About Margot, Lila and Rachel

Margot Seigle (they/them) is a community builder, cultural organizer and music maker who believes in the power of song to heal and transform. Margot is a co-founder of Linke Fligl and Let My People Sing! who loves Shabbos, direct communication and slow cooking meat. They come from a lineage of Ashkenazi Jews who assimilated into whiteness in the Chicago suburbs. After a decade of living in the Hudson Valley on occupied Schagticoke / Mohican land they are now based in Minneapolis, MN. They are thrilled to be visiting London for the first time this May!

Lila Sarene is a Minneapolis based writer, bodyworker, cultural organizer, ritualist and mystic. She is a student of many bodywork modalities, lineages of Jewish tradition, as well as lineages of healing justice, cultural and ancestral health and liberatory practice. Her writing has grown from and with community rituals, services, workshops, and demonstrations and has been a response to her own and her communities’ need for words to hold and make sense of our experiences as well as to open to something more when we feel most scared and alone, devastated and lost.

Kohenet Rachel Rose Reid (she/her) is a ritualist, singer, & storyteller, shining new light on lost narratives. She was ordained by the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute which was created to revive comprehensive knowledge of Jewish women & femme spiritual practice from antiquity to the present day. As co-founder of Yelala, she continues that work, and empowers Jewish and other people to create meaningful rituals for grief, love, transition, birth, & beyond. In addition to a diverse variety of Jewish spaces, she has co-led combined Islamic and Jewish devotional chant with Fahad Khalid, and led workshops for Medicine and Greenbelt Festivals, OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation, the Inayati Sufi Order and Rumi's Cave.

Rachel is an award-winning artist who has worked with Billy Bragg, BBC Radio and the London Symphony Orchestra, and is part of the Three Acres and a Cow collective.