Ida Kochane and Paul Heller
Ida has resided in Kibbutz Ketura in the Arava region since 1998. She holds a degree in Marine Biology and began her Tai Chi and Qigong studies in 2004. In September 2020, she enrolled in the Zhineng Qigong Mingjue Gongfu Teacher course, which focuses on utilizing consciousness for enhanced wisdom, and successfully completed it in April 2021 under the guidance of Teacher Wey. She subsequently became an instructor for levels 1 and 2 of Zhineng Qigong at the Xi’an Lington Zhineng Science Research Center, concluding her training in 2021. Furthermore, she earned a diploma from the Inner Perceptions Instructor Training Course at the University of Rosario, Argentina, in March 2024 and Healing Anyang course in 2025. Ida has been actively teaching Zhineng Qigong since 2020, offering classes to retired individuals at the kibbutz, as well as to children and young people with disabilities, and she also participates in international events.
Paul with over four decades of experience as a Spiritual Leader, has developed innovative and effective methods for integrating Mussar and Hasidic teachings into a psycho-spiritual approach for counseling, meditation sessions, and officiating Cantor. His extensive background includes serving in pulpits, leading services with choir and organ, teaching, lecturing, and publishing in professional journals and his thoughts and experiences in the web, cantorheller.com., kantorer.com
His accomplishments encompass collaborative Jewish education programs for both youth and adults, as well as distinctive online courses, workshops, and presentations at numerous organizations. Paul’s pioneering curriculum, which is health and theologically based, focuses on incorporating a psycho-spiritual dimension into ministerial service. This curriculum has been adopted by synagogues across three continents where he has served, and he currently holds a full-time position as Minister at the esteemed Belsize Square Synagogue in London
Spirit of Wellness 