Last week I promised to share the short version of how I started doing the Sufi work (the basis of my Friday class) to help you decide whether it might be right for you.

Below is link for tomorrow, February 24th at 8 AM (in the morning) Pacific time:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89999494833?pwd=V2pOS28yYUdXM3hkaW1rVWIvSjBUdz09

Meeting ID: 899 9949 4833

Passcode: SUFI

As I already explained in last week's email, I got into the Sufi work while in the middle of a marital break-up. Life was a mess! My husband had lost his job in Santa Fe and, not fluent in Spanish, could not find another one. He met a woman at a training workshop in Phoenix and decided he wanted out of Santa Fe and our marriage. It is not easy to walk away from a 10 year marriage. We went back and forth for several month.

By some miracle my husband spotted a flyer for a Sufi workshop happening that week. Since we had been seeking a Sufi teacher for years, we went. I have never experienced anything like it. Soothing, relaxing, mesmerizing -- all my anxieties, worries, and concern for the future disappeared. The Sufi teacher and his work became my oasis in a wasteland.

Two weeks of evening classes and a very intensive 2-day weekend workshop (including drumming, dancing and whirling) shifted my thinking. I realized that there was no peace in our marriage and that I did not need to hold on. It came as a big revelation:

Sufi = peace.

Marriage = anxiety and conflict

My husband had been offered a job in Phoenix and didn't know what to do. For me it was a no-brainer. I told him to take job. I suggested it as a trial separation. It quickly became permanent when he moved in with his new lover.

The Sufi work was my life-line. I did the Christmas workshop in New York and then the 2-month summer camp in Torreon, NM in July and August. I have been doing the work ever since. I even met my current husband at the camp.

Now that our Sufi teacher has completed his corporeal existence, his students continue his work on Zoom and in workshops around the world and at his retreat in New Mexico. We do it mostly for ourselves. However, since I work with people struggling with life's challenges, this is one thing I can offer them that I know from experience can help.

Let me be clear, the Sufi practices did not eliminate my grief. Grief can not be by-passed. They did, however, ease my fears and sadness, provide a ready community and a vision for the future I could live with.

If you are struggling with a loss or major life challenge, the class I offer on Friday is a great way to release tension and ease catastrophic thought. It provides a respite from sadness and a new vision for yourself.

There are no rules in this class except to try it out. Come early and ask questions. Follow my movement, do your own or rest. Listen to the needs of your body. Your only objective is to be true to yourself.

Class is tomorrow, February 24, at 8 am Pacific. That is early morning for the west coast! A great way to start the day.

Here's a time converter link if you need to check the time in your own location.

Please give yourself some extra time between this class and other meetings as you will likely feel very different at the end.

The link to the zoom meeting is:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89999494833?pwd=V2pOS28yYUdXM3hkaW1rVWIvSjBUdz09

Meeting ID: 899 9949 4833

Passcode: SUFI

Be brilliant,

Dr. Michelle Peticolas

Life Transformation Coach

Empowering Women to Reinvent Their Life after Loss

Secrets of Life and Death

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