Hi, I’m Naomi.

I was born into an intensely patriarchal, ultra-orthodox Jewish community, and grew up completely segregated from mainstream society. Though challenging the established order was considered heretical, I found myself wrestling with big philosophical, religious, spiritual, and cultural questions. I eventually left my family and community, and gave up all religious observance. I spent years backpacking alone in Asia and Latin America searching in earnest. I spent time in Buddhist monasteries, Hindu temples, Amazonian malokas, Native American tipis and sweat lodges. I rejected tribalism, and embraced multiculturalism, and formed meaningful connections with people from around the world. After returning to the States, I trained in a vast array of healing arts, got ordained as minister, and certified as a celebrant. I’ve spent the last decade officiating weddings and funerals for people of all colors, cultures, countries and creeds. I believe, above all, in our inherent oneness, and I devoted my ministerial career to reanimating the sacred inter-connectivity of all life without the overlay of doctrine, dogma and deities. However, the pogrom in Israel on October 7th and the rampant rise in antisemitism that followed changed the blueprint of my soul. It has been a rude awakening, but also a powerful initiation. In this fraught moment on the planet I aspire to be a voice of truth, love, clarity and sanity. I believe that ideological orthodoxy, religious fanaticism, misogyny and patriarchal dominance in every sector and sphere is responsible for much of our collective suffering and societal and ecological collapse. It is time for women to lead in concert with nature. I am here to participate in that great re-balancing with as much grace, humility, creativity, benevolence, trust and passion as I can.

"It doesn't matter if we are the midwives of a new life sustaining world or hospice workers for a dying planet, the work is the same." —Joanna Macy