Willow Ceremony for Sukkot: Harvest Gather
We're gathering on the last night of Sukkot to celebrate the Harvest, known as Hoshana Rabbah. On Hoshana Rabbah, the final day of Sukkot, the priests of the Temple used to circle the altar seven times with willow branches, praying for rain with poetic stanzas known as Hoshanot (Mishnah Sukkah 4:2), and laying 18-foot willow branches around the altar. Even today, many people still follow this mystical, earth-based “custom of the prophets” to pray for rain (Sukkah 44b:5) — taking five willow branches, reciting a special prayer, and beating the bundle of willows on the ground five times (Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chaim 664:4; Mishnah Berurah 664:16–19).
Rabbi Pesach Wolick reflects on the powerful sound of this ritual: “Imagine the sound of a synagogue full of aravot hitting the floor. The sound is almost identical to a hard rainfall. The aravot — willows of the brook [Leviticus 23:40] — require abundant water, and they're hitting the ground like rain creates the sound of rain.”
Together in community we'll meet the willows in song, embodied prayer and dance!
Radiant Body : Embodied Kabbalah Fall Series (In-Person)
Join us on a Kabbalistic Wellness Journey through the 7 Divine Energy Centers (Sefirot), from an earth-based, feminine perspective.
Uncover your embodied wholeness.
Activate your connection to Source.
Harness your energy and step into your purpose.
Virtual & In-Person Options.
Radiant Body : Embodied Kabbalah Fall Series (Virtual)
Join us on a Kabbalistic Wellness Journey through the 7 Divine Energy Centers (Sefirot), from an earth-based, feminine perspective.
Uncover your embodied wholeness.
Activate your connection to Source.
Harness your energy and step into your purpose.
Virtual & In-Person Options.
Return to the Heart: A Forgiveness Ceremony
Join Jenna Zadaka and Elana Brody for an alternative-selichot (forgiveness) service in community. You can expect a ceremony of heart-song, forgiveness (selichot), embodied practice, and ritual to return to the wholeness of your heart. We’ll transition into Havdalah to bless the week ahead and prepare our hearts for Rosh Hashana.
Tree of Life Healing Yoga
Tree of Life Healing Yoga: Combining Embodied Kabbalah with Yoga Asana
Seasons to Wholeness: FREE Virtual Elul Ceremony
🌙 Virtual New Moon Ceremony: Elul 🌙
Join us for a sacred online gathering to welcome the Hebrew month of Elul—a time to soften, release, forgive, and return to the Self.
Together, we’ll drop into ritual, meditation, and embodied presence.
We’ll explore the spiritual energies of Elul and follow a somatic pathway of return, guided by Mitten and Jenna.
✨ Come home to your heart.
✨ Come gather in sacred time.
Register here to receive your zoom link to join our Ceremony. 🌙 https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/uon3i8BVR_CP0MQLlZKHbg
Please bring:
a journal
a candle
flowers (esp Roses) if available
Tea or something to sip on
We are so excited to gather together under the new moon,
Mitten & Jenna
Tree of Life Healing Yoga
Tree of Life Healing Yoga: Combining Embodied Kabbalah with Yoga Asana
Tree of Life Healing Yoga
Tree of Life Healing Yoga: Combining Embodied Kabbalah with Yoga Asana
(FULL!) Full Moon Tu B'Av Shabbat Festival
SOLD OUT
Full Moon Shabbat Festival: Tu B’Av: The Jewish Holiday of Love
Evening Flow
5pm: Arrival
Settle into the garden and ground into the magic of Tu B’Av
5.15: Botanical Natural Dye Project
Create your own intuitive botanically printed wall hanging, using fresh plants from the garden on organic linen with Ora Levi.
6.15: Shabbat Potluck Dinner & Song
Share a nourishing potluck meal with poetry, guided dinner prompts, soulful song, and heartfelt conversation around this ancient love ritual.
7.15: Heart Meditate & Full Moon Dance
Tune into your heart with a guided meditation led by Mitten & Jenna, then move barefoot under the full moon with Dance Guide Rachael Brody
8pm: Closing Circle
WEAR WHITE
Nearly 3,000 years ago, the daughters of Jerusalem would dress in white and dance in the vineyards beneath the full moon—celebrating life, love, and the renewal that follows loss.
Tu B’Av, the Festival of Love, emerges from the ashes of destruction in the first half of the month of Av. In this fire-sign month of the Aryeh (Lion), the flames of sorrow transform into the fire of passion and courageous love.
Tu B’Av is also an ancient agricultural holiday—when olives swelled with oil and white squill flowers bloomed across the fields. Women wore white to merge with the blossoms as they danced, embodying the abundance of the season.
In the wisdom of Kabbalah, white symbolizes Chesed, the radiant flow of loving-kindness from the Divine. Let us don white and remember: we, too, are vessels of that sacred love.
Tree of Life Healing Yoga
Tree of Life Healing Yoga: Combining Embodied Kabbalah with Yoga Asana
New Moon Ceremony: Tending to Grief & Sorrow (Tammuz & Summer Solstice)
Come together to welcome in the new moon of Tammuz—a month that holds space for sorrow, grief, and the pain of Jewish history. This month invites us to pause and feel. Whether you’re Jewish or not, Tammuz offers a sacred container to witness, weep, and be held.
We will be holding a tender, grounded space to process and move through whatever may be arising for you, especially in the wake of this the recent antisemitic terror attack in Boulder.
Queen Esther Persian Funk Party for Purim
We’ll be celebrating a full-moon party for Purim in honor of Queen Esther’s badass embodied leadership.
There will be a full traditional meze spread and desert, Persian Rose+ Mint Mocktails, Persian belly dance and free-flowing dance party.
Come dressed in your Persian or Queen Esther attire
Limited spots, so sign up today!
Full Moon TuB'Shevat Yoga Workshop with Embodied Jewish Learning
Join Jenna Zadaka in a full-moon Tu B'Shevat 4-seasons breath-work and yoga practice through the roots, trunk, branches and fruit of your tree to embrace your Divine wholeness because, "Human is a tree of the field" (Deuteronomy).
Tree Medicine for Shvat Gather
Join us for a magical night of meditation, creativity, and connection as we prepare for Tu B’Shvat, our tree-loving, full moon holiday! 🌕🌳 In a cozy, candle-lit ceremonial space, Mitten and I will guide us through a:
✨ Rising Sap Meditation
🎨 Art-reflection on the 4 parts of a tree
🌿 Plant Brushing & Tree Medicine
🌳 Matriarchal Tree Journey
We are blessed to invite in Elana Brody as our song leader and musician through the evening!
In the heart of winter, we’ll honor the stirring rejuvenation beneath the earth with mindfulness, song, and community. 🌱✨ Space is limited to 22, so reserve your spot now! Link in bio. 💫