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MODAYS AT THE CHURCH.

I am so happy with the number of people we are coming to the classes at The Uniting Church. They are people who in the main, have not done yoga before… and they love it. I would like more heating (we all would), but at the moment, we do what we can do. The yoga at my place is pretty cushy in comparison, but we have done yoga in almost every space available in The Macedon Ranges, and even on the streets in America, so, we are prepared to teach anywhere we are wanted. “Have yoga will travel”.

 

After class we have lunch, and then after lunch we do meditation (all by donation of course), and then after that I spend an hour or so helping the volunteers sort donated clothing. It is like weeding – it never seems to end, just when you think you are getting somewhere more is building up behind. But, that is what we are asking for – MORE. The clothes are sorted into three groups 1. To be sold, 2. To go to other charities, and 3 To be sorted off-site and sold as rags. Nothing is wasted. I joined in because I wanted to help and still do, but there is a great feeling of friendship and fun. I look forward to Mondays. If you are at a loose end on Mondays. Please join us. Come for lunch, and then the ladies start sorting – I join in after meditation.

Where: The Uniting Church, 37 Forest Rd. Woodend (next to the Police Station – turn off the high Street at Bourkies bakery).

 

AT THE STUDIO

YOGA, ART, CRAFT.

We are trying to make sense of our emails and phones with the shift from the Bentinck. Please transfer all your account queries to Jacky at yogafirst@optusnet.com.au If you want a direct answer from me, then as usual, yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

 

YOGA CLASSES at the studio: are filling up. Please, if you say you are coming, come. If you can’t, then please let me know. My home Studio is not huge, and I want to take as many as I can, but I can’t hold your place if you only come occasionally. If you have told me you are coming to a specific class then I hold the place for you – it could mean I turn someone away which is unfortunate if you don’t come. Of course, if you want a private class to suit your very own special timetable, I can do that, but the cost is $85 for a one-on-one.

 

PAINTING CLASSES:

Our Tuesday night MEDITATION MANDALA painting classes are progressing fabulously well, and we are booking for the next set of 5 classes for September. 4th September to 2nd October.

Go to www.jahnehopewilliams.com to see more, and email me to book your spot.

yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

 

TUESDAYS from7pm- 9pm

COST $250 for 5 classes – Two more classes for the first session to go, but we are taking September bookings.

 

All materials will be provided. Start Date for next classes: 4th September

By the end of the class you will have a unique image to take home, and frame to put in your own meditation room. Maybe good enough, stunning enough to be an heirloom. No painting experience needed. If you are nimble enough to sign your own name, you can do these classes.

 

SUMII (ZEN YOGA) BRUSHPAINTING – “ONE BREATH ONE LINE”

Fridays 12.30 and 6.30pm and Saturdays at 9am and 2.30.

Our first class on Saturday morning was fantastic, and the students even started painting bamboo. I tempted them with painting of goldfish, but bamboo is where we are at. It was interesting to see how much more focused the yoga class at 10 was after we had spent an hour painting.

 

This is the traditional painting on rice paper, but with a twist. On the longer Friday and Saturday afternoon classes, we will be doing it the “zen way” and painting things that can’t be painted. Love, joy, yoga, spirit, speed…etc etc.   No right, no wrong, just what you can do. Your expression. We will be using traditional materials, we will be doing yoga breathing, AND A PAINTING will be the result.. Grind the ink, use the brush, paint the painting….. Sounds easy, BUT as in yoga, the foundations are everything.

 

 

REDS RESTAURANT and THE FOUNDATION

The art show went well, and we even received have some donations towards the Foundation. If you were unable to come to the show, and would like to donate please direct debit any amount to The GitaJaia Yoga Foundation, Commonwealth Bank in Woodend. 063806 10200584. Any amount will help, no matter how small.

Please come to the show, please buy a painting. It all goes to The Foundation. The next showing will focus on THE TAROT.

 

 

MY PENDULUM

Please… if you want a session, WE CAN DO.   Even at a distance. We can identify additional minerals and supplements, balance your diet, test for food sensitivities…. Health, business whatever. $55 one question, $75 two questions $150 for a general life reading for people who are stuck. On the farm I never made a change without dowsing first. If you want to see if it makes a difference go see what the farm has become without the magic of dowsing – it is a dying jungle which could be brought back to life.

I have made some lovely pendulums. To see them go to www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

 

YOGA WITH JAHNE…..CLASS TIMES – all STUDIO classes $20

MONDAY –   Church: 11am Hatha.12pm lunch/1pm meditation

6.30pm Hatha at the studio

TUESDAY     (NO 6.30 Yoga) 7pm now a Thangka painting Class held at The Home Studio.

WED.         12.30 HATHA-YOGA

5.30pm Gentle Restorative at home Studio.

6.30pm Hatha at the home Studio.

FRIDAY       Church: 3pm Hatha Yoga

6.30pm Sumii ZEN YOGA painting class

With an earlier one on a Friday at 12.30

SAT.           9am Sumii ZEN YOGA PAINTING (60min Class), $30 per class, 10am Hatha Yoga.

12.30 Restorative.

2.30Sumii ZEN YOGA PAINTING (90min class) $175 for 5 weeks.

MATERIALS FOR PAINTING CLASSES – everything provided.

 

COST:    Yoga $20 per Class Or CLASS PASS – $135 per 10 CONSECUTIVE classes for long time students.   $165 for new students – cheaper concession $135 for long term committed students..

Please note the two prices:  New students will pay $165 per 10 class pass (normally $200) After 3 years as a student with us, the cheaper rate will apply.

 

UNITING CHURCH CLASSES (FREE or by donation)

Next door to the Police Station, Forest Road, Woodend.

Monday: 11am Hatha Yoga, 12noon lunch and 1pm meditation at Church.

Friday: 3pm Hatha Yoga

 

PARKING HOME STUDIO – 37 Morris Road, Woodend.

Park on white gravel in front of the studio, or in the drive-way directly opposite in front of double grey garage rolladoors. Not in front of neighbours driveways please.

 

CLASSES AT OUR AFFILIATE STUDIOS IN EUROA, LYONSVILLE, APOLLO BAY – Pease email me for details.

 

REALLY HELPFUL BOOKS:

ETSY, ETSY www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

I write books to help you in your course. Please download them, and then please use them in answering your modules. Please never imagine that I don’t read your modules – I do. If you misquote, I will pick it up. What will you find on ETSY? YAMAS, CHAKRAS, HYPERMOBILITY, THE FIVE TIBETANS AND TEMPLATES and more. There are lots of books there to help you in your progress to graduation. If you do your course WITHOUT reading the hypermobility books, you will find your work being questioned.

 

PRINTS: HIGH QUALITY Prints of my artwork will be available on etsy as soon as they are available

 

BOHO: I am making pendulums, wraps, and other lovely things. You will find them all on ETSY.

 

EMAIL/POST:  Please use the email address  yogafirst@optusnet.com.au  for anything to do with accounts,  or the usual yogafirst2@bigpond.com. to get to me. If you do want to speak to me personally, then email, make a time suitable for both of us, and then we can chat.  If you do it this way, rather than just “wing it”, you can be reasonably sure I have time, and you will get my attention.  POSTAL ADDRESS is not at my home –Please address all land mail to PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon.  Vic. 3441.  Until you see a change written here in large letters, that is where it will be.

 

Don’t forget to Register if you are teaching even if you have not graduated (especially if you have not graduated), insure and re-subscribe to the videos every 12 months.   Don’t leave these to the last minute.

 

Love and Blessings

Jahne…….

Newsletter sent out by The Australasian Yoga Institute, www.yogabeautiful.com.au

 

 

DOWSING – USING THE PENDULUM IN BUSINESS AND IN LIFE.

I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as a type of superstition. According to my conviction this is, however, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.

  • Albert Einstein

 

I have spoken to you all many times about the success of a friend of mine (not Einstein, unfortunately)  who used dowsing in his business and went from an ordinary, poorly educated vitamin salesman, to a millionaire in real estate. He made no decision without consulting the pendulum which was part of his key chain. He carried it with him at all times.   Some of his decisions seemed risky, but they always worked.  Mind you, once a decision was made he worked with it  –  he didn’t change his mind four times a day.  He trusted the decision to be right.

I on the other hand, often forget to take my pendulum with me… recently I have taken to wearing it around my neck., and I have more than one. They are scattered throughout the house and in bags, however, my main challenge is that I have to get more disciplined about using them. I am beginning to understand how Keith used his. It was like a trusted advisor he took with him everywhere and what is the use of a trusted advisor if you don’t ask for advice? Once you have the advice the key thing is to follow through.  Even simple things.  Should I go to restorative or ashtanga, should I take Vit.C, how much, is it the right time to plant beans, does my garden need mulch, how deep? and so on.

