Dear Yogis,

What an amazing couple of weeks.  My yoga classes have levelled out, the cards, prints and paintings have been selling, even a couple in Hamburg, Germany.  Not top of the tree sales that’s for sure, but sales all the same when the world is pulling its head in.  I even learned about bitcoin called Ethereum.  I am still working on Merlin to the left, I have in mind what I want to do but I am not sure how to do it.

I am so enjoying where I am at in life – how many people can say that at my age?  It seems most people are trying to escape to somewhere else, not understanding that they will be taking themselves and their troubles to that other place.  I am even re-discovering EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique.  I learned this very early on, but I didn’t emotionally realise at the time what a powerful too I had for change.  If you can change your mind, you can change everything!  You don’t need Merlin (or maybe EFT is Merlin).

I have found a paper supplier in Shepparton and when that new paper comes I will make more prints.

A RESOURCE FOR ARTISTS:  On Sunday I dropped in to the nursery to get kindling – none, so I stopped off at the hardware store in Woodend.  The kindling there was half the prince, PLUS when I got home and unzipped the bag, I found beautiful offcuts of skirting board, picture frame, and cabinet making pieces about 12 inches long.  What a resource for artists.  Hop in there and see for yourself (but don’t take it all!).  Burning a resource like this is hard to do, even the pieces I don’t need.  I have a couple of small canvasses to frame and these offcuts are PERFECT.

WHATS ON.

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,  9.30AM in Gisborne (the next term starts next Tuesday).

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Although these are small classes I take them seriously – you will too.
Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm,   FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am.   New classes start when I have the numbers on my WAIT LIST.  Email me to start. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday (or a bit later)  by donation. Please arrive close to 9.30 and we will start when we are settled.   I will be leaving around 11am..  I am not sure how long the class will last, or how long it will take to get everyone ready and moving, but we will be relaxed, and see how it goes.  Two students or more –  we always have a great class.  We are change makers.

>>>>>ZOOM DISABILITY YOGA TEACHER TRAINING. Our zoom section is done.  If you want to join the class, you will have to wait for the next one towards the end of the year.    If you want to join our regular Monday zoom class,  you can, but you will need to email me to get the ZOOM ID.

If you are enrolled and started the zoom training, and/or the Disability course, there is a chance that I will get approval to accept my students for a period of placement with me. Don’t forget there is now a book available on Etsy..

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING – The last Sunday in October!

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH: last Saturday in October.  12 noon perhaps at The Mount Macedon Hotel.  in the room with the fireplace.    Please email me if you would like to come, and haven’t emailed or contacted me already.

MT.MACEDON GALLERY EXHIBITION:  … open until the end of the month – I will be at The Gallery next Saturday from 10 to 1pm – come and have a chat, pick up a painting (I will be taking the exhibition down, and taking new HERB CARDS to place on the card racks for sale).

NAMASTE
JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

I have been painting my tiny botanical watercolours on Tea Bags and learning how to print them on vellum (I have even found a distributor not far away). This does not mean I have walked away from my yogis, being now part of my cells I have been doing art and yoga for so long.

Now I am going to search through my pressed flowers to find the matching pressed flowers to the paintings, write about them, matt and mount them and perhaps frame (or not).  I know how I want to do them, but money and time may preclude me from achieving it.  I need a wealthy patron as Victorian painters and botanists had.  They mostly started in mature age.. I am not dead yet, there is a long way to go and lots to do.

I am working on the greeting cards, some of which I will take to the gallery tomorrow (Sunday).  They seem to be achievable in this straightened economic climate… The cost starts at $9.50 on vellum $12.50 due to the  difficulties involved and the cost of the paper itself, however, each little card is a little artwork you can frame – a group of four looks good.  Come meet me in the gallery tomorrow.  The Mt.Macedon Gallery, just down the lane beside the Trading Post between 10 and 1pm.

By the way I have heard that The Mount Macedon Hotel is worth a visit.  For a long while they lost their way however, I am told the food is good, the service is vastly improved and it is getting the community vibe back.  I will try to book for our next Yoga Lunch.

 

WHATS ON.

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,  9.30AM in Gisborne (the next term starts next Tuesday).

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Although these are small classes I take them seriously – you will too.
Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm,   FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am.   New classes start when I have the numbers on my WAIT LIST.  Email me to start. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday (or a bit later)  by donation. Please arrive close to 9.30 and we will start when we are settled.   I will be leaving around 11am..  I am not sure how long the class will last, or how long it will take to get everyone ready and moving, but we will be relaxed, and see how it goes.  Two students or more –  we always have a great class.  We are change makers.

