Dear Yogis,

We have decided because of pressures of covid that is making yoga in the studio untenable until next week, we will go forward with the program that I outlined on Monday.  Sorry about that – but it is what it is…  Have you caught up with my paintings on INSTAGRAM.  I resisted for a long while, but have relented… they are there.

ZOOM TIMETABLE FOR THIS WEEK
YOGA: Wednesday 5.30 Restorative
ZOOM STUDY:  Monday 6.30 Teacher Training, Tuesday 7.30 CCP, Friday TAROT 6.45, Sunday CCP. 10am

Thank you to those students who have taken the step and gotten vaccinated.  There will still be times when we can choose to zoom, for instance if any of us get “suspicious” coughs, but otherwise, from next week we will take the first steps back to our new YOGA NORMAL all vaccinated!

CCP.
We are coming to the end of our CCP Training first intake.  If you want to enrol in the next intake and become in effect a (LIFE) AND DEATH DOULA, please email me yogafirst2@bigpond.com and I will forward an application to you.  The first intake has been wonderful.  It took two two hour zoom classes per week to “get the pearls” as one of my students often says.  I originally planned one, and will only do one in the next intake.

Not many of you were able to do one class regularly, and only half way through the course did most realise they actually were in training for a very important function in their communities.  Not just a “death doula”, but also a “life doula”.  Never more needed than now.  

I have asked one of our students who has special skills to take a zoom class on INDIGENOUS FUNERAL RITES.  Please indicate your interest in this – you do not have to be a CCP Graduate to be interested.

TAROT MAKING CLASSES
We indulged ourselves with this at the beginning of covid and it unexpectedly took us well into the year.  We all loved the discipline of the cards and the freedom of making whatever we wished within those parameters.

I asked if you would like to repeat the experience.  Those who had not finished the cards the first time could go forward, and those new to making, could start anew.

 

Please email me and let me know if you would like to start either extra time on Friday that we already do, or we could keep the free Friday, and add Saturday afternoons as we did last time, between 2 and 4pm.  Or that time on Sundays.  I will not be doing two classes, just one.   If you want to come, and have a preference, please decide.  I still have not written the book for the Mary Tarot I started then – so we can work together.

This is a shortish newsletter, because I am looking forward to seeing you in the studio soon or on zoom – or somewhere…

NAMASTE Jahne

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

What a strange and wonderful time we are in.. two steps forward and one step back.  The news from above is, we can have yoga classes if everyone is vaccinated… if everyone is perfectly healthy (whenever does that happen – there is always someone with a cold, especially if they have children).  So where are we if  everyone is vaccinated and a class member has a cold?  If you have been in a shop  and sniffed or coughed you will know what I mean – everyone dashes for cover.  It is like living through the “Black Death” in Europe.  We will get to the other side I am sure.  Please know every one of you that we are doing the best we can do to keep you all safe.

We talked this morning in CCP about what to do if an acquaintance or even a student refuses for whatever reason to be vaccinated.  The class came to an agreement that we could support this decision if the person was taking responsible steps (regular practice, good diet, spiritual work)  to boost their immune system.   Not just saying they do, but actually doing these things.

It is going to put us all in uncomfortable situations, and having to make uncomfortable decisions….but sometimes these need to be made.  We are doing what we can for the good of everyone.  When one person in the Woolies storehouse got covid, 3,000 workers were isolated!  Does that make a difference to everyone? YES.  So, don’t be part smart.  Everyone counts.

 

OUR SCHEDULE

ZOOM UNTIL NEXT WEEK – this allows everyone time to get vaccinated, and tested if necessary (I think by next Monday all these things will be done).  Then we can all start on the same page, although I believe some yoga studios are returning.  However, if one person in a class tests positive, then everyone has to isolate which is more than a nuisance when we are just being released…. when we can be as careful as possible, we will be.

YOGA: Monday hatha 1pm, Restorative Wednesday at 5.30.  From next week we will resume STUDIO 1pm Wednesday Restorative and 5.30 Studio Yoga together with our usual 1pm Monday and 5.30 Wednesday.  We are requesting that studio class be vaccinated.
STUDY:  Monday 6.30 Teacher Training, Tuesday CCP 7.30pm, Friday TAROT 6.45pm, and Sunday CCP 10am.

We are going to have a TAROT MAKING CLASS (or finish the cards you have started).  This can be the Friday Class from 6.45 to 8.45pm. The cost for the class will be $50 for 4 classes which is what we charged last time.  You should be able to make your own tarot or oracle cards in that time.  Any medium, Pencil, ink, paint, collage.  Whatever you like.

 

WIM HOF BREATHING

Thinking of this – whilst you are making these decisions, and before you have the vax and after, please study the WIM HOF BREATHING METHOD (youtube).  It boosts the immune system (and keeps you feeling young, energetic and fabulous).  WIM himself, who I think is in my age bracket, runs naked around the North Pole.  His breathing technique has been subjected to scientific scrutiny and came out a raging success.

Once he was injected with a virulent bacteria (there was a control group who was and a control group who was not)…  he did the breathing after the inoculation, had a nap and got up as right as rain.  Those that did not do the breath succumbed to the dreadfulness of the bacteria.    Then there is the ice water shower or bath after the breath – an essential step.  It is winter and I use cold water on my feet and legs after a hot shower.  In summer I do the whole body with cold water.  Most refreshing.   I think it is working – I will let you know after I have my second vax and get my blood test..  We all have to be injected with the covid vaccine – we all need “The Method”.  If this works for him it will work for us, and thousands say it does.

Go to his web site, and yes, “THERE IS AN APP FOR THAT”.

 

I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON ZOOM (or flying around the room with joy)
NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

Life goes on.  I think we are all over the various lockdowns, although they have not become second nature yet.  I guess that comes later.  The virus is not going away, and like the flu we will have to learn to deal with it.

I am coming up to my second jab next week which is OK because I have been making a point of building up my body and my systems to deal with the next influx of vaccine.  I will let you know how I go, and I will also let you know about the blood test I am going to have in a couple of weeks.  If you will recall I had one just before the first jab, and it will be interesting to see the difference.

CLASS SCHEDULE
ZOOM until everyone has caught up with at least the first covid shot.
FRIDAY tonight 6.45pm The Tarot.  We will be looking at the last houses, how we can use the tarot every day, how we can use them in our various practices.  I would also like to start another “Make your own Tarot” class.
YOGA:  Monday 1pm, Wednesday 5.30, Friday 5.30
STUDY: Tarot Friday 6.45, Sunday CCP (Death Doula), Monday 6.30 Teacher Training,
Tuesday 7.30 CCP (Death Doula).

INSPIRATION FOR THE DAY:  Instead of just meditating, imagine you are curled up in a TRAVELLING DREAM CLOUD (You can even sit in a chair for this).  Get really comfy, close your eyes, lie back and imagine that your TRAVELLING DREAM CLOUD supports you and pulls up over you.  Your cloud protection (not that you really need this).  Just bring your imagination to the game and your cloud will float you through space and time to wherever you would like to go, and will gently land in your happiest places.  Try it.

 

I will see you on the cloud.

JAHNE.