Dances of Universal Peace - Bend

05/18/2026

Isn't it exciting to see the Dances of Universal Peace spreading far and wide?

313 likes, 19 comments. "wHaT iS DUP? // Dances of Universal Peace & Regenerative Togetherness"

04/01/2025

Join us on Friday, April 18 to celebrate the Earth which we all love, and on whom we depend for our very lives!

FREE! (Donations accepted.)
Eastside Library - 62080 Dean Swift Road
7:30 - 9 p.m.

03/15/2025

03/08/2025

Today (March 8) is International Women's Day.

Join us next Saturday, March 15, to sing and share movement together honoring the Divine Feminine. Kali Ma, Quan Yin, Mary the Mother of Jesus, the Earth as Mother...

We are enjoying the hospitality of the public library free of charge, so I am inviting folks to share that blessing (free of charge): donations are gratefully accepted, but there is no monetary expectation.

Come and celebrate the Divine Mother! Invite your friends!

Saturday, March 25
Eastside Bend Library
62080 Dean Swift Road
7 - 8:30 p.m.

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11/13/2024

Join us this Saturday, November 16, at the Eastside Library in Bend to join our hands around the circle, join our voices in song, and join our hearts in sung prayers for peace. Every dance fully taught; no experience necessary!

7 p.m.
62080 Dean Swift Road
$5-20, no one turned away.

Plenty of parking!

"Come, come whoever you are,
even though you've broken your vows a thousand times,
come, come again!"
~ Jelaluddin Rumi

08/16/2024

Friends!
Reserve Saturday, September 14 --

Sharing the word and invitation for an evening of Indian food, Sufi reflections, and dance -- but not Dances of Universal Peace! Nevertheless, let's support Shiv with this event! Hope to see you there!

p.s. Still sorting out dates for when we resume DUP in Bend.
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05/11/2024

DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE in BEND
Tonight!

East Bend Library Meeting Room
62080 Dean Swift Road
7 - 8:30 p.m.
(Recommended to arrive a tad early, so we can begin to walk at 7:30 pm.)

For tonight's Dance, I want to lean into the prayer for peace for the whole world. There are conflicts around the world that rarely make it into our awareness. But given the conflict in the Middle East, may our circle unite in a true and sincere prayer for peace. We will sing sacred phrases in Arabic, English, Hebrew, Russian and Sanskrit. (Don't worry: simple phrases, fully taught!)

May our hearts be open to tune with all hearts longing for peace in this world.

Mir miru Mir!
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05/05/2024

Yes! This!!

"Don't tell me about your spiritual experiences." Show me your students! If you do these practices and become like me you flunk. If you do these practices and become yourself you pass. God is your lover NOT your jailer."
~Murshid Samuel Lewis
An American Sufi and Zen master.

04/20/2024

Registration now open for Northwest Sufi Camp this August 4-9 at Camp Cedar Ridge, about halfway between Portland and Cannon Beach.

Link to NWSC website (registration, teacher bios, class descriptions) in comments.

"Come, come whoever you are...."

04/13/2024

The Dances of Universal Peace were shared in a public setting at the Parliament of World Religions last year!