Page 421 – Yoga Beautiful

email blast 23 June 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.

THE RED STRING
For a number of years I have been making the Red String bracelets for my students. The idea came from a very ancient Kabbalah custom which recognised the need for protection from the envious (evil) eye. They called this protection THE RED STRING. I don’t believe that the strings in themselves have magic powers, but I do believe that we need reminding (when we can see the options) to take a higher path – the world is full of negativity and temptations. Red Strings, red blood on the doorposts, and red wine are all mentioned in the bible in connection with the idea of protection against evil forces.

Red is a significant colour by itself. It is the lowest frequency on the colour spectrum (think Muladhara – a connection here). The lowest level of light and extreme negativity. Why would you use negativity against negativity? Put simply, a sort of a vaccination. Why do we use wool? It is based on the idea of spinning. The world spins with judgement and mercy and when you spin the two together, judgement is converted into mercy. A single candle converts the darkness into light.

I know that of itself the Red String changes nothing. But it reminds me that when I change, THEN EVERYTHING CHANGES. Seen this way, the Red String is transformational, but only because it reminds me to transform. I am not particularly superstitious, and I wear my Red String to remind me of the person I aspire to be. It reminds me of my yogic philosophies, and my desire to live the yamas daily. It is a reminder I take everywhere to be the best I can be.

It is worn on the left wrist as the left hand pertains to the concept of receiving. As I act on the Red String I am changing the negative which comes to me, into positive, intercepting and converting negative forces. When it falls off? I just figure it has done its job thus far. No need to panic. If it won’t stay on, and keeps on falling off (apart from making sure it is knotted firmly) well then I would examine my energy and how I have been behaving towards others.

Within the plaiting of the string I use 7 strings of silk along with wool, and I tie 7 knots to remind me of the chakras, also to contain the colours of the rainbow, and the koshas which signify the worlds that influence reality. So what would in the first instance look like a simple plait of red silk/wool, has quite a deep significance; certainly it has for me – it is not just a magic “charm”. You can buy one from the Etsy site www.myyogabooks.etsy.com and www.yogabeautiful.com.au shop or contact me on yogafirst2@bigpond.com

THE BLOG AND FACEBOOK
Nic is doing our FaceBook pages and the Blog www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com. She tells me we are on Instagram and we even have a program for the week!

Thank you to those girls who gave me some photographs of the Dalai lama from our visit in Brisbane. I took lots of photographs, but some of them were obscured by a white light surrounding Him and were hard to reproduce.

WE WILL SOON HAVE OUR FOUNDATION
Because it is designed to reflect our lineage, I think I am going to call the Foundation ‘THE GITAJAIA FOUNDATION”. GITA because that reflects the teaching of my own source teacher (Margrit Segesman who began the Gita School of Yoga), and the teachings of the Gita are the Foundation of our Institute and its courses, and JAIA because that is how I think of myself .

I am working on getting the foundation legally correct and I think it will take another month. It is a lengthy process, and we will let you know how we progress. The Foundation will not make any immediate differences to our students or teachers, it just changes the business model – but neither the nature nor the purpose of our Institute, which is to inspire yogis. It will mean that we will have a Board, and that if anything untoward happens to me, the Institute will go forward, your qualifications will be safe, and you will be able to build on them. I have outlived most of my forebears and plan to last for sometime yet – but one never knows when God will call. I theoretically have booked my passage when I reach about 103 years of age, but providing all my marbles are present, I am happy to last longer!

THE TAROT
As you know, I redesigned the tarot a few years ago, and they are quite lovely – they sell all over the world. I have some vacancies in my own practice if anyone out there wants a reading. I consider myself to be quite different and certainly worthwhile. Please don’t come to me if you want to know about someone tall dark and handsome in your future, or winning lotto numbers. We will however discover things in your future you may not have thought about.

Please make an appointment by emailing yogafirst2@bigpond.com and give me a few optional dates. It is also possible to have a postal/email reading.

