Murad’s Practice of the Day
Murad leads a Practice of the Day as a component of his weekly healing meetings. These include a range of topics including breath, healing zikr, DHO protection practices, self-healing, cleansing/release practices, guidance/intuition, seasonal meditations, prayers, etc.
Here is the latest Practice of the Day:
- The Healing Prayer of the Elements
Introduction
For our practice today, we’re going to work with a prayer that came through me a number of years ago and has been modified periodically as I continue to tune to it.
This is the Healing Prayer of the Elements.
Today we’ll do it a little differently than we sometimes have before. We’ll tone each line together, and then take a few breaths to tune into what that line is expressing. We’ll move slowly, allowing each quality to land in the body and the field before moving on.
We’ll do this in a call-and-response format. I’ll say each line, and then we’ll tone it together.
The Healing Prayer of the Elements
Oh Divine healer
Through the warmth of the sun,
the intuition of the moon,
the nourishment of the Earth and trees,
the strength of the mountains,
the cleansing purification of water,
the life filled power of the air
May all these
heal my body,
heal my heart and emotions,
heal my mind and thoughts
heal my spirit
may they heal all beings
Amin
(Audio Practice – listen to audio file)
Oh, Divine Healer.
As you tone this, tune into that aspect of the divine healer that is both within and without—so we know who or what we are directing this prayer toward.
You can place “O Divine Healer” on both the in-breath and the out-breath.
Through the warmth of the sun.
On the in-breath, warmth of the sun.
On the out-breath, warmth of the sun.
Feel that quality—feel the warmth of the sun radiating through you, radiating around you, or radiating toward you. Whatever works most naturally.
The intuition of the moon.
On the in-breath and the out-breath, intuition of the moon.
Feel that lunar quality—its receptivity, the intuitive knowing that arises from stillness.
Feel it coming from the moon, and also from the moon-part of ourselves.
The nourishment of the earth and trees.
On the in-breath, nourishment of the earth and trees.
On the out-breath, the same.
Feel the earth energy rising through you.
Sense yourself in a place of trees that are special to you—breathing in that tree energy, holding a tree, feeling the forest around you.
Let the earth and trees nourish you, bringing this nourishment into whatever part of you needs it.
The strength of the mountains.
Feel yourself on a mountain, near a mountain, or within a mountain that carries power for you.
Sense that condensed, steady quality—the way mountains simply are.
Feel that strength moving into you, supporting whatever parts of you need that strength now.
The cleansing, purification of water.
Feel yourself in or near a body of water that has deep power and connection for you.
Sense the water flowing into you, through you, and around you.
Let it move into whatever parts of you need cleansing and purification.
The life-filled power of the air and ether.
This is the energy that’s all around us—the qi that surrounds everything.
Feel that life breathing into you, and gently direct it to whatever parts of you need that quality.
Directing the Healing
Now we begin to direct this elemental healing.
May all these heal my body.
Feel all of these qualities—the sun, the moon, the earth, the trees, the mountains, the water, and the air—moving into your body wherever they are needed.
You can place “heal my body” on both the in-breath and the out-breath.
Heal my heart and emotions.
On the in-breath and out-breath, feel these elemental qualities moving into your emotional being and your heart—bringing healing and balance there.
Heal my mind and thoughts.
On the in-breath and out-breath, feel these elemental qualities entering the mental realm—clearing what is no longer needed and restoring clarity and ease.
Heal my spirit.
Feel these qualities moving into the spiritual dimension of your being, allowing whatever healing and cleansing is ready to happen there to unfold naturally.
May they heal all beings.
On the in-breath and out-breath, feel all of this elemental energy flowing outward—extending beyond yourself, out into the world, offering healing to all beings everywhere.
Āmīn… Āmīn…
Assimilation Meditation
We’ll now move into an Assimilation Meditation for a few breaths.
Let the energy flow deeply into all the cells of your being.
There’s nothing to focus on—no breath to manage, no directing.
Simply allow yourself to become very light and flowing, letting the energy go wherever it needs to go.
