PACIFIC NORTHWEST TEACHERS

Vancouver, BC, Canada

EVELYN NEAMAN. Tikkun Yoga Center.
Tel: 604 738- 9295 or 604 537-0798
email: Evelyn Neaman
web: Tikkun Yoga

 

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

web: Presentation Dynamics

 

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Berkeley, CA

JENNI MANGEL. Hatha/Vinyasa Yoga.
email: Jenni Mangel

JOHN REYNOLDS. Teaches gentle Jewish yoga, emphasizing kabbalistic
chanting and meditation, from a nondual, neo-chassidic perspective. Torah study, mussar practices, and social action all find their place. Asana and pranayama
techniques stem from the Satyananda / Sivananda lineage.
Tel: 510 917-0417
email: John Reynolds

Vista, CA

NAOMI JUDITH OLKON OFFNER Gentle Yoga With Naomi
Hatha Yoga Instructor with a gentle touch - Please visit Naomi's website by clicking below:
Web: www.gentleyoga.com

email: naomi@judithenterprises.com

Tel: 760-419-9817
Fax: 602-680-3928

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.
web: Yoga Art Sacred Text
email:  Julie Emden


SANDRA RAZIELI. Certified yoga teacher (CYTA, Yoga Alliance 500) and has been teaching yoga for over 5 years.  Her teaching is primarily Iyengar based.  Along with general classes, she particular specializes in yoga for scoliosis and yoga for athletic performance.  She is also the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Program Director at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont, CA and holds a Masters in Anthropology from Stanford University.
Tel: 510-919-3667

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.
Tel: 714-614-1316
email: Reisha Golden
web: Yoga Mosaic

visit: EVENTS

Los Angeles, CA

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.
Tel: 310 450-0133
email: Ida Unger
web: Yoga Garden Studios

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

Web: www.GentleJewishYoga.com  

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
dedicated Yogi. Her practice reconnected her fine tuned physical self
with her underserved emotional/spiritual self in a process driven
mirror free environment. Meditation & Yoga ignited her burning
desires, and defined her sacred bliss. Thanks to this synergy of
physical strength & cereberal/spiritual energy, Rebecca began more
gracefully & joyfully leaping through life and as a result created
Nefesh Bliss 
Web:www.nefeshbliss.com
NefeshBliss is yoga, dance, meditation & pilates rooted in Torah. NefeshBliss
was created & trademarked by Rebecca Rosen.
The aim of NefeshBliss is to empower others to find sustainable joy,
strength, radiance & wellness through Dance, Fitness, Pilates, Yoga,
Feldenkreis, Cardio Circuits, Meditation, and Intention
Setting/Kavavah. NefeshBliss trains & certifies teachers, hosts
workshops, special events, and develops wellness & empowerment
curriculum, books & DVDs. Rebecca has taught a diverse population of
students ages 2-92 in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Colorado, Chicago,
Michigan & Israel. Rebecca shares her love of movement with
under-served populations & donates classes to Yoga For Incarcerated
Youth, Sharon Stone's Charity - Planet Hope, as well as other
community organizations in Los Angeles.

Patagonia, Arizona

MICHAEL BEDAR. Media Evolutionary.
Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, a consummate Yoga and Judaism
center offering classes and retreats worldwide. View calendar.
Tel: 866-394-2520, x.209
F ax: 415-598-2409

Email: Michael Bedar
http://www.treeoflife.nu

Santa Fe , New Mexico

RIMA MILLER. Director of Yoga Moves.

Web: Yoga Moves

 

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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.
Location: Miami, Florida and Dallas, Texas, USA

cell: (214) 632-5353

email: Helen Kitti Smith 

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Dundas, ON, Canada

Wendy Schneider

Email: Wendy Schneider

Tel: 905-628-0058
Fax: 905-627-7099

web: http://www.wendysyogastudio.ca
Studio Location: 14 Crawford Court, Dundas, ON

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.
Location: 60 Elm Ridge Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Tel: 416 783-4566
email: Arnie Allice

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....
Location: Classes held in Thornhill and midtown Toronto, Ontario, and Retreats held in Collingwood, Ontario, and now expanding throughout the US and Canada

email: Kinneret Dubowitz 

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.
Contact: www.EmmetsEssentials.com
413-210-0495

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. 
Tel: 617-918-1551.
email: Steve Rapp
web: Jewish Lights - Steve Rapp

visit: EVENTS

Cos Cob, CT

Port Washington, NY
GAIL GROSSMAN, RYT, Certified YogaKids Facilitator and Trainer
Director of OM Sweet OM Yoga LLC, Yoga For All Ages
Location: 37 Avenue A, Port Washington, NY 11050
Tel: 516.944.YOGA
Web: www.omsweetomyoga.com

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-
and post-natal yoga teacher. For the past 3 years, Arlyn has been
inspired by Anusara Yoga and is currently studying towards Anusara
certification with John Friend and his master teachers.
For information on group, corporate, therapeutic, private or
semi-private classes, or on Rosh Chodesh Women's classses, please
contact Arlyn directly.
Tel: 516-902-9338
email: Arlyn Boltax

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. 

New York, NY

DR. EILEEN J. AIN, DSW LCSW CYIemail: Dr. Eileen J. Ain

ELENA BROWER. Founder of Virayoga Studio. Teaches Anusara yoga.
email: Elena Brower
web: Virayoga

RABBI ITZCHAK MARMORSTEIN, MSW. Teaches Ophanim Kabbalistic Yoga of Abraham (see article:  OPHANIM by Rabbi Marmorstein).
Tel: 250 516-8080
email: Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein
websites:Mila Yomit: The Torah, Word by Word;and Ophanim

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.
email: Laurie Wolko

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. 

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
email:Wendy Beller Madway

 

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
URI BLUMENTHAL. Certified Ophanim Teacher. Certified Integral Yoga Teacher. Certified Meditation Teacher. Direct Disciple in Kaivalyadhama lineage. Initiated into Ophanim in Jerusalem. More than 35 years of practice.
Teaches mixed classes in Fair Lawn, NJ, Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Available for group and private classes.
Tel: 201 398-0606
email: Uri Blumenthal

Neshanic Station, NJ

RUTH CRAWFORD (Known as Roo)

635 Whiton Road, Neshanic Station, New Jersey, 08853

Tel: 908 240 78622

email: Roo

Princeton, NJ
DEBORAH METZGER, RYT. Princeton Center for Yoga & Health.

Princeton Center for Yoga & Health is a Kripalu Affiliated Studio
Seeking knowledegeable individuals who would like to bring to our studio programs in Judaism and yoga
web: Princeton Center for Yoga and Health

Baltimore, MD

 

ELLEN RABINOWITZ. Anusara style teacher. Jewish Yoga group meets monthly.
Come join a wonderful diverse group of men and women. Each session of class involves a different kavannah or intention, meditations on Torah and other writings and yoga postures. After all, yoga is meditation in movement. What better way to celebrate and connect with the divine.
Tel: 443 739-6260
email: Ellen Rabinowitz
web: Maryland Jewish Yoga Center

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
in the greater Washington, DC area.

Tel: 703.622.3802

web: Shalom Yoga

visit: EVENTS

Miami, FL
HELEN KITTI SMITH. Certified Iyengar Teacher. For more information, click to CENTRAL TEACHERS
Location: Dallas, Texas and Miami, Florida, USA

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. 
Tel: 239 262-0868.
email: Al Low

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