How Do You Relate To Your Body As A Jewish Woman?
How Can Jewish Spirituality And Ritual
Inform Your Understanding Of Your Body And Yourself?
Join us for this special evening that will investigate the rich connections between Jewish ritual, spirituality and the significance of the female body. Through an interactive workshop and art-making experience, you will be guided in connecting deeply to your inner wisdom to make discoveries about yourself and your body.
Concepts from Kabbalah to daily life traditions will be explored through creative process, visualization, ritual and discussion. Through this powerful and personal discovery process, you will create your own “Body Map” using fabric, paint, and a variety of materials inspired by the idea of charting/mapping the body within Jewish thought and mysticism.
During This Workshop You Will: |
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Connect to your inner wisdom to explore issues around your body and your relationship to self |
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Explore how to use ritual and Jewish spirituality as tools for personal development |
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Create a beautiful work of art that symbolizes the personal discoveries you have made |
About the Facilitators/Conceptualizers
Joanna Lindenbaum is a ritualist, workshop leader and coach who teaches and mentors women on empowerment, how to succeed at their BIG life projects, how to create balance in their lives, and much more. She is the Director of Soulful Coaching for Busy Women and creator of the Women’s Intuitive Leadership Program. For the last 8 years, Joanna has facilitated over 250 thought provoking workshops internationally, including seminars at Omega Institute, Renfrew Center, Womb & Belly Conference, and Womongathering. She is also the co-Director of WomanVision and co-creator of Journey to Yourself: a 6-month experimental empowerment program that has radically healed and transformed the lives of many women. Joanna is also currently co-organizing a conference entitled REVEAL: Young Women Defining the Divine. Joanna received her B.A. in Art History from Rutgers College and her M.A. from Hunter College. She is a Certified Graduate of Coach U’s Core Essentials Program, as well as a graduate of the Priestess Path Apprenticeship Program and the WomanWheel Apprenticeship Program.
Rachel Katz is an Artist-Educator who has led art-making experiences with a range of audiences from children to adults in a diverse array of settings from classrooms to museums for the past 15 years. For the past 7 years Rachel has managed family programming in the Education Department of The Jewish Museum, NY. She has coordinated a full range of art workshops and other programs that highlight both the permanent collection and special exhibitions at the Museum. Prior to her work at The Jewish Museum, Rachel developed programs for The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, and The Jewish Museum of Maryland. In addition, she taught art in the public schools in Baltimore and led Adult Education workshops for Jewish Educators. Rachel Katz received her B.F.A. in General Fine Arts with a focus in Fibers and Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her Masters in Art Teaching from MICA. Her own art work incorporates costume, performance, and installation/sculpture which explore concepts related to the body and ritual.
This event is presented in partnership with Nextbook Inc., as part of Jewish Body Week — a series of events in New York City and elsewhere exploring the subjects raised in Melvin Konner’s 2009 book, The Jewish Body. Nextbook Inc. is a nonprofit organization promoting Jewish culture through its public programs, its Jewish Encounters book series (including The Jewish Body) published by Nextbook Press/Schocken, and Tablet Magazine, Nextbook’s new daily online publication. For more information about Nextbook, please visit www.nextbook.com. To see a full schedule of Jewish Body Week events, please visit www.JewishBodyWeek.com.