View Previous Practices of the Day
“Spiritual Healing to Heal Ourselves, All Beings, and the Earth”
- On the path of spiritual healing, we become vessels for the divine healing light from above and the vital life force of the Earth below. As we clear the blockages within our chakras and subtle channels, this sacred energy flows more freely through us, deepening our capacity to transmit healing to ourselves and others. In healing ourselves, we awaken as instruments of the divine.
- These transformative healing classes explore developing intuition, sustaining personal magnetism, strengthening the integrity of the energetic field, and expanding the breath to cultivate the skills and abilities needed for spiritual healing —both for personal healing and for healing others.
- They integrate breathwork, wazifa toning, Zikr, prayers, meditations, and Qigong to help clear and balance our energy as we move through life and its challenges. These practices deepen both the transmission and the skills of spiritual healing.
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About Murad's Classes
Murad’s classes provide practices for developing the capabilities/skills for spiritual healing, both for healing ourselves and for projecting healing to others. Many are related to The Healing Zikr, a multi-layered zikr that has come through Murad. Other classes include practices for breathing, cleansing/release, guidance/intuition and protection and working with prayers.
Class titles marked “**With text” include written information as part of the video. Those marked “*Handout” have an accompanying handout in PDF and Word format.
Many of Murad’s classes are taken from “the practice of the day” preceding Murad’s Sunday Healing Ritual. There are also video presentations from DHO Gatherings beginning in 2020 and some audio recordings beginning in 2012.
Murad’s classes include practices in developing breath and concentration, cleansing and clearing ourselves, moving and projecting energy, as well as bringing in divine help with prayer. They also include practices for slowing down and protecting ourselves, so we can cope more effectively and maintain our balance and center, and practices for accessing and developing our intuition, so we can open ourselves to our highest purpose and divine guidance.
The Healing Zikr is a multilayered practice that has come through Murad that has an overall purpose of healing ourselves so we can become better channels to heal others. The zikr uses prayer, movement, sound, and vibration to open, clear, and charge our chakras/centers. In later phases of the zikr, the breath/concentration connects our chakras/centers, drawing in divine healing love, light and life and also the vitality and the life of the earth. This sequence of practices is very effective for projecting healing from our hands, eyes and entire being.
Murad has developed two Qigong forms: Posture Qigong and Sufi Qigong, also known as Turning Sound Qigong. Movements for both are simple, easy to learn and are adaptable for any physical challenge. Practicing Posture Qigong provides pain relief, increased ability to do daily activities and exercise and improved range of motion. It utilizes gentle stretches coupled with isometric strengthening and breath that target the major posture compensations for each part of the body. The Sufi Qigong/Turning Sound Qigong training teaches us how to increase physical, emotional and mental/spiritual vitality by working with the “Taoist 3 Centers” which are similar to the Indian/ayurvedic system of chakras. In addition to using typical methods of qigong – slow, gentle movement and breath, Turning Sound Qigong adds in imagery, sound, moving in the 4 directions and using the qualities of those directions. This directs our awareness to the parts of our body that need healing to activate our body’s natural self-healing and self-repair mechanisms. Online video training courses are available at a low cost for both Posture and Turning Sound Qigong on Murad’s website at https://acu-current.com/training-and-seminars/qigong-training/
Essential Concepts and Basic Practices to Start With
This section contains essential concepts and information foundational to an understanding of spiritual healing and to the successful use of the material contained in Murad’s classes.
Essential Concepts Introduction
Goals of Spiritual Healing
One goal of spiritual healing is directing the healing energy toward ourselves, toward a particular part of our body or ailment. Another goal is directing the healing towards others or towards a region or the earth.
Skills
To do this, we first learn to move the breath/concentration/attention to our chakras/centers to clear, cleanse and strengthen them. We then connect them and draw in the divine healing light from above and the vitality and life of the earth. When this is accomplished, we can project healing from our hands, eyes and entire being.
Many of Murad’s practices teach ways to do this.
