
The Journey Home
powering the return to our bodies,
our sacred communities,
and the earth

powering the return to our bodies,
our sacred communities,
and the earth
In a world that’s constantly selling to us, distracting us, and sedating us, many of us feel in our gut that something is wrong. We want things to change, but we don't know where to start. We know we're wounding our lands, skies, and oceans, but we don't know how to stop. There's no one single thing that's the problem -- it's the entirety of the way we live in secular modernity. It's all so ...normal!
My work is to help us generate the power to change. How? With the tools of our sacred traditions, wisdom from within, strength in community, energy from the earth, and spiritual practices that plug us into the outlet of the divine.
We are each on a hero’s journey to break free from the deadening forces of society and become who we are meant to be. I am committed to supporting this journey.

Ana Levy-Lyons is a writer, teacher, speaker, composer, spiritual mentor, and rabbinical student. She is the author of The Secret Despair of the Secular Left (2025) and No Other Gods: The Politics of the Ten Commandments (2019), as well as a Substack publication, “The Journey Home." Her work and leadership revolve around spiritual culture change – helping cultivate Jewish-ecological consciousness and a reconnection with our bodies, our communities, and the earth.
Ana holds an MDiv from the University of Chicago. She is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and served UU congregations for almost two decades, including twelve years as senior minister of First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Jeff, and teenage twins.
-starting Sunday, December 6, NYC
Join this pilot program to embark on a transformative spiritual journey. The workshop includes monthly gatherings in-person (NYC) for learning, conversation, exercises, and nourishing meals. We'll support each other in deep reconnection – with our own bodies, sacred community, and the earth.
Upcoming offerings, events, and musings about the world.
Ana Levy-Lyons
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