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Weak in the Knees from Beauty

Nov 17, 2025

I found this photo in my phone and it transported me back to this moment in time that happened exactly a week ago.

It was the first full day of the retreat and we were all headed to have Brunch in the sun, and made a quick detour to see the cows that were roaming the property from up close.

I was standing and admiring them, and then I felt I had to sit on the ground because I actually got weak in my knees, from both the beauty and vastness of the nature around us, and the sheer beauty and magnitude of the women there, and what we were all already experiencing. I felt my heart stretching as I breathed, taking it all in. Expanding my vessel to receive more. To channel more. To be with more.

Never in my life have I ever met such powerful, joyful, willing, loving, incredible, courageous, talented, special humans as the ones who I get to work with, both on retreats and throughout the year.

It is the honor of my life.

To my dear clients:
You blow me away. You are my greatest teachers. Through you I learn about confidence, about humility, about love, about both my humanity and the piece of God within me. In you I see and learn about Hashem.

To the women who joined the Italy retreat:
Who traversed miles both physically and metaphorically to be there.
I am endlessly grateful to have both been gifted, and to choose and be chosen to have this experience with you. In you I see the grace of Hashem, in you I see deep embodiment, in you I see kindness and capacity, in you I see a spiritual redemption, in you I see all the possibilities in this universe.

I am blessed to know you. I am blessed to be around you. I am blessed to have spent the most extraordinary of quality time with you.

(Talk about Quality time! Woah)

I am so grateful that we got to frolic in this physical field together, and that we got to both frolic and make powerful movements in the quantum field together.

We are so powerful together.
As one of our participants said so beautifully: "Only together. Always together."

Together.

Only Always... never not.

Amen.

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