Biography: Mana’ar Johnson

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...

Biography: Sequoia

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...

Biography: Pir Shabda Kahn

Shabda Kahn, a direct disciple of the American Sufi Master, Murshid Samuel Lewis, has been practicing Sufism since 1969 and since 2001, is the Pir (Spiritual Director) of the Sufi Ruhaniat International, the lineage tracing from Hazrat Inayat Khan and Murshid Samuel...

Biography: Bahaar Thomas

Bahaar came to Sufism as a young girl, meeting the Spirit of Allah in a dream, dancing and encircling within the Zikr. Soon thereafter, Bahaar spent her 16th birthday at the Abode of the Message, seeking silence and refuge, her first Khilvat. Meeting Pir Vilayat...