Everyone is invited to a special one-day workshop, here at St. Thomas, featuring author & lecturer, Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez, on Saturday, October 19 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (Sign-in begins at 8:30 am).
The 1,400 year-old spiritual path known as Sufism emphasizes the power of love to create transformation in a person’s consciousness. One of the greatest teachers of the Sufi path is Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273), a Persian mystic and founder of the Mevlevi Order of “whirling dervishes,” whose poetry and writings on love have become extremely popular in recent years. In these talks, Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez, will use the stories and the poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi to explore the three stages of the Sufi path of love.
Cost: Early Registration is $35 per Person & $25 per Student
Bring a bag lunch for the mid-day break | Morning Refreshments, Coffee & Bottled Water Included
Register at www.CellOfPeace.com/workshops.htm
Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez is the head of the Inayati-Maimuni lineage of Sufism and a scholar of comparative religion. He was a student of both Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, as well as Father Thomas Keating, the founder of the Centering Prayer movement. He has been deeply involved in ecumenical dialogue and is considered a leading thinker in the InterSpiritual and New Monasticism movements. Pir Netanel is the translator of My Love Stands Behind a Wall: A Translation of the Song of Songs and Other Poems (2015), and the editor of Meditations for InterSpiritual Practice (2011). Currently, Pir Netanel teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
For additional information about this workshop, email CPDallas@cellofpeace.com.
