Category: Events

Autumn is a rich time to let go of what no longer serves. 

Just watch those leaves!

Why not invite Shiva’s momentum? Shambo Shankara (sing happiness for Shiva’s gifts)

And the omnipresent strength and beneficence of Tara?                                      Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha!           

And prepare with DELIGHT in Equanimity and updraft of Peace?                                        Om SHANTI Om. Metta, Karuna, Mudita, UPEKKHA

Zarifah and Hayra will be leading this month, with more drumming and guitar from Murad! ~ ~ < ! > ~ ~

These are simple circle movements to live music, inspired by wisdom traditions from around the globe. Each Dance is taught, no need to bring a partner, no experience necessary. Come as you are or dress elegantly. Comfortable shoes or bare feet recommended.

Shoreline Peace Dance

Friday, October 11, 2019, 7:30-9:30pm. and every 2nd Friday. ~NAMASTE YOGA STUDIO. The Evergreen Building. 18021 15th Ave NE, Suite 101 Shoreline, WA 98155. map- Namaste Yoga Studio. Ample Parking ADA accessible~

Suggested donation $5-15. You are welcome regardless of funds.

Got Questions? …Ginger Hayra, 206 546-6092. Shoreline PeaceDancing.org

Namaste Yoga Studio is a beautiful and inspiring place to meet! 

Namaste Yoga Studio

Third Annual

Northwest RUMI FESTIVAL

October 4-6, 2019

Ballard IOOF Hall, 1706 NW Market St, Seattle

24-hour CONTINUOUS TURNING •Open to All

•Friday 7 PM-Saturday 7 PM: Zikrs, Dances, poetry, round-the-clock music and turning, open to all

•Concurrent sohbets & dialogue; teachings & practices; healing ceremony; art & music workshops; & more…

•NW teachers & speakers including Ann Holmes Redding, Imam Jamal Rahman, Khalif Eddie Nasruddin Greenberg, Murshida Khadija Chishti, Raqib Burke, Seemi Ghazi, Khalif Hassan Swanson, Suleyman Scott Hoffman, and Deborah Koff Chapin; Turkish shakykhs Jelaluddin Loras Effendi and Sherif Baba

•Unity Zikr musicians, plus special guests including Jessika Kenney, Rev. Clare Morgan, David McGrath, and Dick Valentine

•Catered Saturday evening feast, 7:30 PM

•Mevlevi Sema, Sunday 3 PM

Your early registration helps us plan for snacks and dinner. Please go to our Brown Paper Tickets page https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4335415 to donate $50 (or more) to help cover the expenses of hosting this event; once again, all proceeds after minimal expenses go to the Ballard Food Bank.. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

To register with a smaller donation, contact Rafi

by email mailto:abdarafiullah@gmail.com , or with a text or call (206) 226-0416

A CELEBRATION in PRAISE of the DIVINE BELOVED

An Evening of ZIKR and the DANCES of UNIVERSAL PEACE

with Pir Shabda Kahn, Murshid Wali Ali and Sufi Ruhaniat Int’l Murshids

Saturday, October 26, 2019 • $20 donation
7:30 pm • Ballard IOOF, Seattle

Beloved Friends,
Enroute to their annual retreat, the murshids/ senior teachers of the Sufi Ruhaniat Int’l will spend an evening in Seattle with the local extended Sufi 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 50 years. More details will follow.

A no-host restaurant dinner for Ruhaniat mureeds and certified DUP leaders will precede the event, first-come, first served. Seats are limited. More details will follow.

From dear sister Kim:

Dear friends, I am the housing coordinator for Rumi Fest Oct. 4-6, to be held at the Odd Fellows Hall in beautiful, downtown Ballard!

Please email me if you can host people for the event (kimberlee723@gmail.com)

Please send me your phone number, address and the number of people you can accommodate along with any other details I may need to know.

Thank you so much for your hospitality.
May you be blessed 100 fold.
~ Kim Kramer

Full Moon BALANCED with Sun Energy
as we approach the AUTUMN EQUINOX

Shoreline Peace Dance
Friday, September 13, 2019, 7:30-9:30pm
and every 2nd Friday

NAMASTE YOGA STUDIO
The Evergreen Building
18021 15th Ave. NE, Suite 101
Shoreline, WA 98155
map- Namaste Yoga Studio
Ample Parking ~ ADA accessible

This month with Elizabeth and Hayra (and Murad)
hayrafatah@gmail.com / 206 546-6092
edequine@gmail.com / 206 842-5181
Shoreline Peace Dance
<http://seattledancesofuniversalpeace.org/shoreline.htm>

Suggested donation $5-15. You are welcome regardless of funds.

Namaste Yoga Studio is a beautiful and inspiring place to meet! Namaste
Yoga Studio

Sunday, September 15 – 7pm
Woodinville Unitarian Universalist Church
19020 NE Woodinville Duvall Rd, Woodinville, WA 98077
Map

Murad Phil and Wakil will be leading.
Come, come, whoever you are.

Dances of Universal Peace
All are welcome
Donation requested but not required

From our Beloved Sister Khadija:

“What I’m trying to do is build you up into experiencing love more, without defining it; joy more, without defining it; hope more, without defining it; and a purpose in life without telling you exactly what that should be, because each one has to form his/her own purpose.”
~ SUFI MURSHID SAMUEL LEWIS

RUHANIAT SUFI SATURDAY, September 7, 2019

AWAKENING HEART

with the local Ruhaniat Teaching Circle and Special Guest MUNIR PETER REYNOLDS

MOVEMENT • STILLNESS • DANCE • BREATH • SUFI TEACHINGS

SUFI SATURDAY 2:30-6 pm
POTLUCK 6 pm ZIKR 7 pm

“I’m not going to go into any theology, unless we experience it. Because if you listen to me now with your ears and I speak with my tongue, we’re still in thought. So I give these walks and dances so you can listen with your whole body.”
~ SUFI MURSHID SAMUEL LEWIS

LAKE CITY, WA
INFORMATION and full address: (206) 850-2111

RETURN: We never parted; In company you quicken, ascend;

Happy enough solo, with others you’ll move farther, faster.

~ MEVLANA JELALUDDIN RUMI ~

Mevlevi Order of America • Sufi Ruhaniat Int’l • Halveti-Jerrahi

Rifai-Marufi Order • Inayati Order • Chishti Sufis and Friends

PUGET SOUND Sufi Community

August 31, 2019

UNITY ZIKR

POTLUCK 6:30 PM        ZIKR 7:30 PM

IOOF HALL•1706 NW Market Street, Ballard/Seattle, WA

$10-$20 Charitable Contribution

Also, Ballard Food Bank Canned Food Donation

Many Thanks, Ballard Oddfellows

Mevlevi Order of America 8/31/19  rumiseattle.org@gmail.com (206) 784-1532

Sufi Ruhaniat Int’l Rumi Festival 10/4/19  halway@comcast.net (206) 850-2111

Halveti-Jerrahi Rumi Festival 10/5/19  ecotoolsllc@comcast.net (206) 713-6917

Rifa’i-Marufi Order 11/30/19  rmoseattle@gmail.com (206) 235-1902

Chishti Sufis 2/29/20  hafizullahsufi@gmail.com(206) 380-3833

Inayati Order 5/30/20  wajid.gallien@gmail.com

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.

FIFTH SATURDAYS

2019     3/30, 6/29, 8/31, Rumi Festival October 4-6, 11/30

2020     2/29, 5/30, 8/29, 10/31

Please arrive on time.

Munir Reynolds will be leading the DUP section of this year’s Autumn Leaf celebration.

2019 Autumn Leaf: a party for all ages to celebrate living the last season of life in joy, creativity, and love and without fear. This season is when life is ending, and too many of us fear it. If you are not there yourself yet, you will be. Perhaps your parents or grandparents are already. Our culture has a very negative view of it, and this party is to celebrate a positive view. Rather than closing in with fear and despair, opening with generosity and release of tensions while in the last season of life.

There will be invocation and blessing of the divine Feminine, Dances of Universal Peace, ecstatic dance, and a drum circle. There will also be short presentations from some who are currently in the last season of life so that all may see them thriving.

7:00 PM on Friday September 6 at Om Culture 2210 N. Pacific St, Seattle.

$15 donation requested; no one turned away.

Aug 11 Sunday – Zikr on Whidbey Island

From brother Hassan:

Whidbey Island Zikr Circle 
Sunday, August 11th
Gathering at 6 pm
Potluck 6:30 pm
Zikr Circle 7:30 pm

Unity of Whidbey
5671 Crawford Rd Langley Wa
Open Circle all welcome!
360 321 2001 for info

Beloveds,
Hello from Montana!  Sending this out tonight to remind everyone that there will be zikr circle this Sunday.   Hamid will lead, accompanied by Yana Viniko on keyboards and Khalid Ron Ward on Djembe and perhaps others.   Please plan to partake of this, bring a friend, and enjoy the exploration of the divine names in Arabic together.   Heart into heart, light into light.

NOTE: I will be at Northwest Sufi Camp next week and then in Berkeley for school the rest of August – so there may be less of these blog posts (although I expect to be able to do some during that time).

Aug 7 – Dances of Universal Peace at Keystone Congregational Church – Wednesday nights as always, beginning at 7:30 pm and ending at 9:30 pm.

Keystone Congregational Church – 5019 Keystone Pl N, Seattle, WA 98103
Google Maps

All are welcome – donations accepted but no one turned away for lack of funds.

All dances are taught and relatively simple.

Fragrance-Free please due to allergies.

Aug 9 – Dances of Universal Peace in Shoreline – From sister Hayra:

It’s cool inside!
Please join Hayra and Zarifah
with Shakur Allah and other favorites.

These Dances are comprised of simple circle movements to rich live music, inspired by wisdom traditions from around the globe.

Each Dance is taught, no need to bring a partner, no experience necessary.
Come as you are or dress elegantly. Comfortable shoes or bare feet recommended.

Shoreline Peace Dance
Friday, August 9th, 2019, 7:30-9:30 pm
and every 2nd Friday
~NAMASTE YOGA STUDIO
The Evergreen Building
18021 15th Ave. NE, Suite 101
Shoreline, WA 98155
map- Namaste Yoga Studio

Ample Parking
~Suggested donation $5-15.
You are welcome regardless of funds.
ADA accessible.

All are welcome and will be included.

Got Questions? 
Ginger Hayra, hayrafatah@gmail.com 206 546-6092
Zarifah Spain, zarifahsings@outlook.com 541 337-4604
or Elizabeth Dequine, edequine@gmail.com, 206 612-5913
Shoreline Peace Dancing