Meet Our
Facilitators
Each facilitator brings her own depth, gift, and presence to the retreat — creating an experience that nourishes on every level.
Malka Stern
Malka will be joining us to facilitate a meditation and offer her signature hands on treatments. Malka comes with decades of professional training and experience in restorative mind body healing, and is uniquely heart and soul centered. After receiving her degree in clinical nutrition, Malka studied in accredited institutions and with one on one mentors to create the three unique spa treatments she will be offering: restorative reflexology, healing facials, and a spinal essential oil treatment. Malka is dedicating to using top quality natural products, matching her philosophy that the most healing gift of all is to bring women back to their essential pure, beautiful selves. Malka is also a graduate of Elevation Academy's Teachers Training, in which she fine tuned her lifelong love for delivering Chassidic Wisdom with relevance, sweetness and joy. Malka continues to learn, currently studying with top mentors in the mind body psychology field.
Lanee Layman
In this inspiring workshop, Lanee invites you to reconnect with your inner world through color, texture, and intuitive creativity. With no pressure and no need for prior experience, this space is about letting go, expressing freely, and allowing what’s inside to naturally unfold onto the canvas.
Esther Deutsch
After taking yoga classes religiously for ten years, I made Aliyah and realized that if I wanted a class that I’d love as much as the ones I left behind, I would have to start teaching my own. So I did, and never looked back! My focus is stretching, breathing, and seeing my students leave with a post yoga glow, a stronger body, and a clear mind.
Avigail Stoll
Avigail stoll is a licensed clinical social worker worker who has been in the field since 2016. After completing a Masters of Social Work at New York University , she pursued a specialization in working with couples , trauma survivors and complex relationships. She is trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy , Child Parent Psychotherapy, Somatic Interventions, and other therapeutic modalities. Avigail currently works as a supervisor and staff therapist at the Jerusalem Therapy Center and maintains a private practice in Ramat Bet Shemesh where she works with couples , women , and young children.
Maya Apter
Maya is the heart and vision behind EXHALE — thoughtfully designing each retreat as a seamless journey of beauty, depth, and renewal. With an intuitive understanding of what women truly need, she curates every detail with intention, creating an atmosphere that feels both elevated and deeply nourishing. As both program planner and culinary artist, Maya brings a rare blend of creativity and care — crafting experiences that awaken the senses while allowing space to slow down, breathe, and reconnect. Her approach is rooted in warmth, elegance, and a genuine desire to create something meaningful. From the flow of the retreat to the meals shared around the table, everything is touched by Maya’s signature: refined, soulful, and effortlessly held.
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