NOA BELLING – YOGA HANDBOOK
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 – Times they are a changing…. Classes held at the 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).
Jahne’s classes are designed around her 50 years of teaching experience. Friends, Yoga is not a recipe that is repeated the same way every time in every class. That would be mindless. If you want repetition don’t go to Jahne’s class. There is a thread running through the class. But it is not EXACTLY the same. If it was the same each week, you could just check your mind at the door. The shelf is for shoes, not for minds.

You will notice that some of my senior trainee teachers are taking over the evening classes – Nicholas Martin, Nicole and Kalma. I hear that you are enjoying them. Don’t expect them to teach like me – they are trying to put their own stamp on yoga. This seems to be important when you first start out as I remember.”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.

Don’t wander around Woodend looking for the class. If you really get lost, just ask a shopkeeper for THE BENTINCK. It is iconic in the district and they will give you directions. PARKING – Sorry, “Staff parking” 1. at the front entrance and 2. parking right outside of the yoga door is not available to us yoga persons, this is kitchen staff parking (doesn’t even apply to me) and does not mean you. Please think of others when you park. We hemmed the chef in the other day and he was not a happy chappy. Never upset the cook!. If both sides of the car park are full when you arrive, please park over the road – you just have to walk across Romsey road to yoga, and that’s not such a hard thing.

CLASS TIMES
Monday 5.30pm RESTORATIVE , 6.30 general class (Nicole).
Tuesday 10am RESTORATIVE – Jahne and 7.30 general class (Brad),
Wednesday 12.30 general class (Kalma)
Friday 6.30pm general class (Nicholas)
Saturday. 10am general class (Nicole)
plus 9am RESTORATIVE YOGA – Jahne, and 12.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA – Jahne

**Because some of the classes are back to back, please check before you walk in early. There is a notice on the door, PLEASE READ IT. Walk around the building and wait quietly in the sunroom on the other side – don’t just walk in. Thank you.

*RESTORATIVE YOGA (4 classes now – and growing)
The more I learn about how to teach Restorative Yoga, what to add, what to leave out (every class is a little different) I am more and more in awe of it.
……….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.

Please, if you have recently given birth and wish to come to yoga with your baby you are both more than welcome (I always have maintained a baby even a couple of days old is welcome in our classes with their mum – however NOT in restorative yoga), but please be sensitive to others in the room when you join a mixed general class. If you wish to change and feed we have a lovely conservatory room especially set out just for you. Warm, carpeted, floor to ceiling garden windows – a million dollar view for the short time you exit the class! We love babies, we love young mothers, however, if you want to be with other young mothers going through the same things as you are, please wait until we start our Mums+One classes.

If you are a Visitor or Casual (i.e you don’t come to every class) please note that as our classes are pretty full with regulars i.e. People who buy a pass and wouldn’t miss a session, we may not be able to fit you in.
TEXT ONLY YOUR BOOKING REQUEST TO 0402 088 170. Please don’t ring me.

PLEASE PEOPLE: It is important that you get to the class early. When you arrive, be observant, and if there is a class in progress go around to the side door. PLEASE, please be on time.
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 Nicole is loading things on this.

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS – The next will be on Sunday 5th July 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 a visitor and 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.

BEANNIES FOR NEPAL
Please keep knitting Beanies. I still aim to send a big box in September.

You should see Debbies, it his beautiful. People knit a beanie, and love it, then they knit one for themselves. Then a family member will have a first try, and on and an it goes – all from one person knitting one beanie.
Try it, it is easy. If you can’t manage a beanie, then knit a scarf. Thank you for those who have posted beanies to us. Last year we at the yarn bombing group managed to inspire enough knitters to send a large bale of beanies to schools in Nepal. With the earthquakes, and the cold and hardship faced by the people at this time, I felt that we could REALLY knit heaps of beanies and provide an even more valuable service. You will find a pattern on www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com

Send your beanies to PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441. Please don’t send them POD or COD. It would be cheaper for us to buy beanies if we have to repatriate them from the post office. The cheapest way to forward them is to collect a whole lot, and then go to office works and take advantage of their new parcel service. Some Newsagents also have a splendid Australia-wide parcel postage service.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – AYI YOGA UNIVERSITY
All 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.

