eBlast 15 March 2018

YOGA NEWSLETTER 15th MARCH 2018
THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE IS MISSION DRIVEN AND MEMBER SUPPORTED.  BECOME A REGISTERED MEMBER TODAY.
THOUGHTS FOR TODAY

“Don’t overlook small negativities – a careless spark can burn down a mountain”.
“Without a teacher there is no Dhamma”.

WEB SITE NEWS. AS I NOTIFIED YOU IN THE LAST NEWSLETTER…In the next month or so we are totally changing our web site. This will mean a new look for the web site, the newsletter and the videos. Although everyone is working towards a smooth changeover, there could be problems (we are dealing with computers and humans), however, when we get to the other side, it will be easier, and better. It has been 10 years since we have made a change, and you know how technology has advanced in this time. I admit to trepidation – but, it had to be done. 

The videos especially are going to get a shake up. This is long overdue. In a perfect world there would be no interruption – but utopia has rarely been located, and I ask in advance for your patience. I will keep notifying you via the newsletter, I will let you know when the exact changeover occurs IF I CAN. But if you go to the videos, and they are either not there, or all over the place… be patient. We will get it all fixed up.

LENT – our challenge…

I am still taking my shoes off in Church, and I urge you to try it. People are now coming up to me and asking why I take my shoes off. It gives me a chance to talk about Buddha/Yoga (I think I am a little like Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist with Christian inclinations). Taking off the shoes in Church has been a real door opener for me, although that is not why I did it. I don’t have to say anything – just take the shoes off.

In Church, people say the words of Jesus “Take up your cross and follow me” (or as the Buddha said in the Four Truths – “There is suffering”), but they are not prepared for the little discomfort of taking off the shoes in God’s house. WE always do in the yoga studio. 

However, along with taking off the shoes comes various feelings that I am working through… Superiority? Ego? Smugness? Disdain? Taking my shoes off also reminds me why I am there – Respect, Humility, Joy, Sadness. It is quite an exercise… Try it.

THE NEW “Qi” (QUANTUM) YOGA at The Australasian Yoga Institute.

I am working on the new DVD’s. One on hypermobility and one on a yoga routine that I have devised and fallen in love with. I am doing about 2 hours of my own yoga every day, and feel FANTASTIC. And the word is out. Watch this space!!! 

PS: I am looking for a MASTERCLASS OF FOUR for our new Restorative Yoga Set. This will be by application only, and will be suitable for people who want to work in a different way – deeply into the community. Email me. This course cannot be done at the moment by distance.

BLOG: When our new site is up and running, I will take our blog very seriously.. it has been hard to manage in the past, but the brief for the whole of our new web site was “easy for me, and use friendly for our students”. That is what we are all working towards.

EMAIL:

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 – small mail box out in the open means that rain is an issue. Please address all land mail to the address it has always been – PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441. Until you see a change written here in large letters, that is where it will be. INSURANCE
Your Registration is tied to your insurance. If you are not registered, then you can’t insure legitimately, and the responsibility is YOURS AND YOURS ALONE. A few students who have recently insured have done so without supplying a registration stating the level they are at in their studies (a student of yoga, a trainee teacher not yet graduated, a graduate) – were they to make a claim it could be disputed. We have stated this over and over again. 

When we negotiated with the insurer on your behalf, then we could see how you were applying and make sure everything was OK. We cannot do that now. It is up to you. The easy way is to get registration through us and then send a copy of that with your CE requirement to the insurance company of your choice. You have choice, but no real policing to make sure that your policy is secure. It’s similar in nature to the difference in CAR insurance between the “Supermarket” insurance and CGU for instance. Yes you are insured with and it’s easy to insure, but is it as easy as they say it is when you claim??? CGU is a little more expensive, more hoops to jump through but gold standard when you make a claim. As I said. The choice is yours.

RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY INSURANCE: Dancesurance and AJGallaghers have both come through with a specialist insurance for our Restorative Yoga Therapy graduates. They can add this special insurance on to their ordinary insurance AT NO EXTRA COST.

They have examined the course, they have looked at the caliber of the students going through, and made their decision. All you need to do is to supply a copy of your registration when you apply. Here are some options…   Dancesurance – www.DanceSurance.com ……an insurer who also insures Studios/Students
Arthur J Gallagher – www.ajg.com.au ……our Long time insurer but changed
Insurance House www.insurancehouse.com …..insure on-line

Why Register with THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE?

