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Our Mission
DNA Meditation integrates Jewish wisdom with universal contemplative practices, including breath, movement, ritual, and experiences, offering a modern and embodied path to spiritual presence.
We empower individuals of all backgrounds to embark on a journey of self-discovery and inner peace, helping people slow down, reconnect, and return to their essence while illuminating the path to spiritual connection and a more compassionate world.
Finding Light in Darkness
The tragedy of October 7, 2023, the worst massacre against Jews since the Holocaust, became a moment of profound awakening for many in the Jewish community and a call to reconnect with our roots and each other. In that darkness, DNA Meditation was born as a pathway for healing, renewal, and spiritual connection while contributing to the collective healing our world desperately needs (Tikkun Olam).
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DNA Meditation helps you connect with Jewish tradition in a deeply personal and modern way. Whether you were raised in the tradition, have drifted away, or are simply curious, the essence of Judaism lives within us all, a spiritual inheritance woven into our very being.
The name reflects both who we are and how we grow. Being Jewish is part of our DNA, an identity that carries culture, memory, and spiritual depth across generations. DNA Meditation also stands for Discovery, Neshama (soul), and Action, reminding us that awakening begins with the soul’s quiet breath and grows through mindful living and compassionate connection.
Through mindfulness, meditation, and embodied experiences, we engage the heart, body, and soul to rediscover meaning and inner peace. The power to transform has been within you all along.
DNA Meditation offers a spiritually grounded and culturally rooted pathway into Jewish wisdom. For many who feel connected to Judaism but disconnected from institutions, it creates a gentle doorway into identity, community, and the soul. Here, spirituality is lived, not performed and an invitation to discover belonging in a way that feels personal, modern, and deeply meaningful.
Our practice is rooted in Jewish values yet open to all seekers. You don’t have to be Jewish to feel the light of this work. Everyone is welcome to experience the beauty of Jewish spirituality and join us in creating a more compassionate world.
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Meet Stacey
Stacey Brickman is the founder and guiding force behind DNA Meditation, a growing platform for Jewish-rooted mindfulness and interspiritual connection. A lifelong seeker of meaning and community, she draws inspiration from Jewish and Eastern contemplative traditions, weaving meditation, ritual, breathwork, and creative practices into grounding experiences for everyday life.
After more than two decades in corporate leadership and community building, Stacey followed a calling to create spaces where people can slow down, reconnect, and rediscover the sacred in modern life.
Inspired through her travels in Israel, Japan and India and her active engagement with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality (https://www.jewishspirituality.org/) and Art of Living (https://www.artofliving.org/us-en), she brings both spiritual depth and professional grounding to her work. A certified practitioner in Mindfulness Practices through Flourish: A Mindfulness Certificate Program for Jewish Communal Professionals, and facilitator of Shabbat Mindfulness at Kol Dorot, Stacey integrates Jewish wisdom, mindfulness, and embodied practice to help individuals reconnect with themselves, their heritage, and the divine spark within and around them.
Her approach honors the richness of Jewish wisdom while embracing universal pathways of compassion, presence, and shared humanity, inviting seekers of all backgrounds to connect through the practices that unite us.
Stacey’s Journey
This is a personal story of becoming. A journey shaped over time through leadership, spiritual practice, and lived experience.
At the heart of my work is a simple intention: to guide people and organizations in reconnecting to their truth through spiritual practice, storytelling, and Jewish wisdom.
I am on a mission to open hearts and minds to the beauty of Judaism its culture, depth, and lived spirituality. My work lives at the intersection of reflection, leadership, and community, expressed through three areas that define my life’s path:
Jewish mindfulness and experiential spirituality through DNA Meditation creating modern, accessible pathways to connect with Judaism in a soulful, meaningful way.
Advancing mission-driven organizations through Chai Impact Marketing, where I provide strategic marketing leadership to help nonprofits and purpose-led organizations operate with clarity, alignment, and impact.
Supporting and strengthening local community, through service as a Board Trustee of Kol Dorot, a Reform Jewish community, and as Co-Founder of the Haworth Jewish Women’s Group.
This work is also shaped by a deeper spiritual lineage and personal calling, which continues to inform how I lead, guide, and hold space.
A Corporate Foundation: After spending 25+ years in Corporate America, having held senior-level positions at global brands including American Express and Sony, I chose to live a life more rooted in purpose. My corporate experience gave me structure, strategy, and empathy for people navigating fast-paced lives. My passion for mental wellness and Jewish values guided me toward something deeper: helping others pause, reconnect, and find meaning.
The Invitation to Slow Down: Years of commuting between New York City and suburban life left little time to breathe. The pandemic became an unexpected invitation to slow down, reflect, and realign with what truly matters: family, health, and spiritual connection. Morning meditation and movement became sacred rituals that helped me return to myself.
Returning to Jewish Roots: During the pandemic, we celebrated, and I watched in awe, as both of my sons became a Bar-Mitzvah about 18 months apart. As the world started to re-open again, my family planned a trip to Israel, a first-time visit for all of us. I did not study Hebrew, attend temple, nor have a Bat Mitzvah as a child. Six months prior to our trip to Israel, I decided it was my time and hired a Hebrew tutor to prepare and led a beautiful bat mitzvah service on December 25, 2022, Rosh Chodesh, at the Egalitarian section of the Wall. You can read my D’var Torah here. It was a moment of profound renewal.
From Personal Healing to Shared Practice: That experience became a turning point. Soon after October 7, 2023, the worst massacre against Jews since the Holocaust, my path became more clear and DNA Meditation was born. In times of darkness, pain and suffering, meditation was my source of healing and tool that helped shine the light and my purpose illuminated.
Through DNA Meditation, I hope to share that light, helping others rediscover connection, resilience, and peace, and together continue the sacred work of Tikkun Olam, healing the world from within and around us.
Stacey’s Spiritual Path
A Path of Calling and Lineage
My spiritual journey is not one of coincidence, but of calling. I believe I was meant to walk this path, guided by Jewish tradition, contemplative practice, and a quiet but persistent sense of divine presence.
My path weaves together Jewish spirituality, mindfulness, meditation, numerology, and contemplative practice as a lived, embodied journey.
Hebrew Name, Meaning, and Lineage: My Hebrew name, Sima D’vorah, carries deep symbolic meaning that reflects this calling. Sima, meaning “treasure,” speaks to my gift for uncovering what is often hidden, the inner light, wisdom, and potential within myself and others. D’vorah, meaning “bee,” symbolizes community, harmony, and purposeful devotion.
The biblical D’vorah has long inspired me. She was a prophet and judge, a woman of courage and clarity who led her people during a time of uncertainty. Her strength, compassion, and wisdom remind me that leadership rooted in heart and vision can bring light even in the most challenging moments.
Numerology and Inner Symbolism: Over time, I also began to notice recurring patterns and symbols that echoed this sense of purpose. My numerology reflects these themes. Life path number 2 represents connection, balance, and peace. Soul urge number 6 reflects service, intuition, and love.
Together, these numbers mirror the essence of my work: helping others rediscover balance, belonging, and the sacred within everyday life. I offer this not as belief, but as symbolic language that has helped me understand my own path more clearly.
Kavannah and Spiritual Intention: Guided by these teachings, my kavannah, or spiritual intention, is to inspire and empower others on their own journeys of self-discovery. I believe deeply in creating spaces where people can pause, listen inward, and reconnect with what matters most.
This spiritual grounding shapes how I show up in the world. It informs how I listen, how I guide, and how I hold space with care, presence, and respect. In a world that often feels hurried and disconnected, I see this work as an act of healing.
Tikkun Olam and Living the Work: My path is rooted in the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world from within and around us. I believe meaningful change begins internally and ripples outward through community, leadership, and service.
Through meditation, reflection, and embodied practice, I seek to help others rediscover connection, resilience, and peace. This is not about perfection or arrival, but about returning again and again to what is true.
I’d love to hear from you, reach out if you feel called to connect or learn more.
“And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit into you: I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh.”
Ezekiel 36:26
DNA Meditation Gives Back
DNA Meditation donates a portion of proceeds to the following organizations that embody healing, resilience, and empowerment:
Women of the Wall’s central mission is to attain social and legal recognition of our right, as women, to wear prayer shawls, pray, and read from the Torah, collectively and aloud, at the Western Wall.
Because of Women of the Wall, Stacey was able to become a Bat Mitzvah at the Western Wall. In honor of her celebration, she purchased and wore a beautiful tallit. These days, very few tourists are visiting Israel. Many are asking themselves what can I do to express faith in the state of Israel today. I know that joining the Women of the Wall in our struggle for gender equality and religious pluralism is an effective way to convey hope for Israel and true Sisterhood with Israeli women (https://womenofthewall.org.il/).
NATAL is an apolitical non-profit organization that offers psychological and emotional treatment and support to victims of trauma due to war and terror, with focus on Israel.
Traumatic energy remains in the body until it is lovingly acknowledged and released. Stacey understands the power of meditation and that meditation can contribute to this work, but it’s not a one-size-fits-all solution. NATAL can help fill the gaps.
The entire Israeli population has been exposed to traumatic events which mark one of the most challenging trials the country has ever faced. NATAL’s crucial work enables victims and survivors of terror and war to build resilience, to heal and eventually, to live again. (https://www.afnatal.org/emergencyupdates-1)