Monday, January 19, 2015

THE INNISFREE WRITERS GROUP

Hi there Innisfree Travellers.  Another wonderful week.

 Jules has invited you all to join the Innisfree Writers Group at the Bentinck in Woodend.  It happens in the round room at the top of the staircase, on a Monday evening at 7pm.  The Topics until the end of February are 1. Families 2. Body and Soul,  3. Journey and 4. Valentine.

This group is following a format to allow participants to improve their writing to a point where they can start entering competitions, and eventually look at being published.  Every writer's goal.  Email me at yogafirst@netcon.net.au to let us know you are coming.  I will pass it along to Jules.

The yoga classes are going exceedingly well, and we are getting a great result.  The hardest thing is to press home the point that yoga is not just an exercise routine, it also helps concentration, balance, and obviously flexibility - but you don't wait until you have these before you start!  It is important to learn that you are going to feel "stretched" after yoga.  If you did fitness training, or weights then you would expect to feel something.  I don't understand why students expect to do a class without feeling a result - obviously they have never been to my classes!

The Alternative Health Centre with herbal baths, the salt room and etc is not long away.  We can't wait. Mike has it in hand, and as soon as the time is right the building will commence.

The Bentinck gardens are looking stupendous, but we are getting ready for winter, heralded of course by the green chestnuts, and the beginnings of acorns in the oak trees.  We have had a wonderful bounty and harvest of fruit - peaches, red plums, raspberries, apricots -  and especially cherry plums. The pear tree is so heavy with fruit it is hard to imagine how it will manage when the pears reach maturity, thank goodness they can ripen off the tree.  My favourite tree in the garden is the big elderberry near the yoga centre.  Every bit of the tree is useful.  The flowers can be used in champagne and cordial, the fruit can be used in cordial, wine and berry dishes, a decoction or infusion of the leaves makes a great insect control, and the wood has been used for centuries to make flutes and pipes for children.  A totally useful tree.

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