May 9, 2007 

 Volume 1, Issue 3
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SUFI EVENTS

“If you knew who walks beside you, on the way that you have chosen, fear would be impossible.”
—from A Course in Miracles

Welcome to the HeartStream Pulse Newsletter!
The HeartStream Pulse is sent as a service to our HeartStream Sufi Community as a communications forum. The Pulse will include: notices whenever a personal need arises, services to offer, housing available, items for sale, notices about interest/discussion groups, and community-related information to share.

Inspirational A Letter of Heart Felt Gratitude
Dear Ones,
     We’re writing you today with the deepest appreciation for all the love and support you have provided for us during Jim/Junayad’s challenge with cancer. You have fed us and carried us and held us during these months of trial and it was felt deeply. Indeed the Divine’s compassion and mercy is real as expressed through YOU.
     Thank you for being with us. Thank you for your generosity. Thank you for being a rock of a community.
     Junayad is now going to work two hours a day. We are aware that the recovery process is slow and it looks like we are going to develop great patience and a new life rhythm. If you want to contact us, please do, as we’re not in survival mode any more.  If you have food containers here, please come pick them up as we have finished with the food drop offs now.

Blessings and heart felt gratitude, - Fehrunnisa and Junayad

Events – The Gathering - May 19th, 6 pm to 10 pm at the Quaker Center
     Revel at The Gathering on May 19th from 6 to 10 pm at the Quaker Center at 225 Rooney St near Morrissey on the north side of Hwy 1.
     The evening will start with the musical group ISHQ (see below) and then will be spiced with the poetry of Jellaludin Rumi by Eric Schneider (see Poetry and Poets interview). We will dine among friends and be nurtured with an extraordinary evening of music, prayer, joy and friends.
      The Dances of Universal Peace will be orchestrated and led by Nancy Norris (see Faces of the Beloved interview) and other leaders in the community and the evening will be wrapped up with Zhikr with Anwar Brad Silling. Click here for more information.
GET INSPIRED - We celebrate the nature of Mother in this season
Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal by Naomi - Shihab Nye
       After learning my flight was detained 4 hours, I heard the announcement: If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic, Please come to the gate immediately. Well - one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there.
      An older woman in full traditional Palestinian dress, Just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing loudly. Help, said the flight service person. Talk to her. What is her Problem? We told her the flight was going to be four hours late and she did this.
      I put my arm around her and spoke to her haltingly. Shu dowa, shu-biduck habibti, stani stani schway, min fadlick, Sho bit sewee? The minute she heard any words she knew - however poorly used – She stopped crying.
      She thought our flight had been cancelled entirely. She needed to be in El Paso for some major medical treatment the following day. I said, “No, no, we're fine, you'll get there, just late. Who is picking you up? Let's call him and tell him.” We called her son, and I spoke with him in English. I told him I would stay with his mother until we got on the plane and would ride next to her - southwest.
      She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just for the fun of it. Then we called my dad, and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and found out, of course, that they had ten shared friends.
      Then I thought just for the heck of it, why not call some Palestinian poets I know and let them chat with her. This all took up about two hours. She was laughing a lot by then, telling about her life, and answering questions.
      She had pulled a sack of homemade mamool cookies (little powdered sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts) out of her bag, and offered them to all the women at the gate.
To my amazement, not a single woman declined the cookies. It was like a sacrament. The traveler from Argentina; the traveler from California; the lovely woman from Laredo?we were all covered with the same powdered sugar?and smiling. There are no better cookies.
      The airline broke out the free beverages from huge coolers. There were two little girls on our flight, one African American, one Mexican American who ran around serving us all apple juice and lemonade; they were covered with powdered sugar too.
      I noticed my new best friend (by now we were holding hands) had a potted plant poking out of her bag. It was some medicinal thing with green furry leaves. It was an old country traveling tradition. Always carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere.
      I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and thought, this is the world I want to live in - the shared world.
      Not a single person in this gate, once the crying of confusion stopped, seemed apprehensive about any other person. They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women too.
This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.
       To read more, click here.
Faces of the Beloved - An Interview with Nancy Norris – “Healing Heart of the Santa Cruz Sufi Community” with forward by Tofah Eileen Yragui
     Nancy – what a delight she is. She’s humble, kind, and easy to work with. She reminds me of “The Man Who Planted Trees,” a book about this Frenchman who left the company of people and went out into a scorched and deserted wasteland to plant trees. Steadily and carefully, year after year, his whole life revolved around the act of bringing back to life a land made waste.
       Nancy, too, plants, but for her it is music and mantra and not into the earth but into the hearts of people. Steadfast, year after year, she has offered to our community the Dances of Universal Peace and with that all the services that meet the needs of our dance family.
       She recently let a woman, who had found herself homeless, sleep on her floor for three weeks; helped her get relocated, and made it possible for her to get back on her feet. She always has at least one or two people that she is caring for besides her grandchildren – taking them to medical appointments, shopping, visiting someone in a hospital or nursing home, etc.
       And in the end, after years of his loving work, “The Man Who Planted Trees” lived within a glorious forest that was made into a preserve to be protected for all to use. Nancy’s forest, too, is spread over many miles – in fact over several continents – and it greens with life the hearts of many, many people.
Sound: Nancy, what led you to the Dances of Universal Peace and the Sufis?
Nancy: In 1982, I was leading a “Course of Miracles” group of about 40 people in my home in Cupertino. A man new to the group came in. I happened to say that I wished that the mental concepts we were reading about would become part of my physical life experience to a greater extent.

He smiled and suggested “Sufi Dancing” which he described to me. It took me about three months to have the courage to go to such a strange sounding group, but at the first beat of the drum, I knew I was home!

That meeting was in Menlo Park, with 80 people dancing every Sunday morning. One year later, I began attending a dance meeting in Palo Alto. There I learned more about the Sufi path and met Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz, who later became my dance mentor.
Sound: You have touched so many with your dance leading and mentoring. How did you start leading?
Nancy: After dancing about a year, I attended a larger dance gathering at Lama, New Mexico, led by Saadi and Tasnim Fernandez. I came home from that experience filled with many new “favorite” dances, and asked the leaders of the Menlo Park group if I could teach them one so that they could lead it. They asked me if I knew it well enough to lead, and I did, and from then on, they asked me to lead a dance each week! I was very shy in those days, and had had no intention of ever standing in the center and leading anything, but somehow when leading the dances my shyness disappeared.

As for playing guitar, in Menlo Park I had shared a few of my original songs with the group at the sit-down meditation time, playing a small nylon-stringed guitar. The guitarist for the dances asked me if he could teach me to play the open-tuned guitar, so that I could play with him. I shuddered to think then that I’d have to stand in the middle – I preferred to stand in the back circle and not be seen! He talked me into learning, and after four weeks invited me to play with him. I was terrified, and prayed that we would be playing only dances I’d already practiced with him.

This all started about 24 years ago! Eventually I began to play the guitar and lead dances for the Menlo Park meeting every Sunday morning, attend the dances in Palo Alto every Monday evening, and then, shortly after that, playing and leading the circle in San Jose every Sunday night.
Sound: What is the most magical thing that you’ve seen happen at a dance meeting?
Nancy: The dances really open people up to where they can let healing happen on a profound level, sometimes like a swift kick where it’s needed and sometimes in very subtle ways. At every dance, someone says to me, “Oh, thank you. I really needed to be here tonight.”

Once, a woman said after a dance, “This is the most profound experience of tolerance and acceptance I’ve ever witnessed”.

On a personal level, if you had told this very shy and reserved person (me) 24+ years ago I’d be playing the guitar and leading dances for my peers, I would have told you that you were crazy! However, the dances are very transformative and healing, and… voila… that’s exactly what I’ve been doing.
Sound: Do the Dances of Universal Peace really work? Are we bringing peace to the world?
Nancy: There is a phrase in the Bahai’i writings: “Uniting the world one heart at a time”. That phrase epitomizes for me what the dances are about.

I saw this in the eyes of the Russian dancers when I was there with Saadi and about 30 others, dancing the Dances of Universal Peace in St Petersburg, Moscow and Tbilisi. I saw it in England when dancing the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer and other dances with people from many other European countries at Peace through the Arts camps.

I see it in any dance circle where people connect deeply on levels that are not possible in “ordinary” life. As we become more peaceful within and without ourselves, this surely affects all those lives we touch.
Sound: What makes the Santa Cruz Dance/Sufi Community unique?
Nancy: The Santa Cruz Dance/Sufi community is very unique. Many dance groups I know of around the world offer Dances of Universal Peace once or twice a month, offering love and support to the attendees.

In Santa Cruz, the offerings include the Dances of Universal Peace every Sunday night as well as a once a month Thursday night dance, twice a month Zhikr classes, a class in contemplative Sufi practices, Universal Worship, a healing circle based on the Dervish Healing Order practices, and a seasonal gathering called “The Gathering!” (for potluck, Dances of Universal Peace and Zhikr.)

Also, every few months, we have a guest leader such as Amida Harvey from England (DUP) and Karunamayee (world-renowned inspirational singer and Zhikr leader). And…we have two sheikhas in our midst!

Most activities of the Santa Cruz Dance/Sufi Community meet at The Garden, the lovely home of Tofah Eileen Yragui and Jay Dravich. They have created a space of utmost caring for all who enter. Many times day or night, people come to sit in the garden by the fish pond, or bend Jay’s ear with their life experiences, or just have a cup of tea. This open-hearted hospitality is felt by many in the community, and the community responds by helping many in need. We hold each other in loving compassion until each one is back on their feet again.

The Garden is host to several other groups, as well. Two Diamond Heart circles meet here, as well as the Chadeish Yameinu, a Jewish Renewal group, and a Sikh assembly.
Sound: What is the biggest change in the Dance and Sufi Community you’ve seen since you became involved?
Nancy: The biggest change in the Dance/Sufi Community I’ve seen over the years (and perhaps that change is in me) is that in the old days there was a strong guru/student relationship experienced in the circle. Now, I see each person in the circle as a teacher to everyone else, and everyone is encouraged to participate, to take a piece, be part of creating the experience.
Sound: You have mentored more than 20 dance leaders. What advice do you give them today?
Nancy: After mentoring others for more than 15 years, my advice is first to breathe in the whole circle. Be one with the circle. Pay attention to the energy of the circle to feel what’s needed. Lead dances that you love! Lead dances that come into your heart space, rather than following a pre-planned program. (One needs to develop a good-sized repertoire to do that!) The few times I’ve tried to follow a pre-planned program of dances, the meeting fell flat on its face, until I threw out the program and followed my inner guidance! If nothing comes to you, call on Sam (Lewis) for help, or ask for any requests. Each one in the circle is a leader/teacher too, remember!
Sound: What do you wish you’d been told when you got started leading dances?
Nancy: There was nothing that wasn’t expressed by words or example by my teacher/mentor/friend. I was blessed to have Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz as my dance mentor, a gifted, intuitive teacher. He always encouraged me (and others) to go for it, follow my intuition, step out, take a chance. I remember driving from Cupertino to San Francisco one time for Sam Lewis’ Urs. On the way, I saw in my mind’s eye a dance forming to Zuleikha’s song “Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti”.

When I got to the event (about 75 people) I told Saadi about this, and he said, “Want to lead it?” I hadn’t time to even walk it out, but he encouraged me to do it anyway and it worked beautifully! He was the perfect mentor for the shy, reserved person I was.
Sound: Is there anything you would change now about the world of the Dances of Universal Peace?
Nancy: The lives that are touched by the dances are blessed, certainly. I would like to see that blessing brought into the lives of more and more children in classrooms around the world.
Sufi Heritage - What is This Thing Called Sufism?
      People so often refer to Sufism as the esoteric side of Islam, not realizing that Sufism long predated Islam though it had its greatest growth and prominence in Islamic Persia in which it became the religion of State during the time of the great mystical poets Rumi, Kabir, Hafiz and others.
     In truth the Sufi tradition has been handed down from heart to heart since the creation of the earth in an uninterrupted chain of transmission. Sufism is an initiatic path that has been likened to a caravan crossing the desert of time - each sojourner linked to the camel ahead offering guidance in the storm and solace on the path.
     Hazrat Inayat Khan who first brought Sufism to the west in 1910 describes it as a mystical path of love in which God or Truth is experienced as the Beloved and the heart is turned toward the object of its love and immersed. Through whatever process one may arrive at Self-Realization it matters little, as long as one can attain to this ideal. For this reason there is no code or doctrine in Sufism "it is not a religion, it is an attitude of life" Mystics in Islam have been called Sufi's, but Sufism or Divine Wisdom is for all, and not limited to a certain people. As Hazrat Inayat Khan said "Our order is composed of truth seeking people of different faiths and beliefs who are not in any way obliged to give up the faith or belief they may have nor to accept a certain faith or belief, nor are they if they have none, compelled to accept one."
     Practices are designed to help the follower surrender the small self in the realization that s/he is contained by something far greater than the limited horizon of the mind and ego. This is called the annihilation of the self (fana) in the real (baqua) and amounts to a life united in the light of God and devoted to fulfilling the will of God. The teachings cannot be learned by intellectual study but only by experience and inner transformation.
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Source Expressed as Eric Schneider by Cynthia Myers

