THE
FULL MOON
Journey
7 Months of Embodied Connection, Seasonal Rhythm & Renewal
Somatics + Jewish wisdom + Rhythm + Community
From knowing to living
This journey is for women who are curious, introspective and longing for a deeper connection with their core vitality, their spirituality, their community, and the rhythms of nature.
We, Ruthie and Rachelle Tehila, Somatic and Integrative Psychotherapists, have devoted our personal and professional lives to exploring the myriads of pathways to “home,” to the inner sense of comfort and peace between mind, heart, spirit, and body, and bringing that into our private practices and group work.
Our work is based on the humanistic belief that people are whole, unique beings with inherent capacities for growth, self-direction and the realization of their potential. When the conditions are right - enough safety, acceptance, relationship, space and support - we can access forms of inner wisdom that are already present within us. Rather than continually accumulating more information, we create conditions to listen inwardly - to the body, nervous system, heart, spirit, nature and the rhythms of life.
In a Jewish frame, we might call this our “inner Torah.” This is where the magic can happen: the very real wonder of discovering that something within you already knows. Physiological, emotional and spiritual shifts can emerge when there is enough safety, rhythm, support and space to listen - sometimes in ways that genuinely take us by surprise.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
This journey is for a woman who senses that there is more available to her: more vitality, creativity, authenticity, pleasure, connection, capacity to give and capacity to receive.
• You may find yourself tired, overextended or foggy.
• You may spend much of your energy caring for other people and find it challenging to make space to feel nourished yourself.
• You may feel disconnected from your body, needs, voice or pleasure.
• You may have a rich spiritual or intellectual life, but long for something more embodied.
• You may know a great deal about personal growth yet oftentimes struggle to translate what you know into everyday life.
• You may sometimes find yourself saying ‘yes’ when you mean ‘no’, or ‘no’ when you mean ‘yes’.
• You may find yourself reactive in ways you do not like, challenged by boundaries, or wanting to live differently without finding the consistency and structure to make it happen.
• You may leave classes, retreats or spiritual experiences inspired, then find that ordinary life takes over again.
• You may be making efforts to be a part of the community or social or professional network, and wonder why you are hitting upon an invisible barrier or feeling alienated.
• Or you may just sense there is more life, vitality, love, creativity and authenticity in you, and want a place where it can emerge.
• You may not need more information, but a container in which what you already know can become lived experience.
If you relate to even one of these descriptions, read on! This holistic journey may be just the thing you’ve been waiting for.
THE CONTAINER
The power of Full Moon Journey lies in the layering and consistency of the experience. The monthly circle provides depth; weekly practices provide continuity; the nighttime Yoga Nidra meditations integrate through deep rest, the sunrise gatherings reconnect us with movement, nature and daily rhythm; individual sessions provide personalized attention; the group provides relational holding between gatherings; and the moon, Jewish calendar, seasons and natural world provide a larger rhythm within which the journey unfolds.
This is a carefully structured, professionally facilitated experiential space. It draws on somatic awareness, nervous-system regulation, movement, mindfulness, relational safety, experiential learning and group process, while also making room for Jewish wisdom, nature, ritual, creativity and the rhythms of the moon and seasons. It is spiritually alive and experientially rich while remaining grounded in thoughtful facilitation, clear boundaries, participant choice and a coherent developmental process.
SPIRITUAL FOUNDATIONS
The Full Moon provides the central organizing rhythm for these circles—a recurring opportunity to pause, gather, realign, and renew. Yet the spiritual foundations of the work are much broader than the moon itself. The lunar cycle serves as a doorway into a larger exploration of the powerful resources available to us through nature, our relationships with one another, our embodied selves, and the Divine.
In Jewish tradition, the moon carries a particularly rich symbolism. The Talmud speaks of the Jewish people as being connected to the moon, and the blessing of Kiddush Levanah describes humanity’s capacity for renewal through the image of the moon: “they are destined to be renewed like it” (Sanhedrin 42a). Jewish mystical tradition further develops the moon as an image of Malchut—the receptive dimension of Divine presence. The moon does not generate its own light; it receives and reflects it. In this sense, it offers a universal human metaphor: our capacity to receive light, be illuminated from within, and reflect that light outward.
The Full Moon offers an especially powerful expression of this. At Full Moon, the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned, allowing us to see the fullest illumination of the Moon from Earth. The Moon has not become larger; rather, its alignment allows more of the light it receives to become visible. As a metaphor for human experience, fullness is therefore not necessarily about becoming more, but about becoming more fully aligned with what already gives us life. The Full Moon invites us to experience our capacity to both receive and offer light at our fullest capacity—and to encounter something luminous, sacred, and even pleasurable within ourselves, even when the world around us may be dark.
The Jewish story of the moon's diminishment in Chullin 60b adds another important dimension. The moon protests that it is unfair for the sun and moon to share the same crown, and God responds by telling the moon to make itself smaller. The moon objects to its diminishment, and the rabbinic tradition ultimately portrays God as recognizing that something has been lost in this process. The takeaway is profound: diminishment is not failure, and fullness is not a permanent state. Our lives, like the moon, move through cycles. Wholeness includes the capacity to honor periods of darkness and contraction while trusting in the possibility of renewal.
The Full Moon thus becomes a recurring invitation to re-align—with ourselves, with one another, with the rhythms of nature, and with the Divine. In a culture that often asks us to override our natural rhythms, these circles create space to rediscover our strength through softness and resilience.
Most importantly, the circles are designed to build a bridge between these powerful resources and everyday life. Through Somatic Experiencing, embodiment, reflection, ritual, and shared presence, participants are invited to experience these ideas through the body beyond cognitive intelligence and gradually integrate them as resources they can draw upon in their daily lives.
The Full Moon is therefore a rhythmic doorway to pause, receive, reconnect, realign, and practice bringing more of what sustains us into the way we live.
WHAT'S INCLUDED-
We gather on a beautiful rooftop overlooking the hills of Beit Shemesh. Music, candlelight, food and the moon help create a transition out of ordinary life and into the circle.
The evening unfolds as a progressive embodied journey: arrival and orientation; intention-setting and an invitation to offer personal prayers or send love and light; welcoming and embodied introductions; the month's theme; cacao or tea; turning inward through somatic awareness and a slow physical warm-up; movement that gradually expands into relationship with the environment and then with partners; increasingly expressive group work; grounding and integration; and a closing circle followed by food, conversation and sharing.
The process is deliberately gradual. Each woman participates at her own pace and rhythm, with choice around movement, touch and level of engagement. Safe touch may be part of the work, always within each person's boundaries and with permission.
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Approximately one-hour online Yoga Nidra sessions led by Ruthie Ayzeberg designed to support regulation, relaxation, rest, sleep and restoration. Through this gentle practice, you are guided to enter the liminal realm of stillness between the alpha, theta, and delta brainwave states, where the body sleeps while your mind travels through the layers of consciousness towards a reconnection to your most wholesome, sacred essence.
We prepare by creating a comfortable space to rest and doing some gentle stretching, before descending into the soothing Yoga Nidra practice. This practice supports healing of every system in the body and builds a deeper trust in life and your own intuitive knowing. Recordings will be available for those who cannot attend live.
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We walk together toward a designated morning location, beginning in relative silence and greeting the elements along the way. Inspired by Jewish mystical traditions and Indigenous approaches to relationship with the natural world, the morning becomes an opportunity to encounter the day itself as a living experience.
At our destination we dance, explore movement as a way of relating to ourselves, others, the environment and life, and then share a simple communal breakfast and tea.
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The final number and scheduling model are still being determined. Sessions will be primarily in person, with an online option when necessary.
Depending on the woman's needs, the time may include somatic exploration, emotional processing, personal goal-setting, spiritual exploration, relational or boundary work, further exploration of a circle exercise, movement or embodied work, or simply dedicated space to listen inwardly and discover what is needed.
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Twice during the journey, members will have the opportunity to invite a friend, family member or other significant person to participate in a Full Moon experience. This can be a gift to someone you love or an opportunity to deepen an existing relationship through shared embodied exploration.
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As trust and safety develop, every member will have an opportunity to bring something of herself into the shared space. Music, movement, art, healing and other forms of authentic expression are welcome, with advance preparation and support.
This is not intended to turn the circle into a teaching class. The intention is to create a safe place to practice stepping forward. Women gradually move from being held by the container to stepping forward within the container - and eventually carrying that experience of themselves into the wider world.
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The Chabura is a members-only WhatsApp community for those who have committed to the full journey. It provides continuity, core-group building and a stronger container for ongoing development.
We envision a round-robin model of in which each woman periodically chooses a personal area of exploration - such as gratitude, time management, boundaries, receiving, creativity or self-care. During her turn, she shares her intention, experiments, successes and struggles. Other members accompany her with encouragement, reflection and their own processes.
The facilitators maintain the background holding of the container. Clear parameters will be established when the group opens so that it remains safe, supportive and oriented toward healing and growth rather than becoming a trauma vortex.
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One Full Moon gathering will become an overnight experience. The date, location and exact format are still being developed. The intention is to create a deeper threshold experience of connection, embodiment, rest, reflection and renewal.
THE RHYTHM OF THE JOURNEY
THE DEEPER JOURNEY
The aim is not to make every problem disappear. It is to cultivate a richer relationship with yourself and a stronger set of resources with which to meet your life.
Over time, you may notice greater awareness of your body's signals, more emotional choice, increased authenticity, greater confidence expressing yourself, more presence in relationships, deeper connection to creativity and pleasure, a richer relationship with nature and the moon, greater capacity to give and receive, a stronger sense of belonging, and more access to vitality.
Small shifts can accumulate. The invitation is not to become someone else, but to become more fully and freely yourself.
AN INVESTMENT IN YOURSELF
Full seven-month journey: EARLY BIRD 3,500NIS until October 5th, 2026. After October 5th = 3675NIS.
This price reflects an investment in seven months of being held, witnessed, supported, challenged, nourished and invited into practice. It is a commitment to yourself, to rhythm, to community, and to the possibility of living differently in your body, your relationships and your everyday life.
Seven months. One community. Many rhythms. A deeper return to yourself.
DATES: Starting October 26, 2026
MEET YOUR FACILITATORS
Rachelle Tehila Martin, MSc., SCP-C
is a somatic psychotherapist, experiential facilitator, program developer, and spiritual care provider whose work brings together psychological, physiological, emotional, relational, spiritual, and creative dimensions of human experience.
For more than two decades, Rachelle has worked with individuals, families, and groups navigating trauma, life transitions, relational challenges, grief, stress, and processes of personal growth and transformation. In her private practice in Beit Shemesh, she works one-on-one with adults, with a particular specialization in trauma and nervous-system-informed psychotherapy. Her clinical approach integrates psychotherapy with Somatic Experiencing, a body-based approach that attends to nervous-system states, trauma responses, and the development of greater regulation and internal capacity, alongside movement and other experiential approaches. Her work supports clients in strengthening internal and relational resources and expanding their ability to respond to life with greater agency and choice.
Rachelle holds a BA in Psychology and Education and an MSc in Clinical Sociology, certification from Family Institute (post-grad), and Mind-Body Psychotherapy. She has completed Clinical Pastoral Education and spiritual-care training. Rachelle is currently completing her Somatic Experiencing Practitioner training. Her professional background also includes extensive training and experience in Contact Improvisation, Playback Theater, Somatic Mindfulness, expressive arts, Emotion-Aid, and experiential group facilitation.
Over the course of her professional and personal journey, Rachelle has become increasingly interested in what it means to be fully human—not simply as an intellectual question, but as a way of understanding how we heal, transform, and access new pathways toward greater wholeness. She has explored the human experience across multiple, interconnected levels—physiological, emotional, relational, psychological, spiritual, and creative—in order to better understand how these dimensions interact and how healing resources can become accessible through their interconnection. This has shaped an increasingly integrative approach in which psychological insight is brought into lived, embodied experience rather than remaining primarily conceptual.
