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email blast 22 September 2015

GOOD MORNING PRECIOUS ONES Honouring the Universe – The philosophy of The Australasian Yoga Institute…. Dedicated to a tradition of excellence in teaching for more than 40 years, The Australasian Yoga Institute offers yoga teachers comprehensive and systematic training in classical yoga. We teach yoga techniques for body, breath, mind and spirit in 200hr and 500hr certification programs. Our programs include training in meditation, asana.

PAST LIFE “UNDERSTANDINGS”
Years ago when I was giving lectures on Spirituality with an emphasis on my ideas about Christianity, people got very upset when I put coloured lights in the room…. True. They wanted the outside look of the room to co-inside with what they felt it should be. They weren’t worried about the message, or the inward, they wanted the outward to look “normal”. Do you know what “normal” actually is? Where the word came from? The set square ruler used by the builders of the great cathedrals was called a “normal”. In order for things to sit square and not fall over, to last, everything they built had to measure up to the “normal”.

I don’t think I have ever measured up to the normal, and that especially when I was younger has brought me some pain, some loneliness, some people have been in conflict with me (rather than me with them), but it also has been an opportunity for some extraordinary learnings. I have always, ever since I can remember, even when I didn’t understand it, believed in past and future lives. I knew it was true, and experienced the truth of it from time to time, even when I was tiny. For me, life has never been linear, never been “normal”.

Now I am the age that I am, this has become more and more apparent as I speak to more people, and travel their time lines with them through the work I do, and experience the absolute beauty of the life that we have been given, and the opportunities we have chosen in order to learn. As I have travelled with clients through their past lives I have found the continuity of our lives to be the most extraordinary opportunity for learning that I think we can have. Not to excuse the present, not to expiate wrong doings in the past (or the future), but to understand what has brought us to here, today, and how to move forward the best way that we can. To get better and better. To be set free, by developing an intimate knowing and relationship with the energy of all things. Bhakti.

Your life is not a mistake, God doesn’t make mistakes. She doesn’t have time.

(if you want to experience past life with me and can come visit – or want to check when I will be near you – email me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com

FERMENTATION WORKSHOP
You will all know that Margaret Armstrong is our resident “BODY ECOLOGIST” and for the third time she will be holding a FERMENTATION WORKSHOP at Innisfree. This will co-incide with out next Teacher Training day – the 1st Sunday in October between 2 and 4 at Innisfree. Enter and park in the usual space, either straight thru the Romsey Road entrance next to the yoga sign, or on the opposite side of the street. So mark it in your diary and come along. Please bring some glass bottles so that you can take home some fermentation that you have made.

What you are may sometimes miss the mark, a prisoner in liberty. Get up somehow, get clean right now and be a happy, happy child set free.

FACEBOOK
Thank you for sending photographs to Nicole. I am sure everyone likes to see that our students come from all walks of life, and from everywhere in the country (and the world). More please….

THE YAMAS (a repeat by request)
I have never liked the (Christian) “Thou Shalt Not” approach and am trying out a new one. What do you think of this.
“Just for today I will not kill thoughts, hopes, aspirations, confidence. I will not kill.”
“Just for today I will work on telling the truth”
“Just for today I will work on not stealing”
“Just for today I will work on respecting all people and all things”
“Just for today I will work on not taking more of anything than what I need”.

TALKING ABOUT THE YAMAS
I was listening to a fundamentalist pastor give a lecture about what she called “the secret place”. For her that secret place was to be peopled by her Church who accepted the ancient revelations she had accepted, as truth for today. In particular about homosexuality. That was really something she could get her teeth into. She quoted often from the Old Testament as though this was appropriate in those terms for today. I wonder if she uses oil lamps in her home, or uses a computer. Not sure what Abraham, or Paul or even Ezekiel would think about our technology!

I don’t want to tread on others toes, but the Old Testament was written a long time ago when those in charge were trying to make a community out of a motley group of shepherds and farmers in the desert. They hadn’t yet discovered the prosperity oil has brought to the region. They needed to be brought together and they needed some strict rules especially about marriage and family. They needed to build a strong community, and some chats about how to go about that most efficiently was needed. I am sure that as spread out as were across the country, just coming out of a life as nomads, homosexuality was a very accepted part of their lives (as was killing people who disagreed with your point of view. Raping, stoning and pillaging would have been OK too). But once their living conditions changed, the structure of their communities changed, they needed laws and they needed children to build a prosperous country. Hence the rather colourful language about homosexuality, and of course the ten commandments.

I am pretty sure that when Jesus came, he came to replace the commandments with the one commandment LOVE GOD AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOURSELF.

You can’t have a growing community that has to provide for that population and united, stand against warring neighbours if you are not continuously replenishing the population with lots of children, and experiencing a reasonable time of peace and prosperity. To build cities, temples and communities you need laws, continuity, and prosperity.

If the ancient Jews had known of the Yamas I am sure they would have been a wonderful source of INSPIRATION (rather than condemnation). They are an inspiration for the 21st century and beyond, as they were thousands of years ago.

If you put the Yamas into your own life, you too can be assured of peace, prosperity and calmness. Don’t rush at it. Just think about them. Keep a card in your pocket with them written down and refer to them often. Or just concentrate on the first Yama AHIMSA which is about love and respect, loving all things. If you love all things as yourself you will find God and then there will be no differences.

NOA BELLING – YOGA HANDBOOK. PLEASE…..WE NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE!
I wondered if any of you out there had finished with their book and would like to sell it back to us, WE WOULD LOVE TO BUY IT OFF YOU. We can get it secondhand from time to time for $25 to $30. We will buy yours off you for $25 plus whatever is the postage cost. Email us if you would like to sell yours, and Deb will call you to organise. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

YOGA CLASSES- Classes held at Bentinck
THE HOME OF THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE
Cost: $10 per person per class (or $100 a 12 class pass: non–transferable).
$15 mum plus little yoga bub. $25 per family (mum, dad and two primary school children.
Young adults $10 each).

Monday 5.30 RESTORATIVE, 6.30 General class with Nicole
Tuesday 10am RESTORATIVE and 7.30 General class with Brad,
Wednesday 12.30 General class with Kalma,
Friday 6.30 General class with Nicholas,
Saturday. 10am General class with Nicole (9am and 12.30 RESTORATIVE)

*RESTORATIVE YOGA (all classes with with Jahne) is a beautiful, gentle yoga which is done using lots of props and lots of time. No balancing, no headstands, nothing but gentle stretches and rests. You and/or a friend will love it especially if you have had surgery, are anxious, haven’t exercised for years, have a weight problem, or have a neurological problem. It is also a PERFECT pre and postnatal session – if you are pregnant, please get a doctors certificate and bring it to your first class – not because I think you are unwell, but as it is an insurance requirement.
“The Bentinck” is on the corner of the Romsey Road and the High Street in Woodend. Enter from the start of the Romsey Road only.

PARKING:
No matter which class you come to – as you enter the Romsey Road gate, Yoga parking is either to the left or the right of the gate. If that is full, then the space over the road is always available. PLEASE DON’T park in the central space – even it is empty and you are late, this is for Innisfree staff coming and going.

www.yogabeautiful.com.au If you are looking for any changes in times and days, then please go to the web site. You will find everything there. There is also our blog www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com.au

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS – subject: “FERMENTATION” The next will be the first Sunday in October at the Bentinck – in the Yoga Room. Please join us. If you are a distance ed. student then the cost of the afternoon is $10. If you are a visitor you are most welcome – and if you are not formally a student teacher with us then the cost is $20.

THE FORGIVENESS BOOK This book is still travelling, keep it moving along, the list is longish. And…..If you would like to be next on the list of 108 people, please email me…yogafirst2@bigpond.com

Everything will change for you when you work out that there is plenty of time in every day to complete the important things.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – “JAHNE’S YOGA UNIVERSITY” AT A FANTASTIC PRICE FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS…. our classes are available via distance education and you can start any time.. Thank you to those students who are moving from their 200 to another, higher course. Once you have got into the habit of learning, then it is easy to keep going….
Within our school there are three levels of YOGA TEACHER TRAINING, plus a course in the Gita, the fundamental source of all yoga teaching through the ages.

*THE BHAGAVADGITA (and YOGA PHILOSOPHY) which is like a Certificate or Diploma Level, RYTA 200 which is our “degree course” and *RYTA500 the “masters”.
1. THE BHAGAVADGITA (YOGIC PHILOSOPHY)
2. RYTA200 – THE BASIC YOGA COURSE
3. RYTA500 – THE NEXT STEP
4. RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY TRAINING (WE WILL BE ADDING PRE AND POST-NATAL RESTORATIVE YOGA ).

Most people have never met, and don’t understand, that there are angels all around us whose only job is to make sure that you don’t get too comfortable, fall asleep and miss the important moments (and gifts) in your life.

ALL OUR IN-HOUSE DVD’S AND CD’S ARE AVAILABLE AT THIS SITE. Please remember that they are not flashy high cost productions. They are made by Deb and me to answer your various questions. They are useful in your course.

*YIN YOGA, THE ANATOMY AND THE CHAKRAS all by Paul Grilley
*THE YAMAS
*THE UN-MEDITATION COURSE
*YOGA SWINGS
*THE REVELATION TAROT
*HOW-TO STUDY YOGA BY DISTANCE EDUCATION – A BOOKLET…..
*THE CHAKRAS – A COLOURING-IN BOOK and a REFERENCE BOOKLET –
*CHAKRA BOOKLET
*ETERNITY THE PRAYER

I move with the infinite in nature’s power. I hold the fire of the soul. I hold the life and healing”. (Rig Veda)

REGISTRATION/INSURANCE www.yogabeautiful.com.au We are giving you total choice now, although it may be a bit more expensive…..
REGISTRATION AND INSURANCE HAVE BEEN UNCOUPLED. YOU CAN BUY THEM SEPARATELY. A DEARER OPTION, BUT IT SEEMS THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT. WE AIM TO PLEASE.

YOUR TEACHER TRAINING YEAR (or so): If you are a trainee Yoga Teacher who has been working on the course for more than a year please understand that your course fee only gives you FREE classes with me for your first training year – the first 12 months only. Imagine if what would happen to our Institute if you took three years to finish your course and you could still come to classes free for the entire course. We do our fee calculation based on 12 months of free yoga classes. Your training fees cover you for a year, after that we ask you to pay $10 per class.

Also, just signing up and not sending in any modules means you are not really a trainee yoga teacher, and unless we receive regular communication (even if it isn’t modules), at a certain point we will deem that you have disconnected from us, and we will disconnect from you. And, coming to class with no intention of completing the course just to get the cheaper, easier student insurance, and free classes isn’t exactly living the yamas! Sooner or later we will call your bluff.

I have found if you paddle your boat it is easier to maintain the illusion of control, but I tell you it is so much more fun if you pull the oars in and just let the river take you where it will….

COOKING
On the weekend I made a savoury bread and butter pudding which is called a “Strata” by the fabulous Martha. First cook up some onions, tomatoes, a little garlic and seasoning in butter until you get a lovely caramelised mush. Spread that between slices of gluten free bread (the butter is used to cook the onions) and arrange the slices at an angle in your pyrex dish so that the crusts are upwards. Mix up about 4 eggs, some milk and pop this over the top of the “pudding”. Let it stand as long as you like. The bread soaks up the milk somewhat. I then cooked it in the microwave until the egg was gently set but not scrambled. Then pop it into the oven just to crisp up the top. You can crumble some cheese over the top before you put it in the oven. Serve it as slices with a crispy salad, or veggies – It’s up to you. It is gorgeous, and takes longer to write about it that it does to make!!!!

YIN YOGA/ANATOMY/MEDITATION DVD’s – all with Paul Grilley Just got a new shipment. They are the best and will form the backbone of your yoga references. As I have told you before when I bought mine they cost $100 or so each. I thought that this was a good investment. I think half that is a steal! And that is what we are selling this for. www.yogabeautiful.com.au JAHNE’S MENTORING SESSIONS …. Because Jahne has been teaching yoga teachers for more than 40 years, and running a business the Buddhist way for much longer than that (and successfully) she is often asked for advice. She also consults on the Tarot and the I-Ching. Please make an appointment.
REGARDING DEBBIE If you want to speak to Debbie about any aspect of the courses – she has done them, please remember that she only comes in on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. On those days she is available on Ph: 0354 273 518. I am always here, and available preferably on email or text because I teach and am not always at my desk. Don’t hesitate to email me and I will answer your email or text as soon as I can.

THE LAST WORD: I try to imagine life without being able to speak to God, but none of the days without that special energy have the same laughter, or opportunities…..
For more wonderful, delicious thoughts
Log on to our Web site www.yogabeautiful.com.au
and tune in to our videos daily. ENJOY – Love and Blessings,

Namaste Jahne

Email blast 29 September 2015

THE YAMAS – I cannot stress these too much.
If you come to me to be registered in our organisation (and baby, it is growing and is going to take some BIG leaps) and you haven’t done the yamas, guess what, you will have to do a workshop and an exam….. For me, the philosophy of yoga is the most important. There is NOTHING more important. We start there.

I have never liked the (Christian) “Thou Shalt Not” approach and am trying out a new one. What do you think of this.

TALKING ABOUT THE YAMAS – “sand to pearls”.
What is the grit in your shoe?
Remember my last newsletter… “……She quoted often from the Old Testament as though this was appropriate in those terms for today. I wonder if she uses oil lamps in her home, or uses a computer. Not sure what Abraham, or Paul or even Ezekiel would think about our technology!

I don’t know if you have really read the Old Testament, but I think those guys were way ahead in their experiences if not in their understandings. They were shepherds, tax collectors and general run of the mill villagers…. The Old Testament was written a long time ago when those in charge were trying to make a community out of a motley group of shepherds and farmers in the desert. They wrote about what they felt and experienced in terms that they understood, and it is out of this society that we get the pages and pages of rules and the Ten COMMANDMENTS. The people of this desert community would die from information overload if they were dropped into our society. They probably would worship the computer as a God. You press a button and a voice comes from heaven.

However, no matter if it is 4,500 years ago, 2000 years ago or yesterday (or today), to have the best life we can and keep out of trouble in this life and the next, to make the best choices, we are going to have to live according to a few rules, and the yamas make sense to me. They are INSPIRATIONS for living not RULES for living.

Do you really want to be healed, do you want to live the best you can? As long as you keep hanging on to stuff you know doesn’t work, you don’t hurt enough yet.

If the Yamas teach us anything, they say that we don’t have to live in that decision. It is never to late to start living the Yamas. Recognise the problem, repent (decide not to do it again and say sorry), and move forward. Use your problem, this bump in the road to give you the lift you need to move forward – to understand the pain. Using the wisdom of doing wrong in order to do right.

Going forward takes courage and we are often crippled with fear. We don’t think we can overcome it. A trusted friend or counsellor can help us to get on the road to recovery. Voice your pain and take it to the Universe, God or a friend. It is the first step to putting the burden down. Don’t carry it around. Resentment turns into anger and it is poisonous. This constant negative tape is debilitating and in fact you probably are not telling the truth to yourself. Instead, choose a yama and work on it. PRAY. MAKE YOUR MESS INTO YOUR MESSAGE.

I am a recovering perfectionist. I know now that I don’t have to achieve love – in fact I know I can’t achieve love. I can only give love, and recognise it when it comes to me, and give thanks.

(if you want to experience past life with me and can come visit – or want to check when I will be near you – email me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com)

TEACHER TRAINING….FERMENTATION WORKSHOP..CELEBRATION
I hope that you all have made a note in your diary for Margaret’s FERMENTATION WORKSHOP on Sunday. Teacher Training will be fabulous this time. We have a few things planned, a cake especially made by the local “cake Boss” at Blackbird cakes is just the beginning. So, whatever you do, plan to be here. Remember to come in through the Romsey Road gate. Park to the left or the right of the gate only – NOT straight ahead even if it is about 20 steps closer to the door. We will have a photo session, and it will be super special. Breaking news about a journey that has just taken me so many years to achieve for you all. BE THERE! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE. I imagine that we will not end at 4pm as we usually do. I could be wrong, but give yourself some wriggle room.

I will pass the hat around to pay for Margaret’s time and preparation – if you want to take home some ferment for your own use, something you may have made in the class, BRING SOME SMALL GLASS BOTTLES. There is also the usual $10 fee for the Teacher Training.

What you are may sometimes miss the mark, a prisoner in liberty. Get up somehow, get clean right now and be a happy, happy child set free.

FACEBOOK
I am so enjoying your fantastic responses to my writing. Even those who are not entirely on the same page. There is always someone who won’t entirely paddle alongside, but just get it that I write to take you on a journey. You may not like it today, but just put it aside, put it on your fridge and think about it. One day you will get what I am trying to say – even I learn something every time I write. It forces me to be more succinct. I am sure you find this in your writing too. Don’t worry if you don’t understand, don’t worry if you think I am nuts, don’t worry if you think I am an old grouch – I probably am. Just know that everyday I am working to make you the best yoga teachers you can be. That is ALL that I do with my days. I hold the space – FOR YOU.

NOA BELLING – YOGA HANDBOOK. PLEASE…..WE NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE!
We are still asking for your help. I wondered if any of you out there had finished with their book and would like to sell it back to us, WE WOULD LOVE TO BUY IT OFF YOU. We can get it secondhand from time to time for $25 to $30. We will buy yours off you for $25 plus whatever is the postage cost. Email us if you would like to sell yours, and Deb will call you to organise. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS – subject: “FERMENTATION” The next will be the first Sunday in October at the Bentinck – in the Yoga Room. Please join us. We will pass the hat around to pay for Margaret’s time and preparation and the gorgeous vegetables from her garden she brings along.

Teacher training: This is going to be a very special Yoga Teacher Training and probably will go later than the usual 4pm finish. If you are a distance ed. student then the cost of the afternoon is $10 (on top of Margarets fee). If you are a visitor you are most welcome – and if you are not formally a student teacher with us then the cost is $20.

Everything will change for you when you work out that there is plenty of time in every day to complete the important things.

Within our school there are three levels of YOGA TEACHER TRAINING, plus a course in the Gita, the fundamental source of all yoga teaching through the ages.

THE SHOP and ETSY www.myyogabooks.etsy.com As usual we are ahead of the pack. Colouring books are the new big thing, and we have had our colouring-in posters available for a long time now.
This week I received an email from one of our students who had purchased the chakras and colouring book and REALISED THAT COLOURING THE DRAWINGS WAS A MEDITATION. I celebrated. It has taken a year for a student to understand the reason for the drawings. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU……!!!
ALL OUR IN-HOUSE DVD’S AND CD’S ARE AVAILABLE AT THIS SITE. Please remember that they are not flashy high cost productions. They are made by Deb and me to answer your various questions. They are useful in your course.
*YIN YOGA, THE ANATOMY AND THE CHAKRAS all by Paul Grilley
*THE YAMAS
*THE UN-MEDITATION COURSE
*YOGA SWINGS
*THE REVELATION TAROT
*HOW-TO STUDY YOGA BY DISTANCE EDUCATION – A BOOKLET…..
*THE CHAKRAS – A COLOURING-IN BOOK and a REFERENCE BOOKLET –
*CHAKRA BOOKLET
*ETERNITY THE PRAYER

I move with the infinite in nature’s power. I hold the fire of the soul. I hold the life and healing”. (Rig Veda)

VIDEOS: THEY ARE NOT OPTIONAL – THEY ARE NECESSARY! Only $275 per annum. Please look down the list of the videos before you try to do stick drawings, or organise your journal. I have shown you what I recommend.. All you have to do is download. I even did a video on ‘The Gita. Good feedback thus far – thank you. Please. Email us and Debbie will make sure that you are logged in promptly. OH YES, IF YOU HAVE BOUGHT THE SUBSCRIPTION, THEN PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEOS. IF YOUR NAME IS NOT EDGAR CAYCE THEN YOU CAN’T LEARN WHAT IS ON THE TAPE FROM SLEEPING WITH YOUR COMPUTER! yogafirst2@bigpond.com
YOUR HEALTH TEAM Good Health is a team effort, and not a one person try and fail, try and fail effort. You will need to try and adjust and move forward that is true, and this is easier if you have a few people to go to. I believe it is all about balance. About lifestyle. For my bones and muscles I don’t go to a nutritionist (necessarily), I head to my neuromuscular specialist Dr. Brett at Gisborne Chiropractic. For my gut problems I go to Dr. Gigante a herbalist/TCM, and when I feel I need a supplement and this happens less and less, I speak to Margaret Armstrong who is a body ecologist who believes as I do that food is medicine. Of course yoga and meditation is something that is a given in my day, and I am my own physician in this case. I also eat whole food, and grow what I can – this also reflects my health perspective.

Don’t wait until you have an illness until you see your health team. Go regularly to be kept well. It is an old Chinese point of view. The Doctor was there to keep you well, not to just make you well.

Getting a drug to market costs 1.3 million dollars (or was it billion). Herbalists for instance have been trained in evaluating herbs from your garden. Learn about your health, learn how you can use what you already have at hand to keep you healthy. You wouldn’t go to Mc.Donalds to get your car fixed. Don’t go to a chemical company to get help for your body. Read and get smart.

GARDENING WITH BENEFITS More Weeding, weeding out the forget-me-nots and the sticky weed which are horrible as they die back. Strike now before they die, and leave a few just to liven things up in the garden, but rip them up before they go to seed. What more can I say. It is hugely important to get on top of those weeds. That is all that I am concentrating on at present. Weeds, Weeds, Weeds.

The sticky weed is a herb (as are the forget-me-nots) , the seeds of which were used as a replacement for coffee beans in the war. We are not at war, so keep the weed under control The tips can be eaten I am told (I haven’t), but I did used to make an anti-rhuematic oil from sticky weed which was hugely popular with the Italian community.
COOKING
CHICK PEA PIZZA. Make your base with chick pea flour. 3 cups besan (chick pea flour) 3 tabls oil etc and 2 cups+ of water, salt. Mix in a bowl. The result is a lot runnier than a pizza base, a pancake batter rather than a dough. Heat up a couple of big onions in oil until they caramalise. Grease a tray and pour the base mixture into a tray. Put in the oven at 180 for half an hour. You do gets cracks and shrinkage. THEN, when you take it out of the oven dress with tomato paste, the caramalised onions, raw torn spinach, sliced red peppers. Dob with hummus so that you can slice in a way everyone gets a bit of hummus. You can change any ingredients. Cook in the oven as you usually would (or not – it can be eaten raw), and then enjoy.

YIN YOGA/ANATOMY/MEDITATION DVD’s – all with Paul Grilley Just got a new shipment. They are the best and will form the backbone of your yoga references. As I have told you before when I bought mine they cost $100 or so each. I thought that this was a good investment. I think half that is a steal! And that is what we are selling this. www.yogabeautiful.com.au JAHNE’S MENTORING SESSIONS …. Because Jahne has been teaching yoga teachers for more than 40 years, and running a business the Buddhist way for much longer than that (and successfully) she is often asked for advice. She also consults on the Tarot and the I-Ching. Please make an appointment.
REGARDING DEBBIE If you want to speak to Debbie about any aspect of the courses – she has done them, please remember that she only comes in on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. On those days she is available on Ph: 0354 273 518. I am always here, and available preferably on email or text because I teach and am not always at my desk. Don’t hesitate to email me and I will answer your email or text as soon as I can.

Namaste Jahne

email blast 13 October 2015

MC.MINDFULNESS
The present buzz is all around MINDFULNESS, which I think is being massaged into just another kind of “do-it-yourself help”. Meditation as a simple, accessible practice available without extensive training flourished in China in the 8th Century and in Burma in the 19th Century, and growing directly out of the Burmese movement is what is known as MBSR – Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Are we oversimplifying the discipline? Can I ask you this; If MBSR represents Mindfulness as “purposeful, non-judgemental attention in the present moment” are we able to say exactly what we mean by “in the present moment”? Can we know in advance of our sitting how to maintain attention in the present moment? Do we even know what a present moment is? I enjoy going to source books, I love looking back into history to see where our teaching originated, and the points at which Western Philosophy and Buddhism seem to merge. Can the Buddhas teachings truly transform who we are when we don’t know in any deep sense who we have been (and I am not speaking of past life therapy).

Jon Kabat-Zinn the founder of MBSR said “The past is already over. We have to deal with things how they are in the moment…Healing and transformation are possible the moment that we accept the actuality of things as they are.” Thich Nhat Hanh writes in a book on mindfulness “From now on I will use the term “mindfulness” to refer to keeping one’s consciousness alive to the present reality.” Actually the word “Mindfulness” (sati in Pali and smriti in Sanskrit) has remembering as its fundamental meaning. It refers to remembering what has value, what matters most. Choosing an active presence of mindfulness takes it off the cushion and inserts it into daily life. When we do this we are actively choosing how to act in this moment, and choosing who and what will be, which is Real Mindfulness.

