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Dear Yogis,

This is quite important time in my life – and therefore in your yoga life too.  No matter what I do, or how hard I try, the usual classes and activities that have sustained us (even during lockdown) have obviously outlived their usefulness. YOU have made this abundantly clear.  I haven’t made any hard and fast decisions, but be aware that I am thinking about the most sensible way to respond for all of us.   This was brought to a head this morning when I drew the Tarot Card THE WORLD.

If you too have pulled this card, then it is time for you too to re-evaluate YOUR direction too – What The World Means for US (not just me) Today:  The World card has appeared today to indicate that we have come to an end of a particular cycle in our life. This could be obvious but in some cases, these cycles can be quite subtle. In either case, we have learned what there is to learn from a pattern in our life and it is time for a new one to begin. Whether it’s psychological, emotional, spiritual, or physical, we are moving on to a new chapter. This can also suggest that there are greater forces at work in our life and it is time to allow the world to shape itself around us.

I always have gone to yoga for everything in my life – physical, emotional and spiritual,  and I have always hoped that in a lesser way yoga was as meaningful and helpful to you too.   When you can’t do STEPS, or when the unexpected happens, are STEPS, or your size 12,  going to be helpful?

WHAT CARD DID YOU PULL FROM YOUR DECK – and how are you going to respond?

 

YOGA CLASSES AND STUDIO TIMES….. 

ZOOM CLASS :  Because yesterday was a Teacher Training day, and the folk that come to the training are also the people who come to zoom, I will be sending out a module relative to yesterdays class STRUCTURAL YOGA THERAPY.  This will be instead of the face to face ZOOM class – you can all use this time to complete the module, and maybe next Monday you will have a question relative to this module which is one of the largest in the course.  It could take you a month to finish this one module.

Windarring Yoga –  Tues. 1pm

STUDIO YOGA WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full) Hatha 2.15 Wednesday Restorative 1pm FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am

DISABILITY YOGA CLASS in local hall probably in term three, by donation.

DISABILITY YOGA TEACHER TRAINING.  Starts Wednesday 12th June at 6.30 zoom class.

TAROT/PAST LIFE ADVISOR/counsellor – Always available by appointment.
I am updating the Etsy booklets relative to my decks (and my new deck).  I will let you know when this is done.

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING – The last Sunday in June at 2.30

 

NAMASTE .  JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

Wednesday already, and so much is happening.

  1. I have got a small class organised to start DISABILITY YOGA in June.  If you want to join the group apply right now.
  2. The Yoga Luncheon has come around already – please come to the lunch even if you haven’t come before. Saturday at 12 noon at the Victoria Hotel in Woodend.
  3. There is a new RESTORATIVE YOGA CLASS on Friday at 10am at my studio
  4. and I will soon be launching a new set of SIMPLE TAROT (LENORMAND) CARDS – THE RED REVELATION DECK.  These are very simple images, as you can see from the original drawings on the left, and much more about how one card sits with the next one.

It is a larger deck than I have done before, and based on the Lenormand cards I started out my “reading” career with.  They were surprising, accurate, all about how life marches forward.  I have taken The Revelation Deck cards forward with these.  I will be putting them on Etsy which did very well for me when I launched by REVELATION DECK (which is still selling)..  I think people are looking for something, gentle and easy, and these new cards are both – they are still profound in their messages however, nothing simple about that.

I will be holding zoom and studio classes in these cards to get you started.  

 

YOGA CLASSES AND STUDIO TIMES….. 

ZOOM GITA :  Monday  evenings at 6.30pm This Monday (today), “Introduction to Disability Yoga”.  

Windarring Yoga –  Tues. 1pm

STUDIO YOGA WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full) Hatha 2.15 Wednesday Restorative 1pm FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am

TAROT/PAST LIFE ADVISOR/counsellor – Always available by appointment.

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING Sunday 26th May  at 2.30

THE YOGA LUNCHEON: The last Saturday in May – the 25th,  12 noon in the back room at The Victoria Hotel in Woodend. You are all welcome, but please let me know if you would like to join us if you haven’t emailed me already.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

 

NAMASTE .  JAHNE

Dear Yogis,

The YOGA LUNCHEON  is this coming Saturday at noon – I don’t know where the other Saturdays went to, it just seems like yesterday that we were meeting at the Victoria in Woodend.  I hope there are more takers this time, we have the back room to ourselves.

There is so much going on in Woodend over the next few months, The Woodend Winter Arts Show being the main attraction.  I rarely go to the attractions as I really don’t like crowds.  During the year I enjoy going to galleries, the occasional visit to the Hamer Hall to listen to music and catch up with what’s happening in Melbourne, but mostly, I am loving being in my garden, teaching yoga, or painting.  Doing these things keeps me very busy and I don’t have to be entertained. My mind is always busy.

This year I will be opening my studio gallery over the Arts Festival weekend.  I have lots of new work to show you.

In the garden it is violet time (I sugar them and use them on cakes and desserts), the grape hyacinths are next,  then the iris, by which time spring will be just around the corner and snowdrops and bluebells will be popping their heads up.  Hopefully there will be a few showers in between times, although the garden is damp at the moment.  I want to transplant some “roses in the wrong place”  they have become rather large,  and damp ground would be handy.

I am constructing a meditation garden ready for the spring, and part of the plan is roses, roses, roses…. (with veggies in between! Companion planting – alliums to keep the bugs away).  I have candles, statuary –  although I am hoping larger statues will become available, a meditation deck, a view over the pond.

It will look lovely in the spring when the planting takes hold, and I have time to paint the veggie box.  I dream about it.  It is not your usual garden, and almost anyone can make one like it.  I haven’t got money therefore I haven’t got a landscaper, I haven’t bought the the planters, or done heaps of digging.  I have used what I had from trees coming down, pots, leaves, mulch and so on.  Anyone can do it.

 

 

NOTE TO AYI YOGA TEACHERS: I flagged in the last newsletter that 1. if you have been with us 5 years or longer,  and 2. paid your Registration in the next month (or have paid in May) and 3. pay the rego before the end of June -you will be able to access the next two years rego at half price.  This translates as $…. this year depending on level, then half price registration in 2025 and 2026.  Quite a saving.   Email me and I will send the Application.

NEW RESTORATIVE CLASS:  Please note there is a new restorative class starting on Friday next – see below

 

YOGA CLASSES AND STUDIO TIMES….. 

ZOOM GITA :  Monday  evenings at 6.30pm This Monday (today), “Introduction to Disability Yoga”.  

Windarring Yoga –  Tues. 1pm

STUDIO YOGA WOODEND: Monday Hatha 1pm (full) Hatha 2.15 Wednesday Restorative 1pm FRIDAY RESTORATIVE 10am

TAROT/PAST LIFE ADVISOR/counsellor – Always available by appointment.

NEXT STUDIO TEACHER TRAINING Sunday 26th May  at 2.30

THE YOGA LUNCHEON: The last Saturday in May – the 25th,  12 noon in the back room at The Victoria Hotel in Woodend. You are all welcome, but please let me know if you would like to join us if you haven’t emailed me already.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

 

NAMASTE .  JAHNE