Rising Tide International

Healing Circle on Zoom
2024-04-09 19:00 - 19:15, 2024-04-02 19:00 - 19:15, 2024-03-26 19:00 - 19:15, 2024-03-19 19:00 - 19:15, 2024-03-12 19:00 - 19:15, 2024-03-05 19:00 - 19:15, 2024-02-27 19:00 - 19:15 (America/New_York) | Rising Tide International, 5102 Swift Rd., Sarasota, FL, 34231, United States
The Healing Service created by Inayat Khan, is a powerful prayer and distance-healing service that sends healing to those requesting it. The service is an experience in breath and concentration exercises of channeling the Divine Energy for healing of individuals and our planet.
Healing services will be held only on Zoom on Tuesday evenings at 7 pm. You are welcome to join us.
If you have names for the local healing list, please check that your person wishes to be on the healing list, and then contact Parvati by text or at karenmiki2@gmail.com. We generally put folks on the list for a period of one month unless an extension is requested.
For February 2024 we are using a personal zoom account, please arrive 5 minutes early.
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/8841511443?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 884 151 1443
Passcode: [REDACTED]
By phone Dial by your location: +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) +1 312 626 6799

Green Door Organics
2024-04-04 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-28 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-21 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-14 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-07 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-29 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-22 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-15 13:00 - 16:00
Pick up on Thursdays from 1pm to 4pm at RTI
At Green Door Organics our food is Fresh in from the Farm. (We pick it up on Thursday mornings, and you get to take it home Thursday afternoon! Our food comes from over 20 Certified Organic Farms and Growers. We favor locally grown Florida produce when available. Each week we have a different selection of Fruits, Veg, and Greens which keeps it Fun and Interesting, and also provides important nutritional variety in your diet.

How it Works
We have Five convenient locations for you to choose from, serving Sarasota, Bradenton, and Venice. Curbside Pick-up times are Thursdays generally between 1:00pm – 4pm (see each location for specific times) with slightly longer hours at our downtown Sarasota location. Click here to see current locations.
And for anyone Staying Home we are proud to be able to offer Home Doorstep Delivery of your Green Door baskets (delivery fee applies).
The food comes in our custom made Green Door Green Bags, designed to keep your food Fresh and your Greens from wilting. The special material keeps the air out, while still being breathable, and the thermal lining keeps your produce cool in your office or workplace until you get it home. Wide double-stitched straps go easily over your shoulder, as the produce filled bags are often heavy. Every week, you bring back your clean empty bag and exchange it for a full one.
​Each week you will get a different selection of Fresh, Certified Organic Fruits, Vegetables, and Leafy Greens with fresh herbs like garlic, ginger, parsley, etc. once or twice a month. We fill your orders with as much local and Florida grown certified organic produce as we can, based on season and availability, so there is a lot of variety.
Start Your Green Door Organics Subscription Here

For information go to https://www.gdorganics.com/ Or contact Debby at greendoororganics@yahoo.com. 941-378-9036

Retreat with Great Grandmother Mary Lyons (Ojibwe/Anishnaabe)
2024-03-30 10:00 - 16:00
“Inner Water ‘Ceremony’ ” with Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons, Jessica Bromby, Akbar Miller
Saturday, March 30th, 10am – 4pm (CORRECTION: 1 DAY ONLY)
Sliding Scale Love Offering: $50-$150 (Please RSVP or contact us if you need a scholarship.)
Please RSVP Click Here (To Pay Online, Scroll Down)
“Water has memory,” Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons often says. The importance of water to life, in our bodies, and to life, in our world, is critical, and working with the purity and memory and energy and wisdom of water, we renew ourselves and we renew the world around us.
Join Great-Grandmother Mary, and Jessica & Akbar, for a gathering of the heart and spirit to refresh and renew in the sacredness of life and creation.
Grandmother Mary Lyons

Mary Lyons, Ojibwe Elder, Niish-Nibi-Ikwe “Second Water Woman”, Elder of Mitigwakk-Daywaygus-Giwstashskad “Water Drum Circle”, Sr. Member of the “Top Hat Medicine Dress/Long Skirt Society”. One of the four Indigenous Grandmothers that oversee the Women of Wellbriety, Int’l. and active United Nations Observer on Women/Indigenous Issues.
Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons, Ojibwe Elder, is a spiritual advisor, storyteller and wisdom keeper. She travels and teaches internationally with the Indigenous Grandmothers of the Sacred We. Grandmother Mary is the founder of the Minnesota Coalition on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, an Indian Child Welfare Act Expert Witness and a Native American Family and Child Advocate. She was a keynote speaker at the Parliament of World Religions in Utah and at the People’s Climate March in New York City in 2014.
Grandmother Mary is guided by her ancestors and has dedicated her life to helping others.

Contact & RSVP
Please RSVP, save your place, volunteer, contact & info: Contact Akbar or Jessica, risingtideinternational@gmail.com
Registration & Payment

Inner Water Ceremony with GGM Mary Lyons

* $50.00 USD

** $60.00 USD

*** $75.00 USD

**** $100.00 USD

***** $125.00 USD

****** $150.00 USD

5 Week "Enlightenment" Series at RTI and via ZOOM
2024-03-26 19:30 - 20:30, 2024-03-19 19:30 - 20:30, 2024-03-12 19:30 - 20:30, 2024-03-05 19:30 - 20:30
Tuesday March 5 The Art of Presence
Tuesday March 12 Enlightenment is an illusion
Tuesday March 19 It’s time to wake up
Tuesday March 26 Don’t go back to sleep
Tuesday April 2 Everything is just so
Classes with Raymond.
Love donations to Rising Tide https://risingtideinternational.org/donate/

Emerald Earth Retreat
2024-03-23 10:00 - 16:00
‘Thou kneadest my clay, I know, to make a new universe’ ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
1-Day Retreat on Nature Mysticism and Ziraat with authors of Emerald Earth, Kainat Norton and Muinuddin Smith
March 23rd, 2024
Saturday: 10-4pm
$50-$75 sliding scale love donation
Rising Tide International, 5102 Swift Rd, Sarasota, FL 34231
We will gather together within the renewing energy of the spring ! In this weekend retreat we will attune to the sacred manuscript of Nature, to seeing with the eyes of Sophia, the creative feminine, the sacred wisdom of the earth, and to the alchemical and Ziraat teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Throughout the weekend we will deepen our intimacy with the elements as archangelic presences, experience meditations in Nature, and enhance and restore our sacred connection with the living Universe. We will also learn the element and astrological walks/dances.
We will share in Sufi and Buddhist practices for purifying the mirror of the heart and cultivating the natural self, exploring the alchemy of the soul’s journey, and orienting more clearly to our unfolding purpose. Through retreat we touch upon our essential self, fresh and spontaneous, and affirm our rootedness in the sacredness of life. This in turn, fulfills a deep calling of the soul; bridging our inner awakening with our sacred task of participating in an earth of beauty.
This retreat is open to all, those experienced or new to spiritual practice.
Facilitators:

Kainat Felicia Norton is a lover of Nature. She is a senior teacher, retreat guide, and interfaith minister in the Inayati Sufi Order. She served as Vice President of Ziraat, an activity devoted to inner cultivation and sacred ecology, for eighteen years (2003-2021) and is now Emerita. She taught on the faculty of Suluk Academy for eight years. She performs internationally touring solo dance theater works in Europe, the US, Canada, Central America, and Asia. She performed the one woman show Noor, based on the life of Noor Inayat Khan, in Edinburgh, London, UK, NYC, and France. She enjoys teaching creative movement at the Third Street Music School in NYC.

