Upcoming events.
Touching the Beloved Within: An Elul Course
Elul is the month before Rosh Hashanah. According to the Kabbalists, it is a special time in that the energy of the Divine is very close to us, breathing into us new life and possibility. The word Elul itself expresses this sentiment. It is a Hebrew acronym of these words, “I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine,” (Song of Songs 6:3).
It is during Elul that we look inside. We take account of our lives in preparation for the Ten Days of Awe. This unique month offers us dedicated time for personal inquiry, prayer and practice to help us connect very deeply with the beloved within.
Together in this course we will make compassionate inquiries and discoveries about who we’ve been this year, what we might like to release and what we might like to cultivate in the New Year. We will address this process in four areas:
Week 1: Our relationship with Ourself
Week 2: Our relationship with Others
Week 3: Our relationship with the Planet/Creation
Week 4: Our relationship with Source/the Sacred
Sessions will be held virtually, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Eastern* on the following dates:
Tuesdays, August 26, September 2, 9 and 16
*Sessions will be recorded for your convenience.
Fee: Choose from:
$63, $72, $90
To register, click HERE.
Morning Meditation Groove
Get your meditation on! We’ll meet every Tuesday morning at 8:00 AM Eastern. It’s short so you can fit it in your day - 20 minutes! We’ll begin with a brief introductory theme, sit together for a short guided meditation followed by some quiet time. It’s a great way to set your day and your week. Prefer a different time? Email me.
Weekly Drop In: $9 suggested
Annual Rate – Supporter Discount: $360
Venmo me: @limitless-judaism
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82508271811
Torah Study
A wonderful, interactive morning of song, study and exploration, with bagels! Held at Judea Reform Congregation in Durham. Come early for bagels. Doors open at 8:30.
This is a hybrid event - both live and virtual (although no bagels if you’re virtual!)
Email me to register for Zoom link.
Online Meditation Sit
Join me as I lead a guided, embodied, earth inspired meditation drawing from ancient wisdom. All welcome. No experience needed. Free of charge.
To sign-up, visit: https://www.jewishspirituality.org/get-started/free-resources-from-ijs/daily-online-meditation-sit/
Want more? Contact me to offer a meditation course to your business or family, for you and your friends, or a one-on-one course for yourself.
High Holidays 5786 Rosh Hashanah
Join me for High Holiday services with The Ruach Community of Charlotte, NC. The Ruach Community is an independent Jewish worship community based in Charlotte, NC. Our modern services built on Jewish tradition are filled with meaningful messages and contemporary Jewish music that will move you toward spiritual fulfillment. There are no financial commitments to attend. We are supported solely by the generosity of those who find value and meaning in what we do. Come as you are. All are welcome.
Entry by donation.
Email for details.
High Holidays 5786 Kol Nidre
Join me for High Holiday services with The Ruach Community of Charlotte, NC. Join me for High Holiday services with The Ruach Community of Charlotte, NC. The Ruach Community is an independent Jewish worship community based in Charlotte, NC. Our modern services built on Jewish tradition are filled with meaningful messages and contemporary Jewish music that will move you toward spiritual fulfillment. There are no financial commitments to attend. We are supported solely by the generosity of those who find value and meaning in what we do. Come as you are. All are welcome.
Entry by donation.
Email for details.
Online Meditation Sit
Join me as I lead a guided, embodied, earth inspired meditation drawing from ancient wisdom. All welcome. No experience needed. Free of charge.
To sign-up, visit: https://www.jewishspirituality.org/get-started/free-resources-from-ijs/daily-online-meditation-sit/
Want more? Contact me to offer a meditation course to your business or family, for you and your friends, or a one-on-one course for yourself.
Who or What is God and What Does it Matter Anyway?
"Rabbi, I don't believe in God," I've often heard.
I respond: "Tell me about this God you don't believe in."
In every case, after hearing their description, I've honestly said, "I don't believe in that God either."