PLEASE, PLEASE CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION. You need to be currently registered for your insurance to be valid, and you will need to supply a copy of a valid registration to be insured. Please check your insurance requirements – keep up to date. They change quickly.

REGISTRATION – CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENT

We have fallen in line with other organisations and ask people who are registered with us and wish to re-register to do at least one short course in the year as a continuing education requirement. You need to keep up. You can do one of my little courses on ETSY, or someone else’s, doesn’t have to be onerous, just something to keep you on your academic toes so to speak.

LATE PAYMENTS

We make every effort to accommodate you, keep our tuition down, are frugal so you can be trained economically. So please, try to be on time and have your funds in order. Otherwise, we will have to up our fees to cover these time wasting problems, and I am resisting that. So, to encourage you we are taking the lead from other organisations, and we are going to charge$15 every time we are met with problems with funds. Motto? Please be on time. We don’t want to be going back, and back – pleading for you to keep your agreements.

YOGA WITH JAHNE…..
CLASS TIMES (no change over Easter for Jahne’s except Northcote)

MASSAGE:
A Healing Massage with Jahne can be had between Yoga Classes by appointment – even on weekends

COST: Yoga/Meditation/Philosophy $20 per class
Or CLASS PASS – $135 per 10 CONSECUTIVE classes.
Massage: Relaxing, healing…..$85 per session

THE BENTINCK – on the corner of High Street and Romsey Road, Woodend.
Enter ONLY through the Romsey Road gate where you see the yoga sign. Do not park in the front of the Bentinck. The main two story building is NOT The Yoga Centre.

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.

NORTHCOTE – 9 Langwells Parade, Northcote

MASSAGE AND HEALING

We are having great and wonderful success with the Healing Massage. Not because the healing wasn’t always there, and not because it is growing, but because we are now able to work with it more and explore it as it arrives. Everyone who heals is different, and everyone who receives is different. If you have read of Cayce, seen Goldsmith, or any other well known healers you will hear over and over again the necessity of opening the mind and being a ‘receiver”. Once the mind gets in the way, and the healer starts directing the energy, all bets are off. It is not about the healer, it is about the subject. If you would like to experience this energy please make an appointment every healing is an adventure for us both.…. Email:yogafirst2@bigpond.com

MONTHLY TEACHER TRAINING AT THE HOME STUDIO: 

The next will be on April Fool’s Day (yes, Easter). Sunday 1st April , 2pm to 4pm at my home studio (37 Morris Road in Woodend). Please join us for Teacher Training 2pm to 4pm. There is no need to book. Bring writing materials, and be early. If you are teacher Training student then the cost of the afternoon is $20 (to bring it in line with yoga classes) (which applies to everyone. If you are a visitor and not formally a student teacher with us then the cost is $30 – for a 2 hour class! Come.

BENDIGO Teacher Training classes – The first Tuesday of the month. Next class is Tuesday, 3rd April at 3.30pm Turn at the Metricon building on the highway in Kangaroo Flat. It is a traffic light intersection, just up from Bunnings. Crusoeden is the building behind Metricon building, and faces Church Street. It’s easy to find. Cost: $20 per class (to bring it in line with the cost of a yoga class) for everyone who attends – thank you.

(Directors – Jayne Boyle – crusoedenbody@bigpond.com). Regular classes held – please email for timetable.

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

SUNBURY: THE CRANIO SACRAL CONNECTION.  WE WILL BE REPEATING THIS LECTURE ON SUNDAY 18TH MARCH between 2 and 4pm. Cost $35. If you would like to join us for these workshops in Sunbury at YOGA 101, please contact Michelle at Yoga 101. Email info@yoga101.com.au

THE SHOP AND ETSY. 

Why haunt libraries for information on the chakras, yamas, and other yoga philosophies relevant to the course (or The Tarot). It is all on ETSY. We do plan to update our shop (and the prices) with the new web update, but we will never be able to offer the options and service of etsy which has millions of customers.