1. THE BHAGAVADGITA (YOGIC PHILOSOPHY)
2. RYTA200 – THE BASIC YOGA COURSE
3. RYTA500 – THE NEXT STEP
which you can take in a number of ways. Must start with 200 hours first.
4. RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY TRAINING

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.

THE SHOP and ETSY www.myyogabooks.etsy.com 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, Nic and me to answer your various questions. They are useful in your course.

“YIN YOGA” AND “FIVE TIBETANS”
THE YAMAS:
THE UN-MEDITATION COURSE:
YOGA SWINGS: Colours – *blue and grey, grey and black or pink and orange. I have five second hand swings in perfect condition available for $100. Please contact me personally if you would like these.

THE REVELATION TAROT:
LINO CUT PRINTS, HAND PAINTED “OM’S”
HOW-TO STUDY YOGA BY DISTANCE EDUCATION – A BOOKLET…..
THE CHAKRAS – A COLOURING-IN BOOK and a REFERENCE BOOKLET –
CHAKRA BOOKLET
ETERNITY THE PRAYER – (not on the site yet, but will be there soon).

YIN YOGA/ANATOMY/MEDITATION DVD’s – all with Paul Grilley How many times have I urged you to buy these? I have lots count. But they are a great source of information. This is one of my major sources of course and can be a source for you too. BUY ALL THREE. You will never regret it. They are the best and will form the backbone of your yoga references. Don’t hold back it will be false economy. 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 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): We are culling our files and putting old files in archive. If you have not sent in any modules, and have not communicated in the last year, your file will be archived. You can still continue your course, but there will be a fee to start it up again. If you are not sending in modules, and are not communicating, then how can we know if you are a student!

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….

TAKE CLASSES WITH JAHNE ANYWHERE, ANY TIME.
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..

GARDENING WITH BENEFITS Please go to our Blog. www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com to catch up with recipes.

Nothing much is happening in the garden at the moment apart from weeding. Mulching, and keeping the frost off things.

My newest Icy-Pole (Yes, I like them even in the winter time), is Pumpkin puree, Rose-Hip syrup and cream. Totally gorgeous. I did make one to which I added cherry brandy to the Rose-Hip syrup – decadent, but quite, quite lovely. I have not yet put it on the blog, but I will. Keep checking.

WANT RAISED VEGGIE GARDENS? One of my students is a member of a large apple growing family, and he has available BIG APPLE CRATES. Deb has bought two and tells me they are 1.2m square, weathered to a lovely grey. They are well constructed and would make a fabulous wood box, compost bin, raised garden bed and even with casters on the bottom a reasonable coffee table I am told. If you want one they are $100 each. If you live outside of Woodend you will have to collect them. But they are rather lovely. Order through Deb. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

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 30 June 2015

MOVING ON FROM THE QUICK-FIX MENTALITY…
Although my life moves at quite a pace, and I could take advantage of the supermarket for everything, I try to be disciplined, and “make-do and mend” where possible. I can even darn. For the chores we do around the house there is usually a simple, natural alternative, and through the blog I try to bring them to you, I encourage you to use them.

My grandparents, and great grandparents, couldn’t go to a supermarket, and wouldn’t have trusted it if they could. To buy the basics, yes that would have been OK, but for remedies (“simples”) they used recipes that had been passed down mother to mother through the generations. We have lost many of these skills, but they can be rediscovered. They are just as effective now as they always were – whilst being environmentally sound, safe and natural. Learning about these, using these, will help you to save money AND work in harmony with mother nature.

If you have a “problem” you need a natural solution for, then let me know via the Facebook or blog and if I can’t help you, I will know someone who can resolve your problem. Everything from aphids to bath salts….
Leave your questions or comments on the Facebook page or blog….

THE BLOG AND FACEBOOK
Nic is doing our FaceBook pages and the Blog www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com. She tells me we are on Instagram and we even have a program for the week! I am considering putting up a “shopify” page just for the tarot and art that I do… Before I take this step, has anyone out there used or supported this site? Do you like it?

WE ARE TURNING THE INSTITUTE INTO THE GITAJAIA FOUNDATION
It is a lengthy process, and we will let you know how we progress. It will not make any immediate differences to our students or teachers, it just changes the business model, but neither the nature nor the purpose of our Institute, which is to inspire yogis. Thank you to those who have emailed words of support.

As I have said on the Facebook pages, I am considering calling it the “GITAJAIA Foundation” to honour my teacher Margrit Segesman and her lineage, and to honour the Gita which is at the core of our teachings . The “Jaia” is what I know myself as, and this part of the name is to honour the 50 years that I have been inspired to teach you all. If you asked Debbie what kind of yoga we do here, she would reply immediately GITAJAIA. Of course it is Hatha, but GitaJaia honours the lineage.

YOGA CLASSES – Times they are a changing…. Classes held at the Bentinck THE NEW 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).
As you know, we are moving all our admin to the Bentinck. I would ask you to get into the habit of coming through the side door opposite to the usual entrance. I will soon be locking our usual door to make the new door the only entrance.. Yes, there will be a sign. Once through that door, you will notice that my office entrance has been changed to face the entry foyer. You will be able to take off your shoes, hang up your coats, relax on a sofa whilst you wait, and the reception area will be warm and heated. It may not happen overnight, but you will can see we are working towards it. I would imagine that by the middle of the month the core of the work will be completed, and the pretty bits can be done i.e. Hanging pictures etc. Once Debbie and Nicole have moved there, you will be able to drop in on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for your yoga queries to be attended to.

Jahne’s classes are designed around her 50 years of teaching experience. Friends, Yoga is not a recipe that is repeated the same way every time in every class. That would be mindless. If you want repetition don’t go to Jahne’s class. There is a thread running through the class. But it is not EXACTLY the same. If it was the same each week, you could just check your mind at the door. The shelf is for shoes, not for minds.

You will notice that some of my senior trainee teachers are taking over the evening classes – Nicholas Martin, Nicole, Brad and Kalma. I hear that you are enjoying them. Don’t expect them to teach like me – they are trying to put their own stamp on yoga. This seems to be important when you first start out as I remember.

“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. Don’t wander around Woodend looking for the class. If you really get lost, just ask a shopkeeper for THE BENTINCK. It is iconic in the district and they will give you directions.

PARKING – Sorry, “Staff parking” 1. at the front entrance and 2. parking right outside of the yoga door is not available to us yoga persons, this is kitchen staff parking (doesn’t even apply to me) and does not mean you. Please think of others when you park. We hemmed the chef in the other day and he was not a happy chappy. Never upset the cook!. If both sides of the car park are full when you arrive, please park over the road – you just have to walk across Romsey road to yoga, and that’s not such a hard thing.

Monday 5.30pm RESTORATIVE , 6.30 general class (Nicole).
Tuesday 10am RESTORATIVE and 7.30 general class (Brad),
Wednesday 12.30 general class (Kalma)
Friday 6.30pm general class (Nicholas)
Saturday. 10am general class (Nicole) plus 9am RESTORATIVE and 12.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA.

*RESTORATIVE YOGA (4 classes now – and growing)
After 50 years of teaching, my yoga is changing. I think I am more relaxed, more able to change and break away from “the norm”, more able to take side paths having once started a class – change direction. Get into different areas within a class, and this has been lead by my work in Restorative…

..which 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.

Please, if you have recently given birth and wish to come to yoga with your baby you are both more than welcome (I always have maintained a baby even a couple of days old is welcome in our classes with their mum – however NOT in restorative yoga), but please be sensitive to others in the room when you join a mixed general class. If you wish to change and feed we have a lovely conservatory room especially set out just for you. Warm, carpeted, floor to ceiling garden windows – a million dollar view for the short time you exit the class! We love babies, we love young mothers, however, if you want to be with other young mothers going through the same things as you are, please wait until we start our Mums+One classes.

