email blast 30 March 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.
IN TIMES OF NEED SOW THE SEED Most of our suffering is caused by selfishness, it is one of the main hindrances to living the life you want to lead. As long as you focus on what you want and what you need, you will never experience what the Universe really has stored up and waiting for you – and believe me, it is far and away better than you would ever imagine for yourself! It is a paradox, but if you want to experience the best life has to offer for you you first have to be a giver.
The Buddha said if you want a house help someone else get a house, if you want work, get work for others – if you want more of anything, fist get it for others. Sowing the seed of happiness in someone else’s life is a sure way to invite it into your own. If you need a financial miracle, then take someone to morning tea or a coffee, give when you see a charity bin or a collection, leave the dollar in the shopping trolley for someone else, pay someone’s expired meter. Simple paying forward.
If you don’t have money, then wash someone’s windows, read someone a book, weed a garden for a person who can’t. If you are lonely go talk to others. If you sow the seeds of friendship the universe will bring friendship into your life. Do something today – don’t wait until YOU feel better. With regards to that. Thank you everyone who has purchased a painting from me in the last 6 months. That “paying forward” has enabled us to give a scholarship to an aboriginal man (Wayne) to train as a yoga teacher with us. A chain of “angels’ made it happen. Colin Clements of Australian Yoga Life started the ball rolling with an article, then others saw it and donated money which helped Wayne repair his van, then we saw it and offered a scholarship (thanks to my art patrons!), and then Mike who owns “Innisfree” kindly donated full board and lodging whilst Wayne is training.
All we are waiting for now is for him to arrive. We will keep you informed of his progress of course. And all those who come to class will meet him. What you are may sometimes miss the mark, a prisoner in liberty. Get up somehow, get clean right now and be a happy, happy child set free.
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NOA BELLING – YOGA HANDBOOK. PLEASE…..WE NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE!
You must love this book, no-one has yet decided to part with it. Please, please pass it on…
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. We can get it secondhand from time to time for $25 to $30. 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
Cost Mail
UK 1/ Revival Books Ltd $4.94 $5.90
USA 2/ Goodwill Books $1.50 $12.99
UK 3/ Awesome Books $9.89 $6.47
USA 4/ Hippo Books $5.50 $11.50 condition poor
USA 5/ Hippo Books $5.50 $11.50 condition good
USA 6/ Goodwill Books $1.00 $17.00
USA 7/ The Book Women $5.00 $14.75
YOUR MODULES – SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION
Please understand that you are not the only person on the course. I mark each module, from every student and I do it myself. That’s a lot of writing from and to a lot of students – and assures the personal touch that you signed up with us to achieve.
PLEASE HELP ME by numbering each page you send me by post, and putting them in order. Make sure all the pages are there, no drawings missing.
If you email, the same applies. Don’t just scan them any old way. SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION: One of the students went mad at me recently because I sent work back unmarked. WHY? The work was sent to me un-numbered, un-sorted, and just pages of text. There was hardly a comma or a full stop. The spelling when “iffy” I can mostly work out, but a page (or pages) out of order and then with no punctuation is totally impossible.
If modules (especially those sent by post) are sorted then we have had a chance. We guess and do our best, but I am sure it does no justice to the time and effort a student may put into the modules. I do appreciate that not everyone knows about grammar, but do your best. Work out with Debbie a system of lines or marks in the margin that may help us in marking, and do the easy thing before you send the work – number and sort the pages.
We can deal with people who can’t read or write by doing everything in person, in the studio. If you avail yourself of this option, then travel, food and accommodation will be at your own expense, but the course will be the usual STUDIO COURSE at the STUDIO price.
ETERNITY
If you want copy of this poem/prayer on a heavier paper – a more professional presentation, then we do have some in the office at $15.00 each including postage. Please contact Deb via email and we will get one to you. yogafirst2@bigpond.com
YOGA CLASSES – Times/cost unchanged from last year. 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).
Monday 6.30,
Tuesday 10am (RESTORATIVE) and 7.30 (Brad),
Wednesday 12.30, Friday 6.30, Saturday. 10am (and 12.30 RESTORATIVE).
WOODEND TEACHER TRAINING. Sunday 5th APRIL (Yes, Easter). 2 to 4 pm at The Bentinck on the cnr. High Street and Romsey Road, Woodend. Turn into Romsey Road from high Street, and enter through the Romsey Road Gate. The Yoga Sign is right there, The building is right ahead of the car parking area on the RHS. Cost $10 per class for distance education students, or $20 for visitors.
