Dear Yogis –

THE TRUMP –   I know this is not strictly yoga news (but does touch on the yamas).   Just in case you thought Trump may have redeeming features,  a virtue or two up his sleeve and may be human after all, then why did Trump bury Ivana Trump on his golf course (did you know this)?   There exists a tax code in New Jersey that decrees “cemetery land” exempt from all taxes, rates, and assessments. Ivana Trump was buried near the first hole of Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster. I wonder if Ivana knows that her plot now serves to exempt Donald from a quadrella of tax avoidance. He’s exempt from also paying personal property taxes, business taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, and inheritance taxes all because he buried his first wife near the first tee of his golf course.  Enough said…..

Hey good news….. in the next school term we will be launching our very first studio class of YIN FOR KIDS in a very long time.  I am looking forward to it.  I am going to start here in the studio with ONLY SIX 4 to 6 year olds.  I have taught this age group before and I love it.  They will actually learn yoga, and I will be the teacher, not just a drop off service.  The kids will learn yoga… Saturday mornings will be the go I think until I have understood the class a bit better, especially parent teacher dimensions.  Once I have a handle on it, then maybe we can have a Tuesday late afternoon as well.  If you want to enrol your little treasure – please email me at yogafirst2@bigpond.com

News from every yoga class is that parents are totally lacking direction and commitment since Covid lockdowns (although they want change to happen).  I have focussed on Windarring which I love, and now getting back into KIDS YOGA, and keeping the adult focus on long term students. People who are not just looking for diversions.  I also have a small yoga teacher training studio class.   I remember when we had classes of 10 and 12 here weekly for yoga teachers.  Not now.  Just rounding people up for one class a week can be tricky.  I think they want a gilt edged invitation, constant reminders and a driver.  The fees don’t allow that unfortunately.

The kids class will be very small,  an hour in duration (maybe longer when the class has become a class), with a shortish meditation time, and maybe,  time for nature rambles in the garden….  on the basis that yoga is a lifestyle, not a series of exercises.

HELP NEEDED.

I wonder if you can help me.  I am looking for a ladies dressmaking form medium – a “ladies body on a stand”.  Not a little one for the mantlepiece but a life size expanding model for my sewing room.  No, I am not making lycra yoga outfits, EVER!

Having started (after a long apprenticeship)  by making shirts for the dolls, I realised when up-dating a gorgeous shirt into a vintage style duster jacket that a sewing model would have been a huge help.  I want to make some patchwork jackets (and do BIG patches on a couple of my own coats) and to get the drape right a sewing stand would be a help, I could do it flat, but it takes a whole lot longer.  I also have some men’s shirts I am making into gorgeous overshirts, and big patches and darns that I need a form for.  I am sort of stuck until I get one.

I look forward to sewing for you and doing even more than before….  I love repurposing.  Taking one thing, making it into another. “Re-use, Re-use, Re-use” as Joanna Lumley says.  When I was still at school I helped my aunt who was a dressmaker, make gorgeous ball gowns which were in fashion at that time (I loved beading them and would rush home from school to be buried in silks, satins and tulles….), and later when dating an army guy,  making my own gowns for the many balls – one each season – that used to be mandatory.  I wonder if they still are?

If you can help, I would appreciate it.  If you have an unused dressmakers form just let me know the cost and we will arrange delivery or pick up – time to get the one you don’t use out of the attic perhaps?  Maybe I can use it to make something, or repurpose something for you?   Thank you.

ZOOM DOLLS.

Topic: FREE ZOOM DOLL MAKING WITH JAHNE
Time: Sep 2, 2022 07:00 PM

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SEE YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE JAHNE