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Dear Yogis.  

Not much philosophy today.  Just helping you work out the zoom times you would like to visit me.  Remember when you do a zoom restorative class you will need the equivalent of a bolster, a blanket (for meditation), a cushion or two and a block.

You can join my yoga classes (I still have my trainer wheels on), book a time for a tarot reading, or book a time for a private yoga session. I wish I could do PPT Massage on-line, we all need work on our nervous systems, but no, I can’t.  I am exploring a new PPT technique for my PPT graduates,  centred around the Atlas Vertebra, the top bone of the spine. You may be surprised to learn that 99% of people carry an injury here that they may know nothing about which causes a long list of ailments from poor posture to depression, to IBS.  We started with PPT, now I am taking it a step further.  If you are interested, please let me know.  Email:  yogafirst2@bigpond.com.  I am exploring ways to bring it to you on ZOOM.

The photo above to the left is the back of my new TEA LEAF READING CARDS, below on the right is a spread of the fronts of the cards.   I was so impressed with the look, and the lovely seal I couldn’t resist showing it to you. They are being printed asap – covid has slowed the process down.  But you can express your interest and be one of the first with a set.  The pack will include an instruction booklet, a mini poster, and the cards all presented in a felt/fabric pouch to minimise postage.

Jahne’s Private Yoga/TAROT Sessions (ON ZOOM).   In the middle of covid what are we to do?  Even in the “good times” its difficult to find a practitioner you can relate to;  Maybe you are looking for a more personal class and a closer look at what ails you.

My private sessions are perfect for all persons who are seeking a more confident relationship with their wonderful selves.  Our sessions are wide ranging.  We can look at the tarot, examine health, and any issues you may have…  It’s your call.  The session can be designed just for you.

Options:

Session Times: Bookings are available  Monday to Sunday until late (minus Thursday which is my day off) at my private studio on ZOOM.  We can even do a zoom session when the children are in bed…  

Fee Schedule:

Initial Consult (minimum) 1.5 Hour:
Full: $115/ Concession: $95 *

Follow Up 1  Hour Consult:
Full: $95/ Concession: $85 *

Each Additional  Hour:
Full: $85/ Concession: $80 *

Teacher Trainings and courses see the menu on our Web site. 

* Concession  available for health card holders; or those who have attended classes, retreats or workshops with me previously. Please advise at time of booking.

THE CYCLES OF PROSPERITY.  

If you have ever attended a class on Economics you will be familiar with the model of the business cycle.  GROWTH/BOOM/PLATEAU followed by RECESSION or DEPRESSION.  This is usually followed by BOOM/GROWTH again.  After the ravages of the  Spanish Flu there was the ‘Roaring 20’s”. We can see this cycle if we examine nature -spring, summer, autumn, winter. (By the way, many more people world wide were killed by the Spanish flu than ever died in the World Wars, and the modern flu is a strain of that flu that we have adapted to. Covid is new and unrelated.  We have yet to adapt and build a natural immunity to it as we have to Spanish Flu).

Life is easier if you know what your WORK CYCLE is.  I like writing and painting, and doing indoor things in the autumn/winter.  At this time I work hard planning, and preparing for the year ahead, but am less inclined in the spring and summer to do this,  when you will find me in the garden or the classroom (same thing), taking advantage of the planning I have done.  Covid works well for me in this regard.   If you have a cycle, learn to identify it and work within it.  Look at the times you NEED a vacation, the times when money is scarce, and times when you seem to have more.  If you work within your own prosperity cycle, you will get better results.

If you think there is never an “up” cycle for you.  Maybe you haven’t noticed your cycle, or maybe you need a new one.  Each part of the cycle is necessary.  There is a reason for the Psalm “To everything there is a season….”

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND – SEE YOU ON ZOOM SOON.

NAMASTE  JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

I think in these tough times, it is a good idea (well I think so), to indulge ourselves, but always with goodness.  No cream, no buns, not an emphasis on wine, but how about MEAD!  Sometimes described as a straw-coloured liquid which foams into the glass – the one that I made months ago and decanted today filled the bill.  It was gorgeous.

Mead is a drink made with honey, older than the wheel, and often called THE DUID FLUID.


“The juice of bees, not bacchus here behold,
Which British Bards were won’t to quaff of old,
The berries of the grape which furies swell,
But in the honey comb the Graces Dwell”.

Mead is one of the ancient alcoholic drinks  made by our ancestors, but sadly few of you I think will have tasted it.

 This is a special mixture known as metheglin or in the ancient tongue medcylglin – medicine. It was known as the nectar of the Gods, and the Greeks called it ambrosia or nectar.  It was known to have magical properties, a sacred brew a drink of the Gods which was made of the heavens dew gathered by bees.  It is said to prolong life, bestow health, strength, virility, creative powers, great wit and poetry!  I believe it works.  I am still 21 on the inside.  No that is incorrect – I am healthier than I have ever been and 21 holds no joys for me.  I don’t look backwards.

