Intro to The Turn A Two-Day Workshop and Friday-Evening Public Zikr   with Hafizullah Chishti FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2008: Public Zikr, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm   Friends Meeting House, 931 N. 5th Avenue, Tucson   All Are Welcome! SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2008   9:00 am – 5 pm      and SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2008   9:30 am – 2:30 pm Center for Expressive Arts Therapy, 3838 E Ft. Lowell Rd, Ste #2 Tucson, Arizona

A secret turning in us
makes the universe turn.
—Rumi

The Turn — the whirling of the Dervishes — is a moving meditation and an embodied prayer of the most ferocious power. It is held that the Turn has been done in all times and places in which the world has needed the energies for which it is a unique conduit. There is a Secret in the Turn, and it is only known by Turning.

Learning the Turn is a process of spiritual alchemy. It engages all planes of our being and has deep and lasting effects in our whole life. The Turn is a discipline of body, mind, and Heart... much of what we do in life lets the ego run free but imprisons the soul; the Turn harnesses the ego, freeing the soul to know Itself more deeply and for Being to act in a real way.

Participants of this workshop will be introduced to:
• A solid grounding in the technique of the stationary and “walking” Turn. Proper technique promotes stamina without undue effort, balance and stability without dizziness, and smooth subtle-energy flow and opening of the subtle centers.
• How the Divine Breath moves in the Turn, and using this to harmonize daily life
• The Adab (“Manner”) of the Dervishes — integrating the “inner Turn” into daily life
• How the Turn and the Zikr work together
• The historical background of the Turn and related practices

The study materials will be drawn from the teachings of Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, and The Turn taught from the perspective of his approach to Sufism.

This workshop stands on its own and is also the prologue to a complete training of several months for those who are interested. You need not have a desire to learn the physical technique of the Turn to benefit from this workshop.
 
Registration and Tuition:
The cost of the entire weekend is $133, $87 for Saturday only and $50 for Sunday only, and $100/$77/$35 for students, those under 30, and those 65 and over. Registrations postmarked before August 22^nd receive an additional 10% off.

Register by sending a check payble to: Sufi Order of Tucson, c/o Kate Schmidt, 11471 E Placita Rancho Grande, Tucson, AZ 85730. Include your name, address, phone number and email address.

For further information, call Qayyima at 520.721.5016 or via email by clicking here
Location and other details will be sent to you when we receive your registration.

   “As the planets turn around the Sun, the limbs of the Sufi turn around the heart, the living shrine of God.
   Through the channel of Hafizullah’s proficient tutelage,
may this sacred art reach those for whom it is meant.
   I give this training my wholehearted support and encouragement.”
         —Pir Zia Inayat-Khan

Hafizullah has walked, stumbled, crawled, and danced the Sufi path for 32 years. He is a shaikh (senior teacher and lineage-holder) in the Sufi Order International, an adjunct member of the Sufi Order Curriculum Committee, and chairs the Leaders’ Training Committee of the Jamiat Khas. He studied the Turn with the Mevlevi Dervishes for over twenty years and taught it for seven years under the auspices of Mevlevi Shaikh Jelaluddin Loras. He currently co-directs a Sufi Order study circle in New Jersey with his wife NoorAllah.

If you have questions about the seminar content, Hafizullah can be reached at 908.788.6089 or via email