WATCH THE TIME – Don’t just wander in as if the only time that matters is yours. Every minute of a one hour class is important, so it is important that you get to the class early. When you arrive, be observant, and if there is a class in progress go around to the side door. PLEASE, please be on time.
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 Nicole is loading things on this.

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS – The next will be on Sunday 5th July 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 a visitor and 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
ART/PHILANTHROPY AND PHOTOS FROM THE MISSION
As you are aware, the income from my art goes into our ongoing philanthropic efforts – this effort would be accelerated of course by putting up a shop just for my art. The money goes towards buying bandages and other necessities for the mission, and also into our scholarship fund – whichever needs it most at the time. If you can send even a few dollars, please do (talk to Deb on Tuesdays or Wednesday to arrange). We live the yamas, so, you will know the money will go to where we say it will go, and be used for what we say it will be used for.. No staff or administration fees deducted at any point!

Photos: www.flickr.com/photos/amigasdelsenor PS: You can’t send the money direct, although that would be easier – it has to go through the US Mission office for reasons of security.

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

BEANNIES FOR NEPAL
Please keep knitting Beanies – or sending new or as-new beanies. When I was in Brisbane I had a chance to talk to many people about our Beanie effort. They were inspired to start their own, so if you have a beanie box in your studio, please fill it. You can send it to us when it is full, or you can ask Deb and she will give you the address to send it to the Tibetan refugees and orphanages in India and Tibet.
You should see Debbies, it his beautiful. People knit a beanie, and love it, then they knit one for themselves. Try it, it is easy. If you can’t manage a beanie, then knit a scarf. Thank you for those who have posted beanies to us. Last year we at the yarn bombing group managed to inspire enough knitters to send a large bale of beanies to schools in Nepal. With the earthquakes, and the cold and hardship faced by the people at this time, I felt that we could REALLY knit heaps of beanies and provide an even more valuable service. You will find a pattern on www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – AYI YOGA UNIVERSITY
All 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.

YIN YOGA/ANATOMY/MEDITATION DVD’s – all with Paul Grilley This is one of my major sources of course and can be a source for you too. BUY ALL THREE. You will never regret it. They are the best and will form the backbone of your yoga references. Don’t hold back it will be false economy. 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 I move with the infinite in nature’s power. I hold the fire of the soul. I hold the life and healing”. (Rig Veda)

Signing up for a course – our course included, is like buying a car. You can’t buy it, take it for one run, leave it in the garage and a year later go back to the dealer and ask for your money back. It doesn’t work like that. If you are on the course, you are on the course until you write and let us know that you are not. If twelve months and more have elapsed with no contact in spite of all our newsletters, etc…. then you have (as far as we are concerned) been on the course for 12 months.

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.

THE DRUMMING VIDEO – I know that if you watch it you will find it “uninspiring”, primarily because it is not meant to be watched. Videoing is the easiest way to get sounds to you too. If you put the video on and settle down for your 3 minute meditation you will enjoy it, because that is how it was meant to be used.

GARDENING WITH BENEFITS Please go to our Blog. www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com to catch up with recipes.

Because it is the time of solstice I have planted heaps of garlic. Trimmed climbers, trimmed away frost bitten leaves, and generally got things looking cared for.

I have put a few things on the blog. Icy-poles, coconut cookies and a facial cleansing milk. Hop on over, and enjoy them. I love the easy-peasy. Minimum ingredients for maximum pleasure.

WANT RAISED VEGGIE GARDENS? One of my students is a member of a large apple growing family, and he has available BIG APPLE CRATES. Deb has bought two and tells me they are 1.2m square, weathered to a lovely grey. They are well constructed and would make a fabulous wood box, compost bin, raised garden bed and even with casters on the bottom a reasonable coffee table I am told. If you want one they are $100 each. If you live outside of Woodend you will have to collect them. But they are rather lovely. Order through Deb.yogafirst2@bigpond.com

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.
MOVING. MOVING (I THINK) – SO PATIENCE PLEASE! The space is being beautified for us, and made into a welcoming yoga place to be – not just a room with an office. Unless something unforeseen happens, we are moving to The Bentink in the first week in July. We have started organising computers etc.

