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Yoga Means to Yoke onto the Spirit - How Does this Relate to Judaism?
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ARTICLE FEATURE: One of our teachers in LA Yoga Magazine
May 2008
Teacher Profile: Avivah Winocur
Erlick
Gentle Jewish Yoga
Written by Marie Black
Five years ago, Avivah Winocur Erlick was married, held a job as a newspaper
editor at the California Real Estate Journal and was attending the same
Jewish services and having the same experiences since her childhood, where
she grew up practicing Reform Judaism in a secular household. Yet she
was simultaneously and regularly attending yoga classes. This seemingly
small act planted a seed that over twenty years of her practice would
sprout to help transform her life.
Today, Avivah has divorced her husband, is in her fourth year of rabbinical school at the Academy for Jewish Religion, California, and has created a yoga class that combines the spiritual technology of yoga with the ancient wisdom of the Torah and the Kabbalah (the mystical branch of Judaism) to communicate a physical experience of Jewish teachings to her students. Avivah completed her yoga teacher training at A Gentle Way in La Mesa, California in the summer of 2006. She chose this approach because it allows her to work with practitioners at any level and almost any location – even from their seats. In her teaching, she focuses on the philosophical and practical teachings, as well as those that are universally spiritual.
Please visit:
http://layogamagazine.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=33
I invite you to click on the orange hotlinked article above to read more about it , and then to visit our ARTICLES and BOOKS page for more articles/books/CDS on Judaism and Yoga.
Upcoming Events
Beallsville Md
Please join me at the beautiful
Sanctuary Retreat Center in
Beallsville Md for a Women's Shabbat Retreat.
Many of you know of the upcoming retreat that Liz Kruger and I are
offering May 16-18, 2008.
This is a wonderful opportunity for women to re-connect and
continue with soul space and time that may have opened up during this
Pesach. The emphasis of the retreat is on "Creating Sanctuary" for
ourselves within the lovely space and time of parshat B'har. We will
gather at the Sanctuary Retreat Center in Beallsville MD, outside of
Washington D.C.
Please assist me with spreading the word about the retreat to your
students, friends, colleagues and families and consider joining us
yourselves! We are closing in on the registration deadline of May 5.
Full info at: http://www.shalomwithin.com/Events.html
Please welcome our new Yoga Mosaic Teachers:
Baltimore, MD
EDITH BROTMAN
Teaches at the JCC in Owings Mills and at other locations around Baltimore. Likes to teach yoga in a manner that enriches one's spiritual connection to his or her own religious tradition.
Northampton, MA
RACHEL CASSIA
BESSERMAN
Has studied and taught Alef-Bet Yoga / Steven Rapp
and Otiyot Chayyot / Yehudit Goldfarb at Hebrew schools in Northampton
Massachusetts.
Currently Completing a 500 hour Teacher Training at EmbodYoga in Amherst,
MA with Patty Townsend (Body-Mind Centering teacher)
and teaching Ashtanga at Smith College in the Get Fit Smith program.
Web: www.EmmetsEssentials.com
413-210-0495
Los Angeles, CA
ARIELLA K. FORSTEIN
Jewish Vocal Yoga: Ariella K. Forstein is a vocalist, world music percussionist and composer who has taken singing to new realms: Vocal Yoga. Blending her training as a classical singer and Cantorial Soloist with her experience in impromptu vocal improvisation, she has developed an intuitive, healing approach to vocalizing called Soul Singing: Yoga for the Voice. As a Reiki Master and Sound Healer, Ariella understands how energy is connected to each sound we make and each breath we take. Ariella combines mystical Jewish music traditions with vocal yoga to open up the body, mind and spirit through the voice.
Web: www.earthsounds.net
E-mail: ariellamusic@gmail.com
323.652.7915
I would like to be able to list your events by month and by state so that those living within commuting distance will know about it. I want to make this your website, so please email me your ideas and what you would like to see on this website and how this website can be of help to you.
Reisha Golden