Tuition Policy

Yerusha offers our courses on a sliding scale. This policy is based on 3 core principles:

1. Ensuring that cost is not a barrier to participation

2. Paying our faculty and staff dignified and competitive wages

3. The fiscal sustainability of our organization

When you pay as high as you are able and willing, you are helping someone else who does not have the means to do so. Thank you for sustaining our work, ensuring we pay dignified wages, and giving others a chance to experience our transformative courses.

We offer prices at low, medium, and high ends of a range. If you wish to augment your tuition anywhere within those ranges, you may use the accompanying donation form during your registration.

For more information, please contact us at office@yerusha.org or visit yerusha.org.

En-Kohenet Ruach D'vorah Grenn, PhD

Yoreshet Ruach D'vorah Grenn (she/her) is an educator, writer, Yoreshet / lineage holder of a female Kabbalist tradition, En-Kohenet / Priestess, and ordained Mashpi’ah Ruchanit / Spiritual Guide. She founded The Lilith Institute, A Center for Feminist Spirituality (1997) and Mishkan Shekhinah, a movable sanctuary honoring the Sacred Feminine in all traditions (2007), Co-Directed the Women's Spirituality MA Program at ITP/Sofia University for eight years, and was a founding theorist of the Kohenet movement. She has taught Jewish Magic & Folklore, The Sacred Feminine in Judaism and Women’s Sacred Conversations with G’d for Hebrew College as well as Humanities and Philosophy classes at Napa Valley College. She taught “Women as Guardians of Culture” at the ALEPH Kallah in 2023 and has also served as guest lecturer on Lilith, Women’s Sacred Texts and other topics with organizations including Napa InterFaith Council, Cultural Integration Fellowship and a number of synagogues. She co-teaches the Tree of Life with Rabbi Nadya Gross every year in Yerusha’s “Secrets My Grandmother Told Me” Wisdom School. 

Her publications include: Lilith’s Fire; Talking to Goddess, an anthology of sacred writings from 72 women in 25 spiritual traditions; “For She Is a Tree of Life: Shared Roots Connecting Women to Deity" (a dissertation on ritual practices of U.S. and South African Lemba Jewish women); “The Kohanot: Keepers of the Flame" in Stepping into Ourselves: An Anthology of Writing on Priestesses (Key & Cant); Jewish priestess andLilith entries in Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions and “Spiritual Brokenness and the Healing Presence of the Sacred Feminine” in FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary feminist journal. She wrote “The First Resister: Evoking Lilith For Transformation And Freedom” in Original Resistance: Reclaiming Lilith, Reclaiming Ourselves (Girl God Books), co-hosted the “Tending Lilith’s Fire” broadcast with Kohenet Annie Matan for two years, and created and led The Lilith Institute’s Women’s Intuitive Leadership Program in 2022. 

Mandisa Wood, M.A., M.F.A

 Mandisa Wood   (she/her/ella) is a multifaceted artist, sacred dancer, urban farmer, beekeeper, and educator from the California Bay Area with over twenty-five years of teaching experience. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Sustainability Education at Prescott College, she supervises graduate projects on community Indigenous poetry and social justice in education while teaching courses on research methods, organic inquiry, and theories of identity, difference, and power. Mandisa’s extensive academic career includes pioneering an Ethnic Studies Department and teaching a wide range of humanities and social science courses, as well as developing innovative curricula in Environmental Justice and Humanities. Her notable contributions extend to the first Native American Studies course at Napa Valley College and recognized non-credit programs in farm-to-table gardening in collaboration with the Napa Valley Cooking School.

Mandisa’s research focuses on Indigenous dance forms and the embodiment of sustainability, enriched by her initiation as a Priestess of Aggayu in the Lucumí tradition. Her art has been showcased in events like "Celebrating Black Artists" for Black History Month and at the Cal Maritime Academy. As an accomplished scholar, her work has appeared in publications such as the Kosmos Journal for Global Transformation and the Los Angeles Review. She has presented at major conferences, including the National Association of Environmental Educators, and served as a Keynote Speaker at the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. In addition to her scholarly and artistic pursuits, Mandisa is deeply involved in food justice, managing a West Oakland farmer's market and operating an urban farm with sustainable practices. Her extensive experience in African Diasporic Dance includes performances with esteemed troupes and teaching dance classes to youth and adults in the Bay Area, emphasizing a vision of a thriving future for all beings.