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Summer Retreat Testimonials

Sep 06, 2025

I have named all future retreats: The Frequency of Freedom. Because that is what the possibility inside of them is, if you choose.

I want to give you all a little taste of this frequency. This frequency includes a reclaiming of choice, power, response-ability, and stewardship over one's life.

This frequency includes integration of body and soul, and an invitation to the deepest intimacy - between you and yourself, you and God, you and nature, and you and others.

This frequency includes willingly saying yes, I'm here, for the soul's journey, eyes wide open, reverently experiencing the patterns.

This frequency experiences the deepest love it has ever known, regularly, most of all toward the Self

This frequency lives a life well lived - fun, created with intention, surrendered - filled with prayer, movement, texture, colors, sensuality, and freedom

This frequency has space for all the parts of the whole, as it knows there are no true others... especially within the self

This frequency forgives the Self for what it didn't know in the past, and moves into creating

This frequency holds a knowing of who you are, at its core, beyond any illusion

This frequency is completely free of suffering (pain does exist in this frequency, but suffering does not)

This frequency holds a felt sense of safety, not because life is always certain, but because Hashem is always certain

This frequency allows the gift of perfect imperfection, ending the war of self-judgements, and invites in tender softness and ALL humanity and a full spectrum of feeling

This frequency is like poetry: deeply felt art of every color.

This frequency believes in possibility, abundance, grace, forgiveness, and radical miracles... and experiences them, often, and most of all notices them.

This Frequency is bringing the collective redemption and creating a heaven on Earth. Not a utopian heaven on Earth - a human, alive, pulsing, ready, healthy, integrated, grounded, flying, rising, allowing heaven on Earth.


Testimonial 1:

Is there really anything I can say to describe what this retreat was?

It was the healing of healing. It was restoring trust in humanity. Restoring the trust in myself. Restoring the trust in myself Restoring the trust in myself. Again. And again. And again.

It was The Embodiment of Self. For the first time in my life I am walking around focused, (despite my past ADD diagnosis) Intentional, Embodied in my power. I'm in connection and in a frequency I didn't know existed.

I'm experiencing Ohr Haganuz. Sometimes it's with the feeling of being high on Joy as if I'm soaring in the clouds, and others it's being high through the sadness and grief that I allow to pass through me. It's being in oneness with my truthiest truths.

I came out not just knowing the power of my soul and my essence theoretically, but embodying it. Living aligned with it. It shifted everything for me in more ways than I can put down.

Rivky, I cannot ever thank you enough. You are a powerful messenger of HaShem for personal Geula. You are my Tzadik. May HaShem shower you with continued strength and brachos! ❤️


Testimonial 2

Dearest Rivky,

There are no words big enough to hold the gratitude in my heart for this life-changing, life-giving, soul-filling 5-day retreat that you dreamed into being and so lovingly birthed into this world.

Rivky, you are the purest healer I know. The way you embody true humanity—rooted in knowing exactly who you are, the power you carry, and where that power comes from—has taught me more than any words ever could. Just being in your presence lifted me into a new frequency, one I never want to let go of.

This retreat was beyond anything I could have imagined. Every detail, every moment, every breath of those five days was crafted with such intention and heart. The beauty of the space, the sacredness of the circle, the music, the laughter, (you and chani brought soo much joy) the tears, the breakthroughs—all of it felt like stepping into a sanctuary for the soul. I left not only renewed, but expanded... carrying treasures that will ripple through my life forever.

May you be blessed to continue this holy work, to keep opening these portals of possibility, and to keep guiding more humans back home to themselves.

It is the deepest honor and privilege to call you my teacher, my role model, and my dear friend. I love you so much, and I am endlessly grateful.

All my love, forever and always 


Testimonial 3

Hi Rivky,

This doesn't feel like enough of a testimonial to me, but this poetry popped into my head today, so I am sharing it with you regardless... 

Here goes: Sometimes all it takes is an embrace Other times, permission to cry Sometimes it's all about gentleness Other times, the only way is stern love To reignite the faith in one's heart. For some, all it takes is ownership For others, reawakening will Some moments require certainty At times, receiving is key For the expression of the soul to finally be free Some moments need music Others, breath Some moments need casual TOrH Others, a deep gaze For resonance to heal For some, it's witnessing the grace For others, it's feeling the trust For some, it's experiencing the abundance For others, it's reclaiming their power That allows for transcendence to happen. For Shmis to actually feel like Shmis! Sometimes it's the quiet stillness Other times it's the loud grief Sometimes, it's letting go Other times, it's the holding of hands In mutual love Of individual souls Who yearn for that same Godly connection But have their unique path. All you need is Someone. Someone who trusts. Someone who senses. Someone who believes Someone who loves. Someone who IS. Someone named Rivky. For she who loves knows What When Where And how to give In any given moment, to any given soul With unshakeable certainty in the truthiest truth of her fellow tzaddikim... And then, only then, does the medicine land deep inside the purest corners of our Neshama and stirs a revolution of intimacy and oneness with ourselves and our creator. And from that place of infinity, where heaven meets earth, we co-create in loving harmony a creation of redemption.

Thank you, Hashem, for blessing me with an experience between souls. For letting me see the brilliance of my own. For sending me the angel I prayed for when I couldn't see the light, and the angel I am grateful to now when I do...

If you didn't get it, Rivky, that's YOU.


Testimonial 4

I'm in a whole new world.

The Frequency is powerful, and freedom and mine.

I now know my worth and that my soul is limitless.

I feel God in my body.

I feel peace, and I know I can create peace. I am the steward of my own energy.

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