Shulamit Elson

Shulamit Elson is a gifted spiritual teacher and highly acclaimed author, with an international following that extends across ethnic, religious, racial and cultural boundaries. Her teachings bring focus and clarity of judgment, inner peace, and an understanding of each individual’s personal role and purpose in life. Shulamit is currently focused on sharing her work with world leaders and global peace workers. 

Shulamit’s own spiritual journey is a fascinating one. In the 1980's, she was a successful and respected Wall Street executive, having arrived in the rough and tumble world of mergers and acquisitions after leaving behind her early upbringing in Orthodox Judaism.

Although her Wall Street career brought her financial success, she was deeply unfulfilled and acutely aware that something important was missing in her life. While her early religious upbringing provided few answers, it nonetheless gave her a clear sense that she would not find this missing piece of herself in the purely materialistic world in which she was living.

And then something extraordinary happened. This pragmatic down-to-earth business women began to have what she describes in her critically acclaimed book Kabbalah of Prayer - Sacred Sounds and the Soul's Journey as "amazing visions."

These visions were so overwhelming that at first she was put off and simply wished for them to go away; at times, she questioned whether they were the result of an over-active imagination. But in the end they lit a path to a way of life that would nurture her own soul and allow her to nurture others.

As Shulamit accepted the reality of her visions, they began to take the form of spiritual teachings. Eventually, she was taught to make a series of vocal sounds. Once she had mastered the art of producing these sounds with her voice, she was instructed to look into ancient Jewish mystical texts for an explanation of both the power of the sounds as well as the spiritual tradition from which they came.

After an extensive reading of age-old Kabbalistic texts, some of which had never been translated into English, Shulamit came to realize that the vocal sounds she had been taught belong to a highly evolved spiritual system with roots going back well before the first century. Leaving the world of Wall Street completely behind, Shulamit set out to become a serious student and teacher of this ancient knowledge and the sacred sounds that are part of that tradition - sounds and teachings that she now shares with individuals and groups throughout the world.