Sweeping out the Chambers of the Heart – London
An evening of Sufi Practice, Live Music, Dances of Universal Peace and Zikr with Sheikh Muiz Brinkerhoff and Jilani Cordelia Prescott
6- 8 pm followed by tea and biscuits
£20 for advance booking, £25 on the door
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Muiz Brinkerhoff, from northern California, USA, has been walking the Sufi Path since 1975, guiding his initiated students since 1987, and offering the Dances and Sufi spiritual practices internationally from 2003.
He and Jilani have been co-leading evenings, weekend, and week-long retreats since 2016, deeply enjoying and looking forward to each collaboration.
Muiz also offers individual and class-based, formal Sufi training to his and other initiated students, and informal guidance and perspective to those who resonate with his methods for cultivating Waking Up into greater Awareness.
His approach to his own growth and development includes equal measures of common sense practicality, a keen sense of humour, taking his human ego-self very lightly, and ongoing cultivation of gratitude and kindness — which all carry over into his work with individuals and groups.
The combination and balancing of these tools and perspectives seem to be a powerful protection against getting caught up in two common pitfalls on the Spiritual Path: spiritual bypass or a joyless, dour “sober” spirituality.
As an openly-identified gay man since 1975, he has been acknowledged as a trail-blazer and role model by both younger and older LGBTQIA+ and gender non-conforming members of the Ruhaniat and Inayatiyya communities, demonstrating that there is a respected place and spiritual home for them, and helping them feel safer to come out themselves.
Jilani Cordelia Prescott has been a mureed (Sufi student) of Muiz since 2005, taking formal initiation with him in 2007. In 2016 she was empowered to guide her own initiated students, and she has travelled widely since then, working with mureeds and leading retreats based around Sufi practices and the Dances of Universal Peace. It is always a great pleasure and privilege for her to work alongside her beloved guide and teacher Muiz.