For you who have never used ETSY please visit. It is fabulous and oh so EASY. You will find all our books, our DVD’s and CD’s on ETSY. (The Paul Grilley DVD’s are on our web site shop). Please go to www.myyogabooks.etsy.com. www.myyogabooks.patterbyetsy.comOr www.yogabeautiful.com.au. for the Paul Grilley DVD’s. If you are new and haven’t read about YAMAS, CHAKRAS then I have distilled them for you. Go to myyogabooks site as above and have a look – especially at the new book and DVD on Hypermobility. I am loading our new Restore/Relax guided meditation on USB, and available on ETSY. If you can’t come to Friday then get one of these and you can do it anytime. EMAIL NUMBER. yogafirst2@bigpond.com. Accounts: Wednesdays between 9 and 12pm yogafirst@optusnet.com.au TEXT number is 0402 088 170 – preferably leave a text or email. I will return your calls when I can – I am not a slave to either the computer or the phone, so you may find that emails or TEXT (which I always recommend) work out best. The mail address is PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441. I am always as close as your email, and there are those who ring and manage to find me near the phone … Don’t forget to Register, insure and re-subscribe to the videos. Don’t leave these to the last minute. Love and Blessings,  Jahne

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

eBlast 21 March 2018

YOGA NEWSLETTER 21st MARCH 2018

THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE IS MISSION DRIVEN AND MEMBER SUPPORTED.  BECOME A REGISTERED MEMBER TODAY.

THOUGHTS FOR TODAY. (and for the month, for the year, for a lifetime) I have been encouraging my students at the Bentinck to do some gardening. They have heaps of time, and I can’t understand why I have to “encourage” them to do what to me seems a natural thing to do. They promise to water, they promise to did. In the moment they seem enthusiastic, but when I leave and then come back nothing has been done. It seems a metaphor for what is going on in their lives. I take time, I speak to them, I do yoga with them. They are enthusiastic, they love it and I respond with more yoga and hand-outs, BUT after a few days I realize that they are only doing the yoga when I am there. Only in the “yoga hour”. 

LESSON? The seed won’t grow unless it is placed in good soil, so I have to concentrate on that first, and then go nuts giving them yoga. Get the soil right, feed the spirit first, slow them down, teach them about what is yoga – and then do asanas. When I do it that way I get results.

WEB SITE NEWS. AS I NOTIFIED YOU IN THE LAST NEWSLETTER…In the next month or so we are totally changing our web site. This will mean a new look for the web site, the newsletter and the videos. Although everyone is working towards a smooth changeover, there could be problems (we are dealing with computers and humans), however, when we get to the other side, it will be easier, and better. It has been 10 years since we have made a change, and you know how technology has advanced in this time. I admit to trepidation – but, it had to be done.

The videos especially are going to get a shake up. This is long overdue. In a perfect world there would be no interruption – but utopia has rarely been located, and I ask in advance for your patience. I will keep notifying you via the newsletter, I will let you know when the exact changeover occurs IF I CAN. But if you go to the videos, and they are either not there, or all over the place… be patient. We will get it all fixed up.

THE NEW “Qi” (QUANTUM) YOGA at The Australasian Yoga Institute.

I am working on the new DVD’s. One on hypermobility and one on a yoga routine that I have devised and fallen in love with. I am doing about 2 hours of my own yoga every day, and feel FANTASTIC. And the word is out. Watch this space!!! PS: I am looking for a MASTERCLASS OF FOUR for our new Restorative Yoga Set. This will be by application only (will not be free), and will be suitable for people who want to work in a different way – deeply into the community. Email me. This course cannot be done at the moment by distance.

BLOG: When our new site is up and running, I will take our blog very seriously.. it has been hard to manage in the past, but the brief for the whole of our new web site was “easy for me, and use friendly for our students”. That is what we are all working towards.

EMAIL:

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 – small mail box out in the open means that rain is an issue. Please address all land mail to the address it has always been – PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441. Until you see a change written here in large letters, that is where it will be. INSURANCE
Your Registration is tied to your insurance. If you are not registered, then you can’t insure legitimately, and the responsibility is YOURS AND YOURS ALONE. A few students who have recently insured have done so without supplying a registration stating the level they are at in their studies (a student of yoga, a trainee teacher not yet graduated, a graduate) – were they to make a claim it could be disputed. We have stated this over and over again. 

