About Sufi Workshops with Tamsin
The workshop in Semana Santa April 2022.
Semana Santa workshops in Spain will be a yearly event and we welcome any to come and join us in April for the 9 -10 day workshops held in Madrid.
The Sufi workshops are often held over weekends or for 8 – 10 days or over the summer at a two month meditation retreat in New Mexico.
People often ask why we hold workshops all weekend and not just a few hours. Over a few days of doing the workshop a profound shift can occur. The time, the place and the people lend to the workshop an opportunity to go inward and focus on being rather than doing, being rather than thinking.
The music, the exercises, the slow soft gentle movements and chants draw you away from the tension caused by managing the world around you and into the realm where you can experience an inner clarity and peace that rejuvenates the whole being. Often this is a new experience for people and can affect them in a profound way. The timing supports not rushing but being in the moment, in the movement, in the music, in the positive flow of breathing, moving and stillness.
It takes a while for the body to assimilate the new focus on being in the moment. It is like a new physical exercise where your muscles need to recover from being exercised. So to does the whole person need to assimilate the new experience of being deeply in the moment.
As the workshops progress each exercise is designed to bring a deeper state of awareness and blend them to create a positive change.
Unlike other modalities like yoga or static dance or sitting meditation the sufi workshop is designed to blend all these elements together so that the body, the emotions, the heart and the mind become unified and immersed. The Sufi consider the senses we have as vehicles to align the heart with the spirit.
