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Description:
We will usher in the 2006 New Year with a Sufi
meditation and dances of Universal Peace. Salima Carol Asmann will lead us
in meditation and the dances. Cedorn Sterling will be our gifted musician.
Salima Carol Asmann will lead breath and heart focused meditation
practices from the Raphaelite Work™. Life calls us moment
by moment to choose awakening or remaining asleep. The practices
offered are meant to 'keep in a pocket', restoring the system so we
can choose from a deep place of resource in each moment. Practicing
presence to the immediate condition of our physical, emotional, mental,
moral, and spiritual bodies engenders in us more space, creativity and
'transformation with a small t'. Finally we will move into dancing a few
dances of universal peace (this is simple, sweet body prayer, no prior
experience required), staying present to the breath and the heart in
motion, in life.
Salima Carol Asmann
Salima Carol Asmann, LMP is a member of the Sufi Healing Order founded by
Hazrat Inayat Kahn. She has studied the Raphaelite Work™ with Himayat
Inayati for over a decade and shared his meditation and self-healing
practices with small groups locally. She offers Raphaelite Work™ physical
energetic sessions and one-to-one processing sessions. Salima also helps
lead the Seattle Dances of Universal Peace Circle.
More on the Raphaelite Work below.
Cedron Sterling
Cedron Sterling is a gifted multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, & composer.
Since 1978, he has partnered with his wife N'Shama Radha Sterling
performing Medieval, Elizabethan, Celtic, and original music throughout
California, Oregon, & Washington.
In 1989, he turned his attention to providing musical support for the
Dances of Universal Peace at regular Seattle Dance meetings and regional
retreats initially through guitar, and later piano, bouzouki, recorder &
Irish whistle.
Cedron's greatest joy in playing for the Dances
remains the internal practice of attunement & devotion to the quality each
Dance evokes, and its outer expression of support for leaders and dancers
through musical refinement.
More on the Raphaelite Work
Named for the archangel Raphael, the angel of Healing and Science, the
Raphaelite Work is a meeting of science and spirit. This work integrates
ancient Sufi teachings, wisdom from other spiritual paths, as well as
insights from modern depth psychology, scientific research, and modern
clinical practice. The work was founded by Himayat Inayati, head of the
Sufi Healing Order, to transmit his discoveries from more than 25 years
seeking the basis of healing. It is an expansion of the teaching of Hazrat
Inayat Khan, who brought Sufism to the West in 1910, and founded the Sufi
Order International and the Sufi Healing Order. The Raphaelite
Work is appropriate and accessible for anyone who is open to healing
through Spirit, whether it is called God, or by another name.
The Raphaelite Work™ is a spiritual approach to healing and
transformation for self and others. Through touch, breath, and presence,
the Raphaelite Work addresses the wholeness of human existence and its
five domains of human experience: physical, emotional, mental, moral, and
spiritual. Through presence the five domains can be restored to their
natural tone. A new and more fully integrated sense of self can emerge.
Natural tone is the state of balance that represents optimum vitality for
a person. This balance is unique to each person and changes over time.
Without judgment or manipulation, an individual develops an increased
sense of spaciousness. Space, in turn, allows the natural process of
restoration and transformation in each of the five domains. For more
information go to
http://www.sufihealingorder.org/raphaelite.htm and click on: the Raphaelite Work™.
Susan Burns
Institute of Noetic Sciences (www.noetic.org)
Local Community (www.ionsnw.org)
425 881-9000
sburns@ionsnw.org |
