Nina Pick

Nina is a poet, a middle school Health and Wellness teacher, and an oral history field fellow with the Yiddish Book Center. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, À Luz and Leaving the Lecture on Dance, and the editor of The Gardener Says, a collection of gardening quotes; her writing has also appeared internationally in numerous journals and anthologies. She holds an MA in comparative literature from UC Berkeley and an MA in counseling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Working at the confluence of deep ecology, holistic health education, and embodied spirituality, she seeks to restore our reverence for our bodies, our ancestors, and the earth. www.ninapick.com

Mischa Skolnik

Mischa is an artist of life, who creates spaces and situations for personal growth and collective development. She is the owner of Midnight Picnic, a platform for life coaching, event planning, and cooking through which she works her magic. She works with individuals and groups to hold people accountable for the changes they want to make to improve their overall health and happiness. She nourishes the mind, body, and spirit to encourage others to tap into their inner light, as a way of reclaiming balance, beauty, and wholeness. She is a ceremonialist, who helps create meaningful rituals, experiences, and practices for various life passages. As a priestess and yogini, she is an advocate of diving deep into the inner worlds to comb through old paradigms and restore love, joy, happiness, and balance to the human experience. She is an advocate of authentic human relating, and works heavily in the realms of relationships, community building, and transformation of all limitations to experiencing the fullness and awesomeness of life!

Rabbi Lynn Gottleib, Eim haDerekh

Rabbi Lynn Gottleib, Eim haDerekh is one of the first women to become a rabbi in Jewish history, is a pioneer Jewish feminist, peace activist, writer, visual artist, ceremonialist, community organizer and master storyteller. Lynn has served as a congregational rabbi since the fall of 1973, and co-founded Nahalat Shalom Congregation in ABQ, NM. Since 1964, Lynn has engaged in multifaith, intergenerational and multicultural organizing around issues of economic, racial, indigenous and gender justice, as well as Palestine solidarity. She is a Fellow of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, co-founder of The Community of Living Traditions at Stony Point Center, NY, and co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish Peacewalk which brought tens of thousands of people together in 18 cities through the US and Canada. Currently Lynn serves as Director of Youth and Family Programming at Chochmat Halev, and as director of Shomeret Shalom Global Congregation. She is author of Peace Primer II, She Who Dwells Within: A Feminist Vision of Renewed Judaism, and World Beyond Borders Passover Haggadah which was reviewed as the best haggadah of 2017. She serves as chair of the board of Interfaith Movement of Human Integrity and is on the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinic Council. Mother to Nataniel, Lynn is very funny.

Juju Urcis

Featherandboneacupuncture.com

Kohenet Juju (cohort Vav) is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist practicing in Nevada City California, approximately 1.5 hours North East of Sacramento. She also volunteers weekly with the Sundance Horse Rescue doing acupressure on horses. She offers initial 15 minute complimentary consultations to everyone in her community.

Bara Sapir

Bara is an artist, educator, and entrepreneur who engages deeply and intuitively with the world around her. An insatiable life learner, she has been a student, teacher, and professor of fine arts, an art director for Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Art and Culture, a designer of interactive Jewish children’s museum exhibits, and a singer in a Ladino group. She is Founder/CEO of City Test Prep, a holistic and mindful test preparation company with offices in New York and the San Francisco Bay area. A thought leader in this field, she is the first to combine mindful and human potential techniques with academic study and test-taking strategic mojo. She’s written books, produced audio courses, and is on the brink of new frontiers delivering products to help transform study for high-stakes tests, from mundane and loathed to actively raising the madrega/level. Bara holds Masters degrees in Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary and in Art History from the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor. She also has certifications in Hypnosis, Integrative Life Coaching, Reiki, and Neuro-linguistics programming (NLP). She lectures and conducts workshops for students, parents, educators, business people, and creative professionals seeking high-performance results at school, work, and in life. She imbues ceremony in the ordinary, and delights in manifesting the extraordinary. She loves California cuisine, festival ethos, and travel. She regularly produces community events, tends her small fruit orchard, and breathes in the view from her home. She feels extremely grateful for the weave of community, friends, family, teachers, and students. She is most often found with her four-legged familiar, Eloise.

Ariel Vegosen

Ariel is a professional gender and diversity inclusion trainer, workshop facilitator, sex educator, Priestess extraordinaire, consultant, relationship coach, performance artist, liberation advocate, writer, Jewish educator, social justice super hero, public speaker, adventure seeker, and lover of life. Ariel is the founder of Gender Illumination (www.genderillumination.com)  - an organizations dedicated to creating safer spaces for Trans and non-binary people through the tools of education and policy reform. For over 16 years Ariel has facilitated trainings, workshops, and written curriculum for organizations, corporations, nonprofits, schools, Jewish institutions, summer camps, universities, and faith-based communities all over the U.S. and internationally.  Ariel is proud to be an ordained Kohenet Priestess and creator of new inspirational ritual. Ariel works with people of all ages from youth to elders and uses theater, performance, embodiment, and art as tools of education and liberation. Ariel is a graduate from the Pacific School of Religion Changemaker Fellowship with a Certificate of Spirituality and Social Change. Ariel's work focuses on intersectionality, racial, gender, environmental, and economic justice, and creating communities across diverse cultural backgrounds. Ariel loves to play with pronouns, bring joy into all aspects of life, and creatively spark conversation and connections. Ariel is available for trainings, workshops, teaching, rituals, performing, consulting, coaching, speaking engagements, and can be reached at ariel@genderillumination.com.

Amanda Nube

Amanda is a mother, a ceremonialist, a storyteller, and a body tender. She is the author of Healing Mama, a mythical story which highlights the importance of connection to Mother Earth, motherhood, and all the elements. Her writing, workshops, new moon, and mother-daughter circles bring earth based customs and spirituality to life. She hosts gatherings and events throughout the year, from ancestor tea ceremonies at Halloween to dance circles for Tu b’Av. She is trained in Asian systems massage, in yoga, in well-womb care, and in sacred birthing and sexuality. She offers bodywork, private and public yoga classes, retreats, birth, & postpartum support. As a Kohenet of Life Cycle Priestessing she serves during times of transition such as birthing, adolescence, union, & death. Amanda is available for council and personalized ceremony.