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We are very excited to share that during these school holidays we will be working on updating our website and doing a lot of ‘behind the scenes’ work to better service the community for next term.  So for now, please refer to the web address:

www.conniemah.com

for latest updates & info.  This will be moved to www.yogafun.com.au

shortly.

Thank you for visiting our site!

For those who have felt Angry, Frustrated, Heavy or had your ‘Buttons Pushed’ this week.  Come to our Full Moon Meditation to re-connect to the ‘Relaxed, Calm & Lighter You’ which may have ‘disappeared’ lately.

This month’s Full Moon Meditation will be held on:

Mar 28th 6pm at Yoga Tree, Elsternwick.

Bookings Essential. Call Today, as spaces are already Filling Fast!

Full Moon Meditation is open to Beginners and Regular Practitioners of meditation.

The full moon evenings are called ‘Moments of Opportunity’. This opportunity is a moment of Regeneration, a moment in which you can again contact your lost vision or a new and greater vision, charge all your being, and set your steps right on the path of evolution and service. At the time of the Full Moon there is a greater opportunity to release many obstacles and hindrances in one’s nature.

This Magical Evening will include basic meditation and relaxation techniques, chanting and a powerful healing group meditation which is initially guided. No experience necessary just an openness to learn and trust.

Imagine that you were brilliant in all the things you currently do.  Or CAN BE brilliant in the things you do.  ie, Perhaps you already are – but it just do see it yet because you’re too busy criticising yourself, others or circumstances? or working on being a ‘better’ you.

In our Yogafun Kids yoga & yoga / meditation for Adults classes this week, so many students are caught up with everything that is ‘less of them’. ie. focussing on their flaws, dramas, how they should ‘look like’ or ‘behave’ – their minds are contracted on these thoughts and their bodies have tightened – only just to reflect their mental holding & focus.

For my regular kids yoga (& adult) students, we have over the last months or so, in classes we have learnt to be able to recognise that:
a) we have these ‘labels’ or images of ourselves - what we feel we ‘can do’, ‘should do’, ‘have to do’… the list goes on and what we believe is ‘possible’.

b) these images or labels about ourselves are not permanently ‘fixed’ on us. That every morning we wake up, we have the opportunity to be all the qualities we wish to be – by conscious choice of our actions and thoughts we focus on.

So now that we have been able to ‘see’ that we are not what we ‘expect’ to be but actually greater than any image or label that we have placed upon ourselves in the past.

My question this week is: What do YOU do with your Brilliance?

So now that we know we CAN do what we want, and have All the skills and qualities to live out our dreams and goals – what are YOU doing about it?

Where do you spend your energy & time on each day or week? Is it spent ‘wisely’ or ‘effectively’ on the things that you are important to you in life?

Are you using your skills & talents in the best way possible for you and all those around you – friends, family, community & world?

Are you living your fullest potential?

Then what are YOU waiting or stopping for??

Live & BE your BRILLIANCE.

This week in our Yogafun Kids & Adult yoga classes we explore the Amazing qualities we live and share with others each day.  Imagine that each person is able to choose what qualities that they believe they have and share with others.  Imagine that each person is a fresh clump of sculpting clay – which has endless possibilities of what shapes and form it can be.

This week, we highlight how a person has no strict definitive form. ie. each person has a choice to be responsible or irresponsible, a leader or a follower, a co-operative child or naughty child.  These are all just labels that we use to describe a person at a given point in time.  They do not necessarily describe a person every moment of each day.  Of course, if a person chooses to act in a particular manner on a regular basis – we start to relate a person with these attributes, but nevertheless, words can be limited in describing the whole ‘Essence’ of a person.  In fact, can YOU describe the whole essence of  ‘You’? Try encapsulating ‘You’ with words to describe the whole lifetime of being you?

So we explore, how a person is born as a baby with endless possibilities and potential.  And regardless of age, still remains a limitless potential of possibilities.  Each day we choose to ‘be’ and ‘live’ how we feel are and what we believe is possible for us. We learn that our past experiences can highlight our beautiful qualities we have shared with our loved ones and we reminds us how amazing and a huge difference we have already made in our lives and of others.

Living and appreciating our ‘Ripple Effect’ upon others.

We are currently planning Term 2 Kids Yoga classes and we’d love to hear where YOU want our next Yogafun kids yoga classes.

Thankyou for all the emails and calls from the parents who have already registered interest in our future classes.  We are currently working busily in the background to make more classes available in your area.

We would love to hear from YOU if you have not yet written to us.  Email us where you want more kids yoga classes available in the community & we will endeavour to make yoga accessible to all.

