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Dear Yogis,

Monday was like spring early on – sunshine and bluish skies…but now Woodend weather has arrived, and the sunshine is patchy and it looks like rain again.

ZOOM AND STUDIO
ZOOM: Monday 6.30 teacher training, Tuesday 7.30 The Tibetan Book of the Dead – CCP repeat. Friday 6.45 Tarot, Sunday 10am CCP
STUDIO: Monday 1pm, Wednesday 5.30 Restorative Yoga, Friday 5.30 Hatha

FAST TRACK- Have you got stuck in your Teacher Training Course?  Would you like to get your certification quickly.  Now that we can zoom, we can fast track your course and do the exam on zoom.  There will be a charge, we have always charged for this to cover expenses, but now things are simpler, no travel required, just time and expertise.  If you are interested email me and we can set a time… yogafirst2@bigpond.com

 

TAROT FOR THE DAY

THE DEVILThe Devil asks..
1.  Knowing that attachment causes suffering, which attachment which no longer serves you, could you release?
2. What “limitations” would support you at this time?
3. Who or what have you been seeing in a negative light and how could you change this?
4. What boundaries you have set for yourself and need to review?

 

PAINTING

I have been working on a series of watercolours on TEA BAGS.  One per day, and I have kept the pace. The subject matter has mainly focussed on nature, but I have also painted buildings and landmarks…  When I have enough I will put them into an exhibition, but to see various new images go to my studio page. www.blueladystudio.com

 

Having said I wouldn’t go on INSTAGRAM, I have,  in order to show the paintings as I progress with them……. I don’t have a computer mind and there are no children at home, so when I find a complication I have no-where to go to figure it out.  I have made mistakes and duplications, but I am getting better and a photo of the day’s painting goes up each evening… It is not my favourite way of doing things – I would like to go back to real art galleries with real art shows, but I guess that this is unlikely to happen.  Everyone is sticking close to home.

YOGA
I am so pleased that yoga is back in the studio.  The numbers are restricted, but we are back.  Are you back?  If you are feeling great, the best place to be is on the mat, not in front of the TV, not moping around taking “another” walk, or washing the walls again.  The yoga mat is your “country”.  Your yoga mat is where you leave your troubles on the outside and get inside. A place to CHANGE YOUR MIND.  Until your mind changes, nothing does.

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE. JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

What an amazing week.  We are all working on the first intake of Compassionate Companions, I have still managed some paintings which I have put on instagram… and I have new students for the Yoga teacher Training by distance.  So, all good.

SCHEDULE
STUDIO: Monday 1pm, Wednesday 5.30 Restorative,  and Friday 5.30 Gentle hatha.
ZOOM: Monday Yoga Teacher Training 6.30, Tuesday CCP Training 7.30, Friday Tarot 6.45 and Sunday CCP training 10am

 

YOGA TEACHER TRAINING.

I have got a lovely new (small) class of young ones interested in Yoga teacher Training, and am so looking forward to working with them.  Others who have yet to finish can join us on zoom on Mondays.  So, if you are hanging back, if you are not yet finished and you need some contact, please join us on Mondays.

I am so looking forward to getting some newbies in the class.  I have updated everything, so there will be areas where you need to rethink if you have already started and want to move forward.  I think you will enjoy the class and your course even more with a weekly zoom session.

Finish the course if you are slowing down and encourage your students to start – be inspired and empowered to live an influential life of leadership. Discover your unique gifts and use them wisely to contribute to building a better world.    This is no “quickie” course.  Learn to use your confident yoga voice to skillfully teach even the more challenging poses, while compassionately meeting your student’s varying emotional and physical needs.

Remember at the beginning of the week I drew THE FOOL out of the tarot deck.  The fool is all about new beginnings.  Let’s all take a deep breath, forget about covid, and press on.  Onwards and upwards!

I look forward to seeing you, if not on the mat, then on zoom

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

 

Dear Yogis..
CLASS SCHEDULE:
Studio Class.  Monday 1pm, Wednesday 5.30 and Friday 5.30
Zoom Monday 6.30, Tuesday CCP 7.30, Friday 6.45 Tarot, and Sunday 10am
Some inspiration….
Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle commented on the current situation a few days ago:
“This moment that humanity is experiencing can be seen as a door or a hole.The decision whether you fall into the hole or through the door is up to you. If you consume the news 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, with pessimism, you will fall into that hole.  But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, to take care of yourself and others, you will go through the portal.  Take care of your home, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual home. When you take care of yourself, you take care of everyone else at the same time.
Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. Take the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader view. There is a social issue in this crisis, but also a spiritual issue. The two go hand in hand.  Without the social dimension, we fall into fanaticism. Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility.
You are ready to face this crisis. Get your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.  Learn resistance from the example of the Indian and African peoples: we have been and are being exterminated. But we never stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire and rejoicing.
Don’t feel guilty for feeling happy in these difficult times. Being sad or angry doesn’t help at all. Resistance is resistance through joy! You have the right to be strong and positive. And there is no other way to do this than to keep a beautiful, happy and bright attitude.  It has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance about the world). It is a strategy of resistance.
When we cross the threshold, we have a new view of the world because we have faced our fears and difficulties. That’s all you can do now:
– Serenity in the storm – Keep calm, pray every day – Make it a habit to encounter the Holy every day – Show resilience through art, joy, trust and love.                Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle.  Date Added: 9 July 2021

MALAS.

I am crafting some rather amazing Malas.  I have always made my own, and I have amassed some fabulous beads which I use to make malas for other (not for everyone) . If you would like a mala,  let me know your favourite colour and stone.  I can’t guarantee to have exactly a match.  Christmas is not  that far away and you could purchase one as a gift.. for that very special person in your life.

Description:  A mala of beads , sporting a bone crucifix (or not, you choose). The making process is done by us in a perfect state of meditation, so as to imbue this beautiful mala with the spirit required for such a potent icon. Before dispatch, each Mala has had at least one hundred and eight “Hail Marys”thirteen “Aum Shantis”,  and nine “Om Mani Padme Hums” prayed over it.  If you wish your own chants to be intoned during its making,  you may specify your personalised sectarian or Buddhist chant in the notes section at checkout.
These mazing Malas (one of a kind – I will never be able to get this combination of crystals and beads again) AU$542.00
Including a booklet of the history and use of your mala.

THE TAROT FOR TODAY – “THE TOWER”

This card is all about change..

1.What aspect of your life would benefit from a profound and irreversible restructuring – although it is scary to consider?
2.In this present time of covid, how can you support yourself to prepare for unexpected and significant changes?
3.Considering re-structuring, changing what aspect of your life needs to be shaken up right now?
4.What needs to be seen differently in order for change to occur?
5.Considering your life to date, what changes you have made have taught you about what YOU need in order to be fulfilled?

I will see you on the mat – I really will.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE