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by Stephen A. Rapp,Hart Lazer,Tamar Frankiel Ph.D.,Judy Greenfeld

Author:

Stephen A. Rapp,Hart Lazer,Tamar Frankiel Ph.D.,Judy Greenfeld

ISBN13:

978-1580231626

ISBN:

1580231624

Language:

English

Publisher:

Jewish Lights; 1 edition (February 1, 2002)

Category:

Health

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Alternative Medicine

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Stephen A. Rapp Hart Lazer Tamar Frankiel Ph.D. Judy Greenfeld Alternative Medicine English

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Aleph-Bet Yoga: Embodying.

Aleph-Bet Yoga: Embodying. has been added to your Cart. Rapp matches one yoga position with each of 29 Hebrew letters (the standard 22, plus the final consonants and the patach and kamatz vowels). Each pose looks remarkably like the letter it is paired with; for the letter Aleph, Rapp offers a triangle pose, for Lamed a traditional lightning position and so forth. An intriguing, interesting and innovative concept.

Combine the ancient practice of hatha yoga with the shapes and mystical meanings of the Hebrew letters to enhance your physical health and deepen your spiritual life

Combine the ancient practice of hatha yoga with the shapes and mystical meanings of the Hebrew letters to enhance your physical health and deepen your spiritual life. This unique guide shows both the yoga enthusiast and the yoga novice how to use hatha yoga postures and techniques to physically connect with Jewish spirituality. If you are curious about hatha yoga, Aleph-Bet Y.

Aleph-Bet Yoga makes it easy for anyone to incorporate yoga into their life, and combines the physical and spiritual aspects of. .Steven A. Rapp has been a yoga practitioner for over ten years and is a yoga teacher in Boston.

Aleph-Bet Yoga makes it easy for anyone to incorporate yoga into their life, and combines the physical and spiritual aspects of Judaism. 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.

of the Hebrew letters to enhance your physical health and deepen your . Embodying the Hebrew Letters for Physical and Spiritual Well-Being.

book by Steven A. Rapp. Aleph-Bet Yoga : Embodying the Hebrew Letters for Physical and Spiritual Well-Being.

ALEPH-BET YOGA shows us how to: - Integrate the meaning of each Hebrew letter with the common name of the corresponding hatha yoga pose. Connect all twenty-seven Hebrew letters with hatha yoga poses that correspond to the shapes of the letters. As we move our bodies through the Hebrew aleph-bet, turning toward the inner meaning of the letters, we can tap into the deep connections between our body, mind, and spirit.

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Combine the ancient practice of hatha yoga with the shapes and mystical meanings of the Hebrew letters to enhance your physical health and deepen your spiritual life.

This unique guide shows both the yoga enthusiast and the yoga novice how to use hatha yoga postures and techniques to physically connect with Jewish spirituality.

"If you are curious about hatha yoga, Aleph-Bet Yoga provides a safe introduction to the basic yoga postures and techniques. If you are one of the tens of thousands of Jews who already practice hatha yoga, Aleph-Bet Yoga will connect your yoga to something explicitly Jewish. With its Jewish content and intent, Aleph-Bet Yoga will enhance rather than interfere with your religious identity."―from the Introduction

As we move our bodies through the Hebrew aleph-bet, turning toward the inner meaning of the letters, we can tap into the deep connections between our body, mind and spirit.

Drawing on the sacred texts and mystical writings of Judaism, combined with the insights of yoga teacher Steven Rapp, Aleph-Bet Yoga is an East-meets-West experience for our whole selves.

Aleph-Bet Yoga makes it easy for anyone to incorporate yoga into their life, and combines the physical and spiritual aspects of Judaism. It features step-by-step instructions, photographs clearly demonstrating each yoga pose, and insightful words to inspire and guide us in connecting the spiritual meaning of the Hebrew letters to our yoga practice.

Ndyardin

The postures and letters didn't match the cross over, in my opinion. I perfer the meaning of the letter combined with the pose, a blending of the physical action to the spiritual meaning. I find if I set my Kavanah prior to the yoga I get this blend throughout. So I found this book a bit lacking, not a bad book but I enjoyed the Torah Yoga better. The meditations within are much more helpful to me personally.

Haal

I am enjoying the book and it meets up fine with the description in my opinion. There are unfortunate format issues involving the Hebrew pointings on a Kindle (DX or PC for sure) and this is, for me, a serious flaw. On the plus side is that the main table of contents (indicating major chapters) is properly hyperlinked for the Kindle. On the negative side, however, is that the book employs content pages at the start of each chapter and these aren't hyperlinked. :(

Togar

I have mild MS and can't move very strenuously. I wanted to try yoga but had some reservations about getting into eastern spiritual practices. My husband who is not at all into exercise found this to be a great way to start. The pictures of the poses make it easy and by describing a workout in specifics. It's easy to put together a routine even without a teacher. I would however prefer a video of the poses because it is hard to try to read instructions from a book as you're trying to do the poses.
This book however, is overall what I was looking for. Just an instruction manual not necessarily one that got into all the philosophy as does "Torah Yoga." That is a good companion for "Aleph-Bet Yoga" but Aleph-Bet is for those who are looking for a workout first and foremost.

Amarin

Presumably aimed at an audience of observant Jews afraid that hatha yoga is the pork of exercise, which will steal their souls from Yahweh and deliver them to Shiva and Shakti, this Romper Room approach tries to coax reluctant couch latkes onto the mat by showing just how much the yoga poses resemble Hebrew letters. (Look Ma! I made an Aleph!)

One can practice hatha yoga without adopting the beliefs of Vedanta or Hinduism, just as a Hindu can eat a piece of gefilte fish without feeling an overwhelming urge to put on tefillin.

Anyone who wants to try to learn hatha yoga from a book instead of a class would be well advised to buy one of the texts written by a specialist. Any of the Iyengar books, for example, or Donna Farhi's excellent work, or Erich Schiffman's. There are also superb DVDs that will help one learn in the privacy of one's shtetl.

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