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TEACHERS in the US and Canada(listed by region) Pacific Northwest :: Southwest :: Central :: Eastern Please email me if you would like to be listed here PACIFIC NORTHWEST TEACHERSVancouver, BC, Canada EVELYN NEAMAN.
Tikkun Yoga Center.
Ashland, OR JUDD ROBBINS. Hatha Yoga. Enjoy traditional Hatha yoga during your visit to Ashland, Oregon. Couple your physical practice with a unique blend of Jewish music from international instrumental and chorale sources used as a melodic backdrop to a yogic practice in an already spiritual location. Let the music move you into a more spiritual hour of Hatha yoga, augmented by conscious breathwork, with every class ended with uniquely Jewish meditations and simple chants. email: Judd Robbins PACIFIC SOUTHWEST TEACHERS Top Berkeley, CA JENNI MANGEL. Hatha/Vinyasa
Yoga. JOHN REYNOLDS. Teaches
gentle Jewish yoga, emphasizing kabbalistic Vista, CA NAOMI JUDITH OLKON
OFFNER Gentle Yoga With Naomi email: naomi@judithenterprises.com Tel: 760-419-9817 Piedmont, CA JULIE EMDEN .
Certified Halprin Practitioner. Julie is an expressive arts practitioner,
movement artist and educator. She has taught Yoga, based in the Iyengar
tradition, and Jewish themes to teens for seven years at Midrasha in
Berkeley on Sundays and through her program Yoga, Art and Sacred Text
for teens. She has taught adults Yoga, Art and Sacred Text in
a variety of settings. Julie is a graduate of teacher training
programs in Expressive Arts Education at Tamalpa Institute and in Dance
Midrash, and she holds a Bachelor's Degree in History from the University
of Michigan. Julie also co-facilitates Sacred Sephirot Dance Circles
in Berkeley, California. email:
Sandra Razieli Long Beach, CA REISHA GOLDEN.
Registered Hatha Yoga Instructor 500 Hour. Certified to teach Motion-Restricted
and Senior Individuals. Teaches gentle yoga designed for all ages and
beliefs in a relaxed, meditative setting in the light of traditional
and mystical Jewish wisdom. visit: EVENTS Los Angeles, CA ILANA ROGEL. Certified Ashtanga Yoga Instructor.
Provides on-going private and semi private yoga classes designed to
fit each person's individual goals. Along, with semi-private co-ed classes,
provides instruction for women only; targeting religious women who would
like to get some exercise but can not do so in a co-ed environment. The
teachings are based on traditional Ashtanga yoga. The exercises are
gentle and challenging.
email: Ilana Rogel
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 email: ariellamusic@gmail.com tel: 323.652.7915
Santa Monica, CA IDA UNGER.
Yoga Garden Studios. Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor, teaches at her
home studio, Yoga Garden Studios, as well as Santa Monica College. Ida
grew up with a Yeshiva education and a love of Torah study. As
an adult she found yoga. Eventually a connection between her Jewish
roots and her yogic wings took place, resulting in a deepening and heightening
of both. Join her on this exciting journey. She currently also
teaches Shabbat morning yoga and prayer sessions, and frequently teaches
at the Brandeis Bardim Institute. SARAH BELL. Yoga Works' certified since 1996. Teaches Hatha yoga in the Yoga Works style. Attention to detail, breath, and alignment. Beginner and intermediate level classes at Yoga Works in Santa Monica. Private classes/Group classes. Tel: 310 710-8492 email: Sarah Bell web: Yoga Works
AVIVAH WINOCUR ERLICK . Gentle Jewish Yoga, combining mystical meditation, neo-chassidic chant, and alef-bet postures suitable for any range of motion. Avivah is a rabbinical student at the transdenomenational Academy for Jewish Religion-California in Los Angeles, and is certified through the translineage A Gentle Way ( http://www.agentleway.com ) adaptive Hatha yoga program in San Diego. She is currently teaching weekly classes at Adat Shalom in West Los Angeles. Email: Avivah Winocour Erlick REBECCA ROSEN.
Rebecca Rosen was dancing before she could walk. Ten years ago, Rebecca
turned to Yoga on a break from Dance. She quickly became a Patagonia, Arizona MICHAEL BEDAR.
Media Evolutionary. Email: Michael
Bedar Santa Fe , New Mexico RIMA MILLER. Director of Yoga Moves. Web: Yoga Moves
CENTRAL TEACHERS Top Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada MATTHEW GINDIN teaches classical Hatha Yoga and Jewish meditation. Matthew also teaches a Yoga form he developed that uses poses, breathing, and meditation to contemplate the Kabbalah of the Hebrew Aleph-bet, and apply insights gained to everyday life. He teaches at synagogues as well as at Yoga and fitness studios. He also teaches private lessons in both meditation and Yoga, and works with developmentally handicapped adults. Tel: 204 775-2868 email: Matthew Gindin MIRIAM LEO teaches Yoga for kids. She teaches the children tools for relaxation and body awareness in a non-competitive environment. Miriam teaches playful, imaginative, child friendly interpretations of the classical poses interwoven with meditation, affirmations, and Torah principles. She is available for private groups and parties. Tel: 204 775-2868 email: Miriam Leo Chicago, IL RABBI HEATHER ALTMAN creating sanctuary for your soul email: Rabbi Heather Altman Tel: 773-983-9617 Evanston, IL YOGA MINYANS led by Rabbi Andrea London and Julie Singer (yoga teacher) at Beth Emet The Free Synagogue, 1224 Dempster, Evanston, Il 60202. Please access their website and our EVENTS page for upcoming services. Tel: 847.869- 4230 fax 847.869-7830 email: Beth Emet The Free Synagogue web: Beth Emet Beachwood, Ohio SANDY GROSS. Director of Evolution Yoga. Many of the teachers, including Sandy , are Jewish, and weave Jewish themes into their classes. address: 3737 Park East Drive, Suite 209 , Beachwood , Ohio 44122 web: Evolution Yoga Tel: 216 595-YOGA Dallas, TX HELEN KITTI SMITH. She is a writer and public relations professional. While living in Spain she maintained her yoga practice as she completed her university studies on the "convivencia" period of Spanish history. She believes that those seven centuries under Muslim rule - where Jews, Muslims and Christians lived together in relative harmony - is reflected in the first yama of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, namely ahimsa, which is compassion and non-injuring. This is the essence of Judaism as defined by Hillel when he was asked to distill its teachings standing on one leg. He said, "Treat others as you would treat yourself." Helen Kitti Smith is a certified
Iyengar teacher. She teaches public and private classes in Dallas, Texas,
and private classes in Miami, Florida. cell: (214) 632-5353 email:
Helen Kitti Smith
Dundas, ON, Canada Wendy Schneider Email: Wendy Schneider Tel: 905-628-0058 web: http://www.wendysyogastudio.ca
Toronto, ON, Canada ARNIE ALLICE.
Registered Nurse. Certified Hatha Yoga Teacher - for beginner and general
level. Combining of yoga, meditation, breathing, laughter. Teaches at
home. Does house calls. KINNERET DUBOWITZ,
M.A, E.T Certified Yoga Teacher and Dance Therapist.
Kinneret offers Women's Only Yoga classes and retreats. She
is a certified yoga teacher through the Toronto School of Flow Yoga
(a Hatha Flow style which combines a series of meditative yoga poses
done to music - mind/body oriented-a fit yoga routine which also allows
for a deep exploration into the holding of the poses and their infinite
potential for mind / body integration). Although meditative, her classes
in no way conflict with Judaism as the imagery and spiritual nature
of the class is based in chassidis and the work of Areyeh Kaplan on
Jewish meditation. At her strictly kosher (in accordance with strict
halachic standards) natural health food retreats, she integrates yoga,
nia, pilates, natural health food, Jewish meditation, davening, Torah
learning, tehillim readings, Jewish women's healing sessions, body therapies
and more.... email: Kinneret Dubowitz
RACHEL CASSIA
BESSERMAN Sharon and Boston, MA STEVE RAPP.
Creator/teacher of Aleph-Bet Yoga - Iyengar-style postures
and Jewish material Sunday mornings in Canton and Sharon, MA, or upon
request. Also teaches eclectic style Weds and Fri at 12:30 - 1:30,
Government Center, Boston, MA. Classes open yr-round. visit: EVENTS Cos Cob, CT PHYLLIS HERMAN. Kripalu-certified teacher of gentle
yoga. Classes are held in her home in a peaceful setting facing the
garden. In the future, Phyllis hopes to incorporate more Jewish
spirituality into her classes, at the moment, few of her students
are Jewish. She is also a nutritionist and offers a "nutrition
chat" each month either preceding or following her yoga class.
