Community
Directory
Our community is woven by a multi-faceted group of artists, creators, and leaders offering a wide range of services. Below is a curated list of people within our network—explore, connect, and support their work.
Ariella Powers
Ariella Powers is an interdisciplinary producer, artist, and ceremonialist creating gatherings that honor sacred moments in time. With over a decade of experience spanning festivals, weddings, rites-of-passage, community events, and audio/video production, her work fosters deep connection, transformation through the art of gathering. She is available for projects, collaboration, and advising.
Co-Director
Daniel Schindelman Schoen
Daniel Schindelman Schoen is a co-founder/director of MANNA Passover Pilgrimage Festival. He guides study into Jewish ancestral connection and imaginative soul-based thresholds through SHOOV and B'nai Nfesh. Daniel and his partner Miriam Bolender host vocal liberation ceremonial retreats to support openness and freedom in vocal expression - Your Undefended Voice. Learn more about Daniel here.
Co-Director
Aliko Weste
The Becoming Lab An affordable, simple high-level coaching container for identity shift, nervous system work, and rewiring your habits and relationship to money, your dreams, and yourself.
Our Living Design StudioDesigning brands, websites and business for a future worth inhabiting.
Chochmat HaLev
Pray, dance, and sing with Lauren Arrow, Rabbi Zvika Krieger, and many of your favorite Manna musicians, teachers, and prayer leaders! Kabbalat Shabbat on the first and third Friday nights of the month, Shabbat Morning Prayers + Torah Service on the second Shabbat of most months. Check out our calendar for more details.
Casey Adashek
Casey of Red Thread Ritual is tending threads that weave within the stories of menstruation, offering support through menstrual cycle education, breast care education, and Red Tent stewardship.
Kyle Lemle
(IG @lemle) is recording an album of Jewish Praise music, featuring many of the songs you heard at Praise Brunch (here is the soundcloud recording). He needs to raise $20k. You can support the project through a venmo @lemle and Kyle will shower you with gratitude and perks before the album is released!
Lauren Arrow
Lauren Arrow is the Music Director of MANNA. She’s been mighty blessed to support folks for the last 15 years to reclaim their voice especially when they were told or think they can't sing! It’s from there she love teaching folks how to write, channel, and receive songs, and learn to play music and ultimately facilitate song if that's what they want. She teachs one-on-one sessions and big groups and everything in between. She is the Cantorial Soloist at Chochmat HaLev. Come sing!
Hadar Cohen
Hadar Cohen runs a spiritual school called Malchut, with weekly virtual Hebrew Bible class & library of recorded classes on Jewish mysticism, she has a Substack & meditations on insight timer for each of the Kabbalistic Sefirot, including a talk on the Tree of Life.
Miriam Bolender
Miriam Bolender is a vocal liberation guide who uses somatic practices, basic vocal and breath technique, and nurturing, deeply attuned + skillful support to help people excavate and empower their voices - she works in group, 1:1, and ceremonial contexts.
Meirav Ong
Meirav Ongis a multi-disciplinary artist who weaves sacred objects and soft vessels that invite listening, witnessing, and emotional release, rooted in the transformative power of shared ritual. Meirav’s work was featured at both altars in the Living Room at MANNA 2026.
Nina Kravetz
is a singer/songwriter & founder of Big West Studio.
Big West is a woman-owned creative studio rooted in Northern California. We work with food, beverage, hospitality & wellness brands to deliver essential expressions of time & place through visual & experiential design. Our flagship festival, Big West Wine Fest, is the largest annual gathering of Californian natural winemakers. MANNA attendees can use code MANNA at checkout for 10% off their tickets!
Tzimtzum Community
Tzimtzum Community centers Jews on the margins—uplifting queer, trans, and gender-expansive identities, embracing Black, Indigenous, and Jews of Color, and welcoming people of all backgrounds, all while grounding ourselves in Jewish tradition, ritual, learning, and community. We embrace the intersection of Torah, social justice, and activism, striving to build a community where these values come alive. Located in Santa Cruz, CA.
Zoë Goldblatt
Zoë Goldblatt of the AriYael Jewish Healing Center is an experienced Jewish death doula, psychedelic doula and a consultant for families dealing with Alzheimer’s/dementia who are seeking ideas on how to stay engaged and connected to meaning.
Zoë offers a free 30-minute consult via video chat.
Rebecca Schisler
Rebecca is a Core Faculty member at the Institute for Jewish spirituality, where she teaches mindfulness-based Jewish spirituality as an embodied, transformational and accessible path through classes, weekly sits, and in-person Jewish meditation retreats. Learn more here and stay in the know about about her offerings via IG @beckyschisler.