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  • Death Sangha

    Death Sangha

    A Contemplative Community Exploring Death, Consciousness, and Expanded States of Awareness; Deepening presence, connection, and our capacity to live with greater intention and care With Christine Caldwell, Rev. Norma Burton, Rabbi Dan Goldblatt, Rohini Kanniganti, MD, and David Dansky, MD The Death Sangha is a contemplative community. We’ll be talking openly about death, dying, and consciousness, and diving into some of the deeper questions of the soul. This kind of reflection can be profound, but it can also bring to the surface material that feels difficult or uncomfortable. Come with self-compassion, go at your own pace, and lean on your support [...]

  • Calling in the Angels

    Pre-Yom Kippur study session An intimate evening circle at a private home in the Berkeley Hills. Participants will learn about Jewish rituals around illness, grief and loss, led by Zoë Goldblatt, Death Doula and Jewish educator. The time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is an ideal time for reflection and preparation for Yom Kippur services or rituals that include Yizkor, a tender memorial for loved ones who have died, communal and individual prayers of atonement, forgiveness, and compassion; and the wearing of white garments which mirror white linen Jewish burial shrouds: a “rehearsal” for one’s own death. This is a [...]

  • Charlotte Maxwell Clinic Death Cafe

    Death Cafe is an international movement started in England in 2011 where people gather in community to discuss topics on their minds and hearts related to death and dying. With Zoë Goldblatt, Death Doula at AriYael Jewish Healing Center and Nancy Finkle, Death Doula at East Bay End Of Life Doula Network Death Cafes have designated facilitators to make sure the conversation remains free of any agendas or goals. Each person who attends gets a chance to share what brings them there. Death Cafe is NOT a therapy group or grief support group, although attendees living with an illness, and/or a recent loss, [...]

  • A Journey Into Jewish Eldering Residential Retreat

    A six-day, five-night residential retreat for Jewish adults age 64+ With Zoe Goldblatt, Rabbi Dan Goldblatt, Jerry Falek, Bruce Bierman, Tom Levy, Drew Sproul, and Ellie Schindelman Set among majestic redwoods on Mt. Tamalpais, this program Invites participants to reflect on their life experiences, deepen their Jewish spiritual practice, and cultivate the wisdom they are called to offer to their communities and future generations. The retreat features movement and meditation, prayer and song circles, storytelling and creative expression, Jewish text study, deep conversations about death, grief, and legacy, ancestral altar and guided ancestral visualization. When: Sunday, March 7th at 2:45 pm through [...]

  • Dying as a Sacred Transition

    A Zoom workshop through the Older to Elder program at Wilderness Torah with Zoë Goldblatt and Rabbi Dan Goldblatt of AriYael This workshop invites us to explore our hopes and fears around dying; explore our relationship with death; increase self-knowledge; learn how to break down barriers between ourselves and others when we most need comfort, communion, trust and safety.  When we explore our feelings and thoughts about death, we learn more about our own lives now.  We come in direct contact with our own spiritual beliefs, our life purpose, our unfinished business, and how we influence and are influenced by our [...]