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Please transfer all your account queries to Jacky at yogafirst@optusnet.com.au    If you want a direct answer from me, then as usual, yogafirst2@bigpond.com.  All mail to go to PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441.

 

YOGA AT THE STUDIO and the Church

We are expanding – and I would appreciate a volunteer or two to help please.

The classes at the church have been so successful we are soon expanding to The Uniting Church at Riddells Creek, a lovely country church which has a labyrinth we can walk after lunch. I (WE?) will be teaching there on a “Donation” basis . It seems to be working for everyone. With the free lunch.. you can’t beat it.  There are many spin offs, and i would like to hear from you if you would like to hop on board.

STUDIO CLASSES . In am pleased that I have a balance between the art, the teaching, the admin and the yoga. I even have had time to “cook” and work in the garden, although I looking for rain (as is much of Australia).

When I first started teaching yoga in Gisborne, the children were quite small and I was a single mum. I was planning private school education after Macedon Primary School, and yoga PLUS art made is possible.   I had the studio walls hung with my work, and had monthly exhibitions. Of course exhibitions were whole lot different then. I bought champers by the crate, made buckets of punch, and passed around cheese and crudites. They were parties, people were extremely happy by the end of the afternoon, and my work sold well… that’s how come my children went to the schools they loved.   I know how to do the hard yards. I don’t have children to send to school, but I do have time and small profits that I plough back into the community. Please support my painting. It is what makes philanthropy possible. Plus it will make better lighting possible for art classes.

NB: On another mater. Please keep in mind that at my studio the consecutive class passes are CONSECUTIVE. I love a phone call to alert me if you can’t come, but that does not mean that the pass will extend for one extra week free. CONSECUTIVE IS CONSECUTIVE. You could always come to a make up class… there are lots of options.

 

EUROPEAN WASP SEASON.

I know all about wasps.  I had a huge nest in the walls of the office a few years back.  Thank goodness we discovered it in time – the wasps had eaten the plaster and all that was between me and them was the layer of paint!  It is not unusual.  Last year, I discovered a new nest in the ceiling, and they totally destroyed my bee hive – killed the queen and just took over.  This year I am following Jan Strawhorne’s advice (a year or so ago she trapped 300 wasp queens in these traps (she had 30 traps out on her property).   She follows a guy called Laurie.

Look up “laurielure” on google.  He gives detailed instructions for these traps. You need to follow them closely, and make more than one.  Remember, wasps travel in a straight line – not like bees.  Wasp queens discover new nesting sites and are then joined by the rest of the hive.  So discard what you know about bees, and think wasp.  All you need is soft drink bottles, honey, water and vanilla essence.  AND THEY ARE TRIED AND TESTED TRAPS.  If every neighbourhood did this, we would have far fewer wasp invasions.  Even if you haven’t been INVADED, hang at least one of these traps to trap what you can.  They are not attractive to bees, native or otherwise.

In China they had a plague of flies. Their solution was to mobilise the population. They made it mandatory for everyone to catch flies. In no time at all, the problem had gone away. We should do that with wasps and toads.

 

ART HEALS

I have purchased a beautiful new table top for our art table. All I really need now is a better lighting for the big room, then we can move into the big room for art classes. I also have 4 rather lovely vintage bar stools for sale. I bought them because I loved them. They fit at the farm, they don’t here, and I am trying to afford lighting and maybe even stools for the Art Room. The stools for sale have metal legs, cane seat and back, and the seat rotates. Very 1960’s. If I could get $175 for the four I would be happy.

EXHIBITION AT MY HOME STUDIO. Not far away now, and I am working hard to get lots of different images for you – all miniatures I think. I am going to sell the miniatures at a fantastic low price of $75 for the one time. Just to see which images you will respond to. If you want to join me, and you don’t have an invitation (I have forgotten or don’t have your new address), please let me know you are coming. It is a small studio….  Email yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

The image below is of a healthy cell.  If you are suffering with cancer perhaps, and need to focus on health, here is another way, meditate on a healthy cell.. get the healthy cells in your body to respond.  You will see i have nestled a tiny, tiny golden buddha wishing the cell.  I am sure the is Divinity there… how else would it heal.

 

The brush (which is the smallest one can buy) is a personality itself.  It is 35 years old… and still beautiful.

 

If you want to learn to paint and/or draw on a regular basis….Experience the joy of painting and drawing by learning to trust your intuitive self with me!. Painting this natural, gentle way allows you to let go of the inner critic that keeps you away from your full aliveness and creativity. The oil pastels are a way of achieving a quick result, and you get to touch and smooch the medium across the paper. It is like painting with lipstick!

