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Yoga Shalom D.C. Book Launch
Article in Washington Jewish Week
by Lisa Traiger
Jan 14, 2012

Check out the recent article about Yoga Shalom in the Washington Jewish Week. Go to Press to read the article! We hope to see you at one of our classes soon!

Lisa and Carol in front of Poster at URJ Biennial
Author poster at URJ Biennial!
Dec 22, 2011
Lisa and Carol took a moment in front of the 'meet the author' poster at the recent URJ Biennial. Thank you to everyone for all their support of Yoga Shalom!
Yoga Shalom at URJ Biennial 2011
Yoga Shalom Sold Out at URJ Biennial
Dec 19, 2011
It was an exciting week for Lisa and Carol when their book sold out in two days at the URJ Biennial. 99 people attended their workshop on Thursday and a good many of them bought the book and had Lisa and Carol sign their copy at the book signing. Another session was presented Sunday for the WRJ Assembly and a nice group of about 30 folks came to decompress after an exhausting week at the Biennial. The buzz is great folks! Please leave a comment about the book and how you are sharing it with your congregations. If you'd like to receive a quarterly newsletter about what's going on with Yoga Shalom, please hit contact and send your email address.
Lisa and Carol at their Biennial Session
Yoga Shalom Book/CD/DVD at URJ Biennial
Dec 8, 2011
We are launching Yoga Shalom Book/CD/DVD at the URJ Biennial in D.C. Join us at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday December 15th for our Yoga Embodiment Workshop as well as Yoga Shalom Book Signing at Noon at the URJ Books and Music Store. We'll also be teaching at the WRJ Assembly on Sunday morning at 8:00 a.m. No mat required, just an open heart!
Order at URJ Books and Music!
Yoga Shalom Ready for Ordering!
by Lisa Levine and Carol Krucoff
Dec 5, 2011

Yoga Shalom is now ready for shipping at URJ Books and Music. Go to www.urjbooksandmusic.com The book with be launched at the URJ Biennial on Thursday December 15th at 10:30 a.m. The official book signing in the D.C. area will be Saturday January 14th at 4:00 p.m. beginning with the worship practice and ending with Havdalah and a reception.

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Feb 5
2:30 pm
Columbia, MD
Yoga Shalom at Bet Aviv
Mar 22
7:00 AM
Boston , MA
CCAR Convention
Mar 27
Noon
URJ Staff Lunch and Learn
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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