Omanaya is a new role of community leadership specializing in Jewish ritual and prayer, initiated via hamakom institute in Israel.

Omanaya is the "ritual artist" whose art form is the creation of ritual and prayer events for life-cycle milestones, holy days and other transitional times.

Our intention is to create meaningful, individualized ritual events that are both contemporarily relevant and are well-rooted in the Jewish, and more ancient - Hebraic - tradition. We re-source the Hebraic in order to tap the essence of our ancestral ways: awakening to direct experience of the divine, the sensuous & sacred body, in tune with mother earth.

These leaders engage feminine pathways of process and leadership, midwifing transformative processes for both individuals and communities.

keren is an ordained "omanaya",
jewish ritual artist and spiritual guide,
as well as a teacher, healing arts practitioner and performing artist. she serves the community in either jewish or non-denominational, universal spirituality, rituals.

offerings...

artistic, meaningful and personalized rituals for all of life's milestone occasions. Including: weddings, baby namings, house blessings, fertility, bar/bat mitzvahs, mourning ....and more, as per client's request.

as a spiritual guide, keren offers individual sessions and teachings for the cultivation of an authentic and immediately relevant spiritual path, along with practice-tools for the walking.

in her teachings, keren facilitates direct and embodied experience of the multi-dimensionality of being, the scope of consciousness, & the essence of the sacred as a life path.

independent of any Institutional affiliations, keren brings a unique, personal approach to her life-cycle ceremonies, as she works in close collaboration with each individual she serves.

"Ritual, as I understand it, gives form to human life, not in mere surface arrangement, but in depth."
- Joseph Campbell

some workshop titles:

• Organic Ritual Craft
• Authentic Movement
• The Movement of Prayer
• Sacred Space Jam devotional practice
• Sacred Rest: the Shabbat Blessing
• ancient hebrew ecstatic poetry
• hebrew devotional chant
• daily home-rituals