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Dear Yogis,

ZOOM
FRIDAY:  11am Don’t miss our YOGA CAFE.  It’s about “being happy for no good reason”.  We all need community.
5.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA.  6.45 FREE –  learning the pendulum.

SATURDAY: 12.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA  2pm TAROT MAKING, watercolour, doodling
SUNDAY: 10am THE BHAGAVADGITA.

TUESDAY 7.30pm:  We will be starting a series on THE SUTRAS.  This is quite a long series and may take us up to the Christmas break.  We shall have start to see where it takes us.  If you come to every class I will give to a Certificate of Attainment at the end.

FOR ANY AND ALL, if you have not enrolled contact me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com and I can put you on the ZOOM ID LIST
TO PAY (please):  Go to the home page, choose the class you want to take, pay by clicking on DONATE.

 

THE SUTRA STUDY CLASSES – Starts this coming Tuesday at 7.30pm

FOCUS: Underlying the physical practice of yoga (the asanas) is a philosophy that provides a blueprint for managing the material world.
we will be studying these concepts… We may not have time for 195 sutras.  A Doctorate could be written on any one of them.  Traditionally like all philosophical/religious texts they used to be chanted in order to commit them to memory, as not everyone could write.  You will not have to commit them to memory, neither will you have to chant them.

Patanjali the compiler of the sutras did not create yoga. He brilliantly compiled its essence entitled PATANJALA-YOGA-DARSANAM meaning viewing yoga according to Patanjali and known in the West as the YOGA SUTRA-S.  Yoga existed long before Patanjali. The Mahabharata refers to yoga on numerous occasions,  each chapter refers to yoga,  and is considered to be one of the primary ancient YOGA SASTRA-S.  We have been studying the ‘Gita and its verses on yoga, in our Sunday classes. It is a surprising text which has brought together for our students a deeper understanding of all aspects of yoga philosophy.  We will continue with these as the background to the sutra study.

BHAGAVADGITA written in approximately 600-200BCE, author – Veda Vyasa, 18 chapters, 700 verses part of the Mahabharata
PATANJALA-YOGA-DARSANA written 500-200BCE, author – Patanjali, 4 chapters, 195 sutras.

We will be studying the concepts as Patanjali listed them.  They are in a deliberate order, most often from outer/external/superficial to inner/internal/deep, and each in order – one leading to the next.  It is interesting to me that the first real word in the text is ARTHA which translates as “in the beginning” and the last real word is SAKTI (the final word “iti”) is equivalent to THE END.  I promise we won’t take three months to discuss these two concepts as I did when studying theology and the Bible, although they are equivalent.

I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU IN THESE CLASSES – BE PREPARED TO THINK.

NAMASTE. JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

ZOOM:  WEDNESDAY.  RESTORATIVE YOGA 5.30, MINDFULNESS MEDITATION 6.45

THE STORE:  I have put the small, medium and large Pendulum Boards into our store  www.yogabeautiful.com.au and go to the store, and I am working on finishing the WOLF Pendulum Board as I have photographed here.  This will also be available in small,  medium and large.

These Boards can be used for pendulums and the WOLF BOARD can be used as a crystal grid for distant and self healing… it is more powerful than you think.  Once you make friends you will use it every day.

If you want to know how to make these boards come to our TAROT ART CLASS on Saturday afternoon at 2pm.  You can make a board to echo your own practice, use it with your tarot, your pendulum – or just hang it on a wall. You could make MINDFULNESS or AFFIRMATION CARDS… or just greeting cards using our quick and easy methods, even if you don’t think you are artistic.  ($50 for three classes).

YOGA&ART THERAPY COURSE

“We are alive according to the degree we are in contact with our fundamental nature, our essential self, our essence” – Cecil Collins

This course has been a long time in the coming (and making). In just 10 weeks you could learn how to bring a new dimension to your class or your one-on-one therapies… It includes zoom classes, and personal mentoring in zoom with me – this can happen in zoom classes, they can be very personal..  

In todays world, especially during the covid lock downs or enclosures, we have the need to integrate art, yoga and ordinary life.  A number of my therapists (when I was the client) have integrated art with my healing.  It was most successful, and enjoyed the ability to see how I was progressing, and the difference when the healing was completed.

