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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

Dear Yogis,

Well, no matter how we personally feel about it, our home-stay is going to be extended I think.  I was hoping we would be together again in person sooner rather than later, but no, it is back to foraging.  Actually it is a bit too cool to spend much time in the woods and streams however “mother nature” it may make you feel.

The photo on the right is of a painting on a tea bag – one of mine – actually my rendition of a sculpture by Lorenzo showing Mother Nature whirling the earth around.  He sculpted it as a statement about Global Warming but it could just as easily be though of as being about our communities in this difficult time of Covid.

I am sure there will be many businesses, no matter how much money the Government dishes out – which will not be able to survive.  The customers have just gone away.  As yoga teachers we know the feeling.  Yoga has never been considered a necessity!  When the world gets a sniffle, we get pneumonia.  It is like that now for most.  Stay the course. To be a HERO there is only one qualification – JUST SHOW UP.  

ZOOM CLASSES THIS WEEK.
Monday 1pm Hatha, Monday 6.30 Mary Magdalen
Tuesday 7.30 – CCP Repeat of Sundays Class for CCP and those interested in The Tibetan Book of the Dead. All welcome.
Wednesday 5.30 Restorative Yoga
Friday 5.30 Hatha Yoga, Friday 6.45 The FREE Tarot learning class.
Sunday 10am Tibetan Book of the Dead CCP study unit

AUGUST 22ND EVENT.  I hope we are out of Covid lockdown by the 22nd of the month as I am hoping to have an open house and art/garage sale, with champers and nibbles of course.

A PREDICTION:  This is just a dream (one of those “event” dreams that wake you up), a prediction, a notice from the Ravens and Rainbirds.  I believe a big RAIN weather event is on its way. Unfortunately I can’t yet tell you an accurate forecast, but “spring” will have to do.  Now is the time to get your roof checked, and any other precautions you may need to make.  I have notified my plumber.  This house and its site is very water sensitive and having him check the roof, the drainage, and the tank in the next couple of weeks is the best I can do, as well as make preparations inside the house just in case.  We have been here before..

 

THE REVELATION TAROT.

We need the tarot at the moment, not as a way to remove our responsibility, but to know where effectively to place it.  How best to use our time.  The photo on the right is the first card in the tarot deck, THE FOOL.  It was the card I drew out today (Sunday is the time of writing), appropriate as I am having to learn new things, and face new situations as you are too.  It is all about FAITH AND TRUST.

The fool asks us these questions.

  • If you knew you couldn’t possibly fail, what would you step towards – what insecurity/fear would you challenge?
  • What does the phrase ‘the wisdom of fools’ mean to you, and how might it apply in this situation?
  • What’s the worst that could happen if you fall (not that you could), and how might that  ‘worst thing’ actually play out as a benefit or advantage in your life?
  • Check.  What resources do you carry with you wherever you go, and which of them could you use right now?

To know more about these Cards(or you could use your own), come to our Tarot Class onFriday nights – it’s FREE!!) and go “Jahne Hope-Williams YouTube” and do out FREE Revelation Tarot Course.  You can purchase a set on www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

CCP GRADUATES:  I now have places for my student to work when they graduate.  I don’t have to go and and search, businesses come to me.  A great place to be.

I will see you on zoom – soon 

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

Apart from the poltergeist around my home which I am learning to adjust to, I have had some extraordinary synchronicities.  It happens when you are happy and going in the right direction and I feel that I am, in spite of lock-down which will mean that for a while we are back to ZOOM.  That’s right, the dreaded zoom is back.  Now is the time to hang together – even if it is on zoom.

Talking about synchronicities – my wall furnace died.  For the last two weeks I have been without heating… except for very expensive electricity.  Yesterday  my new plumber (he’s been my go-to for a few years) discovered that the original plumber had not left the required gap between the wall and the unit, had not installed a back plate and there was a charred area about 2ft square about to burst into flame!!!  The flue was wrong, the hole in the ceiling and the roof installation was substandard and so on.  Thank goodness my heater failed otherwise my house would have burned down (worst case scenario I know).  There is a God.  My house is now warm, open, quiet and wonderful.  I feel great.

ZOOM CLASSES (Schedule repeated throughout Lockdown) NO STUDIO CLASSES UNTIL END OF LOCKDOWN
Friday 5.30 Yoga.  Friday 6.45 Tarot Class
Sunday 10am CCP Class – The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Plus)
Monday 1pm Hatha Yoga, Monday 6.30 Mary Magdalen Study
Tuesday 7.30 CCP Repeat (?)  Nothing is exactly a repeat – you can always learn something new.
Wednesday 5.30 Restorative Yoga

PPT PLUS ChiNeiTsang.
For those students who have achieved a PPT Massage qualification with me, there is a step-up that you can do.  Recently in “The Tibetan Book of the Dead”  Study we talked about the “winds” of the body, which are the major focus of Tibetan medicine.  When we do PPT massage we are looking after this aspect of healing,  although we may not have expressed it this way.  We are doing the pulsing, but WHY are we doing it?

I have blended ChiNeiTsang with PPT (I have always used CNT together with PPT), and the lockdown may offer us extra time so that we can consider this – we now have time.   Once things get back to a new normal and we can begin massage….we  can be ready to start introducing our clients to a deeper appreciation and example of our massage therapy.  We can’t learn it in one session… but we can get an understanding to take to our clients after four sessions,  which will include a lesson on marketing.  It is no use learning a new step in our massage if we don’t tell people about it – this is a way to truly be a Compassionate Companion to many.

CNT/PPT is Healing from Within to detoxify, strengthen and restructure the body.   Physical pain is a reflection of inner emotional conflicts. Through ChiNeiTsang/PPT massage we utilise the deep gentle abdominal touch, breathing and meditative techniques to help expand self awareness, quiet inner conflucts, and outgrow our painful selves.

Interested?  Email me (yogafirst2@bigpond.com) and we will organise a time to do some zoom classes.  Saturday mornings at 10am?  Is this a good time on zoom for you?   Then, when this Delta madness is over and after you have done our short course,  you can start your massage up again… and take off running.   As I have said to you before.  There is so much to know.  I have taken every opportunity during these lockdowns to learn more, and to bring more to you, and that has made the lockdowns a very important time I could not have had if life had just gone forward…  I don’t have lockdowns I have STUDY TIME.

WHEN I had children at home, as well as their regular lessons, I  taught them yoga, massage, and anything else I was learning and passionate about and studying.  In this way we all  learned something.  It is how I used to live with my kids, and why they loved being at home with me.  

Try it.  You don’t always have to change your life to adjust to their lessons, they can change their life to yours….. learning then is super fun.

 

SEE YOU ON ZOOM.
NAMASTE. JAHNE