Dear Yogis,

Happy Birthday His Holiness The Dalai Lama – 86 today (Tuesday 6th July).  Wherever you are, whatever you are doing have a wonderful day.

ZOOM: Sunday 10am The Book of Living and Dying
SATURDAY: 10am THE COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS PROJECT (INCLUDING “THE CCP MINIMALIST”) Email me for your free registration.  I will send you an ID code  yogafirst2@bigpond.com

What a week.  The jab, and then being confronted by a “yogi” angry that I had done it.  Angry doesn’t help anyone.  My mum used to say “If you are in the right,  then you don’t need to get angry. If you are in the wrong you can’t afford to be”.  Good advice.  But all is well we are back on track.  The school holidays feel almost like lock-down.  Everyone is pulling back and doing family things.

Tomorrow I am loading my book of lists on to ETSY as part of the CCP PROJECT   Another way the COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS can help their community (it is not just about DEATH).  Do you have a Will? Even if you do have a will, if you died, would your beloved know your passwords, your favourite hymn, where the diamonds are buried and so on… all those things that they want to tell you but don’t get around to.  And then it’s too late and you have had the bank account frozen, there is no money under the carpet and  you are totally stressed out, panicked and stuck.  It happens more often than you would like to think about because people don’t write things down.  THE BLACK BOOK is a “LIVING WILL”.  However, you can help others complete this list if they have not already done so.THE

This LITTLE BLACK BOOK will help you.  It is absolutely essential in times of crisis.  All the numbers and needs of your life in one place (your lawyers).  You don’t want anyone but your lawyer or accountant getting their sticky little fingers on this one.

 

CCP MINIMALIST (www.ccpproject.com)

Whilst I was writing the book,  I contemplated how we can take this approach even further and DE-CLUTTER OUR LIVES. I know the photo to the right doesn’t look very glamorous but these are my yoga trousers and tops – the ones I wear everyday, my uniform.  What you see is all I have left.  I am going through a cupboard a day and dealing with my clothes first.

I have heard of PROJECT 33.  A challenge where you wear only 33 items over a period of 3 months.  That is everything…even the jewellery.  Great if you are in a Tiny House, but I do not, and am becoming a minimalist a day at a time.  If you buy one item you have to chuck 10 out (yes, 10).

As a CCP CONSULTANT this is another string to your bow.  Helping people (and yourself) prepare a “LIVING WILL”, and helping them to de-clutter their lives.  It is wonderful – we are not just Death Doulas.  We are here for the living too. I have helped people take 100 bags of clutter out of their house.  Mine is not like this, but even the small amount I have shifted thus far is very liberating.  Try it.  THEN JOIN THE COURSE AND HELP OTHERS.  It is a planned approach, not just chucking stuff into a skip.

I look forward to seeing you on the mat.

NAMASTE – AND HAPPY DE-CLUTTERING 

Dear Yogis,

ZOOM THIS WEEK
Monday 6.30pm and Tuesday 7.30pm Mary Magdalen.  Sunday 10am The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
CCP and “GOOD LIFE LIST” INFORMATION SESSION (FREE): 10am Saturday 10th July.  Email me beforehand and I will send you a ZOOM ID.

STUDIO THIS WEEK
Monday 1pm, Wednesday 5.30 – These are the only classes during the school holidays.

***WHAT IS RICH? – LOOK AT YOUR “GOOD-LIFE-LIST”
When you look at this list, you may like to downsize….. it is an eye opener.

Today is Sunday.  As I am writing this I am thinking about the courses I am presenting to you.  The COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS PROJECT.  It is about to launch, people are enrolling in advance of its release, but, but, but in the process of this course I am looking at end-of-life (or “good-life-lists”).  BEING COMPASSIONATE TO YOURSELF IS NOT ABOUT GETTING MORE STUFF.

If something happened to you, would those left behind know all the stuff,  numbers, passwords and names included in your life?  You can’t know what is necessary in your life, until you know what is in your life.

Many students have told me of the sudden loss of precious people in their lives.  The loss was dreadful, but then came the stressful time of sorting their business and getting back on track – unless you know all the numbers of your partners life you are going to find yourself in a crisis state.  In making a go-to list I have almost got to and unbelievable 26 pages of necessary numbers and passwords.   You won’t need to fill in every one of those 26 pages, but it is an essential list to pass on to your accountant “just in case”.  

