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Dearest Yogis,

HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY CHRISTMAS – and thank you all for your support and generosity in the past,  difficult year.

MAYBE I WILL SEE YOU AT MY OPEN DAY (AFTERNOON) AFTER 2 TODAY AT 37 MORRIS ROAD, WOODEND.  Just drop in for a “Merry Christmas” a little drink and a piece of Christmas Cake.  Love to see you!  Mel at the Anglican Church is having a BBQ at the Manse for everyone after 5 today too.  So you can come here, and then go there – no need to be lonesome!  Everyone welcome – just come to me and to Mel.

We have made it through THE GREAT PAUSE, and now, unlike the rest of the world, we can get back to a (hesitant) normality.  One of our students has been so effected by the restrictions she says she has FOGO – “fear of going out”.  I know what she means.  We have been trained to do the required routine, and now we feel more relaxed in our own back yards – no distancing, no standing apart, no masks…  however, yoga is feeling marginally normal.  I do have more sanitising to do, but that is a small price to pay for the lovely people we have back in class.  Thank you all for coming back as soon as you could.

I am looking forward to the new year, and even more of you coming back to even more classes.  My project is to update the routine.  I will put it on the Home Page of www.yogabeautiful.com.au.  It is not there yet… I haven’t had a minute, but I will.

My BIG project for the new year is “THE 1,000 BUDDHA PROJECT”  I am going to paint 1,000 Buddhas – in miniature.  It took me 5 years to paint 1,000 Angels, I did it and finished the project in 2016 (I kept one for myself).  Buddhas in miniature won’t take me as long.  I am a Capricorn and I respond to a project, a goal.  What about you? Decide on a goal, and then tell your team (like I am telling you) – they will keep reminding you, when things get tough, they will keep you on track.

I am going to paint the Buddhas on tea bags, so if you would like to help and be a part of this project…., please send me a couple of tea bags complete with their little paper bags and tags.  I will do all the soaking and prep.  It would be wonderful to have little bags from all over Australia (or the world), from you.  Just one or two would be perfect.   Please send them to PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441.  A Christmas gift from you all.  Don’t forget.

Have a lovely Christmas.  Try to keep in mind that this a Spiritual time, not just a time for eating and getting.  The Great Conjunction led us into this week.  Let’s keep reminding ourselves of this – the Star which appeared over Bethlehem, appeared to us this week.  I went to “midnite mass” (at 8pm) last night.  We wore masks and kept distance, but it was wonderful to be back in our community – Being back with my community, giving thanks for the coming year,  was the absolute best Christmas Gift.

 

LOVE AND BLESSING TO YOU ALL, HAVE A FABULOUS CHRISTMAS.  (SAY GRACE FOR ME..)  YOU ARE WHY I DO WHAT I DO.

SEE YOU IN CLASS.  NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

I don’t know about you, but Christmas is almost over for me… and I am over it.  I am looking forward to being with friends,  the last classes for the year,  Christmas Midnite Mass (even if it is at 8pm).  I am looking forward to going shopping without the “Ho-ho-ho’s”  and yesterday in the darkness of the shortest day of the year (it was overcast so I did not get to see THE GREAT CONJUNCTION – Saturn and Jupiter align to create what appears to be a super star, perhaps The Star of Bethlehem? First recorded in 1226), I thought about the New year’s Resolutions I set for myself last year… It turns out that I kept them all.

 

My “New Year Resolutions” 2020……

  • I chose to surrender my fears of the unknown which was severely tested during the start of the Covid outbreak.  The “unknown” wasn’t the virus, it was how my community and others reacted to the virus.
  • I chose to recognize that I have manifested something extraordinary,  and for a while it served me over and above anything I could have anticipated.   It was absolutely a dream come true.  It was/is time to do things a different way.  I embraced ZOOM (kicking and screaming in the beginning), which has turned out to be a blessing and has changed how I teach.
  • I chose to recognize that my thoughts and emotions create my life.  I create whatever manifests in front of me – anything and EVERYTHING.  So if I have done it once, I can create the next level even smoother and better, which I am doing with my art. More meditation needed!
  • I chose to TRUST and to continue to dream in the “emptiness”,  while the new reality collapses from the quantum field of potentials (we are learning all about this in our Tuesday night Sutra Sessions). As the Buddha Says “I do what I can, with what I have where I am”.  Everything I need to get to the next level is right in front of me.  I have been given the time, the imagination, and the means to live my dream.  And I am.  ARE YOU?