BENDIGO TEACHER TRAINING: Due to Easter, the next teacher training for the group in Bendigo will be on Friday 17th April.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: Our first Narcotics Anonymous meeting will be on Tuesday the 31st March at 11.30 straight after Restorative Yoga. It will be held weekly at that time.
*RESTORATIVE YOGA 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 more than welcome (I always have maintained a baby even a couple of days old is welcome in our classes with their mum), 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 BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL as our classes are pretty full with regulars I.e. People who buy a pass and wouldn’t miss a session. TEXT ONLY YOUR BOOKING REQUEST TO 0402 088 170. Please don’t ring me.
“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.au
NEXT TEACHER TRAINING CLASS – The next will be on Sunday 5th APRIL 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. Yes, I know it is Easter.
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
PHOTOS FROM THE MISSION ALL THE INCOME FROM MY PAINTING AND ARTS GOES INTO OUR VARIOUS PHILANTHROPIC EFFORTS. This is an ongoing philanthropic effort for us and 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.
SILHOUETTES AND OM’S (our ongoing philanthropy effort)…
I am just about to start a new batch of SILHOUETTES. So if you would like a framed profile of yourself your beloved, your pet, or your children, please send me a sharp profile photo, and I will do one for you. A framed, original image will cost $150. I will work out with Debs, but I think it will go on the shop, pay by Bpay and send the photo to me direct.
Everything will change for you when you work out that there is plenty of time in every day to complete the important things.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – “JAHNE’S 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
4. RESTORATIVE YOGA THERAPY TRAINING (WE WILL BE ADDING PRE AND POST-NATAL RESTORATIVE YOGA ).
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 am putting prints of the first OMS from the “ONE THOUSAND OM PROJECT”. I know they will be around the $20 including postage and packaging. Please support me in this as these prints are raising money for the yoga cause. The more we sell the more we can do.
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 and me to answer your various questions. They are useful in your course.
ADDITION TO THE TEACHER TRAINING MANUAL: I am putting together a manual which will be included in each new trainees initial pack. It will also be available on etsy for anyone of you who wants to buy it. It will contain * A Beginners Guide to Teaching Yoga * Basic Anatomy and physiology * The Chakras * The Yamas and anything else I think is useful as the project progresses.
“YIN YOGA” AND “FIVE TIBETANS”
THE YAMAS:
THE UN-MEDITATION COURSE:
YOGA SWINGS: Have arrived. If you want one for your studio, please reserve yours now. Colours – *blue and grey, grey and black or pink and orange. $150 plus postage. 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). 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): 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.
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….
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. yogafirst2@bigpond.com
and SMALL SMALL DRAWINGS…
I have just finished some miniatures for the “1000 OM” Project. I will put them on the site when I have got them totally ready for you to buy. The first will be appearing on the poem above. I am close to finishing a larger b/w pen and ink work for sale, and I am almost ready to invite some silhouettes. So if you want a picture of your beloved, then order one. The small lino prints that I hand-colour are already on the ETSY site www.myyogabooks.etsy.com – the tiny Sumi paintings have sold out.
GARDENING WITH BENEFITS I have been nesting. In the house I have been cleaning out cupboards, shuffling things around, moving furniture, and in the garden preparing the ground in the garden for winter. The trees are about to lose their leaves, and I have been sweeping and putting them on the garden together with horse poo and bought mulch. Just like making a terrine…. This is the time when the trees are providing me with beautiful “mulch” that will pay huge dividends next year. I am going to move a few larger shrubs around in the next couple of weeks whilst they are sleeping. They will wake up to a new view. Its lovely to reinvigorate the garden and my views in the garden by doing this. It feels just like moving furniture.
YIN YOGA/ANATOMY/MEDITATION DVD’s – all with Paul Grilley We have sold out of the anatomy DVD and are waiting for them to come in, and are very short on the YinYoga. So if you want one quickly, order now. They are the best and will form the backbone of your yoga references. 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
JAHNE’S MENTORING SESSIONS …. Because Jahne has been teaching yoga teachers for more than 40 years, and running a business the Buddhist way for much longer than that (and successfully) she is often asked for advice. Asking course questions is free. This does not mean IDLE Yoga questions “just because you want to know” – She could spend her whole day answering those and getting no-where, in spite of the fact you may think your life will not end if they are not answered. Jahne is also available for PAST LIFE SESSIONS, AND ERICKSONIAN HYPNOTHERAPY….. .
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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