Newsletter issue 116 (30th December 2025)
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Yoga
Community
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Retreat-Workshops 2026 - Fri 6 pm - Sun 10 am |
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13th - 15th March - private setting - booked out |
15th - 17th May - Ikigai Bush Retreat (Yanchep) includes accomodation |
19th - 21st June - Shambala Workshop (Margaret River) includes accomodation |
14th - 16th August - location tba |
16th - 18th October - Premalaya Retreat (Yallingup) includes accomodation |
14th - 16th November - location tba |
Workshops and retreats include:
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Workshop–Retreats have ovelapping content with a focus that combines elements of wellness, neuroscience, and meditative practices.
Workshops bring a three-fold focus: understanding elements from neuroscience and other investigative fields; providing efficient techniques and methods of meditation; and developing a framework (if not already existing) to establish and maintain regular practice.
Retreats will use a simplified neuro-anatomical model through which to deepen meditative practices. It is anticipated that participants already have (or have had) a regular personal practice or have (or have had) some experience of meditation.
Registrations are now open (you will be automatically wait-listed when full).
Balingup (weekly session resumes February 2026)
Wednesdays 6 pm - focus: deepening personal practice and connecting one's own spiritual commitment (this series finishes this week - 10th Dec.)
Flourish Wellness - Margaret River - Spinal Flow, Massage Therapy, and Cellular Health
Speaking of retreats... Katana is offering one-day health retreats on the 11th of Jan and 8th of Feb 2026 (ONE spot left for January - click on 'buy ticket' to select the date that suits you) 9am - 5pm... here is what's on offer (extracted from Flourish Wellness News):
In 2026, we’ll be running a series of Spinal Flow Day Retreats. Our first two gatherings will be in collaboration with Michelle from FloMotion Movement (Cowaramup).
Each retreat is a full day dedicated to nervous system nourishment — multiple Spinal Flow sessions, grounding practices, movement, and time to slow down and reconnect with yourself.
These retreats are perfect for anyone who’s been wanting regular Spinal Flow but struggles to fit it into a busy schedule, or for anyone wanting to give their nervous system an intensive healing boost.
> Book on Humanitix here: https://events.humanitix.com/spinal-flow-day-retreat
Regular options at Flourish Wellness include Spinal Flow, Relaxation and Remedial Massage, and Cellular Health consults... Contact Katana for more details or book: FlourishWellness.au
Water Analytics via Darren Glover
Having experienced the difference in both the drinking water and even washing dishes or showers, Water Analytics filtration is pretty amazing... do contact Darren for more detail (another community member well know to many amongst us). Do mention me to Darren when you decide to obtain your filtration system. There's now also a new 'portable' (which can be used in caravans and vans) version producing hydrogen-infused osmosis-purified water.
Contact: Darren Glover email: Darren@wateranalytics.com.au tel: 0437 762 857
YOGA
A number of years ago, Devi, David, Alice and myself decided to come together to offer a variety of classes as the Yallingup Yoga Collective. we each offer our own unique and complementary professional yoga classes, often blending in elements from the depth of tradition. We have since been joined, at various times, by Claire, Susana, and other yoga teachers in the region.
Yallingup - Caves House Hotel gardens
Thursdays 8 am - with Alice (J-M will be taking the New Year class)
Fridays 8 am - with Susana
Saturdays 8 am - with Jean-Michel
Sundays 8 am - with David
Margaret River - 11 Station Rd (behind Anglican Church)
RESUMES mid-JAN
Monday 6 pm - with Alice
Friday 6 pm - with Jean-Michel
Balingup - The Balingup Yoga Studio (opposite Tinderbox on Brockman Street)
RESUMES 8th JAN
Thursday 10 am - with Jean-Michel
Thursday 6 pm - with Jean-Michel
Vasse - Community Hall (8 Kaloorup Road)
Tuesday 5:30 pm - with Alice
Injidup - Kundalini Yoga Southwest
Thursday 6:00 am - DM Devi on @kundalini_southwest
Friday 6:00 am - DM Devi on @kundalini_southwest
Saturday 8:00 am - DM Devi on @kundalini_southwest
Spiritual Formation through Direction
Book a session and see where it leads...
Personal Development has traditionally focussed on spiritual formation through what has been referred to as Spiritual Direction. In the manner that I work, I include practices inclusive of imagery and meditation. If you are interested in finding out more, please be in contact.
Following an initial consultation, those desiring to pursue deepening their work commit for a once-a-month meeting for either 6 or 12 months (renewable if desired). Cost $260 per session (conc. available for financial hardship).
More details please do read the pdf included here, which in part reads:
Spiritual Formation is first and foremost a journey, not a destination. This journey remains personal, and as any aspect of life, is unique, though sharing characteristics with the journeys others have travelled. It is in recognising and sharing the signposts, bringing awareness to aspects of a map whose reality others have explored, that what is called spiritual direction may be beneficial. The journey remains, however, personal as development unfolds according to one’s own steps upon a path created anew and afresh.
