Dear Hummingbird Friends,

Now, finally an invitation for our non-residential events this coming October in Santa Fe.

There will be two gatherings back to back:

**Hummingbird Wazifa weekend October 12 & 13, 

From Hardship to Heartship, 

with Maboud, Tara Andrea and Tawwaba

Saturday & Sunday, October 12 & 13, 10:00-5:30

Deepening in Forgiveness, 

with Tawwaba, Maboud and Tara Andrea**

Monday October 14 , 10:00 – 5:30 

Both events to be held in the Great Way Gateway,

the comfy inside meeting space at EarthNurse

located in NW section of Santa Fe, NM

Find info and registration for the two events separately below.

Please scroll down for both flyers.

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FROM HARD-SHIP TO HEART-SHIP

A HUMMINGBIRD WAZIFA DANCE RETREAT

with MABOUD CHARLES, TARA ANDREA & TAWWABA

Saturday & Sunday October 12 & 13

at Earth Nurse, Santa Fe, New Mexico 

“Mother Earth is a great big SHIP that we are sailing on.” (Song from DUP circles)

We are all sojourners sailing through space and time, hardships and blessings during our lifetime. How can we embrace the hardships in our lives without becoming bitter and hardened?

The qualities of the One Love, the Wazifas, traditionally referred to as the 99 Beautiful Names, can be a compass that enables us to navigate our lives from a place of sacred inquiry, engaging our heart’s wisdom and aligning with the evolutionary intelligence of our body. This pathway can nourish the luminous Ship, that is our Soul, so that beauty, equanimity and loving kindness may flourish more in our lives. We will contemplate our lives’ experiences of hard-ship and heart-ship through Wazifa Body Prayer Dances, silence, meditation, and group sharing.

Our beloved Steve Sadiq is serving us a scrumptious vegetarian lunch

 both Saturday and Sunday.

Please register by October 4 with Tara Andrea and Maboud at [email protected] .

Minimum donation of $40 to cover food,

preferably by Paypal: 

https://dancesofuniversalpeacesantafe.org/Donations.html 

Or send check to Dances of Universal Peace Santa Fe,

2367 Ruta Corta, Santa Fe NM 87507

Donations for teachers are gratefully accepted. 

Attendance is limited.

Partial attendance could be possible.

We can let you know after October 4.

Specific event location and directions

will be provided upon registration

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Deepening in Forgiveness

Through the Divine Qualities/Wazaif

Ya Ghaffar  Ya Ghafur Ya Tawwab  Ya ‘Afuw

With Tawwaba Bloch

Maboud and Tara Andrea Swierkosz

October 14 (Indigenous Peoples’ Day)

10 AM – 5:30 PM

(location:  Earth Nurse, Santa Fe, NM)

We will explore the process of forgiveness through chanted wazifah practice and the body prayer of Zikr, the remembrance of the unity of all creation. Wazaif are names of aspects or facets of the Creator in Arabic, which are used like mantra to attune to specific qualities. 

You may focus on situations in your personal life or in your relationship to our beloved Earth.

Tawwaba served Murshid Wali Ali Meyer for 12 years, assisting the development and writing of Physicians of the Heart, a definitive text on the 99 Beautiful Names of God (the wazaif) and doing the research for Sunrise in the West, the biography of Murshid Samuel L Lewis, an American Sufi mystic and creator of the Dances of Universal Peace.

“Tawwaba embodies a quiet loving strength that can disarm inner resistance to opening up to our heart’s wisdom. She’s kind, clear, subtle yet direct, and artistic.” (— Rachamana)

Maboud and Tara Andrea have been leading the Dances and body prayers for several decades. They have received new melodies and movements in dreams, through experiences in nature, and through visions arising in their everyday life.  They shape, and are shaped, by the creative process in their efforts to embody and express living divine qualities in song and dance movement and practices. 

“Tara and Maboud bring a depth of heart and humanity to our practices together. The wisdom and enthusiasm they invoke is infectious, carrying through each of us into the world. “   (Michou Landon)

Contact Tawwaba for more program information and registration

[email protected]

Contact our host Rachamana for logistics or other earth plane details.

[email protected]        (505) 913-1904

No lunch provided for Monday event.

Please bring a bag lunch.

Attendance by donation.