>>>>>ZOOM DISABILITY YOGA TEACHER TRAINING. Our zoom section is done.  If you want to join the class, you will have to wait for the next one towards the end of the year.    If you want to join our regular Monday zoom class,  you can, but you will need to email me to get the ZOOM ID.

If you are enrolled and started the zoom training, and/or the Disability course, there is a chance that I will get approval to accept my students for a period of placement with me. Don’t forget there is now a book available on Etsy..

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING – The last Sunday in October!

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH: last Saturday in October.  12 noon perhaps at The Mount Macedon Hotel.  in the room with the fireplace.    Please email me if you would like to come, and haven’t emailed or contacted me already.

MT.MACEDON GALLERY EXHIBITION:  … open until the end of the month – I will be at The Gallery on Sunday from 10 to 1pm – come and have a chat, pick up a painting (I will be taking the exhibition down, and taking new HERB CARDS to place on the card racks for sale).

NAMASTE
JAHNE

 

Dear Yogis,

There is so much to do, and time seems to be sneaking (or racing) up on me.  

I was reflecting this morning about what has changed with my students particularly since Covid.  Perhaps Covid lockdown and the couple of years after have given people the excuse they needed to be less responsible, less committed, less able to do required tasks.  They use the family, their “workload”, and lack of time as excuses for not following up, not completing things, starting and not finishing.  There was always a very small percentage who have always been like this – those who just don’t complete anything – but now the percentage who just drift seems to be increasing.

People ask me how I do so much? I can because I have a “to-do-list” which I complete every day.  Without this I would be a drifter too.  I don’t just write up the things needed to be done, I cross them off when I have completed – if I haven’t got my to-do-list completed every day then I am unemployed.  What a great thing to see all the ticks and crosses.  Try it, it works, but not if you just cross things off because you can’t be bothered to actually do them – you have to complete a task before you can cross it off.  In the old days before computers, there used to be people who came out and ran business seminars about time management.  Now it is assumed that computers make it easier – they don’t.

When I was a single mum working in my business, plus doing  four art exhibitions a year (to pay school fees), I hired a housekeeper.  I always believed working a little harder to pay to the housekeeper was preferable to fretting over ironing and cleaning.  It gave to me time to play with the children unencumbered by housekeeping..  A good investment which I would 100% recommend.

This coming Tuesday I am giving a Teacher Training final exam ON ZOOM.  It is so much easier.  I used to have to travel to Perth or wherever to give exams – not now.  Zoom takes me there.  If you want to take your exam on zoom, let me know and we will set it up.  It feels fabulous to complete – don’t let fear hold you back.  I love giving exams, no-one “fails”…!

WHATS ON.

Windarring Yoga –  Kyneton Tues. 1pm,  9.30AM in Gisborne (the next term starts next Tuesday).

STUDIO YOGA,  WOODEND: Although these are small classes I take them seriously – you will too.
Monday Hatha 1pm (full),  Wednesday Restorative 1pm,   FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am.   New classes start when I have the numbers on my WAIT LIST.  Email me to start. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS (YOGA FOR WHEELIES AND WALKERS) in NORMA RICHARDSON hall, starting 9.30am every Wednesday (or a bit later)  by donation. Please arrive close to 9.30 and we will start when we are settled.   I will be leaving around 11am..  I am not sure how long the class will last, or how long it will take to get everyone ready and moving, but we will be relaxed, and see how it goes.  Two students or more –  we always have a great class.  We are change makers.

>>>>>ZOOM DISABILITY YOGA TEACHER TRAINING. Our zoom section is done.  If you want to join the class, you will have to wait for the next one towards the end of the year.    If you want to join our regular Monday zoom class,  you can, but you will need to email me to get the ZOOM ID.

If you are enrolled and started the zoom training, and/or the Disability course, there is a chance that I will get approval to accept my students for a period of placement with me. Don’t forget there is now a book available on Etsy..

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING – The last Sunday in October!

YOGA MONTHLY LUNCH: last Saturday in October.  12 noon at Full Moon Cafe next to the Vic in Woodend. .  I have booked so we are all set for our usual table near the piano.   Please email me if you would like to come, and haven’t emailed or contacted me already.. This time I ate “Loaded Fries!” Fantastic.

MT.MACEDON GALLERY EXHIBITION:  … open until the end of the month – I will be at The Gallery on Sunday from 10 to 1pm – come and have a chat, pick up a painting (I will be taking the exhibition down, and taking new HERB CARDS to place on the card racks for sale).

NAMASTE
JAHNE