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Dear Yogis,

It is lock-down, and during lockdown I try to send a newsletter every morning except Thursday.  This week is one of those weeks.  Please note – We will be zooming our STUDIO yoga classes until lock down ends.  Please let me know if you need an ID.

ZOOM as usual:  Monday 6.30pm: Mary Magdalen, Tuesday 7.30pm: Mary Magdalen, Friday 6.45pm: Tarot card a day, Sunday 10am: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
ZOOM YOGA CLASSES during lockdown: Wednesday 1pm, Wednesday 5.30pm and Friday 5.30pm

 

ANGELS AMONG US,
In these difficult times it is good to remember that there are Angels among us.  I have to begin by saying that I have had (and still have) personal experience as have many of you,  as attested to by the many “angel stories” that appear in literature and the popular press.  It is not my intention to convince you of any particular belief system regarding angels, but as usual, to be a guide.  This morning my Guide alerted me to the fact that I had not paid attention to the fact that he in fact is an Angel with me.   When I was a child I held conversations with angels on a regular basis (as I do now), and found the experience neither odd nor disturbing.

My experience at that time of my life was discouraged, which resulted in me becoming secretive.  I know that many of you do have angel contact.. which you keep private.  Now is the time “wake up”,  to share.  For whatever reason Angels have decided to be more available.  My feeling is that they are doing so in response to heartfelt prayers at this difficult time.  Prayers from from people in every country, in all walks of life and from all faiths.

I can only say from my own experience that angels are teachers, healers and rescuers, and perform many beneficial functions on behalf of humans.  They can appear as people, as events, as signs (feathers, moths, butterflies) they can contact us while we are sleeping and dreaming or they can appear whilst we are wide awake and functioning in our everyday world.  To encounter an angelic presence can awaken us to our own sacred dimension and that of the world around us.  What is important is that they speak to us on many levels.  Whether they are abstract powers or energies, they operate in ways that we can never understand.

The Sufi tradition tells us that there is hidden meaning in all things, and that everything has an inner and an outer meaning.  Every external form is complemented by an inner reality.  You may be surprised at the positive change that can come about as you open to the sacredness of every day.  You will discover that the living spirit is everywhere.  Don’t wait for things to improve in order to be happy.  Choose to be happy NOW.

As I have reminded you many times:  “NO THING can happen except that it is the will of God (“The Good”)” – the Qur’an

 

MEET ME WITH THE ANGELS.

NAMASTE. JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

There is so much going through my mind this morning.   I have been catching up with people on FB (not something I usually do), but I am learning.

REMEMBER THIS:  “You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy”. 

 

COVID CLASS TIMES
ZOOM: Tonite: 6.30 Mary Magdalen (Free).  Tuesday: Mary Magdalen 7.30, Friday: Tarot 6.45pm (email if you want to join, it is free and we will do a card or two a night depending on how things go).  Sunday 10am:  The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (suggested for CCP training).
No ZOOM YOGA by popular request.  All waiting for Studio.

YOGA STUDIO CLASSES:  Wednesday: 1pm (replaces Monday 1pm),  Wednesday:  5.30pm and Friday: 5.30.
CCP LAUNCH THURSDAY 22ND, 12 noon:  Not sure how this will go.  If Lock-Down over we will be meeting at the studio for a “MaryMagdalen” Lunch.  If lock down in force we will zoom it.  Please let me know if you will be available for zoom.

COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS..
I am getting a lot of support, which will translate into support for you when you have done the course.  You can follow in my footsteps in your community to open doors for you.  Of course, everyone is different and you all have multiple interests and qualifications – you will all want to work and specialise in different areas…    I will be looking for people in my area or close by who would like to intern to get their case studies done for the course.  Not just with the dying, but those who are housebound, and even with animals…

If you would like to support someone into the course who can’t afford to do it, please donate (use the donate button on the site www.ccpproject.com).  If you want to do the course but can’t afford it, then let us know and I will try to organise a PART scholarship for you.  Please, if this is you, Email me: yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

If you enrol and pay (even the deposit) on Thursday or before, I will send you an E-copy of THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK free of charge.  This little book will help you get all your admin in one place, or you could also use it to help one of your CCP Clients to tidy up their lives.  Getting things organised (stuff or admin) can be so disturbing it can push people who don’t know how to cope, over the edge.  Something that is simple for you or me, may not be simple for others.  This book even details funeral arrangements – who thinks about that? Hardly anyone, but someone has to.  It could be you.

In Studying The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying in preparation for CCP,  we have been exploring the thought that PEACE AND NON-PEACE CAN’T EXIST IN THE SAME SPACE.  In the CCP course we learn that a change of perception equals a change of behaviour.  For CCP we do not need any equipment – only our consciousness.

Working with gratitude builds a co-operative spirit.  Acknowledgement minus judgement, minus thinking and feeling equals new action and new behaviour patterns… even at end of life.  As soon as our action change, fear drops – then the client and the practitioner can just let go (and let God – or as Mary calls it “The Good”).  

 

I look forward to working with you.  See you on the mat.

Namaste. JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

ZOOM:  FRIDAY NIGHT 6.45 TAROT WORKSHOP FREE ZOOM
SATURDAY 10AM, CCP INFORMATION SESSION
SUNDAY 10AM, “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying”
MONDAY 6.30, Mary Magdalen
TUESDAY 7.30 Mary Magdalen

ZOOM STUDIO (we are now in lockdown until Tuesday night.  : Mon 1pm. Wed and Fri. 5.30 – vacancy in Wed. Restorative and Friday Hatha classes.  More classes as demand increases.  If you want to join a zoom class let me know and i will make sure you have an ID.

LOCK-DOWN CHANGES:  I can reassign Tonites 5.30 zoom to a 5.30 Studio class next week and I can change Monday 1pm zoom to 1pm Studio class on Wednesday next week if it makes things easier for these classes.

COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS PROJECT – LOVING THE WORLD THE “DIANA WAY”. 

The days march on closer to the launch of our COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS COURSE.  I was so pleased to be in Australian Yoga Journal… and I am hoping for more of our yoga graduates to join up.

Did you know, there is a 20% increase in the need for mental health workers in Australia, and there aren’t enough of them to service demand.

You can work in any area with this qualification, so you will not be left in the cold.  I have started conversation with MABEL which will allow you to use your skills to earn money in the work-place, and HEADSPACE for those of you interested in working in the area of addictions and recovery.  With your yoga qualifications you will have the full deck, and especially with Mabel, will be able to work across many areas in your life and work.  I have also started discussions with the NDIS.  I think that once I have opened discussions, then you will need to go on-line and enquire individually so that you can get the maximum benefits for your skills – everyone is so different.  CCP just opens the door.

Remember Princess Diana.  She was not a yogi, she didn’t have a University education (or much at all really). Every day she woke up confused as to what she was and where her life was taking her, and when she finally got some ideas about this – “wham”, her time was up.

Princess Diana was a trailblazer, icon, activist,  and one of the most influential people of the 20th century.  She lived much of her life in the spotlight, under oppressive scrutiny.   However,  she instinctively knew how to bring an aura of peace, to  just sit, hold hands, and have a meaningful conversation by hardly saying anything.  Doing by not doing.   She worked “HEART TO HEART” and touched the world with the power of LOVE.    This is you – You can do this.  This is the core of our new therapy – DOING BY NOT DOING. With lock-downs continuously occurring your skills will be in demand.

SIGN UP TODAY for the course TODAY.  Go to www.ccpproject.com  We can begin working where the need is.  Don’t sit at home and think “I don’t know where to work, and have lost my vision”.  Here is your vision – here is your heart.  Don’t retire – REFIRE!!!!

SEE YOU ON THE MAT (OR IN CCP)

NAMASTE – JAHNE