About Us
Meet the team
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Marcus J Freed, President, Jewish Yoga Network
Marcus is President of the Jewish Yoga Network. He has spent 18 years developing authentic Torah approaches to yoga and meditation, and is bestselling author of The Kosher Sutras: A Yogi's Guide to the Torah, The Kabbalah Sutras: A Yogi's Guide to Counting the Omer, The Festive Sutras: A Yogi's Guide to Shabbat and Jewish Festivals, and has shared these teachings in 18 countries. The Kosher Sutras is currently the only yogic Torah commentary and recently won first place in the 2020 International Book Awards for religious works, and The Kabbalah Sutras received multiple international book awards. Marcus received semicha from Rabbi Dovid Ostroff of Yeshivas Iyun Halacha, and Rav u'Manhig certification from Yeshivat Pirkei Shoshanim. He has yoga teacher training qualifications from Tripsichore Yoga and the School of Purna Yoga, degrees in English Literature and Theatre Studies from the Universities of Birmingham (BA) and London (MA), and a postgraduate acting diploma from Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. More at www.marcusjfreed.com and on social networks @marcusjfreed. Estelle Eugene, Co-Founder, Jewish Yoga Network
Estelle founded the original Yoga Mosaic, and is co-founder and co-director of the Jewish Yoga Network. She taught principally at the Yakar Educational Foundation in London which was very supportive of the founding of Yoga Mosaic and ran her own yoga studio. When her husband suffered a stroke she cared for him for ten years. He passed away, though not before writing a beautiful Book of Blessings which Estelle had published after he died. Then fate decided to let Estelle experience a stroke of her own! It has been disabling and limiting, but she adapted her yoga teaching and practice, and continued teaching in two medical practices, the Stroke Organisation and the International University of the Third Age (U3A). Now in her early eighties, having given up her studio because of an area move, she teaches Chair yoga for U3A and provides much encouragement to participants to achieve their potential. Lisa L. Levine, Jewish Yoga Festival Co-ordinator
Lisa L. Levine is a well known cantor, composer, poet, author, Rabbinic Pastor, chaplain and recording artist. She is the author of “Yoga Shalom” a popular Jewish Yoga and prayer embodiment book/DVD/CD and "Sound of Your Soul" . www.cantorlisalevine.com |