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HI THERE YOGIS,

Thank you to those people who rang yesterday and today for consults by phone.  I just loved hearing your voices, we really made a difference, got some break throughs, and I started to feel useful to you again.  I am reminded of the Queen (she is shrinking to the size of a SMURF – but she doesn’t do yoga).  We both have been doing our job in the one area for a very long time – she is about 15 years ahead of me.  She is like a queen-bee.  She gets looked after, fed and clothed for as long as she is useful.  Her job really is to stay useful, and keep her family on the throne, and pretend she is running the country.  That’s all.  At this moment I prefer to be me.  The Queen hasn’t really got a job at the present, just the occasional address to the nation.  I do my address to the “nation” daily – this is it.  I too am pretending that I am running my little yoga country – but really, COVID is.

Today I didn’t intend to bake, but I found myself in the kitchen, and homestay being what it is I just did it.  In ordinary times I would not.  However, things have changed, and because one thing led to another thing,  to another – it didn’t take much time, and all the washing up got done at once.  I made some cheese.. which was necessary because I was running low on cheese, and I got a litre of milk for 86cents which was OK.  Not as good as last week when I got a litre for 10cents at Coles! True.  My “cheese milk” usually costs between 5 cents and 85 cents.

I just buy (cheese milk) when I can get out of date cartons thrown out cheaply, and then make cheese – which today started the whole baking momentum.  I heated the milk and added the vinegar. When I had done that I decided to make bread – my “wonder loaf” – and then while that was baking (It stands for 12 hours, but it was ready to bake), I made a “seed, coconut and date” cake.  I cooked the bread in my table top oven, and whilst that was baking,  the cake took 10 minutes to mix and 6 minutes in the microwave.  While that was cooling I strained the cheese and hung it to dry (which will take about 2 days).  When the cake has cooled I will slice it and bake in the oven to crisp up, like biscotti.

Altogether I think the whole “bakeoff” took about and hour and a half.  Nothing like the two hours bakeoff contestants get to make just one cake!  You will find the recipes and photographs on www.wildnweedy.blogspot.com

Below is the WONDER LOAF.

I am always put off by recipes with masses of ingredients, however, I have got an old dutch dresser which is usually used for plates, but I use it for spices, flours, nuts and lots of different chillies which I bought in Texas,   And when I am baking/cooking I just  walk up and down and randomly use extra ingredients from the dresser – lots! I will try and remember what I put in my bakes for the blog, but you can always experiment.  I have been having the most wonderful food that I have made and grown and found and baked.  And girls and boys, I have not put on an ounce of weight.  I was a bit worried about getting on the scales… but, joy.  I am the same as before COVID! and… I am eating a whole lot better I think!!!  I still have the champers occasionally, and a wine.  I am not deprived (as you can tell by the recipes above).

I am still moving the rooms of the house around,.. the energies are so different in each corner of the house, and if I try to do the wrong thing in the wrong corner, well it goes badly.  I can’t paint or draw  in the front room, I can’t teach yoga other than in the studio, and I need to re-organise a special place for tea-leaf and tarot readings.  I haven’t found the right place yet – but I will.  I do have some good ideas which you will see the result of – if you come for a consult, (or a massage when we can).

Looking forward to seeing you all again….  the cavalry are coming.

Keep well, keep baking and stay happy – NAMASTE.   JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

I am hoping for your help/advice.

I am considering building a new site for all my artwork, and it’s easy to be overwhelmed.  I really like a web builder called WIX.. very easy, comprehensive, and middle of the road regarding charges….They even have PAY PAL.   I appreciate that method of payment (it is so easy), and I wondered if you did too – or if it doesn’t matter to you?  Please let me know.  WIX has so many other super features.  I have looked at many website builders, WIX has everything I want and more.  Even it seems, PayPal.   The choice is to bring my own site up to date.. or start a new one specifically for the things usually on ETSY, which it seems few of you visit – and now that postage is so expensive overseas sales are not easy.  Your opinion please…

AS with most things it is easy to quietly resign ourselves to how things are, take the easy road, resign ourselves to the status quo.  “I can’t change the world, and I am not even sure that I can (or want to) change the way I do things/my lifestyle/the way I work (?) so I had better just leave things as they are.  Nothing ventured nothing lost!

It is when we reach that point that we are most often tragically mistaken.  We have a great deal to lose! Simplicity is part and parcel of our call to the spiritual life.  It is not an extra that we can tack onto our experience, in the same way that we can add a new app to our phone.

The fantastic paradox is that whilst simplicity is complex, it is also simple.  There are not many things that we have to keep in mind.  Really, only one decision we have to make – that is to be attentive to the word of the Universe (or God).  We only have to BE, at every moment, attentive to the Universe.  And as we keep our focus on this,  there comes welling up in us whispers of Divine Guidance and love that makes life radiant.

And speaking of radiant, I hope you can get the video I have attached (Just click on the orange “A DOGS DAY” below).  If you can’t get it let me know.  When I was first shown it I just was breathless with laughter, and it hasn’t eased.  Every time I watch it I just burst out laughing.  I have cousins who speak like this… but they are not half so funny.  Enjoy.

A DOGS DAY

Have a wonderful day.  Keep happy (I know the video will help).  PS If a dog using the occasional “F” word offends, don’t turn it on, however I wouldn’t have sent it if it was offensive.  Just enjoy.

 

Love and Blessings.  NAMASTE  JAHNE

 

DEAR YOGIS,

I have resumed Tarot/Tea Leaf reading both email and in person on a limited basis – one person in the morning and one person in the afternoon…  I have found it is easy to keep the required distance and more.  It is not palm reading so no hand holding required (or hugging or kissing).  If you want to make an appointment to see me,

1. Email me so we can set up a time at yogafirst2@bigpond.com   2. Direct Debit $85 to the DD number below.    3. When you come, expect the usual COVID  etiquette to be in place.  The reading will take about an hour.  If you want to do it via email, or gift it and need more details go to www.jahnehopewilliams.net. you will find the details there.

Things are sort of getting back to normal.  Because my studio is in Victoria, we probably will be going slower at re-opening than other States.

It is anticipated that the earliest we will be returning to class is Monday week, could be later (keep on reading the newsletters, I will inform you here first).  Victoria will be one of the last States to return, however, in the last Great Flu Epidemic in the United States,  those States who took the longest to return to normal were the States who didn’t have a second wave of infection and recovered the quickest economically.

It is prudent and history tells us that we are doing the right thing.  Do not relax your guard.  

IN OUR STUDIO ON OUR RETURN….

  • The usual COVID hygiene practices are still in place with the usual cough/sneeze etiquette.
  • Entry/registration/exit etiquette practices – use elbows with the sliding door, sanitise hands when entering and leaving.
  • Please  bring your own mats/blankets to Restorative, and a towel for over the top of bolsters, and wash the towels when you get home after every use. Do not re-use the towels.  Disinfect your mats after ever class..  Please bring your own mats/ straps and blocks for hatha.
  • Please do not attend if feeling unwell.  Students will be asked to leave the studio if showing symptoms
  • We request that all students pay via Direct Debit  or via card.  We need you to pay by Direct Debit and purchasing a 10 (CONSECUTIVE) class pass will be the easiest way to do this.
  • TO PAY.  Direct Debit.COMMONWEALTH BANK, WOODEND. BSB 063806 1019 1251 Yoga First.
  • COST:  TEN CLASS PASS:$185for a 10 week pass for new students, and $155 for a 10 week pass for students who have been consistently  been our students for approximately 3 years or more. (yes, it has increased – as has everything).  Valid/current class passes will be honoured until they end.
  • The Kitchen and shower facilities will not be available
  • It is important that we register you on entering, in case of COVID cross infection
  • Social distancing requirements will still be necessary, and when we go back I will only be able to take three students per class.  This will mean that I will need to know in advance, and lock in class times with you.  No casual attendees can be accommodated at this time. (we may need to add some more classes to accomodate those people who -three at a time – want to do yoga here with me.  Please indicate the day and time you want via email (yogafirst2@bigpond.com) and I will let you know if I can do this, or if an alternative class needs to be organised.

There you are.  They are the rules which have been passed to us by Yoga Australia and all yoga centres are working hard to comply.  All yoga classes are doing similar to be safe.  However, I don’t know how the larger classes will socially distance themselves.

TAROT:  The TAROT READING WORKSHOP, postponed due to COVID, will be resuming (if all goes to plan) on Saturday the 6th June 2pm to 4pm and then for another two consecutive Saturdays. Let me know if this is suitable for you.

Keep healthy, keep happy.  

Namaste, JAHNE