Regional Special Events - New Mexico
1 - 50th Anniversary Celebration of Dances of Universal Peace - Silver City, NM - June 24, 2018
2 - Southwest Sufi Camp - near Silver City, NM - July 23 - 29, 2018
3 - Retreats at the Southwest Sufi Community - Ongoing
2 - Southwest Sufi Camp - near Silver City, NM - July 23 - 29, 2018
3 - Retreats at the Southwest Sufi Community - Ongoing
Celebrating 50 years of Dances of Universal Peace
In the mid nineteen sixties Murshid Samuel L Lewis after practicing Sufism and Zen for fifty years while also deeply studying the world’s other major traditions began taking students in the Haight-Ashbury of San Francisco. After a while due to the youth of those he was working with, he looked for more active ways to bring spiritually and mystical practice alive for his students. He began by introducing walking practice working with the spiritual centers, the elements, and what he called astrological yoga to his mureeds and then in 1968 he introduced them to what he called Dervish and Mantric Dances. These have grown into the vast body of dances we have today known as the Dances of Universal Peace.
So please join us in celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Dances of Universal Peace.
Sunday June 24th
1:00 to 5:00 PM
The celebration will consist of a community potluck surrounded by periods of re- experiencing Murshid’s Original Dances in the manner of Murshids formula for bringing about peace in the Middle East, to Eat, Dance, and Pray together. We will be dancing and eating under a large outdoor pavilion shaded from the late June sun. All are welcome, there is no cost.
Location: 12 Shale Road. Take Cottage San Road, take a left at Archer (dirt road after first creek crossing) and go a quarter mile to the Y with Shale, then right on Shale, at 1/10 of a mile on your right. Covered pavilion in back of house.
So please join us in celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Dances of Universal Peace.
Sunday June 24th
1:00 to 5:00 PM
The celebration will consist of a community potluck surrounded by periods of re- experiencing Murshid’s Original Dances in the manner of Murshids formula for bringing about peace in the Middle East, to Eat, Dance, and Pray together. We will be dancing and eating under a large outdoor pavilion shaded from the late June sun. All are welcome, there is no cost.
Location: 12 Shale Road. Take Cottage San Road, take a left at Archer (dirt road after first creek crossing) and go a quarter mile to the Y with Shale, then right on Shale, at 1/10 of a mile on your right. Covered pavilion in back of house.
Southwest Sufi Camp - Gathering Nectar
Voice of the Turtle Retreat Center - Southwest Sufi Community
Silver City, NM - July 24-29, 2018
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Southwest Sufi Camp July 24-29, 2018 near Silver City, NM
with special guest teacher Murshid Khabir Kitz
More info coming soon.
Retreats at the Southwest Sufi Community
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Dear Friends,
The Southwest Sufi Community Dargah Retreat Hut is ready for retreatants!
Remember remaining very still and listening to the sound of a Tibetan bowl or a bird's song in the woods until the absolute very end? In truth, every sound goes on forever, there is just a moment at which we can no longer hear it. The Southwest Sufi Community offers this type of quiet, with time and endless space for solo retreat, while staying at the Dargah Retreat Hut. For those seeking time off the grid to write, observe spiritual practice, daydream, commune with Nature, please visit us at SSC.
Hazrat Moineddin Jablonski, Pir (spiritual director) of the Sufi Ruhaniat International for 30 years, had the vision upon which the Southwest Sufi Community, a nature preserve, was founded. His Dargah, or burial place, is located on Southwest Sufi Community land, on a site that he chose. He also chose a site on the hill above the dargah for the Dargah Retreat Hut, which has been completed as a cozy retreat place for one person. The views from the Dargah Retreat Hut are vast and inspiring. The sheer silence is almost palpable. The stars glimmer in the velvet darkness and almost nothing detracts from inner and outer solitude.
Guests are welcome to stay for one night or more at the suggested donation of $20 a night. Water, hand carried to the Retreat Hut from the artesian spring, and linens are provided by the SSC community. The Retreat Hut is simply equipped with a single bed, wood burning stove for heat, a one-burner camp stove, sink and a nearby outhouse. The community offers options for having meals provided and brought to the Retreat Hut for a modest fee. Alternately, the retreatant may prefer to make meals in the community Retreat Center house where they are also welcome to shower. Individuals wishing to experience a personal guided retreat may request a list of local retreat guides. For more details, or to make arrangements and design your own unique retreat, inquire with the Host-Coordinator at sscvoc@gmail.com. Our webpage is southwestsuficommunity.com.
The Southwest Sufi Community Dargah Retreat Hut is ready for retreatants!
Remember remaining very still and listening to the sound of a Tibetan bowl or a bird's song in the woods until the absolute very end? In truth, every sound goes on forever, there is just a moment at which we can no longer hear it. The Southwest Sufi Community offers this type of quiet, with time and endless space for solo retreat, while staying at the Dargah Retreat Hut. For those seeking time off the grid to write, observe spiritual practice, daydream, commune with Nature, please visit us at SSC.
Hazrat Moineddin Jablonski, Pir (spiritual director) of the Sufi Ruhaniat International for 30 years, had the vision upon which the Southwest Sufi Community, a nature preserve, was founded. His Dargah, or burial place, is located on Southwest Sufi Community land, on a site that he chose. He also chose a site on the hill above the dargah for the Dargah Retreat Hut, which has been completed as a cozy retreat place for one person. The views from the Dargah Retreat Hut are vast and inspiring. The sheer silence is almost palpable. The stars glimmer in the velvet darkness and almost nothing detracts from inner and outer solitude.
Guests are welcome to stay for one night or more at the suggested donation of $20 a night. Water, hand carried to the Retreat Hut from the artesian spring, and linens are provided by the SSC community. The Retreat Hut is simply equipped with a single bed, wood burning stove for heat, a one-burner camp stove, sink and a nearby outhouse. The community offers options for having meals provided and brought to the Retreat Hut for a modest fee. Alternately, the retreatant may prefer to make meals in the community Retreat Center house where they are also welcome to shower. Individuals wishing to experience a personal guided retreat may request a list of local retreat guides. For more details, or to make arrangements and design your own unique retreat, inquire with the Host-Coordinator at sscvoc@gmail.com. Our webpage is southwestsuficommunity.com.
“…dance with me in the infinite pause before the next great
inhale of the breath that is breathing us all into being…"
~Oriah Mountain Dreamer, from The Dance
~Oriah Mountain Dreamer, from The Dance
