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course, there some Jews, particularly Orthodox, who battle against yoga as a dangerous and forbidden
example of idolatry, “avodah zarah.” The Lubavitcher Rebbe is reported to have taken this position. And
other religious Jews who like the benefits that get from yoga still struggle with the question of its
legitimacy for a Jews. Cf. “Kosher Yoga: How a Modern Orthodox Jew struggled to reconcile her yogic
practice with her Judaism, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, in Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life, retrieved
from http://www.tabletmag.com/life-and-religion/23099/is-yoga-kosher/
Dayna Macy, “Yoga Journal Releases 2008 ‘Yoga in America’ Market Study,” February 26, 2008.
Jody Falk, “What is Embodied Prayer and Jewish Yoga?,” retrieved from
http://dancingsoul.org/28/what-is-embodied-prayer-in-judaism/
Celia Rothenberg, “Jewish Yoga: Experiencing Flexible, Sacred, and Jewish Bodies,” Novo Religio: The
Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 10, no. 2, (2006): 57–74.
Jodi Falk, “Morning Prayers in Movement: A Jewish Yoga class,” retrieved from
http://dancingsoul.org/15/morning-prayers-in-movement-a-jewish-yoga-class/
Diane Bloomfield, Torah Yoga: Experiencing Jewish Wisdom Through Classic Postures (New York: John
Wiley & Sons, 2004