The evening Dances of Universal Peace is OPEN to all!

If you haven’t attended the 1-day retreat the cost is: $20

The Dances of Universal Peace are a participatory group spiritual practice facilitated by a Dance Leader. The Leader teaches the group the sacred phrase, music, and movements, and after a short practice, participants enter the Dance with live music and/or singing accompaniment. This “spiritual practice in motion” brings participants directly in contact with the depth of the sacred phrase, encouraging a direct encounter with the truth of it through music and evocative movement. The Dances affirm Life and Truth with body, heart, and soul, opening participants to nonverbal experiences of unity and ecstasy. This taste of our true nature—Universal Peace—opens us to the possibility of a deep spiritual transformation.

Shabda Kahn is the Spiritual Guide of the Dances of Universal Peace worldwide and the Pir (Spiritual Director) of the Sufi Ruhaniat International, the lineage tracing from Hazrat Inayat Khan and Murshid Samuel Lewis.  Shabda leads retreats and camps in Sufism with an emphasis on the mysticism of breath; the science and art of wazifa and zikr; music; the walking meditations of Murshid Samuel Lewis and opening the heart. He brings gentleness and humor in transmitting the rich lineage of Sufism.

Maitreya, a guide in the Sufi Ruhaniat International, is a Dances of Universal Peace and Zikr leader. He enjoys offering retreats in service of the One.

7:30-9:30pm

LOCATION: Rising Tide, 5102 Swift Rd, Sarasota, FL

COST: $20