Rosh Hashanah Day One and Yom Kippur — Sign up for both days or just one day. You are welcome to attend any or all of the sessions throughout each day. Full day participation is not mandatory.
This is a space for you to bring your emotions, body, spirit, and nervous system back into (or towards) balance. It is a grueling time for us, so come to learn and practice techniques that can mitigate the fear, hopelessness, or energy loss of trauma and daily stressors.
Rabbi Heather Altman, somatic trauma healing expert shares cutting-edge neurobiological methods that are specifically designed selected to help you with wartime trauma. Drawing upon her training in Somatic Experiencing, Spiritual Direction, and Crisis Stabilization & Safety modalities, these interactive group sessions will include simple experiential and embodied practices that you can use on your own in your daily life.
9AM — Arriving / Meditation / Birchot HaShachar
9:45AM — Sensing / Seeking Safety / Shacharit
10:30AM — Deepening / Tefila Yoga / Torah Service
11:30AM — Connecting / Contemplation & Conversation / Musaf
12:30PM — Nourishing / Kiddush / Food & Fellowship
Descriptions
Arriving: Quiet contemplative practices and meditations particular to Tefila and RoshHashanah
Sensing: Finding a sense of safety* during wartime and election season utilizing somatic spiritual experiential learning.*Follow up with an in-person or online groups for Sensing Safety During Wartime andElection Season.
Deepening: Experience embodied holiday Torah through Tefilla Yoga.
Connecting: With the intention of making peace with moving from one year to the next, wewill create heart connection with guided group conversation and contemplation.
Nourishing: Nurturing fellowship and nourishing the body with food. Stay for a light kiddush with tea and coffee, cheese and fruit and chocolate.
9:30AM — Spiritual Direction / Friends of Chana / Focus on Becoming Parents
10:30AM — Torah / Calling in Community for National Coming Out Day / Sacred Lives
11:30AM — Renewal / Refu’ah Yoga / Support for Body, Mind & Soul
12:30PM — Refreshment / Fasting with Food / When Eating on Yom Kippur is a Mitzvah
Descriptions
Friends of Chana: Anyone who has had setbacks in the efforts to become a parent can relate to Chana’s cries. Even justattending synagogue can be uncomfortable or painful. This space is in service of those who are going through or have gone through these demoralizing family-building challenges. Shaped by a Spiritual Direction group format, we will share space and feelings, receive and offer compassion, seek solace and support. Friends of Friends of Chana are welcome to come to provide additional support.
Calling in Community for National Coming Out Day: As Yom Kippur features the desirability of being entered into the Book of Life, National Coming Out Day (October 11th) is about the embracing one’s true self. This authentic soul is who gets to written into theBook of Life. LGBTQIA+ community members can share and listen to significant moments in their lives, including those set in a Jewish context.
Refu’ah Yoga: Refu’ah Yoga is a deeply restful and restorative practice of yoga, using blankets and bolsters to supportthe body. It will gently support your fast as well as your spiritual searching on Yom Kippur.
Fasting with Food: Fasting is a mitzvah on Yom Kippur. Eating is also a mitzvah on Yom Kippur for some people. Thereshould not be a conflict between attending synagogue and eating on Yom Kippur. Here is an invitationto come sit together to eat and chat. We’ll share how it feels to eat on Yom Kippur, and how to feel thegist of Yom Kippur without fasting.
For questions about registration, please contact Mali Bires at 773.868.5139 or mbires@ansheemet.org.
For questions or concerns about the content of Netivot/Pathways, contact Rabbi Heather Altman at rabbiheatheraltman@gmail.com.
Rabbi Heather Altman is back at Anshe Emet Synagogue for the High Holy Days, offering embodied and contemplative services. A long-time community member and former Anshe Emet Rabbi, Heather is a certifiedYoga Instructor, Spiritual Director, Domestic Violence Advocate, and facilitator of Yoga of 12 Step Recovery (Y12SR). In addition to creating and leading Tefilla Yoga since 2003 and offering Netivot/Pathways HighHoliday services at Anshe Emet for 13+ years, Rabbi Heather has expertise in healing from trauma and relationship ruptures, developmental trauma, managing mental and physical health issues, school-related and parent support, abuse, addictions, neurodivergence and the LGBTQIA+ community. Her goal is helping you experience more comfort, more calm,and more compassion in your life. At the center of her private consultingand coaching practice is Somatic Experiencing (SE), a gentle neurobiological trauma healing modality created by Dr. Peter Levine. Heather’s training includes SE Advanced, Integrative Attachment Family Therapy, Developmental Dyadic Psychotherapy, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, and Crisis Stabilization and Safety: Peer Support. Heather’s all time favorite way to observe the holidays is with you at Netivot/Pathways.