Some Kiss We Want
- Jalaluddin Rumi

There is some kiss we want
with our whole lives,
the touch of Spirit on the body.
Seawater begs the pearl
to break its shell.
And the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild Darling!
At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face into mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door,
and open the love-window.
The moon won't use the door,
only the window.

     Eric Schneider's authentic resonance with these words, written by the aspect of source we know as Rumi, sparks our own remembrance of truth. The same essence, truth, distilled within and infused within the spice of source that is Eric, ignites the flame of remembrance within the One heart.
     Enjoying a coffee at one of Eric's local hang out's, Cafe Bene, warmed by the springtime sun and the sheer radiance of Eric's being, Eric shares with me a personal account of his mystical experience of awakening.
     In 1978 Eric was a college freshman at Berkeley visiting his family's home for the weekend. Relaxing in his room reading "Wayne Dyer or something" Eric decided to practice one of the meditations in the book. He says he practiced it for a long time, going deeper and deeper when he suddenly found himself experiencing a spontaneous mystical experience. Eric goes on to describe to me what many mystics before him have described as the death of ego and awakening to source. Says Eric, "Everything I thought was Eric, was gone. The “I” realized it is the source of everything. In touching one moment of true silence, it all dropped away. There was a sense of dying and fear as the familiar fell away, and there was also a sense of extraordinary peace, clarity, depth of being and ability to see what was previously unknown to me.
     At the time of this experience Eric had no spiritual teacher, did not know Rumi or Hafiz, or Sufism. He had no external guide to hold his hand and lead him through the experience which had rocked his inner world like an internal earthquake. So it was that he relied upon his inner wisdom to guide him. Raw and open, he cared for his being by limiting external activities. He dropped out of school and stayed with his parents where he found the space he needed to integrate his experience. While gently tending to blossoming of his inner garden, he outwardly tended to his parent’s backyard garden, sought solace in nature and intuitively created the grounding he needed to integrate.
     Emerging again into a somewhat more mundane reality, Eric took his radical change in perspective and a much happier self back to school to study Comparative Literature at UCLA. During his Junior year Eric went to study in Bordeaux France. In Bordeaux he met his first teacher, Jean Klein. Eric describes Jean as a lover of the world, living and enjoying his freedom. Jean spoke from the perspective that Eric had tasted in his mystical experience---the view of the awake free, non-dualistic self. Jean was living his freedom and became a guide for Eric to follow in the living of his own freedom. Jean advised Eric to find a way to make a living that allowed him to enjoy his life. After the derailing of the notion that he was on the fast track to enlightenment, Eric decided to go for something more obtainable. He decided to make money. So he followed the trail of his father’s footsteps, albeit with lighter shoes, to a career as a headhunter.
     That taste we desire, merging with source, beckons us forth, gently nudging us into alignment with our essence. As naturally as a flower wants to open in springtime, source yearns to blossom through us. And in the birthing, gifts that have always been there, are unwrapped, revealed and displayed. As the truth of source yearns to be remembered, once again, in 1989, Eric's remembrance of truth was sparked by Coleman Barks, Rumi and Hafiz. Hearing the poems of Rumi and Hafiz recited by Coleman Barks, gave eloquent voice to the seemingly ineffable mystical experience 11 years prior. The next day, Eric went out and bought all of Coleman Barks books, eight or nine of them, and a CD which he listened to repeatedly. Repetitious hearing of the poetry fanned Eric's flame of remembrance into a brightly burning fire. As a teenager Eric easily learned songs and recited comedians. Reciting Rumi was the natural progression of reciting Woody Allen’s stand up routines. Though it does not come without some effort on his part, it is with a joyous effortless sort of effort which enables Eric to memorize poetry.
     Eric explains that he enjoys reciting the poetry as it is a remembrance and reflection of truth, and that to speak that truth is akin to lighting a match and igniting the truth within others. Says Eric, "Poetry goes in a different door than other kinds of words to move people. There is nothing to understand, it is a whiff of the soup that makes the heart happy. Eric adds his own unique flavor to each poem he recites. Words scribed by source through Rumi or Hafiz, are flavored by source that is Coleman Barks, and seasoned again as they flow through this expression of source that is Eric Schneider.
     Eric's current teacher, Adyashanti, writes this of Eric:

Your Sweet Devotion
My Rumi reciting friend
you are becoming the object
of your sweet devotion.
You drip with the same honey
that sweetened
Rumi and Hafiz' poems.

My friend,
you are the honey
inside this honeycomb existence.
Form your bright nothingness
comes the taste of God.

Yes, I know you have your moments of doubt,
but each one brings you closer
to the doubtless. So throw caution to the wind
and dare to love even the bee's sting.

"Your Sweet Devotion" Poem for Eric, copyright © 2003, Adayashanti

Thank you Eric for being such a radiant reflection of truth. Eric will be reciting poetry at the May 19th Sufi Gathering, Eric will be a special guest of Kate Munger on May 18th at 7 pm in Santa Cruz. Write: kate@thresholdchoir.org for details. Eric regularly recites poetry with the accomplished improvisational and classical cellist Elaine Kreston. Go to www.RumiCello.com for upcoming events. Sometimes you can catch Eric doing a spontaneous recital at the Thursday 6:15 pm African dance class at the Louden Nelson Center in Santa Cruz.

For a daily Sufi poem, send an email to: sunlight-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Calling On The Beloved: A Conversation with G-d by Jay Dravich
     In 1989 I moved from Eugene to Santa Cruz to be with my dearly beloved.
I came with so few dollars in my wallet that purchasing a button down dress shirt for potential job interviews was a major capital investment. Finally, at about the time I was searching for coins fallen beneath couch cushions, the right job came along and I had, what I thought was a good job interview. Nevertheless, there were three finalists for the position and I figured it wouldn't hurt if I could get some help convincing the President to hire me.
     I got into my car and dialed up G-d.
     "Hey G-d. Are you there?"
     The Big Voice answered immediately. "I'm here. I'm there. I'm everywhere."
"Yeah right. I know that. Say listen G-d. I need a favor. I really need this job I interviewed for and I was hoping you might put in a good word for me. I'll make a deal with you. If you do that for me, I'll stop eating pork. Okay? What do you say?"
     There was a long silence and I began to think I had driven out of cell phone range when G-d came back on line.
     "Let me get this straight. You think it would make me happy if you gave up eating pork?" G-d asked, the voice sounding slightly incredulous.
     "Well, uh, yeah. I guess so. I mean, I'm Jewish and all that. I know that the Torah says you don't want us eating pork. No? Am I right or what?"
     "Listen, Jay. If you think you shouldn't be eating pork, then you have no choice in the matter. Stop eating pork. End of discussion. Zippo. Done. Kaput."
     "But what about the job?"
     "Call me when you have something to offer in exchange. In the meantime enjoy your tofu."
The line went dead.
     I never did eat pork after that day.
     Fortunately, I got offered the job.
If you have had a conversation with G-d that you'd like to share with the Sufi community or just me, I'd like to read it. Send it to jdravich@yahoo.com (Keep it to 300 words or less, please.)
Music Review: ISHQ … and the Ecstatic Sounds of Divine Love
Andi     ISHQ is a group of musical friends who love getting together and singing Zhikr and Bhajans, and perform in the Santa Cruz area. They draw inspiration from the Chisti tradition of Inayat Khan and the countless Sadhus and Qawwals who have transmitted the ecstatic sound of Ishq, or Divine Love. ISHQ includes Gitanjali, Junayad, Daoud and tabla dynamo Joseph.
     The musical group’s namesake, Ishq, in Arabic the language of its origin, literally means love with no lust, as in the Sufi Ishq Zhikar of Love, "Ishq Allah, Ma'abud Allah – God is love, lover and Beloved.”
     In Urdu, predominantly a language of the Muslim faith, Ishq refers to fervent love for any object, organism or God, and is mostly used in its religious context. In Urdu, there are three religious terms deriving from Ishq: Ishq-e-Haqiqi (love of God), Ishq-e-Majaazi (love of God's creation i.e. human beings), and Ishq-e-Rasool, Ishq-e-Muhammadi or Ishq-e-Allah (love of Muhammad or Allah).
