Embodying Spirit En-Spiriting Body
A Jewish Movement Leadership Training
Designed and Taught by Rabbi Diane Elliot and Guest Faculty
- Is movement your first language?
- Does your soul express itself most deeply and joyfully through dance and movement?
Join Embodying Spirit, En~spiriting Body – a training program in embodied Judaism and embodied Jewish leadership.
In a deeply nurturing residential retreat setting, Rabbi Diane Elliot and her co-teachers will gently and joyfully guide you from the depths of your own body’s cells to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. You’ll discover new freedom to dance your soul’s yearning and to move sacred text off the page. Together we open our bodies as channels for drawing Divine shefa (flow) into the world through movement meditations, hands-on exercises, and ecstatic dancing and we will support one another in connecting to G~d with our whole beings.
Awakening and expanding the experience of Divinity within your own physicality, this in-depth, innovative program will also provide you with skills to become an “embodiment facilitator” in your home community, enriching your work as a healer, therapist, spiritual leader, or teacher. Among our tools will be Authentic Movement, ecstatic dance, Body-Mind Centering®, qi gong, and sacred circle dance, as we practice moving prayer, Torah, and kabbalistic wisdom. Each retreat week culminates in an unforgettable embodied Shabbat (Sabbath) experience that celebrates and integrates the gifts of our time together.
The retreats take place among the pine, oak, and manzanita forest in the hills north of Napa Valley, California, at Four Springs Retreat Center.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PROGRAM?
Rabbi Diane Elliot can be reached at diane.elliot@aleph.org.
You can also email the ALEPH office at stephanie@aleph.org
Faculty
Rabbi Diane Elliot, spiritual teacher, dancer and somatic therapist, inspires her students to become clearer channels for Divine Light through awareness and movement practices, chant, and nuanced interpretations of Jewish sacred text. Founder of Wholly Present, A Center for Embodied Spiritual Practice, she was ordained at the Academy for Jewish Religion, California, in 2006, and before that worked for many years as an internationally known modern dance performer, choreographer, and a teacher of Body-Mind Centering®. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she served as spiritual leader of the Aquarian Minyan from 2007-2009 and now teaches locally and nationally through ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal, Ruach Ha-Aretz, and The Awakened Heart Project.
Rabbi Diane also maintains a body-based spiritual direction practice, leads Jewish meditation retreats, and is the author of numerous articles, essays, and poems. Her wise, loving presence creates a safe space for those who wish to explore spirituality individually and in community. For more information about Rabbi Diane, see www.whollypresent.org.
