Spiritual Tourism
Chaya believes that a visit to Israel should be a life-altering experience. She has seen how this land has the potential to change the entire course of a person's life; filling it with meaning, healing and depth. She believes that visitors to Israel deserve more than mere history lessons and mosaic tiles. They deserve to have spiritual journeys that radically enrich their lives. This is the type of Israel experience that Chaya offers. Encounters with the holiness of the Land…as well as the holiness within oneself.
As a spiritual tour guide, Chaya has had the honor of guiding thousands of visitors to Israel; among them are VIP visitors such as pop-star Alicia Keys, Chinese billionaires and US Senators. By synthesizing the best of Jewish wisdom, psychology and the arts, Chaya facilitates profoundly unique experiences; allowing visitors to see their trip to Israel as a truly life-transforming journey. Scroll below to see a variety of tours offered.
Check out this video of a sample class about what a visit to Israel means for your personal growth!
As a spiritual tour guide, Chaya has had the honor of guiding thousands of visitors to Israel; among them are VIP visitors such as pop-star Alicia Keys, Chinese billionaires and US Senators. By synthesizing the best of Jewish wisdom, psychology and the arts, Chaya facilitates profoundly unique experiences; allowing visitors to see their trip to Israel as a truly life-transforming journey. Scroll below to see a variety of tours offered.
Check out this video of a sample class about what a visit to Israel means for your personal growth!
Classes & Tours
Chaya offers unique tours to sites including:
- The Dead Sea
- The Machane Yehuda Shuk & Nachlaot
- Jerusalem’s Old City: ‘Kotel Katan’ - Tunnel Tour’s site near Holy of Holies & Western Wall
- The ‘Zviller Rebbe’s Grave’ - next to Jerusalem’s Supreme Court
- Rachel's Tomb
- Machpelah - Tomb of the Patriarchs & Matriarchs in Hebron
1. Tasting the Ingathering – Shuk and Nachlaot Tour
The Mahane Yehuda Shuk and charming alleys of Nachlaot offer Jerusalem’s most colorful array of tastes, sites and stories. Chaya leads a delightful tour of the area which can include shopping at the shuk and cooking together ‘Jewish’ cuisine. The class and tour focus on the theme of the remarkable Ingathering of the Jewish people from their epic 2000 year march across the globe.
2. Tour of Nachlaot and Shabbat Meal at Chaya’s Home
Chaya leads a fun and fascinating tour of Nachlaot and its many characters and communities. The tour culminates in a festive Shabbat meal of song and stories at Chaya’s beautiful home in Nachlaot. Includes options for dinner, lunch, 3rd meal or Havdala.
3. Inner Israel – Make Your Trip Truly Life-Changing
Trips to Israel are infused with ample information and inspiration. Yet, the inspiration all too often fades away upon return to ‘real life’. The objective of this class is thus to generate a sense of ‘transformation’ for participants. That transformation is something that they will take back home with them. Chaya uses her background as an inspirational Jewish educator as well as a seasoned psychotherapist to help participants experience their trip to Israel as a journey of life-changing transformation; allowing ‘Israel’ to be a place that is always accessible within.
Option for Site Tour: Chaya recommends offering this class in conjunction with her guided visit to the Old City’s ‘Kotel Katan’ or the Tunnel Tour’s spot nearest to the Holy of Holies.
4. Miraculous Israel & Your 5000-Year Plan
What happens when we shift from living our lives according to a 5-year plan into living according to a 5000-year plan? This class explores the power of the historic return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and uses that as a model for accessing unprecedented achievement in one’s personal lives.
Option for Site Tour: This class can be taught in connection to a guided visit to the famous ‘Zviller Rebbe’s Grave’ – a beloved pilgrimage and prayer-site found most unexpectedly in the heart of Jerusalem
5. Jewish Bliss – A Kabbalistic Guide to Love & Relationship
Jewish wisdom offers a powerful ideal vision of marital harmony. By weaving together Kabbalistic sources and the best of modern psychology, Chaya shares a practical and illuminating path of how to achieve that ideal. Participants walk away with tangible tools for communication and communion with their partners. (Also suitable for singles looking for a relationship.)
Option for Site Tour: This class can be taught in connection to a visit to either the Grave of Rachel or Hebron’s Maharat Machpelah.
6. Float – What is Your Dead Sea?
In this powerful journey of transformation participants encounter their own depths using the Dead Sea as a model for the shocking shift that happens when you reach your low point – suddenly you float. This class uses psychological tools and Kabbalistic teachings to guide participants to touch & transform their depths and reach new heights.
Option for Site Tour: This class, though best taught at the Dead Sea itself, can also stand on its own in Jerusalem, or at a site such as Eretz Bereshit overlooking the Dead Sea.
7. An Evening of ‘Inner-tainment’: A One-Woman Show
"Babel's Daughter" is Chaya's highly-acclaimed one-woman show. It is replete with rich spoken word poetry, uproarious characters and transformational audience-engagement. The show traces the path of Chaya's journey from the Bible Belt to the Holy Land. But it's more than mere entertainment, it's also "Innertainment", where audiences are masterfully guided on their own journey of connection with Israel & Judaism. (Option of doing this as a dinner theater replete with interactive meal during the show.) Visit the website for the show: www.babelsdaughter.com
8. Bat-Mitzvahs in Israel – A Journey of Learning & Arrival
Chaya has led many powerful and celebratory Bat Mitzvah journeys in the Land of Israel. Options can include a series of sessions of working with bat-mitzvah students and families via Skype in preparation; or simply leading a boutique ceremony in Israel for the visiting family.
Chaya offers unique tours to sites including:
- The Dead Sea
- The Machane Yehuda Shuk & Nachlaot
- Jerusalem’s Old City: ‘Kotel Katan’ - Tunnel Tour’s site near Holy of Holies & Western Wall
- The ‘Zviller Rebbe’s Grave’ - next to Jerusalem’s Supreme Court
- Rachel's Tomb
- Machpelah - Tomb of the Patriarchs & Matriarchs in Hebron
1. Tasting the Ingathering – Shuk and Nachlaot Tour
The Mahane Yehuda Shuk and charming alleys of Nachlaot offer Jerusalem’s most colorful array of tastes, sites and stories. Chaya leads a delightful tour of the area which can include shopping at the shuk and cooking together ‘Jewish’ cuisine. The class and tour focus on the theme of the remarkable Ingathering of the Jewish people from their epic 2000 year march across the globe.
2. Tour of Nachlaot and Shabbat Meal at Chaya’s Home
Chaya leads a fun and fascinating tour of Nachlaot and its many characters and communities. The tour culminates in a festive Shabbat meal of song and stories at Chaya’s beautiful home in Nachlaot. Includes options for dinner, lunch, 3rd meal or Havdala.
3. Inner Israel – Make Your Trip Truly Life-Changing
Trips to Israel are infused with ample information and inspiration. Yet, the inspiration all too often fades away upon return to ‘real life’. The objective of this class is thus to generate a sense of ‘transformation’ for participants. That transformation is something that they will take back home with them. Chaya uses her background as an inspirational Jewish educator as well as a seasoned psychotherapist to help participants experience their trip to Israel as a journey of life-changing transformation; allowing ‘Israel’ to be a place that is always accessible within.
Option for Site Tour: Chaya recommends offering this class in conjunction with her guided visit to the Old City’s ‘Kotel Katan’ or the Tunnel Tour’s spot nearest to the Holy of Holies.
4. Miraculous Israel & Your 5000-Year Plan
What happens when we shift from living our lives according to a 5-year plan into living according to a 5000-year plan? This class explores the power of the historic return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and uses that as a model for accessing unprecedented achievement in one’s personal lives.
Option for Site Tour: This class can be taught in connection to a guided visit to the famous ‘Zviller Rebbe’s Grave’ – a beloved pilgrimage and prayer-site found most unexpectedly in the heart of Jerusalem
5. Jewish Bliss – A Kabbalistic Guide to Love & Relationship
Jewish wisdom offers a powerful ideal vision of marital harmony. By weaving together Kabbalistic sources and the best of modern psychology, Chaya shares a practical and illuminating path of how to achieve that ideal. Participants walk away with tangible tools for communication and communion with their partners. (Also suitable for singles looking for a relationship.)
Option for Site Tour: This class can be taught in connection to a visit to either the Grave of Rachel or Hebron’s Maharat Machpelah.
6. Float – What is Your Dead Sea?
In this powerful journey of transformation participants encounter their own depths using the Dead Sea as a model for the shocking shift that happens when you reach your low point – suddenly you float. This class uses psychological tools and Kabbalistic teachings to guide participants to touch & transform their depths and reach new heights.
Option for Site Tour: This class, though best taught at the Dead Sea itself, can also stand on its own in Jerusalem, or at a site such as Eretz Bereshit overlooking the Dead Sea.
7. An Evening of ‘Inner-tainment’: A One-Woman Show
"Babel's Daughter" is Chaya's highly-acclaimed one-woman show. It is replete with rich spoken word poetry, uproarious characters and transformational audience-engagement. The show traces the path of Chaya's journey from the Bible Belt to the Holy Land. But it's more than mere entertainment, it's also "Innertainment", where audiences are masterfully guided on their own journey of connection with Israel & Judaism. (Option of doing this as a dinner theater replete with interactive meal during the show.) Visit the website for the show: www.babelsdaughter.com
8. Bat-Mitzvahs in Israel – A Journey of Learning & Arrival
Chaya has led many powerful and celebratory Bat Mitzvah journeys in the Land of Israel. Options can include a series of sessions of working with bat-mitzvah students and families via Skype in preparation; or simply leading a boutique ceremony in Israel for the visiting family.
