Archive for September, 2008
Morning Prayers in Movement: a Jewish Yoga Class
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
There are wonderful resources from Rabbis and other learned people in the Jewish tradition that speak to spirituality of the body (Nachman, Finkel, Michaelson) and the holiness of movement (Michaelson, Bloomfield, Nachman and students). There is an emerging field of Jewish yoga and creative dance (Bloomfield, Klotz, courses at Elat Chayyim, the dance program at [...]
The Ineffable: The Way of Knowing…or not
Monday, September 1st, 2008For me, dance is a pathway, a method, not unlike Buddhist meditation or other spiritual practices, for knowing oneself, the world, the connection between the two, and the … ineffable.
There are two instances I can recall at this moment which epitomize this perspective. One is when I first knew dance was my calling, and one, [...]