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Good morning Yogis,

I hope that we are back on air,  there was a hiccup, not with my writing, but with Mailchimps sending practices.  So, over the next couple of weeks, I am going to comb through the contacts we send the newsletters to, and if you never respond, if you haven’t clicked on it and read it (yes computers record this), I will take you off the list.  If I am left with just a few dedicated readers, well, it is what it is.  Buckle up guys.  It is a time of decision and weeding in this particular garden.

BEES:  Studying bees is like studying ourselves.  My palate never gets sick of the taste of honey, and because I love honey I have always admired the insects who magically make it.  I also am in awe of their community has often been the model for human society.  You can find references in Virgil, in Homer, in Plate Shakespeare, Marx and Tolstoy and of course our special friend Pliny the Elder.  His book, completed in AD77 …

Bees have a government. They pursue individual schemes but have collective leaders.  What is especially astonishing, they have manners more advanced than those of other animals, whether wild or tame.  Nature is great in  that from a tiny, ghost like creature she has made something incomparable.  What sinews or muscles can we compare with the enormously efficiency shown by bees?  What men in heavens name, can we set alongside these insects which are superior to men when it comes to reasoning? FOR THEY RECOGNISE ONLY WHAT IS IN THE COMMON INTEREST.

The inscriptions on many old beehives reads “NON NOBIS” meaning We work but not for ourselves”.  When in old drawings we see the old fashioned SKEP hive, it stands for some view of the goodness of work.  Sometimes this skep encourages us to reflect on the golden age of the past when work was simpler and slower.  However, in the bees world, there are no sickies, no holidays.  You are born, you work you die, no time off even to go to school..  No sooner had man admired the life of the bee and their tirelessness than he felt that he (or his wife) should emulate them in some way.

In Victorian times (as noted by Mrs. Beeton) the beehive was a symbol of industry.  It shows in one illustration that the world could be ordered.  A world in which different people did different tasks and no one envied the position of their neighbour.  A place for everyone and everyone in their place.  Like good supermarkets, industries, and families, a  good hive needs a balance of foragers and receivers.

At this time of covid there is much we can learn and receive from bees.  Honey has long been known as a medicine and strengthener of the bronchi. Muhhamed Ali the boxer took a mixture of vitamins and honey before his fights… and said that he “…danced like a butterfly, stung like a bee”.

Is there a beehive in your garden? Is honey part of your diet? Try my honey cough drops you will find the recipe on www.wildnweedy.blogspot.com.

Let me know you are there.  Don’t forget we will be zooming Teacher Training, The Tarot Training and Anatomy/Physiology lectures.  

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

Turns out when we send out 10,000 newsletters per month mail chimp spits the dummy.  And it did.  I hadn’t realised how many subscribers we have… it is gratifying, thank you.  If you all sent me 50cents, I would be able to spend more time on the news, and more time with you.  There is an option for donation, maybe you could join it.  Buy me a up of coffee perhaps?  Thank you – skinny latte, short.

In his time of Covid and lock down a lot of us are not able to live as we usually do.  Our material needs may have been met to some extent by government money, however, our social needs are not met, and therefore have become increasingly important.  We can’t dismiss this.  One of the key aspects removed is COMPETITION.  We normally compete even if we are not consciously aware.   It is a natural biological aspect of our selves.  In the deep past those who competed more successfully had a better chance of survival.  Now we have a conflict, there is a threat to our survival, but our instinct to fight it has been curtailed.

In this time of covid, we can’t win, we can’t achieve, even our ability to meet a mate has been taken away, and the social status we may have at the workplace is removed.  If we realised that the frustrations we are feeling are part of our biological heritage we can see that this type of competition and material gain is no longer necessary in the same way.  However, we are what we are, and we have the DESIRE within us.  The Buddha told us that the only cause of suffering was attachment/desire.

We can change, and in this time of covid it is necessary to change.  We may have more time for simple pleasures and also for the pleasure of using our mind.  We can use the time we have been given in lock down to think, to experience an inner reality as well as the outer reality of material things, and by using the extra time we have to experience these things, our life becomes better for us.

The crucial step is the development of inner security perhaps through meditation. This will involve a reduction of anxiety which for some is a “new country”, a scary place.  We all possess self-regulating mechanism within the mind (and some wonderful chemicals which can activate ANADAMIDE being just one).  These will reduce our anxiety if we provide a suitable circumstance in which they can operate.  This can be achieved naturally through deep relaxation (Yoga Nidra) and by meditation.  In practicing these disciplines our anxiety is reduced, our defensive reactions lose their intensity, and the distortions in our personality reduces.

When we take this path we will have a greater understanding of the self, consequently feel more secure, and less disturbed by aspects of our personality.  In fact it could be said that we have in fact taken the first steps on the road to maturity.

HAVE A GREAT DAY.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

Yesterday I did the first “very good” (not excellent, just very good) zoom class.  Baby steps, baby steps as I am always saying to you all. It was fantastic for me, and I hope that those who joined in felt we made headway in this new era of technology.

This has given me confidence to open the doors to more.  Thank you to those students who helped me in understanding zoom and how it works.. took time to coach me in being a “zoom host”, who took time from their day to help me explore the site.  I couldn’t have taken these steps as easily without you.

TEACHER TRAINING:  We will definitely have teacher training via ZOOM on Sunday the 2nd August at 2pm.  If you want to join in please pay your $20 teacher training fee (this is the charge in the studio for 2 hours of teacher training… same in zoom as in the studio).  When I have your acceptance, I will send you the DD numbers.  When I have the receipt for your direct debit payment I will forward your registration details (please put them somewhere safe).   

TUESDAY STUDIES:  I am going to have YOGA trainings in specific subjects one evening per week starting the 28th July.  Tuesdays 7.30 to 9pm for three weeks, there will be a new topic for each of the three week units.  These will be suitable for beginners – no big words, hardly any Sanskrit.

This also will be Zoom and it will be in three lesson blocks $35 for the three lessons.When I have your acceptance, I will send you the DD numbers.  When I have the receipt for your direct debit payment I will forward your registration details (please put them somewhere safe).    The subject for the first three Tuesday studies will be HYPERMOBILITY.  I go over and over this in correcting modules.  So many of you pay no attention, or think it doesn’t apply to you, it does.

To get the most out of this study, please download the chart THE CFS CONNECTION via www.myyogabooks.etsy.com.  It is in the section called “HYPERMOBILITY”.  Print it on lovely paper to show your students, but first make a photo copy that you can write on in our study time.  It is only $2.75.

I was pleased to see that everyone in our tarot zoom class brought paper and pen and made notes.  I would hope in any of our zoom times you will do the same.  This is the school room, and we all need to take notes, even me. (Especially me).

HEMP INFORMATION TIME. Saturday 10am starting 25th July.   We will cover How It Works, all aspects of this wonderful and useful plant given to us by Shiva for the good of the world…  we won’t get it all done in one session that is for sure.  There is no cost for this time, and it may a take a few Saturdays to cover the topic.  I hope that this will become a really good discussion time.  There is a lot to know.  Please email me if you are interested in joining and I will give you the registration details.  The information we will be using for these sessions can be found on the web site www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

This has not been our usual newsletter time – but it is the easiest way to get to you all, and invite you all to our new way of teaching.  Zoom times..

Have a wonderful day,

NAMASTE.  JAHNE