After coming to a Shavuot retreat at Pearlstone Retreat Center, I experienced magic! During that retreat, there was an antisemitic attack in my hometown of Boulder, Colorado at a hostage protest. The retreat community supported me through feelings of fear and despair—I felt embraced by a warm hug. We lit Shavuot candles together, and I guided a meditation to receive new wisdom. I also loved teaching a Women’s Bikkurim Ceremony for Shavuot, an Embodied Sivan ceremony in the garden, a class called “Spiritual Flow,” and “The Art of Receiving.”

I believe so many Jews today are feeling that the “old way” of rigidity and stale learning just isn’t nourishing their souls anymore. We’re yearning to feel alive in our Judaism — to feel connected in our bodies, our breath, and our lived experience. Kabbalah teaches about the rise of the feminine, and I see this as an awakening from below: a remembering of our connection to the earth and her wisdom, the wisdom of the body, and the way new insight arises through active participation rather than passive receiving.

My hope is that my Adamah experience helps open more pathways for this kind of embodied, earth-rooted Judaism.

Adamah is one of the rare places where people can safely explore their relationship with the Divine through movement, nature, ritual, and direct felt experience.