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Local
Leaders
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This
is a brief description of local HeartStream Sufi leaders. Contact
the leaders if you want to discuss any of their events, the work
they are doing in the community or to obtain information about the
initiatic path. |
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Nancy Norris is a certified
Mentor for the Dances of Universal Peace and has trained and
certified many dance leaders over the past 18 years. Nancy is
a tremendous resource to the community for the dances. She leads
the local dances on the 2nd and 4th Sundays at the Palomar Ballroom
and leads for the Carmel and Aromas monthly dances. She also
regularly plays guitar for many of the other Sufi community
worship gatherings including the 2nd and 4th Friday Zhikrs.
Nancy is on the board for the HeartStream Sufi community and
she is the head of the local ethics committee. Her daughter
and grandchildren live with her and she is thoroughly devoted
to them.
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| Contact:
831-336-8461
or 831 332-4962 healingvib@aol.com |
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Tofah Eileen Yragui is an ordained interfaith
minister (Cheroga) and serves as a Sheikha in both the
Sufi Movement and Sufi Ruhaniat International. She has
been a certified dance leader for the Dances of Universal
Peace and leader of Zhikr since 2003 and with her husband
Jay is a co-founder of The Garden which has operated
since the year 2000. The
Garden is a multidimensional facility offering the
community space for Celebration, Learning and Healing.
Tofah Eileen works as an MFT Psychotherapist at The
Garden Center for Complementary Healing, offering
Somatic and Transpersonal Healing as well as EMDR for
the healing of trauma.
Contact: 831-479-9278
or e-mail
to: tofaheileen@cruzio.com
See
http://www.tofaheileen.com/
for more information |
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Khalifa Jemila Majid Rose serves as
a Cheraga (Minister), Healing Conductor,and Semazen
in The Mevlevi Order under the guidance of Postneshin
Jelalhuddin Loras of the Mevlevi Order. She is initiated
as a representative of the three Inayati orders - Sufi
Ruhaniat International, Sufi Order and Sufi Movement.
I
have been blessed through my Teachers, Pir Vilyat Khan,
Murshida Vera Corda and Murshida Rabia Ana Perez. My
first exposure to the Sufi path was through the Dances
of Universal Peace offered in Palo Alto by Jeffar and
Armaiti. This was closely followed by meeting with Murshida
Vera Corda at a Sufi camp in Mendocino. What a life
enhancing inspiration, as my spiritual path was clearly
laid out before me that summer in 1983.
My
various careers have included many years as a psychotherapist
in the inner cities,glorious years as a modern dancer
in New York city and 30+ years as an Executive Recruiter
for corporations in Silicon Valley.
I
have enjoyed the role of minister for weddings. I also
do memorials, house blessings and clearings. I am available
for counseling and individual retreats and am happy
to share the Sufi teachings through the Healing Service
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Jemila at 831- 464-1552 or bjrose@cruzio.com
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Willa Keizer is
a Dance Leader Apprentice being mentored in The Dances
of Universal Peace by Nancy Norris. Willa is a classical
homeopath in practice at The Garden Center for Complementary
Healing. She is studying to be a Semazen
in The Mevlevi Order under the guidance of Mariam
Baker. Willa teaches ongoing courses in Vitalistic healing
and her current course is a series of classes on the
Sufi/Hermetic art of Vitalistic Healing which is being
taught at The Garden. The web site for these classes
is www.vitalism.us.
Willa
is the organizer for the monthly Dance of Universal
Peace in Aromas. The inaugural dance is on the Full
Moon of Wednesday June 18th.
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at 831- 726-3190 or willa@homeopathyhome.net
www.homeopathyhealer.com.Willa
Keizer |
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Russ Rahmat Ericson - Being exposed
to Sufism has infected me with the notion that all the
names and forms of God/Goddess are one. I find that
reading various religious texts, meditation, and practices
to be helpful. However, my favorite form is moving in
a circle with my friends saying/singing the names and
aspects of the ONE. Among my achievements are serving
HSSC, SIRS, and DUP in various capacities, creating
the only Darwinist dance We All Swung From The Same
Tree, and being a cherag. I am devoted to my wife and
children. I spend the rest of my time writing, directing,
and producing the play, My Life Is Constant Creation,
authored by me, as a musical comedy.
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831-252-7562 or email to: rahmat@sufievents.com |
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Jay Lev Shalom Dravich
is the Chief Financial Officer for the HeartStream Sufi
community. Jay became a Sufi at the age of 14 when he
joined the National Association of Christians and Jews
and began learning spiritual tolerance. He is also an
initiate within the Sufi Ruhaniat International. Today
he regularly attends Zikr on Friday nights and chants
Biblical Torah on Saturday morning. With his wife Tofah
Eileen he stewards the Santa Cruz Khankah known as The
Garden. Jay also is a local residential real estate
agent with expertise in the area of tenants-in-common.
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831-479-9278
or e-mail
to: dravich@skyhighway.com
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Huzur Nawaz Coughlin,
Woodwind player and teacher, began studying music as a
spiritual path in 1971 with master Indian vocalist Faqir
Pran Nath. In the same year he was initiated as a murid
of Pir Vilayat. At Pir's suggestion, he moved from New
York to California, where he joined the original Sufi
Choir and continued his musical studies with Pran Nath,
flute master G. S. Sachdev, Alauddin Mathieu and Hamza
El Din. He also directed the music for the Mevlevi Sema
(turning ritual) for over 10 years, and studied the Turkish
ney with Mevlevi masters in Turkey
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| Contact:
neyzen@mindspring.com,
831-465-0105 |
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Wayne
Hoff is on the HeartStream Board and handles
the calendar and email event notification for the community.
Wayne is an initiate in the Mevlevi Order and became
a semazen in 1999 at the MOA Shebi Aruz Ceremony in
the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. Wayne participates
in the HeartStream Community events and the Threshhold
Society events (www.sufism.org/).
He
is a bodyworker and energy worker (www.waynehoff.com)
with offices at the Garden Center for Complementary
Healing (www.thegardensanctuary.com/GardenCenterForComplementaryHealing.htm)
and in Monterey.
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| Contact:
831-818-6980
or e-mail
to: events@sufievents.com
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Laura
Bathrick is a massage therapist and life coach
here in Santa Cruz. She has been on the Sufi path for
twelve years. Her passion for the healing of the heart
of Self and Community makes her an inspired facilitator
for the visioning circle. |
| Contact:
831-251-1808 or e-mail to: laurabathrick@sbcglobal.net
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Quadira
Caitlin McCleod
I first began
learning to lead the Dances under Susan Arzani Burman in Arizona
in the early 90s; now I am studying under the apprenticeship of
Nancy Norris in Santa Cruz, CA, an honor I'm truly grateful for.
I have recently taken the Sufi name of Quadira, which means "holding
the center," and am working to
embody that quality in both my leadership and in my personal and
professional life. I also have fun drumming for the dances!
My Sufi Master
on the Spirit Plane is Hazrat Inyat Khan, for whom I am a channel
to bring new dances to the world. Recently I have received instruction
to be a conduit for 55 original dances and songs of peace! This
is part of my service, along with using my voice for healing.
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| Contact:
Quadira (Caitlin McLeod) (831) 425-3328 |
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Linda
Gibson Linda
Gibson played guitar for 18 years for the dances with Tasnim Fernandez
in Southern California . She has also played and taught guitar for
lama foundation and is a music teacher, offering piano and guitar
lessons. Linda was a member of the Earth Street Frog Choir and a
member of a folk group that did 3 part harmonies called the Lease
Breakers. She brings a rich attunement of the Dances of Universal
Peace to the HeartStream community . |
| Contact:
lindagetr@yahoo.com or
831-338-3938 |
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