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Golden Gate Sufi Circle
PO Box 559, Sebastopol, CA 95473
ggsc@goldengatesufi.org

   March 2013

   

   

"When the heart acts, it touches everything in the universe."
-- Murshid Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti)

What folks love about
      Mendocino Sufi Camp

"This is my spiritual Homecoming
The week that makes the other 51 bearable.
I want my ashes scattered here."

"A wondrous world to live and be in for a week, filled with love, harmony, and beauty"

"Connecting with dear friends and Murshids in a spiritually supportive environment, where I can consolidate the previous year’s experience with a deeper understanding of myself"

"It’s a love fest."

(Quotes from the 2012 camp survey)

Mendo Camp now has PayPal! You can set up your own 'easy payment plan' and join us in July with no worries. Read more

RECEIVING THE GIFT OF SPRING with Murshida Mariam Baker. Join with our circle of mureeds and friends, for a time of retreat and contemplation, surrender and emptiness, purification and nourishment. March 8th through 10th 2013 in Northern California. Go to flyer.
Spring Dances of Universal Peace Quarterly April 19-21 in Geyserville with SierraLynne White. Sadaya Zimmerle & friends, featuring up-and-coming / new / young dance leaders.
The Federation of the Sufi Message will meet April 24-28 in the North Bay area, with senior teachers from six international Sufi groups in the lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan presenting. Open to all devotees of the Message.

Sufi Camp in the East Bay June 14-16. Registration now open here


JAMIAT AHM gathering of the Sufi Ruhaniat International Annual gathering of Mureeds and mystic seekers, March 21- 24, 2013 in Madison, Wisconsin; with Pir Shabda, Murshid Wali Ali and Imam Bilal.   View the flyer.

Two classes with Wali Ali
now available online

Tawwaba writes, Beloved Friends on the Path - Photo

Wali Ali is offering two class series this year at the Mentorgarten. These are being recorded and made available for interested mureeds. The first class for each program is now posted online.

One class, a survey of the book Physicians of the Heart meets monthly on a Tuesday evening. It is open to anyone, with no commitments and practice "homework" is suggested but only as the student feels moved. This is recorded in audio and made available as MP3 files. The fee is dana - a free-will donation. Click to view the flyer

The other series, God is Breath, meets once a month for a full day. These session are recorded in both video and audio. (View class flyer) This is an advanced class, open to mureeds with a three (sequential) month commitment. The fee for distant students is $50/day, $150 for first set of three. The potential for the profound benefits of this program will be best realized by engaging in the practice assignments.

These recordings mean an interested person could begin at any time. However, we are considering creating a "cyber sangha" for study and practice support, and sharing of experience, through email or list-serves for each series. It might be advantageous to join this aspect of the caravan from its outset.

Please contact me for more information on any aspect of these offerings.

With love, in service,
Tawwaba


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Pir Shabda's monthly zikr: THURSDAY March 14th. We have MOVED to a convenient San Rafael location. Details here. View Pir Shabda's other events and recorded Sufi teachings and music here.

Save the date -- SANTA CRUZ SUFI CAMP (details to follow) will be held Aug. 16-18

More Santa Cruz events: visit the Sufi events Yahoo group page

♥ See more San Francisco events at the Khankah SAM web site here. Also in SF, monthly zikr with Anwar & friends

Dances in with Gayatri in Graton, Sonoma County, for the Spring Equinox March 22nd.

Sacramento Dances of Universal Peace: GO

Humboldt County: Garden of the Heart Sufi Community

♥ Sierra Sufi Circle: Nevada City area events email for info

♥ View the complete Ruhaniat Events Calendar on Ruhaniat.org for Sufi camps and retreats world-wide.

♥ There's a new web site honoring Murshida Vera Corda. Initiated by Murshid Samuel Lewis in the 30's, she was an artist, and educator and a Sufi spiritual guide for over 60 years.

♥ Oregon's longtime Sufi Community newsletter, "The Caravansary", has moved online, with a shared community calendar, directory, and posting site, co-edited by multiple folk: www.OregonCaravan.org Oregon's longtime Sufi Community newsletter, "The Caravansary", has moved online, with a shared community calendar, directory, and posting site, co-edited by multiple folk: www.OregonCaravan.org
You can now order the feature-rich iPad/ iPhone version of Physicians of the Heart from iTunes -- just go to 'iTunes Store' on your device and do a search for the title. You will enjoy the built in cross-referencing and the multimedia integration. Less flashy but functional and convenient e-reader versions are available for Kindle, Nook and Kobo. (As a fan of independent local businesses, your webmaster biked into town, bought a pocket-size Kobo Mini at the bookstore and loaded "PoTH" onto it. It has a nice clear display, and with a little practice it's easy to jump to any section of the book or do a search for a particular Wazifah.) Check it out -- now you can take it with you!
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Memorial to Noor Inayat Khan Unveiled and Dedicated,
November 8th 2012

Online news: The Mail      NPR      BBC      Robert Mazzara's Photos

This memorial to Noor Inayat Khan, heroic daughter of Hazrat Inayat Khan who gave her life for Liberty during WWII, was dedicated in London by the Princess Royal (Princess Anne who is sister to Prince Charles). Due in no small part to our financial support and the petitions we sent, the project has been completed and its placement approved. Great gratitude to our Sufi brother Roger Pritchard, himself British-born at the beginning of World War II, who took on this project in 2011 and has coordinated our efforts ever since. And we deeply appreciate the efforts of author Shrabani Basu in the UK, without whose loving, devoted efforts this never would have happened. View video about the project here. Read more about Noor's life here. Besides this honor, a building where she received Special Operations training as a volunteer, now part of an innovative open prison, was recently dedicated to her memory with a Universal Worship service. Noor embodied the Sufi Message in so many ways, may her memory help open the hearts of all!

View dramatic documentary about this heroic Sufi woman

FROM THE COMPLETE SAYINGS OF HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN:

The key to all happiness in the Love of God

The heart is the gate of god; as soon as you knock on it, the answer comes.