Upcoming Events September 10, 2006 Sheikha Khadija Radin Khadija Radin is a Sheikha of the Sufi Ruhaniat International, a Sufi order founded by Murshid Samuel Lewis. She resides at The Dervish Center in upstate New York, teaching Sufi studies, the Mevlevi and other styles of turning and meditation. She is the director of the Body Mind Restoration Retreats, a cleansing and renewal program hosted at the center in the summer. Date: Sunday September 10, 2006 Time: 2 to 5 PM Click for direction.

Upcoming Events

Please join us to welcome our guest speaker:
        
         Sheikha Khadija Radin  

   Khadija Radin began turning in 1971 after she first saw whirling performed by the followers of Sufi Murshid Samuel Lewis in San Francisco, California. They had recently lost their beloved teacher. She was enraptured by the meditative movement which was to change her way of life. She was,
at the time, a teacher and choreographer of modern dance. Formerly a member of the Lucas Hoving Dance Company in New York. Shortly thereafter she resigned from an administrative and teaching position with the San Francisco Art Commission to travel from Holland overland to India and back, searching out the mystics, especially the Dervish.

She has been teaching turning since 1978. Khadija had been whirling for eight years when she met Postneshin Jelaluddin Loras, and began the study of the classical Mevlevi turn. She has followed the way of Mevlana ever since. She was given permission to teach Mevlevi turning in 1982 by Postneshin Loras. She is on the cover and featured in the recently published book Women Called to the Path of Rumi, The Way of the Whirling Dervish by Shakina Reinhertz.

Khadija Radin is also a Sheikha of the Sufi Ruhaniat International, a Sufi order founded by Murshid Samuel Lewis. She resides at The Dervish Center in upstate New York, teaching Sufi studies, the Mevlevi and other styles of turning and meditation. She is the director of the Body Mind Restoration Retreats, a cleansing and renewal program hosted at the center in the summer.

Khadija Marcia Radin began formal training in meditation in 1969 with Swami Rudrananda and later with Swami Muktananda.

In January of 1982 she began training with Zen Master Joshu Sasaki Roshi. She was ordained a nun by Sasaki Roshi in 1991. She leads a whirling and meditation retreat several times a year.

She teaches that one can experience meditation, drumming, whirling and every other activity as a doorway to being present, to experience that which sees through the eyes and hears through the ears. One can find the opportunity, in every activity, to identify with that which has no residence. Prior to the notion of one's self is the awakening to One Self. There is a dance in stillness and a stillness in dance, both of which are complete absorption, and thus, the dissolution of a doer.

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