Many people think that the idea of a pendulum is hocus-pocus…  Obviously Albert Einstein was open minded, and universities have been challenged enough to have carried out research (even though some time ago).  In The Macedon Ranges we have had generations of dowsers who freely advertise their water locating abilities to the extent that they will not charge if water is not located! They are rarely wrong.   I have used the pendulum to re-direct water in the garden, and now that conditions are changing, I am going to take the pendulum to the job again before summer.  On the farm I used the pendulum to discourage rabbits in the lavender patch, and to get a better yield of berries (as I do now), and so much more.

If you want to join our dowsing/pendulum group, please email me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com and I will forward the details.

 

Popular mechanics, Dec. 2004. (This is only a section of the article…google it if you want more).

……..As impressive as this success rate may seem, it doesn’t do much to change the minds of skeptics. Their preference is to test dowsing under more controlled conditions.

Anticipating this criticism, the German researchers matched their field work with laboratory experiments in which they had dowsers attempt to locate water-filled pipes inside a building. The tests were similar to those conducted by CSICOP and JREF, and similarly discouraging. Skeptics see the poor showing as evidence of failure. Betz sees the discrepancy as an important clue. He says that subtle electromagnetic gradients may result when natural fissures and water flows create changes in the electrical properties of rock and soil. Dowsers, he theorizes, somehow sense these gradients and unconsciously respond by wagging their forked sticks, pendulums or bent wires.

Low-Energy Sensor?  There is ample evidence that humans can detect small amounts of energy. All creatures with eyes can detect extremely small amounts of electromagnetic energy at visible light wavelengths. Some researchers believe the dark-adapted human eye can detect a single photon, the smallest measurable quantity of energy. Biologists also have found nonvisual electric and magnetic sensing organs in creatures from bacteria to sharks, fish and birds. Physiologists, however, have yet to find comparable structures in humans.

Betz offers no theories of how dowsers come by their skill and prefers to confine his speculation to his data. “There are two things that I am certain of after 10 years of field research,” he says. “A combination of dowsing and modern techniques can be both more successful, and far less expensive, than we had thought.”

Now comes a massive set of data that suggests there may be some validity to dowsers’ claims. The encouraging words are contained in a study financed by the German government and published in the Journal Of Scientific Exploration, http://www.jse.com/betz_toc.html, which is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published at Stanford University.

The project was conducted by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit in the hope of finding cheaper and more reliable ways of locating drinking water supplies in Third World countries.

Researchers analyzed the successes and failures of dowsers in attempting to locate water at more than 2000 sites in arid regions of Sri Lanka, Zaire, Kenya, Namibia and Yemen over a 10-year period. To do this, researchers teamed geological experts with experienced dowsers and then set up a scientific study group to evaluate the results. Drill crews guided by dowsers didn’t hit water every time, but their success rate was impressive. In Sri Lanka, for example, they drilled 691 holes and had an overall success rate of 96 percent.

“In hundreds of cases the dowsers were able to predict the depth of the water source and the yield of the well to within 10 percent or 20 percent,” says Hans-Dieter Betz, a physicist at the University of Munich, who headed the research group.

 

I have started dozens of blogs about dozens of things and they have been successful or less successful… some I didn’t even get around to more than one post – but it was good to try them out. I have come to the conclusion after 50 years of yoga – YOGA AND TEACHING is what I love.

I still get a buzz when I teach, and I often get the amazing opportunity to teach yoga to 21 tiny 4 year olds. It is amazing, and I love it. I teach them, not because I have to, not because there wasn’t anything else in my life (no, I am alone but not lonely), and not because as someone suggested “I couldn’t knit”, I can. I teach them BECAUSE I LOVE TEACHING 4 year olds or 40 year olds and anything either side – no younger than 2 days – it makes me happy. It is amazing to see how they grow, and how years later, they still come up to me and tell be about their favourite moment in yoga class, or how it helped them achieve a goal.

 

I also like to garden, and to paint, and sometimes to cook although I don’t have a regular oven (or a Thermomix).   I wouldn’t like to be barnacled to one thing.  I like to do lots of things, and I do.  I think that yoga has evolved from when I first learned (although the evolution to a fitness class i can do without!).  I am taking it further into its evolution to “a part of life”, not something that we do once a week.  All the things I love to do are also part of my yoga journey, not just asanas, not just meditation or philosophy.  All theses, each of these make up the frame in which I live my life.

There is a quote from John Lennon that always makes me smile. John was told at school to write an essay on what he wanted to be when he grew up. He wrote “happy”. His teachers told him that he hadn’t understood the assignment. John told them that they didn’t understand life.

This blog will be about MY YOGA. What appeals to me on the day. Gardening, cooking, recipes, and of course MY YOGA. Welcome to today.