• DR. DAVID SANDERS

  Dr. David Sanders is the head instructor and Executive Director of Kabbalah Experience. David grew up in a traditional Jewish home and attended Yeshiva through high school before intensive study at ITRI Jeruslem for two years. Upon his return to the United States he studied Talmud for three years with Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik and was enrolled at Yeshiva University in the Chaver Program in Jewish Medical Ethics and in the Bernard Revel graduate school in Jewish Studies. He graduated Queens College in New York and completed a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Hahnemann University in 1985. He became interested in Jewish mystical teaching in the early 1980's and started the study of Chasidic texts, notably Chabad teachings and the teachings of the Ba'al Shem Tov. Upon moving to Denver in 1989 he joined TRI-Denver and was a study partner of Rabbi Mordechai Twerski for many years. David's kabbalah teachers include, Harav Moshe Shapira of Jerusalem and his master, Rav Yitzchak Ginsburgh from Kfar Chabad, Israel. From his teachers he learned kabbalah and the principles of adult learning; from his students to evaluate the applicability of spirtual teachings and from his children to question and create constantly.    

• DR. LORELL FRYSH

  Dr. Lorell Frysh is both a Transpersonal Psychologist and an Interior Designer, a particularly unique combination of skill and perspective that enables her to foster genuine transformation for her clients. She received her Doctorate in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA. Her doctoral studies focused upon interfaith spiritual counseling, transpersonal psychology and the development of consciousness. Lorell studied design at the American College of Applied Arts in Atlanta, GA, where she further honed an already refined sensitivity to design. She employs a wide range of traditional principles from the East (Feng Shui and Vaastu Shastra) and West (Sacred Geometry and Principles of Design Harmony), and together with her clients vision, transforms both inner and outer spaces. In addition to her formal education and training, Dr. Frysh has traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and North America. She has spent more than thirty years exploring and studying the great spiritual, mystical and healing traditions of the world. These include Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Sufism, Jewish mysticism, Native American Shamanism, Zulu and Venda Shamanism and time with the KoiSan Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert. Her vast travels and love for the expressions of the world’s cultures continue to inspire both her Psychology and Design practices.    

• MORAH YEHUDIS FISHMAN

  Yehudis teaches in Denver and Boulder with special focus on the wisdom of Jewish mysticism. Yehudis began her Jewish education early at Maimonides Day School in Boston. She continued at Beth Jacob Teachers Seminary in Brooklyn, and received her secular education at Clark University. She graduated from Worcester State College, with a major in psychology and a minor in philosophy. Yehudis then began teaching in diverse areas of Jewish knowledge. She taught Chassidic Philosophy at Clark University and Torah at the Jewish Federation as well as the Jewish Home for the Aged. In 1982, she became the Director of Beth Pinchas’s Women’s Studies program in Boston. She also directed a women’s conversion program at the New England Chassidic center, and continued to teach elementary and high school girls at Torah Academy in Brookline. She was voted Woman of the Year by Worcester Hebrew Day School in 1973, and by Torah Academy in 1987. In 1987 she moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. There she taught Jewish Day School and worked as the Director of the newly formed Jewish Learning Center. In 1999, Yehudis came to Boulder, CO to become the first female Spiritual Director of an Orthodox congregation.