Dec

5 2025

to
Dec

7 2025

Ruach Weekend Retreat

3:00PM - 10:00AM  

Camp Solomon Schechter 1627A 73rd Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501
(206) 447-1967 [email protected]
https://www.campschechter.org/ruach/

Contact Melissa Bloom
(360) 890-0245
[email protected]
https://www.campschechter.org/ruach/

$ Cost $ 250.00

From Friday, December 5, to Sunday, December 7, you’ll have the chance to explore a variety of learning experiences, with top-tier facilitators, all centered around the theme of spirit & creativity: art workshops, song, learning, outdoor experiences, mindfulness, and more. It’s about finding the way you connect most deeply to ruach and bringing that energy back to your community.

Our featured educator, Rabbi Adina Allen, will guide participants through the innovative Jewish Studio Process – a creativity-centered methodology that combines traditional Jewish text learning with art-making, play, and expressive writing. This retreat is not only about generating beautiful creative artifacts but about cultivating creative capacity as spiritual practice, learning to trust uncertainty, to listen to the stirrings of your own wisdom, and to let that guide your expression and community-building.

Over the weekend you’ll experience:

Creative Practice: make expressive Jewish art
Music: spirited song-circles + DJ’ed Havdalah dance party
Education & Learning: re-imagine how spirit can inspire teaching & learning
Nature & Outdoors: connect to spirit through nature
Mindfulness & Reflection: slow down and notice your inner spark
Join us for an immersive ruach adult retreat: a Jewish space to slow down, create bravely, connect deeply, and reawaken your creative spirit.

The cost to attend begins at $300 ($250 for early-birds who register by Friday, October 31).

Contact Retreats and Events Manager Melissa Bloom to discuss scholarship opportunities.

Sponsor: Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, Jewish Studio Project, Herzl Ner-Tamid, Seattle Jewish Community School