Now you know and I know that no matter how much we plan there will be a few days of chaos, as cables, Telstra and Optus catch up, and we pack then unpack the files. I am not looking forward to it at all. Not even a little bit. Everything about it makes me not want to think about it – but I am sure that when we have settled in we will love it. Thank goodness for CIGI Computing Solutions (Sunbury) who are a magnificent help with the trying IT problems that arise..
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 4th August

WAYNE IS WITH US.
We have been waiting for Wayne Hopkins our aboriginal scholarship holder to join us at Innisfree, and he has arrived. He came to Teacher Training on Sunday (where were you), and will be at all classes (well, almost all classes). Please take the opportunity to be with us, sit with Wayne and talk to him about his plans; obvious from his logo – YOGA WALKABOUT. He will be with us for another month.

THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY AND ITS LIBRARY….
H. P. Blavatsky, one of the founders of the Theosophical Society, pointed out that it was formed to assist in showing that such a thing as Theosophy exists. But what is Theosophy?
The term has various interpretations and levels of meaning. Within the Theosophical Society (TS) it is used principally in two ways: To mean divine wisdom, from the Greek, theosophia. To mean a set of teachings on the subject of divine wisdom
In the Western world, as a system of thought Theosophy can be traced back to the third century AD when the Alexandrian philosopher, Ammonius Saccas, founded the Eclectic Theosophical System based on what has subsequently been called Neo-Platonism. The teachings of this system were summarised by Madame Blavatsky as:
“One absolute, incomprehensible and supreme Deity, or infinite essence, which is the root of all nature, and of all that is visible and invisible
Humanity’s immortal nature, identical in essence with the Universal Soul
Theurgy, or divine work, which entails making oneself as pure as the incorporeal beings so that “the gods” might impart the Divine mysteries”. An Eastern word used for Theosophy is Brahmavidya, ‘divine wisdom’. Its etymology suggests a way of seeing which is constantly growing and expanding.
Now you know that, and you may not have connected the actual “ Society” with the wonderful bookshop we all visit, and you may not know it has a magnificent library. Please if you are in Melbourne, take an afternoon and visit the bookshop and then take a look at the library. If you are a bookworm as I am you will be stunned with the wonderful and ancient tomes they still have there. I venture to say that you will not find a library like this anywhere else in Australia, and it is so close.
I know that some of you have visited or googled, but I went there in person, and I have managed to negotiate a couple of concessions which will make your library visits easier. Firstly you will be able to take a book out for 2 months instead of one, which will make returning them a little easier, and if you join the library you will be able to become a member of the Society without a sponsor which is the usual requirement. Just take your student card in. Open Hours: Tues. to Thurs. 11am to 6pm (126-128 Russell Street, Melbourne). www.austheos.org.au

ANNIVERSARY DISCOUNTS
We are planning a cake (double chocolate gluten free of course) but right now, to recognise our various Anniversaries – 1st Year at innisfree, Moving our offices to Innisfree and the launch of our Foundation (hopefully within the month) we are giving discounts to all our courses.
*RESTORATIVE – 10% discount
*200 HOUR TEACHER TRAINING – 10% discount
*THE 500 HOUR TRAINING – Free Membership into the exclusive “THE 500 CLUB” for one year (500hr Registration) For teachers who enrol in August. Special commemorative registration form, and free video sub for one year?
*GITA – 50% discount on the video subscription
If you are interested in building your yoga qualifications, please email me and we will have a chat and discover the best way to move forward. Namaste Jahne yogafirst2@bigpond.com
Thank you for those people have responded to this question. You may not understand that I have been inspired to continuously keep asking the question of myself.

WHAT ARE YOU PREPARED TO WALK AWAY FROM…?
Thank you for those people have responded to this question. You may not understand that I have been inspired to continuously keep asking the question of myself.

