Sheikha Khadija Radin

Sheikha Khadija Radin has been teaching Sufism and whirling for more than 40 years in both the Sufi Ruhaniat International and the Mevlevi Order of America. She has been an ordained nun in the Rinzai Zen tradition for 25 years. Khadija is featured in and on the cover of Women Called to the Path of Rumi. She teaches in India, Israel, Palestine, Turkey, and the United States. Khadija founded the Dervish Retreat Center near Ithaca, New York in 1991 and is also founder and director of Body Mind Restoration Retreats which hosts over 300 people from around the world every summer.

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