HeartStream
Sufi Community of Santa Cruz

Highlights of South Bay Sufi Camp 2006
Scroll down for descriptions of some of the events of the Sufi Camp.

 

Pinnacle Movie by Tofah Eileen Yragui
 

Camp Registrar Lynda Wells and
Jay Dravich community finance person.

Ready to welcome and direct, quide and support as you arrive at the camp site.
 
David Biller - On site director, Jay Dravich, finance coordinator and Lisa Kelly - Camp Director bring another great camp to our community.
  Sophbet is a spiritual discussion on subjects posed by the community. Here Sheikh Firdousi Wyrick, Murshida Rabia Ana Perez, Sheikha Jilani Esterly and Sheikh Michael Gest form a panel that explore some of the deep esoteric truths that are held by Sufism.
 

HeartStream Sufi Community Joyously Honores

Nancy Norris who, by her leading and mentoring "The Dances of Universal Peace", has kindled the light of love
in the hearts of thousands, across three continents, for more than twenty-five years.

  Junayad Moore focusing a Men's Zikhr practice.
  Sufism is an initiatiatic path that offers support, education and a deep and profound relationship to ones initiator.
 

The South Bay Camp offers a unique opportunity to the community to sit with some of the truly great teachers within the Sufi Stream. Here Murshida Rabia Ana Perez shares stories of Hazrat Inayat Khan

For Stories of Inayat Khan click here
  The Dances of Universal Peace form the heart of the camp and their pulse can be heard from morning till late in the evening. They are Body Prayers using sacred phrases and traditional music from every spiritual tradition known.
 
The Dances of Universal Peace create a unique opportunity to practice opening the heart and experiencing the Divine Nature of every person.
  May the beauty we see be what we do.
  Great meals prepared by the Happy Valley Conference Center to accomodate everyone's dietary needs.
  Afternoon break with Amrita Cottrell who plays the crystal bowls and other instruments in a meditation of sound healing.
 
Rockin and Jammin "Ishq" with Junayad Moore, Gitanjali Rivera, David Rhodes and drummer fills the lodge in the afternoon.
  Laura Bathrick holds kids camp as a heartfelt gift to the community.
  Evenings fill with the sounds of Zikr and the Sufi Community fills their hearts with the astounding love of the One.
 

 

 

"Sufitt" hits the scene this Summer Camp as Cynthia Myers introduces the newest camp craze - exercise to mantra and wazifa.
 

 

Women's Zikr offers an opportunity to learn from each other and to share practices from all the great traditions of the world.