The Holy One, Havayah, Rock, El Shaddai, Shepherd, Merciful One, Source, Ein Sof-Without End, Sacred Well… These are some of the names for God in Judaism outside of the more familiar Adonai, Elohim and Hashem. What does each of these names mean? How might understanding them more fully contribute to our own evolving spirituality, enriching our lives? Join me in this lunch-and-learn discussion.
Three Thursdays: November 6, 13 and 20, 12:00-1:15 PM
Judea Reform Congregation, 1933 W Cornwallis Rd. Durham, NC 27705
Brown bag lunch
Fee: Choose from $54, $63, $72
To register, click HERE.
Who or What is God and What Does it Matter Anyway?
"Rabbi, I don't believe in God," I've often heard.
I respond: "Tell me about this God you don't believe in."
In every case, after hearing their description, I've honestly said, "I don't believe in that God either."
The Holy One, Havayah, Rock, El Shaddai, Shepherd, Merciful One, Source, Ein Sof-Without End, Sacred Well… These are some of the names for God in Judaism outside of the more familiar Adonai, Elohim and Hashem. What does each of these names mean? How might understanding them more fully contribute to our own evolving spirituality, enriching our lives? Join me in this lunch-and-learn discussion.
Three Thursdays: November 6, 13 and 20, 12:00-1:15 PM
Judea Reform Congregation, 1933 W Cornwallis Rd. Durham, NC 27705
Brown bag lunch
Fee: Choose from $54, $63, $72
To register, click HERE.
Online Meditation Sit
Join me as I lead a guided, embodied, earth inspired meditation drawing from ancient wisdom. All welcome. No experience needed. Free of charge.
To sign-up, visit: https://www.jewishspirituality.org/get-started/free-resources-from-ijs/daily-online-meditation-sit/
Want more? Contact me to offer a meditation course to your business or family, for you and your friends, or a one-on-one course for yourself.
Who or What is God and What Does it Matter Anyway?
"Rabbi, I don't believe in God," I've often heard.
I respond: "Tell me about this God you don't believe in."
In every case, after hearing their description, I've honestly said, "I don't believe in that God either."
The Holy One, Havayah, Rock, El Shaddai, Shepherd, Merciful One, Source, Ein Sof-Without End, Sacred Well… These are some of the names for God in Judaism outside of the more familiar Adonai, Elohim and Hashem. What does each of these names mean? How might understanding them more fully contribute to our own evolving spirituality, enriching our lives? Join me in this lunch-and-learn discussion.
Three Thursdays: November 6, 13 and 20, 12:00-1:15 PM
Judea Reform Congregation, 1933 W Cornwallis Rd. Durham, NC 27705
Brown bag lunch
Fee: Choose from $54, $63, $72
To register, click HERE.
Online Meditation Sit
Join me as I lead a guided, embodied, earth inspired meditation drawing from ancient wisdom. All welcome. No experience needed. Free of charge.
To sign-up, visit: https://www.jewishspirituality.org/get-started/free-resources-from-ijs/daily-online-meditation-sit/
Want more? Contact me to offer a meditation course to your business or family, for you and your friends, or a one-on-one course for yourself.
Morning Meditation Groove
Get your meditation on! We’ll meet every Tuesday morning at 8:00 AM Eastern. It’s short so you can fit it in your day - 20 minutes! We’ll begin with a brief introductory theme, sit together for a short guided meditation followed by some quiet time. It’s a great way to set your day and your week. Prefer a different time? Email me.
Weekly Drop In: $9 suggested
Annual Rate – Supporter Discount: $360
Venmo me: @limitless-judaism
Morning Meditation Groove
Get your meditation on! We’ll meet every Tuesday morning at 8:00 AM Eastern. It’s short so you can fit it in your day - 20 minutes! We’ll begin with a brief introductory theme, sit together for a short guided meditation followed by some quiet time. It’s a great way to set your day and your week. Prefer a different time? Email me.
Weekly Drop In: $9 suggested
Annual Rate – Supporter Discount: $360
Venmo me: @limitless-judaism
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82508271811
Morning Meditation Groove
Get your meditation on! We’ll meet every Tuesday morning at 8:00 AM Eastern. It’s short so you can fit it in your day - 20 minutes! We’ll begin with a brief introductory theme, sit together for a short guided meditation followed by some quiet time. It’s a great way to set your day and your week. Prefer a different time? Email me.