- Healing Zikr: Opens and clears our centers/chakras and channels to heal ourselves and become better channels to transmit healing to others and to the earth. Teaches us to move the breath/concentration to various parts of our body
- Breath Practices: Teach us how to balance, spiritualize and strengthen the breath
- Prayers: Bring in divine help
- Intuition: Helps lead us to our highest purpose by opening up our intuitive chakras to divine guidance
Essential Concepts in Video Format
- The Healing Zikr: Part 1 – Healing Ourselves and Becoming Channels for the Divine Healing Energy to Flow Through Us (8/22/21)
- The Healing Zikr: Part 2 – Introduction to Sufi Healing through the Healing Zikr (4/27/21)
- The Healing Zikr: Part 3 – Overview of Healing Zikr and other practices (12/12/21)
- All Centers-Explanation and Uses (9/27/20)
- Practices method – sung, on breath, in silence (4/27/21)
- Beginning – Moving Into Sacred Space (08/22/21)
- Body movements during practices and zikrs using the entire spine – 7/5/20
Clearing and Charging the Chakras/Centers
- Heart Healing Zikr with Meditation (08/22/21)
- Feeling the Foot Chakras and Grounding, including postural awareness (5/22/22)
- Grounding with Hayy, Charging the Vitality Center with Hayy, Jabbar (7/10/22) *Handout: PDF | Word
- Grounding and Charging the Vitality Center with wazifa 5-8-22
- Grounding, Charging and Connecting the Earth, Feet, Vitality Center and Solar Plexus (12/26/21) **With text
- Grounding, Charging and Connecting the Earth, Feet, Vitality Center and Solar Plexus with Tapping (1/2/22) **With text
- Clearing and charging the 3rd eye and crown (08/08/21)
- Inner hearing and intuition (08/28/21)
- Throat chakra practices – Amin, Aziz (07/04/21)
- Opening 8th Chakra to Draw in Healing Light (1/8/23)
- Healing Zikr for Healing Ourselves, with Meditation (08/22/21)
Full Breath Practices
- Expanding Volume of Breath to Increase Vitality and Help Prevent Illness (2-26-23)
- Increasing Volume of Breath (11/27/22)
- Full Breath into the Upper Front Part of Lungs with Movement and Wazifa (6/5/22)
- Full Breath Into the Upper Back Part of the Lungs with Wazifa (6/26/22)
- Full Breath into the Lungs – Lower, Upper, Front of Lungs with Wazifa (1/16/22) **With text
- Intensive Breathing into the Lungs – Lower, Upper, Back of Lungs with Wazifa – (1/23/22) **With text
Breath Practices With the Elements and Prayers
Not Over Doing and Slowing Down
Practices for Slowing Down, Listening to our Being/Body & Regaining Equilibrium
This section includes classes on listening to our bodies and slowing down.
- 2-Part Practice: Grounding and Slowing Down (6/12/22)
- Not Over Doing, Slowing Down Part I, tiredness as a message, messages from our body/life/our inner being, tips (3/27/22) **With text
- Not Over Doing, Slowing Down, Part II, rebalancing after having to push through (3/27/22)
- Assimilating over stimulation from practices and experiences with breathing and imagery practices (9/12/21)
- Breath Practice to Relax (7/5/20)
- Importance of Assimilation in Practices and Slow Soft practice
- Practices for soothing our nervous system, practices for addressing being overwhelmed or over-amped, includes Q&A (11/22/20)
- Regaining Equilibrium By Re-Accessing Powerful Spiritual Experiences, e.g.- DHO Camp (6/24/22)
Practices of the Centers/Chakras
These are practices to open, clear and charge up the centers/chakras.
Heart
Grounding/Vitality Center
- Strengthening our physical health and preventing overload from external stimuli (5/21/23)
- Drawing the healing strength of the earth into our vitality center to:
- Enable healing
- Help us manifest our purpose
- Let in more love and light (2/19/23)
- Grounding with Hayy, Charging the Vitality Center with Hayy, Jabbar (7/10/22) *Handout: PDF | Word
- Grounding and Charging the Vitality Center (5/8/22) **With Text
- Feeling the Foot Chakras and Grounding, including postural awareness (5/22/22)
- Grounding (seated) 7-31-22
- Grounding, Charging and Connecting the Earth, Feet, Vitality Center and Solar Plexus (12/26/21) **With text
- Grounding, Charging and Connecting the Earth, Feet, Vitality Center and Solar Plexus with Tapping (1/2/22) **With text
- Healing Zikr/Grounding/Charging the vitality center (09/19/21)-??
