Dear Yogis,

With Melbourne under lockdown, and Regional Victoria partially released we have a mix of zoom and studio this week.  There will be no zoom cafe today as most people are out of lock-down.

ZOOM:
Saturday 10.30 The Business of Yoga this is FREE.  Please let me know if you need an ID.
Sunday 10am, “Tibetan Book of the Dead”.  Study
Monday 6.30, Teacher Training.  “Mary Magdalen”
Tuesday 7.30, “Mary Magdalen” – The Study

STUDIO:
Friday 5.30, Hatha Yoga
Monday 1pm Hatha Yoga (full)
Wednesday 5.30, Restorative Yoga

THE COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS PROJECT
My yoga “mafia” understands that we have been put on this planet to serve – in so many ways our schools, our studios, our teaching, our outreach – that is what we do.  Now we are taking the next step, this time off the mat and into the greater community.

“To learn how to really help those who are dying is to become fearless and responsible about our own dying, and to find in ourselves the beginnings of an unbounded compassion that we have never suspected” – Sogyal Rinpoche

Our new course (based on Buddhist and Christian principles) which you will be able complete in 12 weeks, will lead you off the mat, and into working across a broad spectrum of people and also to help animals, our furry companions.  When animals are in their last days, their family also need help, not just the animals themselves.

I believe that you will be able to work in private homes, in hospitals, in care centres, referred by funeral homes, councils and so on.  We were one of the first with yoga and we had to educate our community to the need for this wonderful discipline, and this is the same.  In this time of Covid and from hereon in, compassionate companions will be needed across the whole of the community.  People do not have to be dying to need a human presence – someone who will sit and listen.

If you would like to be a professional “Compassionate Companion”…(there will be some half scholarships), please email me in the first instance.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

I look forward to you joining me on this journey…..

 

Namaste Jahne (see you on the mat)

 

 

Dear Yogis,

ZOOM: (whilst in lock down)  
Wednesday: 5.30 Restorative yoga
Friday 5.30 hatha yoga (Studio or zoom depending on lock-down finishing)
Saturday 10.30 The Business of Yoga – a free one hour seminar.
Sunday: 10am The Bardo Study or 2pm Studio – depending on YOU and Covid. Teacher Training should be happening at the Studio this Sunday 6th June..we can’t make any decision until we know about the lock-down.  It will be either zoom at 10 or the Studio at 2.  We can do either.  If you want to come here and can, or would prefer to zoom in the morning.

If you don’t make a decision, I will.

Zoom:  Monday next week 6.30 Teacher Training – Mary Magdalen/Tuesday next week 7.30 Mary Magdalen

Studio Yoga: Monday, Wednesday and Friday depending on Lock-Down.  

 

THE RED THREAD OF FATE

I have updated both the book and the making of these items.  Every time I put them on line they sell out (thank you to my customers out there).  

Each of these RED STRINGS OF FATE, are handmade by me, and blessed with a small ceremony before dispatch, together with an accompanying booklet also made and bound by me just for you.

The Red String of Fate or the Red Thread of Destiny is an amulet which dates both from ancient Asian and Jewish traditions. In Jewish lore it protects the wearer from danger, and in the Asian tradition it connects lovers regardless of time, distance or circumstance.

From a spiritual and yogic point of view it connects us to others.. when we see someone wearing a red thread, we know we have a connection with them. We are bound to them with a spiritual bond.

Why do I wear mine?  It reminds me that I am a spiritual being having a human experience, connected to God,  and nothing can happen to me except that it is ordained by God. I trust this.  We girls wear it on the left wrists, our receiving side, the same side as the anatomical heart.  Boys wear it on the right.

Many celebrities wear the thread (not that this should influence you – but they are visible) and once you have one, you will notice how many other folk wear them as well.  It is the same as when you have a new car, you suddenly realise how many other folk are driving the make you now have although you never noticed that before.

This bracelet comes with a book which gives a history, stories, tells you how to wear them, and gives you some background from many points of view, and many spiritual paths…...Couples can wear one each  just to show you are connected in spirit even when not physically near each other.  You can also give it to yourself to strengthen your connection to spirit.  Every time you notice it you will feel that little tingle of transmission.  

A friendship bracelet is just a friendship bracelet BUT A RED THREAD IS FOREVER. 

To get yours go to www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

 

ABOUT MARY:

Page 17  – of The Gospel of Mary..

“… I go now into silence”
Having said this, Mary became silent,
for it was in the silence that the Teacher spoke to her.

