email blast 25 May 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 BLOG AND FACEBOOK
Nic is doing our FB pages and the Blog www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com. She tells me we are on  Instagram and we even have a program for the week!  
  RESTORE AND RECOVER
I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE where the restorative yoga therapy is taking me.  I hope that it is carrying you along with it too.  Our classes have gone from one to four, and I am looking around thinking how can I put in another, as we are regularly getting 15 persons per class.  That might be OK in an ordinary class, but 15 at a restorative class with the requirements for props and assistance, is over the top.  But it is a lovely problem to have!!!  If your classes are on the big side, please get a teacher to assist you.

To be a RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY TEACHER, (rather than just a RESTORATIVE YOGA TEACHER) you need to have a very good background in the philosophy of yoga, and the basics of anatomy and physiology, yogic anatomy and of course meridians.  If you don’t know these you can’t really give your students the care and assistance that they need.  

When I started I did not realise the acute cases we were going to attract.  Not just people who want to relax, but folk who have undergone huge health issues and need help and assistance that doesn’t override any current medical help they are receiving (chemo for instance) or effect them in the negative.  A challenge.  

We have made contact and are beginning to work with a group called PREMACARE (previously Procare).  They are nurses and professional carers, who give temporary home help, assistance of any kind really, to people who for the time being need a hand – shopping, taking to the station, taking to the doctor, just logging in.    I see people in need in our Restorative Classes, and usually they know they need help, but don’t know where to go.  Now we can help here too – it eases my mind.  I get so worried about some of my single restorative students/clients – now I can refer them to carers for when they go home.

If you have gone through the Restorative Yoga Therapy class in the past, you have to know that our course has really moved forward.  If you would like to purchase our teacher training folder, and like to be kept up to date with the latest that we are sending out, please let us know.  The folder is helpful, but it takes quite a lot of compiling.  Talk to Deb.  It is heavy and the cost depends on the postage (Australia Post has a lot to answer for!).  

If you have done teacher training somewhere else in the past and would like to do our RESTORATIVE THERAPY class;  depending on your course, I may be able to bump you up to 500hours on graduation.  You will have to apply personally, have full documentation.  It is NOT a given.  

MOVING. MOVING (I THINK) – SO PATIENCE PLEASE!
Unless something unforeseen happens, we are moving Deb, Nic and me to Innisfree and The Bentink in the first week in July. 

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.

We are  turning the Institute into a Foundation.  This is a big step, but I want it to live after me, and in order to do that,  a Foundation is the best way to go!  When you sign up for a training course with us, you know that we are in it for the long haul – even waaaaaayyyyy into the future.

NOA BELLING – YOGA HANDBOOK.  
For those starting out this book is hard to get.  Even second hand.  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.  AND THANK GOODNESS  – SOME OF YOU HAVE VOLUNTEERED.  THANK YOU! THANK YOU!   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 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). 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.

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

*RESTORATIVE YOGA (4 classes now – and growing) 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.  I am thinking about closing the door at the start time because we are getting super full and have to re-arrange the class for late comers..This is not unusual, lots of teachers do it!!!  The rest of the class (usually back to back)  shouldn’t have to lose time that can’t be made up,  because you haven’t planned well enough – so BE WARNED.  Be on time.  
 
“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.  Sorry, “Staff parking” at the front entrance does not mean you.  Please think of others when you park.
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

NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS – The next will be on Sunday 7th June 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 

ART/PHILANTHROPY AND PHOTOS FROM THE MISSION The income from my art goes into our ongoing philanthropic efforts.  The money as you know goes towards buying bandages and other necessities for the  mission.    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.   I have nearly completed the big Butterfly drawing which will be leaving here on the 31st of May.  If you want to see it, please go to our blog www.ministryofyoga.blogspot.com and maybe our FaceBook and instagram accounts (That is up to Nicole).     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
Our beanie basket is filling!!!! 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.

*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    
       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 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.r 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.  DEARER, 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!

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.

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.

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.      

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….

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.

I have planted the kale, and wanted to plant more, put down mulch, but haven’t.  I will get back to the garden, but I am not sure when.  I really have a bounty of greens on my verandah, and although I have plans for it too, I haven’t done anything – the restorative course has taken all my time and energy.
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…..
   
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Namaste Jahne

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