You could bring this to your yoga classes, to your meditations, and as an addition to one-on-one therapies.  Art added to your classes is where the rational and mystical work in tandem.  As I have said time after time PERFECTION IS NOT REQUIRED.  You don’t need to be an artist or even have art experience, you just need to be enthusiastic to help your students express themselves and learn more about their healing.  You can start with the chakras.  You all know about them.  You don’t have to be able to draw the complex text book chakras, just how they appear to you and your clients.

It is never too late to start or to return to something you enjoyed as a child. You have everything you need.  The right body, the right mind and a beautiful divine soul.  Creativity  is what you were born for – your version of being creative, not mine.  Doodling could be step one.  Get over the fear of being “less-than”.  Face the fear and do it anyway. In the past your art, your creativity may have been dismissed. You may have been dismissed.  You may have been told you were not artistic, remove this thought. Don’t fix these thoughts in place – feel them to acknowledge them and find out what or whom is visiting from your past.  Yoga&Art will help with this.  If you are not confident to do it for your class DO IT FOR YOURSELF.

There is no need to know how to draw, paint, meditate or even do yoga to come to do this course.  The exercises I have planned are designed to make the experience easy and fun.

If you teach art, or yoga or work as a healer, you will find this course gives you more tools, inspiration and practical suggestions to deepen your professional practice (or begin one).

To start the journey, email me:  yogafirst2@bigpond.com

“You know that my treasures are those souls which You have linked with mine” – Theresa of Lisieux

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

ZOOM
TUESDAY: 7.30 YOGA LECTURES. (The ART & YOGA COURSE). 
WEDNESDAY: 12.30 RESTORATIVE Yoga,  5.30pm RESTORATIVE Yoga

If you haven’t taken part in the Yoga lectures, you have missed out.  For the past few weeks we have been exploring the subtle body, not from a distance, but close up.  We have looked at ancient texts and modern science… it is surprising what we have learned. “Exciting”  is another word for it.

If you are teaching,  you will especially enjoy tonights subject ART & YOGA.  It still is about the chakras, it is part of the new qualification.

THE ETSY STORE.  I have updated the store, especially  the tarot and the pendulums (soon all the items in the store)  all have postage pre-paid to make it easier.  No calculations just click and we can post to you.  We can’t hurry the post up, but we can get it to you safely.

The Pendulum Boards now come in small, medium and large so you can take it with you everywhere.  If you buy a big pendulum board this month I will include a small and medium at no extra charge.  This is just for my subscribers (you!).

REGISTRATION:  As I said, if you register before the end of this month, I will send you the medium PENDULUM BOARD free of charge with your Registration papers. ($27 value FREE) … look at your registration and get up to date.

 

ART & YOGA (The Qualification)

I have always been an artist and ever since I found yoga (or it found me) at a very early age, I have blended the two skills and I invite you to do the same.  DISTANCE AND ZOOM.

Starting tonite we will begin classes that will be the foundation of an ART & YOGA qualification.  As part of the course, we will explore art and yoga for difficult emotions, for teens, collaborations, groups, in nature, in communities, and in dance.  If you haven’t been with us for the Tuesday Chakra Work, you will get an opportunity to catch up.  The course will have a distance home study component, a zoom component where you will explore the art + yoga component, and as usual payment-over-time is available.

This is your opportunity to heal and serve your community, your soul and the planet with ART AND YOGA.  Truly a “marriage made in heaven”.  This course will show you how to blend the arts and yoga.  By the way, you don’t need to be a qualified artist – enthusiastic doodling and passionate yoga will do.  You will grow both skills on the way.  Art and yoga will deepen your meditation, release your creative self, give you focus and release your intuitive self.

Please email your interest and I can get the registration papers to you.  You will need to have completed at least some of your YOGA TEACHER TRAINING if you want the qualification, and be prepared to continue (unless as an artist you can put a good case to me to let you into the course). This is a post grad course which has a payment-over-time option.

JOIN ME AT THE EASEL…

NAMASTE – JAHNE