Dear Yogis,

Have you noticed…It is a time of coming together.  Nothing to do with zooming, everything to do with how the world is.  People you haven’t seen for years popping up, opportunities you put down years ago making themselves known… do you want it, don’t you want it.  A time of repurposing your life and making new decisions.   Don’t be blind to these new opportunities, grasp them, play with them, and then move on.  Don’t get stuck – we are just confirming, re-evaluating decisions.

My painting of the OWL EYE is a good reminder – BE WISE. I am planning to paint the eyes of the Dalai Lama, not as easy as you may think.  He mostly smiles and wrinkles his eyes up in photos.  Then I will paint the eyes of a multi-dimensional being which actually will be easier than the Dalai Lama.  I see these people all the time, up close.  The Dalai Lama I see infrequently.

ZOOM SCHEDULE
YOGA: Monday 1pm Gentle Hatha, Wednesday 5.30 Restorative, Friday 5.30 Open Yoga (whatever happens.. Hatha or restorative)
STUDY:  Monday 6.30 Teacher Training, Tuesday 7.30 CCP Study,  Friday 6.45 Tarot, Sunday 10am CCP Study

TRAINING AND STUDY.

FAST TRACK YOUR YOGA COURSE AND GET YOUR OFFICIAL QUALIFICATION.    I am still offering zoom FAST TRACK  for those people who have gotten at least half way into their courses and have stalled (some for a long time).  If you are ready to do the exam and answer my yoga questions via zoom, I will charge you $85 per hour (most people take 2hours), to achieve their certification.  I would have thought it was very worthwhile.  If you are interested, email me, we will organise a time that suits us both and get this thing DONE.

CCP PROJECT:  We are more than half way through our course (well most of us are) which started on the 22nd of July.  If you had come to the Sunday and Tuesday classes you would have got a lot out of it even if you never intended to be a CCP.  The thoughts about caring for the living as well as the dying are required from each of us at some time, and for each of us at the end.  You may think you are not going to die, you may kid yourself, but believe me you are.  Best be prepared.  It is a slow dance, and I have to follow your lead.

THE TAROT AND THE PENDULUM.  

Tarot and pendulum may not seem connected, but if I use them every day and find them helpful, you may too.  They won’t work if you don’t work with them or take them seriously.

We have to work with many levels and that is where these tools can centre us.  Sometimes assimilations from a “SOUL GROUP”  to a human can be problematical.. there can be imbalances, difficulties in assimilation and repairs to the matrix – once you can see this, things get easier.

We are on a voyage. Things are being revealed to us, a clearing is occurring.

A NEW COURSE: “REVELATION TAROT (and Pendulum) THE MISSION”.

Revolutionary, Multi-Purpose, Multi-Dimensional Psychological approach to reading the tarot for yourself or others.

“FOR EVERY PERSON YOU WORK WITH, AND LIFT, THE WORLD LIGHTENS”

I WILL MEET YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

What an amazing week – thank goodness for lock-down.  I just would not have gotten back to painting like I am meant to paint (scientifically) if I hadn’t been forced back to my desk by covid!  Remember at the beginning of lock downs when I was painting miniatures,  and offering the “Angel series” to you first –  and for $65, well, those girls who bought one have made a good investment.  The miniatures are now selling for a minimum of $350 (depending on the image).  You can’t get that return at a bank…. I don’t even have time to put them in my shop.  The works I am submitting to the British Society of Miniature Artists for their show in November 21 will be around the $500 mark (there are lots of overheads).  I am painting, painting.  Locally I am exhibiting soon at Moco Gallery in Halls Gap.  Ashley has a beautiful small gallery which is still reaching out to clients even in Covid.

By the way I have taken the step onto INSTAGRAM.  You can see the paintings as I do them right there.  Follow me.

Yoga may be getting zoomed out – but I have extra skills as I am sure you have, whatever they are.  It is these times we discover what we were meant to do.  Right now I am painting, but I am still mindful of you.

ZOOM SCHEDULE
YOGA:        Mon. 1pm Hatha, Wednesday 5.30 Restore, Friday 5.30 Restore or Hatha depending on clients
STUDY:      Friday 6.45 tarot, Sunday 10am CCP, Monday 6.30 Teacher Training, Tuesday 7.30 CCP Repeat.

DEATH CAFE:
Sunday 5pm CCP DEATH CAFE MEET-UP – free, all welcome.  GO TO MEET-UP for the link or let me know and i will send one to you.      KATE’S GROUP – Here is the link to check out the Compassionate Cafe for KATE’S GROUP Thursday night at 7pm.

FUN:  Friday 11am, The Morning Tea NETFLIX FILM GROUP.  This is a fun group.  When Netflix became a topic in yoga it seemed a good time to have FILM fun together .  Everyone welcome.

