Embodied Jewish Transformation: Pathways of Possibility
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Yoshi Silverstein
12 weeks
Tuesdays: 2-3:30 pm ET / 11 am-12:30 pm PT, beginning October 3rd
This course is designed to guide students in an exploration of embodied Jewish practice – bridging lived experience, body-wisdom, text, ritual, metaphor, and mysticism in order to cultivate greater possibility, emergence, and transformation. Together, we’ll study and apply key forms, patterns, and concepts from throughout Jewish history — from Sefer Yetzirah (the Book of Formation) to Hebrew scribal arts, to the magen david (six-pointed star/shield of David) and more — to embodied learning and practice. As a final project, students will craft a personal embodied incantation — a short movement form based on the patterns, shapes, symbols, metaphors, and other content introduced during the course. They will practice this embodied incantation with the intent of gathering the potential energy of possibility, and activating it towards emergent manifestation in actuality — to serve as embodied ritual practice in appropriate moments and experiences of their lives.
Students should expect a blend of ample embodied learning and practice — including physical movement, song, breathwork, and other physical practices — alongside text-study and intellectual exploration of key theoretical concepts and frameworks. This course is designed in general to be broadly accessible to people of all backgrounds, abilities, identities, and experience. All bodies are welcome.
NOTE: This course will include 10 Zoom gatherings, with the remaining 2 weeks taking the form of asynchronous classes. These will be class-experiences that take place not via Zoom gathering, but rather via guided experiences and conversations, on students’ own schedules with Yoshi Silverstein’s asynchronous guidance.
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Sliding Scale
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $499 (the true cost), $399 or $299.
If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.
Financial Aid
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**Please register each student separately. Your registrations will appear in your shopping cart and you may pay for multiple students together at checkout**
About Yoshi
Yoshi Silverstein (he/him) is founder and executive director of Mitsui Collective, which builds resilient community through embodied Jewish practice and multiracial justice. He also is a Schusterman Fellow, an initiative of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies. The Fellowship empowers leaders to drive positive change in the Jewish community, Israel, and beyond. Previously, Silverstein was director of the JOFEE Fellowship at Hazon, catalyzing the growth of emerging professionals working across North America in the realm of Jewish relationship to land, food, culture, and climate. As a Chinese-Ashkenazi-American Jew, Silverstein is an active leader, advocate, and educator in the Jews of Color community and speaks regularly on diversity, equity, and inclusion. He has been a cast member of Kaleidoscope Project’s “What Does Jewish Look Like to You” monologue series and an ELI Talks speaker; and is an alumnus of Selah (Cohort 14, Jewish Leaders of Color), GLEAN Network’s certificate in Spiritual Entrepreneurship with Columbia Business School, the Dorot Fellowship, and the PresenTense NYC Accelerator for Social Entrepreneurship. He is a recipient of the 2022 Pomegranate Prize for emerging leaders in Jewish education from The Covenant Foundation, and was selected as a 2021 “Grist 50 Fixer” building a more just and equitable future. Silverstein lives in the Cleveland area with his wife, daughter, and pup.