Weekly Drop In: $9 suggested
Annual Rate – Supporter Discount: $360
Venmo me: @limitless-judaism
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82508271811
Torah Study
A wonderful, interactive morning of song, study and exploration, with bagels! Held at Judea Reform Congregation in Durham. Come early for bagels. Doors open at 8:30.
This is a hybrid event - both live and virtual (although no bagels if you’re virtual!)
Email me to register for Zoom link.
Online Meditation Sit
Join me as I lead a guided, embodied, earth inspired meditation drawing from ancient wisdom. All welcome. No experience needed. Free of charge.
To sign-up, visit: https://www.jewishspirituality.org/get-started/free-resources-from-ijs/daily-online-meditation-sit/
Want more? Contact me to offer a meditation course to your business or family, for you and your friends, or a one-on-one course for yourself.
Morning Meditation Groove
Get your meditation on! We’ll meet every Tuesday morning at 8:00 AM Eastern. It’s short so you can fit it in your day - 20 minutes! We’ll begin with a brief introductory theme, sit together for a short guided meditation followed by some quiet time. It’s a great way to set your day and your week. Prefer a different time? Email me.
Weekly Drop In: $9 suggested
Annual Rate – Supporter Discount: $360
Venmo me: @limitless-judaism
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82508271811
Torah Study
A wonderful, interactive morning of song, study and exploration, with bagels! Held at Judea Reform Congregation in Durham. Come early for bagels. Doors open at 8:30.
This is a hybrid event - both live and virtual (although no bagels if you’re virtual!)
Email me to register for Zoom link.
Online Meditation Sit
Join me as I lead a guided, embodied, earth inspired meditation drawing from ancient wisdom. All welcome. No experience needed. Free of charge.
To sign-up, visit: https://www.jewishspirituality.org/get-started/free-resources-from-ijs/daily-online-meditation-sit/
Want more? Contact me to offer a meditation course to your business or family, for you and your friends, or a one-on-one course for yourself.
Online Meditation Sit
Join me as I lead a guided, embodied, earth inspired meditation drawing from ancient wisdom. All welcome. No experience needed. Free of charge.
To sign-up, visit: https://www.jewishspirituality.org/get-started/free-resources-from-ijs/daily-online-meditation-sit/
Want more? Contact me to offer a meditation course to your business or family, for you and your friends, or a one-on-one course for yourself.
Your Omer Journey 5785
The 49-day Omer journey is one of the most powerful processes I have ever engaged. It is spiritual, metaphysical, earth-centered and embodied all at once. It is a connection between divinity and earth.
As we conclude our Second Night Seder we begin this count of the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot, preparing us first to meet the Infinite One at Mt. Sinai, then fueling us for the work beyond. This year we need this journey more than ever.
Using Kabbalah’s sefirot - Divine Emanations, Your Omer Journey 5785 is a virtual course to guide us as we walk this path. Through seven gatherings we will deeply explore the sefirah of the week, delving into its mystical and practical applications, preparing us for the energetic opportunities available to us. It will be accompanied by a written guide including embodied, earth-centered, teachings for each day’s practice.
Sessions will be held virtually, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Eastern on the following dates:
*Wednesday April 9
Sundays, April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 18, 25
*Session 1 will be held early as the Omer counting begins during hag (holiday) on the Second Night of Passover.
Fee: Choose from:
$45, $63, $72
Ferocious Love - A Passover Supplement
This year the theme of Passover is more urgent than ever. The people of our country are experiencing losses of freedom in work, faith, ethnicity, race, sexual and gender orientation, education, freedom for the future of our planet, freedom over our bodies, freedom to vote, even freedom to speak. We must respond to this takeover. We must do it with love and with urgency, with intensity yet kindness, never losing sight of the goal of a world a community of love and care.