Most of you have listed four or five things. Keep trying until you have got a couple of pages. Look in every corner of your life. Email me. Let me know”. yogafirst2@bigpond.com Think about it every day. It can change your life.

………..Giving/given up: Worry, *Suffering, *Plastic Bags, *useless time spent googling, *social media on Thursdays, *alcohol, *relationships that don’t work for me, *pain (decided to work with it and through it, instead of on it). Etc. etc.for a page and a half of single line manifestos. That’s me.

THE BLOG AND FACEBOOK
Nicole is doing our FaceBook YOGA FIRST pages and the Blog. yogafirst2@bigpond.com If you read something with a YOGA FIRST blue log, then it is Nicole’s post.

For yoga books and tarot, please look on www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com I have done a small write up, and there is a picture of the front page. I advise you to look at the chakra book, and the yama booklet. This month we are being reviewed in the USA – I am looking forward to this as you can imagine.

WE ARE TURNING THE INSTITUTE INTO THE GITAJAIA YOGA FOUNDATION
We have chosen our Directors, a Board, and a constitution – which when we are done – you will be able to view on line.
Thank you to those who have emailed words of support. As I have said on the Facebook pages, I am calling it the “GITAJAIA YOGA Foundation” to honour my teacher Margrit Segesman and her lineage, and to honour the Gita which is at the core of our teachings . The “Jaia” is what I know myself as, and this part of the name is to honour the 50 years that I have been inspired to teach you all. If you asked Debbie what kind of yoga we do here, she would reply immediately GITAJAIA. Of course it is Hatha, but GitaJaia honours the lineage.

YOGA CLASSES – Times they are a changing…. Classes held at the 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).
ABOUT THE RENOVATIONS: The place is a bit of a bomb site I agree, but things are changing. However, I would ask you to get into the habit of coming through the side door opposite to the usual In-Door, just follow the path around to the other side of the building… it may be a bit cluttered, but this will change. It is like watching a renovation game.

Once Debbie and Nicole have moved there after the bits are moved, and the desks are cleared of clutter, you will be able to drop in on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for your yoga queries to be attended to.

ABOUT THE CLASSES: Jahne has gently turned her attention to THE RESTORATIVE YOGA sessions. Of course she still teaches a full workload at Innisfree. However, her senior teachers have been gradually taking over her general/public Hatha Yoga classes. They are loving it – and I believe you are loving the changes too. If you want a private session, she is available by appointment. Hypnotherapy/Trance Healing and past Life Therapy available as usual of course.

WHERE: “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 – the sign is big and clear . Don’t wander around Woodend looking for the class. If you really get lost, just ask a shopkeeper for THE BENTINCK. It is iconic in the district and they will give you directions. Don’t come to no. 37 Morris Road, Woodend. There may be a gardener, there may be a cleaner, there are certainly guys on the site and over the road fixing and mending – I might be there doing other things….but there is no yoga at No. 37 any more.

PARKING: If both sides of the car park are full when you arrive, please park over the road – you just have to walk across Romsey road to yoga, and that’s not such a hard thing. Don’t park anywhere else. As you enter the gate, park only to right or to the left – not straight ahead. That also is staff parking.

CLASS TIMES
Monday 5.30pm RESTORATIVE – Jahne , 6.30 general class (Nicole).
Tuesday 10am RESTORATIVE – Jahne and 7.30 general class (Brad),
Wednesday 12.30 general class (Kalma)
Friday 6.30pm general class (Nicholas)
Saturday. 10am general class (Nicole) plus 9am RESTORATIVE and 12.30 RESTORATIVE YOGA – Jahne.

**Because some of the classes are back to back, please check before you walk in early. There is a notice on the door, PLEASE READ IT. Walk around the building and wait quietly in the “ sunroom” on the other side as we have asked – don’t just walk in, especially not in the old door. Thank you.

*RESTORATIVE YOGA (4 classes now – and growing)
…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 prenatal 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.

TEXT ONLY YOUR BOOKING REQUEST TO 0402 088 170. Please don’t ring me.

