Classes

Learning is not only fundamental to our growth as humans, it also has the capacity to bring greater wonder, connectedness and grounding to our lives.

Kirva presents: Dismantling Racism from the Inside Out

This series is for JoC and starts Sunday, April 7 (with additional sessions on Thursdays)

Efforts to dismantle racism are often comprised of education, advocacy, and systemic change. These efforts are not enough —it’s crucial that we also do the inner work necessary to change our habits of mind, body, and spirit to wholly dismantle racism. We have ancestral wisdom available to support this change; Mussar is the Jewish spiritual discipline designed to integrate what the head understands with what the heart feels through daily practice. Emerge from this program with renewed ability and resilience to disrupt racism, a regular spiritual practice, and a set of concrete tools to support your antiracism efforts.

Past opportunities to learn with Keshira

  • Fractals in Jewish Time

    Jewish time invites us to move in cycles within cycles, with deep imprints of fractal time. Across time and space, Jewish tradition marks time in various ways through mindful awareness, blessing and ritual, making meaning and beauty and, ultimately, uplifting the very holiness of the moment. In this series, Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife facilitates a creative exploration of time and ritual, bringing together the Jewish Studio Process with opportunities to examine our relationships to time and ritual. By delving into a different Jewish ritual, considering both its origin and resonant modern application, and tying it to an aspect of time, participants are invited to steep in deep time, engage embodied ritual, and reclaim creativity as a sacred act. This class is for those who love to make art or ritual magic, and those who yearn to wonder at the intersection of time and space.

  • On Solid Ground: Fundamentals of Judaism

    Together we are exploring the foundations of Judaism through a feminist lens, providing us a stable place from which to learn, study, practice, lead, create, ritualize and diverge. This class includes inquiries into traditional/historical practice in comparison and contrast to Priestess practice. This class is intended for anyone who wants to learn the basics of Jewish practice, history and tradition (including folx who are considering conversion) as well as anyone who is keen to reconsider the basics from an anti-oppressionist perspective.

  • Cycles of Rest, Release, and Liberation: Antiracism and Shemitah as Spiritual Practice

    This collaboration between the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and Dimensions Consulting, featured Yavilah McCoy with caucus support from Rabbi Myriam Klotz, Dr Andrea Jacobs, Yoshi Silverstein and Keshira!

    This six month transformative, contemplative learning journey combined Jewish text, antiracism teaching, and opportunities to reflect, and offered participants an opportunity to integrate spiritual practice to support our collective work for the maintenance of an equitable, just, and healthy society.

    With over 1,400 registrants, this program SOLD OUT.

  • Shmita: Putting Ourselves in the Practice

    Judaism Unbound launched the UnYeshiva to encourage deep exploration of 3,000 years of Jewish tradition and to support the creative experimentation necessary to shapy a compelling and sustainable Jewish future.

    I was thrilled to be part of their Spring 2022 faculty with Shmita: Putting Ourselves in the Practice which started in mid-February 2022.

  • Sacred Action: Bringing Mindfulness Practice to Justice Work

    Or Halev offers a Jewish path to a more vibrant, whole and awakened life thorough mindfulness and innovative Jewish practice.

    I was honoured to co-facilitate Sacred Action: Bringing Mindfulness Practice to Justice Work in winter 2022 and Autumn 2023.

  • The Shofar Project: Getting Real for the New Year

    The Institute for Jewish Spirituality hosted his five week program of Jewish spiritual practice grounded in teachings drawn from This is Real and You are Completely Unprepared, by Rabbi Alan Lew z”l, the contemporary classic describing the spiritual arc of this period of the Jewish year. Hosted by IJS, all were welcome to join this free offering, which featured a different IJS leader each week, delving into the content and guiding practice.