THE
DANCE OF RETURN
COURSE
A Transformational 6-week Journey through Elul, Rosh Hashana,
Yom Kippur & the Yamim Noraim
The Awesome Days – High Holidays
be ready for the new year like never before!
Sundays
August 24th - September 28th
Live classes are 1 hr long
Jerusalem - 6 pm
Johannesburg - 5 pm
London - 5 pm
New York - 11 am
Toronto - 11 am
Mexico City - 9 am
Denver - 9 am
Los Angeles - 8 am
Melbourne / Sydney - 1 am
Can't make a meeting?
Don't worry, just watch the recording!
Live Class Dates & Topics:
Sundays
August 24 Kabbalistic Launch into Elul & the Hidden Structures of this Season
August 31 Deepening into Teshuva & (Re)Awakening - What is Elul Really About?
September 7 Recreating Our World as the Universe is Being Recreated
September 21 Preparing for Rosh Hashana - Kabbalah, Chassidut, Innerwork, & More!
September 28 Preparing for Yom Kippur - Kabbalah, Chassidut, Innerwork, & More!
Kabalistic paradigm shifts, profound teachings, and powerful practices for the month of Elul, Rosh Hashana, & Yom Kippur.
TRANSFORM YOUR NEW YEAR
Rooted in ancient Jewish wisdom, Chassidic and Kabbalistic teachings, contemporary psychology, and cutting-edge inner work practices, this course will take you on a profound soulful journey of Return
—designed to help you fall back in love with yourself, with Life, with others, and with G!d.
get ready to increase your
Clarity
Vitality
Connection
energy
Inspiration
presence
FULFILLMENT
Potential
THE DANCE OF RETURN COURSE IS YOUR INVITATION
INTO THE SACRED RHYTHM OF
THE HIGH HOLIDAYS
Teshuva is a dynamic dance of intimacy, honesty, and (re)awakening.
Prepare to step into the sacred rhythm of the High Holiday season with the all-new Dance of Return Course, a bold new spiritual framework by Rabbi Benji Elson that reimagines teshuva not as a heavy obligation or a series of checklists, but as a dynamic dance of intimacy, honesty, and (re)awakening.
Following the success and high demand of his beloved Sefirat Haomer guidebook, Dance of the Omer, Rabbi Benji Elson has been hard at work crafting a second guidebook—this time for Elul, Tishrei, and the entire High Holiday season. While the book has yet to be released, Rabbi Benji is bringing the book's core teachings, paradigms, and spiritual frameworks to the world for the first time in this course, specifically designed FOR YOU!
Rooted in ancient Jewish wisdom, Chassidic and Kabbalistic teachings, contemporary psychology, and cutting-edge inner work practices, this course is a soulful journey of Return—designed to help you fall back in love with yourself, with Life, with others, and with G!d.
LEARN TO FIND YOUR WAY IN THE HIDDEN STRUCTURES OF THE HIGH HOLIDAYS
Beneath the surface of the High Holiday season lies a rich and hidden Kabbalistic architecture and system—a map of spiritual energies, cosmic alignments, sacred opportunities, and soul technologies all designed to guide us back into Love.
In this course, you’ll be initiated into that hidden structure and learn how to move through the days of Elul, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur with clarity, depth, and intention—so that you can emerge into the new year renewed, reawakened, and more fully yourself.
From the gentle whispers of Elul to the regal call of Rosh Hashanah and the electric stillness of Yom Kippur, you’ll be supported in cultivating radical honesty, embodied yearning, and a profound soul-level return to your essence.Whether you’re seeking renewal, healing, deeper spiritual alignment, or basic knowledge of this season, this course is for you.
This year, don’t just go through the motions.
This year, make Teshuva a living practice of love.
From the gentle whispers of Elul
to the regal call of Rosh Hashanah
to the electric stillness of Yom Kippur
Join Rabbi Benji Elson and discover how this season can become your gateway to the most authentic return to YOU.
OUR GUIDE
Rav Benji Elson, LMSW is a passionate instructor of embodied Jewish practice, a psychotherapist, an author, a musician, a Jewish environmental educator, and a transformative experience facilitator who has been privileged to share his impactful self-transformation and Jewish psychology teachings globally, including in cities across the U.S., Israel, the UK, Canada, Mexico, Turkey, Finland, Zambia, South Africa, and India.
Rav Benji is the author of the globally beloved Sefirat Ha'Omer guidebook, Dance of the Omer, which integrates Jewish psychology, kabbalah, chassidut, embodied practices, meditation, state-of-the-art therapeutic modalities, and nature connection, offering participants a unique path to personal transformation.
He is currently crafting a second self-transformation guidebook – this time for Elul, Tishrei, and the entire High Holiday season.
As a psychotherapist, Benji has been on staff at several prestigious mental health clinics, including advanced addiction treatment centers in Israel and the US. He also currently serves as Head Mentor of Rav Doniel Katz's Elevation Project global transformational retreats, building and leading a team of therapists to support the retreat's 150-300 participants in their experiences and journeys.
In his private therapy practice, Benji helps individuals, couples and families, utilizing a diverse array of cutting-edge therapeutic approaches, including EMDR, IFS, DBT, CBT, KAP, NLP, Somatic Experiencing, Mindfulness, Meditations, Regressions, and more.
Rav Benji is also the co-founder and director of Sod Siach, an innovative EcoTorah Discovery Program that combines weekly text-study classes, hands-on workshops, and experiential field trips to promote sustainable Jewish living through Torah & the Land. Previously, Benji served as Educational Director and Lead Transformational Facilitator of Shebet Haaretz, leading transformational Jewish expeditions into remote jungles to reconnect participants with themselves, spirituality, Judaism, and the world.
On a more personal note, Benji’s colorful life experiences include living in two veggie-oil-fueled mobile homes, shepherding goats in the Jerusalem hills, meditating in Indian ashrams, living & working on Jewish farms around the globe, and volunteering in remote African villages.
Benji is excited to go on this journey with you!
COURSE PACKAGES
This Year, Dance into the New Year!
LIVE ONLINE CLASS TIMES
(each class is 1 hr long)
Sundays
August 24th - September 28th
Jerusalem - 6 pm
Johannesburg - 5 pm
London - 4 pm
New York - 11 am
Toronto - 11 am
Mexico City - 9 am
Denver - 9 am
Los Angeles - 8 am
Melbourne / Sydney - 1 am
Can't make a meeting?
Don't worry, just watch the recording and stay up to date!
Rabbinic Support of Rav Benji's Work
Rabbi Zev Leff
Rav of Moshav Matityahu
[R' Benji] presents the various Kabbalistic sefiros connected to each day of the Omer, explains them in detail, and provides practical advice on how to implement them in our quest for achieving a meaningful re-receiving of the Torah on Shavuos. ... I found the work comprehensive, fascinating, informative and inspiring.
I recommend this work as an effective companion and guide to making one's counting of the Omer more meaningful and more productive.
Rabbi DovBer Pinson
Director of IYYUN, Author
Reb Benji's Sefer dances with a special type of Lichtikeit/Light, a book filled with kindness, compassion, wisdom and a deep yearning to get closer to Hakadosh Baruch Hu.
Every day of the Omer period is another level of refinement; a movement from Egypt and inner slavery to freedom and openness in receiving the Torah.
This book will help many deepen this experience and allow each day of counting to truly count.
Rabbi Avraham Trugman
Director of Ohr Chadash, Author
[Reb Benji] weaves an amazing tapestry of varied ideas from the practical to the mystical, giving the reader a refreshingly new approach to these auspicious days. Although many of the connections the author brings are highly ingenious, the book is meticulously sourced and grounded in Jewish law and tradition.
I highly recommend this book as a trusted companion for the seven-week period of Counting the Omer.
Rabbi Yehoshua Gerzi
Pilzno Rebbe
I have come to see that R. Elson has our generation in mind all the way through. He seems to deeply understand what we are - whole human beings, not just brains on a stem; that there is a full human experience: body, mind and soul ...
R. Elson has taken wonderful action and has produced something that invites us all to take action and create transformational change in our life.
Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen
Author, Teacher at Aish
[In Dance of the Omer] my dear friend Benji Elson takes us by the hand on a step-by-step journey of transformation through Sefirat Ha’Omer. This book is bursting with profound insights, powerful teachings, and hands-on practical excercises to help you change your life for the better. It will help you connect more to yourself, others, and most importantly, Hashem.
Rav Micha Hyman
Rosh Kollel Lev Avraham
This book is just dripping with depth, well-earned insight, sensitivity in its words to such an extent that it in itself is an elevating experience for the reader; gentle and well thought out guidance for the reader to integrate the teachings; a very lofty vision that is well grounded in our most sacred, and ancient Torah sources, and a map for real transformative growth. It reads like a soft invitation into our deeper selves, and into a world that is better, sweeter, deeper, and unified. ... I’ve been waiting a long time for a book like this to appear.
Rabbi Dr. Elisha Anscelovitz
Rosh Kollel, Yeshivat HaHakshava
Traditional Jews know of the Ari's Kabbalistic tradition on how to move forward from the high of celebrating Pesach and G-d's salvation to living with G-d and with ourselves in the midst of daily life - to "receiving the Torah".
But most of us don't speak the Ari's Kabbalistic language.
Fortunately, Rabbi Benji Elson has stepped forward and translated the Ari's language into modern language and daily steps. Jump in and join R. Benji as he guides us from day one through until the end.
This book is a joy and a blessing.
Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser
Leader of the Possible You Seminar
R. Benji's incredible work comes to remind us, with countless insights and tools to become who we were truly born to be. ... R. Benji's insights and chiddushim are exciting and quite compelling.
Benji's deep understanding of the human psyche was evident even then [10 years ago] and it is remarkable to see that he has continued to develop and grow in his talents, therapeutic skills, and Torah mastery to be able to produce this truly innovative, powerful, and transformative book!
[In Dance of the Omer] my dear friend Benji Elson teaches us to dance a new dance which is a very old one.
During this Dance, one has the privilege to learn the steps and moves necessary to provide the direction which our freedom is waiting for.
Rabbi Shlomo Katz
Rav of Cong. Shirat Dovid, Author
Naomi Morgenstern, Beit Shemesh
Your teachings about the Sefirot have really helped me connect and learn about the Sefirot. Its the first year I have succeeded in counting the days properly all the way till the end ... I never learned in depth - or really at all - about the Sefirot before and its always been on my to do list. This was exactly what I needed and it came at exactly the right time. Very much appreciated.
Tamy Jacobs, Evanston, IL
I have so much to say… I read the teachings each and every day. Some days, like yesterday, I read it 3 times in a row to really hear what you were saying…. You’ve helped me understand a deeper connection that each of the Sefirot have to each other. What a gift! You have also provided me with exercises each day for me to ponder and question. And if all of that isn’t enough, you’ve sent me on a quest for my own answers to new questions!
Yael Toren, Tel Aviv
Thank you for these teachings! They've given me a way to learn about and connect to each day of the Omer with so much depth! Really, I've been in awe by how much you are giving on so many levels - the references and quotes you bring in, the relevance to our daily life and personal process, and the practices! It's hard to say what stands out most because each teaching is so rich. Each has helped me internalize a sense of movement, flow, and direction in my life ... to continue to step onwards in my own process and practice, and to do so with compassion!
What People Are Saying
Joshua Reitzenstein, Los Angeles
These teachings couldn't be more on point. The energetic alignment of each day is blasting through my relationship with [ _ ] with every count. Thank you for channeling this wisdom with such practicality.
Ayelet Polensky, Jerusalem
My husband and I used this invaluable tool to guide us through our personal transformation during the Omer and it blew our minds.
Not only did it give us epic spiritual stuff to talk about together, but it really broke down the steps and process of our own individual growth.
I have yet to come across an Omer companion as captivating, clear and helpful as this one. I definitely recommend everyone get a copy now! Don't walk... Run!
Chana Ganz, Jerusalem
Unbelievable.
What an unbelievable seven weeks you led us through.
Thank you!