It is said in Celtic law that there is a river of mead running through paradise.  The mythology has not died.  Even the word HONEYMOON is all about the ancient custom of giving the bridal couple a moon’s worth of mead, which was said to be enough to ensure a fruitful union. You can be sure that the mead maker was given a large tip when a child soon arrived into the family.  The magic medicine had borne fruit, it even smells and tastes magical, mysterious.  

The bee keeper knows that the “The Path of Pollen” contains a hidden universe.

This covid isolation has brought to the front of mind things that we can do for ourselves to care for hearth and home.  What better than to have a bee hive in the back yard.  If you can’t do that, at the very least look after the bees that come to your garden.  plant crocus (they flower in the cold), snowdrops, bergamot, forget me not, hyssop, sage, mignonette, daisies, lavender, mallow,  rosemary and broom.  Hawthorn and lime (linden) were grown for their high yield of nectar.

The Aborigines have a very clever way to follow the bees to the wild hives.  They wait by the waterholes where bees gather to collect water. Then they use a special feathery, sticky weed to flick a piece of feather fluff onto the back of the bee.  This slows the bee and weighs it down so that they can easily follow it back through the bush to the tree where the wild hive is located.

Remember, proximity to the sacred will itself provide answers.

Get into the garden on these sunny days, and plant a garden of bee desire, and don’t buy cheap, “fortified” honey.  Go to your local Farmers market and buy from the bee keeper direct.

SEE YOU ON ZOOM.  LOOK AT “CLASSES”, THE “HOME PAGE”, OR “BLOG” FOR ALL THE DETAILS. IF YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION ON ANYTHING, EMAIL ME AT yogafirst2@bigpond.com

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

If you didn’t read to the end of yesterdays newsletter, you missed the bit where I said, ALL OF MY YOGA CLASSES, TEACHER TRAINING, TAROT – EVERYTHING – ARE NOW ON LINE.  The times and details are under classes, the blog, and yesterdays newsletter.  Please go there.  There are classes Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat and every second Sunday Teacher Training.

 

BUDDHAS TEACHINGS.

Every time I read the complete story of the Buddha and his times, I am surprised by the closeness of the story to the Biblical stories .  Jesus a simple carpenter was the feminine energy speaking to the people.  Buddha the son of a king,  was the masculine energy teaching, informing the educated – he never anticipated his words being taken up by the lower castes.

In India, at the time of Buddha’s birth (yesterday?), the peoples’ assumptions about reality,  could not have been more different than ours.  According to the Vedas, every being was born with a debt to the Gods, other men, to the Holy men, to his ancestors, PLUS their Karmic load. More than anyone of his time, Buddha appreciated these debts,  stored up by one act upon another. He realised that perfection is achieved when someone is ready to put an end to the long series of actions.  When they achieve that perfection they are overtaken by a splendid lightness, and emptiness that is not empty.

When the Buddha was born he came to realise that he was here to “finish what had to be done”.  His whole life was about that, played out against a hazy background.  Mother, father, wife, child all barely sketched in.  They do what they have to do and then are gone.  Maybe that is why in ancient depictions of the Buddha he is the empty space in the centre of a scene, or at best represented by his attributes.

From his first teachings in Varanasi his words are easy, repetitive so that we can understand. Everything is numbered. The FOUR noble Truths, the Eightfold Path. A single word Dharma is now used to describe the LAW and the ELEMENTS. One word that is missing is SACRIFICE. before him this word dominated;  after his teaching it was minimal.  He understood that the strongest form of denial is NOT TO GIVE VOICE, not to mention something.

The Buddha untied the knot that tied the victim to the sacrificial pole.  Whilst he was showing us the way he explained that everything is a knot.  In treading His path we are untying one knot after the other.  It is our responsibility alone, no-one can do it for us and we can’t do it for others.  He saw things as so many aggregates and encouraged us to dismantle them.

We become what we cling to, what we grasp. “Men become like unto that to which they become intoxicated” were Buddhas words.  We seek to know the world by being posessed by it.  There is a risk here. We are like monkeys in the fig tree.  The one who reaches out, always grasping, never having enough.  Tied to the fig tree by the fear of leaving.   Posessed by the possession.

To overcome the world we have to see it, the mind must gather itself up the way we gather a clump of grass before we use the shears and cut it. The shears are “wisdom” (prajna) and the hand that gathers up is attention.

Revised back design

Click on the link above (“revised back design”), to see the reverse of my new Tea Leaf Reading cards being printed…

HAVE A LOVELY DAY (Camelot here – rain at night, sunny days).  I WILL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK AT ZOOM YOGA.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE