Dance leaders and our Mevlevi friends will again join together Wednesday, December 4th at Keystone Congregation Church in Seattle at 7:30 pm to create an evening celebrating the life and work of beloved poet and teacher Jalaluddin Rumi.
We hope you join us for Rumi inspired dances, poetry, and Zikr with semazens doing the beautiful turn. Bring friends! Semazens – come turn with us! We will not be doing our usual break.
Blessings, Hassan and Farishta
Keystone Congregational Church 5019 Keystone Pl N, Seattle, WA 98103
The focus of our Dance meeting this Wednesday is “A Call to Community”.
While we always need one another, always need to call on our Sanga for support as we navigate our way through the Mysteries of Life, this need is even more prevalent in our world today. We need to dig deeper, empty ourselves more thoroughly, and fill ourselves more fully with Divine protection and Divine Wisdom.
On Wednesday Hassan and I will be offering Dances directing us to our Community for support. We will be calling on Divine protection and on emptying ourselves in order to connect with the Divine within and without, as together we seek a deeper Truth.
If you can’t be with us in physical form, please send us your support, Majid and Hassan
Friends from local Sufi circles, traveling the inner path in mutual respect in community for decades gather to pray, practice, update news, share food, and make a charitable contribution
* HOST TARIQAT (1) selects a charity, (2) holds post/opens/closes, (3) greets, (4) serves, (5) is responsible for clean-up.
SACRED ATMOSPHEREAnnouncements and fliers only pre/post-Zikr, only in the entry hall or dining room, please.
Mark your calendars for a very special event, the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer cycle of dance
Keystone Congregational Church, 5019 Keystone Pl N, Seattle, WA 98103. Wednesday, Dec. 11 @ 7:30pm (to celebrate and dance the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer).
Once again we will be steeping in the words of Yeshua (Jesus) in his native tongue, Aramaic, joining in his breath, giving ourselves to his profound invitation and guidance for realizing the Christ presence within.
Through his prayer, Yeshua beckons us to surrender to the immense and timeless longing at the depths of our being. Dancing, chanting and breathing the native words of his prayer, gradually or all at once, we sense our dance becoming one with the root movement of Creation.
May we offer our dance as an act of surrender into this universal movement at the core of our being, that we may emerge with renewed clarity, vitality and compassion. Especially during times when our human family is deeply divided and polarized, it becomes all the more vital that we renew our connection to the inner sources of strength, peace, and compassion. Many of us have found the Aramaic prayer cycle to be a potent vehicle for the journey.
I, personally, will be preparing by meditating and praying with each line, one at a time per 5 to 7 day periods. If you feel drawn to do so, you are most welcome to join me. I will be sending out brief reminders as we move from one line to the next. The practice can be anything that works for you. For me, it can be anything from meditating on a line over a period of some time, chanting with simple body practices, or simply sensing the subtle energetic qualities awakened by each line even if only in a brief moment of silence.
Please come and add your vitally important breath and presence!
Starting now with the first line:
Abwoon d’bwashmaya
[translations by Neil Douglas Klotz, PhD. (aka Murshid Saadi)]
O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos, you create all that moves in light.
O Thou! The Breathing Life of all, Creator of the Shimmering Sound that touches us.
Respiration of all worlds, we hear you breathing – in and out – in silence.
Source of Sound: in the war and the whisper, in the breeze and the whirlwind, we hear your Name.
Radiant One: You shine within us, outside us – even darkness shines – when we remember.
Name of the names, our small identity unravels in your, you give it back as a lesson. Wordless Action, Silent Potency – where years and eyes awakened, their heaven comes.
If you are joining us from this side of the pond, we meet at about 4:45 or so in the parking lot in front of the Azteca Mexican Restaurant (across the street from the QFC) on the Mukilteo Speedway to carpool to the ferry.
From brother Hassan:
Nov. 11th Monthly Whidbey Zikr Circle Unity of Whidbey 5671 Crawford Rd, Langley, WA
6:00 p.m. Community Potluck 7:30 p.m. Zikr Allah (425) 788-1617
Beloveds, Please join us for our monthly Zikr Circle and Potluck. Wakil and I will be accompanied by Yana Viniko on keyboard and Khalid Ron Ward on drums, perhaps others. Let’s warm our hearts as we welcome winter!
At our dance tomorrow (Wednesday October 30) , we will have an altar for anyone to bring a picture or remembrance of an ancestor or other loved one who has passed through the veil… Come and join us as we dance and sing in celebration of the cycles of life! 7:30 PM at Keystone church in Wallingford.
