A members-only meditation club in California attracts influencers and celebrities who yearn for meaning, connection and purpose in America's increasingly non-religious culture.
Secular Sabbath's founder, 32-year-old Genevieve Medow-Jenkins, said the community is an offshoot of her youth spent at The Esalen Institute, a wellness retreat in Big Sur, California, where her parents worked as"bodyworkers." She was raised Jewish, and while she doesn't regularly go to temple, she still finds God in her life and aims to reverse the idea many young people have that God is uncool.
"I hope that they connect with a sense of purpose, through God or something greater than just themselves in this world," she added. Medow-Jenkins said she still comes back to God in moments of vulnerability. While some members see the events, which are hosted primarily in California, but have also been held in Iceland and Mexico City, as a place to go where they can be themselves without any rules, other attendees see it as a way to experience God in a new way.
In direct response, Secular Sabbath doesn't have any rules listed on its website and while drugs and alcohol aren’t provided or encouraged at her its events, Medow-Jenkins said she doesn't take those vices away from her guests if they do decide to bring them to her Sabbath, the Free Press reported. Both Diplo's mom and sister recently passed away, which has brought him back to church, but he told the Free Press there are other places to connect with God.
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