>> Winter 2012 Newsletter
Winter 2012 Newsletter
The SOI Toronto Notices Winter 2012 Quarterly Newsletter was distributed by email on December 3, 2012.
SOI Toronto Centres - Quarterly Newsletter - Winter 2012
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.
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• Special Events in Toronto and the GTA
• Special Events Outside the GTA
• Ongoing Events
• Special Events in Toronto and the GTA
Dear Friends: We invite you to attend our exciting 15th annual Festival of Lights service on Sunday, December 9th, 2012 at 1:30 pm at the Institute of Traditional Medicine.
The Awakening Heart Circle, a Sufi Order International centre in Toronto, hosts an annual New Year's Eve celebration. The event features a pot-luck dinner, • Special Events Outside the GTA
Please join us at the Abode, on December 30 for a three day New Year Retreat with Aziza Scott.
Please join us in February for four days of ecstatic music with Ustad Nizami (and perhaps his young son who is a fabulous tabla player), Yuval Ron, Sukhawat Ali Khan, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Bisan Toron, and Abraham and Halima Sussman. These musicians (many of them known internationally) will be honoring Pir-o-Murshid’s memory by offering musical attunement, participatory sessions, dhikr and concerts.• 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 
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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.