- Vitality Center-Explanation and Uses (9/27/20)
Eyes/Third Eye/Crown
Videos in this section include practices to help heal and cleanse:
- The eyes, the third eye, and the pituitary gland. The third eye enhances inner vision and intuition. Practices for intuition and for sending energy through the glance are included
- The crown chakra and the pineal gland. The crown chakra allows divine healing light to flow into our brains, eyes and ears
- Clearing and charging the 3rd eye and crown (08/08/21) **With text
- Opening the Crown Chakra to Let Divine Healing Light Heal our Brains, Eyes and Ears (1/22/23)
- Opening 8th Chakra to Draw in Healing Light (1/8/23)
- Charging the eyes and third eye with light and beaming light to people and places in need (2/5/23)
- Inner Vision, Asking a Question of Inner Vision (3/28/21)
- Inner Vision Healing Zikr – sending light through the eyes and 3rd eye (4/27/21)
- Light practice for clearing and charging 3rd Eye, Eyes; Sending light through the Glance (12/27/20)
Ears
Videos in this section provide practices to help heal the ears and the pineal gland and to enhance inner hearing and intuition. Practices for listening to our body are included.
Throat
This section includes practices to clear and charge the throat chakra and let the heart express its voice – truth and creativity. The throat chakra is connected with physical issues connected to the immune system and thyroid.
Healing Zikr
Charging the Hands and Projecting Healing to Ourselves and Others
After opening the chakras/centers, you can charge your hands to allow divine healing energy to flow through the palm chakras and fingers to heal yourself or others.
- Charging hands with wazifas (Hayy, Shafi, Kafi) and sending to a person who has requested healing (4/27/21)
- Charging the Hands and Fingers with the Life of the Earth and the Divine Healing Light and Sending it to the Earth and to All Beings (12/25/22)
- Charging the hands and light fingers to clear pain or blockage from the physical, emotional or psychological (2/21/21)
- Charging the hands with sacred phrases and allowing healing to flow through our hands toward a person who has requested healing. (10/25/20)
- Charging our hands with peace and sending it out to people and places (1/17/21)
Self-Healing
This section includes practices, wazaif and zikr for general self-healing and practices directing healing to specific places of blockage or pain.
- Aging gracefully and using our practices, going into our breath to let go and then find a practice with example (7/5/23)
- Charging the hands and light fingers to clear pain or blockage from the physical, emotional or psychological (2/21/21)
- Self Healing with Hayy, Shafi, Kafi (07/11/21)
- Shafi Kafi Allah zikr for healing ourselves, with meditation (8/22/21)
- Healing the eyes (07/04/21)
- Ya fattah for opening blockage in body-physical or emotional (07/25/21)
- Sufi Posture Qigong for Healing the Neck (2/12/23)
- Healing and Clearing Physical and Emotional Blockage/Pain with Ya Shafi, Ya Kafi and Ya Fattah (09/05/21)
- Listening to the message of a body/being part that is in distress/pain/disease and sending healing and love to that part (3/14/21)
- Breathing springtime Tree Energy for detoxification and healing, allergies (4/3/22)
Deepening with Healing, Prayers and Connecting with our Teachers
This section contains classes for healing prayers, meditations for connecting with a teacher, Healing Rituals with explanations, Zikr movements, deepening into the Sufi Invocation and full versions of the Healing Zikr
Healing Prayers
- Healing Prayer of the Elements with Meditations (6/4/23)
- Healing Prayer (Sung by group) to Heal Us and Make Us Better Channels for Healing (1/29/23)
- Healing Prayer (Chanted by Murad) (2/13/22)
- Healing Prayer, Healing Prayer of the Elements with Meditation (1/30/22) **With text
- Healing Breaths and the Prayer Nayaz (10/10/21)
- Healing Prayer of the Elements Revised (11/21/21) **With text
- May the Divine Healing Love Light and Life Prayer with movements (7/3/22)
- Prayer for Feeling the Support of One’s Teacher (11/28/21)
- Raise us Above the Distinctions and Differences that Divide (10/03/21)
Meditations for Connecting With a Teacher
- Darshan with Hazrat Inayat Kahn and asking him a question (2/5/23)
- Breathing in the Essence of Murshid SAM and Asking a Question (1/15/23)
- Darshan with an illuminated soul or saint (4/4/21)
- Darshan and asking a question of Hazrat Inayat Khan (2/6/22)
- Connecting and being nurtured by teacher/guide; sending compassion to the world (11/1/20)
- Connecting with Hazrat Inayat Khan and Murshid Sam and our teachers and guides, asking a question (9/19/22)
Zikr Movement - Instruction
- Body movements during practices and zikr using the entire spine, chakra locks to build energy, using breath and sound and zikr with chakra locks, Q&A (8/2/20)
- Body movements during practices and zikrs using the entire spine – 7/5/20
- Spoken zikr with instructions on movements, visualizing beam of light Part I, Q&A, discussion (5/30/20)
- Spoken zikr with instructions on movements, visualizing beam of light Part II (6/6/21) **With text
Healing Rituals
- Healing Ritual (09/12/21)
- Explanation of Healing Ritual for newcomers (compiled from 5/2/21, and 2/13, 4/13, 7/10, 2022)
- Healing Ritual for the Earth (4/27/21)
- Visualization During Healing Ritual (11/28/21)
- Sohbet/Discussion on concentrations of participants and Conductor during Healing Ritual (12/13/20)
Sufi Invocation
The Healing Zikr
Introductory Classes:
- The Healing Zikr: Part 1 – Healing Ourselves and Becoming Channels for the Divine Healing Energy to Flow Through Us (8/22/21)
- The Healing Zikr: Part 2 – Introduction to Sufi Healing through the Healing Zikr (4/27/21)
- The Healing Zikr: Part 3 – Overview of Healing Zikr and other practices (12/12/21)
- The Healing Prayer (4/27/21)
- Practices method – sung, on breath, in silence (4/27/21)
- Beginning – Moving Into Sacred Space (08/22/21)
- All Centers-Explanation and Uses (9/27/20)
Handouts:
Healing Zikr: PDF | Word
Healing Zikrs:
Cleansing/Release and Protection Practices
This section contains practices for cleansing, release, and protection, all related to maintaining our energetic integrity and cleansing/protecting it from outside influences.
Cleansing/Release Practices
- Clearing Impressions Using the Elements (10/03/21)
- Letting Go of Impressions (09/26/21)
- Clearing impression with the elements, wazifa, the help of our teachers (11/29/20)
- Clearing impressions with zikr (11/15/20)
- Autumn Equinox Meditation – Tuning in to what we have learned in the spring and summer; Thankfulness practice – ya shakur; Release what is not needed – ya fattah; Store what we have learned in our hearts to nourish ourselves – ya sabur (09/19/21)
- Assimilating Over Stimulation from Practices and Experiences with Breathing and Imagery Practices (09/12/21)
Protection Practices
- Cord Cutting (10/9/22) *Handout: PDF | Word
- Cord Cutting, what to do if having difficulty cutting cords (7/31/22) *Handout: PDF | Word
- Cord Cutting with Q&A, discussion, letting go of unwanted impressions **With text *Handout: PDF | Word
- Irfan (06/06/21) **With text
- Pillars of Light – 4/25/21
- Chakra Light Mirror 10-30-22
- Slow-Soft Breath and extended Chakra Light Mirror (5-22-22)
- Chakra Light Mirror – (3/13/21) **With text
- Light Mirror – 2/14/21
- Slow-Soft Breath and Chakra Light Mirrors (5-22-22)
Breath Practices
An initial step in exploring the healing path is the development of breath awareness and the ability to move the breath to different places in the body.
Introductory Breath Classes
- Breath instructions – Hazrat Inayat Khan, Murshid SAM (8/2/20)
- Breath class – Part 1: 3 part breath – abdomen, lower and upper lung (7/19/20)
- Breath class – Part 2: 3 part breath with element breaths, lung breath into the front and back of lungs (7/26/20)
- Breath class – Part 3: 3 part breath with rhythmic breathing (8/2/20)
Full Breath Classes
- Expanding Volume of Breath to Increase Vitality and Help Prevent Illness (2-26-23)
- Increasing Volume of Breath (11-27-22)
- Full Breath Into the Upper Back Part of the Lungs (6-26-22)
- Full Breath into the Upper Front Part of Lungs with Movement and Wazifa (6-5-22)
- Full Breath – Lower, Upper, Back of Lungs – (1/23/22) **With text
- Intensive Breathing into the Lungs – Lower, Upper, Front with Wazifa (1/16/22) **With text
- Full Breathing into the Lungs with wazifa – Part 1: Lower Lungs and Front of Lungs (1/9/22) **With text
Full Breath Practices with Sounds (Wazifa)
- Expansive breathing: Breathing into the lower and upper parts of the lungs by expanding/contracting the lower abdomen, upper abdomen/rib cage and chest. Adding wazifa. (07/18/21)
- 3-Part Breathing with Sound – Adding toned wazifa and body movements to 3-Part Breath (07/25/21) **With text
- 3-Part Breath with Sound/Wazifa (10/24/21)
Practices for Moving the Breath
The Healing Breaths with Prayers
Guidance/Intuition
These practices help us tune in to inner guidance.
- Asking a Question of Inner Guidance/Intuition with a New Wazifa and Mudra – Hadi, Basir, Sami (1/1/23)
- Inner Guidance 3-part practice: Inner Vision (Nuri, Basir, Hakim), Hearing (Sami), and Guidance (Hadi), asking a question (5/15/22)
- Inner Hearing and Intuition, Nuri (light) Sami (hearing) Hakim (wisdom) (8/28/21)
- Inner Vision and Intuition, Nuri (light) Basir (seeing) Hakim (wisdom) (3/28/21)
- Darshan and asking a question of Hazrat Inayat Khan (2/6/22)
- Prayer for Feeling the Support of One’s Teacher, Allah Huma chant (11/28/21)
- The throat chakra, Ya Hayy, Ya Noor, Allah Hu, asking for guidance (8/15/21)
- Tuning into guidance, Hadi (guidance) Allah, asking a question (8/1/20)
- Use of Ya Hadi to access guidance (11/28/21)
Seasonal Practices
When the seasons change, the earth is shifting and changing.
- Autumn Equinox Meditation, thankfulness (shakur), release , (fattah), storing what we’ve learned in our hearts (sabur) (9/19/21)
- Lamas (midway between Solstice and Equinox) grounding practice (8/1/21)
- Spring Equinox – Tree Energy practice for detoxification and healing, allergies (4/3/22)
- Summer Solstice – Practices to balance the hot weather (06/27/21)
- Summer Solstice – 2-Part Practice: Grounding and slowing down (6/12/22)
- Summer Solstice, balancing our energies (6/22/21)
- Summer Solstice – Grounding to assimilate the seasonal changes (06/20/21) **With text
- Winter Solstice Ritual (12/19/21)
- Building Vitality by Reconnecting to the Earth for Equinox (3/16/25) **With text
Practice of the Day Archives
Murad leads a Practice of the Day as a component of his weekly healing meetings.These include a range of topics including breath, healing zikr, DHO protection practices, self-healing, cleansing/release practices, guidance/intuition, seasonal meditations, prayers, etc.
- Grounding and Charging the Vitality Center with wazifa (5/8/22) – More information
- Accessing Inner Guidance Through Inner Seeing, Hearing, Feeling-Solar Plexus –Nuri, Basir, Hakim, Hadi (5/15/22) – More information
- 3 Practices to Balance the Onslaught of Bad News and To Help Anxiety – Grounding, Slowing Down, Reflecting Excess Input from Media Foot Chakra opening with posture improving rocking Breath Practice to Slow Down with Slow-Soft mantra Reflecting Excess Input from Media with Chakra Light Mirrors (5/22/22) – More information
- Practice 1: Feeling the Foot Chakras and Grounding – More information
- Practices 2 and 3: Slow-Soft Breath and Chakra Light Mirrors – More information
- Charging the Palms, Fingers and Light Fingers with Wazifa and Sending to Ourselves, a Person or a Place (5/29/22) – More information
- Grounding and Slowing Down To Balance the Heat and Fire of Summer (6/12/22) – More information
- Increasing Oxygen into Lungs By Breathing With Lower Lungs and Back of Lungs with Wazifa (6/26/22) – More information
- Grounding-Rocking-Moving From the Lower Belly-dan tien(1/1/23) – More information
- Asking A Question of Guidance – hadi-basir-sami (1/1/23) – More information
- Healing The Eyes from Overuse, Excess Screen Time and Absorbing Negative Impressions from the News. Fingertips on Eyes – Basir-Shafi-Kafi (1/8/23)
- Opening the Crown Chakra to Let Divine Healing Light Heal our Brains, Eyes and Ears (1/22/23)
- Healing Prayer (Sung) to Heal Us and Make Us Better Channels for Healing (1/29/23)
- Charging the eyes and third eye with light and beaming light to people and places in need (2/6/23)
- Darshan with Hazrat Inayat Kahn and asking him a question (2/6/23)
- Sufi Posture Qigong for Healing the Neck (2/12/23) – More information
- Drawing healing from the earth to our vitality center for healing, manifesting our purpose, letting in love and light (2/19/23) – More information
- Expanding Volume of Breath to Increase Vitality and Help Prevent Illness (2/26/23) – More information
- Opening to Our Intuitive Guidance and Asking a Question (3/19/23) – More information
- Merging With Our Healing Tree (3/26/23 – First practice) – More information
- Healing Our Eyes and Accessing Inner Vision (3/26/23 – Second practice) – More information
- Sufi-Taoist Element Breaths with 2 Part Breath to Improve Vitality (4/2/23) – More information
- Meditation After Daily Activities to Assimilate the Activity and Bring Us Back to Sacred Space (4/9/23) – More information
- Cord Cutting (4/10/23) – More information
- 3rd Eye Light Mirror To Clear Excess Input From Phones and News (4/16/23) – More information
- Breathing In a Life and Light Filled Healing Ball of Air (4/23/23) – More information
- Strengthening our physical health and preventing overload from external stimuli (5/21/23)
- Tuning in to an issue that we are working with and releasing it to the divine with spoken zikr (5/28/23)
- Healing Prayer of the Elements with Meditations (6/4/23)
- The Power of Prayer and How to get the most out of Our Traumatic Events (6/18/23)
- Clearing and Cleansing the Aura and Chakras with Sufi Qigong (6/18/23)
- Slowing Down to Help Us Heal with Slow Soft with Movement (6/25/23)
- Deep Healing with the Healing Prayer with Movements 6-25-23
- Assimilating Each Activity, Asking What is Next 7-10-23
- Assimilating, Slowing Down, Healing Prayer – 2023 Portland
- Asking Inner Guidance About All Daily Activities 7-16-23
- Asking A Question of Our Inner Guidance 7-23-26
- Building Vitality for Healing and Accomplishing 7-30-23
- Listening To Our Body, Asking What Our Body Needs 8-13-23
- Deeply Assimilating the Healing Prayer 9-3-23
- The Breath of Life 9-10-23
- Bringing the Nourishment of the Earth to our Vitality Center, and Solar Plexus 9-17-23
- Meditation on Balance 9-24-23
- Forgiving Other and Ourselves 9-24-23
- Building Vitality by Re-Connecting to the Earth for Equinox March 16, 2025
- Healing From the Trees March 23, 2025
- Clearing the Throat to Give Expression to Our Heart’s Message – Breathing the Healing Prayer of the Elements March 30, 2025
- Clearing Our Energy Fields by Cutting Cords from Things that are Difficult to Stop Thinking About April 6, 2025
- Healing Our Eyes from Overuse Watching Electronic Screens April 13, 2025
- Releasing Impressions From the News to the Earth and to the Divine Light April 27, 2025
- Asking for Healing Guidance for a Distressed Part of Ourselves May 18, 2025
- Seeing with Inner Vision May 25, 2025
- Putting Divine Healing Names on Our Breath During Everyday Activities June 1, 2025
- Opening Our Inner Being to Manifest Our Next Stage June 8, 2025
Sufi Qigong & Posture Qigong Online Courses
Prior to developing the Healing Zikr (a Sufi practice with a Qigong influence), Murad developed Sufi Qigong, a Qigong practice with a Sufi influence. Sufi Qigong is also known as Turning Sound Qigong.
Qigong is an ancient Chinese health care system that integrates physical postures that utilize slow, gentle movement with breathing techniques and focused intention or imagery. The word Qigong is made up of two Chinese words. Qi is pronounced chee and is usually translated to mean the life force or vital energy that flows through all things in the universe. The second word, Gong, pronounced gung, means accomplishment, or skill that is cultivated through steady practice. Together, Qigong means cultivating energy. It is a system practiced for health maintenance, healing and increasing vitality.
The gentle, rhythmic movements of Qigong reduce stress, build stamina, increase vitality, and enhance the immune system. It has also been found to improve cardiovascular, respiratory, circulatory, lymphatic and digestive functions. Those who maintain a consistent practice of Qigong find that it helps one regain a youthful vitality, maintain health even into old age and helps speed recovery from illness. Western scientific research confirms that Qigong reduces hypertension and the incidence of falling in the aged population. One of the more important long-term effects is that Qigong re-establishes the body/mind/soul connection.
The Sufi Qigong course (Turning Sound Qigong) is designed to increase vitality. In addition to using slow, gentle movement, breath and imagery, this Qigong adds sound and movement in the 4 directions, using the qualities of those directions. Key benefits are physical, emotional and mental/spiritual vitality.
Posture Qigong is an easy, simple to learn method for relieving pain by correcting posture. It can help problems in the neck, back, shoulders, elbows, hands, fingers, hips, knees, ankles and feet. Posture Qigong combines stretching, strengthening and relaxation to relax tight muscles and increase mobility in joints.
It is necessary to both stretch and strengthen tight and weak muscles. Posture Qigong exercises are designed to correct the most common posture imbalances that are caused by repetitive movement or trauma. These posture imbalances can get aggravated by daily activity and exercise. The Posture Qigong exercises stretch and gently strengthen at the same time. A few brief exercises are repeated several times throughout the day to relieve pain and correct posture imbalances. Once pain is relieved and posture improved, Posture Qigong is continued to maintain posture for long- term improvement.
Sufi Posture Qigong for Healing the Neck (2/12/23) is a merger of my acupuncture/Chinese Medicine/Qigong world with Sufi Healing. We learn 2 unique neck stretches that help heal the neck and correct posture.
Posture Qigong is:
- A stretch exercise – Using Post-Isometric Relaxation, the gentle, isometric pressure allows muscles to stretch considerably faster than
normal stretching. - A strengthening exercise – The opposing muscles are being strengthened at the same time.
- A relaxation practice – Adding in the breathing component brings additional oxygen to the target muscles and enhances relaxation.
In this online Posture Qigong course, Dr. Finkelstein teaches with video, photographs, written instructions and functions (what posture imbalances each qigong exercise corrects).
Full-Length Presentations
These classes are from presentations at DHO gatherings.
Video
- Aging gracefully and using our practices, going into our breath to let go and then find a practice with example (7/5/23)
- Balancing Our Energies During the Summer Solstice (6/22/21)
- Grounding ourselves, the Invocation, the Healing Bismillah, self-healing section of the Healing Zikr, Shafee Kafee Allah (6/23/20)
- Taking time to assimilate, Slow Soft practice, May the Divine Healing Love Light and Life practice (7/3/23)
- Time machine practice, reconnecting with camp (6/24/22)
Audio
- Murad teaching on Basir and Sami using Shagal hand placement and breath (6/23/14)
- Shafee/Kafee Zikr before Healing Ritual (6/26/14)
- Hu Chalice (6/28/14)
- Time Machine (6/28/14)
- Shafi Kafi Allah Hu (6/24/16)