Start your Mussar Journey with CCM
CCM renews spiritual practice and Jewish text to transform relationships, awakening each person to their profound responsibility for the other. We offer introductory and continuing classes that focus on Mussar texts, theology, and practice. Students commit for a semester at a time; a complete curriculum is offered over four years. We also offer specialty classes open to new students each semester focused on different themes.
Check out the list of available classes below!
Available classes
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Seeds of Mussar
5-6 p.m. MT, Tuesdays | June 23 - July 21
An introductory course, this Seeds class will introduce a method that focuses on refining our attributes so that they enable us to serve others with greater and greater joy. We work on our character attributes, not simply to take care of ourselves and enjoy more fulfilling lives, but to practice bearing responsibility for others.
*This class is designed for new students
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Mussar Yoga
6-7:30 p.m. CST, Wednesdays | June 24 - Aug. 26, 2026
Heidi Schneider & Ronna Rochell
This class will explore Mussar learning and practice through text study and yoga breathing and movements. We have found the interconnections between Mussar values and yoga principles have profound resonance. While Mussar is traditionally practiced through study of Jewish text and practical applications in one’s daily life, the addition of yoga can deepen the learning of Mussar into the breath and body itself.
*Open to students of all experience levels in Mussar or yoga practice
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Weekly Mussar Meditations
10-10:30 a.m. ET | Wednesdays
THIS CLASS IS ON SUMMER BREAK
Mussar is fundamentally a mindfulness practice; that is, in order to truly practice Mussar, one needs to be ever more aware of what is actually happening – not just immediately responding to projections, fears, and entitlements. I think some sort of meditation practice is necessary as a precursor to practicing Mussar, but increasingly I feel like it’s even more than that – Mussar is what meditation looks like when one leaves the cushion and enters the realm of relationship.
*Free & open to new students!
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Tikkun Va'ad Judaism is About Love
9:30-11 a.m. CT, Thursdays | Apr. 23 - Dec. 17
For advanced Mussar students, this Va'ad will explore the theology of the Center for Contemporary Mussar and how, through our daily Mussar work, we "reveal spiritual practice and Jewish text to transform relationships, awakening in each person their profound responsibility to the other."
*This class is for advanced students only; prior teacher approval is required
On-going Va’ads
(not open to new students, unless noted)
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Transformations/Tikkun 1
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CT, Sundays | March 8 - June 7
This is the continuation of an on-going vaad and is not open to new students without prior approval.
In addition to the classes listed above, CCM also offers:
Madrichim Training Course — available to those who have completed the 3-year CCM curriculum and who are accepted into the teacher training program.
Rabbis Mussar Cohort — a year-long course offered to Rabbis with Mussar experience who are looking for deeper training and community.
Local Mussar classes — our madrichim are spread out throughout the United States and Canada, and many teach Mussar classes at their local synagogues.