SAMA Retreats & Events
Maui Spring Camp ~ May 11-18
Guest Teachers: Abraham and Halima Sussman
Maui, Hawaii
Dance Deepening & Training ~ May 26-28 (Memorial Day weekend)
Dance deepening for dancers and Training for mentored dance leaders and musicians. Tuning ourselves to the Beloved, we step into the deeper attunement created when dancing together over a concentrated weekend. This retreat is open to dancers, dance musicians, and dance leaders who wish to deepen in their experience of the Walks and Dances of Universal Peace. The retreat offers practice, support, and feedback to mentored dance leaders. Our general focus continues to be the Dances and Walks as spiritual practice, attunement to transmission and lineage, practice in breath, rhythm, sound, and silence, body prayer/movement/body awareness, musical tuning, development of magnetism, and for dance leaders, cultivating and refining leader skills…Read More!
For information and to register 617 876 5272 or email SAMA
Murshid Wali Ali Retreat ~ June 22 – 24, 2012
Cultivating Divine Presence
Residential weekend retreat, beautiful North Central MA
In this retreat we have opportunity to shine light and love towards the places within us where we tend to hold wounds of separation from Wholeness and Source. We move towards integration of self through remembrance of healing qualities that are the birthright of our inner being, our true self. Thus the retreat becomes a sacred container in which to know ourselves – on a personal level and in the unifying presence of the One.
Murshid Wali Ali is a senior teacher in The Sufi Ruhaniat International, and director of its Esoteric School. He is a direct student of Murshid Samuel Lewis and carries this blessing and transmission. Wali Ali teaches in the living Stream of Universal Sufism, invoking the realities of Love, Harmony and Beauty
The retreat begins Friday afternoon June 22 and closes on Sunday 6/24 by 4pm
The retreat site is 1.5 hrs drive from Boston at a beautiful rural home with a farmhouse, barns, a few cabins, and a dance yurt. We offer in-house and cabin shared rooms, as available and by request. Priority goes to those who need them the most. There are many lovely easy tenting spaces close to the house and yurt, hot showers etc. Tenting provides the most privacy – fresh air, birds and the sound of the waterfall nearby! All participants are welcome in the common spaces of the house, barn and yurt.
Retreat cost is $275. We offer an earlybird rate of $240 pd by May 15, 2012. There is a $25 discount for camping. Some partial work exchanges possible! Please inquire!
For information and to register 617 876 5272 or SAMA
Flier & Registration
Eat, Dance and Pray ~ July 26 – 29, 2012
Creating Community Together
11th annual Sufi Dance Camp-out Retreat with Abraham, Halima, and Friends
This retreat offers us the opportunity to tune our selves to natural rhythms and demonstrate Peace and Harmony. Eat, Dance and Pray Together is the actualized vision Sufi Murshid Samuel Lewis held for world peace! Celebrate community through the Walks and Dances of Universal Peace, Zikr, Yoga, Singing, Walking, Sitting, Listening, Swimming,Meeting new and old friends, Dancing some more…. We eat, dance, pray, work and play together! … Read More!
Cost: Until 6/15 $225 After 6/15 – $275 Register early! Last year we filled up by early June!
Partial work exchange & family /youth rates available – Please inquire!
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The Soul of Inner Silence ~ September 13-16, 2012
Sufi Meditation, Zikr and Zen according to the teachings of Murshid Samuel L. Lewis
Murshid Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz, with Murshids Halima & Abraham Sussman
North Central MA (near Boston)
The world’s spiritual and healing traditions approach silence in various ways and under different names–meditation, contemplation, awareness, centering or body prayer, sitting zen, self-observation and stress relief–to name a few. All aim to bring us, more and more, into the present moment. Ultimately, being able to find our way more easily into a compassionate, inner silence can help us to attain more understanding, joy and empowerment in life.
In this retreat, we will explore the practices and teachings of Murshid Samuel Lewis on meditation, as he experienced it in the Sufi, Zen and Christian traditions. The practices Murshid S.A.M. suggests can help us to enter the soul of silence in a new way. Moving Zikr, Dances of Universal Peace, and Walking Meditation will also help us to experience “meditation with open eyes” in order to bring conscious transformation into our everyday lives
“If a person closes his eyes and sits doing nothing, he may just as well go to sleep. Meditation is not only an exercise to be practiced; in meditation the soul is charged with new light and life, with inspiration and vigor; in meditation there is every kind of blessing.” –Hazrat Inayat Khan
Cost of the Retreat:
$395 (with indoor accommodations, if available);
$300 (for tenters)
To register make check payable to SOMA and send with a filled out registration to:
Sussman (attn. SAMA)
6 Upton St., Cambridge MA 02139
The full fee is due before June 1, 2012.
For more information, email SAMA
