by Southwest Sufi Community | Feb 8, 2022 | Bios
Khalifa Waduda Welsh has been studying Sufism since the late 70’s. She has three daughters and six grandsons, and she enjoys sharing spirituality, sword fighting and nature with them. She is a leader of Dances of Universal Peace, a sufi guide and a mureed of Pir...
by Southwest Sufi Community | Feb 8, 2022 | Bios
Raised in “the boondocks” near Chicago, I enjoyed a rough and tumble childhood. My three siblings and I walked to grammar school and were bussed to high school. We all learned to swim early due to our parents’ preference for Lake Michigan vacation spots. I graduated...
by Southwest Sufi Community | Feb 8, 2022 | Bios
Mana’ar Johnson lives in Silver City now because of her experience at the Southwest Sufi Community. She left her home in Atlanta one dark and rainy winter to find some sun and some like-minded souls for 30 days, and a couple of years later had packed up and...
by Southwest Sufi Community | Feb 7, 2022 | Projects
Ahhhh, the Temple (AKA the dance pavilion for the Voice of the Turtle Retreat Center)…. A little over two years ago I thought I was retired and not really up for more heavy work. Little did I know what I would soon be getting into. About 7 years ago, with the...
by Southwest Sufi Community | Feb 1, 2022 | Bios
I arrived in the community in 2017 with my heartmate Sunny drawn to the possibility of a simple life in the desert among fellow mystics. Together, we lovingly tend a small bit of land on the edge of the community where we co-create a food forest oasis with a multitude...
