Rebbetzin Gail Michalowicz--The Parallels Between Exercise and Torah: The Body and Soul Connection

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community of toronto canada she has a ba in individual and social behavior from notre dame college in cleveland after 11 years in preschool and elementary school education gail began her important work in the jewish outreach where she continues to inspire and educate people of all ages through classes and programs in addition to being a rebeccan gayle is also a personal trainer which i personally find to be very very cool she helps women set exercise goals and succeed in reaching them she also advises women on other life goals so that women can really reach a place of happiness balance and self-esteem and family success wow a rabbitson who's also a personal trainer this is really cool please tell us more about yourself and what you do um okay so i think you really mentioned quite a bit of what i do i do a lot of different tour classes and i sometimes like to combine my tour of teaching with exercise so for instance in toronto they've got this beautiful organization called beaker holum and they have these classes for women who are uh you know at an older age and they're called like the golden girls or the sunshine club so i love going there and teaching torah like i actually give them a davar torah um and then after that i go okay fun time and then we start doing exercise and movement so that is definitely you know something that i do in terms of my torah and exercise and then on top of that i work as a personal trainer so i have clients from all walks of life um i've had clients who are non-jews i've had clients who are secular jews

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