When we negotiated with the insurer on your behalf, then we could see how you were applying and make sure everything was OK. We cannot do that now. It is up to you. The easy way is to get registration through us and then send a copy of that with your CE requirement to the insurance company of your choice. You have choice, but no real policing to make sure that your policy is secure. It’s similar in nature to the difference in CAR insurance between the “Supermarket” insurance and CGU for instance. Yes you are insured with and it’s easy to insure, but is it as easy as they say it is when you claim??? CGU is a little more expensive, more hoops to jump through but gold standard when you make a claim. As I said. The choice is yours.

RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY INSURANCE: Dancesurance and AJGallaghers have both come through with a specialist insurance for our Restorative Yoga Therapy graduates. They can add this special insurance on to their ordinary insurance AT NO EXTRA COST.

They have examined the course, they have looked at the caliber of the students going through, and made their decision. All you need to do is to supply a copy of your registration when you apply. Here are some options…   Dancesurance – www.DanceSurance.com ……an insurer who also insures Studios/Students
Arthur J Gallagher – www.ajg.com.au ……our Long time insurer but changed
Insurance House www.insurancehouse.com …..insure on-line

Why Register with THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE?

PLEASE, PLEASE CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION. You need to be currently registered for your insurance to be valid, and you will need to supply a copy of a valid registration to be insured. Please check your insurance requirements – keep up to date. They change quickly.

REGISTRATION – CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENT

We have fallen in line with other organisations and ask people who are registered with us and wish to re-register to do at least one short course in the year as a continuing education requirement. You need to keep up. You can do one of my little courses on ETSY, or someone else’s, doesn’t have to be onerous, just something to keep you on your academic toes so to speak.

LATE PAYMENTS

We make every effort to accommodate you, keep our tuition down, are frugal so you can be trained economically. So please, try to be on time and have your funds in order. Otherwise, we will have to up our fees to cover these time wasting problems, and I am resisting that. So, to encourage you we are taking the lead from other organisations, and we are going to charge$15 every time we are met with problems with funds. Motto? Please be on time. We don’t want to be going back, and back – pleading for you to keep your agreements.

YOGA WITH JAHNE…..
CLASS TIMES (no change over Easter for Jahne’s except Northcote)

MASSAGE:
A Healing Massage with Jahne can be had between Yoga Classes by appointment – even on weekends

COST: Yoga/Meditation/Philosophy $20 per class
Or CLASS PASS – $135 per 10 CONSECUTIVE classes.
Massage: Relaxing, healing…..$85 per session

THE BENTINCK – on the corner of High Street and Romsey Road, Woodend.
Enter ONLY through the Romsey Road gate where you see the yoga sign. Do not park in the front of the Bentinck. The main two story building is NOT The Yoga Centre.

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.

NORTHCOTE – 9 Langwells Pde. (near Aldi).
Plenty of parking at Aldi. FREE 2 Hour park, or All Day nearer the Police Station at the back.

MASSAGE AND HEALING

At a DNA Workshop yesterday we discussed what happens at a massage session. Some of the students told us hope they DIRECTED the massage. How they interpreted what was happening and worked towards ‘fixing”. That is not what I do. I think (after many years experience) that the spirit knows more than I do, and that if a healing is going to happen it will happen, sometimes in spite of what we do. We can’t know the karmic debt of the client, we can’t know what it at cause, we can only see the symptoms and listen. And then, if we are smart, we will just become a channel for healing energies. Empty. We will not impose our simple will, and healing will happen in its own way in its own time.

MONTHLY TEACHER TRAINING AT THE HOME STUDIO: 

The next will be on April Fool’s Day (yes, Easter). Sunday 1st April , 2pm to 4pm at my home studio (37 Morris Road in Woodend). Please join us for Teacher Training 2pm to 4pm. There is no need to book. Bring writing materials, and be early. If you are teacher Training student then the cost of the afternoon is $20 (to bring it in line with yoga classes) (which applies to everyone. If you are a visitor and not formally a student teacher with us then the cost is $30 – for a 2 hour class! Come.

BENDIGO Teacher Training classes – The first Tuesday of the month. Next class is Tuesday, 3rd April at 3.30pm Turn at the Metricon building on the highway in Kangaroo Flat. It is a traffic light intersection, just up from Bunnings. Crusoeden is the building behind Metricon building, and faces Church Street. It’s easy to find. Cost: $20 per class (to bring it in line with the cost of a yoga class) for everyone who attends – thank you.