I have teamed with Designer + Art Historian Alva Horton to bring you Ferocious Love, to enhance your Passover Seders with the messages of caring for the self and caring for all of creation with passionate goodness.
Ferocious Love is a supplement you can download and print as a companion to your Haggadah.
Fee:
$20.70
NOTE: Initially you will receive a download link that WILL not be for the supplement. We expect to send the supplement by April 2nd and you will receive it in your email.
Online Meditation Sit
Join me as I lead a guided, embodied, earth inspired meditation drawing from ancient wisdom. All welcome. No experience needed. Free of charge.
To sign-up, visit: https://www.jewishspirituality.org/get-started/free-resources-from-ijs/daily-online-meditation-sit/
Want more? Contact me to offer a meditation course to your business or family, for you and your friends, or a one-on-one course for yourself.
Woman-Pause
The life journey we walk as women guides us through many phases of identity and experience. From young girl to maiden, to woman, to parent-professional-partner, to middle age and into crone, the process of change illuminates questions, discomforts, uncertainties, discoveries, and new abilities. Join us for a day exploring the creative transformation of maturing through perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause. In the safe circle of people identifying as women, we will explore the sacred embodied experience of who we’ve been, who we are and who we are becoming.
With Rabbi Robin Damsky and Rachel Lewis-Marlow, MS, EdS, LCMHC, LMBT
*This is an in-person class. Registration includes lunch and supplies.
Fee: Choose from:
$72, $108, $135
To sign up click HERE.
Food Forest/Meditation Labyrinth Volunteering
Winter is here, yet there is still work with the earth prepping both the food forest and our meditation labyrinth. Depending on weather, we will be out working the ground. Also, contact me to set a date with you to help us out - individuals, couples and groups are welcome.
Online Meditation Sit
Join me as I lead a guided, embodied, earth inspired meditation drawing from ancient wisdom. All welcome. No experience needed. Free of charge.
To sign-up, visit: https://www.jewishspirituality.org/get-started/free-resources-from-ijs/daily-online-meditation-sit/
Want more? Contact me to offer a meditation course to your business or family, for you and your friends, or a one-on-one course for yourself.
Hashkatah/Shavasana
Hashkatah is a practice created by the Piasezcner Rebbe in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. As a prisoner and leader, he created this powerful healing mindfulness practice which has a deep capacity for restoring and giving hope. BKS Iyengar taught a different process: a resting practice in the Shavasana pose (at the end of most yoga sessions) that calms and restores. Through experimentation I discovered that blending these two practices offers extraordinary opportunities to heal our sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, giving us new choices. Whether you are dealing with trauma, PTSD, or just regular-old stress, this course can offer deep healing and renewal.
Six Tuesdays, 6:00-7:00pm Eastern: January 14, 21, 28, February 11, 18 and 25*
*This is a virtual class. Sessions will be recorded and available to view on your own schedule.
Fee: Choose from:
$54 $72 $90
To sign up click HERE.
Online Meditation Sit
Join me as I lead a guided, embodied, earth inspired meditation drawing from ancient wisdom. All welcome. No experience needed. Free of charge.
To sign-up, visit: https://www.jewishspirituality.org/get-started/free-resources-from-ijs/daily-online-meditation-sit/
Want more? Contact me to offer a meditation course to your business or family, for you and your friends, or a one-on-one course for yourself.
Online Meditation Sit
Join me as I lead a guided, embodied, earth inspired meditation drawing from ancient wisdom. All welcome. No experience needed. Free of charge.
To sign-up, visit: https://www.jewishspirituality.org/get-started/free-resources-from-ijs/daily-online-meditation-sit/
Want more? Contact me to offer a meditation course to your business or family, for you and your friends, or a one-on-one course for yourself.
Ma Tovu! How Wonderful is this Dwelling Place
Our body is the temple of our soul. It is intimately connected to the body of the Earth and her rhythms - which bring us so many types of nourishment. Guided by texts from Torah, Maimonides, the Siddur and Mysticism, we will use Jewish wisdom to enhance the spirituality of our physical self. Conversations, learning with breath, meditation, sound and movement... Oh, and did I say food?... will help us cultivate a richer relationship with our physical experience as we journey on this beautiful planet.
Four Sundays, January 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2025
Judea Reform Congregation, Durham
Hanukkah
Lighting the hanukkiah (Hanukkah menorah) is a spiritual practice that helps us to cultivate our inner light, and then guides us to offer it out to shine more brightly. On social media and/or on my YouTube channel, share this lighting and practice with me through the eight nights of Hanukkah.
December 25-January 1.
Follow on Instagram/Facebook: @limitlessjudaism
Hanukkah
How often does Hanukkah coincide with the secular New Year’s Eve? What a powerful synchronicity. As we light the hanukkiah (Hanukkah menorah) this night, we will have the added kavanah (intention) in our spiritual practice to cultivate ever brighter light within, seeing how to shine it more fully to heal the darkness in the world around us.
On social media and/or on my YouTube channel, share this lighting and practice with me through the eight nights of Hanukkah.
December 25-January 1.
Follow on Instagram/Facebook: @limitlessjudaism
Hanukkah
Lighting the hanukkiah (Hanukkah menorah) is a spiritual practice that helps us to cultivate our inner light, and then guides us to offer it out to shine more brightly. On social media and/or on my YouTube channel, share this lighting and practice with me through the eight nights of Hanukkah.
December 25-January 1.
Follow on Instagram/Facebook: @limitlessjudaism
Hanukkah
Lighting the hanukkiah (Hanukkah menorah) is a spiritual practice that helps us to cultivate our inner light, and then guides us to offer it out to shine more brightly. On social media and/or on my YouTube channel, share this lighting and practice with me through the eight nights of Hanukkah.
December 25-January 1.
Follow on Instagram/Facebook: @limitlessjudaism
Hanukkah
Lighting the hanukkiah (Hanukkah menorah) is a spiritual practice that helps us to cultivate our inner light, and then guides us to offer it out to shine more brightly. On social media and/or on my YouTube channel, share this lighting and practice with me through the eight nights of Hanukkah.
December 25-January 1.
Follow on Instagram/Facebook: @limitlessjudaism
Hanukkah
Lighting the hanukkiah (Hanukkah menorah) is a spiritual practice that helps us to cultivate our inner light, and then guides us to offer it out to shine more brightly. On social media and/or on my YouTube channel, share this lighting and practice with me through the eight nights of Hanukkah.
December 25-January 1.
Follow on Instagram/Facebook: @limitlessjudaism
Hanukkah
Lighting the hanukkiah (Hanukkah menorah) is a spiritual practice that helps us to cultivate our inner light, and then guides us to offer it out to shine more brightly. On social media and/or on my YouTube channel, share this lighting and practice with me through the eight nights of Hanukkah.
December 25-January 1.
Follow on Instagram/Facebook: @limitlessjudaism
Hanukkah - Lighting and Practice
Lighting the hanukkiah (Hanukkah menorah) is a spiritual practice that helps us to cultivate our inner light, and then guides us to offer it out to shine more brightly. On social media and/or through emails, share this lighting and practice with me through the eight nights of Hanukkah.
December 25-January 1.
Sign up for emails or follow on Instagram/Facebook: @limitlessjudaism
Online Meditation Sit
Join me as I lead a guided, embodied, earth inspired meditation drawing from ancient wisdom. All welcome. No experience needed. Free of charge.
To sign-up, visit: https://www.jewishspirituality.org/get-started/free-resources-from-ijs/daily-online-meditation-sit/
Want more? Contact me to offer a meditation course to your business or family, for you and your friends, or a one-on-one course for yourself.
Online Meditation Sit
Join me as I lead a guided, embodied, earth inspired meditation drawing from ancient wisdom. All welcome. No experience needed. Free of charge.
To sign-up, visit: https://www.jewishspirituality.org/get-started/free-resources-from-ijs/daily-online-meditation-sit/
Want more? Contact me to offer a meditation course to your business or family, for you and your friends, or a one-on-one course for yourself.