Spiritual direction provides us with a means to deepen our relationship with the divine, and to learn and grow in our own spiritual life and formation. A spiritual director is someone who is able to accompany us, in part only, within that journey. As a director, I see my part of the journey as bringing some guides or signposts into view, making use of symbolic tools that have long been used so assist you in taking some new sejourneying steps.
Tarot Conference, Fremantle (Western Australia) 21st and 22nd of March 2026
Details at www.tarotconference.com.au - RESERVE your place... Kat Black, Russell Sturgess, Mary Greer, myself and others presenting...
The Empress – Who is she? What is she?
No symbol has single meaning, or it would cease being symbolic. Yet, (as I write in my book), ‘symbols, though having no fixity in meaning, do not lack precision’ – so what are this card’s unfixed yet precise meanings? Tomberg writes in Meditations on the Tarot:
The Major Arcana of the Tarot are authentic symbols. They conceal and reveal their sense at one and the same time according to the depth of meditation. That which they reveal are not secrets, i.e. things hidden by human will, but are arcana, which is something quite different. An arcanum is that which it is necessary to "know" in order to be fruitful in a given domain of spiritual life. It is that which must be actively present in our consciousness — or even in our subconscious — in order to render us capable of making discoveries, engendering new ideas, conceiving of new artistic subjects. In a word, it makes us fertile in our creative pursuits, in whatever domain of spiritual life. An arcanum is a "ferment" or an "enzyme" whose presence stimulates the spiritual and the psychic life of man. And it is symbols which are the bearers of these.
Who, or of what, does the Empress possibly represent? and, finding answer(s), whereforth are we lead…
Russell Sturgess's online course: A Map for Transcendence - check it out at www.russellsturgess.com.au
This week in focus
On Transcendent Experience
In Toward a Psychology of Being, A.H. Maslow mentions the emergence of 'wonder, surprise, awe, amazement, reverence, humility and surrender before [a peak or transcendent] experience as before something great'. Similarly, Rudolf Steiner repeatedly mentions the vital importance of awe, wonder, and reverence as preconditioned states for an open-heart to the spiritual realms, as well as its better known stated importance in education.
Experiences - especially 'peak' experiences - increase our connection to those around us, to the beauty and wonder of the universe, and to that state of AWE: a word that in old English is so closely connected to the earlier meaning of 'fear', as in 'fearsome' or 'awesome'. Something which, perhaps surprisingly for some, increases our own inner fortitude and sense of purpose and meaning.
As our journey into 2026 opens, let the year ahead be fiiled with experiences that brings us increased delight, increased focus where needed, and, indeed, peak experiences that open to us the wonders and plenitude of realms so many so rarely consider.
In a few days, the Earth will reach its closest annual distance to the Sun (its perihelion) - something that, combined with the first Full Moon of the year on Saturday, occuring between the Solstice and the Perihelion, helps us to sense into the wondrous nature of the world and encourages us to renew heatlhy practices that empowers each of us to value our bodies as our temples through which this incarnation engages.
Many of these practices enable deepening inner connections, and include the development of virtues and the will, accentuation of bodily movement, attention to breath, and depth of meditation. These are not to be understood merely in a psychosomatic manner.
Already in 1972 Dr Helmut Speer, in a preface on a book on yoga by Elisabeth Haich, wrote that:
to avoid misunderstanding [we must] maintain a correct relationship between the two: In reality Yoga [and Rosicrucian exercises - mentioned in another paragraph, are] superordinate to depth psychology. It is not Yoga that is contained in depth psychology but depth psychology that is contained in Yoga.
A little earlier in that same preface, he had written that:
experience in Yoga and meditation are not symbols for psychological experience but are the very experience itself. Neither the 'diamond body' of the East nor the 'resurrected body' of the Christian West is a symbol for a psychological fact but is this fact itself. And alchemy is not limited merely to describing the happenings of depth psychology but describes a process of development taking place in man's body and soul which leads in actual fact and not symbolically to the coming of consciousness of the spirit in the resurrected body.
I look forward to seeing each and everyone over the coming year, and welcome the blessings 2026 brings.
12-17 y.o. Homeschooling - 8 weeks resumes in February
Western Culture is steeped within a Christian framework that is, increasingly, being caricatured through some of its historical failings. Yet to understand much of the artwork, our holidays, even how it is that we have weekends as non-working days (at least for some of us), to partake and understand the foundational texts is important. We will read through the Gospel of St Matthew (and where relevant, cross-reference to Greek philosophy, mesapotamian astronomy/astrology, and their respective developments over the course of the next centuries. I recommend the Jerusalem Bible as a good translation for the new Testament.
Similarly, Eastern culture has heavily been infused with streams emanating from the Upanishads, and one of the most influential line is through the Advaitist tradition throgh Sankaracharya's AtmaBhoda - a versed book that, like many others in the tradition, holds in condensed form a vast worldview and way of being.
