Talking to GODDESS Circles
Co-led by Priestesses Ruach D’vorah and Miryam Rut HaZoheret (Maryrita Wieners)
All are invited to bring a favorite blessing, prayer, praise-poem or chant!
To register, write to dvorah@lilithinstitute.com and we will send you the link. This is a free will offering (though donations are always welcome in support of our work.) Should you wish to donate, please send via PayPal to dvorahgrenn@me.com.
2026 DATES
Saturday MARCH 28: 4-5PM Pacific, 7-8PM Eastern
We are excited to hold our first Talking to Goddess circle of the year!
SPECIAL GUEST: Molly Remer, MSW, D.Min, is a priestess, mystic, and poet in central Missouri. Molly and her husband Mark co-create Story Goddesses at Brigid’s Grove. Molly is the author of many books, including Walking with Persephone, Whole and Holy, Womanrunes, the Goddess Devotional, and 365 Days of Goddess. She is the creatrix of the devotional experience #30DaysofGoddess and she loves savoring small magic and everyday enchantment.
Sunday MAY 3: 10-11AM Pacific, 1-2PM Eastern
Special guest: Rav Shoshana Mitrani Knapp, who will share from her wonderful new book, Stay in The Light: A Spiritual Memoir of Tools, Practices and Wisdom Stories for Wholeness and Healing.
All are invited to bring a favorite blessing, prayer, praise-poem or other text sacred to you!
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Rav Shoshana is a life-long spiritual seeker who has moved through trauma and grief to a place of healing and wholeness. While trained as a rabbi at the traditional Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary, Rav Shoshana’s soul finds its home in Jewish chanting and contemplative practices that invite the soul to breathe and connect to its God source. She is a regular meditator with Transcendental Meditation and an Applied Positive Psychology practitioner.
She has participated in many programs that explore the edges of Jewish practice including: Rabbi Shefa Gold’s Kol Zimra chant leadership program; Rabbis Without Borders and now serves on the Board of Directors for ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. She is grateful to be included in Reclaiming Judaism’s “Adding Our Voices” project, whose objective is to include Women’s voices in liturgy and bring Shechinah into our everyday prayers. Rav Shoshana has just published her spiritual memoir, Stay in the Light: A Spiritual Memoir of Tools, Practices and Wisdom Stories for Healing and Wholeness.
Wednesday JULY 22: 4-5PM,Pacific , 7-8PM Eastern
Sunday OCT. 4: 4-5PM,Pacific , 7-8PM Eastern
Sunday DEC. 20: Time TBA
WINTER SOLSTICE – THE COMING OF THE LIGHT
ABOUT THE LEADERS
D’vorah J. Grenn, Ph.D, is a Yoreshet/lineage holder of a female Kabbalist tradition, En-Kohenet/priestess and ordained Mashpi’ah Ruchanit/spiritual guide.
She is the Founding Director of The Lilith Institute (1997), a San Francisco Bay Area-based producer of women’s spirituality/study circles including Kol Ha-Ruach/Voice of the Spirit classes, public and private rituals and several lecture series. She served as Co-Director and later Chair of the former Women’s Spirituality MA Program, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology/Sofia University in Palo Alto, California, and was the founding priestess of Mishkan Shekhinah, a movable sanctuary honoring the Sacred Feminine in all spiritual traditions. Dr. Grenn’s dissertation, “For She Is a Tree of Life: Shared Roots Connecting Women to Deity” was an inquiry into Jewish women’s religious/cultural identities, beliefs and ritual practices among the South African Lemba and United States women.
Maryrita Wieners, MA, LPC is an interspiritual priestess, Certified Imago Therapist and Pastoral Psychotherapist. She interweaves Catholicism–including 20 years as a Sister of St. Joseph–and training as an Ignatian Spiritual Director, with Reconstructionist and Renewal Judaism, including certification as Mashpi’ah Ruchanit, Spiritual Director/Companion. She has an MA in Religious Studies from St. Charles Seminary, Philadelphia, PA. She has been studying the Sacred Feminine with Yoreshet Ruach D’vorah Grenn for the past three years. Maryrita is also doing deep diving into Celtic Spirituality, especially Brigid, and discovering women spiritual leaders and circles, with a focus on Miryam of Magdala/Migdala, Gospel writer, teacher and healer. She wonders at the possibilities for women and equality that were lost and buried during the early Church’s developing, and hopes to bring more Light as she shares the wisdom she is learning.
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