God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice
Your body is the place where heaven and earth meet.
The greatest spiritual achievement is not transcending the body but joining body and spirit together. But to do this, you must break through assumptions that draw boundaries around the Infinite and wake up to the body as the site of holiness itself.
This groundbreaking book is the first comprehensive treatment of the body in Jewish spiritual practice and an essential guide to the sacred. With meditation practices, physical exercises, visualizations and sacred text, you will learn how to experience the presence of the Divine in, and through, your body. And by cultivating an embodied spiritual practice, you will transform everyday activities—eating, walking, breathing, washing—into moments of deep spiritual realization, uniting sacred and sensual, mystical and mundane.
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Book details
- Author
- Jay Michaelson
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
Mind, Body, Spirit › Mindfulness & Meditation - Topics
- Jewish mysticism · Jewish spiritual practice · embodied spirituality · meditation · body and spirit
- ISBN-13
- 9781580233040 (Paperback)9781683360858 (Hardcover)
About the author
JAY MICHAELSON holds a PhD in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a JD from Yale Law School, and nondenominational rabbinic ordination, and is the author of ten books. His recent books include The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth, Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism and God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice.
The Heresy of Jacob Frank won the National Jewish Book Award for scholarship. Michaelson has taught at Yale University, Boston University, and Chicago Theological Seminary, and contributes to Rolling Stone and New York magazine.
When he’s not writing, Michaelson works as a rabbi, meditation teacher, and visiting scholar at the Emory Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality. Much of his work explores the intersections of Jewish thought, spirituality, and practice.