(Directors – Jayne Boyle – crusoedenbody@bigpond.com). Regular classes held – please email for timetable.

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

SUNBURY: THE CRANIO SACRAL CONNECTION.  WE WILL BE REPEATING THIS LECTURE ON SUNDAY 18TH MARCH between 2 and 4pm. Cost $35. If you would like to join us for these workshops in Sunbury at YOGA 101, please contact Michelle at Yoga 101. Email info@yoga101.com.au

HOW ARE YOU HELPING?

As the Director of The Australasian Yoga institute, I wonder what you think I do, and who helps me? Well, hardly anyone helps me (Charlie does God Bless her), and when I have explained that I donate about $500 in teaching to students EVERY WEEK, and I ask a student to donate one hour of teaching it is usually refused, on the basis sometimes that “it is not business-like”. They are right, it is not businesslike, but it is yoga-like. Every day, EVERY day people try to get something for less, something for nothing from the Institute. It is the way of the world to get what you can. You are yogis, you know about karma and how things work – what are you giving in exchange for what you get? What are you prepared to give up to get what you want? This is not an intellectual exercise – it is an exercise in living. Only one student in 40+ YEARS has ever donated the balance of a course to a scholarship, and although we have a foundation, if I don’t ask for money, put the hat around, no-one thinks about it and only a handful really regularly respond. Maybe it is time for change – I also have rent and expenses. Yes, I know some of you donate to overseas, but there is a need right here at home. I need help. 

I love you all, but I remember when I was going to yoga and doing what amounted to a teacher training (internship), I worked to pay to go to yoga and do the other courses along side it, and it was not inexpensive. I gave time, money, energy, and I loved every minute… I could not do enough for my teacher who taught me there was a world beyond what I had been told was reality. For myself today, there is a way I could change this situation. I could double the cost of the course. This would make the cost realistic and financially sensible (that’s why all the good courses are expensive), it is tempting and I may do it although many people who really wanted to be yoga teachers would be unable to afford it…, or some of you out there could think about how you could help on a volunteer basis? PLEASE?

THE SHOP AND ETSY. 

Why haunt libraries for information on the chakras, yamas, and other yoga philosophies relevant to the course (or The Tarot). It is all on ETSY. We do plan to update our shop (and the prices) with the new web update, but we will never be able to offer the options and service of etsy which has millions of customers.

For you who have never used ETSY please visit. It is fabulous and oh so EASY. You will find all our books, our DVD’s and CD’s on ETSY. (The Paul Grilley DVD’s are on our web site shop). Please go to www.myyogabooks.etsy.com. www.myyogabooks.patterbyetsy.comOr www.yogabeautiful.com.au. for the Paul Grilley DVD’s. If you are new and haven’t read about YAMAS, CHAKRAS then I have distilled them for you. Go to the Etsy site as above and have a look – especially at the new book and DVD on Hypermobility.. EMAIL NUMBER. yogafirst2@bigpond.com. Accounts: Wednesdays between 9 and 12pm yogafirst@optusnet.com.au TEXT number is 0402 088 170 – preferably leave a text or email. I will return your calls when I can – I am not a slave to either the computer or the phone, so you may find that emails or TEXT (which I always recommend) work out best. The mail address is PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441. I am always as close as your email, and there are those who ring and manage to find me near the phone … Don’t forget to Register, insure and re-subscribe to the videos. Don’t leave these to the last minute. Love and Blessings,  Jahne

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

eBlast 21 December 2017

YOGA NEWSLETTER 21st December 2017

THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE IS MISSION DRIVEN AND MEMBER SUPPORTED.  BECOME A REGISTERED MEMBER TODAY.

