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The Meaning of the Title "Ravi"

My Bio

Ravi Miriam Maron, R.N., M.A., holds a BSN from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a Registered Nurse with a graduate degree in Exercise Physiology from the University of Southern California.

A spiritual healer and mentor in private practice, Miriam also teaches intensives on Jewish Kabbalistic and shamanic healing modalities and has facilitated workshops and retreats across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Israel on healing and mind, body, and soul integration. A prolific singer and songwriter, her concerts, as well as her albums (distributed by New Leaf Distributing Co., Lithia Springs, GA), “Wings of Light”, “Light out of Darkness”, “Chants of the Sacred Four”, “Mystic Convergence”, “Surrender,” "AngelSong" and “Call from the Narrows,” feature Jewish healing and mystical songs and chants, and have received wide acclaim from interdenominational sources across the globe. She has also had scholarly articles on Jewish Shamanism and Kabbalistic themes published in Moment Magazine and in EVOLVE, a leading nationwide magazine of evolutionary people and ideas.

Miriam has also been a guest leader of Shabbat services at Congregation Kehilat Israel in Pacific Palisades, CA; Makom Ohr Shalom in Tarzana, CA; B’nai Horin in Los Angeles, CA; Community Shul of Montecito (CA), and Havurat P’nai Or in Long Beach, CA. She has also led High Holyday services for Congregation Nahalat Shalom in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Congregation Har Shalom in Missoula, Montana; Makom Ohr Shalom in Tarzana, CA; Agape International Spiritual Center, Los Angeles, CA, and at the Energetic Healing Center in Simi Valley, CA.

A mother of two, Miriam also performs life-cycle ceremonies and sacred dance, and has taught at numerous educational institutions and retreat centers, including:

Esalen Institute (Big Sur, CA)
Philosophical Research Society (LA)
Naropa University (Boulder, CO)
Chochmat Halev Center for Jewish Meditatio (Berkeley, CA)
Academy of Jewish Religion (LA)
Rowe Conference Center (Rowe, MA)
Wexner Jewish Student Center (Ohio State U.)
Metivta (LA)
SEED Graduate Institute (Albuquerque, NM)
Basel Havurah (Switzerland)
Olam Qatan (Jerusalem)
Havurat Am Kolel (Rockville, MD)
Tribes Coffee House (San ta Fe, NM)
Kripalu Institute (Lexington, MA)
Integral Yoga Institute (NY and VA)
Havurah Or Shalom (Vancouver, B.C.)
Jewish Community Center of Albuquerque (NM)
New York Open Center (NYC)
Congregation B’nai Israel (Toms River, NJ)
Summer University (Tamera, Portugal)
Aleph Kallah 2001 (DeKalb, IL)
Conscious Learning Community (Boulder, CO)
Sedona Jewish Community Center (Sedona, AZ)
Sarah’s Tent (LA)
Walking Stick Foundation (NM and LA)
Torah to Tipi Retreat (Phoenix, AZ and Cuba, NM)
Community Shul of Montecito (CA)
Bodhi Tree Bookstore (W. Hollywood)
Agape International Spiritual Center (LA)
Havurah P’nai Yisrael (Charlottesville, VA)
Marywood University (Scranton, PA)
Elat Chayyim-Isabella Freedman Center (NY and CT)
HaMakom Intentional Community and Retreat Center (Judean Desert, Israel)
Limmud (Nottingham, England, and LA)

She has also had scholarly articles on Jewish Shamanism and Kabbalistic themes published in Moment Magazine and in EVOLVE, a leading nationwide magazine of evolutionary people and ideas. Ravi Miriam was recently featured in the documentary Sacred Rituals by Grammy-Nominee Dr. Douglas Lawrence, Chairman of the Communication Arts Department at Marywood University ( www.brightdayint.com).

Miriam’s rendition of a traditional Hassidic melody that appears on her CD Wings of Light was selected as a major segment of a motion picture soundtrack for the foreign film "Black Prince," a drama based on the illustrious biography of the notorious 19th-century Russian poet, Pushkin. The film won First Prize at the New York Independent Film Festival in 2005. She has also been featured on the newly-released DVD “Sacred Rituals” a documentary film by Grammy-Nominee Dr. Douglas Lawrence, Chair of the Department of Communication Arts at Marywood University.

What's New

In the twilight hours of Friday November 3, 2006, in an open, outdoor ceremony, Miriam Maron was initiated into the ancient title of Ra’vee’na, a title conferred upon a few select spiritual teachers and healers in the Jewish tradition, the last known ones being rabbis Ra’vee’na, A’shee, and Ra’va in the Fourth Century, and a woman known as Ey’ma D’Abaya in the Third Century. Ra’vee’na, or Ra’vee for short, was a title given to those who by their teachings, ceremonies, channeling and other means, demonstrated keen spiritual healing abilities and exemplified the capacity to nurture and un-block people’s personal processes, moving dormant potential toward fruition, stagnation toward unfolding. Over the past thirteen years during which Miriam has in those very ways effected the lives of many across the US, Europe, and Israel, she has demonstrated again and again her deserving of this initiation. The initiation included a ritual immersion in living waters while facing West, accompanied by special prayers and the calling of the ancestral keepers of this sacred designation.

My  Journey

While working as a Registered Nurse I came upon a patient smoking a cigarette through his tracheotomy opening. This man had cancer from years of smoking and had surgery just a few days earlier. I realized at that moment that I was not reaching people early enough. I wanted to spend more time with patients and to make a heart to heart connection. I decided then to go into the area of preventive medicine. I entered a graduate program in exercise physiology at the University of Southern California. This process was very rewarding for me, and fit well with my desire to help people to live a healthier life, not just try to save them once they were already very ill.

I started a practice working with individuals and corporations to create various training programs and exercise prescriptions. However, I still yearned to help people explore deeper aspects of their motivations and illness.

A major turning point in my life occurred when I began to study spirituality and mysticism with several spiritual teachers including Rabbi Jonathan Omer-man at Metivta in Los Angeles. As Metivta began as a healing center, I volunteered to do "Bikkur Cholim" (visiting the sick). I found this work to be very fulfilling and it changed my life in many ways.

I received a call through Metivta from a woman whose mother was very ill. I was very busy that week with numerous family and professional obligations, and my first reaction was to ask for someone else to make the visit. While I held the phone, I searched my soul and knew I was being called from above, so I said yes to the request.

While on the way to visit "Sharon", I was listening to a niggun (wordless melody) that I hadnt heard before. I began to sing along and learn this niggun and I prayed for guidance on how to bring Sharon comfort and healing.

Before I entered the Intensive Care Unit, I paused to pray again, meditate and clear in preparation for the visit. As I entered the room of this precious woman, I felt a thickness in the air. Sharon was in a fetal position with her limbs tightly contracted.

She was connected to life sustaining and monitoring equipment. Seeing this precious person with all this equipment around her and invading her, I could see very little humanity, very little softness. My isolation gown, mask and gloves further held us apart, but only in a physical sense.

Within moments, I felt compelled to sing to her. I went with this feeling and began to sing various prayers, Yiddish lullabies and the "niggun" I had just learned while driving in the car.

Soon after I began singing, I was shocked to see this lovely lady open her eyes, slowly turn her head and look deeply into my eyes. It was as though our souls were joined. I will never forget the soul-to-soul connection that I felt. Sharon then began to tear and tried to open her mouth in an attempt to speak, sing or cry out, but she was intubated (a tube down her throat to help her breathe). Actually, she did not need to use words, she communicated from her heart and I felt a great release occurred for her and for me.

As I looked into her eyes, I saw the angels surrounding her soul. At that moment she looked into my eyes and I was given the gift of being able to join with her and her ancestors. I felt my life would never be the same after this moment in time, and it wasnt. I gained a greater understanding of what my souls purpose was to be here on earth.

I continued to visit Sharon. In later visits I sang again and the response was the same yet with a little less energy as she was slowly transitioning to the next world. At one of the visits she was deep into transition. Music is wonderful for this stage, but I needed to be in silence and prayer with her. As I spoke of the world to come and angels, one of her monitors sounded an alarm. Sharons nurse rushed into the room, but the alarm quickly silenced and the nurse left.. I continued the visit letting her know she could go whenever she was ready. I said good-bye knowing it would be the last time.

That night I suddenly was awakened at 3:00 a.m. My body just sat right up. The next morning I called the hospital and I was told she passed at 3:00 a.m.

I was quite upset. A soul partner had left this place I was so happy she was out of pain and at the same time I was in mourning. Our relationship was so deep, beyond words, beyond worlds. Later that day I scheduled an appointment with a body worker I had been getting treatments from I had worked with this practitioner for many years, but this was the first session he had ever begun humming during a session. I realized that this was the "niggun" that became Sharons, the one I had learned just before my first visit with her. I was surprised and asked how he knew this melody. He shrugged his shoulders and said he didnt know it; it was just coming to him.

I cried knowing this was Sharon reaching out to me from beyond. I felt she bridged the worlds for me and my life was in fact never the same. My life has been deeper and richer since this very powerful experience.

Following this experience and other enlightening experiences, I began a "music and healing" group with the goal of bringing music to the bedside. It evolved into a workshop called "Healing Through Sacred Songs and Movement", which provides people with a safe place to explore the healing process in terms of ones own healing.

At this point in my journey, I am happy to guide, motivate, teach and inspire as many as I can through their lifes journeys as I hold them in Divine love. I hope to act as a guide through lifes bumps, lifes transitions and celebrations while acting as the guard of the soul. In addition, I wish to assist others to find their specific purpose, as they walk the path of self-exploration on to discover their passions and their dreams.

May the Divine Wings of Light wrap around you and hold you always. May you feel loved, safe, comforted and supported in all you do and all that you are. May the Holy One of Blessing give us all the energy to be "one."

I open my heart and bless you with the light and love of the universe.