Pastor Isa is joined by Sufi spiritual healer Mariam-Saba Ahmad and somatic experiencing practitioner Simon Wolff, who is rooted in Jewish traditions. Together, we consider deeper meanings of justice in light of humanity’s current challenges. This kicks off a month of diverse reflections on “All Kinds ‘o Justice.” Read speaker bios below.

Our service was designed around the question: What does justice mean to you? Our speakers offered beautiful guided meditations during the service to express their embodied answer. Laura Lott offered a fabulous story and Michelle Sink from Big Brothers Big Sisters gave us an inspiring overview of the organization, which is our Helping Hands recipient this month. So, we ran out of time to hear the speakers’ direct answers to the question. Several folks stayed after the hear the conversational reflection, which you can listen to below. It was inspired by the following prayer by the Rev. Joan Javier-Duval:

 

Speaker bios

Mariam-Saba Ahmad is a spiritual teacher and healer formally trained in the Islamic Sufi tradition. She is based out of the greater Seattle area with an online private practice. Mariam-Saba also conveys her message of Love, Truth and Beauty across various artistic mediums such as spiritual pop music, acrylic paintings and even dance films. To learn more about their work, go to www.Mariam-Saba.com

Simon Wolff, SEP Simon (they/he) is a politicized healer, ritualist, and artist weaving one-to-one and small group somatic, ancestral, and cultural healing vessels in service to collective liberation. They support people to cultivate embodied and animist resilience and relationality amidst lived and intergenerational trauma. Simon identifies as a white antiracist, antizionist, queer, trans, disabled person of the Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora living on Nipmuc and Pocomtuc land known as Northampton, MA. To learn more about their work, visit www.simon-wolff.com.