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Welcome to my teaching page. I have studied with Sufi Master Adnan Sarhan since 1987 and began teaching the Sufi work in 1994 in New York. The Sufi method I learn has infused everything. It is how I dance with the veil. It is the combination of slow movement, breath and chanting that brings a spiritual foundation to dance. Dance for me is spiritual. It is an expression of how we move when we are striving toward a state of presence so that we can move from an internal source rather than external ones. Mid Eastern dance has its roots in spiritual exercises that connect them to the divine. The movement meditation is a way to set aside the trappings of the mind and experience the yearning for spiritual connection. it is playful, musical, rhythmical and creative and activates a different perception of the senses and the moment.
All our capacities for expression, devotion, surrender, revelation, connection are through developing our senses, mind and heart with the intention of knowing the divine and who we are and our purpose in life. When we purify our hearts of negative conditions we set free our being to express the positive.
Left: This was a concert that Adnan performed in Basel in 2007 at a conference on Consciousness and Spirit. Many speakers came from all over the world to conduct classes on spiritual traditions. Adnan drums and I dance here at the closing in front of all the guest speakers and audience. It was a beautiful event and many people were very impressed by the serenity of the dance and the drum
Right: This was a concert in Madrid and there were several exquisite dancers from all over Spain and Europe performing as well. Adnan often begins with a long drumming as we sit and listen and the concentration he applies to the drum puts us all in a state of meditation before we dance. It is unique to dance to Adnan’s drumming. He keeps you engaged in many intricate changes of rhythm. You must be completely in the moment to follow it.
“Tamsin's approach to teaching veil is unique. I loved the inclusion of Sufi teaching and her methods encourage heart felt improvisation. I believe her classes have helped me improve as a dancer and I highly recommend her workshops to all dancers.”
Jade
Belly dance teacher, performer and blogger, Australia
“Tamsin leads participants quickly, gently and deeply into the intricate and subtle links between body, breath, mind, and soul.
Her workshops help to alleviate pain and clear the way for an expansive sense of pleasure, playfulness and healing.
I always leave more relaxed, energized, flexible, open and strong, and ready to face whatever lays before me with greater sensitivity, clarity and creativity.”
Jude Ornstein – Psychoanalyst, Art Therapist and Artist, NY
"I took her class a few months ago and was hooked. Tamsin (Nahari) is a quiet yet compelling person. Soft-spoken, reserved, a presence just oozes out of her. I do practice seated meditation regularly. Now, to take meditation to a movement/dance level is really something else. I can't explain it but it was addicting for me. I'm a shimmy around the house by myself kinda gal but to incorporate the movement, veil, breath, and focus all together for a purpose...well, it added a whole other dimension to dance for me. And at the end of class when she danced for us, it was hypnotic, mesmerizing, and peaceful all at the same time. I recommend her highly for those looking outside the dance-box. She is one of my favorite teachers."
Patsi, Houston, Texas
Letter From Silke Dailey to Adnan Sarhan.
Dear Mr. Sarhan,
It is quite strange for me to write you a letter, because you don't know me and many times I have started a letter and ripped it to pieces because it didn't feel right, but I hope this letter will find you.First of all I need to tell who I am . My name is Silke Dailey, I was born in Germany but live now in Australia since 1988. I am thirty years old and have a six year old boy. I live by myself with Kai for the last two years and moved to Byron Bay a little over a month ago. Thats when I saw Tamsin Murray's flyers about the Sufi Workshop. It all was very interesting. I was searching for more information about Sufism for a lot of years but wasn't very successful.
A few times I talked to people who said they were Sufis but all my questions were answered with a question for me and I never found out more than what I had found out in books. I was involved in lots of religions from the age of four and and a half. I walked to church every Sunday. I just loved it until a new priest at the age of nine turned me off Christianity, when he degraded a poor, single mother in church one day at the funeral of her child. I felt so sorry for this woman and so angry with the church
and God. It took me along time to realize it was not God that had degraded this woman but by then I had lost all respect in the Catholic Church and was searching for something else. I got interested in Buddhism by the age of sixteen and started to meditate, practice yoga, become a vegetarian and spend time in Buddhist Temples in Sri Lanka and Thailand. I liked the work a lot but I was not content, my ability to meditate was poor for my mind was so hard to slow down and the harder I tried the more thoughts raced through my head but I kept on trying, sitting and meditating for hours. I always questioned the idea of bits of different God and always believed that there is only one God. Thats how I became interested in Sufism. I opened up a book one day and the first sentence I read was - there is no God but God and I knew that was it. But it took over eight years until I finally had the pleasure to meet Tamsin.
After the first two times at her workshop I just felt so good. For years I tried to live in the moment with meditation and yoga only with little success but with your work it came so much easier for me to just be and lots of times during the work tears fell down my eyes not because of sadness but for total love of God and the happiness and contentment I felt in my heart while chanting God's name or doing any of the other work. Now I need to thank you for allowing Tamsin to teach here in Australia. I hope she will return one day, maybe with you and teach again. I continue to practice what I have learnt from Tamsin, but I do miss the company of other people in the group. I am also learning the prayer but I have some difficulty with the pronunciation, but I am patient and know that with time practice I will learn. Thank you again Mr. Sarhan. I do
meet you one day. I just need you to know that my heart
opened up thanks to your teachings. I feel I have found the path of truth and there is, is God.
Best wishes Silke Dailey, Suffolk Park, NSW, Australia.
The last workshop in Brooklyn in May was a really great time. Elena, who also teaches Sufi and
Iyengar has just opened a Yoga Studio called Brighton Yoga Studio found on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/lalikina?fref=ts
More Sufi workshops with Adnan
Sarhan will come there soon.
Beautiful studio by Brighton Beach.
