Dear Yogis,

ZOOM:  
MONDAY 6.30pm.  We are keeping on keeping on with our HYPERMOBILITY Monday sessions.  The students want to know more.
TUESDAY 7.30pm.  Once we have worked through the Sutra, we are going to move on to a Study of Rumi.
SATURDAY 2pm.  This workshop will happen at the studio this week – our monthly in-house session..  Please let me know if you plan to attend.

“PRECIOUS GIFTS”  When Prabhupada the founder of the Hare Krishna movement moved to New York from India, he was penniless, homeless, friendless,  had just turned 70 and had his first heart attack!  He just trusted God.  A tiny empty shop in the Bowery (one of the poorest,  most crime ridden boroughs in New York)  was made available to him.. above the door was a sign left over from a previous occupant.  It read “Precious Gifts”.  When I am doing anything I think of how He started and how teaching Sacred Texts, teaching Yoga and The Gita and  trusting God caused his message to spread world wide.  No internet, no mobile phones, no computers.  Thinking about that, I am taking you all back to basics….  BACK TO THE BREATH.  

“ABUNDANCE BREATH”.WORKSHOP AND TRAINING SESSIONS. (Starting Sunday 7th March 2021, 2pm to 4pm – One ZOOM Workshop afternoon plus four weekly evening zoom training sessions, plus ebooklet).

“THE NEW SCIENCE OF A LOST ART”.  When I use the technique myself, and when I teach it, I have refined conscious connected breathwork techniques,  combined with active affirmations.  I could have called the workshop/course anything, but at its heart it is all about ABUNDANCE. There are lots of breathing programs out there with no philosophical background and with all sorts of fantasmagorical names – but ours is simple and effective, not just to use but also to teach others.  EARNING, SPENDING SAVING – not just about money.. can be about any area where you need healing.

 Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can not only BRING US ABUNDANCE, it can jump-start athletic performance, rejuvenate internal organs, halt snoring, allergies, asthma and autoimmune disease, and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Try it!

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function, on its head.

Although we are reeling from covid and holidays, and we probably are not thinking clearly about anything, however I would like you to think about hosting a zoom training on the breath for your trainee teachers, teachers and graduates on this most important topic.  We can have a special zoom workshop just for your students…which you can carry forward.

Breathing correctly combined with meditative techniques (which overcomes problems with students who say they can’t meditate), is a powerful program, and one that our graduates from the workshop/trainings can take to their lives, their studio, or freelance to doctor’s offices, physios, hospitals and etc.   There will be a small home study component with a quiz at the end to comply with insurance requirements for those who will teach – and most will.  The actual breathing taken to your clients will blow their minds and have them look again at how they think the world works…

• If you believe your thoughts create your universe – what were the thoughts that created your personal reality?
• If your thoughts create your universe – how do you change your thoughts to change your universe?
• If your thoughts create your universe – what kind of thoughts would be most beneficial?

Rumi reminded us about reality and abundance……

“How long will we fill our pockets
Like children, with dirt and stones?
Let the world go.  Holding it,
We never know ourselves, we are never airborne”.  (Rumi)

I WILL SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

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