A Return to Love: Year 4 of the UOS Master’s Program

By Elise Salam “I love the University. I believe in it,” says Page Zahra Janeff of Austin. Page has walked the Sufi path for over a decade and now re-enters the healing school of the Shadhuliyya Sufi Tariqa for the second time. “It’s different...

How to Create Lasting Transformation-Part 1

  We want to be closer to God. We need physical or emotional healing. We search for our life purpose. In our seeking, many of us have gone to workshops and trainings, and tried different techniques and methods. You likely experienced a change or something...

Feeling Divine Love Every Day-A Story of Hope and Healing

I came to the Sufi University, not looking for Sufism and really had no idea what I was getting into. At the time, I had been sober for 7 years (it’s been ten now), was used to looking deeply at myself from my mind, and had explored several energetic healing...

Sufi Spiritual Healing: Hope for Trauma Survivors

“My specialty as a psychotherapist was trauma, especially preverbal and sexual trauma. I now have a very different understanding of early trauma and also know first hand this new depth of recovery. This includes trauma that most hold as something one merely...

Illness is a Journey

Hear Susan Rahima Schmall, PhD and Chair of the Spiritual Healing & Counseling department share about illness being a spiritual journey.