Miriam Rubin
B-Mitzvah Guide, Youth Mentor, Interfaith Minister, and the Creative Ritual Director of Wayfinders.
For the past 6 years, Miriam served in the roles of Director of Programming, and Director of Membership at Romemu, NYC’s largest Jewish Renewal community.
Miriam has been trained as a Purpose Guide™, Environmental Educator, and Interfaith Minister. Over the past 15 years, she has guided hundreds of youth and adults in deepening their connection to the earth, to their cultural history, and to the wisdom of their soul. Miriam was an outdoor educator for 7 years, where she guided hundreds of students to learn about their relationship with the earth, and designed unique rites of passage programs that supported adolescent development.
Miriam is a Nature-based B-Mitzvah guide, she supports each of her students (youth and adults) in gaining their own personal and profound connection to the Hebrew language, to the wisdom of the tradition, and a deeper understanding of their own unique passions and purpose. Miriam sees nature connection, soul-growth, and the involvement of community, as critical practices for creating a meaningful and inspiring response to the urgent times that we're living in.
Miriam earned her Bachelors degree at Barnard College in Environmental Science, where she studied the impacts of climate change on the relationship to pollen production in Northeast plant populations. She earned her Massage Therapy License in 2013 and specializes in Somatic Education, trigger-point therapy, and somatic-neural pathway re-education. After being guided through the Soul Purpose Discovery Process under the mentorship of Jonathan Gustin, Miriam found the work to be so profound that she decided to train as a Purpose Guide™.
She is proud and humbled to serve as spiritual advisor for Wayfinders on the Hudson as it integrates her life's work.