Dear Yogis,

MONDAY:  1PM STUDIO YOGA.  6.30PM ZOOM TONITE: FREE BREATH CLASS
TUESDAY: 7.30PM RUMI
WEDNESDAY: 5.30 STUDIO YOGA
FRIDAY: 6.45 FREE PENDULUM CLASS
SATURDAY: ZOOM SATURDAY 2PM TAROT CLASS
SUNDAY: NO SUNDAY MORNING GITA CLASS – EASTER BREAK
TEACHER TRAINING:  STUDIO – SUNDAY 4TH APRIL,  AFTERNOON 2PM TO 4PM

April is nearly here. With the end of march is the end of Job Keeper and Job Seeker, which have been the  financial markers of this our Covid year.  I know that many of you out there have done better financially in Covid than before (or maybe after), so it is time to take stock – if you haven’t already – to properly negotiate the year ahead.  I am waiting to see what happens.

But I have done my pendulum check up – I know how to maximise my potential.  Do you?  I can help…. read on>>>

Some studios will not survive in this new climate, and we will all have to work hard to maintain our current clients.  Although the government says it will be full steam ahead, for many this will not be the case, and any hiccup in the financial market, and the finances in a family reflect right back at us.

Yoga is not a necessity for most families, and therefore will be the first expense to be thrown out the window…. yoga teachers and studios take note.  I have been through this before, and this is why I have multiple income streams.  If you are solely reliant on yoga, you may find the year ahead difficult – at least the next few months.

Use the time left on Job Keepers etc if you can,  to discover another way to boost your income.  Something that will add to your yoga, something that you can still do and maintain your client base.  Massage, tarot… whatever are your strengths.

Then do it!  It is not use knowing something if you don’t use it.

Don’t think you have to know everything about your new field… just know as much as you need to in order to start, and then just learn more as you march forward.  You will not be an expert for a long time, but this need not hold you back.  You probably know more and can do more than you believe you can.   Move forward with confidence.

The photo above shows you the little studio where I paint and draw my miniatures.  When I sit at my lovely desk it makes me feel like drawing – and I do.  I did the FENG SHUI with my pendulum years ago (and check every now and then to make sure the energy has not changed)  and discovered the best places to do yoga, paint, write, massage, plus where to place chairs, the desk, install heaters so they would be more efficient and so on.  I check most things with the pendulum if I am having troubles concentrating or producing the work easily.  If the energy of the room is wrong, I can’t do the work.  Have you checked your rooms?

If you feel sluggish, unproductive, stuck, and want your rooms checked for energy, you only have to send me an accurate floor plan of your house with accurate north south compass markings, the questions you have about your energy and what is happening in your house, and I can do it from here.  I will send you a full report (not computer generated – every report personal and prepared especially for you) – $125.  If you are interested you can email me yogafirst2@bigpond.com and scan your floor plan and questions, and pay via PAY BY PAYPAL on the home page of www.yogabeautiful.com.au

 

If I can help you, give you advice, read your cards, show you how to use a pendulum, whatever  … just let me know.  We are in this together.  

SEE YOU ON THE MAT (or on the email)

NAMASTE.  J. HOPE-WILLIAMS

 

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