Hi Yogis,

We have had sort of spring weather in the mornings, enough to cheer us up.  But here we are under-water again…. I hope you get warmth and sunshine where you are.

ZOOM: Friday 6.45 Tarot, Sunday 10am CCP, Monday 6.30 Teacher Training
STUDIO: Wednesday 5.30 Restorative, Friday 5.30 Hatha, Monday 1pm Hatha

With all the disturbances due to Covid I am calling off the sale I had planned for the 22nd.  I will still be open and available for visits between 2 and 4 if you would like to pop by – However, because we have covid requirements can you book to come and see me on that day? Please.  It is a nuisance.  I am setting my yoga room up in order to be a gallery (Two functions, as in the old days), and I would like to see you,  and you to see what I have been up to.  It should be ready by the time that the restrictions ease off September, October?  In time for Christmas anyway.

INSTAGRAM:  I now am on Instagram, (I would love it if you would follow me!) and am going to my magical web person at the end of the week to get tips and tricks so I can use it better. I think this will help.  You might think it is easy, but I don’t.  I want it to look beautiful and professional first go – and of course I understand this is a big ask.  I am a Capricorn and we barrel ahead.

The photo to the right is a copy of a Georgia O’Keefe painting on a Tea Bag.  It is symbolic of the shadow of the Catholic Church over the people of NewMexico.   I have always liked painting themes, but now, I just like painting whatever I want to TODAY, all the little images will just be different.  No themes.

THE MONDAY TEACHER TRAINING zoom session was fantastic.  So interesting, so inspired (thanks gang).  I would like all my zoom sessions to be as good as this one was… basically it is what I live for, why I do what I do!

MIND MEDICINE AUSTRALIA:  We in the yoga community are interested in learning more about how mind altering substances can be used as they were meant to be used – “To help and assist mankind” (-Shiva).  “MIND MEDICINE AUSTRALIA” is a group which is doing this and has a free webinar and a zoom course coming up.  If you want to know more, google them and explore the work they are doing. They are very active behind the scenes in the community.  They invite you to start a chapter in your town.  Think about it.  I think I will – we are half way there anyway.

Come to some zoom sessions – ours, MMA, anything to enhance your learning – you might feel zoomed-out (we all are feeling a bit like this), but come anyway.

I will see you on the mat.

Namaste – Jahne

 

 

 

 

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.

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