WATCH THE TIME – Don’t just wander in as if the only time that matters is yours. Every minute of a one hour class is important, so it is important that you get to the class early. When you arrive, be observant, and if there is a class in progress go around to the side door. PLEASE, please be on time.
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.

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS – TThe next will be on Sunday 6th September 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 a visitor and 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

ART/PHILANTHROPY AND PHOTOS FROM THE MISSION The money goes towards buying bandages and other necessities for the mission, and also into our scholarship fund – whichever needs it most at the time. If you can send even a few dollars, please do (talk to Deb on Tuesdays or Wednesday to arrange). We live the yamas, so, you will know the money will go to where we say it will go, and be used for what we say it will be used for.. No staff or administration fees deducted at any point! Photos: www.flickr.com/photos/amigasdelsenor PS: You can’t send the money direct, although that would be easier – it has to go through the US Mission office for reasons of security.

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

BEANIES FOR NEPAL
Knit, Knit, Knit!!!! You will find a pattern on www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com Big ones, tiny ones for babies. Just keep knitting.

Then send your beanies to PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441. – THANK YOU FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE THIS. Please don’t send them POD or COD. It would be cheaper for us to buy beanies if we have to repatriate them from the post office. The cheapest way to forward them is to collect a whole lot, and then go to office works and take advantage of their new parcel service. Some Newsagents also have a splendid Australia-wide parcel postage service.

THE SHOP and ETSY www.myyogabooks.etsy.com We recently were noticed in Mass. USA and we are getting a review for our posters and colouring book – if you had not noticed, colouring in is the new thing. Best seller list stuff…

LET’S GET COLOURING IN: 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……!!! They are being reviewed by a journalist in the USA who LOVED THEM. She said that we were so “ on trend”.

I am working on a set of 5 TIBETAN do-it-yourself colouring drawings as we speak..

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, Nic and me to answer your various questions. They are useful in your course.

REVELATION TAROT
In the next month I am reprinting the tarot and this reprint will be in three different values.

1) The cards (last forever style) in laminated pouches. The same as we have been selling for a number of years now. READY NOW!
2) New! Mid-range Cards: lighter weight – 300gsm weight card without the laminated pouches READY NOW!
3) and New! Top of the Range Cards in 450gsm weight laminated card (not in laminated pouches). Please go to the shop on the yoga beautiful web site for details.
If you want to get in early, please Let me know and pre-order your set with Debbie.

YIN YOGA/ANATOMY/MEDITATION DVD’s – all with Paul Grilley This is one of my major sources of course and can be a source for you too. BUY ALL THREE. You will never regret it. They are the best and will form the backbone of your yoga references. Don’t hold back it will be false economy. 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 I move with the infinite in nature’s power. I hold the fire of the soul. I hold the life and healing”. (Rig Veda)

YOUR TEACHER TRAINING YEAR (or so): Signing up for a course – our course included, is like buying a car. You can’t buy it, take it for one run, leave it in the garage and a year later go back to the dealer and ask for your money back. It doesn’t work like that. If you are on the course, you are on the course until you write and let us know that you are not. If twelve months and more have elapsed with no contact in spite of all our newsletters, etc…. then you have (as far as we are concerned) been on the course for 12 months.

THE DRUMMING VIDEO – I know that if you watch it you will find it “uninspiring”, primarily because it is not meant to be watched. Videoing is the easiest way to get sounds to you too. If you put the video on and settle down for your 3 minute meditation you will enjoy it, because that is how it was meant to be used.

THE YOGA CHEF (COOK)…… Please go to our Blog. www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com to catch up with recipes.

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.

MOVING. MOVING (I THINK) – SO PATIENCE PLEASE! Now you know and I know that no matter how much we plan there will be a few days of chaos, as cables, Telstra and Optus catch up, and we pack then unpack the files. I am not looking forward to it at all. Not even a little bit. Everything about it makes me not want to think about it – but I am sure that when we have settled in we will love it. Thank goodness for CIGI Computing Solutions (Sunbury) who are a magnificent help with the trying IT problems that arise when you least expect them..
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

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