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Dear Yogis,

ZOOM
MONDAY: 1pm RESTORATIVE.
TUESDAY: 7.30 to 9pm THE SUTRAS (The beginning of a journey).

CONSULTATIONS:  Be aware that I am available for health/personal/business consults on zoom or email.  Or private yoga philosophy or yoga sessions.  Please email me to chat or book yogafirst2@bigpond.com:  $85 for a session which is about an hour.

PENDULUM: NEW CHARTS, NEW COURSES ON THE WAY.  What if you approached PENDULUM WORK and used this and your tarot as a DIVINE VOICE that can direct you to a life of MIRACULOUS outcomes.  It is a very powerful question and inspired me and my students/diviners all over the world to contemplate the Divine whilst working with THE REVELATION TAROT and their pendulums and boards.  Their results have been astounding.  JOIN US.

SUNDAY TEACHER TRAINING: Sunday 10am We opened the session with words from The Gospel According to Mary Magdalen.  The students were amazed how close these words are to the Bhagavadgita, Vedic Teachings and yoga.  The Chakras, The Yamas, Illusion, Impermanence – all there. Why did you miss it?  Next week we will probably look at The Gita via the Upanishads.  But who knows?  Be there.

THE SUTRAS: Tuesdays 7.30 to 9pm.  Only one day left before we start our journey into the Sutras.  One of the students asked me am I going to do more than one per session.  Answer – there are 195 Sutras, we are not doing 195 Tuesdays.  I will try and cover all the concepts, and delve into the sutras that are more simple philosophically (none of them are simplistic – but some may be more simple than others), and appear to be more accessible and practical.

To book to either of these.  Email me to let me know you are coming (so I can send you the ZOOM ID), go to the HOME page of the web site www.yogabeautiful.com.au look on the list and decide which classes you want to come to.  To pay, click on DONATE or PAY VIA PAYPAL 

MOVIES

I don’t often speak about movies, but I totally enjoy really good, deep movies – although when I feel like a romp,  I appreciate Cher and Bob Hoskins in MERMAID or Cher and Christina Aguillera in BURLESQUE…

What prompted this is two movies.  THE WHITE CROW (Foxtel 401 or +421 on demand,  or YOU TUBE) which is the story of Rudolph Nureyev (Google him if you don’t recall the name!)  and his defection to the West,  directed and starring Ralph Fiennes.  This is an amazing movie with quite a lot of ballet. Ralph plays an amazing part of Pushkin the Ballet master.  He is still, controlled but underneath you can sense the perfection of thought, and understanding of the body melded with spirit.  A man who does without doing – very Zen.  

This is a move that moves from artistic introspection to stunning ballet, and  then to the tense situation which actually occurred as Nureyev defected and the Russians tried to stop the process. This film helps us to understand how helpless one can feel when being threatened by a Government with great power, Russia at that time, and China today.. How when faced with this negative power (I was going to say evil) you have to cut family ties, and not even think of what may happen to them,  believing they would want what is best for you no matter the cost.  Having good friends in high places is always useful – and when it counted Rudi did.

The second movie is LARS AND THE REAL GIRL.  (I emailed those students I thought might be interested – Foxtel 409 on demand or YOUTUBE).  This movie is worth recording.  Lars is a young man (probably on the spectrum), who finds it impossible to make female friends but longs to.  He lives in a very small community in the Arctic (or that’s how it seems, lots of snow, very cold).  To solve this girl problem he purchases a full size sex type doll and pretends she is real, not just in private but as he lives and works in the town. He takes her to dinner parties, to the doctor when “she isn’t feeling well” and pushes her around to the supermarket in a wheel chair. The townspeople love Lars and respond to this dilemma by playing along, and allowing him to resolve his problem in a very loving way.  There is a beautiful resolution which I won’t retell because it will spoil the movie.

EVERYONE, go to the Home Page www.yogabeautiful.com.au to discover what is happening this week.  I will put out a newsletter when I can.. it may not be every day.  Anyone who thinks I have more hours in the day than they do (as Dianna Vreeland said) “is insane”. HOWEVER,  I use what free time I do have, to be with you…..

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

ZOOM:

There are two FREE classes.  Friday 11am ZOOM CAFE, and Friday 6.45 Pendulum Class.  All the other classes have a minimal charge. To join the class email me to book, and pay via the DONATE or PAY buttons on the home page of our web site.

SATURDAY.  12.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA   2PM TAROT/PENDULUM ETC
SUNDAY: 10AM THE BHAGAVADGITA STUDY  and remember TUESDAY 7.30 “THE SUTRAS” A study.
If you want to come to class, go to the home page www.yogabeautiful.com.au.  Look at the class you want to join on the Home Page, and then pay on the DONATE or the PAY PAYPAL BUTTONS.  They had a glitch but now are fixed.

PENDULUM:  Did you miss seeing my new WOLF Pendulum Board and its brother pendulum at class last nite? I just love it.  We will be working on these boards and pendulums again today at 2pm class.   If you want a copy of this board,  I will put it on Etsy and in the store as soon as I get it printed.  This time I will print – small, medium and large.  AND I will bring it to the Saturday pendulum/Tarot class “Show and Tell” time.

CONSULTATIONS available with me on zoom or email. ($65 for three questions just for this month).    As above,  to book please email me yogafirst2@bigpond.com, and pay via the PAY button on the Home Page of www.yogabeautiful.com.au. 

 

WHAT IS NORMAL?

