Hebrew month of Av: Jewish Yoga and Jewish Meditation

Jul 20

Jul 20 Hebrew Month of Av: Mystical Meditations and Yoga

Av is a raw, difficult month where we are intimate with our pain and suffering. We process the trauma and sadness this month by being deeply present with our emotions ,so we can begin to transform them into healing and light. By Tu B’av, the energy shifts to a more chesed/ light & kind energy. The work we do now allows us to move towards the holiday of love (Tu B’Av) with open vessels to receive love. This month, practice breathing into any difficult thoughts or emotions, as though you are creating a wide open space around the experience. Each intentional breath of healing brings you closer to revealing the hidden goodness in the struggles.

A full yoga manual is given each month to students in the Jewish Yoga Course. Below is the full yoga Manual for Av. To receive this in full PDF form, email breathandsoul.net@gmail.com.

Guided Video Practices:

What blocks you from truly receiving and listening to others? Where in life you can practice the art of listening more? Tune into the Avodah of the month (the inner sense of listening👂🏻) through breath work, meditations, and a slow-flow yoga sequence in the Jerusalem Forest. 🌳

Jewish Yoga Flow for the Hebrew Month of Av.

Sefer Yetzirah teaches that the month of Av is when we elevate the sense of listening/hearing. Before we can begin to listen to others, first we need to listen deeply to ourselves: to pain, our emotions, our intuition, our body, and our breath.

🧘‍♀️Meditation is really a form of deep listening, of listening to the deeper parts of ourselves. How often do we tune ourselves out, ignoring our deep needs and inner authentic selves? This month, we cultivate the skill of inner, and then outer listening. 👂🏻

Click Below for a teaching and video-guided moving meditation on the letters of the Shema:

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Intentful and Inventive teacher, Jenna Zadaka, MA: CF-SLP, RYT, blends Jewish ancient wisdom and modern mindfulness and movement practices into a feminine, rejuvenative practice. She crafts innovative somatic sequencing to harmonize with the energetic teachings of the Jewish cyclical calendar. Jenna offers specialized prenatal and postpartum yoga classes, as well as energizing Vinyasa flow classes for women. In 2015, Jenna completed her 200-hour certification in Jerusalem with Kinneret Yoga and is RYT-200 certified. Since then, she has taught weekly yoga in many communities including Jerusalem, New York, Minneapolis, and Boulder,CO, as well as at holiday retreats, festivals, events, and schools. Jenna leads workshops, classes, women circles, and meditation series delving into Jewish mysticism, Jewish Chassidic thought, and the inner teachings of the month or holiday.

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