The Movement Minyan

The body is an integral part of our spiritual practice. Over the course of our lives, emotions and memories enter our body as feelings and sensations. Tefillah involves many powerful dynamics that we can explore through the physicality of the body: holding on and letting go, brokenness and wholeness, and activity both communal and individual. The Movement Minyan uses the dynamics of tefillah to explore what the body can teach us about returning to self, to others and to God.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Exploring Feminism

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      FRAMING       This session is being held midway through a week-long seminar Feminist Thought, Theology, and Practice in Judaism....
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

4. Letting Gd In

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REFLECTIONS Journeying Together This morning's session felt really powerful. People were tangibly more comfortable interacting with...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

3. Letting Gd In

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Yoga flow on mats (5-7 min) -Closed eyes, soft eyes, stretching Introduction (3 min total) 1) Welcome - Safe space etc - Acknowledge...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

2. Letting Gd In

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Introduction 1) Welcome - Safe space etc - Acknowledge wide range of backgrounds in the room 2) This semester's theme Letting...
Monday, February 27, 2012

1. Letting Gd In

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Brainstorm In our initial thinking about our theme for this semester we wanted to revisit something we had already done. Following the ad...
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Friday, October 28, 2011

Embodying Teshuva

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Outline I. Warm Up Welcome people and invite them to take off shoes and warm up individually as they enter. II. Introduction 1) Get pe...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

5. Why Pray?

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Brainstorm Our goal for this final session of the semesters is to move from YHVH unknown to Eloheinu Melech ha Olam, which is regrounded i...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

4. Why Pray?

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Brainstorm After Nate's injury at the end of Movement Minyan last week we began our meeting with Ebn by discussing the role the habits ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

3. Why Pray?

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Brainstorm After a long discussion around whether or not to continue our exploration of the choreography associated with "Baruch Atah ...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

2. Why Pray?

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Brainstorm As we began to envision what this semester could look like, we talked about using previous forms, possibility of keva movement m...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

1. Why Pray?

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Beginning Again In thinking about opening the Movement Minyan this spring at Hebrew College, we knew there would be a mix of old and new fa...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

2. Alone and Together

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Movement Minyan comes to Burning Man Examining Assumptions My brainstorm about this session grew out of my thinking about the previous...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

1. Alone and Together

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Moving the Minyan to the Desert Adina and I discussed the exciting opportunities for challenging the Movement Minyan to explore new horizo...
Friday, May 7, 2010

4. Modes of Leadership

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In the Deep Blue Sea We began, of all places, in the ocean. To explore the experience of all together together we started by thinking abo...
Friday, April 23, 2010

3. Modes of Leadership

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Differentiating Modes We began by thinking about the idea of praying "alone together", and how that might look as a movement fl...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

2. Modes of Leadership

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Initial Thoughts For this sessions we wanted to make a very clear distinction between call and response, that is to say between moving/say...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

1. Modes of Leadership

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Planting  Seeds We began by setting broad goals for the Movement Minyan as it moved into its second semester of existence - namely that we...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Visions of a Movement Minyan, Part 2

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It's All in the Question We came back from winter break excited to expand and deepen our work with the Movement Minyan. In our initial ...
Friday, December 11, 2009

4. Unity and Freedom (Two Versions)

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Embodying Unity In our fourth session, we wanted to explore the experience of "unity" by exploring and playing with its opposite,...
Friday, November 20, 2009

3. Unity and Freedom

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The question we began with: If Shema stands for oneness/unity and Geulah stands for freedom, what does it mean to say that oneness frees me?...
Friday, October 30, 2009

2. Unity and Freedom

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Shaliach Tzibbur Our discussion began with questions. In what ways did we want to engage the community - through group learning, group conv...
Friday, October 16, 2009

1. Unity and Freedom

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Starting with a Question In brainstorming with Ebn, we decided we wanted to start with a specific question, "What's tefillah about...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Visions of a Movement Minyan, Part 1

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"Movement Minyan" In our initial planning discussion with Ebn, Adina and I began to articulate the goals of the Movement Minyan. ...
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