Elul Unbound 2020: Spiritual Practice

Each Monday of Elul (beginning August 24th, 2020) we will be offering up a diffierent spiritual practice, via video, that you can take on for yourself as preparation for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Use these practices throughout Elul or anytime. Choose the ones that feel most energizing for you. Play with them - unbound them - and make them your own.

 

Week 1 (August 24th, 2020): Myriam Klotz

Myriam Klotz, Senior Program Director for the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, leads you through an embodied practice tied to an image called “Universal One,” by Nina Bonos.

 
Each Monday of Elul Unbound, we encourage you to experiment with a new spiritual practice. For this first Monday of Elul 2020, we hope you'll dive into this ...
 

 

Week 2 (August 31, 2020): Contemplative reading

This week's practice is contemplative reading. Wendie has created a guide for this practice and a suggested text, the song "Wide Open Spaces" by the Chicks.

 
This Contemplative Reading Practice was shared for Judaism Unbound's Elul Unbound 2020. I review the steps for using words as a spiritual practice.
 

 

Week 3 (September 7, 2020): Somatic Meditation

This week’s practice is a Somatic Meditation developed by Karen Erlichman specifically for the theme of this week’s Elul Unbound - our collective teshuva. Karen provides psychotherapy, spiritual direction, supervision, and So(U)L coaching and studies embodied leadership and somatic coaching at the Strozzi Institute and Generative Somatics.

 
Somatic Meditation for Elul Unbound 2020 week 3 that invites us to engage with collective teshuva (return/reflection/forgiveness), especially in the realm of...

Week 4: Sylvia Boorstein

Welcome to our last spiritual practice of this year’s Elul Unbound.

This week the practice is a meditation and teaching from a line from psalm 27 (the psalm for Elul) from well-known mindfulness teacher Sylvia Boorstein. Sylvia Boorstein is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and was an initial faculty member of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. She is the author of 5 books on mindfulness meditation, including one book about the integration of mindfulness into a Jewish life.

This meditation was created by Sylvia Boorstein for Elul Unbound 2020 week 4. Sylvia shares some teaching about psalm 27 from the line "one thing I ask, one ...