Tel: 203-661-0949
email: Phyllis Herman Port Washington,
NY Great Neck, NY ARLYN BOLTAX. Arlyn
teaches yoga on the North Shore of Long Island (NY). She is a
Certified Yoga teacher from Om Yoga NYC, as well as a certified
pre- Forest Hills, NY R' RENE DAVID ALKALAY, PhD, ND. Spiritual Preceptor/Founder, Tree of Life Yoga Center. The Tree of Life is a yoga school for all levels, including adult, children, pre -natal, post-natal, restorative, and therapeutic yoga. It is also the only certified Ophanim school on the east coast. Yoga styles taught at Tree of Life are vinyasakrama , ashtanga , kundalini and tantra . Classes are offered throughout the day seven days a week. Location: 102-19 Metropolitan Avenue, Forest Hills , NY Tel: 718-544-5997 email: Tree of Life web: Genesis Society Monroe, NY MIM SENFT BEN-YAACOV, RYT. Teaches "Yoga With A Jewish Twist" beingoffered at Eitz Chaim Synagogue, Monroe, NY. The class is open to anyone over 16, from beginners to experienced yogis. The class uses the asanas and breath work to connect us to the spark of the divine with in us and recognize our partnership with the Creator in the molding of the vessel/bodies that hold that light. For additional information, you can send an e-mail to pranaheartyoga@yahoo.com . Private sessions are also available. Tel: (845) 496-1229
New York, NY DR. EILEEN J. AIN, DSW LCSW CYIemail: Dr. Eileen J. Ain ELENA BROWER.
Founder of Virayoga Studio. Teaches Anusara yoga.
RABBI ITZCHAK MARMORSTEIN,
MSW. Teaches Ophanim Kabbalistic Yoga of Abraham (see article:
OPHANIM by Rabbi Marmorstein). MAYA SEIDEL. Israeli-born yoga teacher. web: www.mayayoganyc.com email: Maya
Seidel LAURIE WOLKO Jewish Registered yoga teacher
who combines Integral Yoga/Iyengar Yoga within a Jewish context, including
breathing practices, meditation, and physical postures. RACHEL KNEITEL Trained at Integral Yoga Institute. Teaches Hatha yoga to corporate clients. Rachel also works with senior citizens and people with special needs and teaches chair yoga. Tel: 212 752-7930. email: Rachel Kneitel Rochester, NY WENDY BELLER MADWAY. Trained in Anusara style and as such Anusara inspired in her teaching. Wendy encourages her students to find their fullest expression in each movement, each pose. She finds such delight in watching her students find their inner strength, flexibility, and light that glows deep within. She likes to weave together with grace and awareness the worlds of Yoga and Judaism. When teaching at Temple Sinai, she tries to integrate Jewish themes or imagery into the session. At the JCC, her classes are more fitted to the population the JCC services. For more information about her classes, see EVENTS. Tel: 585 258-9101 Mail: (PMB237), 2604 Elmwood
Avenue, Rochester NY 14618
Bergen County, NJ HOWARD KATZ. Certified Vinyasa yoga instructor, registered with Yoga Alliance. Teaches yoga at various venues in Bergen County, New Jersey and lives in Paramus, New Jersey . He also teaches occasional Torah classes and leads services (including High Holiday services) at his synagouge, an egalitarian, spiritually alive Conservative synagogue in Englewood , New Jersey . Coordinates yoga/Shabbat retreats. cell: 201 232-6244. email: Howard Katz Fairlawn, NJ Neshanic Station, NJ RUTH CRAWFORD (Known as Roo) 635 Whiton Road, Neshanic Station, New Jersey, 08853 Tel: 908 240 78622 email: Roo Princeton, NJ Princeton Center for
Yoga & Health is a Kripalu Affiliated Studio 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. email: Edith
ELLEN RABINOWITZ.
Anusara style teacher. Jewish Yoga group meets monthly. Washington, DC and Northern Virginia LARISSA BLECHMAN.
Owner of Shalom
Yoga™ offers a series of yoga, relaxation and meditation
classes and workshops designed to create and cultivate a sense of Shalom--Peace.
All Shalom Yoga classes are designed to teach participants how to strengthen,
balance, and nurture expansion in body and mind while engaging the Jewish
spirit. Classes, workshops and retreat offerings Tel: 703.622.3802 web: Shalom Yoga visit:
EVENTS Miami, FL Naples, FL AL LOW. Yoga for
all ages and levels. Classes in Naples, Florida. Private
classes also offered at my home or on the beach. Orlando, Florida JUDITH RUBINGER. Internationally certified instructor
of Kundalini yoga, a facilitator of authentic movement and
creative movement teacher and developing her own integrated approach
to Jewishly-oriented yoga based on the intersection of Kundalini
yoga with Jewish prayer, kabbalah and Jewish concepts. Uses the Sh'ma
as an opening repetitive mantra and other Hebrew words
to mentally focus the mind for meditation. Working with "Lifting the
Veil: The Divine Code- Practical Kabbalah with Kundalini Yoga" by Joseph
Levry, as well as Aleph Bet yoga based on the yogic positions suggested
by the Hebrew alphabet. Judith welcomes contact with others who are seeking
to explore, elaborate upon and develop the interconnections
between Judaism and Yoga.
Please contact her through her web site:
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