Yoshi Silverstein

Cultural Resourcing Through the Jewish Spacetime Continuum

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In this session we'll explore embodiment and creative expression rooted in a Jewish cosmological framework of space and time. Through movement, breathwork, and centering practices we'll explore our ancestral and cultural resources for rootedness across time and space. Dress in comfortable, non-restrictive clothing and try to set up in a space with some room to move.

Yoshi Silverstein is Founder and Executive Director of Mitsui Collective, which builds resilient community through embodied Jewish practice and somatic antiracism. Selected as a 2021 “Grist 50 Fixer” building a more just and equitable future, Yoshi’s work weaves tapestries of embodied spiritual practice, somatics and antiracism, and nourishing the body and soul through meaning making, purposeful connection, and creative expression. A Chinese Ashkenazi American Jew, Yoshi is also an active advocate and educator in the Jews of Color community. Formerly Director of the JOFEE Fellowship at Hazon, he is a Senior Schusterman Fellow, sits on the Board of Directors for Repair the World, and is an alumnus of Selah (Cohort 14, Jewish Leaders of Color), the Dorot Fellowship, and the Jewish Pedagogies Fellowship with M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education. Yoshi holds a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture and certificates in spiritual entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, permaculture design, and environmental education; is a student of Resmaa Menakem in the areas of embodied antiracism and somatic abolitionism; and holds a second degree blackbelt in Lotus Kajukenbo. Yoshi lives in the Cleveland area in Shaker Heights, OH on Erie, Mississauga, and Haudenosaunee land with his wife and daughter.