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Dear Yogis,

It was so tempting to either stay in bed, or garden, but that is not the way of yoga – I have said I will send a newsletter on Mondays, so I am here – whistling into the wind I may be, but I am here.  It is a promise.  And now lock-down is finished for the time being, I hope you will join me in the studio for yoga.  If you have not been for a while, please book.

SCHEDULE.
STUDIO: Monday 1pm, Wednesday 5.30, Fridays 5.30 (Guys Yoga)
ZOOM: Teacher Training Monday 6.30, CCP Tuesday 7.30, Tarot Friday 6.45

 

THE GARDEN AND FORAGING AND PREPPING,

Don’t be led into a false sense of security.  The sun is shining, we have Cup Day Holiday, but it is not forever.  Life goes on.  There will be more lockdowns –  even Qantas can’t stop that, no matter how many trips Mr.Joyce the CEO is able to take to cuddle his mum in Ireland via the USA.. See the “60 Minutes Special” last nite. Interesting.  

There will be thunderstorms, there will be BIG hail, there will be high winds and power outages, there will be higher prices.  How are you preparing?  By pretending that everything has gone back to what you would like to think of as normal? It is easier to do that, and you are lucky if you can manage the higher prices of essential like electricity, groceries, the brown-outs, Telstra (who recently hiked up prices) and the terrible delays perpetrated by Australia Post (Australia-Maybe-We-Will-Post).  I am waiting for “KOGAN POST” – they get things to us quickly.

It is time to prepare by getting a dehydrator, by investing in a solar lantern, a rainwater tank, a camp stove (and/or wood heater) learning to forage and grow,  and make do and mend.  I have always done things like this, they are in my memory and genes, and I am urging you to take time to think about it.  I actually have bought myself a rotating mulch tank so I can use the weeds and left overs from the kitchen instead of giving them to the council.   There is so much to do whilst we have time to do it.

Forget about sending cards and letters.  If today is any indication they won’t get to your loved ones by Christmas.  In spite of the fact I don’t like E-Cards, they are really the only alternative when a letter takes 5 weeks to get from Woodend to Daylesford. Google “Jacqui Lawson” and think about E-Cards.

Yes, next year will be the “roaring twenties” we are told – Qantas is leading the way with potentially more planes in the air than after WWII.  It is easy to believe that,  seeing the wildness at the moment from people who have been locked-down now able to go everywhere.  They have mostly learned nothing – HAVE YOU?  Q-Codes, vaccinations  and masks will be with us all for a long time, and we should respect that.  At the same time we should notice the changes, and get back to basics.  These are not hardships, they are ways you can take back control of your life.

AND…….get back to yoga.  Don’t just fit it in when you have time.  

Make Yoga the essential, and fit other things around it.

SEE YOU ON THE MAT – 
JAHNE

 

 

 

 

 

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