Presence Collective is delighted that our teachers will be offering live webinars every Thursday. These sessions will include a teaching and practice designed to help support you during these challenging and uncertain times.
Join us Thursday, July 2nd from 2-3:00PM PST (5-6:00PM EST) for a webinar with Latifa Till on the topic of “Grieving Together During This Time.” An exploration of courageously being with our breaking hearts as we confront racism, facilitated by a white-identified teacher.
These webinars are offered by donation. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
*Sliding scale language borrowed with permission from Rev. angel Kyodo williams.
$15 - Rebalancing: for those with more than enough financial resources (personal or institutionally supported) and a desire to support access for others to help rebalance systemic inequity.
$12 - Fair: for those with sufficient financial resources who can pay fair value for the experience.
$10 - Supported: for those with currently limited financial resources who will avoid further hardship while benefiting from access supplemented by the community.
Latifa Till (she/her)
“Your task is not to seek for Love, but rather to seek for and find all the barriers you have built within yourself against it.” —Jelaluddin Rumi, 13th c. Persian poet
I consider myself an explorer of the mysteries of the human heart. Love, ease, joy and beauty are our natural state, and I’ve found it useful to notice, and to be kind with, what gets in the way of these. This Rumi quote is a lovely reflection of my spiritual path.
I found myself drawn into the contemplative path 28 years ago through the Sufi doorway. I was pregnant, about to become a single mother, scared and hungry for some some thing that I couldn’t name nor understand. As I look back, I can now see that I was yearning for deep connection--with myself and others--as well as union with the all-embracing ever unfolding Source of Love. I found myself walking in the footsteps of ancient contemplatives who had gone before, and my life was forever altered, my awareness expanding to realize Love. Since that time, I’ve also found nourishment working with Zen, Vipassana and non-dual teachings.
As part of the Clergy Collective on August 11 and 12, 2017, I looked into the hundreds of faces during the torch march and riots here in Charlottesville, and I was profoundly struck by the fear and separation I saw. It was my clarion call for turning my attention to my own white privilege, white fragility and my relationship to social justice.
I’m a Sheikha (senior teacher) with the Sufi Ruhaniat International, a senior Dance Leader with the Dances of Universal Peace, a Semazan (whirling dervish), and I study Japanese Tea Ceremony. Making music is an important part of my tapestry.
I teach meditation at the local maximum-security women’s prison and have served as an online meditation mentor for thousands of practitioners from around the planet. I’ve also thoroughly enjoyed co-leading several retreats with Caverly over the last six years, weaving in Sufi practices and teachings.
I am most passionate about supporting seekers one-on-one to uncover what keeps them feeling separate—not good enough, isolated, unlovable—and help to guide them back to their own inner wisdom and connection. To remembering that no thing exists outside the reality of Love.