DYSON AND CHEMIST WAREHOUSE
A commercial break.  In the big lockdowns, when I have written about foraging, cooking, survival,  I got hardly any attention and hardly any feedback, but when I spoke about Coles, retailers or the Banks I was snowed under.  I have learned from that.  Survival is not big on anyone’s list.

DYSON – I loved Dyson when they first started.  No-one gave service like they did.  I bought Dyson BECAUSE of their commitment to excellence demonstrated by their service.  They would collect the item from your front porch, and deliver it back in working order within their deadline time.   Didn’t matter where you lived.  That is no longer the case – and when a company charges $350 for a hair wand, you know they don’t care about us.  They are playing with the top end of the market.  Good on them!  I now buy smaller electrical things from Kogan.  They have a great product, it won’t last forever – but nothing does,  however the Kogan product seems to last as long as the Dyson product… even longer.   Price-wise there is no contest.  Kogan is amazingly cheaper.  They deliver FAST.

CHEMIST WAREHOUSE – The same as above.  CW used to stand behind the product, genuinely gave cheaper prices, and they had an on line service that was very good.  Now they have “remaindered” stock.  Left overs from manufacturers and distributors.  You can get the product you have always used once, but maybe that is all there is.  They offer products on-line but you put it in your basket, and if you are lucky and they no longer stock it they will let you know.  Otherwise they will just give you the closest thing, and don’t try to return it – you can’t.  It is an impossible paper chase.  If you need a chemist on line try CHEMIST DIRECT (Rochelle) www.chemistdirect.com.  Yes, they get that personal.  They let you know if your product is out of stock, they will be honest about availability, and they have a big range. They give you price options in an email to you.  It is personal service on a big scale.   I love dealing with them…..

This is not a philosophical Newsletter – But it is useful I hope.

SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

What amazing weather.  Snow, high winds (ripped the lid on my council bin off) and generally Woodend Winter Weather.  I contacted the council and they said I will have to wait two weeks for a replacement!  The firm that picks up the rubbish (which they couldn’t do this morning) deliver the bins… so I will just have to figure something out in the meanwhile – ask the neighbours?

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE HEART. by Leonard Cohen.    https://youtu.be/2AMMb9CiScI     I sent this to a few students, and the feed- back I got was interesting.  One student was worried in case I had been hacked and advised me to change my password! No I wasn’t hacked,   I was asked to choose a piece of modern music which spoke about me, which said something to me,  about me.  It was an unusual request, and this is the piece that I chose.  If you watch it, watch it right to the very end, if you don’t you will miss the message.  Cohen had a wild ride, but died well.  I have had a wild ride (not as public as his), and I hope I die well.  Like him, I am working on it.

ZOOM SCHEDULE

YOGA ZOOM: Monday 1pm Gentle Hatha, Wednesday 5.30 Restorative, Friday – either style depending on the class.
STUDY ZOOM: Monday 6.30 Teacher Training, Tuesday 7.30 CCP, Friday 6.45 Tarot, Sunday 10am CCP and 5pm Death Cafe Meet-up

Although almost all of us are sick of ZOOMING, the classes are getting more and more interesting – although I can’t wait until folk come back to class.  The Tarot class has been running since before Covid.  First we made Tarot cards, then we learned how to read them, now we are doing interpretations.  Maybe soon we will get back to making again… There are a few students who I am sure will enjoy the formal opportunity to get back to art.

DEATH CAFE:  I started a DEATH CAFE MEET-UP on Sundays at 5pm.  I didn’t think anyone would turn up – but they have.  If you want to come let me know and I will send you the link, or go to the MEET-UP site, and the web is available there.  Either way there is no charge.  It is not a formal class, just bring questions.

One of our CCP students (Kate) is running her own “Death Cafe” on zoom.  Here is the link to check out the Compassionate Cafe for Thursday night at 7pm.     It is a facilitated yarn focussed on health and wellbeing for people during lockdown. It’s on zoom. Please register through Humanitix to receive the booking link.   The link will be automatically sent out one hour before we start, if you register through Humanitix. It is free to attend.   People from all walks of life will be there , not necessarily yogis or CCP.

INSTAGRAM..   Although I am not a raving fan, I have been putting up a painting almost every day.  I paint every day, but often have not been finishing in a day, but I put up enough miniatures to make it interesting I think.  I used to concentrate on themes, but now I am just doing what occurs to me in the moment.  I thought I might do “eyes” particularly lions, tigers and wolves eyes.  PLEASE FOLLOW ME.  Every little bit of encouragement helps.

If you are doing something special, please let me know, especially if we can invite other students.

See you on the ZOOM MAT.

NAMASTE – JAHNE