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“We say all the time in movements “we keep each other safe,” but we have to learn how to do this in an embodied way moment to moment. Ruach has helped me do that in real-time connection with others.”

-Ariel, queer & trans social worker

Summer 2026 In-person Seattle 4-day Ruach Intensive

Questions

Please email ruachsomatics(at)gmail.com if you have any questions.

In this intensive, participants:

  • Learn and deepen into body-based practices that increase our sense of agency, strengthen our resilience, and expand their capacity to hold complexity.
  • Experience the resource of 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.

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 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 23rd from 9:30am-5:30pm.

APPLICATIONS DUE JULY 1ST

“Ruach helps support people through embodied practices that heal ourselves, our relationships, and our communities.

As the most healed versions of ourselves, we can commit more deeply to the fights for liberation and against genocide, nationalism, and all forms of state violence."

-Rachel Joy, queer, genderqueer, ashkenazi + sephardi organizer + abolitionist

Ruach Offerings
Introduction to Ruach Groups

In this ten-week online space, participants:

  • Create their own kavanot (intentions) to direct their healing.
  • Increase their capacity to stay centered under pressure.
  • Cultivate interdependence with each other.
  • Strengthen their inherent resiliency.
  • Learn how to work with Jewish trauma, including intergenerational trauma.
Ruach Facilitator Training

In facilitator training, participants

  • Gain competency in facilitating core body-based practices.
  • Learn the overarching somatic theory of change and Jewish framework in which all of the somatic practices are located.
  • Understand how to situate the work of Ruach inside its lineage.
  • Practice leading core somatic practices and getting feedback and assessments from each other and the facilitators.
Somatic Skills for Organizers

In this training, participants:

  • Learn body-based practices to develop somatic skills to combat burnout, depression, and conflict that breaks apart organizing and community work. 
  • Practice returning to center and extending toward commitments under pressure. 
  • Practice allyship and how to show up for and with each other across differences.
  • Build their capacity to create and hold a healthy collective organizing body to gain power in our movements.
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"I gained a deeper sense of connection and commitment to intergenerational and multicultural Jewish community not based around nationalism/zionism."
— Jewish activist
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