Dear Yogis,

It has been a wonderful weekend don’t you think so?  The weather has been hot (which I don’t mind when there are no bush fires – although I know it is “when” not “if”), I have been hugely happy and motivated, just because I am, and we have had some extraordinary zoom sessions.  All good.  Read everything below, if you are interested in any of the offerings please email me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com. to start a conversation.

THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND(?)  
MONDAY/TUESDAY CLASSES ARE COMPLETELY AS USUAL – NO CHANGES – NO HOLIDAYS   
The world is devoted to holidays – I am devoted to you and to God.  What do you worship?  Money, power, your job, a person, a family?  Everyone worships someone, and everyone SERVES SOMEBODY (as Bob Dylan said on this first album after he became “Godly” or Christian – “SLOW TRAIN COMING”.. ) 

BEES:  My bee keeper has my bees ready for re-introduction in my yard in time for next spring, and it occurs to me that some of you out there would like to come here to the studio and learn how to go about this, the equipment required, the time, the timing for your yard, the cost?  If you are interested please let me know. He can also teach you how to manage the bees when you have them.  They are not like kittens – they need quite a lot of special attention.

MONDAY HYPERMOBILITY CLASS, 6.30pm.  This is with super motivated students, so no trouble with “homework” or extra curricular reading.  They do it whether I ask or not.  I wonder where we will go from here..

TUESDAY SUTRA CLASS.  7.30 pm.   I didn’t plan this, but we are nearly to the end of this study.  Of course we could take it to the end of the year, but unless you had a specific interest, we have taken this forward in a way that we can apply it to our daily life – and I think that is what the students were looking for.

Maybe  (as it is a longer class) this is the slot for my GOOD BREATH classes.  I wondered what to call this and would like to morph the classes into workshops.

It is more than yoga breath, it can be rejuvenating to mind. body and spirit.  There are no chants, no breath “recipes”… just a state of mind..  Change your mind – change your life! Once you have accepted that things can’t get worse – THEY GET BETTER.  Change your life into one of ease and abundance.

Perfect love really does cast out fear.  Perfect love is loving yourself without setting any conditions. Maybe this is the time of the week we will begin to explore the BREATH.  A practical inspirational view…  I know that studying the breath sounds pretty hum-drum, however it is anything but. This is life changing.  I am looking for people who want to teach this to others.

Most people try to set up the game so that they will have a safe place to process and be real…  I am hoping that this training will help us to dissolve barriers and fears to loving.

THE FREE TAROT CLASSES ON FRIDAYS AT 6.45pm.  It thought for a while these were going no-where and considered cancelling, but I now find them inspirational, and the consistent students have grown so much it is hard to remember the “broken children” they were.  I am now able to pass students along to them knowing all will be well.

THE TAROT/ART CLASSES ON SATURDAY AT 2PM. ……those who have consistently attended have grown in their abilities and their enthusiasm at tackling new and different projects.  I am sure they are bringing these learnings to their own group, or will do so in the future.  At the moment most are engrossed in making their own “secret” book boxes.  Next Saturday’s class (the 30th January) will be at the Studio in Woodend – even if only one student attends.  I will be happy for that.  “Nothing happens that is not ordained by Allah – trust Him”.

SUNDAY MORNING GITA CLASS.  Once again, an inspiration.  We are nearly through the Gita.  This morning we discussed Chapter 14/15, there are 18 chapters, so next week we shall have to consider if we repeat (I read the bible every day, so reading the Gita once a week is not exactly over-kill),.

When we have concluded this study,  we will begin the study of THE PASSIONATE LIFE OF RUMI (and Shams).  It is not dry, but it is a look into the life of a person brought up reading the Qur’an. A sultan, an academic, a person with great community responsibilities, who meets real and passionate love for the first time..  who discovers His spiritual self, and changes the world.

