandalas to uncover the subconscious.  We can even chart or mandala your dreams – or you may dream even more vividly after you learn to work with these keys to the subconscious.

Come to my afternoon workshop
Saturday 27th NOVEMBER at 1pm to 4 pm.  $72.50 (including the basal charting kit and digital thermometer)

When you book (to book email me – yogafirst2@bigpond.com) I will send you a basal kit –  Express Post so you will actually get it – and you can start using it….  We will interpret it as best we can at the workshop if you would like to do this.   If you can’t come to the workshop at the Studio, I am sure we can do an on-line ZOOM workshop, and I can do private ZOOM or studio consultations to help you work with these fabulous intuitive charts and drawings.  Bring your charts if you have started and we will explore what they have to tell.
We will make this Christmas workshop our last STUDIO workshop for the year – if you are coming to the studio, please bring a Christmas nibble.  Gluten free and non-alcoholic please.  Easy to do now.
I will see you SOMEWHERE,  I am with you..
NAMASTE.  JAHNE
NOTE WELL:
The Basal Body Chart is not a contraceptive device.
It is a data recording tool that you can use to meet a variety of charting goals.