Diane Elliot

 

Member profile details

First name
Diane
Last name
Elliot
Ordination Year
2006
Region
US West
Brief Bio
Rabbi Diane Elliot serves as a ritual leader, wisdom teacher, and spiritual director in San Francisco’s East Bay. Before studying for the rabbinate, she enjoyed a 25-year career as a dancer, choreographer, and somatic therapist. From 2007–2009 she served as spiritual leader of the Aquarian Minyan in Berkeley, California. As director of Wholly Present, a center for embodied Jewish spirituality, Rabbi Diane inspires her students to become clearer channels for Divine Flow through awareness and movement practices, chant, and nuanced interpretations of Jewish sacred text. She works with individuals in spiritual direction and somatic modalities and directs the ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal's "Embodying Spirit, En-spiriting Body" program, a two-year movement-based Jewish leadership training. To learn more about her work, visit www.whollypresent.org or www.aleph.org
Specializations
  • Dedications & New Home Blessings
  • Spiritual Counseling/Spiritual Direction
  • Teaching/Education
  • Visiting the Sick/Bikkur Cholim
  • Weddings
  • Writing/Editing
Other Specializations:
Embodied Judaism (including movement, body awareness, and body-based study of traditional texts), Retreat creation and facilitation, Jewish meditation