Kim is a deep ecologist committed to
environmental stewardship and cultural repair through nature-connection. For
over 30 years she’s studied the sacred scripture of nature as a wildlife
biologist, therapeutic wilderness guide, interpretive naturalist, and
truth-seeker. Currently, she works for several environmental consulting firms
and is self-employed as a birding guide in the Southwest. Kim unites science
and spirit in her life with a quantum cosmology that sees nature and all
things external as holographic embodiments of the One.

Joined the Sufi caravan in 1979, and became an official resident of the SSC in 1997. Moineddin became an inspiration for exploring the inner life, and what has ultimately helped me become a witness/watcher on the path. Over the last quarter century have visited the SSC numerous times. Living there about a year and a half. Due to some health challenges have chosen to reside now in a more urban setting. Over the years have helped out where I could with many varied projects on the land and remotely. Served on the Board, and currently as an advisor.

Chant Thomas has lived in wilderness settings for nearly 50 years diving deep into the Wild, embedded in the embrace of Divine Creation. Chant first encountered Sufis in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park after an all-night Grateful Dead concert in December 1972. Sam’s tribe pulled him into Dances of Universal Peace and he wept with joy connecting with all those dancing eye gazers. Chant has lived at Southwest Sufi Community since 2020.

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 Shabda Kahn. Waduda serves SW Sufi Community in financial support. She is the Treasurer for Sufi Ruhaniat International. A CO native, she lives at the base of the mountains in Boulder.