Sylvia Boorstein has been teaching meditation retreat since 1985. She is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and a psychotherapist, wife, mother and grandmother who is particularly interested in seeing daily life as practice. She has led numerous retreats and training programs for rabbis and Jewish educators.

Sheila Weinberg served as a congregational rabbi for seventeen years.  In the last twenty- six years Rabbi Weinberg has studied mindfulness.  She has introduced meditation into the Jewish world as a form that can enliven and illuminate Jewish practice, ideas and community.  She was a founder and senior and teacher for the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, a retreat based program for Jewish leaders.  She also serves as a spiritual director to rabbis, cantors and educators across the USA.  She is a developer and teacher of the Jewish Mindfulness Teachers’ Training.

Rabbi Joanna Katz, teaches Jewish Meditation, and Mindfulness Meditation with an emphasis on Insight and Loving-kindness practice. She is the Jewish Chaplain at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility were she serves women who teach her what it means to open to the Divine in daily life and live with compassion. She serves as a spiritual resource and guide to an ongoing women’s meditation group that has been meeting weekly for 12 years. Joanna lives with her family in New York’s glorious Hudson River Valley.

Rabbi Jeff Roth is the founder and Director of The Awakened Heart Project for Contemplative Judaism. He was the co-founder of Elat Chayyim where he served as Executive Director and Spiritual Director for 13 years. He is the co-leader of the Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training program and has facilitated of over 190 Jewish meditation retreats. He is the author of, Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life and Me, Myself and God from Jewish lights Publishing.