All you need is the desire to paint, and the courage to express yourself. No art experience necessary.

 

TUESDAYS from7pm- 9pm

COST $250 for 5 classes – we are taking September bookings. We experiment every week with new materials and skills to enhance your finished image.

All materials will be provided.  By the end of the class you will have a unique image to take home, and frame to put in your own meditation room. Maybe good enough, stunning enough to be an heirloom. No painting experience needed. If you are nimble enough to sign your own name, you can do these classes.

SATURDAYS 9am SUMII (ZEN YOGA) BRUSHPAINTING – “ONE BREATH ONE LINE” $30 per session.     This is the traditional painting on rice paper, but once the fundamentals are achieved, with a twist. On the longer classes, we will be doing it the “zen way” and painting things that can’t be painted. Love, joy, yoga, spirit, speed…etc etc.   No right, no wrong, just what you can do. Your expression. We will be using traditional materials, we will be doing yoga breathing, AND A PAINTING will be the result.. Grind the ink, use the brush, paint the painting….. Sounds easy, BUT as in yoga, the foundations are everything.

 

SHANTARAM: Have you read the book?

I did years ago and loved it. I have painted the book in miniature to include in the Exhibition – I am also going to paint the books of Gita, and The Bible. Vintage covers, so not spanking new. A bit worn. I had to research Shantaram, and certainly have well- loved paperbacks here that I used as models for the wear and tear. I remembered the old red and blue cover, but it has had many images and many reprints. I painted the oldest I could find – red and blue.

 

Why Register with THE AUSTRALASIAN YOGA INSTITUTE? 

It is about LINEAGE. You trained with us, you are a part of our lineage (or we are a part of yours), Registration supports this. PLEASE, PLEASE CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION. You need to be currently registered for your insurance to be valid, and you will need to supply a copy of a valid registration to be insured.   Please check your insurance requirements – keep up to date. They change quickly.

 

REGISTRATION – CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENT. THIS APPLIES TO EVERYONE.

We have fallen in line with other organisations and ask people who are registered with us and wish to re-register to do at least one short course in the year as a continuing education requirement. You need to keep up. You can do one of my little courses on ETSY, or someone else’s, doesn’t have to be onerous, just something to keep you on your academic toes so to speak. Just watching a DVD won’t be enough unless you actually write a report on what you watched and why you watched it – the outcome – how it changed how you do what you do.

 

YOGA WITH JAHNE…..CLASS TIMES – all STUDIO classes $20

MONDAY:                             Church:   11am Hatha.12pm lunch/1pm meditation (free or by donation)

                                               5.30 NEW CLASS! Restorative at the Studio            6.30pm Hatha at the studio

TUESDAY:                          7pm painting Class held at The Home Studio.

WEDNESDAY:                12.30 Restorative,  5.30pm Gentle Restorative at home Studio.      6.30pm Hatha at the home Studio.

FRIDAY:                            3pm at the Church

                                              5.30 Restorative then 6.30 pm Hatha at Studio

 SAT.                                    9am Sumii ZEN YOGA PAINTING (60min Class),

$30 per class, 10am Hatha Yoga.   12.30 Restorative.

YOGA COST:

Yoga $20 per Class Or CLASS PASS – $135 per 10 CONSECUTIVE classes for long time students. New students will pay $165 per 10 class pass (normally $200) After 3 years as a student with us, the cheaper rate will apply. Teacher Training is also $20.

 

UNITING CHURCH CLASSES (FREE or by donation)

Next door to the Police Station, Forest Road, Woodend.

Monday: 11am Hatha Yoga, 12noon lunch and 1pm meditation at Church.

Friday: 3pm Hatha Yoga

 

PARKING HOME STUDIO – 37 Morris Road, Woodend.

PLEASE, PLEASE Park on white gravel in front of the studio. I had the garden made into an attractive parking lot. When it was lawn you didn’t even think about parking on the lawn or the nature strip. Now it is especially for parking, you park blocks away and walk. What is this about? If my park places are full, you can park in the drive-way directly opposite in front of double grey garage rolladoors. Not in front of neighbours driveways please.

 

MONTHLY TEACHER TRAINING AT THE HOME STUDIO:

THIS MONTH IN TWO SESSIONS $30: The first session a workshop in Hypermobility asana, and adjusting. 12.30 to 2pm, then a break then the usual session…2pm to 4pm This will be the last for the year so there will be mince pies, and THE OSCARS!

