Dear Yogis,

BKS Iyengar said “The yogi’s life is measured not by the number of his days, but the number of his breaths”.  BKS was a frail and debilitated child who by his own admission used yoga TO BREATHE HIMSELF BACK TO HEALTH. (He didn’t say he “exercised or asana’d his way back to health” or “personal trained his way back to health.”  He said that he “Breathed himself back to health”.  He died in 2014 at age 95 still engaged in conscious breathing and yoga.

 

CONSCIOUS BREATHING

Covid as you know is primarily a virus which attacks the respiratory system, and then depending on your immune system, can move from there into other organs of the body – it is an opportunist.  

To resist this virus or deal with it,  is extra toilet paper required? No! IS CONSCIOUS BREATHING REQUIRED? Well, of course “YES”.   Do you know how you breathe? Do hold your breath at night? Do you breathe with your mouth at nite? Do you consciously nose breathe (at least time-to-time) during the day? Do you hold your breath when you are in front of the computer – “email apnea”?  Do you snore? Do you suffer from sleep apnea, snoring, lack of energy, dwindling fitness level, anxiety, weight problems, high blood pressure and so on.  The list goes on.

It’s not just about breathing it is also about food.  Industrialised food has been shrinking our mouths and destroying our breathing as long as we have been eating “modern” soft food.  The people who are drinking gallons of celery juice could be well advised to actually chew on real celery.

Contrary to what most doctors believe, we can grow bone at any age.  All we need are stem cells, and the way we produce and build more maxilla bone in the face is by chewing – clamping down on the back molars over and over. Chewing.  The more stem cells we release, the more bone density and growth we will trigger, THE YOUNGER WE WILL LOOK, the easier we will breathe,  and the better we will live.  

If you want to know more so you can teach your family, your community and your students to eat, breathe, move and live...and in this way resist disease, old age, and cell deterioration –  then you need to come to the workshop… You may think you know.  I would challenge this.  So few of us do.

MEET ME ON ZOOM.  SATURDAY MORNING 20th February,  10AM
PLEASE DON’T MISS THIS.

Details on www.yogabeautiful.com.au  When I get your receipt I will send you the ID.

NEW DATES FOR WEEKLY BREATH CLASSES and TUESDAY REPEAT BOTANICAL ART CLASS. Go to the Home Page on the Web site.
www.yogabeautiful.com.au

 

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

FRIDAY 6.45PM – FREE PENDULUM/TAROT WORKSHOP
SATURDAY 10AM – BREATH WORKSHOP (this is VERY IMPORTANT) PLEASE BE THERE
SATURDAY 2PM – THE FIRST BOTANICAL ART CLASS
SUNDAY 10AM – GITA STUDY
For details go to the HOME PAGE WWW.YOGABEAUTIFUL.COM.AU

I wasn’t going to write today – the lock down is over (sort of), but I was reading the bible and I felt compared to share.  In particular I was reading Luke… I feel that in past lives I knew Luke, so his writings are very familiar to me.  He was a good friend to the women around Jesus and as a physician was a respected member of society, educated when most in that era were not, so his letters are as factual as he can report them.

What is one of the the shortest verses in the bible? Luke Chapter 17 Verse 32 – with only three words “REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE”

If you have read the bible and know about the characters in the bible you will know that there about 170 women portrayed within its pages.  Long stories, short stories, but there is only ONE whom we are told to REMEMBER – and in Chapter 17 verse 32, he reports that Jesus said “REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE”.  Jesus doesn’t ask us to remember his mother, his brothers, his disciples, or anyone else in the bible. He doesn’t ask us to remember anyone except Lot’s Wife.  Why.  Because Lot’s wife LOOKED BACK and was turned into a pillar of salt.  

Now whether that is actually literally true or not is immaterial, (I believe it happened but was a meteor strike… and there is evidence to prove this) however, from a story point of view, the fact for us today is,  that if we personally look back to our past – no matter how recent –  we will get STUCK.  We will not be able to take advantage of all the lovely things that are in our future.

No matter that the past was good, the future has the potential to be even better.  DON’T LOOK BACK!  It is so tempting to look back pre-covid and take our minds back there.  Maybe it was more comfortable, maybe you liked it better then, maybe the family was more together then, maybe you were earning more money then.  All that is possible but,  REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE.   Don’t look back.  Don’t get stuck in the past.  Look forward with optimism, with anticipation, with joy in your future.  Don’t get stuck in an imagined past that can never be repeated. EVER.  

 

MEET ME ON THE MAT

NAMASTE. JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis…  

This is just a short message.  A reminder of what is available for you for this week.  PLEASE READ THIS, AND PLEASE COME TO CLASS.

We had a fabulous (really!) class about RUMI last nite.  Sorry most of you were not there.  We put pearls in front of you, diamonds even, that you don’t see them can’t be helped no matter how hard I work to bring them to you.  We want you to move forward in love.  We want you to know you are a child of God.  That you apply the negative to this (you must otherwise you would join us),  I can’t help, I can’t assist you.  Suspend your judgement.

If you just knew the abundance that is available to you, even in the time of Covid, you would run to class.

 

ZOOM/STUDIO CLASSES THIS WEEK.  Go to the home page to choose your class, pay or email to enquire.

MONDAY: 6.30 Last nite was our last Hypermobility class.  Next week will be replacing this with a class on THE BREATH.  A series of three studies following on from the workshop on the 20th
TUESDAY: 7.30pm Our Beautiful RUMI CLASS tonite.  This is such a wonderful study, and I invite you to join us even if you think it wouldn’t interest you or apply to you.  If you have been in love, want to be in love, if you meditate (if you think), you will resonate to this study.
TUESDAY BOTANICAL ART CLASS:  I will be available from next week to have an art class on Tuesday afternoon.  If you are not able to come to the Botanical Saturday Art Class, you may be able to join us on Tuesday afternoon.  They can be interchangeable.  If you miss Saturday, you can make up on Tuesday.
SATURDAY BREATH WORKSHOP: 20th February (this saturday)10am.  You may think you know everything about your breath.  Think again.  I knew hardly anything, and I meditate every day, read everyday, study everyday.  I am so excited to bring this study to you.
SATURDAY 2PM:  Day one of our Botanical art class.  If you want to come, there is a materials list.  Email me. I am told by those students who keep track that the Studio date is the 27th.  We could move that along… depends who comes to class.
SUNDAY 10AM:  THE GITA STUDY.  A highlight of the week. If you are a yoga teacher, if you are a thinking person, if you want to succeed in your life, then you would do well to join us.  It is not just theoretical – it applies to your life.

“Everything you see has roots in the unseen world.
The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same..
The source is within you,
And this whole world is springing up from it.
The source is full,
and its waters are ever flowing…
A ladder was placed in front of you,
that you may transcend it..
Plunge into the vast ocean of consciousness….” (-from the words of Rumi)

JOIN ME IN CLASS.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE