Jalaja Bonheim

Jalaja Bonheim, Ph.D. is an author, speaker and workshop leader who moves and inspires audiences around the world with her extraordinary stories, ground-breaking insights and her down-to-earth approach to personal and collective transformation. Raised in Austria and Germany, she spent several years in India studying Indian temple dance before coming to the United States, where Circlework was developed.

Jalaja is internationally known for her groundbreaking use of circle gatherings. She teaches a unique method called Circlework that connects people in an atmosphere of kindness and compassion and supports the evolution of a peaceful planetary community. She has trained hundreds of ministers, teachers, social workers, psychotherapists, business leaders and other professionals to apply the principles of Circlework in their own field of expertise. She is the founder of the Institute for Circlework, which supports the practice of Circlework around the world. Since 2005, Jalaja Bonheim she has been working regularly with Jewish and Palestinian women in Israel and the West Bank.

Jalaja’s circle gatherings have three main benefits. First, they heal and empower women from around the world. Second, they foster inner peace while imparting the skills and insights we need to serve as agents of peace in the world. Third, Jalaja’s training circles prepare women to become circle leaders within their own communities.

Jalaja is the author of many books including Aphrodite’s Daughters: Women’s Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul and The Sacred Ego: Making Peace with Ourselves and Our World which won the Nautilus Award for best book of 2015. Now, with The Magic of Circlework and The Circlework Training Manual, she is sharing the practice that has blessed thousands of women around the planet with healing and transformation.