Jewish body-based healing
Ruach
Ruach means breath/spirit in Hebrew. Ruach is a Jewish body-based healing group for anti-Zionist Jews that Wes has been running since 2021 both online and in person in the Pacific Northwest. Dona Hirschfield-White joined the Ruach facilitation team in 2023.
Summer 2026/5786 in person Ruach
What we do
In this group we will:
- Learn and deepen our body-based practices that increase our sense of agency, strengthen our resilience, and expand our capacity to hold complexity.
- Experience the resource of our connections with each other, our ancestors, and spirit (Ruach!) through our bodies.
- Engage with embodied Jewish ritual
- Create a greater sense of belonging, dignity, and power as a collective body.
Testimonials
“This group was a lifeline for connection, grieving, and collective healing at a time of deep urgency, rupture, chaos, loss, and rage. From Ruach, I gained a collective body for healing and holding all the pain from this present moment, and from past generations, still moving through us.” –Jewish facilitator
“Wes + Dona’s facilitation styles had a balanced dynamic that I deeply enjoyed. Dona’s flowery warmth and Wes’s gentle dryness made the learnings accessible + engaging.” ~ Jewish activist
“After a year of participating in these groups, I give myself more permission to be Jewish, I sing and dance more, I reach for connection more, check in with myself, and am more active in my politics.” –Jewish farmer
Who should apply?
- Anyone who identifies as an anti-Zionist Jew.
- You can be brand new to Ruach or have taken Ruach before.
- Jews who don’t feel “Jewish enough” or feel “too Jewish”
- We especially encourage Mizrahi, Sephardic, and Jews of color to apply.
- We also encourage queer Jews, working class Jews, poor Jews and disabled Jews.
Details
We will meet outside at Lincoln Park in West Seattle on August 20, 21st, 22nd, and 23rd from 9:30-5:30pm
Ruach Application
Applications are due July 1st
Questions
Please email ruachsomatics(at)gmail.com if you have any questions.
