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Spring-Summer 2008

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Yoga of the Sefirot

Friday mornings at American Jewish University

15600 Mulholland Drive, Bel Air
Room 115, the Dance Studio

Friday mornings, 9:30 to 11 a.m., May 9-June 20

Learn Kabbalah by doing, to empower, relax and learn from your own Holy Temple, your body. Each week, a different Sefirah will be the focus of teachings, movement, meditation and song. The class is designed to be gentle and relaxing, with movements modified to accommodate the fitness level and comfort needs of all participants.

 

May 9: Malkhut (Opening to the Divine) – Feet & Hands

May 16: Yesod (Groundedness) – Stomach, Hips & Sexuality

May 23: Netzach & Hod (Social Action) – Legs

May 30:  Tiferet (Balance) – Heart

June 6: Gevurah (Self Discipline) – Left Side

June 13: Chesed (Loving Kindness) – Right Side

June 20: Chochma, Bina & Keter (Creativity and Presence) – Mind & Breath

 

Sign Up Deadline: May 5.

Cost is $175 for the series; first-time students pay a $15 registration fee.

Fill out the DCE REGISTRATION FORM  (control-click this link to open it online).

Course Number: #08SD5DAE

By Mail: Send form with your check, money order or credit card information to American Jewish University, Department of Continuing Education, 15600 Mulholland Drive, Bel Air, CA 90077

By Fax: Send form to (310) 471-6527 with credit card information. Available 24 hours a day

Call or Visit the DCE office, 9am to 4:30pm, Monday-Thursday, and 9am to 2pm on Friday, (310) 440-1246.

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Also Ongoing:

Gentle Jewish Chair Yoga
for Seniors

Only $2!

Wednesdays, 11-11:45 a.m.
at the Westside Jewish Community Center
5870 W. Olympic Blvd. 
Los Angeles, CA 90036

No mat or equipment needed. Movements accommodate the range of motion of every student.
For reservations or more information, contact Susan Nanus in the WJCC Senior Activities Office
(323).938.2531 
info@westsidejcc.org

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Avivah Winocur Erlick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gentle Jewish Yoga is the brainchild of Avivah Winocur Erlick, a rabbinic student at the Academy for Jewish Religion-California in Los Angeles and certified yoga teacher. She offers workshops, classes and retreats in Jewish yoga, meditation and mystical text study.

Contact Avivah

Gentle Yoga?

 

Gentle Jewish Yoga is for anyone ready to help bring peace to the world, starting with themselves. By combining passive, reclining poses, breathwork and long holds, Gentle Jewish Yoga invites our bodies to trust that they are safe, and can find new flexibility and ease by softening and patiently accepting change.

 

Different versions of each movement are presented, so that participants can choose what works for them. People who cannot easily get up from the floor can take the entire class seated in a chair. It's perfect for beginners, seniors and those returning to exercise, but athletes love it too. The only goal is deep, true relaxation.

Jewish Yoga?

 

Yoga is a dance with the Divine, a spiritual technology that combines symbolism-rich poses with meditative breathwork to calm the body, focus the mind and set the soul humming with spiritual energy.

 

Judaism may at one time have had a movement practice of its own, but most of the details have been lost to time. Today, Jewish yoga teachers around the world are recreating this tradition by combining movements from the yoga world with Judaism's symbols, music and mystical practices.

 

 

 
 
GJY in the Media

"Not Your Bubbe's Pesach," San Diego Jewish Journal, April 2007

 

We Get Raves

 

"I want to thank you so much for coming to Temple Beth David and presenting such fascinating and inspiring workshops.  Everyone has been raving about them - and you ranked 5 = excellent on all the surveys."

 -- Melanie Alkov, event coordinator, Temple Beth David, Westminster, Calif.

 

Thank you, Avivah, for the thoughtful and educational Jewish Yoga class you brought to the UC San Diego Hillel on May 31, 2007, as part of our "Vitamin J" Judaism and health programming series. The class was the perfect mix of meaningful Jewish learning and envigorating yoga. It is truly a unique approach to Judaism!
-- Adam Gerber, JCSC Fellow, Hillel of San Diego at UCSD

"I took Avivah’s class for the month of November and loved the stretching and de-stressing of it, and the Jewish meditation on the parsha of the week!  Avivah is a very knowledgeable and compassionate teacher. She made adjustments for all the ailments and weaknesses I was having. She is more into the spiritual aspect than pushing the physical. I loved it, and I can't wait to resume her class."
-- Shoshi Wilchfort, Sisterhood officer, Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles, Calif.

Newsletter Archive

"Shape of the Divine" - Iyar-Sivan 5768/May-June 2008

"Path of the Righteous" Fall 2007/New Year 5768

'Take Very Good Care of Your Soul' (Sivan-Tammuz 5767/June-July '07)

Countdown to Revelation (Nissan-Iyar 5767/April-May '07)

Escape Egypt - a six-class series for Passover (Shvat-Adar 5767/ Feb.-Mar. '07)

Be a Jewish Star - a free GJY teaching (Tevet-Shevat/Jan.-Feb. 2007)

Digging spiritual wells (Kislev 5767/Dec. '06)

It is not too far ... (Cheshvan 5767/Nov '06)

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