Advanced Learning with Yoshi Silverstein
Monday, April 11, 2022
1pm PST | 4pm EST | 11pm Israel (90 minutes)
Finding the Sacred Center in the Wilderness of the Unknown: Embodied Jewish Practice for Liberation, Emergence, and Creative Expression
This session will explore core embodiment principles at the heart of Mitsui Collective's framework for somatic Jewish experience with a focus on dynamic movement, resilience-building, balance, and centering in an ever-moving world. Framed particularly well by the approaching holiday of Passover in this Sabbatical year of Shmita, we'll move and play across multiple dimensions of the Jewish spacetime continuum, creating space for centering, emergence, and creative expression through locomotion and Kabbalistic metaphysical movement and a light introduction to breathwork and stillness practice.
Please clear your space for movement and wear comfortable clothing. If you have a preferred meditation cushion, please bring that as well.
Yoshi Silverstein is Founder and Executive Director of Mitsui Collective, which builds resilient community through embodied Jewish practice and somatic antiracism. Selected as a 2021 “Grist 50 Fixer” building a more just and equitable future, Yoshi’s work aims to nourish body and soul through meaning making, healing, purposeful connection, and creative expression. A Chinese Ashkenazi American Jew, Yoshi is also an active advocate and educator in the Jews of Color community. Formerly Director of the JOFEE Fellowship at Hazon, he is an adjunct faculty instructor at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and program faculty at M² Institute for Experiential Jewish Education, Cornerstone Seminar (Foundation for Jewish Camp), Institute for Jewish Spirituality, and Avodah’s Institute for Social Change. Yoshi holds a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture and certificates in spiritual entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, permaculture design, and environmental education; is a Senior Schusterman Fellow; and is a student of Resmaa Menakem in the areas of embodied antiracism and somatic abolitionism. He lives in the Cleveland area in Shaker Heights, OH on Erie, Mississauga, and Haudenosaunee land.
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