Courage Coach. Sacred-Maker. Prayerful Poet.
My courses and programs are for people and organizations
hungry to align their inner world with their worldly productivity and performance.
Transformational leadership starts with ourselves.
I am passionate about Judaism as a vibrant wisdom tradition and technology of meaning-making.
To me, spirituality is asking questions that matter, and then living courageously in line with what I hear.
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enriched by 4000 years of Jewish wisdom, curated by RAS.
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Ordained by Hebrew College in Boston, rabbi is one of my giant tools. I bring skills in action based coaching, certification as a yoga instructor and work as a change-management consultant. I draw on work in shamanic initiation, integral life psychotherapy, meditation training with Rabbi Alan Lew, z”l, Buddhist study with Pema Chödrön and years of spiritual direction and body work.
Golf & G-D
I was with my grandfather when he died. I was 8. To help him relax, as he struggled to let go, I said: “Papa, what do you love to do?”
“Golf,” he said.
“Let’s play,” I said.
I curled in bed next to him and we played 18 holes. He described each green in detail, the clubs he used, every stroke vividly swung.
At the 18th hole, we said the Sh’ma together (a Hebrew prayer of oneness). He passed shortly after.
I began inviting G-d in when I was very young. Mostly, I just got out of the way and noticed.
Today, I’m a contemporary spiritual designer and subversive soul-agitator.
I am practiced in asking tough questions to reconnect you with what matters most, to you.
I am passionate to IN-SOURCE you to live your most courageous life.
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Rabbi Alyson’s Media Mentions
Rabbi Alyson Solomon: Living With The Volume Turned Up
Jewish Journal
Women in the Rabbinate: An Interview with Rabbi Alyson Solomon
Q&A with Mara Cook
A Practice: To Live Life as a Contribution
Patheos
Tambourines of Hope: 10 Tips so Passover Doesn’t Pass Us Over
Elephant Journal, Interfaith Family & RitualWell.org
How to Stop: The 39 Creative Acts, Lamed Tet Melachot, Used to Build the Tabernacle & Become a Visceral, Physical Recipe & Invitation to Rest
Cape Town Jewish Chronicle
Happy New Year, To Our Crooked Hearts (inspired by W.H. Auden's poem, One Evening)
Jewish Journal of Cape Town
Q&A with Rabbi Alyson
Curated by Temple Israel in Cape Town in advance of my arrival as Rabbinic-Scholar In-Residence
Can millions of dollars power a new kind of community?
Article in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles about JHub, to be later known as NuRoots
Solar at Congregation B'nai B'rith
Article on Santa Barbara's largest synagogue going solar, pg. 13 & 25
Awe Was My First Religion, interview with Rabbi Alyson Solomon
Jewcology's interview with Our Leaders Today, a monthly column interviewing environmental leaders and activists in the Jewish community
A Blessing for an Activist Community - Inspired by the Priestly Benediction and Parshat Naso
Dvar Tzedek article written for American Jewish World Service and posted by MyJewishLearning.com
We are Israel: An Active Process of Struggle and Engagement
Video on becoming a rabbi
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