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Jewish yoga is becoming a cottage industry, with Jewish yoga teachers sprinkling mystical and traditional Jewish teachings into their work in studios, schools and synagogues around the world. Here are some places to start if you want to find one in your area, or just meet my friends.

Ida Unger, Yoga Garden Studios

Ida offers Iyengar-style yoga with beautiful Kabbalistic teachings throughout the L.A. area. She is currently listed in the American Jewish University's Continuing Ed catalog.

Rebecca Rosen, Nefesh Bliss Yoga

Rebecca offers a traditional hatha yoga class with Jewish-themed meditations.

Reisha Golden, Yoga Mosaic

Reisha teaches gentle yoga to seniors in a relaxed, meditative setting, in the light of traditional and mystical Jewish wisdom. She also oversees the Yoga Mosaic in the U.S., a listing of Jewish yoga teachers.

Diane Bloomfield, Torah Yoga Association

Diane is the author of Torah Yoga: Experiencing Jeiwsh Wisdom Through Classic Poses, and runs the Torah Yoga Association. She combines a traditional yoga class with sit-down Torah study.

Rabbi Healther Altman, Rav Yoga

Heather is a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher and studied with Ana Forrest, Seane Corn, and Shiva Rae. Rav Yoga brings the Forrest and Vinyasa Flow emphases of connecting movement and breath with intense pose sequences that stimulate mental, emotional, and spiritual freedom.

Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein, Mila Yomit

Rabbi Itzchak teaches the mysticism of Rav Kook, and sends out a daily mystical teaching on words from the Torah that you can subscribe to from his Web site. He also is certified to teach Ophanim, the "yoga of the Hebrew letters," which was developed in the Bratzlaver Chassidic community in Jerusalem in the 1960s, based on Safer haBahir.

Yoga I Like

Howard Davis, Tenth Gate Yoga

A Gentle Way Yoga & Joyful Movement Center

Jean di Carlo-Wagner, Yoga for Cancer Survivors

Authentic Teachers of Kabbalah
Kabbalah, a tradition of mystical Jewish teachings dating to the Middle Ages and before, is premised on the concept that, through our impassioned prayers and commanded actions (mitzvot), we can help the Holy One to heal the world. Anyone who divorces Kabbalah from Jewish ritual observance, or claims its central purpose is to bring followers to enlightenment, is using Kabbalah's beauty to enlarge their own ego and wallet. They are not teaching authentic Kabbalah.

Here are a few of my teachers, whose work I honor and vouch for.

Rabbi T'mimah Ickovits, Ohr Hamakor

Rabbi Steve Robbins, Congregation N'vay Shalom

Reb David Seidenberg, NeoHasid.org

Melinda Ribner, New York-based author, therapist, and Kabbalah and meditation teacher.

Mindy's other site.

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