Photo: Subhan Dawson
Schedule
The Caravan will open with dinner at 6:00pm on Wenesday, April 16th and will close with lunch on Sunday, April 20th.
All events take place at: Rising Tide International 5102 Swift Road Sarasota, FL 34231
Event Schedule |
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| Time | Main Building | Outside Tent | ||
| 7.00-7:30 | Meditation | |||
| 7:30-8:45 | Breakfast | |||
| 9:00-10:15 | Joyful Loving Shahabuddin |
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| 10:15-11:30 | Sacred Sound Mukesh |
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| 11:45-1:00 | Yoga Yves |
Writing Barbara |
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| 1:00-3:00 | Lunch & Break |
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| 3:00-4:15 | Drumming Gayan | The Orchard in Spring Sharifa |
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| 4:30-5:30 | Tibetan Mandala Singye |
Healing Anna |
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| 5:30-6:00 | Dances & Community Time | |||
| 6:00-8:00 | Dinner |
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| 8.00-9.30 | ||||
| Wed | Welcome celebration -Dances of Universal Peace with Shahabuddin, Gayan, and Safiya Susan Slack | |||
| Thurs. | Poetry & Zikr- Open to all, and everyone is invited. Come join this traditional Sufi celebration of remembrance!Zkr led by Shahabuddin, with poetry readings by Vajra Barbara Schmitz. | |||
| Fri | Concert by dear friends HuDost - Cross-cultural, transcendental, chill-out music, together with sacred dancing by Dr. Marguerite Barnett. Professional dancer Felicia Norton will also perform. |
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| Sat | Seder Dinner followed with |
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Courses
Joyful Loving
The word love is both a verb of action and a noun. The balanced human being puts these two together and becomes loving and able to be loved and feels love itself. In our hectic lives love has lost its place of prominence as an activity and as a state of being. In these few days together we will meditate with love, speak with love, touch love, find love’s presence, laugh with love, cry with love, and ultimately give permission for ourselves to be the object of love. When the prophets suggest to us that we love one another, the inference is that this is the real and only path to happiness. Truly loving is living.
Shahabuddin Less
Yoga as Spiritual Practice
Yoga classes are in the morning, and in the afternoon. Yoga offers a playful and exhilarating start to the day and a refreshing recharge in the afternoon. We stretch, practice breathing exercises and challenge ourselves to move in new directions.
Yves Oberlin & Jonathan Freilich
The Love of Writing
Together we'll write our hearts open, evoking the Muse by putting pen to paper and experiencing the process of writing. Timed writings from given topics will be used after sampling various poems and prose models--lovingly paying no heed to punctuation, spelling, not lifting pen from page.
Vajra Barbara Schmitz
Healing the Mind - Healing the Soul
All paths regard the mind as a covering for the soul and mystics through out the ages have traditionally used five basic healing techniques to purify, balance and still the mind in order to experience the soul. This weekend we will learn these five basic healing techniques and use related spiritual practices to uncover the soul.
Anna Less
Sacred Sound
Mukesh has the ability to communicate the essence of music directly to the hearts of his listeners. Through a combination of exercises, scales, chants, kirtans and warm-hearted stories, he shares his love of sound and gently pulls us into the ocean where sound dissolves into silence. No prior musical experience is necessary.
Mukesh Desai
Drumming For Joy
From ancient wisdom cultures to modern gatherings, drumming is an unequaled modality for enchanting the heart, deepening in the soul, and freeing the spirit. Gayan will draw from his extensive African, Latin and Middle Eastern drum studies, as well as the creativity and spontaneity of the moment, to teach this class. No experience necessary and all skill levels are welcome. Bring a djembe, conga, ashiko, doumbek, or other hand drum.
Gayan Long
Tibetan Mandala Painting
We will paint the Mandala of Compassion, which emphasizes the cultivation of loving kindness and the dissolution of anger and hatred. Creating this
Mandala generates compassion for all suffering sentient beings. Learn the sacred art of painting a Tibetan Mandala according to the ancient
Thangka tradition, and discover a powerful key to your INNER PEACE.
Jamyong Singye
The Orchard in Spring
We will attune to meditations on the sacred manuscript of nature, reading the correspondences between nature and the profound alchemy of the spiritual journey. Working with essential practices of purification and cultivation of the heart and mind, poetry and movement meditations, we unveil a fertile field and ground of being. We offer our exploration to embodying a natural and spontaneous freshness, a broad vision and to upholding the beauty, sacredness and love streaming through all life.
Sharifa Norton
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