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Torah Yoga
July 25 @ 3:00 pm – July 31 @ 11:00 am
A Torah Yoga Retreat: Awakening Our Ancestral Roots
Join Diane Bloomfield, Sharon Epstein and guest teachers
It’s the annual summer ingathering of Torah yoga practitioners, leaders, and seekers! We will connect to and strengthen our shared ancestral roots through Jewish text study, prayer and yoga practice, enriched by genealogy, art, dance, nature and food. Come celebrate the spiritual inheritance of our ancestors in body, mind, heart and soul.
Come away with us this summer to a beautiful setting in the southern Berkshire mountains!
Torah Yoga Immersive Retreat: Friday, July 25 – Thursday, July 31, 2025
This experience is for anybody looking to join an uplifting and relaxing Jewish-inspired spiritual retreat. No previous yoga practice or Torah study is necessary to participate, all are welcome!
Retreat Details
Pricing
All prices are inclusive of meals and program and teacher fees.
- Standard Room (Private Bathroom): $2,110 per person in double occupancy | $2,795 per person in single occupancy
- Basic Room (Shared full bathroom between two rooms): $1,830 per adult in double occupancy | $2,360 per adult in single occupancy
- Camper (bring your own tent, access to shared bathrooms and hot showers): $1,395 per adult (not per tent)
- Commuter (lodging not included): $1,395
Program Highlights
We will enter the retreat through the gateway of Shabbat. Our weekdays will be filled with the deep spiritual wisdom and light of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob, Leah and Rachel. We will also be inviting in our personal ancestors to guide and strengthen our lives.
The ancestors are our ancient roots. In their lives is embedded the purpose of the Jewish people. In our encounter with them, we can come to know what G!d wants from us- the holy and the elevated. (Jerusalem Torah scholar, Nurit G’al Dor)
All levels of religious observance are welcome. This experience is for all who are looking for a vibrant, inspiring spiritual retreat.
All meals are kosher with vegetarian and vegan options. Meals are prepared using organically grown ingredients from the onsite Adamah Farm.
Retreat Guides
Torah Yoga brings together an inspiring group of practitioners, teachers, and Rabbis who artfully combine ancient Jewish wisdom with mindfulness practices to reveal and illuminate the Torah within body, mind, heart and soul.
Diane Bloomfield
Diane Bloomfield has been a student and teacher of Torah in Jerusalem since the early 1980’s. She is a pioneer in the field of Torah Yoga and the author of Torah Yoga: Experiencing Jewish Wisdom through Classic Postures and Playing with Fire: Hebrew Doorways to the Jewish Soul. Diane teaches Torah and Torah Yoga classes and retreats in synagogues, schools, and retreat centers in Israel, the United States and Canada, as well as on the web. Diane lives in Jerusalem.
www.torahyoga.com
Nancy Wolfson-Moche
Nancy Wolfson is a nutrition and sacred eating educator, coach, chef, and author working with people of all ages to improve their health and well-being through making informed choices. Nancy elevates the practices of cooking and eating by infusing them with meaning expressed in traditional Jewish texts. She is the founder of FoodLab, a nutrition education program integrating food science and culinary arts. Her book, Vegetables for Breakfast from A to Z, invites the reader to re-imagine breakfast by enhancing it with fresh, seasonal produce. A certified Torah yoga teacher, Nancy has practiced yoga for over 40 years. www.youarebecauseyoueat.com
Sharon Epstein
As a youth, Sharon Epstein sensed an inner Divine light of awareness while dancing in an Israeli folk dance circle in her Hebrew school courtyard. From that time forward, she felt a yearning for God, which she pursued through attending Jewish prayer experiences, studying dance, yoga and following a path into the healing arts.
Professionally, she worked as a dance therapist and then drawn to the depth and vitality of yoga, she became a yoga teacher. Sharon wanted to draw upon the profound wisdom of yoga and also revive, not ignore or abandon her identity as a Jew. She collaborated with her rabbi, Tara Feldman offering yoga classes inspired by Jewish holidays, text, metaphor and music. Together they authored a workbook, Into A Jewish Holiday Year with Yoga. Alongside her colleague and teacher Diane Bloomfield, Sharon is honored to create Torah Yoga retreats that will inspire meaningful connections and spiritual joy at the Isabella Freedman Retreat Center.
www.sharonepsteinyoga.com
Julie Emden
Julie Emden, E-RYT-500, Halprin Practitioner, is the Founder of Embodied Jewish Learning, which hosts an Advanced Teacher Training, and the Embodied Jewish Wisdom Network, a global collective of leaders and seekers of movement practices infused with Jewish wisdom. Julie has over two decades of experience guiding others in somatic explorations of Jewish wisdom teachings as a resource for living in balance and wholeness.
www.embodiedjewishlearning.org
Arthur Kurzweil
Arthur Kurzweil is the author of the bestselling (over 50,000 copies), From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Family History and Genealogy and is the recipient of a lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. Arthur is the author of The Torah From Dummies, Kabbalah for Dummies and his most recent book, The Talmud for Dummies. He is also the author of On the Road with Rabbi Steinsaltz, a memoir of his relationship with Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz z”l. He and his wife, Bobby, share 13 grandchildren.
arthurkurzweil.com
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