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Dear Yogis,

Cut these out and put them where you can see them…

“Then set definite periods for prayer; set definite periods for meditation. Know the difference between each. Prayer, in short, is appealing to the divine within self, the divine from without self, and meditation is keeping still in body, in mind, in heart, listening, listening to the voice of thy Maker.” – Edgar Cayce.

 

MINDFULNESS 

I have no parents, I make heaven and earth my parents,
I have no home:
I make awareness my home.
I have no life or death:
I make the tides of breathing my life and death.
I have no divine power:
I make honesty my divine power.
I have no means:
I make understanding my means.
I make character my magic secret:
I have no body:
I make endurance my body.
I have no eyes:
I make the flash of lightening my eyes.
I have no ears:
I make sensibility my ears.
I have no limbs:
I make promptness my limbs.
I have no strategy:
I make “unshadowed thought” my strategy.
I have no designs:
I make “seizing opportunity by the forelock” my design.
I have no miracles:
I make right action my miracles.
I have no principles:
I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles.
I have no tactics:
I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.
I have no talents:
I make ready wit my talent.
I have no friends:
I make my mind my friend.
I have no enemy:
I make carelessness my enemy.
I have no armour:
I make benevolence and righteousness my armour.
I have no castle:
I make immovable mind my castle.
I have no sword:
I make absence of self my sword.

-Anonymous Samurai, 14th Century.

 

ZOOM
Friday: 11am:  Zoom Cafe – all welcome.  5.30 Restorative Yoga with weights, (optional)
Saturday: 12.30 Restorative Yoga with Weights, (optional)   2pm MAKE YOUR OWN TAROT (2nd class)
Sunday: 10am Teacher Training – The Bhagavadgita.

LOVE TO SEE YOU AT OUR ZOOM MEETINGS.
NAMASTE, JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

It’s my day off, but in this “Covid Place” I had to share this Zen thought with you..

“To continue practice through severe difficulties, we must have patience, persistence and courage.  Why? Because our usual mode of living – one of seeking happiness, battling to fulfil desires, struggling to avoid mental and physical pain – is always undermined by determined practice.

We learn in our guts not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and  simply being in the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life; not avoiding pain, but being in pain when it is necessary to do so.

Too large an order? Too hard? On the contrary,  it is the easy way. 

 

SEE YOU ON ZOOM – NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

It must be something about coming out of isolation (or feeling that the time is close), that has our students taking on new challenges, new students turning up, and our usual students turning their hands to wonderful new projects – sourdough bread making on zoom for instance!  John Lennon started the trend, and some are now following in his footsteps.

We don’t know if we will ever again get the opportunity to slow down that Covid has given to us… I hope that you have all taken advantage of the opportunity which has been handed to you.  There have been hardships that is true, but well offset by a new look at the world we live in.

 

Last evening at the YOGA LECTURES on zoom we considered the energies of the chakras (auras etc), and did a chakra clearing meditation – complete with bells..  more manageable than gongs in front of zoom.  There are many considerations around the chakras and the Koshas as science shines new light on the physical aspects, and it will be wonderful to see what happens in the next few years, what wondrous new confirmations of the ancient texts will come to light.

We know from Kirlian Photographs that the aura does in fact exist, and we know that some folk can see it… but it is a gift not all of us receive.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we were all blessed in this way, if the veils fell away and we could all see the light show which surrounds us.  I think we would be much more careful about how we dealt with others, and ourselves.  If you could see the colours change as you went about your day wouldn’t you want to be as clear and bursting with colour as possible.  No sludgy greys, greens and browns for me thank you!    I wonder what differences in “togetherness”  we will find when we come out from under our masks?  After our meditation (a Cherokee Indian Chakra healing/balancing Meditation) everyone was able to see more of the auric field, said they felt taller, and had changed.

A case in point.  The last two weeks have seen my TEA LEAF READING CARDS go into production.  We decided on the stock, we had the colour and all that was needed was lamination…  That proved pretty tricky.  You can’t see how it will work until you work it.

The printer put the same lamination on these cards as on the Revelation Tarot, and killed the cards.  It was as if a veil had come down in front of the colours.  Yes, I could see the colours, but they were drab and dull.   I didn’t like handling the cards.  They were depressing.

My wonderful printers, Bart’n Print in Bendigo, took responsibility and provided me (courier’d to me) examples of the cards with different laminations, even though some of the printers working on the cards couldn’t see the difference. (You have to have a certain vibration before you can see a higher colour vibration! Thats why medieval artist’s work is usually muted.  They couldn’t see higher colours, so they didn’t paint with them. )    I was giddy with excitement when I saw the new finish.  They have gone from drab to gorgeous… it was the veil holding them back.  The originals were wonderful, and now the colours are fantastic, everything I planned ready for you and everyone who buys the cards in the new laminations.

Are you a fabulous being throbbing with light and colour, held back by the veils that the community (and you), have covered yourself with.  Are you hiding?  Like my cards, if you could see the difference, if you could see how wonderful they really are, how I planned them in the original, you wouldn’t settle for second best.  Be the best you can be, be the being that you designed to be.  Just like the group after the meditation, the veils had started to lift.  Imagine God.  He has designed you to glow with colour, and here you are creeping around under self imposed veils.  

Don’t be second best, don’t settle for second best… don’t be drab, don’t settle for “normal”.   Take that bit of extra time to meditate, be brave, and let all your colours be as bright as they can be.  It was only a tiny little change, one layer, that held my cards back… what is holding you back? Let your colours shine.

POLISH THOSE AURAS YOGIS.  WE NEED TO SHINE, SPARKLE AND BEDAZZLE IN OUR COMMUNITIES… at the very least sew some sequins on your masks as a message to self!

Please come to our lectures and new meditation classes,  and move forward.  Learn who you really are.

Namaste – Jahne