AYI AND YOGA AUSTRALIA – TOGETHER. ACCREDITATION.
My beautiful certificates came in the mail today. A long wait, but I have them at last. I have a level 3 qualification which requires at least 10 years or 1,000 hours of teaching which is just a fraction of the yoga I have actually done – 50 years of yoga, 40+ years of teaching teachers. PLUS, and most importantly I have Accreditation of our yoga teacher training at 350 hours level.

TEACHER TRAINING….FERMENTATION WORKSHOP
This week I noticed that our local cook store MORT AND PESTLE received the delivery of old fashioned ceramic fermentation pots. They look beautiful, and are perfect for the ferment we started at the workshop, and the kimchi lesson we are planning. More to come on this..

What you are may sometimes miss the mark, a prisoner in liberty. Get up somehow, get clean right now and be a happy, happy child set free.

FACEBOOK
I hope that I am doing better with my Facebook. I am trying to be inspirational, and regular. Thanks to those folk who leave feedback.

YOGA CLASSES- Classes held at Bentinck
THE HOME OF THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE
Cost: $10 per person per class (or $100 a 12 class pass: non–transferable).
$15 mum plus little yoga bub. $25 per family (mum, dad and two primary school children.
Young adults $10 each).

Monday 5.30 RESTORATIVE with jahne, 6.30 General class with Nicole
Tuesday 10am RESTORATIVE with jahne, and 7.30 General class with Brad,
Wednesday 12.30 General class with Kalma,
Friday 6.30 General class with Nicholas,
Saturday. 10am General class with Nicole (9am and 12.30 RESTORATIVE with jahne)

“The Bentinck” is on the corner of the Romsey Road and the High Street in Woodend. Enter from the start of the Romsey Road only.

PARKING:
No matter which class you come to – as you enter the Romsey Road gate, Yoga parking is either to the left or the right of the gate. If that is full, then the space over the road is always available. PLEASE DON’T park in the central space – even it is empty and you are late, this is for Innisfree staff coming and going.

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS The next will be the first Sunday in November (1st Nov.) at the Bentinck – in the Yoga Room. Please join us. If you are a distance ed. student then the cost of the afternoon is $10 If you are a visitor you are most welcome – and if you are not formally a student teacher with us then the cost is $20.

Everything will change for you when you work out that there is plenty of time in every day to complete the important things.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – “JAHNE’S YOGA UNIVERSITY” AAT A FANTASTIC PRICE FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS…. our classes are available via distance education and you can start any time.. Thank you to those students who are moving from their 200 to another, higher course. Once you have got into the habit of learning, then it is easy to keep going….

Within our school there are three levels of YOGA TEACHER TRAINING, plus a course in the Gita, the fundamental source of all yoga teaching through the ages.

*THE BHAGAVADGITA (and YOGA PHILOSOPHY) which is like a Certificate or Diploma Level, RYTA 200/350 which is our “degree course” and *RYTA500 the “masters”.

1. THE BHAGAVADGITA (YOGIC PHILOSOPHY)
2. RYTA200 – THE BASIC YOGA COURSE
3. RYTA350 – COURSE ACCREDITED BY YOGA AUSTRALIA
4. RYTA500 – THE NEXT STEP
5. RESTORATIVE YOGA (Level 1) and RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY TRAINING (Level 2)
Two levels. CPE and Diploma level – includes “Brain Yoga”… A professional level course.

The RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY COURSE (Level 2), has morphed into a professional stand-alone course for people who want to specialise in Restorative Yoga Therapy. It won’t be easy, and attracts the same conditions and provisions as the Professional Yoga Teacher Training course. Everyone who is now on the course is doing the Level 1. If you are interested in making Restorative Yoga Therapy your primary modality, then please let me know. It is such a worthwhile course, and few are doing it to this level. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

I move with the infinite in nature’s power. I hold the fire of the soul. I hold the life and healing”. (Rig Veda)

GARDENING WITH BENEFITS My garden is looking splendid. Everything is bursting with life. Just needs a preseason mulch and some maxi crop… The TLC I have been lavishing on my kale is paying off. I think it is better than the curly kale for what I use it for, although if I were making chips, the curly would be the go.

