Fire and Flow:

Creativity and Mindfulness

 

Co-Sponsored by the Jewish Studio Project

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Two virtual live sessions each month:

Learning sessions with IJS on Tuesdays at 3:30-5:00 PM ET 

Creative Studio Sessions hosted by the Jewish Studio Project on Sundays, 1:00-2:30 PM ET

All sessions facilitated by Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife. Full course calendar is listed below.

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Find the spark of creativity within you, and open the way for it to flow into your daily life.

Fire and Flow: Creativity and Mindfulness is a year long journey into the heart of creative and spiritual practice — a space where mindfulness and artistic expression meet to spark insight and joy, presence, purpose, and connection. Rooted in the idea that each of us is made in the Divine image, this course will help each person tap into their innate capacity to create, whether through visual art, writing, ritual creation, prayer, or more.

Rather than focusing on outcomes or product, Fire and Flow will offer the space to wonder, reflect, and reconnect with the Source of creativity. We’ll explore dimensions of the creative process that can be applied to life off-the-page, cultivate practices for more mindful living, and discover how creative engagement can deepen our sense of meaning and connection to Judaism — individually and in community.

Whether you’re a lifelong artist or creatively curious, this class is a chance to rekindle your inner fire and move through the world with more flow.

 

  • DISCOVER how creative practice can be an exercise in mindfulness. 
  • AWAKEN your creative impulse to renew your body, mind, heart, and soul.
  • EXPAND your resilience and compassion by engaging with creativity as a healing and grounding practice.
  • CULTIVATE practical tools to move between focused creation and receptive flow.
  • DEEPEN your capacity for presence as you work and play with the materials and the page.
  • CONNECT with the source of creativity and experience the feeling of creation flowing through you.

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Name

Monthly Themes

Elul

Overview

Tishrei

Source of Creativity

Cheshvan

Surrender

Kislev

Non-Judgement

Tevet

Notice Everything

Shvat

Inspiration

Adar

Curiosity

Nisan

Divine Partnership

Iyar

Blockages

Sivan

Abundance

Tammuz

Resistance

Av

Flow

Testimonials

“Everyone should get the chance to experience the caring facilitation and guidance of Keshira leading you through the Jewish Studio Process. They model what it looks like to create a virtual space where everyone can show up just as you are — feeling safe, supported, and seen. I wWill absolutely look to take classes with her again!”

“Keshira’s facilitating was so great– — so calm and welcoming, so reassuring, walking us through the process with such ease and clarity, creating a container in this challenging time while also inviting us to challenge ourselves. I love that the series had an arc — from rest to dreams to rededication — and I loved the richness of the source sheets, which had useful texts that spoke to each other and inspiring questions that led to some tender and searching havruta conversations.”

“[Keshira] is a wonderful facilitator; authentic, warm, and she creates a safe container for the participants to feel comfortable sharing in their own way, and respecting one another’s choices in each session.”

Meet Your Instructor:

Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife

IJS Core Faculty

Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife (she/they) sprinkles sparkles, disrupts expectations, and offers blessings wherever she goes. She serves as Founding Kohenet of Kesher Pittsburgh and Core Faculty Member with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, and also enjoys working with beloved, The Jewish Studio Project, Kirva, the Avodah Institute for Social Change, and the Jewish Learning Collaborative, among other national Jewish organisations. Additionally, she delights in serving as a shlichat tzibbur, life spiral ceremony/ritual creatrix, consultant, facilitator, teacher, liturgist and songstress. Her work in these realms is informed by her lived experience as a queer, bi-racial, child-free Jewish person, her belief that Book, Body and Earth are equal sources of wisdom, the quandaries she has encountered as a scholar of the Orphan Wisdom School, and her deep commitment to a thriving, liberatory Jewish future. Keshira received Kohenet smicha in 2017 and earned her BS (2000) and MS (2001) at Carnegie Mellon University. Though both the lands of the Osage & Haudenosaunee people (aka Pittsburgh, PA) and the Gadigal people (Sydney, AUS) feel like home, Keshira and her beloved have been in an extended period of travel since January 2023.