Thursdays, 12:00 – 12:45 PM ET
2025: September 18, October 9, November 13, December 4
2026: January 15, February 12, March 12, April 16, May 14, June 11, July 9, August 13
Join Jes Golden and guest leaders for a monthly Jewish mindfulness sit offered by and for those who identify as LGBTQ+.
In this affinity group space, you can slow down, become more present, and practice mindfulness in community with others who identify as LGBTQ+. Past guest leaders have included: Jay Michaelson, Jericho Vincent, Toba Spitzer, Joy Ladin, Yiscah Smith, Ari Lev Fornari, Dev Noily, and Corey Dane.
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Please read and familiarize yourself with the “Making Safer Spaces” guidelines. For spiritual practice to be truly transformative, it’s essential to be part of a safe and sacred community of intention, whether in-person or online. These guidelines can help us create this community. As a part of creating Safer Spaces, this community of practice is intended only for members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you are not a member of this community, please sign up for our daily sit and keep an eye out for future sit intensives for an open audience.
Jes Golden (they/she—formerly Jes Heppler) is a meditation teacher and researcher who focuses on embodied experience in Jewish and Buddhist meditation. Grounded in their Sephardi and Ashkenazi lineages, Jes’ teaching weaves Jewish and earth-based spirituality with philosophical and neuroscientific insights. Jes teaches regularly for the Institute for Jewish Spirituality (IJS): they host the IJS LGBTQ+ Monthly Sit, guide the IJS Daily Sit, and lead both online and in-person programming for the IJS young adult community, Shevet. Jes has also taught for Or HaLev’s Ground & Center series. They are a graduate of Or HaLev and IJS’s Meditation Teacher Training Program. Jes holds a PhD in Philosophy from UC Berkeley and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University, where they are researching bodily awareness in Buddhist and Jewish meditation.
