Join together to dance and sing in celebration of the Winter Solstice, the coming celebration of Christ's birth, and Jelalludin Rumi's Saint's Day, or Urs.

Mariam Baker, a senior teacher in the Mevlevi Order of the whirling dervishes of Turkey who led a turning class at Incarnation at Numina's All Saint’s weekend event in 2007, returns to guide us in Dances of Universal Peace honoring Sufi and Christian traditions. Celebrate the season with dance.

The Dances of Universal Peace are simple dances that celebrate the unity of all the world's traditions. Begun in the 1960s, their purpose is to spread peace, love, and harmony.

No previous experience necessary.

$15 General Admission

A limited number of tickets will be sold at the door

Sunday, December 21, 2008, 2-4 PM

Church of the Incarnation, Farlander Hall    Directions

Mariam Baker is a deeply experienced adept and teacher of many aspects of the Sufi path, dance, song, healing and poetry. She is a senior teacher in the Mevlevi Order of the whirling dervishes of Turkey and for the Mevlevi Order of America, facilitating classes internationally in the great whirling dance—the practice of turn—and other meditative practices in the tradition of Mevlana JelaluddinRumi. 

Mariam is also an active member of the Sufi Ruhaniat International and leader of the Dances of Universal Peace since 1974. She is the former director of Theater Of Healing and author of “Woman As Divine, Tales Of The Goddess,” published in 1981, one of the first books illuminating the Sacred Feminine.