Page 18

(Levi speaks) ..Yet if the Teacher held her worthy,
who are you to reject her?
Surely the Teacher knew her very well,
for he loved her more than us.
Therefore let us atone,
and become fully human,
so the Teacher can take root in us.
Let us grow as He demanded of us,
and walk forth and spread the gospel,
without trying to lay down any rules or laws
other than those he witnessed”.

Page 19

When Levi had said these words,
they all went forth to spread the Gospel.   THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARY.

 

MEET ME AT THE TEACHER TRAINING AND ON THE MAT,

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

Good morning yogis.

It is a new day, a new week and we are back to zooming.

Monday:  1pm zoom Hatha yoga, 5.30 zoom Free Teacher Training – Mary Magdalen
Tuesday: 7.30pm The Magdalen Group.  A deep Study – booklet to accompany the course out soon. My notes for the study made into a booklet.  I will get it to you as soon as I can.  Even if you haven’t done the study you will love to read about this remarkable woman.
Wednesday: 5.30 Zoom Restorative Yoga
Friday:(Hopefully out of lockdown) – STUDIO HATHA YOGA 5.30 (A new Class – vacancies available but please let me know if you want to come.  There is a maximum covid imposed student number. email: yogafirst2@bigpond.com)
Saturday: Zoom Yoga Business Development (free). Taking stock and moving forward after lock-downs
Sunday: 10am. Topic – The Book of the Dead.  A fabulous study about living life to the full.

 

COVID IN THE STUDIO

There will be no group classes until after the lock down.  WE WILL BE ZOOMING until Friday unless extended..  

The Covid rules as they apply to me in the studio.    You can exercise for two hours per day with your household or one other person (who doesn’t live with you) with as long as neither of you travel more than 5km from your home.  You can travel for “health” and “care” –  which seems to cover what I do .

IF YOU VISIT ME for health or personal reasons/massage (No studio yoga until end of lock-down):  If you have a fever, breathing difficulties, breathlessness, cough, sore throat, fatigue or tiredness, and if you have visited or been visited by anyone from the hot-spots,  – we ask you to email or text me and reschedule your appointment.   When you enter and exit the centre, please sign in with the Q code,  and ensure you use our sanitising station, which will be clearly seen as you walk into the reception/yoga area.

I am allowed a “bubble” of one visitor.  Please do not visit with a family member, partner or friend.

COVID-19 safety and hygiene measures we are taking (all through covid) include:

Wiping down tables, desks, chairs and door handles between each client. Multiple sanitising stations around the centre.

All linen/towels used in treatment room  changed after each client.  Props sanitised with high pressure steam.

All wearing masks at all times in our centre. (This is now optional, we will continue to wear a mask during massage when appropriate).

All clients to wear a face mask prior to entering,  and optional during your visit.

All visitors will be asked to sign in or (Q code available on front and back doors), and sanitise their hands at entry and exit.

 

YOGA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

FREE One-hour consultation over zoom – Saturday 5th June at 10.30am

Free, no obligation – yes, I know you are a yoga teacher/artist/masseur or coach… but we are all in business and some of us are struggling (again)  When you are part of the Sangha, we are all in this TOGETHER.

No matter how well you think you’re going, every business has areas where it can improve – Productivity and exploring new areas, project management, cashflow and budgeting, planning, customer service, marketing and lead generation.  Any areas of your yoga business you are worried about at the present time… Let’s talk through them and find solutions – Covid lockdown is the perfect time to consider these issues.

I am willing to spend an hour with a group, free of charge or obligation, to show you how to boost your businesses, even in these difficult times.   I’ve done this for many, many art and yoga businesses, including many of my own, and I am still doing it, still in business, and still loving it!

Lockdown is the perfect time to book this one-hour free GROUP consultation. Email me to arrange your free, group consultation over zoom. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

 

COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS PROJECT
Before Covid I had put together a new HOME STUDY course for people aspiring to be DEATH DOULAS.  Those Compassionate Companions who midwife people through the process of dying… and it is a process (physical death, emotional, spiritual).

Those who have been studying with me on zoom through Covid –  The ‘Gita, Rumi and now The Tibetan Book of The Dead, will have an advantage and more resources to draw on.   I am glad I waited too, it is wonderful how everything weaves together.

Covid caused me to go in other directions, but I am back on track.  The course will include zoom study times with me, and completion will  achieve a certification that will allow you to move into this work.  There will be a home-study component.. but I think you would be able to complete in 8 to 10 weeks.  I will let you know when this course is ready for you to enrol – as usual when I launch a new major program there will be scholarships. .

Just as when weaving
One reaches  the end
With fine threads woven throughout,
So is the life of humans
-BUDDHA

 

MEET ME ON THE MAT,

NAMASTE JAHNE