9:30 - 11:30 BOOKS - Gospel of St Matthew - Jerusalem Bible translation (available as a pdf here - Matthew only), and the Atma Bodha (available as a pdf here).
12:30 - 2:30 ART - focussed on Geometry and astronomy
Optimising mitochondrial function, metabolic water production, and maximising ATP? Check ASEA Redox products below.
On the importance of cellular health, Peter Deunov mentions (6th February, 1927) that:
The gifts and abilities of a person are hidden within their own cells; they are not something external. If you treat your cells — your organism — well, your gifts will manifest, but this takes time. All sciences [from Latin for 'knowledge' and understanding], all virtues are hidden in the human cells because they are connected to intelligent forces, to intelligent beings.
You must become aware that every person represents a society made up of intelligent souls who share something in common with them. Therefore, when you wake up from sleep, your first task is to get these intelligent little beings to think, to enter into harmony with you.
This is achieved through prayer, through concentration, through work.
From: Soft and Hard Substances, Youth Esoteric Class, 06 February 1927
ASEA Redox... for Cellular Health
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RENU28 Skin Cellular Health, ASEA drink for cellular health, ...and now ASEA RedoxGold to assist healing and pain reduction.
About RedoxGold
RedoxGold is a gel designed to amplifying repair in the compromised area whilst simultaneously relieving muscle and joint discomfort. It is due for release in Australia on the 6th February (this week!). Where ASEA uniquely stands is through the achievement of creating and stabilising redox signalling molecules outside the body, making it possible to replenish these molecules and deliver them in a form our body recognises and naturally uses in healing. As we age or face stress, the production of these molecules decreases, slowing down our cellular communication network. Redox Gold is the next evolution of innovative products from ASEA. It is the first ever, targeted product to help muscles and joints recover faster. It activates the NRF2 genetic pathway for cellular repair and inflammation management, and boosts glutathione levels —our body’s natural defence against stress—by up to 280%. This product is already reportedly making a difference for people living with discomfort: 100% of testing participants felt relief within 15 minutes. Safe, non-toxic, non-greasy, and hypoallergenic—perfect for all ages. Relief with no side effects or risk of addiction. Actually repairs while offering relief (not a band aid solution).
From my perspective, it adds to what is already known to be the positive cellular healing effects of redox signalling molecules with what is also known of the positive impact of gold in healing (such as what is referred to as white gold powder – though it is in gold's natural form that RedoxGold incorporates this beneficial metal).
Purchasing
Go to my FourHares ASEA page , and then simply click to Buy Here' . My suggestion is to try it for 3 months, I'm sure you'll want to continue - with a box (4) bottles of ASEA Drink and 1 Renu28 - this seems to be what most people regularly use. If you have any questions or would like to discuss any elements, PLEASE be in touch
Research findings
Summary of RECENT FINDINGS ('White Paper') (independent research by University of Bath and University of Western Sydney):
● The research conducted independently by both universities found that the Nrf2 pathway was significantly impacted by redox signaling molecules.
● Nrf2 is a genetic pathway that plays a vital role in regulating genes that support response and resilience to a range of stressors. These stressors may include fatigue, emotional stress, inflammation, environmental pollution, and even lifestyle factors such as poor diet or sedentary behavior.
● One key finding in the research was that supplementation with redox signaling molecules increased Nrf2 activity by up to 60%. This is significant given the Nrf2 pathway enhances the antioxidant protective system inside our bodies’ cells. (See fig. 7B.)
● Another key finding is that supplementation with redox signaling molecules increased cells’ production of protective proteins like glutathione, which play important roles in promoting overall balance. The research revealed that supplementation with redox signaling molecules increased glutathione production by 40% in healthy cells and that it restored glutathione production in compromised cells even more—by 55%. (See figs. 12A and 12B.)
The White Paper (linked above) includes the following explanation:
Signal transduction by electron transfer, or redox signaling requires an electrophile (a molecule that attracts electrons) reacting with a nucleophile (a molecule that will give up electrons). Redox signaling involves reactions where an electrophile takes electrons away leaving the nucleophile in a more oxidized state (oxidation reaction). In this situation the electrophile is called an oxidant. On the other hand, reductive stress is characterized by an excess of cellular electron donors. When conditions result in ratios where antioxidants exceed pro-oxidants, reductive stress occurs with a consequent excess accumulation of reducing equivalents like reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH), for example, surpassing the compensatory activities of regulatory oxidoreductases. In summary, oxidation and reduction by loss or gain of an electron induce changes in structural and functional characteristics of molecules, thus modifying signaling processes.
Redox signaling is part of the normal physiology of all cells, including flow stimulated growth of endothelial cells, and plays a significant role in pathophysiological responses such as occur in ischemia/reperfusion injury, as well.
See also
> See also From Vaccine Injury to Vitality: and ASEA Story
Do preview this fascinating interview showing ASEA's impact on blood coagulation and oxygen carrying capacities
vimeo.com/1000174468
Jean-Michel
0490770061
email: sage@fourhares.com