Or like me, it could be the beginnings of becoming a MINIMALIST.

This list should be updated when you update (or do) your will, but I know when I recently had my will updated, the lawyer didn’t ask me for a such a list.  He didn’t ask me about my funeral needs, what was going to be done with my special possessions (the “who-gets-what” list).  I like to be organised sure, but this is important.

Go to www.ccpproject.com , hop onto the store, and order your hard copy of this book.  I am going to do and Etsy download, and a USB edition for Lawyers and Accountants.  It has taken me a whole lot longer than I anticipated to do one just for you.  Have a look.  You really do need this.

When you look at this ESSENTIAL LIST, you may also decide to stop or change  many of the numbers that you do have.  Until you know what you have you can’t decide how to simplify.  If you don’t want to simplify this list is even more important.

WHAT YOU WANT, WHAT YOU HAVE is your entry or barrier to the life you want.  SIMPLICITY is the key.

For me, after 50 years teaching all kinds of yoga, I have got a whole heap of yoga stuff to move from my house.  If you want or need yoga swings, rugs, blankets, cushions, blox, (not bolsters at the moment), plus all kinds of bits and pieces, and a collection of yoga magazines – I am selling on a “make an offer” basis. Let me know if you need anything, or I will have an open day and sale.  Get in first….

Maybe the “Mary Magdalen Feast” when you come here is an opportunity, to bring a big bag or box, make an offer and access things I no longer use.  

ONCE I HAVE DONE THIS,
I WILL HIT THE ROAD WITH MY SIMPLICITY MESSAGE….  Book me now.

SEE YOU ON THE MAT WITH LESS.

NAMASTE. JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,  

Just to let you know, I have had my jab, so when you come to class you will be as safe as it is possible to be at this stage.  I have had an unusual response to this however, when a treasured client of 15 years,  actually ran out of class and down the path,  panicked BECAUSE I had crossed the line and joined those who have been vaccinated. I can only surmise that in some strange way, and following various conspiracy theories,  she feels that I have irreversibly damaged my DNA, and by association, hers.

The America Magazine “Forbes” reports…”Covid-19 vaccines are not gene therapy. Repeat, these vaccines are not gene therapy. In fact, they don’t really involve your genes, unless Gene Simmons or Gene Hackman happen to be getting the vaccines,  Or you accidentally drop the vaccines on your jeans and then misspell the word jeans”.  A bit flip I know, but there are pages and pages of well respected science outlining  exactly what the jab is – which I will leave you to read/google if you are interested.  It is NOT a conspiracy, except a conspiracy to wellness.Q

If you are vaccinated or not,  you are welcome in my classes as long as you are adhering to the covid guidelines. The QCode, the masks and distancing.

I did not think I would get the jab, but when I tallied up the science and  current feedback (especially the party in Sydney where the only party goers who did NOT test positive were those 6 who were vaccinated), I decided to join the group.  My children, my family and my sister (and the majority of my students) have all had it and some time ago – I am almost the last I think.

My reason for being on earth is to serve.  I can’t serve if the people I need to serve, can’t open their doors to me because I refuse to be vaccinated..  I also did not want to live my life in fear.  Fear of the jab, fear of contracting covid, fear of passing covid on, fear of not being able to be with my community.. I am sure there are others fears.  Maybe fear is too strong word, but whatever it is, I am not buying in to fear.  Are you?

When my mum was a little girl,  scarlet fever (which is now on the rise), was as rampant in the community as Covid is today although it was country-wide and not international.  The spread widened and grew as people travelled, and commerce became more far ranging.

The science was not as good as now, and some time later it was discovered my mum was the carrier in her village.  She felt fabulous – no symptoms – but she infected hundreds of people, and had to go into a long quarantine which was the only defence at that time, antibiotics still not generally accepted or available.  That feeling of contagion and abandonment stayed with her into adult life.

However, re covid – your decision is your decision, I can’t make it for you.  I can say that as this situation changes and morphs,  as it will going forward my CCP GRADUATES will be in great demand.  If like me you want to go into aged care homes, hospitals etc – sorry to say, you will need your jab.  It will not be optional and certainly if you want to travel you will need your “vaccination passport”.  

However, if you are opposed, you can work unsupported outside the system.  There are always some who will. It will be a very small world for you, is this what you want?

I look forward to hearing from you.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE