Portland Unity Zikr September 12th– Kenton Masonic Lodge November Issue 11, Vol. 21 2018 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Upcoming events: 1 2 3 7 PM Salem DUP Dec 7 to 9 Ashland Winter Retreat 6:30 PM 7:30 PM Friday Dec 16 MOA SEMA in Portland Mevlevi Thresh- DUP Portland Dec 31 Universal Worship Service in Portland old 7:30 PM Hillsboro DUP Dec 31 Global Peace Dance and Potluck in Portland 7 :30 PM Eugene DUP 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6:30 Mevlevi 7 PM Newport 7 PM Lincoln city DUP Threshold DUP 7:30 PM Portland 7 PM Corvallis Unity Zikr— Kenton 7:30 PM Friday Masonic Lodge DUP 7:30 PM Portland DUP DUP Portland 7:30 PM Zikr Deepening 7:30 PM Hillsboro 7:30 PM Seekers DUP Welcome Circle Shadhiliyya 11 11 AM UWS 12 13 14 15 7:30 PM Zikr 16 17 Deepening 7:30 - 9 PM Rumi 1 PM Mureeds 7:30 PM Portland DUP Poetry evening in class with Kalama 6:30 PM Mevlevi 7:30 PM Friday Montavilla! Con- tact Fatush 808- DUP Portland and Iman Threshold 347-0731 for 7 PM Salem DUP 7:30 PM Eugene location DUP 7:30 pm Hillsboro DUP 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 7:30 PM Portland 7:30 PM Friday 4 PM One Heart DUP DUP Portland DUP Circle 7:30 PM Hillsboro DUP 25 26 27 28 29 30 11:45 AM DHO 8536 SE Stark, 7:30 PM Portland DUP 7:30 PM Zikr 7:30 PM Friday Portland Deepening DUP Portland 1 PM Mureeds Class w/Kalama 7:30 PM Eugene and Iman DUP 1 PM Inayati class 1515 NW 23rd, 7:30 PM Hillsboro Portland , 503-281- DUP 0265 Page 2 Portland Unity Zikr - November 10, 2018 Kenton Masonic Lodge Portland Unity Zikr ASHLAND SUFI HEART CIRCLE November 10, 2018 26TH Annual 7:30 — 9 PM WINTER RENEWAL RETREAT Kenton Masonic Lodge 8130 N Denver Ave. Portland, OR Friday, Dec 7 to Sunday, Dec 9 St. Rita’s Retreat Center 10800 Blackwell Road Gold Hill, OR Join in for a weekend of celebration in community and sufi practices in the lineage of Pir-O-Murshid New Year’s Eve Hazrat Inayat Khan and Murshid Sam Lewis. Participate in GLOBAL PEACE DANCE the Dances of Universal Peace, Brotherhood/Sisterhood, Community Potluck and Universal Worship Service Healing Circle, Breath, Zikr, Universal Worship. Monday, December 31, 2018 Cost: $201-255 before Dec 1st, and this includes lodging, St. David of Wales Social Hall meals and tuition. For information and registration: Khalil at 2800 SE Harrison St. 541-890-1337, www.ashland.com. Portland, OR 97214 Make checks out to: Mark Elliot, PO Box 1151, 7:00 PM Universal Worship Service Ashland, OR 97520 8:00 PM Dances of Universal Peace 9:30 PM Community Potluck 10:30 PM Dances of Universal Peace 11:45 PM Meditation Mevlevi Order of America and KBOO Radio presents 11:50 PM Sing “Peace Bells” SEMA, the Sacred Prayer Ceremony Participants come together for the 27th annual Global Peace Dance, when dancers in Portland will link with for the Whirling Dervishes other Dance circles throughout the world with one Sunday, December 16, 2018 common focus in our prayers for peace. Celebrate the 3:30 PM New Year with an evening of sacred dance and com- New Expressive Works (NEW) munity potluck, ending with a brief meditation on the 810 SE Belmont St. Ram Nam Mantram. Portland, OR Attend all or part of the evening! $15-$30 Sliding scale donation (suggested) Please bring potluck offerings and non-alcoholic beverages. For more info: Michael 503-380-2817 or Sufi Seekers’ Welcome Circle Michelle 503-419-7856 email: Curious about Shadhiliyya Sufism, the Portland commu- [email protected] nity, or Sufism in general? New to the Shadhiliyya path and not sure what to do next? Need help with your foundational practices? Please join us—bring your questions and your Sufi Universal Worship Service longing. Monday, December 31-New Year’s Eve Hosted by Rifqa Bolliger, a naqib (teacher) in the Shadhili- 7:00 PM yya Sufi order and graduate of the University of Spiritual St. David of Wales Episcopal Church Healing and Sufism’s Master of Divinity (Ministry) program. 2800 SE Harrison St. This is a place to ask questions, learn some basics, explore Portland, OR 97214 what draws you to this path, and get a taste of what it can Officiated by bring you. Cheragas, Rani McLaughlin, Nuria Hanflng, Nasiban 7:30– 9 PM 2nd Thursday of each month, in the Common Schatz, and Cherag Samuel Vilayat Schatz House library at the Cascadia Commons Cohousing Com- munity. 4377 SW 94th Ave., Portland, OR 97225. Please The Sufi Universal Worship Service is so named be- park on the street. Drop-in. By donation if guided. RSVP not cause it aims to promote the unity of religious ideals, necessary, but occasional month missed due to schedule to give an opportunity to those belonging to different conflicts. Call to verify or with questions: 503-350-0394 religions to worship together, and to discover that (no text/email). there is one source from which all scriptures have come. For more information please email: Rani at [email protected] Page 3 SUFI CLASSES AND ONGOING EVENTS IN OREGON Some class listings are for Sufi Initiates only ~ please call before attending Ashland Sufi Heart Circle www.ashlandsufi.com Dances of Universal Peace- Portland Khalil Elliott 541-890-1337 Please call or see website for current schedule and special www.dancesofuniversalpeace.org and Shadhiliyya Sufi Order events. www.pdxdances.org Contact Hamid Paul Werder 503-632- Bend DUP –4th Tuesday of month: 7 PM First Sundays– 11 AM—Noon at Port- 6583 & Rifqa 503-350-0394 Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central land Family Peace Fellowship, 2620 Oregon, 61980 Skyline Ranch Road, Bend, Hughes Dr., West Linn, OR 97068. Con- Inayati Order/Raphaelite Work Con- OR. Contact: Jane Akers tact Ph: 503-380-2817 tact : Hayyat & Wahhab Dohrmann 503 ([email protected]) or Chela Sloper Tuesday Dance Circle– 7:30 PM at St -305-6450 or mddohrman (at) comcast ([email protected]) David of Wales Episcopal Church, 2800 (dot) net. Corvallis : DUP –7 PM 2nd Thursdays at SE Harrison St., Portland. Sufi Healing Order Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2945 NW www.movingmeditations-dup.com Circle Blvd, Corvallis, OR 97330. Contact Friday DUP Portland –7:30 PM at St www.sufihealingorder.org Stephen Pierce at [email protected] Michael’s Episcopal Church, 1704 NE or 503.936.5318 43rd Avenue, Portland. Contact Ahura http://www.twinoakscenter.com/ Grace 503-260-1426 sufism.html Eugene Dervish Healing Order One Heart Circle - 4 PM, Third Sun- Contact: Hayyat & Wahhab Dohrmann days, at Mt. Tabor Presbyterian, 5441 503-305-6450 or mddohrman (at) com- Murad Finkelstein [email protected] SE Belmont St., Portland. Contact cast (dot) net. 541 - 343 - 9952 Healing Circle, Sunday, 7 PM Zaynab 503-260-9916. Eugene Sufi Community Hillsboro Dance Circle– Fridays, 7:30 Inayati Order PM at Unitarian Universalist Church, Initiates class: 1st & 3rd Thursdays each 22785 NW Birch Street, Hillsboro. www.inayatiorder.org month. Zikr on 4th Fridays each month. www.movingmeditations-dup.com Ruhaniat Contact: Murad Finklestein 541- Mevlevi Order of America Nasiban & Samuel Vilayat Schatz 503- 343-9952 or [email protected] www.hayatidede.org 281 -0265. Call for info. Or email: [email protected] (New Email) Dances: — 1st and 3rd & 5th Fridays Kalama Reuter 971-998-7908 7:30PM at Friends Meeting House, 2274 Mureeds class - Every 4th Sunday Onyx St., Eugene, OR. Call Haqiqa 541-221- 8412 or [email protected]. Rumi Poetry Evening, 3rd SAT, 1 –3 PM at 1505 NW 23rd St., Portland, OR (next door to the Float Shoppe). Mevlevi Rumi Study Circle and Turn Class: 7:30—9 PM in Montavilla area of Tuesday evening class from 7:00—9:00PM. Portland. Call Fatush at 808-347- Sufi Movement Contact Husamed-din at 541-521-8655 or 0731 or Current offerings of the Sufi Movement [email protected] for location [email protected] can be found under Events at the web- Lincoln City Dances of Universal Peace site: Nwsufimovement.org — 2nd Tuesdays at 7 PM, Lincoln City Mevlevi Threshold Society Cultural Center, 540 NE Hwy 101, Lincoln For any questions please call Rani at City, OR Contact: Stephen Pierce at 503- www.sufism.org 503.245.9311. 9365318 or [email protected]. Khadim Chishti 971-998-6846 Sufi Ruhaniat International [email protected] www.ruhaniat.org Newport Dances of Universal Peace — 2nd Friday of the month at 7 PM, South Dervish Circle, Thursdays 6:30PM Kalama Reuter 971-998-7908 Beach Community Center, 3024 Ferry Slip Nur Ashki Jerrahi Order Rd., South Beach, OR (just south of Newport) Iman Jackson 503-774-5038 Contact: Stephen Pierce at 503.936.5318 or www.nurashkijerrahi.org [email protected]. Ahura Grace Henke 503-260-1426 Zikr Portland Dervish Healing Order Deepening, Thursdays. Salem Dances of Universal Peace (DHO) 1st Fridays & 3rd Thursday, 7 PM Unitarian Joel Weber –[email protected] Mureeds Class 2nd and 4th Sundays 1 Universalist Congregation of Salem, 5090 New Moon Healing Service— Email PM. Those interested in attending con- Center St. NE Contact: Rabia 503-881-8253 Joel . 8536 SE Stark, Portland, OR tact Iman 503-774-5038. Salem_Dances_of_Universal_Peace@hotmail Universal Worship Service Westside Dervish Healing Order .com. Website: www.salemdances.com and Nasiban 503-281-0265 salemdances facebook page. (DHO) Khabir Taylor 503-705-4932 Rani 503-245-9311 Talent, Oregon — Self & Soul Center Shadhiliyya Sufi Order Talent Self & Soul Center www.portlandsufi.org 9820 Wagner Creek Rd., Talent, OR 97540 suficenter.org www.selfsoulcenter.org Seekers Welcome Circle: Rifqa Yahya Ali & Raphael 541-535-3338 Community meditations Sunday 10-11 AM Bolliger 503-350-0394 2nd Thurs.