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Inner Torah Learning Workshop

Topics covered in the Inner Torah Learning Workshop include, among others,

  • What is Inner Torah?
  • Why relate to the past?
  • How the body/mind works
  • Coming more fully into the breath and body
  • The relationship between emotions and energy
  • Step by step in-depth study of the 15 steps in the Inner Torah process
  • Cultivating the ability to hold the tension of opposites
  • Recognizing how Hashem communicates with us through the events and circumstances of our lives, and relating to our lives as holy text
  • Understanding the different levels of learning about, and coming into relationship with, ourselves -- peshat, remez, derash and sod
  • Dealing with triggers, disproportionate reactions, and other challenges in everyday life in new more conscious, compassionate and competent -- ways
  • Finding and using our authentic voices
  • Learning to feel and identify feelings, and to think and identify limiting thoughts
  • Extending increased understanding of self to increased understanding of others
  • Unhooking old and outdated patterns of behaving
  • Coming into real and authentic relationship with ourselves and others
  • Getting to know our adult as well as our younger, vulnerable selves
  • Working with resistance
  • Maintaining appropriate boundaries
  • The importance of grieving and how to grieve life's inevitable losses
  • Speaking to ourselves and others kindly and sincerely
  • Communicating in the language of touch
  • Distinguishing the past from the present and becoming the meaningful adult in our lives today
  • Improving our ability to meet our obligations in the realm of bein adam l'chavero
  • Reeducating our nervous systems to better enable us to live fully in the present
  • Identifying skills we may be lacking and learning how to acquire them
  • Clarifying adult values, beliefs, preferences and priorities
  • Moving out of victim mode into a place of taking responsibility for ourselves and our lives in the present
  • Solidifying our sense of existence
  • Developing self respect and self love
  • Embracing our femininity and our place in creation as Jewish women
  • Improving the mother/adult daughter relationship
  • Owning and wisely using our G-d-given power, our gift of free choice
  • Becoming true adults
  • Making our unique and rightful contributions to klal Yisrael