Carrie Watkins

Community Manager

Carrie Watkins is a practitioner, organizer, and teacher of Jewish Meditation. A fourth year Rabbinical Student at Hebrew College, Community Manager for Or HaLev, and Rabbinic Apprentice for the Center for Small Town Jewish Life, Carrie has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for startups, on silent retreats, for teenagers on backcountry trips, from her living room, and from other peoples’ living rooms, for the last 7 years. A systems thinker with a Master in City Planning from MIT, Carrie is attentive to the ways meditation and mindfulness can bring healing both our own internal systems and to the communal, societal, and ecological systems of which we’re a part. Carrie has a certificate in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy and is in her second year of the Gates of Awareness: Jewish Meditation Teacher Training program.