Rabbi Carrie Watkins

Carrie is a practitioner, organizer, and teacher of Jewish meditation. Carrie received Rabbinic Ordination from Hebrew College and has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for the last nine years - to startups, on silent retreats, for teenagers on backcountry trips, in pubs, in her living room, and in other peoples' living rooms. A systems thinker with a Master in City Planning from MIT, Carrie is attentive to the ways meditation and mindfulness can bring healing both our own internal systems and to the communal, societal, and ecological systems of which we’re a part. Carrie has a certificate in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, completed Or HaLev's three year Gates of Awareness: Jewish Meditation Teacher Training program, and is currently part of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality's Marbeh Fellowship: Cultivating Senior Jewish Mindfulness Teachers.