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The Torah Yoga Association offers online, detailed, individual posture instruction (Iyengar style), 7-minute Tastes of Torah Yoga ®, and half-hour Torah Yoga ® Mini-Classes. It offers other Torah & Yoga teachings from different teachers. Members are able to respond to these teachings. The site can help students and teachers find each other using our safe, privacy-respecting Students and Teachers Directories. Membership and all content are currently free.
Want to share with others, or find help, friends, or a soulmate? Each member can write a User Note—this is a free-format personal webpage viewable only by other members of the TYA. Create and read User Notes in the TYA Students/Teachers Directory.
The TYA believes in security and so we host encrypted (https) sessions. Unfortunately, obtaining an SSL website certificate from an automatically recognized Certificate Authority costs money each year. We have decided to try a free SSL website certificate from StartCom. You may be able to simply accept this certificate. Most likely, you may have to install the StartCom Certificate Authority Root Certificate and StartCom Class 1 Primary Intermediate Server Certificate. In every case, be sure to view the certificate first, and also be sure to check boxes to allow the certificate and uncheck boxes to disable warning messages, as needed.
Don't be intimidated by your browser's scary warning messages! The StartCom Certificate Authority is legitimate and can help us to keep down costs.
Install the StartCom Certification Authority Root Certificate.
Install the StartCom Class 1 Primary Intermediate Server Certificate.
To join the Torah Yoga Association, click the Membership Application Form. In addition to online, detailed, individual posture instruction (Iyengar), the TYA offers 7-minute Tastes of Torah Yoga ® and half-hour Torah Yoga ® Mini-Classes. Online instruction can never take the place of a live instructor or chevruta, nevertheless, these online guides can be very helpful in building a home/office practice. For more information, click An Invitation to Join the Torah Yoga Association.
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The Torah Yoga book, published by Wiley (Jossey-Bass), is available on the yoga shelf of a bookstore near you. If you don't see it on display, ask for it by name! You can order the Torah Yoga book online directly from Amazon (click the left-side cover picture or Torah Yoga below it). |
Click here to see the full Table of Contents. (doc file, publisher's format, 160KB)
Click here to read an excerpt from the Introduction. (pdf file, manuscript format, 138KB)
Click here to read an excerpt from Chapter 4, The Essential Self. (only 3 postures—pdf file, publisher's format, 270KB)
Click here to see the complete Endnotes. (pdf file, manuscript format, 138KB)
Bring the book to a Torah Yoga class and Diane will write a personal inscription for you.
The Torah Yoga audio cassette is available at all Torah Yoga Group Classes, Lectures, and Shabbat Retreats, and also here below online.
Click the BUY NOW button below to purchase the Moving into Shabbat Torah Yoga audio cassette using a credit card or PayPal account.
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The Moving into Shabbat Torah Yoga audio cassette contains about 70 minutes of instruction and meditation by Diane Bloomfield (about 35 minutes per side). Gentle and refreshing background music graces many parts of the tape (Bruce Kurnow - Piano, Bob Schnitzer - Guitar). At the end, relax to the Shabbat Angels' Song, Shalom Aleichem, melody by Michael Shapiro. The cost, including packaging and first class postage, is $14 (US). The equivalent amount in some other currencies is also acceptable. For more information about non-US currencies, click the question mark icon next to the price on the PayPal page.
Below are a few sound samples from Moving into Shabbat. We hope you enjoy them. Note that in order to obtain smaller sample files/quicker downloads, sound quality here has been somewhat sacrificed.
Click the BUY NOW button below to purchase the Moving into Shabbat Torah Yoga audio cassette using a credit card/PayPal account.
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Clicking the BUY NOW button brings you to a PayPal page. There you can transfer money to the Torah Yoga PayPal payments account (and PayPal automatically notifies our shipping personnel).
By right-clicking any PayPal page and then clicking the resulting menu's Properties option, you can verify that you are using a secure (https) internet connection for sending your financial information. (Your browser's address field and its "secure" icon do not always display this information.)
PayPal is arguably today's most widely used and trusted online payments service. eBay acquired PayPal in Oct 2002.
We will send you an email when we receive and when we ship your order. Please be patient as each of these activities may take a few days.
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Several times a year the Torah Yoga Association has an automatic lottery and sends a free copy of Diane Bloomfield's Torah Yoga book to an active TYA member who hasn't already received one. TYA members don't have to do anything to be eligible except to visit the TYA at least once since the last lottery (07 Dec 2008). Lottery winners are announced by TYA 'new content' email.
The next lottery takes place Sun, 05 Apr 2009, about 20:00 Israel Time (just 3 days before Pesach starts).
Click here to see the Complete 05 Apr 2009 TYA Lottery Rules.
Dear Reader,
Shalom! I am pleased to invite you to join the Torah Yoga Association. Why should you join the Torah Yoga Association? To begin with, it offers online, detailed, individual posture instruction (Iyengar style), 7-minute Tastes of Torah Yoga ®, and half-hour Torah Yoga ® Mini-Classes. It offers other Torah & yoga teachings from different teachers. Members can respond to these teachings online. Students and teachers can find each other using our safe, privacy-respecting Students and Teachers Directories.
Want to share with others, or find help, friends, or a soulmate? Each member can write a User Note—this is a free-format personal webpage viewable only by other members of the TYA. Create and read User Notes in the TYA Students/Teachers Directory.
It was more than 20 years ago that I first had a vision of the spiritual power, beauty, and truth of bringing the practice of yoga and the study of Torah together. Since that time, I have been teaching Torah Yoga ® across the Americas, Europe, and Israel. Torah Yoga ® is a dynamic, new way to learn Torah every day.
Others have created their own inspired forms of Torah & yoga, for example: R. Myriam Klotz's Torat Haguf, Larissa Blechman's Shalom Yoga, R. Itzchak Marmorstein's Ofanim, Ida Unger's work with the Hebrew letters, and Nina Moliver's Jewish Yoga. Bringing the wisdom of the body into Jewish practice is blossoming, and many are eager to learn and to teach.
In his interpretation on the Shma, the medieval commentator, Rashi, teaches that when we listen to the old, we hear what is new. It is my prayer that Torah Yoga will teach you to experience what is new in the ancient words of Torah as they reverberate in your own body, mind, heart, and soul—and that, with this dynamic synthesis, you may experience Torah that is abundant, life-enhancing, healing, inspiring, and joyful.
To join the TYA, click the Torah Yoga Association Membership Form and fill in all the blanks (website is optional). Then click the link in an activation email. Membership and all content are currently free.
Kol Tuv
Diane Bloomfield
