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ReTreat Yourself! Jewish Mysticism and Meditation Shabbaton
March 7 @ 2:00 pm – March 9 @ 11:00 am
A Retreat for Jewish Communal Professionals
This exciting rejuvenation opportunity is being offered at no cost to participants, thanks to generous funding, and will allow Jewish communal professionals to spend 3 days in community.
Registration is full
Forge meaningful relationships with colleagues in your region while engaging with powerful religious and spiritual practice and Jewish learning within the themes of Hasidut, mysticism, wellness, and meditation.
Participants will emerge with a broader network of friends and allies in the field, new Jewish wisdom sources for inspiration, and renewed motivation, passion, and commitment to their work. We will talk, sing, pray, move our bodies indoors and outside, eat delicious food, rest, laugh, and reflect.
Event Details
Friday, March 7 – Sunday, March 9, 2025
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, CT
This retreat experience is fully funded for eligible participants! A $180 fully refundable deposit is required to demonstrate your commitment. Travel expenses to/from the retreat are not covered.
Eligibility for these retreats require participants to have been working full time in Jewish communal service for 2+ years, and in their current role for 6+ months.
For more information, please reach out to Eliezah Hoffman, the Immersive Retreats Project Manager, at eliezah.hoffman@adamah.org or 410.843.7548.
This event is part of the ReTreat Yourself! event series. If these dates don’t work for you, view other upcoming retreats here.
Program Leaders:
Engaging prayer services and a variety of deep, purposeful sessions will be led by Kohenet Elana Brody, Reb Ezra Weinberg, and Rabbi Sheila Weinberg.
Yael Shy is the Founder and CEO of Mindfulness Consulting where she supports individuals and collectives through well-being practices that uncover their inherent worth and capacity for deep joy. Yael is faculty at the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. Current and former clients include New York University, Columbia School of Law, Procter and Gamble, UJA Federation, Hillel International, Etsy, and many more. She is the author of the award-winning book, What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond (Parallax, 2017), and the founder of Mindful NYU, the largest campus-based mindfulness initiative in the country. She has been featured on Good Morning America, Fox 5 News, CBS, and in Time Magazine and Harvard Business Review. mindfulnessconsulting.net or follow @yaelshy1 on Instagram
Kohenet Elana Brody is a celebrated singer-songwriter, song leader, and Hebrew Priestess rooted in rural Appalachia, with a decade of Jewish life and leadership in New York City. Elana serves as a visionary prayer leader and founder of a blossoming ritual community for earth-based Judaism in Asheville, NC. She creates expressive prayer spaces and musical experiences that move the soul, with a passion for uplifting the Divine One alongside Mother Earth. Elana attended Berklee College of Music, studying vocal performance and songwriting; is an ordained Hebrew priestess and graduate of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute; and is a current student of Aleph Rabbinic Ordination Program. Elana is also a former student of Pardes Institute in Jerusalem, and the Institute for Jewish Learning.
In addition, Elana has been offering her gifts as a ba’al tefilah for many years in congregations around the country, including: Romemu Brooklyn and Romemu Manhattan, Kol Hai in Hudson Valley, Nevei Kodesh in Boulder Colorado, Chochmat HaLev in Berkeley California, 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, Living Jewishly Toronto, Twin Cities Jewish Renewal Congregation in Minneapolis, Limmud conference NY, and more. She has collaborated musically with some of the most beloved Jewish musical artists of today, such as Yosef Goldman, Shir Yaakov Feit, Basya Schecter, Eden Pearlstein, Marni Loffman, Yoel Sykes of Nava Tehila, and more.
Rabbi Jill Hammer, founder of the Kohenet Institute, called Elana’s work “Magnificent, Stunning, Holy.” Susan Rogers, author of This is What it Sounds Like and engineer for Prince, called Elana “My favorite genius. Whatever she does will be ahead of its time.” Listen to her original music on Spotify, including her beloved new melody and lyrics for songs, B‘Shem Hashem (Angels of Peace), and Mi Chamocha (Living A Miracle).
Reb Ezra Weinberg is a Philadelphia-based rabbi and a practitioner of conflict transformation. He is the founder of ReVoice: A Journey of Discovery for Jewish Families After Divorce. Among his various projects, he officiates weddings and b’nai mitzvah; teaches courses on connecting to Jewish prayer; and helps communities get unstuck around the topic of “Israel.” He is an adjunct faculty member at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he teaches the class, “One G-d, Three Paths,” alongside a priest and an imam. Whether he is working as a shaliakh tzibbur, a Jewish educator, a song leader or a Jewish camp professional, his role in the Jewish community and beyond always comes back to his ability to lift spirits, create community and plant seeds of transformation.
Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg served as a congregational rabbi for seventeen years. She has also worked in the fields of Jewish community relations, Jewish education and Hillel. She has published widely on such topics as feminism, spiritual direction, parenting, social justice and mindfulness from a Jewish perspective and has contributed commentaries to Kol HaNeshama, the Reconstructionist prayer book. Rabbi Weinberg has taught mindfulness meditation and yoga to rabbis, Jewish professionals and lay people in the context of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. She serves as a spiritual director to a variety of Jewish clergy including students and faculty at HUC-JIR in New York. She is creator and co-leader of the Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training Program. She is married to Maynard Seider and they have three married children and six grandchildren.