OUR HOLIDAY SEASON:

CHRISTMAS DROP-IN DAY:  If you are around on Christmas day and have a few moments between gigs to drop in for a bubbly and a Christmas cake, then please consider yourself invited.  I would love to see you after 2pm – ALL WELCOME..   
Last YOGA studio class This evening at 5.30.  First Yoga Class for 2021 – 11th January
First SUTRA Class for 2021 – 12th January

FIRST Tarot Art Class for 2021: Saturday 9th January
FIRST Gita Class for 2021: Sunday 10th January

PLEASE GO TO THE HOME PAGE AT WWW.YOGABEAUTIFUL.COM.AU for your full new program – Christmas holidays and New year.. I will put the new program there when I have properly worked it out for you.  If you have preferences, let me know asap.

ARTING UP

When I get involved in anything I involve you.  This week I have had the great joy of reworking a linocut I haven’t inked for about 15 years.  I don’t know how many copies I made from this in the past, but lots (and they all sold).  Turns out the plate has a few left in it before the print becomes fuzzy! (like me).  So I have re printed and hand coloured – if you want a copy there are only three on this beautiful Japanese printing paper.  They are $145 each,  measure 39 x 39cms  and I will have to investigate postage.  Light but Oversize – unless you decide to collect,  I will send in a tube.

 

 

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As a friend said to me yesterday – “We missed THE GREAT CONJUNCTION because around here it was overcast, but we can carry it in our heart”

NAMASTE., JAHNE

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Yogis..

ZOOM:  We did the last of the Sunday Gita Study yesterday (sunday).  Someone with the email SUNDANCE tried to get in after we had started.  They tried with the Sutra ID, then they tried with various other old ID’s – sorry it didn’t work.  It would have been problematic even if you were early,  because I did not know who was emailing me.  Zoom doesn’t tell me.   If you are not a regular,  haven’t received an ID from me on the day of the class, or you are confused, email me early to book, and please let me know who is emailing.  Just an email name will not get me.    I start yoga classes on time in the studio and shut the door, I do the same with zoom.  At my studio,  2 hour class is a 2 hour class…

Certainly I would love everyone to come to zoom or the studio – the cost to you is turning up early.  I get to the zoom class at least 10 minutes before class to make sure everyone can get in.    I am not going hunting and pecking after the start time,  keeping the other students waiting whilst I try to discover who you are…and how to get an email to you, although I would love to help.

ART CLASSES

I am busy, busy (you too?).  Massages, Art work and getting ready for the year ahead.  No Zoom last nite, although we had our usual ZOOM TAROT CLASS (art class) Saturday at 2pm – our last for the year. Here is a picture of the linocut and the paper from the class (you can’t see the bling).  At our classes you will get the directions on how to make the paper.  No pulping, no deckles no water… just easy peasy.  Anyone can do it.  Great to play with in the break and whilst you are waiting for your yoga class to go back.  Something – no mess – to do with the children.

I have also found the supplier of a natural rice paper paste to use instead of mod podge (although that is terrific too). Only Lincraft have the licence to sell ModPodge, but the Sunbury store only has tiny bottles, coloured, glitter, and high gloss.  Not suitable for this.  You may have to go on-line.  I checked they do have 250ml bottles on line.  The rice paper paste is Japanese and (apart from a little preservative) can be eaten.  It is natural.

The picture above I did a very simple lino cut and printed it on paper I had made myself using the techniques I will show you.  You can’t see the glitter – but it is there, together with gold threads.

The picture to the right is of hand made paper with larger pieces of organic matter, spattered, watercolored.  Suitable for front covers of journals, diaries, travel journals.  I like a less lumpy finish, but I know the chunkier finish is very popular.

This is a very simple, un-messy, quick way of making the paper for use in journals and other artistic endeavours.    Whilst you are waiting to come back to yoga, in the break, like me you can catch up with the arty things.  You could even do this with the children without coating the house with water, pulp and without using electric tools.  You could also get them out in the garden looking for small things to embed in the paper.

I am sure that you will have fun, do good things, and everyone will learn something and have something to frame…

Once we have a stock of paper – we can then learn how to make lino (or potato) prints.

 

CHRISTMAS, is almost here.  Not many newsletters to go, although I will keep to the Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule as much as possible.  Keep chanting, keep doing your japa, keep God in mind (rather than Kmart!).   Manifest wondrous things.  You could even manifest an image like my lino cut – the picture on the right hand side….  Come to ZOOM ART class – Register now!

SEE YOU IN CLASS ON ZOOM TUESDAY for the Sutras…?  

NAMASTE – JAHNE