Join us for a session with Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson for an embodied practice followed by a Q & A session.

Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson is a journalist, meditation teacher, and rabbi.  He is an editor and teacher for the Ten Percent Happier meditation app, a columnist at the Daily Beast, and the author of eight books on spirituality and social justice. In previous lives, Jay was a Jewish LGBTQ activist for ten years, founding two queer Jewish organizations, Nehirim and Eshel. He has been listed on the ‘Forward 50’ list of the most influential American Jews, and has been a Jewish educator, in one form or another, for 25 years.

Jay holds a PhD in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University, a JD from Yale Law School, and nondenominational rabbinic ordination from Rabbi David Cooper.  His books include God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness, and Embodied Spiritual Practice, God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality, and his newest, a spiritual memoir entitled Enlightenment by Trial and Error: Ten Years on the Slippery Slopes of Jewish Spirituality, Postmodern Buddhism, and Other Mystical Heresies.