We will creat a camp in the festival, give a lot, and recieve a lot 

if you’re interested, if your soul says “I wanna be there!” – contuct us: kabalove@gmail.com

for pics from our Burning Man experience 2007 – visit here

Preparation for Rosh Hashana

With Itzhak Beery & Rabbi Ohad Ezrahi

Sept 16-17

Neviah – The Hebrew Academy of Universal Spirit,  Fairies Forest, Beit Oren

Come join us for two days on Mount Carmel as we’re getting ready to part from the previous year and are getting ready to welcome the new one.

Itzhak will lead us in shamanic ceremonies from the Amazonian and Quichua traditions, other native rituals, shamanic journeys with the help of drumming and your spirit guides. We will have a great opportunity to leave the old fears, habits, thought patterns behind and have sacred time for reflection and to finding clarity and a new vision for your life.

In the shamanic tradition purification and cleansing ceremonies are used to purify one self before entering a new phase of life and for energy restoration. Ceremonies going to water, herbal baths, fire ceremonies, smoking of different plants are commonly used.

For more information contact
notsa.shovava@gmail.com  054-4540276

Itzhak Beery, (www.itzhakbeery.com) is a NYC-based shamanic practitioner who conducts shamanic healing ceremonies, teaches workshops for adults, in the USA, Europe, Israel and Hawaii. He apprenticed and initiated by don Jose Joaquin Pineda an Ecuadorian Quechua Yachak and by Shoré a North Amazonian Pagé and studied with Ipupiara a Brazilian Amazonian Pagé from the Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe, Cliacha, Peruvian Curandera and other South and North American elders. Itzhak’s work has been featured in a variety of publications including the NY Times, radio and video interviews. He was featured in the feature film “The Hindenburg Omen” and Parashakti’s “Dance of Liberation” documentary.

a tender, ecstatic,  soulful

Yom Kippur

a day of purification, silence and sacred singing

with no shame  no guilt and no blame

listening deeply to the subtle melody of the soul

realization and celebration

for details and registration – email us to:    notsa.shovava@gmail.com

for more pics from last year

It’s getting late wanted to go out and sing and dance with friends acknowledging how lucky I am to have these options.

we came from a strong conference of workings with teachers of sex and conciousness educaters in Sedona, very full of richness, and wanting to share..

we are offering our work tomorrow in NYC, i hope that it can touch many of you that feel called, and yearn to connect.

please be in touch, will be honored to share ,and help it to be available for people.

Love, Dawn     1-716-4914970

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we invite you to the new Hebrew Academy of Universal Spirit – Neviah (whatch our vedio with eng subtitles on the English page there)

for more details call: 052-5213137 or write to sisterdawn3@gmail.com

our special guest for this night will be our brother, the medicine-man and ceremonial leader Arkan, who will be visiting Israel just for a week and will offer a special day-long workshop on the 19th of April after the night ceremony

Fri eve Ritual Ceremony, (included in conf registration, public invited for love donation)

Kabalat-Shabbat, with Rabbi Ohad Ezrahi and Dawn Cherie Ezrahi

explanations and teachings about the ritual followed by a lot of singing, movement and chanting as part of the ceremony, and a ritual of welcoming the Divine Feminine (including some wine and bread offerings).

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Conference Presentation:  Sacred Sexuality, Body Representations and Ancient Temple Secrets in Kabbala (included in Conference registration)

We will be offering a pre conference for registrants of the conference for a reduced price or separately

KabaLove – Teachings and Practices of Sacred Sexuality and Love from the Depth of Kabbala
Sedona - 28 Apr 2011

PRE-CONF day long workshop,  Thur Apr 28, 2011 from 10am – 4:30pm (public welcome)

Rabbi Ohad Ezrahi is a Kabbalistic spiritual teacher from Israel, an artist, a community leader and a constant student of life’s wisdom. Coming from the world of Radical Kabbala and vast knowledge in Jewish inner wisdom, he reaches out to people of all nations with the search towards the co-creation of an enlightened society on Planet Earth. His way is a deep School of Love that opens the channels of relation with one-self, with the other, with nature and with the Divine Spirit. Rabbi Ezrahi was ordained by the elder of the Jewish Renewal movement – Rabbi Zalman Schakter-Shalomi as a Rabbi and a Spiritual Teacher. He was a scholar in residence at the University of Eugene in the Science, Gender and the Sacred research program.   Details & Registration Here…

as well as a post conference eve..