We look forward to sharing these precious moments with you,
Dear Friends, We are excited to facilitate another community meditation and discussion at the Mukilteo Library in the meeting room on Thursday, Oct. 24th from 6:45-7:45.
Meditation will be about 30 minutes with some introduction beforehand and a short discussion afterward. We are looking forward to being with you all. Feel free to invite friends.
Mukilteo Library- 4675 Harbour Pointe Blvd
In harmony, Kim and Paul Kramer
The Seattle Peace Chorus is proud to present our up-coming concerts, People of the Drum, in honor of Native Americans and their contributions to our nation, community, and environment. We wish to express our solidarity with them and with their struggle for identity and cultural preservation.
Our concert program represents a collaboration with our Native American communities and features music composed by Frederick N. West, the director of the Seattle Peace Chorus.
Native American singers, drummers, storytellers, and tribal elders will be an integral part of our concert.
Native American tribes in the United States have struggled for years to uphold treaties that protect their rights to fishing, hunting, and preservation of their sacred grounds. This work will include poetic renderings of these and other legacies, including the Navajo prayer “Beauty before us, beauty behind us, we walk in beauty; it is finished in beauty.”
We present this concert at two Native American sites in Seattle with limited seating: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, and the Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center.
Featured Artists Frederick N. West, Director Seattle Peace Chorus and composer of the musical program Sondra Segundo, Haida singer Johnny Moses, Tulalip storyteller Kevin Locke, Lakota hoop dancer, storyteller, and Native American flute expert (Duwamish Longhouse only) Professional chamber orchestra Edie Loyer Nelson, Duwamish tribal elder
Thank you for your contribution and your support. Our goals of promoting peace and justice and making connections with justice-minded people of our Seattle community, our country, and the world is enhanced by your support both in attendance at our concerts and financially.
Your ticket for Sunday or Saturday is good for only the given date and venue. Seating is limited, so get your tickets as soon as possible from a chorus member, or on Brown Paper Tickets (see below).
Sunday 17 November 2019, 3:00 pm Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center 5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA 98199
Saturday 23 November 2019, 7:00 pm Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center 4705 W Marginal Way SW, Seattle, WA 98106
Because of the limited number of seats available at these venues, ticket prices are $30 at the door; $25 in advance; $23 seniors, students, special needs.
Let the soul now sing that it become utterly triumphant,
Let the soul now sing that it become totally free, That murmurs and forebodings be dispersed,
And the Universal Light become known to all
~ Sufi Murshid SamuelLewis
Ballard IOOF, 1706 NW Market, Seattle, WA
with SUFI RUHANIAT INT’L
Pir Shabda Kahn Murshid Wali Ali • Murshida Leilah • Murshida Khadija Murshida Mariam • Murshid Saul-uddin • Murshida Darvesha Murshid Allaudin • Murshid Aslan • Murshida Rahimah
$20 Suggested Contribution (no one turned away for lack of funds)
INFORMATION: (206) 303-7968
Beloved Friends, Enroute to their annual retreat, the murshids/senior teachers of the Sufi Ruhaniat Int’l will stop in Seattle to share with the local extended Sufi and Dances of Universal Peace community. This group is responsible for carrying forward the spiritual transmission of Sufi Murshid Samuel Lewis, the first American Sufi Master; many have traveled and represented this lineage for 40-50 years.
ANCESTOR SUPPER AT HAWTHORN FARM
October 26, 4 p.m. arrival and preparation
Join us for this annual feast of feeding our ancestors. This is different from our usual casual Council, though similar in spirit–feasting together, sharing stories from the heart.
The idea is to bring a dish that honors your ancestors, whether a person you knew or a cultural dish. Don’t worry about cooking for a crowd–less is more when we have to eat all the food that night or give it to the fire. No giant pots of soup!
If you want to come or even think you want to, RSVP and Alexia will send you more details to help you feel oriented and prepared. It’s one of our favorite events of the year and we extend a hearty welcome.
Hawthorn Farm 17340 NE 195th St. Woodinville, WA 98072
October 13th Monthly Whidbey Zikr Circle Unity of Whidbey 5671 Crawford Rd, Langley, WA
6:00 p.m. Community Potluck 7:30 p.m. Zikr Allah (425) 788-1617
Beloveds,
Please join us for our monthly zikr circle and community potluck gathering. We will be accompanied by Khalid Ron Ward on drums and Krishnapriya on keyboards.
Apologies for the late notice. My 95 year old mother died last Sunday and much of this week has been taken up with that.