Having asked my students for fish, my frogs have really lifted their game! I went out and spoke to them, told them the problem, asked for help, and I got it. The pond is beautiful and no mozzies. Thanks frogs.

COOKING – YOUR FOOD IS YOUR MEDICINE.
IRISH SODA BREAD. Easy Peasy for people who are gluten intolerant, and don’t like yeast. As usual I am guessing my quantities… play, you won’t go wrong. You can make it with standard flour.

INGREDIENTS: 1 cup GF self raising flour, half cup GF wholemeal flour, 2 teasp bicarb soda, 1 egg, buttermilk, sprinkle salt, teasp honey. For a savoury loaf add a small handful of garlic greens (tops) finely chopped. For a sweet loaf increase the honey – you could add chopped nuts.

METHOD: Put the dry ingredients in a bowl including the garlic greens and mix with your hands, then make a well in the centre and add the egg and gradually the buttermilk (or plain milk) until you have a soft dough (sort of like a soft scone dough). Make into a soft ball and transfer to a floured baking tray, dust with flour, score with a knife in a cross, and then bake in 180C for 35 minutes. Leave to cool and then eat with lashings of real butter. Wonderful. When I was in South Africa I made this all the time because their traditional foods were way to heavy and greasy for my taste – I could always make this, sweet or savoury, it was quick, and a hit. I had to get in first to get a slice.

Have you tried crisping up shavings of pumpkin peel instead of potato crisps?

“THE GROUCHY OLD TART COOKS”
One of my students at Innisfree called me “a grouchy old tart”. It was supposed to be an insult, but as teaching them was “grouchy old tart business”, I kept it and it is now used affectionately (I think). I thought a T-Shirt would be good “Yes, I am The Grouchy Old Yoga Tart” but it hasn’t happened. So the current version could be “Yes, The Grouchy Old Tart Cooks”

I have said in the past that we will be doing cooking videos. Well I am exploring the technology. I have the space, I have the mind, I have a plan and the plan is on the top of the pile. Catherine the owner of the local cooking shop “Mort and Pestle” (www.pestle.com.au)
is sponsoring and helping. Making sure that she has the bits and pieces that you may need to be the cook you want to be. I try the op. shops first for the most interesting cooking equipment.

JAHNE’S MENTORING SESSIONS …. Because Jahne has been teaching yoga teachers for more than 40 years, and running a business the Buddhist way for much longer than that (and successfully) she is often asked for advice. She also consults on the Tarot and the I-Ching. Please make an appointment. Past Life Therapy available, but not on the phone, mainly due to the occasional line disconnect for whatever reason. Totally ruins a session. My next visit will be to Brisbane to chat about your yoga progress, explore the Restorative option, and to do a past life session or two, so if you want me to contact you first when I know the dates, get your name on the list.
REGARDING DEBBIE If you want to speak to Debbie about any aspect of the courses – she has done them, please remember that she only comes in on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. On those days she is available on Ph: 0354 273 518. I am always here, and available preferably on email or text because I teach and am not always at my desk. Don’t hesitate to email me and I will answer your email or text as soon as I can.
THE YAMAS – I cannot stress these too much how important these are, and I am going to leave them at the bottom of the newsletter because I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THEM. If you come to me to be registered in our organisation (and baby, it is growing and is going to take some BIG leaps) and you haven’t done the yamas, guess what, you will have to do a workshop and an exam….. For me, the philosophy of yoga is the most important. There is NOTHING more important. We start there
I have never liked the (Christian) “Thou Shalt Not” approach and am trying out a new one. What do you think of this.

“Just for today I will not kill thoughts, hopes, aspirations, confidence. I will not kill.”
“Just for today I will work on telling the truth”
“Just for today I will work on not stealing”
“Just for today I will work on respecting all people and all things”
“Just for today I will work on not taking more of anything than what I need”.
THE LAST WORD: I try to imagine life without being able to speak to God, but none of the days without that special energy have the same laughter, or opportunities…..
For more wonderful, delicious thoughts
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and tune in to our videos daily. ENJOY – Love and Blessings,

Namaste Jahne

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