Sexual Fantasies Oracle (C) Workshop
Sedona - 02 May 2011

Post-Conference Sexual Fantasies Oracle (C) Workshop

Mon May 2, 2011 from 6:30pm-9:30pm

Sexual Fantasies Oracle (C). it is a fun yet deep process done in a group, using the natural human sexual imagination for getting answers to personal questions. (no nudity or touch involved in the process).The Sexual Fantasies Oracle (C) is a method for working in an open minded group for accessing the divine realm via our beautiful sexual human mind and imagination.

(In his training Ohad is a Kabalist Palm Reader as well, and had developed a system of cards, based on the Breslov Mystery Legends of Kabbala. the Sexual Fantasies Oracle is an other method developed by him. both methods were received in a clear vision)

Details here…

see schedule below

http://schooloftemplearts.org/DefaultPage(and scroll the page down to see us)

http://schooloftemplearts.org/user_content/ckfiles/2011SpringConfSchedule-v8-2hi.pdf



“The essence of holiness is the intensification of the passion for the Divine and of Spiritual Light in the will of the individual and his or her nature, until the drive for the Sacred and the Divine strain will be deeper in one’s psyche than all natural wills.

The one that reaches this supreme state, where the Divine passion is stronger and subjecting with its sacredness even the sexual tendency, this person is called “a Tzadik that keeps the Covenant”. But this subjection does not come in a way of uprooting the physical or spiritual nature, but by transcending it to its mental destiny, which is enlightened in Divine light.”

Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook.\ Translated by R. Ohad Ezrahi

An article responding to the latest events in the Middle East (Feb 2011)

The Arab world is going through great upheavals these days. Suddenly, as if from nowhere, the cry of the masses demanding a different life is erupting.

To my eyes it seems the problem lies with the fact that the Middle East has no vision or inspiring horizon to move towards. This does not exist in the Arab countries and neither do we in Israel have one. The sense is that indeed we built a state—but now what?

We need a new vision

If I have dreams of a different future, I am not dreaming them just for Israel but for the entire area. The old dream which nourished Hertzel’s imagination, the dream of the nation state, has ended its function and at the moment is at death’s door. The new vision must be one that includes all habitants of a region, in our case it is the Middle East.

The land promised in the biblical stories to Abraham and his descendents, both the Hebrew ones and the Arab ones, extends from Iraq to Lebanon and Israel of today. In this broad area live numerous people who all see themselves as descendents of the common father “Abraham”, and yet they live with hatred, and especially with fear of each other.

A new vision for the Middle East would include the ability of different ethnic groups to live peacefully with each other under the same comprehensive political framework, with no nation state. This political framework would serve the entirety of its citizens, enabling them together to preserve the ecosystems of the environment within which they live.

Can we today allow ourselves to dream of unifying the Middle East, A Middle East without the borders of nation states, similar in some ways to the European Union model? A dream like this naturally scares and threatens many of us in Israel. But we must understand that we are a collective who is still in the throes of post traumatic panic, and we are reacting to reality seen through these wounded eyes.

To enable this model of unity to manifest, Israel must go through a collective process of healing her post traumatic state. And starting a treatment process requires first the patient’s acknowledgement of his or her condition.  We must acknowledge the fact that perhaps we are not seeing reality as is, but are coloring it in colors unconsciously intended to replay our collective trauma of discrimination and eradication attempts.

As the common joke says, indeed “the fact that I am a paranoid does not mean I am not persecuted” but still, we should do our best to heal our collective paranoia because it demands a staggering price of us, which we will be able to estimate only upon awakening from it.

I’m no expert on trauma healing but there are people and institutions in this world that treat traumas, including the collective traumas of groups, tribes, and nations. I think we, as a collective, should reach out for healing.

At the same time, in order for this new vision to be considered seriously, the Arab societies must also undergo a great social transformation and deep cultural revolution which mainly includes developing awareness to the sovereignty of the individual. This awareness will be expressed in the granting of rights and liberties to the individual, the citizen; granting rights to minorities, to women and to homosexuals.

This revolution is mainly a revolution of consciousness. It has already been happening in the west for hundreds of years. It is a revolution– from collective national perception to a deep acknowledgement of the individual’s right to choose his or her own destiny, faith, and life style. There must be a complete reversal of the macho patriarchal patterns that today govern the Arab world. Upon the awakening of this new consciousness more and more individuals start to understand that these patterns do not serve them anymore — then they can become obsolete.

The first signs of this revolution are now murmuring and moving under our wondering eyes. Some time ago, the idea of something like this occurring in the Arab countries, seemed like a faraway dream. But today, with the upheavals in Egypt and the start of unrest in Syria—the possibility the Arab world undergo surprising processes sooner then we think, is higher than usual.

In Israel as well the ruling elite that hold more than 80% of the countries riches will not be able to hang on forever. Yet, here we are required a different mental courage than that which sent the Egyptians out on the streets. Here we are challenged with healing the national myth which many of us still think gives us so much: the myth that says that all the other nations are against us, and for sure wanting us to be gone from the face of Earth. Those myths create and recreate the fear of the other in us, this fear which entrenches us behind the defensive fortress of the post-traumatic “Security” culture we have built here in our “promised land of milk and honey”, and which amply supports the architects of our culture of fear, institutionalized religion and war.

If lovers of life we be—we must answer the great call of history. We must become new “Hertzels”, daring to dream big time, daring to move towards the dream.

And if this we want and thus we act— dreams can become reality.

Translated by Ellaya Ayal Mor

more will be updated soon

a Spiritual Journey

In the footsteps of the great EXODUS

Join us for a magnificent spiritual journey from the temples of Isis in ancient Egypt via Mount. Sinai to Jerusalem

April 7^th – 20th  2011

• Visit most of the important ancient temples of Egypt
• Meditate and learn how to listen to Mother Earth
• Visit the Pyramids
• Learn how to create spiritual ceremonies
• Connect with the spirit of Moses and the wisdom of the desert
• Celebrate the Passover Seder on top of the high mountain of Sinai
• Complete the journey in Jerusalem

On the fool moon of April the Hebrew nation celebrates the redemption from Egypt. Led by Moses they left behind the land and culture of Egypt, opening themselves to receive a new vision on Mount Sinai. But Moses himself was highly educated as an Egyptian prince. Some say he was influenced by the monotheistic revolution of Achnaton who lived and died before him in Egypt. As we all know the Egyptian spirituality was holding amazing wisdom and knowledge, but still Moses wanted to leave it behind and open his people to a new vision of freedom. What was his vision and his spiritual way?

In this unique journey we will visit the main temples of Egyptian Deities along the Nile. We will meditate in each of those temples, learn about the power and wisdom of ancient Egypt and make some ceremonies listening to the teachings of Mother Earth in those powerful places. Following the footsteps of Moses and his people we will cross the Red Sea and climb up to Mount Sinai for the night of the Full Moon and the celebration of Passover. Our journey will end in Jerusalem some days later.

Itinerary:

*  People who cannot take the whole 15 days trip, can join us on the 10th day, in Sinai, for a shorter journey of 5-6 days.
7 April 2011 – Day 1
Arrival to Cairo International airport, meet and be assisted by  alocal agent representative & Transfer to train station for departure to Aswan
Overnight at hotel

8 April 2011 – Day 2
Arrival  in Aswan, meet at the train station by our representative and transfer to hotel. In the afternoon, pick up from hotel to visit Philae Island where the Temple of the Goddess Isis is located. The site hosts the temple of Hathor & the unfinished Kiosk of Trajan.
Return to hotel. Overnight at hotel.

9 April 2011 – Day 3
visiting the great and magnificent temples of Abu Simbel: Pick up from hotel at 04.00AM for departure to visit Abu Simbel by bus, following the police convoy which leaves Aswan at 04.30AM. The distance between Aswan and Abu Simbel is around 290 KM. We will return around 01.00PM. The afternoon will be free to visit the local market or enjoy a peaceful sailing on the Nile with Faluka. Overnight at hotel

10 April 2011 – Day 4
Pick-up from hotel for departure to Luxor following a police convoy, which leaves Aswan at 08.00AM. On the way visiting the unique temple of Kom Ombo, after visiting the temple continue the tour to the Great Edfu temple, the “Horus” temple, the second largest temple in Egypt after ‘Karnak” and the best preserved in all Egypt. After visiting the temple, proceed to Luxor.
In the evening – visiting the temple of Luxor.   Overnight at hotel.

11 April 2011 – Day 5
Pick-up from hotel, crossing the Nile to its West Bank, visits the Valley of the Kings, where the impressive tombs of the ancient Pharaohs are located. After that we will visit Hatshepsut temple, Colossi of Memnon, and the temple of Karnak.
Overnight at hotel.

12 April 2011 – Day 6
joining the police convoy to Dandara and Abydos, visiting the temple of Dandara which is dedicated to the goddess Hathor and then the temple of Abydos, the temple of Osiris.
After the visit continue to Minya
Overnight at hotel.

13 April 2011 – Day 7
Visiting the interesting site of Tel-al-Amarna the tomb and the city of Akhenaton, not much remains in the place ,but the energy and the imprint of the place in the history of Egypt is most unique. For us it is a very important site because that is the place where the monotheistic revolution of Egypt took place, here we can check the contact between Moses and Akhenaton
In the afternoon we will continue to Cairo
Overnight at hotel.

14 April 2011 – Day 8
In this day we will have a great visit to the pyramids of Dahashour and Maidum in the late afternoon we will return to our hotel.
Overnight at hotel.

15 April 2011  - Day 9
Pick-up from hotel to visit Giza plateau and the three Pyramids (Cheops, Chepren and Mycerinus) guarded by the mysterious Sphinx. Afternoon will be free to visit Han el Halili Market
Overnight at hotel.

16 April 2011 – Day 10
Crossing the Red Sea into Sinai desert. Driving from Cairo through Vadi Firan to the high mountains of Sinai, reaching the Bedouin village near the monastery of Saint Catherine, we will take local Bedouin staff and camels and climb to the foothills of the high mountains. We will sleep in Bedouin tents in the open air .

17 April 2011 – Day 11
A full day of preparation for the Passover night ritual. We will take advantage of the beautiful and the mighty mountains to prepare ourselves to the great night of Passover.
Overnight in camp.

18 April 2011 – Day 12
In this great day we will climb to the top of Mount Sinai, with the full moon in this sacred place we will celebrate the Hebraic Passover and feast
Overnight on top Mount Sinai

19 April 2011 – Day 13
In the morning we will go back down to our base camp
Overnight on camp

20 April 2011 – Day 14
Driving to Israel, in the way we will stop to take a dip in the Red Sea. Crossing the border in Taba to Israel and driving towards Judea desert.
Overnight in camp

21 April 2011 – Day 15
In the morning visiting Qumran, the site of the Hidden Scrolls, and then drive up to the Holy city of Jerusalem. We will end our journey at the main and most important site of Jerusalem.
In the afternoon: a closing ceremony of our journey together.

Optional: 22 April 2011 – Day 16
Another optional day in Jerusalem for those who are interested

Shmuel explores and dedicate most of his time and actions for working with the intelligence of Nature and to study, teach and combine the shamanic ancient wisdoms of the Hebrews and the Egyptians. He leads workshops and seminars in these subjects in his home country Israel and overseas. For many years Shmuel leads spiritual journeys, pilgrimages and Earth Healing projects in many different countries.  He works as a journalist: for many years he wrote articles for the Israeli Spiritual Magazine, and nowadays he has Radio Program in EOL Radio. Shmuel is a co-founder of Neviah, the Hebraic School of Spirit.

Ohad is a scholar and a spiritual teacher that draws his teachings from Kabala, psychology and ancient Hebraic wisdom. His path is reconnecting the great tradition of the Hebrews back to Nature Spirits, to the Feminine Divine Power and to the Recognition of The Other. Ohad was ordained as a Rabbi by Rabbi Zalman Schakter-Shalomi. He had published five books and hundreds of articles in neo kabalistic thought, he leads workshops, ceremonies and seminars internationally. Ohad is the founder of Neviah, the Hebraic School of Spirit.

see pictures here