Specializing in the female facet of faith, Omid Safi and Willow Brook categorical how divine love and connection transcend all binaries.
This episode was initially recorded for the Wild Coronary heart Podcast with Willow Brook – a podcast that explores divinity in every day life with themes of affection, mysticism, grief as a non secular path, and sensual embodiment. Be taught extra: Wild Coronary heart Podcast | On Youtube
This time on Sufi Coronary heart, Omid Safi chats with Willow Brook about:
- Navigating this mass international struggling
- Tapping into love whereas going by means of disaster
- Remembering that the self and collective are wrapped up collectively
- Connecting to the lived expertise of others
- What it means to make love and sweetness actual
- Classes from nice activists like MLK Jr. and Malcolm X
- How important black ladies have been within the civil rights motion
- Increasing our notions of affection past the romantic
- The divine mom and female knowledge inside Islam
- Deeply realizing that we’re by no means aside from God
- How we’re all dwelling in the identical non secular ecosystem, the identical divine womb
- The dichotomy of type and formless, physique and spirit
- Love as embodied service
About Willow Brook:
Willow Brook is a love coach, interspiritual companion, and earth-rooted educator devoted to serving to folks awaken to deeper intimacy, presence, and love. For over a decade, she has guided people and teams by means of transformational areas around the globe, weaving somatic intimacy practices, ritual, meditation, and tune to help the alchemy of heartbreak into embodied and nourishing connection. By her signature teaching program, Open to Love, Willow helps those that lengthy for fulfilling and soulful relationships with their our bodies, companions, and the divine however really feel held again by the ache of the previous. As co-founder of Wild Coronary heart with Mirabai Starr, she additionally facilitates neighborhood grief gatherings and ceremonies rooted within the divine female for folks of all genders. Take heed to Willow’s The Wild Coronary heart Podcast to listen to extra concerning the intersections of affection, spirit, and embodiment. You may also sustain with Willow on Instagram.
About Omid Safi:
Dr. Omid Safi is the director of Duke College’s Islamic Research Heart. He specializes within the research of Islamic mysticism and modern Islam and steadily writes on liberationist traditions of Dr. King and Malcolm X, and is dedicated to traditions that hyperlink collectively love and justice. He leads non secular excursions yearly to Turkey, Morocco, or different nations, to review the wealthy a number of spiritual traditions there. The journeys are open to everybody from each nation. Extra info is obtainable at Illuminated Programs & Excursions.
“If we’re each in the identical divine womb, what atrocity would I commit with out it additionally coming again to me? How wouldn’t it change our concept of environmental duty? Not solely as a result of that is our solely house in all the infinite galaxies, however as a result of we live in the identical non secular ecosystem and all of that’s contained within the divine womb.” –Omid Safi
Try Omid’s books Progressive Islam and Radical Love for extra progressive views on knowledge from historical sages
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