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Dear Yogis,

What an amazing weekend.  The weather was all over the place, hot, wet, windstorms, rainstorms… and my ceiling didn’t fall in so all is well with the world.

I took the opportunity of wild weather to work on my new HUGE art piece – inspired by my students, I am making a collage.  I have gone from making artworks 40cm x 40cm to this latest piece 180cm x180cm (too big to get into the car!).  This work is inspired by my garden.

You would think that something about gardens would be easy to do, but no it is not.  It takes hours just to cut the pieces out, then there is the putting it all together, getting the placement right.  I am not yet up to putting glue to the page, and even this far it is hugely tiring.  Glueing down is quite a way off I think.

If you have some of those English Gardening books (“Gardens Illustrated”) and don’t need them, and are looking for a home for them rather than the rubbish bin, please leave some on my back porch if you live close by. Believe it or not,  I think I am going to run out of “flowers” to cutout.

In between those times when I am working on it,  I have got two big charts on top because having the cat deciding to look closely and perhaps play with the pieces would be “difficult” to say the least.  Or the effects of leaving a door or window open without thinking about the collage  before I have glued pieces down would be a disaster!  I am hoping to hang it for the first time on Christmas Day so those people who drop in to have a champers and mince pie with me will be able to see it.  Whatever happens I will make it available to view, even unfinished.  If you want to see it before then, you are welcome to make an appointment…  I am going to do a REALLY BIG COLLAGE after I have practised on this one!  I will need more magazines please.

ZOOM AND STUDIO CLASSES:

ZOOMING/STUDIO CLASSES:  For details click on HOME PAGE www.yogabeautiful.com.au 
MONTHLY YOGA LUNCHEON: Mt.Macedon Hotel, 12 noon on Friday 11th December.
To book please email me: yogafirst2@bigpond.com
STUDIO TAROT ART CLASS: 2pm, Saturday 12th December

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS:  Our last class 5.30pm Wednesday 23rd December.  First class in the new year 1pm Monday 11th January.
CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE:  As usual we have an OPEN HOUSE at the Studio from 11.30am to 4pm on CHRISTMAS DAY the 25th of December.  Please bring something to share – nibbles, fruit or drinks.  All welcome.

MASSAGES:  I am pleased to alert you all to the fact that I am back on deck.  I do energy massages (and regular massages for those who prefer them – or need them).  I have always loved getting back to working on the body, and after such a long break these opportunities are a gift and a pleasure.  Please email me to make an appointment – I would love to work with you.

COVID STUDIO RULES:  We are required to follow the COVID RULES – and we do for all STUDIO CLASSES and gatherings…sanitising, names of attendees, masks, bringing your own props, distancing etc.

 

OUR SUTRA CLASSES.

On Tuesday (7.30pm) we are taking a small detour in our Sutra classes.  We have been working through the sutra concepts rather than go through verse by verse (which has taken us quite a long time), and this Tuesday we are going to use what we have learned to change the way we look at our lives, and the way we work with Karma.  We are moving from theory to the practical….

Although we say we understand how karma works, do you know how we can we work with it to change your daily results?   We don’t understand it when we see the rich and powerful (and greedy), get more rich, powerful and greedy , and wonder how this fits with our ideas of karma.  The bible asks “Why the rich prosper”, and we ponder when we see around us those who work hard to do the right thing and often don’t have an easy (or easier) run at life.

There are a few basic principles.  You know them, but do you think about them or use them?
1. Causes come before result
2. Causes are smaller than their results
3. Growing things takes time
4. It helps to have a way to track your days, and your results.

I have been speaking to you and encouraging you to have a “Book of Sixes” – which is the Tibetan way to be accountable to yourself and others, and the beginnings of how you can SEE what is happening in your life.  Karma then becomes a tool you can work with.  Once you put this method into action, you can study the imprints and how they can create what you are trying to achieve in your life.  It is not about “guilt”, in fact there is no Sanskrit equivalent.

If you want to take a closer look at these concepts – and what I like to call MENTAL GARDENING – come for the journey on Tuesday at 7.30pm.  Details?   Go to the home page at www.yogabeautiful.com.au and follow the directions.  Decide which classes you want to do with us, and pay with the “PAY VIA PAYPAL”  button (yes, it takes credit cards).  They will send me your receipt immediately and I will send you a ZOOM ID.

 

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

An amazing day (Thursday).  Have to get this newsletter done on my day off because I won’t get a chance tomorrow – my monthly acupuncture appointment happens…early.

Our ZOOM study is progressing well.  The study of the sutras is coming to an end.. however, then we are going to learn (from the Tibetan point of view) how to apply these sutras in our every day lives to help us understand our daily frustrations and successes, and how to make our lives reflect the wonderful yogis that we are. Success – abundance! can be yours.  The scriptures will show us how – nothing is accidental.

It is not too late to join us.  If you are finding that no matter what you do, the abundance that you would like (let’s be honest here)is just not happening, know that there is a path out of this hole you have dug for yourself.  We are going to study the path, take the steps and we are going to learn how to apply it in our own lives to expand our happiness in all directions.

The Dalai Lama says that happiness/kindness is his religion.  I know that he means this LITERALLY, and I am going to show you how you can do this too – it is not a secret.  Join us. Tuesdays at 7.30 to 9pm.  You will get great value out of this.

STUDIO YOGA IS HAPPENING and Massage with me is back on.  I am going to shortly start RESTORATIVE ENERGY BLOK THERAPY that links with both the PPT massage and my Restorative yoga classes.  If you have abdominal adhesions, would like a facelift (yes), have hearing difficulties, can’t breathe deeply (a problem in meditation), … all of these can be addressed by using my amazing techniques with tools you already have.

I  work with these problems when no-one else wants to and I get amazing results.   To experience this for yourself, first get a (PPT)massage which allows us to identify the blockages, then come to Restorative Energy-Blok therapy to work on them.  If you are a teacher and want to study this method with me – let me know.

CHRISTMAS BREAK:  I have decided that I am going to be closed for a couple of weeks (and do art).  Last yoga class –  5.30 Wednesday 23rd December.  First class of the new year 11th January.  However, if you would like a massage or study with me in that two weeks, please let me know.  I am going nowhere.  I will be here for you.  If you want to keep going with the Sutra and the Gita classes without break, let me know – it can be done.

CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON:  We had our last YogaLunch in February!!!  Our usual luncheon venue The Mt.Macedon Hotel is inundated with emails and short staffed, but I am assured they will get back to us with a confirmation of our booking (12.30 on Friday, December the 11th).  This gives us reasonable time to organise, and I will let you know how we go.  ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN.  Please let me know if you want to come so that I can keep you informed..  We will have the lunch, we will have it this time frame, and we will have it somewhere – we have choices.  The Mac is usually quiet at that time of the day, we have great service, and we can relax – that is why we keep going there..

CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE:  As usual, I will have an open house from 11.30 to 4 (ish) on Christmas day.  If you are around, do plan to drop in for a champers and some nibbles… There is always lots to share.  Don’t be lonely.  For the address, email me: yogafirst2@bigpond.com

I almost forgot.  I have some beautiful Organic Turkey Tail powder.  It smells luscious and it is amazing how a quarter of a teaspoon (the recommended dose) can alter your morning drink or yoghurt.  It is a mushroom which tastes “chocolatey”, enhances the effect of anything else you might be taking, reduces the toxic effects of chemo I am told, and boosts the immune system. Perfect during these covid times. I am also reliably informed it can encourage beautiful dreams.  Cost $35 for 25grams (price includes postage in Australia).   You can use the PAY VIA PAYPAL button on the home page of www.yogabeautiful.com.au the same as always.  Don’t forget to add your name and address to the docket when you make the payment.  I will send the powder when I receive the receipt – PayPal is FAST, but the post can be slow.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

First off, thank you so much for those students who have understood and taken steps to break the YAHOO grip.  Thank you for understanding that unless you subscribe to me I don’t send newsletters (or anything), but if you are a member of a YAHOO GROUP, Yahoo itself hacks into everyone’s emails and distributes EVERYTHING from each of its group members.  It is the ultimate hacker unless you stop it, and it is hard to stop which I am sure you have discovered.  It is like an elephant, it never forgets.

COVID…

Now that we are sort of getting back to “normal”?  If you had been in Woodend over the weekend you would have thought you were in the USA, people were everywhere, doing anything they wanted, even driving on the wrong side of the road.  It was like the Wild West, and a good place to stay away from (where were the “Bobbies on Bikes” protecting our town).  Yogis, don’t be one of these people putting the country at risk.  The virus has not gone away… it is just subdued at the present time.

We have gone back to studio classes both in yoga and in art, but just for three people at a time and strictly adhere to the rules. If you come to yoga it is almost one-on-one.  You will love it.

 

RESTORATIVE YOGA ISOMETRICS

I am sure that many of you who are working with people in recovery that in spite of the wonderful work we are doing to lengthen and strengthen the body,  change is slow… or not understood.  We can spend months diligently working with them, and they can make great progress, but it can be better.  The challenge for all of us is that they are not doing the work at home we need them to do.  We show them how to create space for blood and oxygen to awaken the tissue but we need them to strengthen their body (especially the core) with exercise – and we know there is little chance of that.

I think about aspects of Restorative yoga that I am working on as YOGA ISOMETRICS which without much effort improves and sometimes reverses the collapse of the body caused by thickening of the tissues over time.  This thickening creates a sticky mess which clogs up the body and traps toxins which inhibits the range of movement – and this is where PAIN resides.  Most usually some distance from the cause site.

We have long needed an easy “something” that our clients could use when they are not in class.  A simple 15 or less minutes of relaxing movement that they can do while they are watching TV(?).  They won’t chant, or deal with silence, well the majority won’t, so we have to work where they are, not where we want them to be.  

In their life our ours, most often what has happened is that at some stage there has been a “break in the system”,  and it is how we handle what it presents, that will determine the result.  THE CORE AND BREATHING IS WHERE I AM STARTING – WHERE I HAVE ALWAYS STARTED, and massage, exploring the body  in this way (combining it with breathing and movement), has shown me the energy slings, and wavelike patterns that either expand or inhibit growth.

Yoga and stretching are great because they take your attention to what stops you from moving. However, pain is generally the limiting factor in how our students move, or how we don’t move.  I am bringing the things I am learning in massage to my practice.

The work I am doing puts a different spin on ageing. If tissue can be reawakened, then aging is only a function of compression. If tissue can decompress and resume flow, then ageing as we know it is dead!

I am working to bring to my clients (and you) a way to ensure optimal oxygenation and detoxification to each and every cell.  This is what our bodies are designed to do, however because our alignment is off balance from years of unconscious living, we are going to have to work to get our muscles to function properly, and we can start with the diaphragm.

If you are interested to join me on this journey… please indicate this, please email me and I will put together zoom, and studio work to show you how I am progressing with my clients.

I know it works, because my own body has gone through transformation. My students and my clients tell me this is happening.  I am becoming “younger”. Gradually the accumulated effects of time and physical trouble are becoming less,  and I can feel that my body has awakened.  A step beyond Restorative to a new dimension. 

JOIN ME ON THE MAT (my constant invitation).

NAMASTE – JAHNE