Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 What Is Aleph-Bet Yoga?
2 Getting Started with Hatha Yoga Poses
3 Poses, Letters, and Words
4 The Aleph-Bet Yoga Series—the Proper Order of a Yoga Session
Suggestions for Further Study
Notes About Jewish Lights
Steven A. Rapp has been a yoga practitioner for over ten years and
is a yoga teacher in Boston. He is author of Aleph-Bet Yoga:
Embodying the Hebrew Letters for Physical and Spiritual Well-Being
and coauthor of The Jewish Pregnancy Book: A Resource for the Soul,
Body and Mind During Pregnancy, Birth and the First Three Months.
He also teaches religious school at Temple Beth David in Canton,
Massachusetts, and offers personal instruction to those seeking to
link traditional yoga practice and Judaism. He lives with his wife
and three children in Randolph, Massachusetts.
Steven A. Rapp is available to speak on the following topics:
Jewish Approach to Yoga
Tamar Frankiel, PhD, is recognized as one of the leading teachers
of Jewish mysticism today. She teaches Jewish mysticism and
comparative religion at the Academy for Jewish Religion, Los
Angeles, and is the author of many books, including The Voice of
Sarah: Feminine Spirituality and Traditional Judaism. She is
coauthor of Minding the Temple of the Soul: Balancing Body, Mind,
and Spirit through Traditional Jewish Prayer, Movement, and
Meditation and Entering the Temple of Dreams: Jewish Prayers,
Movements, and Meditations for the End of the Day (both Jewish
Lights). She lectures frequently on topics of Jewish mysticism.
Frankiel lives with her husband and five children in Los
Angeles.
Judy Greenfeld, second invested cantor at Temple Emanuel in Beverly
Hills, California. She leads the New Emanuel minyan, a weekly
progressive prayer service.
Hart Lazer is a popular yoga teacher in Manitoba, Canada. His work
and techniques were one of the inspirations behind David A.
Cooper's book Renewing Your Soul: A Guided Retreat for the Sabbath
and Other Days of Rest, which was revised and reissued as The
Handbook of Jewish Meditation Practices: A Guide for Enriching the
Sabbath and Other Days of Your Life (Jewish Lights, 2000).
"Beautifully synthesized yoga and Judaism in understandable and
poetic ways. A testament to the power of yoga as a way of life to
enhance any faith."
—Marsha Wenig, creator of YogaKids
"At last, a whole-bodied approach to Hebrew that not only informs
the mind but opens the soul. This is not your Bubbe's aleph-bet
book, but it should have been"
—Rabbi Rami Shapiro, translator/annotator of The Hebrew Prophets:
Selections Annotated and Explained and Hasidic Tales: Annotated and
Explained
"An intriguing, interesting and innovative concept. Using Hebrew
letters as parallels to ancient yogic asansas opens exciting
possibilities of intregration."
—Aruni Nan Futuronsky, director of Retreat and Renewal, Kripalu
Center for Yoga and Health
"Reader-friendly, poetic, and insightful … an excellent beginning
guide for those who want to view yoga through a Jewish Lens."
—Alan Reder, contributing editor to Yoga Journal; coauthor of The
Whole Parenting Guide
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