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Summer 2011 Newsletter
The SOI Toronto Notices Summer 2011 Quarterly Newsletter was distributed by email on 2011-Jun-02. Please visit our Newsletters page if you wish to subscribe. NOTE: Some changes and corrections have been made to the events listed on this newsletter. A correction email was sent out on 2011-06-25.
SOI Toronto Centres - Quarterly Newsletter - Summer 2011
The quarterly Newsletter provides a detailed list of events for the next three months, compiled from those posted at the SOI Toronto Centres website. In addition, you can see these events displayed on our online calendar. All events are open to everyone unless the description specifically states otherwise. For more details about these events, visit the page for the event on our website or contact the event's organizer or leader.
NOTE: Some (but not all!) of the ongoing events take a break for the summer, and skip July, August, or both. They will resume in September as usual.
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In this weekend retreat, in the beauty and peace of Quiet Meadows Retreat Center, we will share in deep practices for cultivating the natural self, exploring the alchemy of the soul's journey, and orienting more clearly to our unfolding purpose.
On this day in 2004, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan rejoined God, his Beloved. It is celebrated on June 17th every year.
NOTE: There is no Toronto event being held on the day of Pir Vilayat's Urs, but the monthly Universal Worship Service held on June 21st will include a brief review of his life in honor of the Urs. It will also feature poetry being read instead of the usual holy scriptures.
The 21st Annual Ithaca Dance Camp, a Dances of Universal Peace event, is being held this June. For more information, please read the text below (which was distributed by email) or check out the
The Sufi Order International - North America has announced the 2011 annual Sufi Order Summer Gathering, titled "Awakening to the World" with Pir Zia Inayat-Khan, Taj Inayat, Aziza Scott and senior teachers of the Sufi Order. You can read about it below, or get
The Islam/Sufism segment of the 2011 Mystic Heart program at the Chautauqua Institution will be led by
We are very happy to welcome Amir O'Loughlin back to Toronto! Amir has led several weekend workshops here (in
Posted to the SOI's Keeping in Touch email list on April 24... Greetings. We would like to invite you to attend the 14th annual Northeast Sufi Camp, August 25-28, 2011. This year it will be held again at a beautiful rural retreat homesite in North Central Massachusetts.• Ongoing Events
The Way of the Heart explores the universal Sufi teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan through chant, meditation, sacred readings and movement. Each evening we’ll immerse ourselves in several of these spiritual practices, which for centuries have been used to achieve personal transformation and Divine enlightenment.
The Dances of Universal Peace are a participatory, group form of "meditation in motion" that honours the sacred traditions of the world. Dances of Universal Peace are held the first Tuesday of every month (with some exceptions). The Dances begin at 7:30 pm, at the
The healing service is a group prayer circle which asks the divine to heal those who ask for healing, through ritual, prayer and attunement to the Divine Spirit. This service was created by Hazrat Inayat Khan as a way for groups to offer distant healing to those who need it.
The
An evening of Sufi Practices, Meditation, Zikr and Tea. Deepening spiritual practice is essential to travelers of the journey; Practicing and experiencing meditation, Zikr and wazifa (also know as Mantras) under an experienced practitioner and in a group of other experienced spiritual practitioners helps one to unfurl one’s own potentialities.