DATE: Sunday 2nd December, 12.30 to 2pm then 2pm to 4pm  at my home studio (37 Morris Road in Woodend –There is no need to book. Bring writing materials, and be early. If you are teacher Training student then the cost of the afternoon is $30 for the two sessions. This fee applies to everyone. If you are a visitor and not formally a student teacher with us then the cost is $30 – for a 2 hour class! Come.

Don’t miss the next training which is the first Sunday in December (the 2^nd), between 12.30 and 2 then between 2 and 4pm. We will be giving out certificates at this training… the “Oscars”.

BENDIGO Teacher Training classes – Next class is Tuesday 4^th December at 3.30pm Turn at the Metricon building on the highway in Kangaroo Flat. It is a traffic light intersection, just up from Bunnings. Crusoeden is the building behind Metricon building, and faces Church Street. It’s easy to find. Cost: $20 per class (to bring it in line with the cost of a yoga class) for everyone who attends – thank you. (Directors – Jayne Boyle  – crusoedenbody@bigpond.com).  Regular classes held – please email for timetable.

 

CALCIUM WITHOUT PILLS.    I made this for myself, and used just one egg in a small jar drowned in lemon juice. It worked.

The idea came out of our discussions on Sunday Teacher Training.

Get a jar, and put a few eggs in the jar (4 perhaps? I used one egg) cover the eggs with fresh squeezed lemon juice. Leave it for a week or so, turning at least once a day, very gently. The shells will dissolve somewhat (leaving the eggs intact). After a week or so, gently pour off the lemon juice, and use about 15ml perday in a drink – your total calcium requirement is in this lemon/egg shell juice. You can use the eggs in cooking.

 

ELDERBERRY FLOWER KOMBUCHA.

I have tried adding the flowers to the brew with the scobie.  I didn’t like this.  I tried adding it after bottling – the yeast made the bottles explode, so now, I make a pungent elderberry flower syrup and add this to the glass, top with kombucha and then mineral water – DIVINE.  Lemony with a floral “nose”.  Try it.  2 cups of flowers, steeped in a syrup made of 2 cups of sugar and 2 cups of water.  Dissolve the sugar in the water, cool, add the flowers and stand covered for a couple of days.  Then strain and decant.  Add the syrup to the kombucha in the glass before drinking.  Perfect.  Keep the syrup in the fridge, if you let it, it will last a long time.

 

REALLY HELPFUL BOOKS:

ETSY, ETSY www.myyogabooks.etsy.com

I write books to help you in your course. Please download them, and then please use them in answering your modules. WATCH OUT FOR THE NEXT ONE – NARRATIVE MEDICINE. A certificate course. If you teach yoga, you need this. No excuses.

Chakras – Your personal power house. * Yamas – The guide for life * Restorative Yoga * Yin Yoga and Yin Yoga for Kids * Red String of Fate *Chakra Enhancing oil * Rose Petal Jam – a Cookbook * How to be a Yoga Teacher by Home Study * The Sacro Cranial Connection * Tea leaf Reading – The Chart * Yoga for pregnancy * 5 ELEMENT YOGA (The 5 Tibetans) + charts * SacroCranial Connection * and more….

 

Please never imagine that I don’t read your modules – I do. If you misquote, if you don’t understand (no matter how many pages you do) I will pick it up. What will you find on ETSY? YAMAS, CHAKRAS, HYPERMOBILITY, THE FIVE TIBETANS AND TEMPLATES and more. There are lots of books there to help you in your progress to graduation. If you do your course WITHOUT reading the hypermobility books, you will find your work being questioned.

 

 

EMAIL/POST:  Please use the email address  yogafirst@optusnet.com.au  for anything to do with accounts,  or the usual yogafirst2@bigpond.com. to get to me. If you do want to speak to me personally, then email, make a time suitable for both of us, and then we can chat.  If you do it this way, rather than just “wing it”, you can be reasonably sure I have time, and you will get my attention.  POSTAL ADDRESS is not at my home –Please address all land mail to PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon.  Vic. 3441.  Until you see a change written here in large letters, that is where it will be.

 

Don’t forget to Register if you are teaching even if you have not graduated (especially if you have not graduated), insure and re-subscribe to the videos every 12 months.   Don’t leave these to the last minute.

 

Love and Blessings

Jahne…….

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