Our Kosher Sutra talks of extreme blessings but it is preceded and followed by awful curses. There is ain incredibly powerful Hasidic teaching that insists of how at a future time of global enlightenment, we will see how all of the apparent ‘curses’ were actually blessings. This isn’t easy, but consider a time when something bad happened to you, but you later realised it was all invaluably good.

There is a yogic technique called Dhyana which is an outwardly-focused meditation that allows us to expand our consciousness and connect with the bigger picture. Our breath, movement and posture is all focused on connecting the infinite part of ourselves with the infinite part of the creator. We are limitless, we are bigger than our bodies and bigger than our minds, but we need to stretch ourselves on a daily basis to keep our perspective as broad as possible.

Perhaps this is why the curses and blessings had to be given on a mountain. When we can step out of our daily life we can see the bigger perspective, and consider for the moment that perhaps we don’t actually know everything.

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THE KOSHER SUTRAS © MARCUS J FREED/BIBLIYOGA 2010/5770

Marcus J Freed is the creator of Bibliyoga, USA & North America Director of Yoga Mosaic – the association for Jewish yoga teachers, and yogi-in-residence for JConnectLA and Jewlicious Festivals.

i. Stand with both feet side by side, the sides of your big toes touching one another.
ii. Standing straight, draw your hands down by sides of either thigh, which will bring your shoulder-blades into alignment.
iii. Engage your thigh muscles, hugging the flesh into the bones and be aware of an upwards motion on the backs of your heels, even though they are firmly planted in the ground.
iv. Tuck your tummy inwards, using the upwards-flying lock.
v. Relax your facial muscles, focus your eyes on a point directly in front of you and close your eyes.

Benefits: Discover your perfect alignment, balancing the shoulders, ribs, hips, knees, ankles and feet. Mountain pose is a ‘root’ posture, providing a point of reference for other poses as it rehearses the neutral position. It teaches balance and core alignment.