Friday has rolled around already, and it is a very sobering thought at least to me, how quickly the days pass, how we deal with them, the difference we make in the world with each day we have… and how little time we have on this earth.  I am not being morbid here – I love life and live every little minute to the best of my ability, and I hope you are doing that too.

This brings me to the preciousness of yoga.  We who are yogis have been given a very very special gift, and we can just treat this gift as a doll in our hands, or we can use it to change the world.  To change the world you have to change yourself FIRST- Nothing changes until you do.  My definition of suffering is the gap that exists between the world you have and the world you want.  When you face up to the world you actually have, and decide not to run away from the hard stuff and put a plan in place to work on it (just thinking isn’t enough) then you are getting somewhere. You are taking control over your circumstances.

The first thing we can work on is the breath.  Everything begins and ends there.  It is not about complicated routines, but it is about understanding.  On Mondays we have been working on this understanding, and I have donated the classes to you FREE OF CHARGE, to a surprising result.  Hardly anyone is interested enough in living to carve that time out from their lives – the same tiny handful of enthusiasts (real yogis) turn up. Where are you in all of this? Really and truely, it is about living, not about existing, not about kidding yourself.  It is about your quality and length of life.

It may look too simple, or you don’t trust anything that is free.  You may want to write down a number of complicated routines that you can go away, try three times and forget – or you can jump on board with us, do the simple (hard) technique that we know works and teach yourself and others how to reboot your system, boost your immunity and live longer and better.  IT IS YOUR CHOICE.

In the new STUDIO HATHA CLASSES I have re-introduced (they were zoomed during covid) I will be concentrating on THE BREATH.  Especially on the WimHof Breath.  We know this works.  It has been proved thousands of times over a number of decades.  But, it doesn’t work if you don’t do it consistently (Nothing does).  Come to ZOOM class on Monday, or the Hatha Classes that are starting in April….  Those of you who know the work of WimHof will know why I put the photograph of a snowstorm in this blog.  We will talk about it on Monday.

We have all been challenged with Covid and will be again.  We are challenged daily with pollution in all its forms.  Do we need to boost our immune systems.  I THINK SO.

Good morning yogis (or good afternoon),

Another wet day in Woodend, but if you live in NSW you are learning the real meaning of “100 year flood line”.  I once wanted to build a toilet block on my farm and I had to provide details of the 100 year flood marker before I could build.  I thought it was a strange ask, but maybe I was wrong.  I was in America after the floods resulting from the hurricane Katrina, and our students have weathered floods in Euroa some years back.  Many of us have dealt with catastrophic fires.  In this country we know about the results natural disasters.   Today a number of our students are suffering the floods in NSW.  We are thinking of you guys.  Please touch base, email me.  The photo is of orbs across a mine cutting through a sacred aboriginal site.  Not all disasters are “natural”.

ZOOM/STUDIO DETAILS (plus new classes)
FRIDAY: ZOOM 5.30 STUDIO HATHA YOGA CLASS (starting April)  6.45 FREE TAROT/PENDULUM CLASS
SATURDAY: ZOOM 2pm TAROT/ART CLASS
SUNDAY: ZOOM 10am GITA CLASS
MONDAY: STUDIO 1PM HATHA YOGA CLASS/6.30PM ZOOM FREE BREATH CLASS (we examine breathing, eating and diet, moving, and living)
TUESDAY: ZOOM 7.30PM  RUMI CLASS
WEDNESDAY: 1pm STUDIO YOGA CLASS (starting April) 5.30 STUDIO YOGA CLASS

PLEASE BOOK WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO COME TO THE YOGA CLASSES: email yogafirst2@bigpond.com

 

REAL YOGA, REAL FOOD, REAL AGEING

Yoga isn’t just asanas as I have said many times before… it is about EVERYTHING.  Yoga is the BREATH, yoga is what you EAT, yoga is how you MOVE (not just in class), and yoga is about HOW YOU LIVE.  If you live well, if you truely embrace yoga, you will live a fabulous life, and I think I am a good advertisement for yoga having now lived a yoga life (sometimes well, sometimes less well) for a very long time.

Here I am in my mid seventies, and I am enlarging my practice to pre-covid levels, but better.  I am feeling fitter, and ready for what happens in the future.  I am loving it.  Things will always get better but they will never be PERFECT – I think this is the message we all need to hear.  It is not just about doing yoga, IT IS ABOUT WHAT DOING YOGA MAKES POSSIBLE.

WHAT IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU?  Is it about making a commitment, and actually coming to a regular zoom class?  Is it deciding that one yoga class per week isn’t enough (it isn’t).  Is it about taking on a further education course with me, or exploring new ways of doing things, thinking things?  Is it about getting involved in your community?

