Cantor Lisa Levine is a nationally renowned composer, recording artist, author, poet, and worship leader. She was ordained with a Master’s Degree in Sacred Music from Hebrew Union College in 1989. Cantor Levine has served congregations around the country as a full time Reform cantor for 30 years and as a guest artist and artist in residence. She received her Doctorate in Sacred Music after 25 years of service to the Jewish people in 2014. She was ordained as a rabbinic pastor from Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal in 2018. She serves as a JSSA (Jewish Social Services) Chaplain and Chaplain of Riderwood Jewish Community in Silver Spring, MD.
She is a certified Yoga Teacher and is currently offering Yoga Shalom classes via zoom! Lisa is the creator and author of Yoga Shalom, a unique book/CD/DVD prayer embodiment practice and a featured artist in Hebrew in Harmony with Behrman House Books. She is the author of the book, Heart of Light. Poems of Longing, Loss, and Life.
In our interview, we discuss her experience of the focus and movement of yoga and incorporating it into prayer and worship, as well as song and chanting. She speaks of the embodiment of prayer and the spiritual concepts of opening the heart, the chakras, the sefirot, and pranayama.
“Chant is a musical dristi”
Lisa also shares about the power of music and to use it for healing. She also speaks about how the yamas and niyamas tie into mussar and how the mat and prayer are mirrors for us and compares it to our own private mishkan.
Please feel free to reach her at CantorLisaLevine@yahoo.com
Please find her on the web at https://cantorlisalevine.com/
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Enjoy and Shalom
