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.

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Director of Somatic Exploration

Marty Keiser

Marty Keiser is a professional actor, writer, and theatre artist with over 17 years of teaching experience. Based in New York City, he has worked on stage and screen—including performances with The Metropolitan Opera and Classic Stage Company—and has taught acting and voice at institutions such as Pace University, Columbia University’s Summer Theatre Institute, and the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. Marty brings his deep experience in performance, presence, and creative expression to embodiment practice and group facilitation within the Jewish Embodiment Lab. He holds an MFA in Acting from Columbia University and BAs in Theatre and Psychology from Tufts University.

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