I remember having one of the very few  man-to-man conversations with my mum (before she died – I have plenty now).  She usually delivered a speech about how things should be, and how I had fallen short, but that is another story.

At the time of this conversation,  I was trying to answer a phone call, adjust the clunky old computer to match, cut vegetables for dinner, and deal with two hungry children.   Mum asked me what I would really like to be, I wanted to say “HELPFUL” just in case it would prompt her to ask if she could help, but I resisted.  I said “One day I would like to be a simple home-body”, and she said,  smiling at me “One day would be about as much as you could stand“.   I was so annoyed.  How could she say that – but guess what, she was right on the money.  I might have been hassled, but really, I designed my life and I loved it, just as I do now.  If I didn’t love it I would change it.  I couldn’t and I can’t do the home-body thing.  More than that, I have no inclination to do it at all.

Sometimes a man will come along,  pulled in,  not by me,  but by the feeling they say of calmness they feel around me which I attribute to years of yoga and meditation.  They think it is attraction.  It is not.  They might fall in love with who they think I am, however, I fall in love with a person that can’t be seen with the eyes, only sensed.  An amazing mind can make me swoon a little, and can even spark up a conversation, but really, it’s the heart and soul of a person that attracts me, makes me breathe deeply. My own source is “within”.  I fall in love with a person’s (usually broken) heart.

I am very careful about someone who wants to change me or wants to make me like them.  I never now am deaf to what my inner voice has to say – if I ignore it, then what happens is my fault. Let me say this right now, I have learned from Mary Magdalen we do not give away any of our power to anyone EVER.

We don’t have to compromise and settle for a version of ourselves that is “almost” us.  We don’t have to settle for a truth we don’t believe in, for instance when someone is telling us there is a better way to be human (they mean NORMAL  – whatever that is). We don’t have to fit in and be moulded to a shape that was never meant to fit us.

Isn’t that the most fabulous realisation you could ever have?  You don’t have to fit in! YOU ARE PERFECT JUST AS YOU ARE.

 

SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

ZOOM

FRIDAY:  11am YOGA ZOOM CAFE.  This is just a community of women – we all need community during covid. Everyone welcome.  Email me for an ID.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com
FRIDAY: 5.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA and 6.45 FREE PENDULUM CLASS.  We are working on making a pendulum Board.  Making a Pendulum comes next.  My new board just loves the pendulum I made to go with it – and using it throughout the painting was so fantastic.  I used it to know what to do next, when to add, and importantly WHEN TO STOP.  At the end I was calm, happy and just felt so connected.  Peaceful. And the Board was happy.  The photo to the left is where I  started with the Board.  It looks different now.

SATURDAY: 12.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA, and 2pm TAROT/PENDULUM…WATERCOLOURS
SUNDAY: 10am BHAGAVADGITA STUDY. (TUESDAY: 7.30pm – THE SUTRA STUDY)

RETURN TO LOVE….

Keeping in mind that some of you don’t know about the “Gospel of Mary” (A Gnostic Gospel) – A biblical text which along with others was excluded from the Bible when it was first compiled by The Emperor Constantine advised by King Herod no doubt.  Probably in her case,  on the basis that a woman’s voice couldn’t be heard.

Mary Magdalen’s gospel starts with missing pages – six missing pages.  This is the voice of a woman that we can’t ask, can’t get back.  I wonder what was so incendiary on the first six pages that they had to be destroyed?  Her gospel starts on page seven.    The number is significant, and occurs many times through her Gospel.  The Seven Stages we have to go through, the seven powers we have to confront within ourselves to reach the heart and get past the ego and reveal the infinite within us.  An Interesting correlation to the chakras, which Christ makes also within this Gospel, although they are not called Chakras but “Powers”. In the Story of Samson and Delilah they are called “Locks”.

Three copies of her gospel have been discovered – two in Greek and one in Coptic.  Each of them has these pages missing plus four in the middle. I believe that these pages refer to the question Mary asks of Jesus “So, now, Lord, does a person who sees a vision see it with the soul or the spirit?”  We do have the start of the answer     “The Saviour answered, ‘A person does not see with the soul or with the spirit.  Rather the mind, which exists between the two, sees the vision and that is what…..”  

We can’t recover the lost pages, but Last nite as I put the finishing touches to my new pendulum board (which I will reveal for the first time to my free class this evening at 6.45, together with the amazing bone pendant its partner), I thought about the words of Mary Magdalen  “the work we are being called upon to do here is to clothe ourselves with the perfect Human”  This means that we have to do the work which causes us to remember again and again with great ease this experience of self as also a soul.  This soul of love that loves through us. (Above, the photo shows my incomplete MAGDALEN TAROT).

The soul that whispers “come to me all who are heavy laden, and I will give you peace”.

When I paint or create I speak from this place that is otherwise hidden from me, and use a voice that is more than my own.

I believe that when I am (when WE are)  painting and creating I become a voice in the service of love.  When I work from this place, heart can speak to heart directly.  Those who have “two ears” (Her words),  can hear this voice and can understand.  It’s our work to do what we can to remember the soul, to remember the love that is at the heart of how we heal.

We are not perfect.  The point is to constantly arrive, for some of us with each breath.  We constantly return to love.  It is actually right here.  Within.  Our own private heaven.  If like Mary magdalen you can listen to the silence inside of you, hear what love wants you to say and do, then no-one outside of you can ever silence you again.  “I will teach you what is hidden from you”   The Gospel of Mary 6:3

 

SEE YOU IN CLASS – NAMASTE.  JAHNE