Muinuddin Charles Smith, PhD, is a senior teacher, retreat guide, interfaith minister and teacher of Ziraat in the Inayati Sufi Order. He is Professor Emeritus of leadership and sustainability studies at Hofstra University, and served as the Chair of Spirituality and Systems Interest Group of the International Society of Systems Sciences.
Kainat and Muinuddin are co-authors of the book An Emerald Earth Cultivating a Natural Spirituality and Serving Creative Beauty in Our World’, recently translated into French Une Terre d’Émeraude. They co-lead the Inayatiyya Sufi Center in New York City. They offer meditation retreats and workshops worldwide. (http://www.anemeraldearth.org).

LOCATION: Rising Tide International, 5102 Swift Rd, Sarasota, FL 34231
RSVP & CONTACT: Jessica & Akbar: risingtideinternational@gmail.com

Emerald Earth Retreat Registration Sliding-Scale Options

* $50.00 USD

** $65.00 USD

*** $75.00 USD

Women’s Meditation Circle of SW Florida
2024-03-15 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-02-16 19:00 - 20:00
FRIDAY APRIL 19th 6:30 – 8 pm EST
THE SACRED PIPE CEREMONY with ZAN BENHAM accompanied by Pipe Carriers: Pam Cooper, Deborah Freed, and Chetnah Lawless. Location: changed from RTI to Unity Labyrinth. Simulcast on Zoom.
FRIDAY MAY 17th 6:30 – 8 pm EST
THE HEART CHAKRA AND THE REDWOODS with Jewell Cochara
Location: Unity of Venice – 12 Powers Garden, 125 N. Jackson Rd, Venice FL. Simulcast on ZOOM
FRIDAY JUNE 21st, 6:30 – 8 pm EST
SUMMER SOLSTICE CEREMONY with Christine Abbey Accompanied by community participants Location: RISING TIDE Simulcast on ZOOM
FRIDAY JULY 19TH 6:30 – 8 pm EST
LEMURIAN MOTHER TREE with Beverly Templeton
Location: RISING TIDE & Simulcast on ZOOM
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16th, 6:30 – 8 pm EST
JOURNEY THROUGH THE CHAKRAS with Ali Nieves Accompanied by Kemira Denlea Sound Therapist Practitioner Location: RISING TIDE & Simulcast on ZOOM
EVENT INFO:
Doors open at 6:30 pm then close at 7 pm when meditation begins. We end at 8 pm.
For specific information on each meditation, which location it is held and if zoom options are available visit: https://risingtideinternational.org/womens-meditation-group/
Donations: Rising Tide is the “home” of the Women’s Meditation Circle. We are committed to its care and respectful of the generosity of the center in allowing us to use it on Friday evenings. Therefore a donation of $10 is suggested – more if you can, less if you can’t. Rising Tide is a 501c3 organization so all donations are tax deductible. Checks should be made payable to Rising Tide or make donations with the Rising Tide Donation Page.

A WAY WITH WORDS: A Poetic Venture
2024-03-13 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-02-14 19:00 - 20:30
In remembrance of the coffee houses of yore, where poets and the “wordsmiths” gathered to share the wonders their words might evoke, we launch our 2024 version of “the coffee house.” We are calling on all Poets, Writers, and Wordsmiths to read and share their poetry/writings in an accepting ambiance, with a laid back, albeit enthusiastic audience! Each reader is allowed 5 to 7 minutes.
The doors open 6:30pm. Sign-ups are first in, first read. Admission is $5 for all. Coffee & snacks are available to purchase.

THE ROCKIN’ KIRTAN BAND - Monthly
2024-03-10 18:30 - 20:30, 2024-02-18 18:30 - 20:30
THE ROCKIN’ KIRTAN BAND offers a progressive blend of multicultural chants uniquely designed to foster love and open hearts! The band synthesizes the energy of light rock with the soul of sacred chanting.
Steve Biegel on guitar and vocals, invites the community to be part of the band as it sings, chants, meditates and dances to the music. Jay Kent adds his Kundalini Yoga training and beautiful voice along with percussion. Jesse Biegel is a Berklee College of Music graduate, a vocalist and talented drummer. Meredith is the bands manager. Come join our page on facebook: The Rockin’ Kirtan Band. $10 – $20 At The Door
THE ROCKIN’ KIRTAN BAND Looks forward to singing, dancing, chanting with
All Of You!!

