PRACTICE PHILOSOPHYArielle's interdisciplinary art practice weaves creative expression (storytelling, painting, writing, yoga + dance, immersive ritual) with performance. Dance with Arielle through embodied, play-based creative engagement interwoven with yoga asana practice. Join Arielle to co-create a practice space committed to personal and collective liberation. Arielle’s unique approach reflects the belief that embodied expressive practice transforms tension and rupture towards healing, repair, peace and freedom and helps us actively open our hearts and expand our imaginations and find new horizons for loving connection during these harrowing times.
15 + YEARS’ EXPERIENCE
Yoga Teacher — 2024 - PRESENT
Embodied-Practice Educator and Ritualist — Private Practice2012 - PRESENT
Artivist — J-SWANA Bay (formerly the Mizrahi Collective); Muslim-Jewish Arts Fellowship; Tzedek Lab; Arts Jam for Social Change, and other orgs nationally and internationally
2011 - PRESENT
2023 - PRESENT: Golden Thread Productions
EDUCATION
Green Yogi — 200 hour RYTJanuary 2024 - June 2024, Berkeley, CA
Under the guidance of master teachers Lucid Dawn (500 RYT + Trauma-Informed Yoga; non-dual tantra, hatha yoga) and Maria-Christina (500 RYT + jivamukti yoga; yin and restorative yoga), studied yogic philosophy, anatomy, and culturally-competent hatha yoga instruction.
Inside Out Wisdom in Action — Ovdim Fellowship for Jewish Social Justice ActivistSeptember 2022 - December 2023, Boston, MA and online
SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva — Talmud Teaching FellowshipSeptember 2021 - June 2023, Chicago, IL and online.
The New Jewish Home — Chaplaincy + Spiritual Support for Elders (Hadar Institute Yearlong Fellowship).September 2011 - June 2012, New York, NY.
15 + YEARS’ EXPERIENCE
Yoga Teacher — 2024 - PRESENT
- Yoga Asana Instructor: Strawberry Creek Lodge (SAHA); Community Classes, Green Yogi Berkeley.
Embodied-Practice Educator and Ritualist — Private Practice2012 - PRESENT
- Principal: private practice in somatic healing, spiritual education and life-cycle-event production rooted in Jewish wisdom tradition. Their practice focuses on interfaith life-cycle rituals for multicultural families.
- Co-founder: Muslim Jewish Arts Fellowship; with Dr. Leyla Ozgur Alhassen
- Co-creator: Arava Diasporic Arts; with Ava Sayaka Rosen
Artivist — J-SWANA Bay (formerly the Mizrahi Collective); Muslim-Jewish Arts Fellowship; Tzedek Lab; Arts Jam for Social Change, and other orgs nationally and internationally
2011 - PRESENT
- Artist; arts + culture community organizer, songleader, designer and ritualist working towards collective liberation
2023 - PRESENT: Golden Thread Productions
- Actor; World premiere of H. Sinno’s short dark comedy “The Suicide Bomber,” originated a principal role as Sammy, a non-binary Egyptian dance choreographer grappling with the hypocrisy of the U.S. art world that obsequiously recruits “diverse” SWANA artists while perpetuating anti-arab, racist and Islamophobic stereotypes.
- Community Council Member - Season for Palestine (2024-2025)
EDUCATION
Green Yogi — 200 hour RYTJanuary 2024 - June 2024, Berkeley, CA
Under the guidance of master teachers Lucid Dawn (500 RYT + Trauma-Informed Yoga; non-dual tantra, hatha yoga) and Maria-Christina (500 RYT + jivamukti yoga; yin and restorative yoga), studied yogic philosophy, anatomy, and culturally-competent hatha yoga instruction.
Inside Out Wisdom in Action — Ovdim Fellowship for Jewish Social Justice ActivistSeptember 2022 - December 2023, Boston, MA and online
SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva — Talmud Teaching FellowshipSeptember 2021 - June 2023, Chicago, IL and online.
The New Jewish Home — Chaplaincy + Spiritual Support for Elders (Hadar Institute Yearlong Fellowship).September 2011 - June 2012, New York, NY.
