I Am the Tree of Life: My Jewish Yoga Book. This item is unavailable.I Am the Tree of Life: My Jewish Yoga Book

2021 Sydney Taylor Picture Book Honor Award

“Groundbreaking” –Rabbinic Pastor Cantor Lisa Levine

The Torah is called the Tree of Life. Just as a tree is always growing and changing, the Torah's ideas can help us grow and change, too. Yoga can do the same. Both can help us strengthen ourselves, calm our minds, and learn to appreciate the world around us.

Written by rabbi and certified yoga instructor Mychal Copeland, I Am the Tree of Life encourages us to explore both the world of yoga and the stories of the Bible and find meaning in both.

Rabbi Mychal Copeland is both a rabbi and a certified yoga instructor who fuses Jewish spirituality with movement. While working toward her ordination by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Copeland was the Cooperberg-Rittmaster Rabbinic Intern at Congregation Beth Simchat Torah in New York City, the largest Jewish LGBTQ community in the world. She is a co-founder of Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing!, a Rosh Hodesh program for teen girls. Her yoga book, I Am the Tree of Life: My Jewish Yoga Book, was a Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor winner. She lives in San Francisco.

Andre Ceolin began teaching himself to draw at the age of four, when his father brought home reams of paper from work. He studied at School of Visual Arts in NYC, Melies, and Escola Panamericana de Artes to develop a signature look and learned new illustration techniques. He has illustrated more than twenty picture books, including I Am the Tree of Life and Yom Kippur Shortstop. He resides in Brazil.