Dear Yogis,

CLASS TIMES
ZOOM
Monday 6.30 FREE Mary Magdalen Study
Tuesday: 7.30 to 9pm The Magdalen Study

STUDIO
Monday Hatha 1pm (full), Wednesday Restorative, 5.30 (full), Friday 5.30 (Vacancies available)

THIS SATURDAY (June 26th) 2PM. THE MONTHLY ART/CRAFT CLASS IN THE STUDIO
Sunday 10am: The Tibetan Book of the Dead – especially useful if you are doing the CCP course.

THE CELEBRATION OF MARY MAGDALEN
Thursday the 22nd of July is the feast day of Mary Magdalen.   Because we are studying Mary, and the students are inspired by her story, they decided to hold a lunch on that day so that we too could celebrate her life.  It doesn’t matter if you are celebrating with a sandwich in the office, join us.  I am going to zoom at the same time as we have our luncheon, so you will be able to join in…

Whilst you are waiting,  join us in the study and see what the fuss is all about.  If males had not wiped out her achievements, had not labelled her a penitent sinner, and not sewn together the two Mary’s (Mary Magdalen and Mary of Bethany) to muddy the waters, how different the lot of women through the ages would have been.  The disciples were told to “go forth and proclaim THE GOSPEL OF MARY”, not “The Gospel.”  Mary was a teacher, not a sinner.

 

COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS.  Training to be a “DEATH DOULA” or “END-OF-LIFE CONSULTANT”

Have you ever considered being a consultant in this area?   I am working hard on this course which we we launch in August.  The Cost will be under $400 (so start saving).    There will be 10 modules so I imagine the course will take 12 weeks.  There will be zoom catch-ups each weekend.  When you have the certificate you will be able to work in the community in this capacity.  You can call yourself a “Death Doula” or an “End-of-Life Consultant”.  I will call you a COMPASSIONATE COMPANION and this will be your Certification.

We all live in an ageing communities with few “extended family” connections.  Consequently many folk are left alone at the end.  Sometimes loved ones can’t get to them because of distance or “busy-ness”, sometimes they are afraid of death and stay away, sometimes they are so overcome with grief they can’t go there.  There are many reasons why people have to make the last journey on their own.

And then we have women who have miscarriages, and/or for whatever reason loose children.  The Church and State rarely act appropriately.  You can be the bridge. You can support the family in the here and now, and see the child is in rest on the other side. You can even hold little ceremonies (as Buddhists do) to make sense of the passing, and have somewhere “to put the grief”.

Pets also are sometimes alone at the end and die on a concrete slab at the pound, or are just left at the Vet to be put to sleep.  Even pets who are loved whilst they are well and responsive.  Sometimes owners are so overcome with grief they can’t deal with death.

All these examples are understandable.  They have been faced and understood in The Book of The Dead.  The book clearly lays down how you can help yourself, and how you can help your students and clients.  We all go there.  Even if you never move outside your family, you will have their deaths or your death to consider.  Don’t be blind to this.

If you have ever considered this path, now you can follow your dream through this school. If you wanted to move even further along this path WITH US, you could become a FUNERAL CELEBRANT (Stage2).  Let’s get Stage 1 completed, and then we will move to Stage 2. All based on Yogic/Buddhist principles (with the Gospel of Mary as part of our study – her writings are very yogic).  

 

I WILL SEE YOU AT THE TOP.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

This is a special newsletter.

Yesterday evening at the Mary Magdalen teaching, we discussed the fact that JULY THE 22ND IS THE FEAST DAY  OF MARY MAGDALEN, and one of the students suggested that those who could,  might perhaps gather at our studio,  and have an actual feast to celebrate the life of this extraordinary woman.  What a fabulous idea!!!

This morning, ideas for the lunch, and the menu have come in, and I had the idea that you all could help us celebrate.

You could have a Feast Day in your yoga space whether that is at your house or a studio.  Mary is a woman worth celebrating.  It doesn’t have to be a feast – just a cuppa with your students is enough.  

If this idea excited you as much as it has our group, let me know how you are going to celebrate and where.  If you can join us in the Woodend studio you are also welcome – by July the covid restrictions on number should have passed, and we can welcome more than we have in a long while.  However,  instead of travelling, get a group together at your studio.

If you are not sure why we are celebrating Mary (it has definitely nothing to do with any Church), then join us on Mondays or Tuesdays to find out.  It is a story which has effected the status of women down through the ages.   Mondays on zoom 6.30 a free MARY MAGDALEN teacher training. Tuesdays 7.30 the Study Group.

PLEASE JOIN US ON THIS VERY SPECIAL DAY.

NAMASTE. JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

ZOOM
MONDAY: 6.30 FREE Teacher Training “Mary Magdalen”.  Very metaphysical, very yogic.  You will be surprised.  When we are finished this glimpse, we will be looking more closely at the relationship between Mary and Jesus, and why/how the Church diminished the role of women for centuries – by taking SEX out of life.  Making it a “sin”.
TUESDAY: 7.30 Mary Magdalen Study Group.  This is for people who truly want to delve deeply.  It is worth it.
SUNDAY: 10am “The Tibetan Book of the Dead”.

STUDIO
Monday 1pm (full) Wednesday 5.30 (full), Friday 5.30  2 Vacancies.
(Possibility of Saturday at 10am based on enquiries – starting July).

Saturday 26th – 2pm to 4pm Studio ART CLASS.  

 

ALL ABOUT NEW… “THE COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS”.

We are starting  anew..  We will never be out of the shadow of Covid but it doesn’t have to govern our lives.  Where do we go from here?  We,  me (us – you and I)?  I am starting a new course that will give you another area of love, service and revenue.  How deeply you will embrace it is up to you of course.

I do have a wonderful surprise for those who sign up for this course.  I am not ready to reveal it right now.  We will take small steps, but, if you want a new way to serve your community then this is it.  Starting with Stage 1,  just a maximum of 12 weeks study –  for a new direction for you, CCP.  It will blend beautifully with your yoga classes.   For me, yoga is yoga.  It is a discipline for the body, mind and spirit.  A way of service, not a way of getting thin or building muscles (although this may happen on the way).  We are focussing on LIFE whatever we do.  It is all about SERVICE.

If you are interested in coming along with us for this super new course, please let me know.  I am aiming at releasing it in August, which will give you plenty of time to prepare for some study and to get the fees (under $400) all organised.  I will show you how you can make this a very valuable addition to your life, and to your finances (although this is not the focus).  Wait until I reveal STAGE 2! (not today).  Just a little step.  But, you have to get Stage one under your belt before you can do Stage 2.  You can stop at Stage 1 which will give you heaps of new opportunities.

 

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD.

I wish that more of you took on board the importance of our 10am Sunday class on The Book of the Dead.  It is not about dying, but about finding new ways to live – A validation of all we have learned in yoga.

Tensin Choegyal (The Dalai Lama’s personal musician) who lives in Qld, and has visited us,  is an inspiration to the world.  He reads the Book of The Dead every day and uses it as his inspiration for life, which has taken him from being an orphaned boy in Tibet, to India, to Australia. From singing to his sheep in his life as a shepherd in the Himalayas to fronting major stages of the world with people like Philip Glass and now The Dalai Lama.  I would say the the book is showing him the way to a glorious present and future as a musician.  He still donates his time (and his voice) especially to orphans in Dharamsala.  His world is one of service, and JOY.  Is yours?

If you are contemplating the CCP course, then The Book of The Dead (as I have said before) is part of it.  You have now missed three sessions, but you can make it up.  If you do this part of the course now, you will not have to repeat it.  I feel as excited as when I first realised I could teach yoga by distance.  Although the thinking at the time (and for years afterwards) was that you can’t, I was doing it successfully, and now how many are on the market – pages of them in the journals!  So much for “Impossible”!  This is not nearly as groundbreaking, but important none the less.  JOIN ME in leading the way.  

 

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE. JAHNE