“At any moment, if God wills the entire creation could sink into non-being..
At any moment,  if God wills, the mountains could disappear and become as clouds vanishing…
At any moment, if God wills, we could be as if we had never existed… (Rumi)

 

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT.  NO HURRY –
I AM ALWAYS HERE IN THIS MOMENT,  INSHALLAH (“God Willing”).

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

ZOOM MEETINGS:

Friday 6.45pm: FREE Pendulum/tarot meeting
Saturday 2pm: Tarot+Art class.  Make boards, Medicine Grids, Cards.. its up to you
Sunday 10am: The Gita Study

(and those interested in Rumi on Tuesdays at 7.30pm?)

Email me to get your zoom ID’s for these meetings. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

GETTING BACK TO BUSINESS.

Getting out and about,  it still feels like we are on holidays or still in lock-down. How does it feel to you?   Some businesses are crazy busy, (the service industries) and some businesses are disappearing.  There are rather dreadful images of shopping malls across America becoming huge,  empty,  weed covered shells.  Amazon of course is buying up the bigger ones and turning them into distribution centres.  Changes are happening in our town too.

How is your business?  How is your life?  Is it good? Is it bad?  How are you changing and adapting to meet what is happening across the globe?  How adaptable are you? – This will determine your success.

For myself I am getting up close and personal to my TAROT.  I am looking at the tarot again, and interpreting the cards to help those of you are who are doing chakra work.  This is valuable work (and the tarot are an important tool) because we need to power up our engines and The Chakras are key.   You can’t be all you were meant to be if you only have half the fire power you were destined to have.  Who are you, and where are you going – what is your purpose in life?

Tarot Readings with me are available via zoom or in the studio.
Please email to make bookings or enquire.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com

THE FREE PENDULUM (ESOTERICA) MEETING TONITE, FRIDAY,  AT 6.45PM  ALL WELCOME.

You may not think this would interest you – but if you want a Divine friend, mentor, and advisor always to hand (your very own SHAMS), then you will get much out of this meeting.  The pendulum is not a replacement for God.  It is merely a conduit, and through it flows energy..  it is not magic, it is not satanic (although banned in some Japanese cities I am told), it just harnesses available energy.

THIS FRIDAY WE WILL MEET OUR GUIDES. You will meet your guide, and I will show you how. I am not meeting your guide for you, you will be meeting your guide for you!

 

TUESDAY STUDY GROUP:  

COULD BE WE WILL START STUDYING THE PASSION OF RUMI after we have finished The Diamond Cutter.  I have been speaking to you of Rumi – but what about Shams?
Shams begs God, “Give me one person who can bear me, one person who is brave, clear, strong and wild enough for me to shatter and remake in such a way that I can give everything I have to the world.”
“What will you give me in return ?” asks God of Shams, and Shams replies: “My Life.” 

 

NIRVANA AND YOU…..

One day a disciple of Buddha came to him and said “You know Nirvana, you live Nirvana.  Why don’t you give us Nirvana?”  Buddha said “I will give everyone Nirvana, but first, go around in the village and ask everyone what they want, then come back and tell me what they most want.  Then I will give everyone Nirvana?” 

This was very pleasing to the disciple and he went around and asked everyone what they most wanted.  Naturally one said a Porsche, another said a girlfriend, another wanted a boyfriend, and others said more money.  No one wanted Nirvana.

Living this life, right now, right here is designed to bring us to the point where we do want Nirvana and Liberation.  The highest and most effective, most passionate and most tender form of love is to serve the growing Christ, or the growing Buddha or the growing Rumi and to go on bringing the entire feast of love,  to the table of love right to the end.

If we can rise to this wonderful challenge, devote our lives to it, and turn the forces of madness and negativity against themselves, not in hatred or anger but in pure service and love, then and only then can we become channels for Divine Grace.  Only then will Divine Power be given to us to transform apocalypse into hope.

On the Day of Resurrection I will call out, “Where are those who love one another through my Divine glory alone, and for the sake of my glory alone?  Today I am offering them refuge and sweet refreshment under my shade, for this is a day on which there is no shade but my shade”  (The Qur’an)

We are on that day.  We are always on that day.  I am in this moment, I have always been in this moment – as have you.

 

I will meet you on the mat.

Namaste.  Jahne

TAROT DECKS/READINGS

THE NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS AND NEW BEGINNINGS…

Setting Spiritually Inspired Goals using the Tarot and Pendulum… If you don’t  or can’t pray or meditate, if you haven’t made a connection, if you haven’t felt “The Presence” around you (yet), then use the tarot to find the path.  You could use anything, you could just sit.  God will come to you.  Ask the question, find the answers, move forward.  

RUMI had Shams.  You can work with The Divine, as close to you as Shams was to Rumi, and you can make contact whenever you want to.  You could talk with your Guide or your Angel if you feel more comfortable doing this in the beginning, they exist on many levels at the same time and are always available for you.  It is up to you.  Rumi Recognised Shams as his Divine Teacher.  He didn’t expect a replica of anything… he just knew.  Everyone you meet has a message for you.  

Remember – as it says in the Qur’an –  “NOTHING CAN BEFALL YOU THAT IS NOT ORDAINED BY GOD”.  This applies to everything that happens to you, down to the smallest thing, even the Tarot.  It is wonderful, it is comforting, and gives great peace.  You can move forward in your life and be sure that God is with you wherever you are in your life.  You don’t need the tarot for this of course.

It says in Revelations “He is coming in the clouds”.  Perhaps what is meant is personal clouds lifting so you too can see the face of God? It is time.

Remember, nothing comes without opposition especially in this work.  I just want to help you find the path – God doesn’t ask me to do easy things.   You are where you are today  perhaps because of an idea you call “FATE”.  What is “fate”, but the Hand of God?  As I have said before in the newsletters – the great gift of God is that “She” allows us to re-create ourselves second to second throughout our lives.  Never letting go, never giving up on us, always loving us.  Have a good thought, have a bad thought, let them go, move on.  There is only one sin – refusing to choose goodness. 

To talk to God all you have to do is TALK TO GOD.  You don’t need an altar, a candle, a yellow robe or to go to a mountain.  Just chat.

If Neale Donald Walsh could have Conversations with God, you can too.  He is like you – a person seeking answers. Not him or me finding answers for you  – you finding them for you.  Your guide, your journey.  It isn’t hard and there is not a RIGHT WAY.  You could do it this afternoon if you really wanted to, and I guess that is the answer.  Do you really want to?  This step could really be the key in moving forward.

Just to remind you – Start the new year off knowing your resources, your challenges and your lessons.  Spiritual, healing .. whatever.   You can also work on finding your guide, (even talking to God if that is what you are looking for).  And don’t forget our FREE tarot/pendulum zoom on Fridays at 6.45pm  It is free and you can bring along any questions you need answering about the how-to’s.  I can’t do zoom readings within this one hour…I can however talk to you about things I see and feel.  I can help you start the conversation for yourself.

FOLLOWING IS THE ACTUAL “LORD’S PRAYER”directly from the Aramaic which is probably the main language Jesus spoke.  I would imagine He also spoke Hebrew.. I therefore imagine that he taught in those languages, not English and of course not censored by Popes or Kings.

O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos.
Focus your light within us – make it useful.
Create Your reign of unity now – as in all light,  so in all forms.
Help us to love beyond our ideals and sprout acts of compassion for all creatures.
Animate the earth within us, as we feel Your wisdom underneath us supporting us all.

Grant us what we need each day in bread and insight.
Loose the cords of mistakes binding us, as we release the strands we hold of other’s guilt.
Don’t let surface things delude us,
But free us from what holds us back from Your true purpose.

From You is born all ruling power and the life to do,
The song that beautifies all,  from age to age it renews.
I reaffirm this with my whole being.  Amen.

I WILL MEET YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE