Adamah Meditation Retreat 2025
Starting at $695
at Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Falls Village, CT
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Five days of silence, meditation, and prayer to rest the body, expand the mind, and heal the heart.
with Rabbi Jay Michaelson, Miriam Eisenberger, Elana Brody, and Bob Pileggi
Imagine the sun glistening off of the pond outside of the meditation hall; the sound of the frozen, December ground under your feet as you mindfully headed to the morning yoga class. While time on meditation retreat isn’t always easy or blissful, it can be a deeply meaningful experience and for many, a restorative one that helps our priorities and appreciation for life become all the more vibrant.
The founders of this retreat, Rabbi David and Shoshana Cooper, laid a foundation of teachings of deep listening. They brought together mindfulness, Judaism, mysticism, music and movement to support our individual journeys toward more authentic connection with ourselves, the moment, and each other. That tradition continues now with each passing year. As times have changed, so have the teachers and nuances of the schedule – but the essence remains: a time and place dedicated to cultivating presence, with resoluteness and compassion.
Mindfulness brings forth the natural capacity to notice whatever is happening in your experience with kind, non-judgmental presence. It can lead to profound insights into your personality, the causes (and relief) of stress in your life, even the fundamental facts of existence itself. On this retreat, we cultivate and deepen mindfulness in 45-minute sitting meditations, periods of walking meditation, and throughout the day.
Our daily schedule includes several hours of sitting and walking meditation, soulful Jewish prayer (davening), interviews with teachers, and optional yoga. The retreat is held in warm, supportive silence, and we ask that you turn off your devices and refrain from communication during the five days of retreat.
This is also a Jewish retreat. In addition to daily davening sessions in the Jewish Renewal style, we infuse our teaching with Jewish mystical traditions, contextualize our insights in Jewish language of holiness and the Divine, and build an inclusive Jewish community together. We welcome people with all types of Jewish observance and none, Jews and non-Jews, those who connect with “God” and those disillusioned with religion, new and experienced meditators, and a community that is diverse in age, race, background, and sexual and gender identities. Throughout the retreat, participants are invited to explore the sacred in the diverse ways that speak to them.
Finally, in all times, we say that our practice is not only for us, but also for the benefit of all beings. This year, in particular, we find that intention more resonant than ever. Our country and our Jewish community are deeply divided and in profound crisis, and all of us are impacted by that. There are many ways to try to heal those internal and external wounds – retreat can be one of them. What a gift to our families and communities it can be for us to be more connected to the clarity of mind and openness of heart that can come from deep retreat.
Registration is open. Please join us, and please invite others who might be interested.
