Body and Soul: Embodied Spiritual Practice Across Faith, Culture, and Lineage

Facilitated by: Yoshi Silverstein, Founder & Executive Director, Mitsui Collective

This interactive multifaith workshop will provide space to explore and share embodied practices from a wide variety of religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions. We’ll introduce common characteristics shared by many systems of embodiment, and do a short dive into the development and features of Mitsui Method — an evolving system of Jewish embodiment at the heart of our work at Mitsui Collective — which will then serve as a platform for personal exploration, sharing, and discussion around both commonalities and convergence points between the spiritual, cultural, and religious lineages we hold together.

Yoshi Silverstein Bio: Yoshi Silverstein (he/him) is a Chinese-Ashkenazi-American Jew and an educator, designer, speaker, husband, and father. Creator of the Mitsui Method system of Jewish embodiment and a multidisciplinary practitioner of embodied creative and spiritual expression, he is a recipient of the 2022 Pomegranate Prize for emerging leaders in Jewish education from the Covenant Foundation, and was selected as a 2021 “Grist 50 Fixer” building a more just and equitable future. Yoshi earned his Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture at University of Maryland with a thesis exploring Jewish landscape journey and experience, and holds certificates in spiritual entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, permaculture design, and environmental education. Prior to founding Mitsui Collective, Yoshi catalyzed the growth and leadership of over 60 emerging professionals working across the US and Canada in the realm of Jewish relationship to land, food, culture, climate, and community as Director of the JOFEE Fellowship at Hazon (now Adamah).