THOUGHTS FOR TODAY

It is that time of the year. NO, NOT CHRISTMAS – BERRIES! At this time of the year, the effort for the past year “bears fruit”. I harvest enough berries to last for the whole of the following year (2018). As a matter of fact this year I still have berries in the freezer from last year as I take masses of fruit of my bushes. I learn something new from my garden every year. Forget about horticulture experts – listen to the Garden Devas. You should see the garden. Look to the left above and you will see the Gooseberries Marion berries? I get about 1.5 kilos per day during their short season – but it is enough. Apples, Rhubarb, Raspberries, Blackcurrants etc etc… Thanks to the garden Devas. I bless you as you bless me. Advice to gardeners – take time out to talk to and work with the Devas. By the way. My garden is just a suburban block! You can do it too. I am amazed with the (City) people who have bought older houses around me. First thing. They level everything. Take out old paths, old gardens, old rockeries, and just make the plot level. Then they buy garden beds (paint fences and boxes grey, of course), and struggle to get things to grow. They will learn, but not until they have spent heaps. – and eventually employ a gardener.   
CHRISTMAS

Our Teacher Training does not take time off. Don’t take time off your yoga. Use the time wisely to magnify your yoga progress. AND, AND, AND – Don’t forget to pay your monthly fees. Just because it is Christmas doesn’t mean that WE DON’T ALL have bills to pay. Me too.

DNA/TCELLS/BLISS

More on the way. With time off (!!##) I am hoping to write more for you. Thank you for all those students who have downloaded my booklet and DVD about the Cerebro Spinal Connections. This is only the beginning of the story – but most essential. You have to start somewhere, and the beginning is a good place. Please, teachers, catch up by getting these books, reading them and reflecting on your practice. www.myyogabooks.etsy.com. THEY ARE JUST THE BEGINNING. Come to Teacher Training when you can.

Teacher Training? Just in case you haven’t seen any reference to it – and someone said I never write about it in the newsletters – obviously a person used to the computer ‘grabs’ of information. You have to read this newsletter! ….. 1st Sunday in the month between 2 and 4, every Wednesday at 12.30 and philosophy on Saturday morning at 11.30.   AFFILIATES and those who would like to be. EVEN IN TEXAS Teachers! Please give this some thought. If you would like to Affiliate and start teaching teachers (you need to have graduated), then please email me and we will arrange a visit – or a chat depending on where you are of course. If you have a studio, it’s your next step. New Affiliates: The Community Health Initiative in Northcote.
EMAIL:

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 – small mail box out in the open means that rain is an issue. Please address all land mail to the address it has always been – PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441. Until you see a change written here in large letters, that is where it will be.

PLEASE COLLECT YOUR MAIL PROMPTLY….

Please make sure you visit you local Post Office with your COLLECTION SLIP in hand if you are waiting for items from us. Items waiting for collection are sent back to us. This incurs double postage – nothing you will want to do with today’s postal charges.

HYPERMOBILITY AGAIN.   The book and the DVD are available via ETSY. www.myyogabooks.etsy.com 
The more that I do in this field, and the more that I think about it, the more relevant it becomes to all of you. IT IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY – the course. Every teacher should read this. INSURANCE
  INSURANCE ALTERNATIVES. We are no longer closely involved with our teachers with regards to insurance…. AJGallagher seems to be the only one who will insure students who have not graduated but are teaching – although I must say they are increasingly difficult to deal with. However, we have made an alliance with Dancesurance which appear to insure students (trainees not yet graduated) cheaply, and, if you have a studio, they are really the only ones who insure this with understanding. If you are a student MAKE YOUR STATUS CLEAR, if you don’t, and need to make a claim, you may discover (too late) that you are not covered.

RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY INSURANCE: Dancesurance and AJGallaghers have both come through with a specialist insurance for our Restorative Yoga Therapy graduates. They can add this special insurance on to their ordinary insurance AT NO EXTRA COST. They have examined the course, they have looked at the caliber of the students going through, and made their decision. All you need to do is to supply a copy of your registration when you apply. Dancesurance – www.DanceSurance.com
Arthur J Gallagher – www.ajg.com.au

Why Register with THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE?

PLEASE, PLEASE CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION. You need to be currently registered for your insurance to be valid, and you will need to supply a copy of a valid registration to be insured. Please check your insurance requirements – keep up to date. They change quickly.

REGISTRATION – CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENT

We have fallen in line with other organisations and ask people who are registered with us and wish to re-register to do at least one short course in the year as a continuing education requirement. I have been shocked by what teachers THINK they know, and teach. You need to keep up. You can do one of my little courses on ETSY, or someone else’s, doesn’t have to be onerous, just something to keep you on your academic toes so to speak.

RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY – POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA

Those people who have attended all workshops, completed the exams satisfactorily and graduated from all parts of level 3 (prior to October 2017), and come to the Sunday Teacher Trainings, will be deemed to have completed the Graduate Diploma in Restorative Yoga Therapy (and more). It is a big course, and at the end you will have almost done a Doctorate yourselves. You certainly will see yoga and teach it in a totally different way to any other teacher. I call it “QUANTUM YOGA” (“Quantum” meaning multidimensional, not as it is often portrayed in yoga as dynamic sequencing).

VISITS TO YOUR STUDIO.

If you would like me to visit your studio in the next year, please email me and let me know when you would like a visit and we can work out HOW it can be achieved. The further away you are, then the larger the travel costs will be of course. But the information we are working with is so important for the future of yoga and healing, that it will seem a very small investment (even if you are in the UK or the USA – or anywhere else on the planet). Please email me in the first instance at yogafirst2@bigpond.com. I can teach, lecture, and of course do the occasional PAST LIFE PROCESS. But I need some time for this of course – 3 hours per person!

CLASS TIMES

We will be closing on Saturday the 23rd of December, and will reopen with our first class at 10am on Saturday morning the 6th of January.

THE STUDIO – 37 Morris Road.

Tuesdays: 10 am Restorative.

Wednesdays: 12.30 I am making this a teacher training day. If you are a teacher, come. It may be easier for you than the monthly Sunday. Come to both!

Saturday: Philosophy 11.30 am, Restorative 12.30 pm. THE BENTINCK – on the corner of High Street and Romsey Road, Woodend.
Enter ONLY through the Romsey Road gate where you see the yoga sign. Do not park in the front of the Bentinck. The main two story building is not The Yoga Centre.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: Hatha Yoga 6.30 pm

Wednesday: 5.30 pm Restorative, 6.30 pm Hatha Yoga

Friday: 6:30 pm Progressive Yoga Relaxation Class. I will also be using this time to speak about something not many teachers will discuss – life and death. We can meditate and chant. This is up to you.

Saturday: 10 AM Hatha Yoga CLASS/CONSULT PRICE STRUCTURE (from 7th January) I always have a problem with prices, and more so at this time of the year. If you don’t come to class, my costs still go on, and I still turn up. I try at all times to give you the best class I can give, at the most economical price. But it won’t always be these prices. As my “busyness” increases, I will have to make choices which will be dictated by where I am needed most. And if you don’t come to class, then I will let them go. I understand that there may be a class closer to you (once we were the only class), and you have to make sensible choices for you. I would ask that you check that your teacher is TRAINED, graduated, and has the appropriate qualifications to teach you.

There are no classes that are more soundly based than ours. We have been teaching for 50 years. We are the longest serving (most of the teachers in the Macedon Ranges have come through our teacher training Institute), and we believe we can help you to be the best you can be. If you don’t come to us, please make sure that your teacher is trained and qualified.

Even if you don’t come to class there still are expenses to be met. We always used to limit the length of class pass, and I am doing it again. Pay $20 per class, or book ahead for 10 CONSECUTIVE classes over 10 weeks and pay $135 for the ten. It is a saving – but only if you come to class every week.

• TERM PASS: 10 class pass – 1 class a week for 10 CONSECUTIVE classes over 10 weeks $135 2 classes per week for 10 weeks $250
• SINGLE CLASSES $20
• PHILOSOPHY CLASSES 1 hour – Trainee Yoga Teacher $15 (casual $20) 
• PHILOSOPHY CLASSES 2 hours – $20
• MONTHY PASS $175 (unlimited Hatha and Relaxation). If you come to Monday, Wednesday, Saturday morning and one meditation or teacher training, that would be $60 per week. Four weeks with that regime would be $240. So $175 is quite a saving. Especially when the average Yoga Class in other schools is $25 per class.
• YEARLY PASS (if paid by 1st of February ) $1,550 unlimited Hatha & Relaxation

Please note that at the Bentinck, the Medical Clinic that we have all been waiting for is nearing completion, however, more work is being done on the driveways and ambulance bay. If it is full, park opposite. Walk carefully, workmen leave building materials about.

TEACHER TRAINING AT THE HOME STUDIO: 

The next will be on Sunday 7th January, 2pm to 4pm at my home studio (37 Morris Road in Woodend). Please join us for Teacher Training 2pm to 4pm. There is no need to book. Bring writing materials, and be early. If you are teacher Training student then the cost of the afternoon is $15 (which applies to everyone. If you are a visitor and not formally a student teacher with us then the cost is $20 – for a 2 hour class! Come.

