Thaw, Release, and Renew:
A Shevet Day-Long Mindfulness RetreatSunday, February 23, 2025
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET / 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM PT
Join IJS’s Young Adult Community for a virtual day-long retreat
to deepen your practice as we move towards spring.
Start 2025 by deepening your mindfulness practice in connection with the earth. As the sap begins to rise with the Hebrew month of Shvat, we will come together on retreat to recognize the invisible stirrings of new beginnings within and around us and our innate capacity for awakening. This is a time for sowing seeds of intention, consciousness, and love in the gardens of our minds, bodies, and hearts.
Our day together will include guided sitting and walking practice, wisdom teachings, embodied practice, and journaling. We will hold our retreat in sacred silence, with some optional time for connection and sharing at the end of the day. Practitioners of all levels in their 20s and 30s are warmly welcome, including those new to meditation.
As the ground begins to thaw, renew your connection to your body and the earth.
ATTUNE to the subtle stirrings of the season in your mind, body, heart, and spirit.
CULTIVATE the ability to respond to the world with curiosity and compassion.
NOURISH yourself with mindfulness practices, journalling, and connecting in community.
REFLECT on how mindfulness can support your growth and well-being.
Renew and inspire your daily practice!
This day-long retreat will lead into an optional week of daily communal meditation (M-F, 11:45am-12:15pm ET / 8:45am-9:15am PT), intended to support participants toward depth and consistency of practice.
Register for the Shevet Day-Long Mindfulness Retreat
IJS is pleased to offer this course at three tuition levels.
We encourage you to pay at the highest level you can, which will enable more students to participate.
Abundance Level
$149
Basic Level
$72
Reduced Level
$36
No one will be turned away from this retreat for lack of funds. Please email us at support@jewishspirituality if you need assistance.
Retreat Faculty
Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife
Core Faculty Member
Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife sprinkles sparkles, disrupts expectations, and offers blessings wherever she goes. She serves as Founding Kohenet of Kesher Pittsburgh, Program Director for Beloved Garden, inaugural Faculty Fellow with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and also enjoys working with the Jewish Learning Collaborative. Additionally, she delights in serving as a shlichat tzibbur, life spiral ceremony/ritual creatrix, teacher, facilitator, liturgist and songstress. Her work in these realms is informed by her lived experience as a queer, bi-racial, Jewish person, her belief that Book, Body and Earth are equal sources of wisdom, the quandaries she has encountered as a scholar of the Orphan Wisdom School, and her deep commitment to a thriving, liberatory Jewish future. Keshira received Kohenet smicha in 2017 and earned her BS 2000 and MS 2001 at Carnegie Mellon University. After many years of traveling and living in Australia, in 2018, she and her beloved returned home to Osage and Haudenosaunee land, also called Pittsburgh, PA.
Rebecca Schisler
Core Faculty Member
Rebecca is a meditation teacher, artist, and Jewish educator. A devoted contemplative practitioner, she has led groups and taught classes and retreats with Or HaLev, Awakened Heart Project, Orot, Wilderness Torah, Pardes, and Stanford School of Medicine. She was previously the Director of Student Health & Well-being at Stanford University’s Hillel, and co-authored the Mahloket Matters Schools Curriculum with the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators. A student rabbi at ALEPH, Rebecca is passionate about integrating ancestral wisdom traditions with innovative approaches to personal and collective healing and liberation. She teaches Jewish spirituality as an embodied, holistic, and accessible path, with relevant and timely wisdom for all.