Retreat Program

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Rebbetzin Chana Bracha Siegelbaum, a native of Denmark, is founder and director of Midreshet B’erot Bat Ayin: Holistic Torah for Women on the Land. She holds a Bachelor of Education in Bible and Jewish Philosophy from Michlala Jerusalem College for Women, and a Masters of Art in Jewish History from Touro College. Rebbetzin Chana Bracha creates curricula emphasizing women’s spiritual empowerment through traditional Torah values. In 2010 she published her first book, Women at the Crossroads: A Woman’s Perspective on the Weekly Torah Portion. Since then she has published Ruth: Gleaning the Fallen Sparks, the award-winning The Seven Fruits of the Land of Israel with their Mystical & Medicinal Properties, her first children’s book The Nameless Chicken from Judea and Parasha Meditations for Spiritual Renewal and Strengthening Communication with the Creator. Rebbetzin practices EmunaHealing as a gifted spiritual healer through Emunah, tefillah and energy work. Chana Bracha has a married son and several granddaughters, and lives with her husband and younger son on the land of the Judean hills, Israel.

Bracha Meshchaninov is both a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-500) as well as a Certified Yoga Therapist. She received her certifications from Yoga Mountain Inc. and did additional training with Paula Heitzner of The Nyack Yoga Center. She has been practicing yoga since she was a teenager. After over 35 years of enjoying the benefits of a regular practice, Bracha decided the time was right to share the gift of Yoga and meditative movement with others.

Bracha has created her own Yoga Studio in the New Hempstead area, providing a comfortable space where women can practice yoga in a culturally sensitive environment. Tiferet Movement has been called “Yoga with a Kabalistic twist!” Bracha has also been studying and teaching Torah, Chassidus and Jewish Mysticism for as many years as she has been doing yoga. She provides a unique approach to the philosophy and understanding of the mind, body and soul from an integrated and Jewish perspective.

Bracha Meshchaninov is the founder of Tiferet Movement Moving to find harmony in mind, body and soul Women’s Only Yoga studio, where she teaches women to strengthen, stretch, relax, balance, meditate and breathe. Her Yoga classes will help reduce stress and an increase in a sense of balance and inner harmony.

Miriam Shaw earned a B.S. for Graphic Design in 1979 and a second B.S. for Information Systems Management in 1981, both at Buffalo State College. She majored in graphic art, pottery, jewelry, drawing, painting, computer programming and systems analysis. Miriam who is an accomplished artist also expresses herself as a singer/songwriter. Her most famous song called How, is a popular camp song found in Chabad camp songbooks. She has performed for Women’s groups and Bas Mitzvahs since 1986 in the USA, UK, Holland and Israel. Miriam will guide us with a musical tefillah during the Shabbaton as well as a women’s drum circle motzei Shabbat. facebook.com/MiriamLeahsArt | miriam-shaw.pixels.com