YES, there will be Teacher Training on the first Sunday in January… the 7th January.

ANYTIME STUDIO PARKING – Park your car either on the white gravel around the front of the studio, or if this is full, then there is an empty drive and front yard leading to a shed directly opposite us. Park there and in a way that others can too.

Bendigo Teacher Training classes – The first Tuesday of the month. Next class isTuesday, February 6th (I think at this point). Turn at the Metricon building on the highway in Kangaroo Flat. It is a traffic light intersection, just up from Bunnings. Crusoeden is the building behind Metricon building, and faces Church Street. It’s easy to find. Cost: $15 per class for everyone who attends – thank you.

(Directors – Jayne Boyle  – crusoedenbody@bigpond.com). Regular classes held –please email for timetable.

CLASSES AT OUR AFFILIATE STUDIOS IN EUROA, LYONSVILLE, AND SOON IN TARADALE. Pease email me for details.

SUNBURY: We had a wonderful workshop on HYPERMOBILITY and moved forward into THE CRANIO SACRAL CONNECTION CONNECTION. WE WILL BE REPEATING THIS IN THE NEW YEAR. If you would like to join us for these workshops in Sunbury at YOGA 101, please contact Michelle at Yoga 101. Emailinfo@yoga101.com.au

THE CRANIO SACRAL CONNECTION. I am planning to do an A3 poster of the spine, brain, “Cave of Brahama, Sacrum and Coccyx and all the anatomy that will help you to teach your students and clients about the subject of our workshops and our research. Keep checking on www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

THE SHOP AND ETSY.
  Why haunt libraries for information on the chakras, yamas, and other yoga philosophies relevant to the course. It is all on ETSY. 

For you who have never used ETSY please visit. It is fabulous and oh so EASY. You will find all our books, our DVD’s and CD’s on ETSY. (The Paul Grilley DVD’s are on our web site shop). Please go to www.myyogabooks.etsy.com. Or www.yogabeautiful.com.au. for the Paul Grilley DVD’s. If you are new and haven’t read about YAMAS, CHAKRAS then I have distilled them for you. Go to myyogabooks site as above and have a look – especially at the new book and DVD on Hypermobility. I am loading our newRestore/Relax guided meditation on USB, and available on ETSY. If you can’t come to Friday then get one of these and you can do it anytime. ON ETSY. A3 TEA LEAF READING Chart – the picture is on the left. (Lovely just to frame), sepia on a cream linen’y background, check it out…www.myyogabooks.etsy.com
PAST-LIFE PROCESS. If you want an appointment with me, please email me and give me some time options, and say what it is you are looking for. We can do the consultation via email, on the phone or by post. Email me to make an appointment. yogafirst2@bigpond.com EMAIL NUMBER. We live in the country, and from time to time there are problems with the server, but this has been fixed until the next time – For anything, anything at all please email me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com. If you do not your emails may get lost. For money matters (Keeping in mind Jacky is only here on Wednesdays) please email yogafirst@optusnet.com.au Do not ring unless you have not got email (some people living and working remotely don’t have computers), or you have an urgent question. Email, leave your number and I will get back to you.

So at the moment my TEXT number is 0402 088 170 – preferably leave a text or email. I will return your calls when I can – I am not a slave to either the computer or the phone, so you may find that emails or TEXT (which I always recommend) work out best. The mail address is PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441. 

I am always as close as your email, and there are those who ring and manage to find me near the phone … Don’t forget to Register, insure and re-subscribe to the videos.  Don’t leave these to the last minute. Before we close down for the year, thanks you each and every one of you for your support throughout this year and every year – You are the reason we do what we do.  
 
Here at The Australasian Yoga Institute,  we wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new year.  Come back to class refreshed and relaxed….  We will still be here, holding the space for you. 

For those doing teacher training, no time off for you – this is the time of the year you can get stuck in to the modules you have been walking around.  Make up for lost time.  
 
Don’t waste this fabulous break.  Time is our most precious gift.
 
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM JAHNE, CHARLIE, AND JACKY….  Have a great Christmas. Love and Blessings,  Jahne

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