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Please email Yoga Mosaic if you would like to be listed as a Jewish yoga teacher in the US or Canada or if there is an upcoming event you think others who visit this site might want to know about.

If you are a teacher and wish to learn more about Yoga Mosaic and be posted with details of upcoming seminars, or if you are a student or organization that would like to know more about the work of Yoga Mosaic, please e-mail reisha@yogamosaic.org

Yoga Means to Yoke onto the Spirit - How Does this Relate to Judaism?

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.

 

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

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