Sacred Playshop with Gabriel Meyer Halevy

Name: Sacred Playshop with Gabriel Meyer Halevy
Start: 2024-05-02T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-02T20:30:00-04:00
Location: 130 Pine Street, Florence, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01062

Schedule

Thu May 02 2024 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

130 Pine Street, Florence, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01062 | Florence, MA

Sacred Playshop with Gabriel Meyer Halevy
A BRIDGE BETWEEN HOLINESS AND PLAYFULNESS
Thursday, May 2, 6pm doors; 6:30 pm event
Tickets: https://bombyx.live/events/sacred-playshop-with-gabriel-meyer-halevy/
Gabriel Meyer Halevy leads an Experiential Journey of awakening and healing through song, chant, movement, deep listening, and interactive meditations and as gardeners to replenish from turmoil.
We will create a safe, playful, and sacred space to inspire courage, flexibility, and presence, drawing from the wellsprings of Hebrew, Kabbalistic, Sufi & other sacred wisdom nectars for tikkun olam, healing the world.
Welcome, whoever you are. For leaders, teachers, musicians, dancers, seekers, singers, anyone, multi faiths alike, in a spirit of peaceful creativity. No previous experience is necessary. Fully experiential and fully participatory. Limited space to 22 participants.
Co-sponsored by Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity and Beit Ahavah Reform Synagogue of Greater Northampton, in collaboration with Florence Congregational Church, Jewish Community of Amherst, Lander-Grinspoon Academy, Brattleboro Area Jewish Community-Shir Heharim, ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal, and Neohasid.org. Major funding by Harold Grinspoon Foundation.
Gabriel will also perform a PrayerFormance Peace Concert on Saturday, May 4, 8 PM, tickets at bombyx.live/events/prayerformance-peace-concert/, and to benefit Standing Together.
ABOUT GABRIEL:
"Gabriel opens hearts and builds cross-cultural bridges even beyond enemy lines through music, humor, and story celebrating Spirit."
Born in Cordoba, Argentina. Son of human rights champion, the late Rabbi Marshall Meyer. Gabriel brings beauty, humor, vitality, and pathways of understanding and healing through the universal language of music, movement, and prayer. Gabriel speaks and sings in over 6 languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit and Urdu. Trained as a spiritual leader and ambassador of peace, Gabriel was given an honorary title of "true representative of the Jewish people" by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi z'l, and was initiated into the "order of disorder" by Zen Roshi Bernie Glassman z'l. had the honor of a private audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, studied sacred wisdom with Shamans from the Americas, Sufi Sheiks from the Middle East & Africa, and acclaimed teachers Buddhist such as Jack Kornfield, Stan Groff, Joanna Macy and the late Thich Nhat Hanh. Gabriel is a lifelong Peace Activist, and at the onset of the 2nd Intifada in 2001, he co-founded and co-directed a Middle East Peace Organization, the Sulha Peace Project with Palestinian Elias Jabbour z”l and co-led the organization until 2009.
Gabriel has three CD collaborations out - Merkavah, SpiritIsreal & Hateva: Skin of God, and one solo album: The Human Project. He wrote 2 books of poetry and co-founded Metatron Ritual Theater Collective('94 - '01). He currently is writing an "autobiographical fiction". Gabriel brings groups of people from diverse backgrounds together to sing, play, pray, find resilience and hope.
LISTEN:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/amengab1
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5MR8uZyNt5GlOTB57BTNfq?si=unAd1Dn9T5qr-3TQDo-JcA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meyerhalevy/
FB http://www.facebook.com/gabrielmeyerhalevy
Bandcamp https://gabrielmeyerhalevy.bandcamp.com/follow_me
Website www.gabrielmeyerhalevy.com
TESTIMONIALS:
"Looking to connect with yourself, others & beyond? I highly recommend you check out Gabriel. Back in the day, I was intrigued to see him transform into a whirling dervish while expressing what looked like a kinetic cosmic fu of the world. His charismatic movements matched his poetry and song and after we met, I learned it was also in harmony with who he was as a person. Time to 'Elevate in the Play shop." - Akim Funk Buddha, master hip-hop artist, dancer, choreographer, ceremonialist, and creative extraordinaire, born in Zimbabwe, based in Brooklyn, NYC.