For me, I am working across the spectrum.  I have gone from 55 years a vegetarian, to an occasional meat eater, to a vegetarian, to now, mostly vegan/raw food.  But in a relaxed fashion – it works for me. I am opening the door to more students and more classes, with a new improved and (slimmer) fitter me (as one student said “that’s a worry!).  I cycled for two hours on maximum incline on my mini bike yesterday – And did a massage after that.  How good is that!!!  Did you know that the Roman Gladiators were VEGANS!  Who would have thought that.  Who else is vegan?  Arnie is, Scott Jurak the marathoner, Serena Williams, Bruce Lee, Murray Rose, Carl Lewis and so many more top athletes you know and admire.  You don’t need meat – Protein? Eat broccoli instead to supply you with protein.

The worlds greatest weight lifter was asked what meat he ate to make him as strong as an ox – he replied “I am  a vegan – Have you ever seen an ox eat meat?”  Oxen, horses, elephants, hippos, the great apes – all the super weightlifters of the animal kingdom get strength from plants…. they don’t worry about protein.

NOT “THE MEDICAL MEDIUM” and you don’t need to be one to eat better, and live better, although the word “medium” has mystique.  You can be a medium for yourself and use a pendulum, but you don’t need to in order to make better choices.  Even if you are not worried about the planet, worry about your health and the health of your family.

TO help or change – REMEMBER – I am still available for MASSAGE SESSIONS (LOVE THEM), TAROT READINGS (STUDIO OR ZOOM), AS WELL AS THE NEW YOGA CLASSES.  PLEASE BOOK AND COME TO SEE ME.  I CAN EVEN HELP YOU FEEL FITTER, STRONGER AND CALMER BY INCORPORATING A GOOD DIET INTO YOUR YOGA LIFE.

 

“Real Yoga, Real Food, Real Ageing”.  MAKE YOUR LIFE A MASTERPIECE!

SEE YOU SOON.  IT IS ALL ABOUT YOGA.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

 

Hi there Yogis,

A beautiful, wet March morning… and very wet yesterday…  

You may not have understood this, but if the world goes on cutting down trees, spraying poisons, and turning once productive land into deserts (actual deserts), we have only about 60 years of harvests big enough to support life as we know it.  What will your children and grandchildren do, how will they survive, what are you teaching them?  We can change this, and some are. By diversifying we can save the planet.   Are you?

Because I am aware of this, and want to do something, a number of things have been inspiring me lately towards a more integrated life….

1. The need to spend less time on the computer, and more time interacting personally with people – whilst earning a living.  I think I have this one solved and will reveal it to you later.

2. I have a need to become more self sufficient.  I am pretty much on the path, but need to refine my tastes, and get back to basics – another lock-down or retreat would be a good move to push me into more foraging again…..  Might do this when all the bits are in place. The hive was due this spring, but we haven’t had spring.  I will get my hive re-instated, and a couple of chooks.  Teaching knitting and crochet is part of the plan.

3. In order to get more self sufficient, I need to refurbish my garden.  Change things around, build the sleeper retainers higher, add more mulch, and get more large pots going on the verandah for the very cold weather, when nothing much is happening in the garden.  A friend of mine who rented,  had his whole herb, vegetable and fruit garden in pots.  A travelling orchard.

4.  Another larger tank is required.  I have thought about it for a long time… now I need to do it.  The small tank supplies the pond, and the pond is supplying me with more herbs, (and like it – especially since it is an integral part of garden drainage). I also need a compost tumbler.

5. I did look at solar a while back… whilst I need to be less tied to the grid, I am not sure solar is for me.  I may get a combustion cooker with a wet back.  I am used to this technology.  When I had one, my energy consumption was mainly just the council service fees..  One morning’s wood top-up supplied the water, the cooking, got rid of paper waste (which also went on the garden) and provided the heat for the house, and supplied it around the clock.  It is messy, it does take time – the time when I WONT BE ON THE COMPUTER!  Shades of “The Good Life” without the pig and goat.

COLLECT FOR FREE:  A beautiful, fully operational Singer Sewing machine in a cabinet with a box of embroidery discs. I have used it for years, and I love it.  It is metal, with metal motor parts, and a solid wood cabinet which opens to a small table. You will need help to move it and put it in your car.  The legs unscrew, so it may go in a station wagon.  Email me if you would like to come and collect it.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com

We all need to think about how we use what we have been given.  THE MOST SACRED THING WE HAVE IS CHOICE, and I have always chosen to restore a little slice of paradise every day!  It is all about love.  It is not about politics it is not about religion.  It is about what each of us can do today.  

If I take care of my world (interior as well as exterior) it will take care of me.  The picture of my front garden above is uninspiring to some – but how many of you can remember when it (and especially the backyard) was just a flat, weedy swamp which provided not one thing for the house,  and in the summer cost money to keep alive.  I planted all those trees in the photo, I drained, put down the gravel, planted herbs.  The wisteria grows on my back verandah…  My house is warm in the winter and cool in the summer – of course I have insulated at the same time… but it is a package, not just one thing.  It is constantly evolving (as am I).

You can do it too.  It just takes a plan.

IT STARTS IN YOGA, ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE