Dear Yogis,

As I said to the RUMI STUDY GROUP – I do a lot of thinking in the shower (not good for the water consumption!) and  it occurred to me that so many of you are going  ‘off-piste”, going on holidays and generally getting back into your hectic social lives after covid,  that I may take a creative break and focus on me too, instead of running around trying to interest you in the things of the Spirit.

NOT BECAUSE I NEED A REST (!) but because I need to be working to a group who need me.  Students who come to class and to zoom because the information is important to their lives and their community.  I am not here for entertainment when nothing better is on offer.  I don’t have the time.

If you want me, you will know where to find me, I may be even easier to find.  I will notify you of changes via the newsletter – which will only be helpful if you read it.  From next week, (unless I get a lot of request otherwise) I will only do one newsletter a week…I will limit classes, with lots of notice so don’t worry.   The rest of the time I will concentrate on drawing and writing.  I have commissions, I have projects,  I have another fulfilling life (I don’t just exist on the yoga mat and the screen),  and I do have a community which responds aside from yoga – and I am going to focus on them.   I am very busy, and will get busier.  I am even contemplating a second doctorate.

After 50 years as a handmaiden to my yogis, this is going to be a change for us all.  I don’t know how it will work, I don’t know about tomorrow, anything could happen – I do know I want to live well and happy today.    “Nothing can befall us other than that ordained by Allah – trust in HIM”.  I haven’t met Shams, but I am open to it.

THE BREATH.
Workshop: 20th February. 10am ZOOM.  www.yogabeautiful.com.au for details.

Not one of my artworks, but definitely orb-like.

Everything around us is composed of molecules, which are composed of atoms, which are composed of sub-atomic bits called protons (which have a positive charge), neutrons (which have no charge) and electrons (which have a negative charge).  All matter at its most basic level is energy.  

“We cannot separate life from living matter, inevitably studying living matter and its reactions we are studying life itself”. (Szent-Gyorgyi)  What distinguishes inanimate objects like rocks from animate objects like birds, animals, plants is the level of energy or the “excitability” of electrons within the atoms that make up the molecules in matter.

The breakdown of this electron excitability is what causes metal to rust and what turns leaves brown and crinkly and causes them to die.  Human also “rust” – This “rust” is disease  A good example is cancer which thrives in an environment of low oxygen.  We need to flood our bodies with constant levels of oxygen.

Breathing deeply, slow and strong,  LESS,  AND THROUGH THE NOSE, balances the levels of respiratory gases in the body and sends the maximum amount of oxygen to the maximum amount of tissues in order  that our cells have the maximum of electron activity.

The name is different  for different cultures – PRANA, CHI, RUAH, but the principle is the same.  IT IS ALL ABOUT THE BREATH.  

For good health and a long productive, THINKING life, we all need to know the lost art and science of breathing.

 

SEE YOU AT THE WORKSHOP?
TWO HOURS IS BARELY TOUCHING THE SURFACE. IT IS A LIFE’S WORK.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis…

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT NEWSLETTER, AND  AN IMPORTANT NOTICE OF AN UPCOMING WORKSHOP AND CLASSES.  It will only take you a minute or so to read it – please….

BREATH WORKSHOP, Saturday 20th February..10am ($25)

Please, you can’t miss this.  No fancy breaths, just knowing what we do when we are doing it (as the Buddha has said) .  It is $25 for a two hour workshop.  It will change the way that you live day to day (and at night).  It certainly will change the way that you teach.  You will have a way you can impact your self, your family, your community.  This is no small thing – IT IS EVERYTHING.

This workshop is important  because it weaves together Tibetan Buddhism, Yoga, Vedas (The Gita), Tao and science.  I did a taster on Sunday at the Gita class, and the class was mesmerised… I had to steer the class back to the original study because the breath is fascinating.  It is something we obviously all do, and we do badly.  I have written the workshop up on the EVENTS page, click “EVENTS” on the menu on our home page.

To book go to the home page, click on the PAY BY PAY PAL button.  Don’t forget to leave your name and email address so that I can send you your ID the day before the workshop.  PayPal will send the receipt immediately.  Very easy, very efficient.

 

I do have a new WEB PAGE just for THE BREATH – But for now whilst it is under construction,  all our notices are on the EVENTS DROP-DOWN on our WWW.YOGABEAUTIFUL.COM.AU page,  because it is such an important topic

You are going to be blown totally out of the water when you see the convergences, and how we have been steered away from these convergences which once you understand,  can save our sanity and our lives.  I am not putting this too strongly.  

WE ARE THE WORST BREATHERS IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.  This topic is life saving – but only if you use it.  Come to the workshop on Saturday the 20th of this month at 10am… and then the classes from the Friday following that workshop.  

 

HOW WE BREATHE MATTERS

NEW ONGOING ZOOM CLASSES ON THE BREATH:  Starting, Friday 26th February (ZOOM).  (4 classes $88 – the same as yoga). 

In each class, *I will be doing a small chat to show you the theory of “how” we are going to use the breath in the class,  in the workplace and at home –  *then we will be doing the “Micro-Cosmic Orbit” which we use to start every Restorative class. This revitalises the spine and the cerebrospinal fluid.  *Having done that we will move to the breath.  

To make sure you get the most of the class,  practise with your tablet or whatever you be using so you can get up close for the class, further back for the micro-cosmic orbit (a seated 5 movement session), followed by time on the floor, or seated in a cushion or chair depending on your fitness.  I will need to be able to see you otherwise it is not a real class.  We could do it without visuals, but there will not be much interaction – I won’t be able to see HOW you are breathing.  This is a breath class!

“In every country, every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy”  (Szent-Gyorgyi)

 

THE SUNDAY BHAGAVADGITA CLUB. 10am every Sunday.

We have decided as a team, as a “club”,  now (after a year of study)  we are finished the Gita and will start at the beginning and do it all again.  This is how we really learn, really DRILL DOWN into the word.

I have had a chance to see who comes, who is committed, how they study, so I have therefore decided to charge $50 for a calendar month.  No freebies, concessions, carry-overs and no recording.  The students who come are really committed and want to learn consistently and I LOVE THEM!    The class is now $50 for a MONTH.   So the next time you pay, you will pay for one month.  If you pay on the 26th February, you will pay again on the 26th March etc…. Easy for you, easy for me.

 

MIRACLES AT WORK – PRAYER/THE BREATH

In Colombia’s capital city, hundreds of TONNES of drugs were trafficked every year.  EVERY DAY there were 15 homicides connected to this trade, many many overdoses, crimes and families in crisis were at the mercy of the drug trade, and a huge drain on the resources of the City. I am sure you can imagine what I am talking about – CHAOS.  Lots of things were tried, nothing worked.  It seemed to be an impossible situation.  Having tried everything,  now is the time they thought about going outside of the material, to the spiritual.

What happened next?  A small number of Church-goers decided to have prayer meetings and start prayer chains specifically directed at healing this “running sore” which was the drug trade.  Having tried everything else, more and more people joined the special services and the prayer chains.  As the numbers of the prayer teams grew, the number of deaths fell, and the churches had to expand the number of services, which would eventually encompass the football stadium.  While this was happening the deaths and the side issues and crimes associated with this horrible trade diminished dramatically – you can’t argue with numbers! Government officials joined the services and the prayer chains, and then offered to pay the churches to keep their services happening, pay for the stadiums, pay for the halls….

This is the power of the breath, the power of prayer (just another name perhaps for the breath – depends how you do the breath.)

Does prayer work, does BREATH WORK? Will it work for you in your everyday life?   Absolutely.  When you know the price is covered, then the way you look at the menu changes.  

When you have lots of options you are in Control – when you run out of options – GOD IS IN CONTROL

 

THE TAROT FOR SELF DISCOVERY

Choosing just 3 cards as a  spread is a way you can use our REVELATION Tarot for Self-Discovery –  it’s a wonderful way to check that you’re in alignment with your soul purpose on a day-to-day basis.

The SELF DISCOVERY Check-In spread can work with any new opportunity in your life: hobbies, travel, training and courses, relationships — you name it. Use it whenever you want to know if something is in alignment with your soul purpose in this lifetime.

1. MY RESOURCES: What am I calling into my life right now?
2. MY CHALLENGE: What is this opportunity bringing into my life? AND How is this opportunity in alignment with my soul purpose?
3. MY LESSON: What is my best course of action with this opportunity? and what as I discovering in this process?

Of course I’d love to see how this goes for you – once you’ve done your SELF DISCOVERY Tarot spread, post a pic to my email and let me know your thoughts…

 

SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

It is the beginning of the New year, and I have done a few new things… I have a mini bicycle under my desk.  I am spending so much time on zoom, that I need to find new ways to exercise – and bicycling in between sessions is easier when it is right there and doesn’t depend on the weather.  It is convenient, and is good.  It is amazing how much gets done when you are just able to fit exercise in so easily.

ZOOM:  
Friday 6.45  FREE PENDULUM/TAROT CLASS
Saturday 2pm TAROT/ART CLASS
Sunday 10am THE ‘GITA STUDY.  I feel quite at home in the Gita now, and am pleased it has run along for such a while.  I hope we will be able to take it further, and start at the beginning again.

 

“THE BREATH of Stars”. THE FIRST WORKSHOP. 

We are all “the stuff of Stars” and I am going to start our “Breath of stars” work with a Workshop on the 20th February at 10am.  I am starting a website just for this:  www.thebreath.online

The home page looks great, the blog is just a playground until I get around to it… but it is useful to have this new topic  separate from yoga, as I would like everyone, even non-yogis to go there..

You think you know about the breath because you think you breathe, but let me say, you only “sort-of” breathe.  Ninety percent of the population haven’t got a clue, and this lack of proper breath is causing all manner of symptoms – asthma, emphysema, sinusitis, snoring, anxiety, IBS, palpitations, ADHA, Psoriasis and I could go on…. a real ‘laundry list” of symptoms.  Breathing can influence our body weight, and our overall health, but only Taoists, Yogis, specialists,  and free-divers (who have a vested interest) have made studies of it.

My son Jesse who was born with severe lung issues (he’s hyper mobile) learned to be a free-diver and took control of his breath,  vastly increasing the efficiency and capacity of his lungs.  I was told he was able to go to 250ft on a single breath.  You too can change like Jesse (and Stephen Hawking), from the prospect of a very limited existence to a rich full life by understanding and working with the breath.

Why has our ability to breathe deteriorated over the ages, and why didn’t cavemen snore (and how we can tell!)? What you will learn in our course may unsettle you for a while, but in learning more about the breath, and learning the correct way to breathe, you will find remedies for yourself, your family and your students and clients. You certainly will understand how to increase your lung capacity..  it just happens when you are breathing correctly.

These simple techniques are open to everyone whether they are young, old, thin, fat, rich or poor, sick or healthy.  They have been practised in Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and other religions for thousands of year, but only recently have scientists learned how they can reduce blood pressure, boost athletic performance and balance the nervous system. If you are an athlete, if you are fitness training, or if you just want to feel better and function better – this understanding is critical.

We will explore evolution, medical history physiology, physics, athletic endurance and heaps more.

It is estimated that we take 670million breaths in an average lifetime.  I have taken maybe three quarters of the breaths allotted to me and I would very much like to take a few million more.  If you would too – let’s breathe together.

If you want to join me, email me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com, and book, then pay via the Home Page PAYPAL button on www.yogabeautiful.com.au

LET’S BREATHE TOGETHER.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE