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World-wide Camps & Retreats 2012: Sufi Ruhaniat / Sufi Order
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Imbolc celebration with Gayatri

Celebrate the quickening of Spring with us, dancing in the dome at the Garden of Sophia's Temple. Fri Feb 3rd in Graton, 7 pm.    Flyer with directions.

Urs celebration of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Feb 5th

7 pm at the "CCC", 145 Rock Hill Drive, Tiburon
Hosted by the Bay Area Sufi Order International.  Flyer. photo of HIK

This will be the 85th anniversary of the day Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan was reunited with the Beloved at the end of his momentous earthly life. We will gather to celebrate his being and the day of his 'wedding' with Allah.

7 PM - Music, sharings, recitation, prayer, zikr, silence; Communing - 8:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Please bring a short passage from Murshid that has been important to you or is currently a focus for your life; and please bring food to share. Donations gratefully accepted ($15.00 suggested).

More Coming Events

  • Dances with Brother Joe Kilikevice, a well-known dance leader as well as a Dominican friar and activist within the Church. Thursday Feb 23 at Santa Sabina in San Rafael, open to the public and free. Read more.
  • Zikr Allah with Postneshin Jelaleddin Loras from Turkey, Saturday March 3 at Christ Church (formerly North Church) in Berkeley from 6 to 9:30 pm. Contact: Durriah via email. Also there may be additional Mevlevi events that weekend in the Bay Area. More info to follow here and/or at www.hayatidede.org
  • Dream and Tarot retreat in SF -- "Dreaming Our Way Through Times Of Great Change" with Sheikha Azima Lila, March 23-25.   Flyer photo of Azila Lila
    So many of us long for clear guidance for our lives, especially in turbulent times such as we live in now. Dreams provide a neverending stream of just what we need. When the sun goes down, we can see the stars. And when the conscious mind goes to sleep, we can receive the subtler guidance and blessings from other aspects of our beings and from other realms of wisdom. And so also with the Oracles. If we allow their images and symbols to speak to us directly and set aside the critical mind for awhile, wonderful and often surprising wisdom and insight come to us.
  • The Light Of Awareness with Murshida Leilah Be in Nevada City Apr 21-22. Flyer and info here. photo of Leilah
    Spiritual Practice that engages the heart is a profoundly effective method for awakening to our True Nature. Human Beings thrive from meaningful connection with one another, as well as diving deeply into the silence within. We will engage ourselves in meditation, heart-centered reflections, zikr and dance to increase the Light of Awareness and enter the Stream of Pure Consciousness.
  • 2011-12 dates for Zikr with PIR SHABDA in Fairfax: January 18, February 15. Flyer here .
  • Classes with Murshid Wali Ali Meyer in SF. Recordings also available, including the recent Sufism 101 class; see the web site for more info):

Sebastopol Sufi Healing Circle
2nd Tuesday in February (2/14/12) at 6:30 pm

In Sufi practices, and particularly Sufi healing practices, our intention is to touch and manifest divine qualities which always live within us. Murshid Samuel Lewis often quoted Sufi Al-Ghazzali, saying "Sufism is based on experience and not on premises." So in our healing circles we use breath, sound, contemplation and prayer to open and experience hidden treasures such as purification, compassion and healing power which are our True Nature; and we perform the Absent Healing ritual of Hazrat Inayat Khan to send healing light to others
We meet at 7085 Fellers Lane, between 116 and Litchfield Ave. All are welcome, there is no charge. Bring the name of anyone who has asked for healing. For more information: Shaffee, 707-484-0573 or shaffee@sufipaths.net.
ALSO: SUFI HEALING CIRCLE AT THE MENTORGARDEN EVERY SUNDAY AT 9 AM
SEE THE CALENDAR ALSO FOR SUFI HEALING CIRCLES IN BERKELEY

2012 Spring and Summer Camps now online

  • This summer's Mendocino Sufi Camp has been announced. With Sara Morgan, Gayan Macher, Pir Shabda and Tamam, Fazl Frank Olivier and many more, this year's Mendo camp focuses on inner exploration and outward expression of our true nature. Dates are July 15th - 22nd. Youth retreat precedes, silent retreat follows. Info on all at MendoSufiCamp.org.
  • More and More Awake -- Moving from Fear to Freedom: Info for the 30th Annual Spring Renewal Sufi Camp in Maui is now up at SufisHawaii.org. A week-long Spiritual Camp May 11th - 18th, 2012 Camp Keanae, Maui
Physicians Of The Heart has just been released in paperback and can be ordered here at a sale price
of $33 with free US shipping.
Video: Book Release Party, 9-29-11
  • New video by author Shrabani Basu about Noor Inayat Khan and the memorial project. Info about the Sufi fund drive is here.
  • Subscribe to Bhavani's Sonoma County Devotional Music Events email list, with Kirtans, chanting, Gospel singing and much more.
  • View announcements of Imam Bilal Hyde's events by joining the Yahoo group here.
  • Photos of the Santa Cruz Sufi camp are in Facebook on the Santa Cruz Sufi Caravan group page. For 2011 Mendocino camp photos go here.

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    Sufism in the News, and Other Recommended Links

    • News link: "Sufi Circuit" tourist destination for Jammu and Kashmir planned
    • News link: Rumi's Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love & Friendship, a new Coleman Barks release: "The Big Red Book".
    • Wahiduddin.net is an inexhaustible resource on Sufi Teachings particularly Hazrat Inayat Khan, also the Dances and many other topics, maintained by the apparently tireless Wahiduddin Richard Shelguist from Colorado.
    • New Sufi Order page for those interested in the Sufi practice of Retreat or Khilvat: here.
    • Watch a Video of Pir Hidayat Inayat-Khan speaking about his father Hazrat Inayat Khan's musical teachings.
    • The Sufi Remembrance Project, a website for sharing memories of Beloveds on the Path who have crossed over.
    • Baba Ram Dass, Bodhi and Leilah's Doorway Into Light, a project envisioned to reclaim the death of our bodies as a sacred and spiritual passage.
    • New Sufi music with Mercan Dede in You-Tube's Sufi Music Channel
    ONLINE SUFI MUSIC DOCUMENTARY! Here's a link to a well done and moving documentary, SUFI SOUL, that crosses many cultures. From travel and culture writer William Dalrymple, the theme is music and dance as Divine Prayer. (There are just a few glimpses of angry fundamentalists.) Recommended by your webmaster.
    View film (49 min). 

    "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams,
because every second of the search is a second's encounter
with God and with eternity."

   -- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist




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