Embodied presence is my devotion. I play passionately in realms of transformative ritual, elemental attunement and ancestral reverence.

I adore the power and portal created when sound meets the sacred, teaching embodied vocalization, guiding chant experiences and recording lush percussive prayer.  My Hebrew Goddess chant albums Wild Earth Shebrew, Halleluyah All Night, Torah Tantrika and This Bliss have been heralded as "cutting-edge mystic medicine music.”

My path is guided by Goddess.. I co-founded the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess movement, a transformative path for those embracing the Goddess in a Jewish context, and co-authored The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women's Spiritual Leadership and Siddur HaKohanot: A Hebrew Priestess Prayerbook.

I devoted two and a half decades to radical Jewish practice, serving as a spiritual leader working to transform Jewish narratives and ritual experiences from ones of survive to of thrive,

I now pray and guide prayer on a multi-religious path, with roots in earth-reverent Goddess traditions and Islamic Sufism.  My current sacred offerings unfurl inside of From the Deep, an emerging mystery school of earth, sea and soma.

With my beloved collaborator Shaykh Dr. Ibrahim Baba Farajaje, I co-founded Makam Shekhina, a multi-religious community of Jewish mystics and Sufi Dervishes gathering in embodied, multi-gender, ecstatic counter-oppressive devotion. Find our Arabic, Hebrew and English liturgy here.

I have the pleasure of serving as Assistant Professor of the Practice of Organic Multireligious Ritual at Starr-King School for the Ministry, known as the most progressive theological school in North America, where I train emergent clergy across faith traditions and serve as Associate Director of the Center for Multi-Religious Studies and co-convene our series The House of Dates. I recently shifted out of my role as core faculty of Embodied Ministry and Embodied Leadership at The Chaplaincy Institute, also in Berkeley, CA, though I continue to teach courses there each year.

I'm a practitioner of Somatic Experiencing, a body-awareness-based trauma healing modality, and trained in SE because of the ways it has deeply supported my own healing. Somatic Experiencing theory and practice - rooting in and returning to positive resource - informs my approach to both teaching and devotional contexts. I served for years as a practitioner and teacher of Ancestral Lineage Healing and remain awed by the immense blessing available through cultivating direct relationship with bright and benevolent lineage ancestors. 

I created and host the acclaimed Jewish Ancestral Healing podcast, engaging spiritual leaders, artists, activists and visionaries on their journeys of ancestral healing, embracing resilience, and ancestor reverence practices rooted in Jewish traditions and counter-oppressive devotion. spiritual leaders, artists, activists and visionaries on their journeys of ancestral healing, embracing resilience, and ancestor reverence practices rooted in Jewish traditions and counter-oppressive devotion.

I’ve long offered virtual courses in Embodied Presence, Jewish Ancestral Healing, Pleasure as Prayer and Conscious Menstruation. My newest courses include Luminous Ancestors of Earth, Sea and Sky & Ancestral Exuberance and I offer direct mentorship to a handful of close students.

The sweet synagogue where I rabbi'd for a decade named me Spiritual Leader Emeritus in 2015.  It's wild to be both esteemed and former.  I very occasionally still support rites-of-passage ceremony for those weaving amidst ancestral exuberance and in earth-loving multi-religious ways.

My journey of training up has not been linear.  The version that fits in lines includes me studying the folklore of religion in a land called Ivy League and later sitting at the feet of plenty a renewal rabbi. 

The schooling that steeped me most strongly was with earth-reverent ones on remote beaches of Bahia, Brasil and with barely clad women singing to the moon on rowhouse rooftops in West Philly.

I tend temple / make home and ritual by the sea on Turtle Island & journey occassionally to immerse in & study ceremonial music and earth-prayer around the world.

I'm smiling bright at the possibility of connecting with you in reverent ritual play.