We’ll keep you posted.

Sometimes we get so ‘stuck’ in our thoughts of what we think ‘should’ or ‘needs’ to happen, we lose sight of what we are really experiencing – in front of us.

So this week, students are asked to play with this concept.  Both in adults & kids yoga classes.  Obviously the teaching approach is different, however the concept is still the same nevertheless.  Students were asked to notice what thoughts they have been focusing on lately, and notice what experiences they have been having and noticing the correlation between the two.

So for example, for the adult students, we are observing how perhaps we focus on what we ‘need more of’ in our lives. ie. more time.  So the more we focus of ‘not having enough time’ everything is based on this thought.  ie. we squeeze in another errand today, because we don’t have time for tomorrow, or we’re constantly looking at the clock etc.  In this case, as we hold on to the thought ‘of not having enough – time’ – then the experiences that we are having are just that. Of not ever having enough time.

What tends to happen, is that as we rush from one thing to another – we lose sight of ‘enjoying’ the things we do. As we’re always busy thinking of the next thing we need to do.  Then, we can get caught up planning for our next errand or watching the clock – when our child or loved ones are wanting to spend ‘quality’ time with us but our minds are racing around elsewhere.  Or when we’re trying to fall asleep but our mind is racing a million miles per hour, planning the next day.

Same too with children.  We explored over the last few weeks of being in contact with our emotions, how we feel and how it effects others.  In a FUN way of course! Then this week, we’re exploring this further by playing with it.  Noticing when we change our thoughts & feelings about our situation and how it effects others.

So I call this the ‘Ripple Effect’.  Where we notice the ripples of our thoughts and actions.  It is when we notice and realise the ripples we are creating for ourselves and others around us – a) we can appreciate the amazing qualities we ‘DO’ have and b)we can adjust our thoughts and actions, if we see if does not help fit with what is infront of us.

So what ‘Ripples’ are you creating today?

It seems that Jefferson had written to the PM asking how he would go about getting a festival for ‘kids of all abilities’ off the ground.  And as the letter granted all the right approvals right from the top, Jefferson’s dad knew he had to act.

The idea in Jefferson’s mind was to put on a fun day for the whole community of Kingston in Melbourne; a festival which had a focus on children / families with special needs.

Chelsea Community Renewal and Kingston’s MetroAccess supported Jefferson to bring together a range of partners who worked as a team to bring about the event.

Planning of a large scale was undertaken so as to make the event low cost for families, and to enable the majority of activities to be accessible to the whole community.

What a day!

With various rides and attractions seemingly bringing children and families from all over the countryside, the event was busy from the time it started, not letting up until closing at 4.30pm. ( People didn’t want to go home! )

The Yogafun marquee was inundated with children ( as well as adult-kids ) all wanting to participate in the free childrens yoga classes on the day. Classes were run literally back to back from late morning and by noon the scheduled timetable was thrown out the window to cope with the demand. With just 3 teachers on hand, we managed pretty well – shows you how good yoga is for your energy levels!

As a result of community interest, we at Yogafun have had to schedule an ‘emergency meeting’ this week to cope with the extra demand. The topic of the meeting will be the recruitment of several new Yogafun instructors so that we can service new areas of Melbourne beyond our current service boundaries.

Stay tuned for further news as we ride the ( tidal ) wave created by a day of fun in the sun…

Thank you to all kids, parents, volunteers and local schools/organisations that generously contributed their time and energy into making the ‘Fun in the Sun’ kids festival a FANTASTIC event!

As thousands of kids flocked to the high profile stage performances, endless exhilarating rides & activities – and of course, the adventures of YogaFuN!

Yogafun is All over Melbourne and aims to service the community with Yoga for kids, by making Yoga accessible to all children in Melbourne.

So a huge Thank you to all the parents who watched & participated in the non-stop Yogafun adventures today. Our amazing team of passionate kids yoga teachers were ever-more inspired to continue to share the excitement and benefits of kids yoga to you and your families.

We’d love to hear from you to let us know where you would like future Yogafun Kids Yoga classes to be held.  Drop us an email or call us, so we can service the community better and make yoga for kids accessible to everyone!

Thank you to EVERYONE for making the ‘Fun in the Sun’ Festival a marvellous success for our kids, our community, our future!

See You & your Family there!

Fun in Sun Festival

Sun 28 Feb

10am – 4.30pm

Chelsea Bi-Centennial Park

See previous post ‘FREE Kids Yoga FUN!‘  (below) for more details & site map for event.