Rabbi Shefa Gold is a leader in ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal and received her ordination both from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. She is the director of C-DEEP: The Center for Devotional, Energy and Ecstatic Practice in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. She has written several books and has published several chant CDs. Her current focus is on interpreting the Song of Songs (Shir HaShirim) for Love at the Center. For more information about Rabbi Shefa, her chants, workshops, and writings, browse through this website.

Rachmiel O’Regan, MA., Co-Director of C-DEEP: Center for Devotional, Energy and Ecstatic Practice. Shefa’s husband, Rachmiel, has been a workshop and ritual leader, musician, chi qong teacher and holistic health practitioner for more than 30 years and a master’s level counselor for more than 25 years. For more information about Rachmiel, visit his page.

Additional C-DEEP Faculty

Rabbi Diane Elliot inspires her students to develop a nourishing and deeply felt Jewish practice through meditation, movement, and nuanced interpretations of sacred text. Before training for the rabbinate at the Academy for Jewish Religion, California, Rabbi Diane enjoyed a 25-year career as a modern dancer artist and a practitioner and teacher of the somatic movement form, Body-Mind Centering®.

A long-time meditator, she currently directs Wholly Present, a center for embodied Judaism in the SF Bay Area, and has served as a Program Director for ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal since 2011. Rabbi Diane is the author of numerous essays and poems and recently published This Is the Day, Ha-Yom Yom: Poems inspired by the practice of counting the Omer (Hadassa Word Press, 2017). To learn more about her work, visit www.whollypresent.org.