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Teens

Yoga, Art and Sacred Text (YAST) is an experiential yoga and expressive arts class for teens to explore spirituality and Judaism. Each week teens use yoga, art, writing, meditation and text from Torah to explore the relationship between body and spirit. At the end of the 10-week session students create a life-size self-portrait based on their studies.

Students are given time and space in a safe, quiet environment to form community and to explore their Jewish spirituality in new and exciting ways. We study new material each session. The range includes literal references to the body in Torah, rabbinic commentary about the body, and mystical teachings about the relationship between body and spirit.

YAST was created initially in 2001 as a ti-ke-a project in association with Midrasha in Berkeley, and continued in subsequent years with the support of generous funding from the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund.

YAST workshops are now offered as requested to Jewish Teen Programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. To schedule a unique program for your teens, contact Julie at jbemden@aol.com.

	Where: Berkeley Yoga Center, 1250 Addison St., Suite 209
	When: Tuesdays 3:45 - 5:15 p.m.
	Who: Teens in Grades 8 - 12
	Cost: $200/session [Scholarships Available]

Adults

More information about the YAST adult program is coming soon

Adult Program Dates 2007-2008

Dancing the Sacred Sephirot: from Liberation to Revelation 8 week Dance Series for Women co-facilitated by julie emden and aliza rothman For our fourth year! we will be dancing the sacred sephirot, to deepen our experience of counting the omer from pesach to shavuot. join us for a dance circle where we will learn, dance, create art and share our connection to the sephirot. When: 8 Sunday evenings 7:30 to 9:30 pm april 13, 27 (skips april 20 Pesach) may 4, 11, 18, 25* june 2, 16 (skips june 9 Shavuot) We will embody one sephira each week, according to the calendar's counting of the omer; hesed (lovingkindess), gevurah (strength, judgment, power), tiferet (beauty, harmony), netzach (perseverance, endurance), hod (humility, gratitude), yesod (foundation, creativity, sexuality), malchut (shechinah, divine manifestation here on earth), shavuot (culmination). Where: berkeley yoga center 1250 addison st. , studio c berkeley, ca 94702 Cost: sliding scale $200 - $320 for the series (sliding scale begins at $160 for students/low income)
Yoga and Judaism: An Experiential Workshop Co-facilitated by Julie Emden and Sandra Safadirazieli Sunday, June 22, 2008 Piedmont Yoga Studio Piedmont, California 1:15 - 4:15 pm Details to follow