Our Team

We’re teachers, artists, organizers, and facilitators—brought together by a love of embodied practice, Jewish tradition, and community care.

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Lawrence Dreyfuss

Lawrence Dreyfuss is a yoga teacher (RYT-500), movement artist, and facilitator rooted in embodied Jewish practice. He founded The Sabbath Dance—a community exploring spiritual ritual through dance, movement, and breath—and later the Jewish Embodiment Lab to further this work. Lawrence’s journey spans teaching yoga, producing ecstatic dance events around the world as DJ Oatmeal, and designing retreats that weave together somatics, Jewish text, and community. He has studied rabbinics at Hebrew College in Boston and collaborated with Jewish communities and organizations across the U.S. and internationally.

Founder & Director of Text & Spirituality
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Avital Kranz

Avital Kranz is a Dance/Movement Therapist and educator specializing in movement-based healing and group practice. She supports individuals and groups through somatic, expressive, and relational approaches to movement and mindfulness. Avital lives between Florida, New York, and Israel and brings her experience in therapeutic movement, embodied awareness, and creative facilitation to offerings within the Jewish Embodiment Lab.

Director of Embodied Practice
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Director of Community & Belonging

Nina W

Program Manager at the Harvard Business School Club of New York with a background in international program management, education, and community engagement. Nina supports care, connection, and sustained participation across the Lab.

Director of Somatic Exploration

Marty Keiser

Marty Keiser (he/him, Aquarius Sun, Leo Rising, and a whole lotta Virgo) recently performed as a Guest Artist in the actor/dancer ensemble of Simon McBurney’s NY Times Critics Pick production of Die Zauberflöte at The Metropolitan Opera and also at the Dutch National Opera. Current projects include: Very Fine People with M34 at LaMaMa, Rubalee with Caborca, and the feature film Transcendent. He holds an MFA in Acting from Columbia University, BAs in Theatre and Psychology from Tufts University, and is a member of Actors Equity Association. 

Marty has taught Movement, Acting, Shakespeare, and Voice and Speech as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Pace University, New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, and Columbia University’s Summer Theatre Institute. He has led movement workshops all around the world. Marty is a Guide and Mentor at Othership, specializing in meditation, breathwork, aromatherapy, and visualization in hot and cold contrast therapy wellness space. He also facilitates 1:1 meditation and psychedelic integration.

Marty brings his deep experience in performance, presence, and creative expression to embodied practices and group facilitation within the Jewish Embodiment Lab.

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