About Me
More Than 45 Years of Yoga
‘The sky was blue and bright, the grass evergreen and the trees quiet and resolute in their standing. I noticed that my heart was beating and I was filled with a warm feeling towards life.’
I started practising yoga at the age of 17 to heal from a shoulder injury. Quite quickly I began to practice on a daily basis when I came home from school. I realised that practice was nurturing and stabalizing and that I was more relaxed and focused. I decided that when I finished my army duty I would go to India to study yoga.
In the 1980’s I studied with B.K.S Iyengar in Pune and Pattabhi Jois in Mysore. After 12 years of study and practice I realised that I understood next to nothing.
In 1988 I met Dona Holleman and under her guidance I devoted myself to the intense practice she had recieved from B.K.S Iyengar. I practiced by her side for 12 years whenever I went to Italy or she came to Israel, taught with her three Teacher Trainings and wrote with her a comprehensive text on yoga, ‘Dancing the Body of Light‘.
Having recieved so much from my teachers I felt that it was important to share this knowledge. For this purpose I trained Vijnana Yoga Teachers in Israel, in Europe and North America from 1995-2019.
Nowadays I teach classes in Jeruslem, and lead retreats in Israel, Europe and North America. I also work with a small group of dedicated teachers to continue Vijnana Yoga Teacher Trainings.
During all these years I have continued studying ancient yogic texts. This too is a practice. I studied Sanskrit and Indian Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in 1994 translated Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra from Sanskrit into Hebrew.
Through the study of ancient texts on pranayama, I delved deeply into texts which described tersely and enigmaticaly the 10 vayus and so uncovered the unique practice of the ten vayus. The book ‘Yoga’s Secret Breath‘ (2008) describes the process and the practice .
Another book ‘Yoga Insights‘ (2012) focuses on practicing yoga in life and towards death.
My most recent book, ‘My Yoga Journey’ (2021) describes my search for the wisdom of yoga in India during the eighties. In the book I tell of the special time in Shri Aurobindo’s Ashram, my meetings with teachers all over India and their teachings. The book also delves into the development of modern yoga in India during the last 120 years.
I traveled and taught ‘practicing from inside’ and ‘the 7 vital principles’ to people who expressed their desire to learn. This is how an international community of Vijnana Yoga developed organically over the years. Today there are teachers of Vijnana Yoga in Israel, Germany, Holland, England, Denmark, Switzerland, Portugal, Finland, Canada, Mexico, the United States and Australia.