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Yoga Shalom Book/CD/DVD
Dec 12, 2011
Yoga Shalom is a unique worship experience that brings together body, mind, and spirit for an extraordinary prayer service. Combining the two powerful spiritual disciplines of Jewish worship and yoga practice, Yoga Shalom leads to deeper understandings of both, or as author Lisa Levine writes of her initial forays into yoga as a cantorial student, “I learned to be more present in my prayers and meditations so I could better pray with and on behalf of my congregation.”

Yoga Shalom can be adapted and the postures customized for your congregation, studio, or private practice, and can be done in the community of a class or in the privacy of your own home. As an alternative to the traditional prayer service, Yoga Shalom can engage and unite your professional staff, lay leadership, and community. Whether you have no yoga experience or have been practicing for years, and regardless of your age or abilities, Yoga Shalom will help you relax your body, calm your mind, and nurture your spirit.

Features:
• Detailed, easy-to-follow instructions
• Dozens of photographs
• Advanced, gentle, and chair modifications for each posture sequence
• 17-track CD to accompany your practice, featuring the music of well-known Jewish artists Craig Taubman, Jeff Klepper, Lisa Levine, and many more
• Full-length DVD of the complete practice
Upcoming Events
Mar 22
7:00 AM
Boston , MA
CCAR Convention
Mar 27
Noon
URJ Staff Lunch and Learn
Mar 29
7:30 PM
Columbia, MD
Yoga Shalom at Beit Aviv
All Upcoming Events
Press
Review by Rabbi Myriam Klotz
Yoga Shalom is wonderful! It is a strong and unique contribution to this growing body of work. As for production, it is so well done! To include both print photos, as well as the music CD and the DVD~terrific! May you (and this creation) go from strength to strength! Full Text
— Rabbi Myriam Klotz
Director of Yoga and Lay Programs Institute for Jewish Spirituality
Review by Marcus Freed
Yoga Shalom is a charming book recently released by the URJ Press. Introduced as ‘a spiritual and physical journey, guided by a sequence of traditional Hebrew morning prayers’, it completely delivers on promise. Lisa Levine has produced a superb resource.

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— Marcus Freed
President of the Jewish Yoga Network and founder of Bibliyoga
Review by Lisa Traiger, Washington Jewish Week
Lisa Levine puts the om in shalom. The Olney cantor and yoga practitioner is the creator of Yoga Shalom, introducing a new way for Jews to pray using both body and soul. Levine's recently released book Yoga Shalom, which features a companion instructional DVD and CD of accompanying liturgical music, is a friendly user's guide for yoga novices and yogis alike who want to put a Jewish twist on the ancient physical and spiritual practice that coalesced around the rise of early Buddhism in India in about the second century BCE.Although many think of Judaism as a cerebral religion, Levine finds the opposite to be true. "Judaism is a physical religion," she insisted. "Think about the choreography we do in services, like coming up three times on our toes, bowing at certain times and when you think of Chasidic Jews you think of them shuffling, which is movement. ..."Jews are a physical people. I've just taken it to another level of physicality." Full Text
— Lisa Traiger
Washington Jewish Week

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