Sink into your weekend with the ultimate ancient ritual guaranteed to get you relaxed, rejuvenated and ready to shine as your highest self.

Why Shabbrunch?

Rest
Leave the drama at the door, and sink into a sensuous experience of delight. Learn to experience the moment through mindfulness meditation and chant, and feast on a nourishing Shabbat brunch.

Recalibrate
Let your anxieties and fears be gone, and equip yourself with tools for the week ahead, by discovering ancient sacred text with lessons for life through storytelling and discussion.

Rejuvenate
Reenter your highest self with a meditation-based movement experience, dancing our way into the peak of our restful selves.

This mini-retreat will focus on showcasing tools and methods for living a more stress-free life in deep presence. With a mix of meditation, chanting, movement and sacred text study, we'll explore the various aspects of Shabbat/Sabbath/Shabbos as a chance for connecting with our own truth outside of the noise of daily life.

"The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space... on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation..." - ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

This event has been generously subsidized by Moishe House Without Walls and UJA ArtsXBrooklyn. Investment includes meditation, study, movement and nourishing brunch. Email the organizers rishe@thegene-sis.com for partial scholarship and work-trade options.

Facilitated by:

Miriam Eisenberger Mindful Element
Miriam Eisenberger, LCSW believes that Mindfulness practices are accessible to anyone once they are given some good introductory guidance. For years, she has studied with many great teachers from Buddhist, Jewish, and Mindfulness meditative traditions and enjoys integrating these varying perspectives into her teachings. Miriam is a licensed clinical social worker with over a decade of experience in the field of mental health and group work. She helps to run and frequently teaches at the Jewish Meditation Center of Brooklyn, has collaborated with a variety of other organizations to create meditative offerings, and is a certified Mindfulness Teacher through The Mindfulness Training Institute.

Rishe Groner The Gene-Sis
Rishe Groner is a spiritual educator, writer, ritualist and Rabbinical student in Brooklyn, New York. Rishe is founder of The Gene-Sis, a movement towards embodied Jewish spirituality exploring the Divine Feminine. She hosts events in Brooklyn and has taught at retreats, conferences, festivals and synagogues, incorporating dance, meditation, niggun, chant and physical practice. With over 18 years of Jewish educational expertise, Rishe believes in leveraging existing and emerging frameworks for spiritual engagement to bring Jewish ritual to seekers, creating sacred spaces in the nightlife and wellness communities to help alleviate shame and trauma from the collective historical experience of being Jewish, while offering ancient traditions to people of all backgrounds to live a more nourishing and meaningful life. Rishe is also an experienced marketing and management strategist, with ten years of experience in corporate and non-profit marketing on Madison Avenue and Wall Street, and now leverages this experience to fuse ancient mystical teachings with contemporary strategy for sustainable shifts in the world today.