Afternoon Retreat ~ Dances of Universal Peace & Potluck with Amina & Arif
2024-03-02 13:00 - 18:00
Arif Leininger and Amina Silk will present an afternoon of Dances of Universal Peace and zikr. Simple, evocative circle dances and songs that draw on sacred phrases, scripture, and poetry of the Earth’s spiritual traditions. Combining Arif’s musicianship and Amina’s graceful, heartfelt movement, they express their love for this powerful practice of healing, community, and peace.
Registration: $20-$50 for the Afternoon Retreat + Potluck following, bring something to share! Please RSVP for the potluck and we will send you the dish signup form.
Amina Silk – an artist, a cook, a crafter and lover; lives in a small city in Massachusetts with her husband Arif on their artsy permaculture half acre. An ordained priestess in the order of Melchizedek, initiated in the path of the Ruhaniat and the Sufi Movement, a certified dance leader for the Dances of Universal Peace and a Ziraat Gardner. Certified in permaculture under the guidance and work intensive with Starhawk . Plant spirit practitioner and herbalist; a lifetime study, starting as a child with my Grandmother Ninin and through the years have had the privilege of working alongside many amazing herbalists including Rosemary Gladstar, Susan Weed, Pam Montgomery and many more . A Kriya Yogi initiate in the path of Paramahunsa Yogananda.

In 2018 received a 200 hour Hatha yoga certification, although I have taught yoga for 30 years, I started practicing yoga as a young child with Lilith on public television. Healing touch and Reiki practitioner under the supervision and guidance of John Gray. With a passion for building community one gathering at a time along with Arif, we offer opportunities to eat, dance and pray together, a recipe for peace on earth given to us by Murshid Sam. Forever grateful for all the amazing guides and teachers who have inspired and encouraged me to share these gifts.

Arif was initiated into the Sufi Order back in the early 1970’s, he took a break from active participation while he concentrated on his family and career. Returning to active participation in the early 2000’s.

Music has always been important to Arif. He began playing clarinet when he was 6 years old. Now he mostly plays guitar, for the dances, for kirtan, for local singalongs, and leading hymns for the local UU church.

Another long term passion is healing. Arif has studied and practiced several healing modalities, but his long time favorite healing modality is qigong. He has studied and practiced qigong since the mid 1990’s. Studying with Chunyi Lin, Ken Cohen and Robert Peng. He has completed Robert Peng’s healing intensive.

Arif and Amina teamed up in 2007. We are both dance leaders and we lead dances together as a team. We are passionate about bringing people together in community and connection and feel that it is so important for both our individual and our collective healing. So we host retreats and travel around the country leading dances and connecting with other beloveds.

Afternoon Retreat with Amina and Arif

* $20.00 USD

** $30.00 USD

*** $40.00 USD

**** $50.00 USD

Healing Circle on Zoom
2024-02-20 19:00 - 19:15, 2024-02-13 19:00 - 19:15
This is an experience in breath, readings and a healing circle for individuals. One can submit names of those who have consented verbally for their names to be put on the healing list. The class is a concentration exercise of channeling the Divine Energy for healing of individuals and our planet. All are welcome.
The Healing Service given by Sufi Inayat Khan is a powerful prayer and distance-healing service that sends healing to those requesting it. If you wish your name to be added to the Healing List, please contact Kismet. Someone must consent to putting their name on the list – you cannot simply offer names without getting their permission first.
Healing services will be held only on Zoom on Tuesday evenings at 7 pm.
If you have names for the local healing list, please check that your person wishes to be on the healing list, and then contact Parvati by text or at karenmiki2@gmail.com. We generally put folks on the list for a period of one month unless an extension is requested.
You are welcome to join us on zoom, please arrive 5 minutes early.
For February we are using a personal zoom account.
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/8841511443?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 884 151 1443
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Healing Circle begins at 6:55 pm
By phone
Dial by your location:
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)
+1 312 626 6799
