Mariam Baker
Author & Guide

Weaving spiritual practice into everyday life for personal and planetary healing.
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As light rays burst out of a new star being born, our human consciousness moves toward unity and community as our sense of separateness diminishes. ✉
SoulWork Retreat: Illuminating All the Selves
May 19-24, 2024  |  Portland, Oregon
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Access the light of the cosmos and our own hearts, from the most refined to the most coarse, towards all inside and then to the world.
Join our SoulWork sangha for a time of guided SoulWork meditations, inquiry, Dances of Universal Peace, chanting, movement and sharing.
Alton L Collins retreat Center, Portland Oregon
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May 19-24, Sunday 4:00 pm through Friday 2:00 pm

Your Guides
  • Murshid Mariam Baker SoulWork Lineage Holder
  • Yahya Nadler Counselor, Movement Therapist, SoulWork Practitioner
  • Raphael Birney Psychotherapist, SoulWork Practitioner

Cost
  • Early bird discount Teaching fee minimum $250, after February 19: $325
  • Room & Board: Triple $595, Double $695, Single $895.
  • Event Flyer

​Registration​
​Please send your payment to The SoulWork Foundation at the following address:​​
Rod Birney
486 Lake Bay Ct
Lake Oswego OR, 97034
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Reviews of Sacred Voices

“Drawing on ancient traditions as well as creative, modern voices, Sacred Voices presents a spirituality that is healthy and revitalizing, not only for our human communities, but also for the planet. This way could be our saving grace.”
—Neil Douglas-Klotz,
author of The Sufi Book of Life
"...The focus of this unusual and attractive book is, of course, on Islam, but with a feminine point of view, and it will have appeal for a wide range of women. Oversize and illustrated with batik art tinged with mysticism, the book is a cornucopia of stories, personal accounts, poetry, Islamic writings, and meditations on the pillars of Islam, which include faith, prayer, and charity..." (Read full review)
—Ilene Cooper, Booklist
Written by Mariam Baker, senior teacher of Sufi Ruhaniat International, a leader in the Dances of Universal Peace since 1974, and a senior teacher of the Mevlevi Order of America. She is the former director of Theater of Healing, and author of Woman as Divine, Tales of the Goddess, a book illuminating the divine feminine.
Illustrated by Cynthia Dollard, MFA, an artist, art professor, and community arts organizer. She works in a variety of media, both two- and three-dimensional, and actively seeks creative collaboration whenever possible. Cynthia has participated in the Sufi tradition most of her life.

StarBirth Activation!

My relation to Mother Earth.
My relationship to myself. The crying of humanity, the crying of our soul for tenderness, respect for the sacred. Embodied Soulwork.