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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

 

Dear Yogis,

ZOOM: Email me to join a class yogafirst2@bigpond.com
Today, MONDAY 1pm:  RESTORATIVE YOGA
TUESDAY: 7.30pm YOGA LECTURES.  The Chakras..

THE STORE:  I have put all of my PENDULUM BOARDS on www.firstmountaindowsers.com.  They are all there, and all inclusive of postage.  I will be putting up some unusual bone pendants soon.

I hope you make room for our next classes on ZOOM.  Not just pop-in times, but regular, committed classes.  Just because you are not in the studio does not mean it is not important.  It is, and it can be just as “committed”, but not if you don’t take it seriously.

Our Saturday TAROT MAKING classes are inspirational.  Each of the students is doing their own thing within the scope of the class.  ZEN DOODLING to make Pendulum Boards, Tarot cards, Affirmation cards, paintings, miniatures and even a journal.

The classes can help you to produce anything that you want.  If you have got art materials in your cupboards you don’t know how to use properly – I can teach you.  Make your doodles into greeting cards, pendulum boards, and books.

 

SILENCE
I love painting because it requires solitude, and I know enough about myself to realise I function best when I alternate between periods of intense activity and periods of comparison solitude. When I understand this about myself I can order my life accordingly.  After too much time on the computer I begin to burn out.   I notice that I burn out inwardly before I burn out outwardly.  Painting helps me ground myself.  Creativity stops me from becoming a frantic bundle of hollow energy, busy, busy, busy but devoid of life.

It is a meditation.  We can have a holy silence and when we nature it, miracles occur. It is wonderful, this resting in “the God of Creation”, this stilling of activity, “seeking first His Kingdom”.  That is why doing art on the computer holds no attraction for me… it is an interface between me and God when actual painting is not.  Painting gets me closer to God, closer to the Holy Silence.

At all times, but especially in the beginning we need to find a specific time and place to nurture silence.  Painting, creativity gives me this.

Some people find the silences in the early morning, others quiet themselves best in the deep quiet of the night.  Whatever time we choose, we must have time to still the churning, to quiet the restlessness, to meditate on God.  Painting doesn’t replace meditation, it is another form of meditation, and I need both.  

We all worry about living beyond our means financially; why do it emotionally.  We must learn our emotional limits and respect them. We are too busy only because we want to be too busy.  We could cut out a great deal of our activity and not seriously effect our productivity.  Perhaps not just absorbing the information that flies towards us every minute, but thinking about its significance. Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important.

One of the most profound effect of inward simplicity is the rise of an amazing spirit of contentment.  

 

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

Tomorrow morning is going to be a busy one.The TEACHER TRAINING AT 10am so I am getting a head of time and doing the newsletter now – The topic for the class is THE BHAGAVADGITA AND THE BIBLE.  I guess you don’t think there are similarities, but believe me there are.  You only have to read “LIGHT OF ASIA”the poem by Sir Edwin Arnold to know the similarities.

The Bible is a little more obscure… but we will get there I assure you, with a few side trips as always. Parmahansa Yoganansa was a Christian Yogi as is Thitch Nat Hahn and many more.. I am not sure about Deepak Chopra.  There is no conflict.  Buddhism is a philosophy not a religion.

IT’S Saturday as I write this:   and I have just finished a fabulous TAROT (MAKE YOUR OWN CARDS AND PENDULUM BOARD) CLASS.  I know that is a mouthful but everyone is doing something different, so we have them altogether sharing techniques, and how-to’s.  It is fabulous,  and the things that are coming out of the class are fantastic.  You should join. In the one class some are doing Sumi brush painting, some are making boards and cards, some learning to Zen doodle and use watercolours….  what will you do?

Soon we are going to make pendulums and mala beads, but we have to finish making the boards before we can start those.   If you want to buy a board made by me and ready to use, please go to www.firstmountaindowsers.com my new website to dowsing and the arts… You can always go to Etsy for a look at everything I sell – only the dowsing things are on the new site, and not all of them yet.  www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

DOWSING..

I use my pendulum to determine vitamin dosages, gardening questions, repairs, what to pay and when… things you wouldn’t think about,  things you might ask your accountant or partner.  Once you have identified your personal coding system you can then test yourself for food sensitivities, balance your diet and much, much more.  You could look for vitamin and mineral supplements which through dowsing,  your system will tell you are required. Much like kinesiology.

These are the words of Louis Pasteur on his death bed (spoken in French probably) “I got it wrong. The microbe is nothing, its environment is everything”.  He realised that in times of plague, not everyone got the illness.  He had realised that the people mattered, and the various different environments that they presented to the microbes was important.  Dowsing can help you by keeping you tuned in to HOW THINGS ARE and  is a bridge between the logical and the intuitive mind.  

If you keep yourself firmly grounded then dowsing is safe and if you don’t swan off in flights of fantasy,  dowsing can be an invaluable skill in helping us to live our lives more fully. Dowsing can tell us how things are.

Dowsing can revolutionise your life and help you to heal in a way you never expected, bringing you more and more in tune with the universe.  It is entirely possible to change the only being over whom we have total control over –  ourselves.

SEE YOU IN CLASS

NAMASTE – JAHNE