A particular focus of Rachelle's work is women's empowerment through embodied experience. Through women's circles, experiential groups, and her T'nuat Halev (“Movement of the Heart”) framework, she creates carefully held spaces in which women can explore themselves and one another through movement, music, Somatic Mindfulness, creativity, relational process, and somatic awareness. Her aim is to support women in discovering greater access to their own vitality, pleasure, authenticity, and capacity to participate actively in shaping their lives.
Jewish spirituality is an important dimension of this work. Rachelle draws on Jewish wisdom, seasonal rhythms, ritual, nature, and the spiritual dimensions of embodied life as avenues through which women can access meaning, connection, and empowerment. Rather than approaching spirituality as a prescribed set of beliefs, she is interested in how Jewish wisdom can become something lived and experiential—something encountered through the body, relationships, creativity, and everyday life.
Across her clinical and group work, Rachelle places particular emphasis on vitality, pleasure, and expanding the arena of choice. Her interest extends beyond helping people manage what is difficult toward helping them recover access to the parts of themselves that make life feel alive, meaningful, and possible.
For The Full Moon Journey, Rachelle brings this clinical, experiential, and spiritual background into a women's container designed to support a deeper relationship with the body, inner wisdom, community, nature, Jewish seasonal rhythms, and authentic self-expression.
At the heart of her work is a simple aim: to help people become more alive and broaden their personal arenas of possibility and choice. As healing unfolds, choice becomes more than a coping strategy—it becomes an expression of greater inner freedom and self-actualization: the capacity to respond rather than simply react, to move beyond constricted survival patterns, and to participate more fully and intentionally in one's own life.
Ruthie Ayzenberg, LMFT, LPCC, PMH-C, RYT500, KAP
is a psychotherapist, yoga teacher, podcaster, and experiential facilitator whose work brings together psychology, embodiment, mindfulness, creativity, spirituality, and practices that support deeper rest and nervous-system regulation. She works integratively with body, mind, spirit and natural environment to connect people to themselves, each other, and the earth.
Ruthie is a California-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, with specialized training in perinatal mental health, yoga-informed practices, Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness, expressive arts, CBT and DBT, and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy. She is also a Registered Yoga Teacher with an emphasis in Yoga Nidra for deep rest healing and nervous-system regulation. Her Jewish-aligned deep rest healing meditations can be accessed through her podcast, Na'aleh Yoga Nidra for Deep Rest+. She works with clients in California and Israel online, indoors, and out in nature.
At the core of Ruthie's approach is the understanding that meaningful change happens when the whole system is in coherence–when the body, mind, and subconscious intelligence are all moving in the same direction. Rather than relying exclusively on talking, she works in layers to support recalibration of the physical body with the breath, emotions, thoughts, spirit, and environment. Her work draws on both contemporary psychological approaches and embodied practices to create conditions in which people can access their own inner resources, develop greater flexibility and build sustainable patterns of wellbeing.
A particular focus of Ruthie's work is helping women reconnect with their bodies, intuition, creativity, and authentic sense of self. She is especially interested in the places where psychological, physical, relational, and spiritual experiences intersect, and in creating spaces where women can explore these dimensions together without having to separate their emotional lives from their spiritual or embodied lives.
Jewish spirituality and the rhythms of the Jewish calendar are an increasingly important dimension of this work. Ruthie is drawn to the possibility of experiencing Jewish wisdom not only through study or ritual, but through the body, the senses, creativity, nature, and the changing seasons. The Hebrew calendar offers a framework for noticing that we, too, move through seasons of expansion and contraction, rest and action, grief and joy, release and renewal. Bringing these rhythms into embodied practice creates an opportunity to experience Jewish wisdom as something living and personally relevant.
Over the years, Ruthie has learned from many wonderful teachers and mentors, who have helped shape her thinking and therapeutic style. At the center of Ruthie's work is a belief that healing is about expanding our capacity to experience life fully, to rest, feel, create, connect, choose, and participate more deeply in our own lives. One of her biggest values is sharing the helpful tools she learned with others who are seeking to restore health of the mind, body, and spirit.
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