WRITING OUR PSALMS IN A TIME OF RUPTURE & RE-PATTERNING with Kohenet Angelique (YA) Rivera — Tuesdays, July 7, 14, 21, 28, August 4, and 11, 6:30-8 pm ET / 3:30-5 pm PT
In moments when old structures are breaking and new forms have not yet stabilized, we turn to psalms. This three-session writing immersion with Kohenet Angelique (YA) Rivera explores lament as sacred, covenantal speech — not as collapse, but as relationship. Drawing from the tradition of Psalms and the raw honesty of biblical lament, participants will write their own psalms in response to personal and collective rupture. Together we will practice speaking from the deep, trusting that honest prayer itself participates in the re-patterning of our lives and our world.
This course is a sacred space for writing from the depths of rupture, longing, grief, becoming, and re-patterning. Together, we will explore psalms not as distant ancient texts, but as living practices of truth-telling, lament, witness, and emergence in a world that is breaking and reshaping itself in real time.
This course will be taught via Zoom and can also be accessed via phone. Though live attendance is encouraged, all sessions will be recorded, allowing you to engage with the material even if you’re unable to attend in real time. For financial assistance and scholarship opportunities, please contact liviah@beitkohenet.org.
Cost: $250 + $25 non-refundable registration fee
Kohenet Angelique (YA) Rivera
Kohenet Angelique (YA) is a poet, healer, and cultural ritualist rooted in Jewyorican lineage and diasporic memory. Her work weaves Jewish mysticism, sacred eros, ancestral pulse, and embodied storytelling to help people reconnect with the deep places beneath fragmentation. Through poetry, ritual, teaching, and communal witnessing, she creates spaces where grief, longing, rage, desire, tenderness, and transformation can be spoken aloud and held with care.
Devoted to Tehomía, an aspect of Tehomic Magiq that she and her chevrutah, Ketzirah Ha’Magelet, have been living, exploring, and tending together. Her work is shaped by Torah, Kabbalah, rhythm, cultural memory, and the wisdom carried in the body. She teaches and writes from the belief that our voices are sacred instruments of remembering, and that in times of rupture, poetry and prayer can become pathways back to ourselves and each other.