Welcoming Our New ‘HeartStream Pulse’ Staff Member
Andi     We would like to welcome George Chipman as our new editor for the HeartStream Pulse Newsletter. George has worked as writer, manager and consultant in the technical publications field and brings with him over 20 years publications experience to our newsletter team. George has also taught Hatha Yoga and Meditation classes since 1970 throughout Santa Clara Valley. He currently studies and practices healing arts and transformational modalities, and has recently completed his certification as a Clinical Hypnotherapist. He hopes to start an experimental Yoga class in Santa Cruz incorporating Yoga, Kriya, healing arts and other transformational arts.
     George loves the essential teachings of east and west noting their similar message. “God is always pointing at God…all the time,” he quips, “and I don’t think She’s pointing at something in this world, She’s pointing at something through this world…so I remind myself to pay really close attention, because She’s pointing at it through me.”
     “I think the language of the mystic has not always been heard – often we experience a sudden need to figure out what we’re doing tomorrow as soon as a familiar past cannot be found in the conversation – thank goodness for the mystic poets…Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir, Jesus, etc – when the figuring-out part of the mind is not watching the shop, they reach in and plant a seed of light.”
     George has participated in the Sufi community and Dances of Universal Peace in Santa Cruz since 1999 with his girlfriend Adora, and remembers attending early Sufi Dances in Sausalito in 1968. Over the years, he has enjoyed writing poetry about the journey of the Soul.
Ka La’au Kahea: Hawaiian Prayer Calling & Healing Chants
 with Hale o ke aloha/Dr Siota Belle
Andi     Let the sounds of ancient Hawaii bring you to your deepest place of healing as the powerful call of Hawaiian prayer and chant restores your heart and soul. Come for an experiential day of chanting and prayer calling and enjoy deep relaxation, healing, and restoration.
     The ancient Hawaiian people kept a close relationship to their gods. Chant and prayer were an intimate part of daily activities. Different types of healing -the use of herbs, massage, and prayer healing were deeply revered. Each type of healing began with a chant or prayer. In their ancient temples a priest was always available to conduct healings through prayer and chanting.
      These priests were the Kahuna Pule and their healing art was known as Ka La’au Kahea, the Calling Medicine-Hawaiian Prayer Healing. Traditionally these prayers were made once a day before sunset and for three days in a row.
     Hale o ke aloha/ Dr. Siota Belle studied with the Kahuna Pule, Kahu Lanakila Brandt, temple priest of the Mo’o Lono order. For many years he served as the Kahuna Pule for Pu’uhonua o Honaunau the City of Refuge on the island of Hawaii. Kahu Lanakila taught this method of healing for 35 years and conducted prayer healings on people from around the world. Since his passing in 2005 she continues his teaching in North America and Europe.
      At this exceptional time on the planet Hale o ke aloha is making a unique introductory offering of a one day experience of Hawaiian Chanting and Prayer Calling to be held on: Saturday, June 2nd 10am to 3pm, cost is $70 for the day. (Please bring a lunch, pillows, and a blanket so that you can rest comfortably during this day of healing and restoration) A CD of the chants and prayers will also be available for $25. For more information or to schedule a private 3 day prayer healing contact: Hale o ke aloha/ Dr. Siota Belle at 707-829-6895 or email: drsiotabelle@sbcglobal.net or Rumiel Rothschild @831-464-4564.
Links to Other Communities
 Are you interested in some of the other active Sufi groups in the Greater Bay Area? Just visit our links page. Click here.
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