About

 

Igal Harmelin offers sessions for healing developmental trauma, spiritual direction, and mental health coaching. He conducts meditative attunement workshops for therapists, and is a certified practitioner of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM).

While Igal’s training as a spiritual director was done in a Jewish context, the principles of this practice are universally applicable to all seekers. Igal’s extensive study of the teachings of the world’s major religions makes him comfortable to sit in direction with followers of all faiths, as well as with those who profess to follow none.

He has taught meditation to thousands of people on four continents and has spent years in extended meditation retreats under a number of spiritual teachers.

Igal is a member of the Spiritual Directors International (SDI) and at present, offers spiritual direction sessions online. Formerly he was part of a team that offered spiritual direction services to rabbinical and cantorial students at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He has translated into Hebrew a number of books on religion and spirituality for Israel’s largest publisher.

He expects to be ordained as a rabbi in the summer of 2024.

He now lives in New York City with his wife, Rabbi Lisa Goldstein.

Listen to Igal on the Being Underwater podcast with Joana Breidenbach: