About Secular Sabbath

Secular Sabbath is an alternative educational institution and intentional community, born out of an ambient music experience that first took place in 2016, hosted and designed by founder Genevieve Medow Jenkins.

At the heart of Secular Sabbath are the healing properties of ambient music. Music is proven to have deep psychological and subliminal effects on human beings. At Secular Sabbath, we believe that ambient music can help to relax you into your sensory body: the way you hear, smell, taste, touch, and see. Ambient music can inspire you into a state of organic and passive meditation. Thus, ambient music improvised by musical artists in our community is the nexus of our event experience. We incorporate artists who have worldwide success with artists who should have worldwide success and invite them to play ambient music which can vary from instrumental to vocal to modular sets. 

“Secular Sabbath is a new kind of meditation practice in which you incorporate multiple sensory experiences and awareness practices to achieve the ultimate state of relaxation and restoration to bring into your daily life.”

Beyond the music, we have developed a world of sensory awareness activities that are essential to Secular Sabbath such as tea ceremony, movement practices such as yoga and dance, live drawing classes, bodywork, facials, breathwork and beyond. Some amalgamation of these activities are present within the experience of coming together.

 This experiential event has built an organic global community of people who want to find ways to incorporate Secular Sabbath into their daily lives. Secular Sabbath has grown into a way of living: focusing on sensory awareness, artistic explorations, self-care, and staying curious. So in joining our community, you are committing to developing your own Secular Sabbath practice.