FLOURISH
A 12-Week Mindfulness Immersion program with a cohort specifically for women* Rabbis.
This program strengthens your mindfulness practice through LIVE weekly coaching, instructional videos, guided audio meditations, custom journal prompts, and practical support from Meditation Teacher Yael Shy, Rabbinic Mentor Rabbi Lauren Berkun, and an intimate community of co-travelers.
At the conclusion of the experience, you will receive a certification in Mindful Practices from Mindfulness Consulting, LLC.
*We define “women” very broadly — if you sense that this program will provide you with fellowship and support, no matter what your gender identity or gender expression is, you will be warmly welcomed!
Let Us Support You
By the end of Flourish, you will feel:
Rejuvenated and spacious in a way that’s not dependent on your surroundings, circumstances or situation.
Connected to a community of like-minded women Rabbis, cheering on your growth.
Steady and grounded, using mindfulness tools to find your footing when life throws you curveballs and people push your buttons.
Relieved as your inner critics gradually become your friends.
Clarity and vitality in your body, relationships and life.
Confident leading your community in mindfulness practices and guided meditation
As a Rabbi, you are managing a lot.
There are the demands of personal life, synagogue or work life, and the constant holding of everything together. It can be exhausting.
What supports you? What practices hold you together? What feeds and nourishes you, allowing you to return to your busy life serving others with more ease, spaciousness, inspiration and energy?
Are you ready to find your way back to yourself?
Over 12 weeks, we’ll move at a pace that allows you to sink deeply into the material and apply it to your life. You will have step-by-step guidance and support from Yael and your team of fellow Women Rabbis, co-travellers, and friends.
Flourish is not about passively receiving information. It is a transformative coaching experience that applies age-old wisdom to your life, as it is happening - paced to allow all the teachings to sink in deeply.
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Week 1-4: Drop In
Step out of the stream of overthinking, over analyzing, re-living the past or anxiously concocting an imaginary future and drop into the still waters of the present moment. This includes a three-part process of anchoring yourself, paying attention, and feeling your feelings.
Week 5-7: Move Closer
Get curious about the stories you tell yourself and the narratives that live inside your mind and unravel that which is not serving you. This includes a three-part process of cultivating your curiosity, questioning your narratives and marrying the truth.
Week 8-12: Open Up
Claim your wholeness and experience the fullness of life that is waiting for you, right now. This includes a three-part process of radical acceptance, opening the heart, and relaxing into freedom.
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• 10 Short (5-20 minute) instructional videos moving you through the curriculum
• 10 custom-made audio meditations to support your real-life practice, week-by-week
• 12 weeks of tailored journaling prompts to help the material sink deeper
• 1 mini virtual retreat kick-off: February 6, 2-5pm ET
• 10 live weekly coaching calls on Mondays at 3:00pm ET, beginning February 13 and ending May 1 to apply the learnings directly to your life in a group setting. All calls will be recorded.
• 1 mini virtual retreat celebration and send-off: May 8, 2-5pm ET
• An opportunity to move through the material with a Chevruta
• 1 Certificate in Mindfulness Practices from Mindfulness Consulting, LLC to use on a resume, as professional development, or as a precursor for teacher training programs.
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Special tuition rate for this cohort is $1,800 use code: FEBRAB23
(Regular rate: $3,600)
Payment plans are always available.
Special tuition rate for this cohort is $1,800 use code: FEBRAB23
Testimonials
Thoughtful and wonderful
“This was an absolutely phenomenal course. I was so nervous about it and felt like I would be an imposter, since I don't have years of experience meditating. But! I learned SO MUCH about mindfulness and feel like I have a ton of different tools I can use in various moments. I also loved the pacing of the course and the curriculum. It was designed so thoughtfully and progressed very naturally.”
Connect deeply to myself
“Before I started this class, my meditation practice was rocky. I knew that it would help me in my goals, but I wasn't sure how exactly. With Flourish, I learned that it's so much more than just finding time to sit quietly. It helped me connect deeper to my practice and myself, which gives me the motivation to show up every day in a way that is so much more intentional than ever before.”
Learning to trust my body
“I certainly had a few "ah-ha" moments, especially about narratives I tell myself and thoughts that no longer serve me. But I think more importantly, I am learning to trust the wisdom of my body and my deeper self.”
Grounding myself
“Because of Flourish I now have more tools in my toolkit to use when I am experiencing difficult emotions, or feeling out of touch with my own body. Now I know more than one way to ground myself and have options depending on how I am feeling.”
Supported and connected
“By having a cohort of other women experiencing similar challenges, I was able to feel deeply supported and connected in a way that I haven't felt in a long time. It felt safe to be vulnerable, something that is far too often taken for granted.”
Flourish is a 12-week mindfulness experience where you will dive deeply into your mindfulness practice through bite-sized instructional exercises, guided audio meditations, journal prompts, and weekly live coaching and support from Yael Shy and an intimate group of co-travellers and friends.
Use code: FEBRAB23 at sign up
FAQs
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The practices I teach are rooted in 2,000+ years of wisdom from Buddhism and other faith traditions, filtered through my 20+ years of practice, but you don’t have to belong to any religion to benefit from its teachings.
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This program IS for those people who…
Want to sink more deeply into a meditation practice in order to FLOURISH in their lives
Want support from an experienced teacher and a like-minded community as they apply evidence-based, ancient wisdom to their lives
Are excited to dive deeply, engage in the practices, and authentically and bravely show up in this experience.
Want to eventually go on to lead and/or teach meditation to others
Want to supplement their other ways of healing with somatic, body-based ways of finding healing and growth.
This program is NOT for those who…
Are brand new to meditation (i.e. no familiarity whatsoever)
Are seeking a teacher training program (although this is a great precursor to one!)
Are in an acute crisis without additional psychological support (i.e. therapist)
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First - you will get a certificate in Mindful Practices from Mindfulness Consulting, LLC at the conclusion of the 12-weeks, which might inspire your work to support or subsidize the cost of the program.
If this is not an option and you still need support, reach out! We offer payment plans and some limited scholarship funds. Send us a note at info@mindfulnessconsulting.net with subject line: “Flourish Scholarship” to learn more.
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We are so sure you will love the resources, teachings, coaching and community that we are offering a full refund (minus administrative fees) if you decide it is not for you the first week (7 days) of the program. Tuition refunds are no longer available after February 19, 2023.
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Although there is a curriculum in Flourish, it is much more than an online class. Rather than just passively intaking information, we will be applying it directly to your individual lives so that you can get support in real time, with an experienced teacher and a community of fellow travelers to cheer you on.
Meditation coaching isn’t just an intellectual experience. It is about applying evidence-based wisdom to the fight you had with your husband, or the difficult conversation you have to have with your boss. It is about transforming how you talk to yourself when you fail, and how you find faith when everything feels difficult. Yael will give you the tools, yes, but she will also support you as you try them out for yourself and answer questions along the way.
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Click Here to schedule a time for a 1:1 consultation to see if it is right for you. No pushiness - just exploration of fit. Let’s chat!
About your instructor
I’m Yael Shy. Meditation saved my life. And it continues to do so. Over and over.
Developing a meditation practice and embarking on this mindfulness journey has eliminated my panic attacks, improved my sleep, and alleviated my base level of anxiety.
Mindfulness has helped me accept the parts of myself that once brought me shame, allowing me to form intimate connections with others. Including the man who is now my husband. When he and I started a family and I was lost in the vertigo of new motherhood, the wisdom of mindfulness helped shift the exhausting experience into something empowering and joyful.
For the past fifteen years, I have been using the transformative power of meditation and mindfulness, rooted in my 20 years of study in Judaism and Zen Buddhism, to support myself and others through the pressures of life.
I wrote the award-winning book, What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond (Parallax, 2017) and teach at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service. I founded Mindful NYU which went on to become the largest campus-based meditation program in the country.
My work has been featured on networks like Good Morning America, CBS News, and Fox 5 News, and in publications such as Time Magazine, Real Simple, and the Harvard Business Review. I’m also a regular contributor to the Ten Percent Happier app.
Rabbi Lauren Berkun is a Vice President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, where she directs Rabbinic Initiatives and is a member of the senior executive team. She also oversees staff education, training and curriculum development for Hartman’s iEngage project.
She is a summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, graduate of Princeton University with a BA in Religion and was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Lauren was a Wexner Graduate Fellow, a CLAL Rabbinic Intern, and a Rabbinic Fellow in the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Rabbinic Leadership Initiative. She has also served as the JTS Midwest KOLLOT Rabbinic Scholar, Director of Lifelong Learning at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, Michigan, and frequent scholar-in-residence for leadership seminars at Jewish Federations across North America.
Lauren has written and taught extensively on the topics of mikveh, sexual ethics, and body image. She is a certified Sivananda yoga instructor and holds a certification in mindfulness practices from Mindfulness Consulting, LLC.