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Dances of Universal Peace International and Dances of Universal Peace North America
The Dances of Universal Peace were first presented to the world in the late 1960’s by Samuel L. Lewis (1896-1971).
Lewis was a Sufi Murshid (teacher) and Rinzai Zen Master, who also studied deeply in the mystical traditions of Hinduism, Judaism, and Christianity.
He was deeply influenced by his spiritual apprenticeship with Hazrat Inayat Khan, who first brought the message of Universal Sufism to the West in 1910, and…
Ruth St. Denis, a feminist pioneer in the modern dance movement in America and Europe.
The Dances have spread throughout the world, touching more than a half million people in North and South America, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Japan, India, Pakistan, Israel, Australia, Africa and New Zealand.
New grass-roots Dance circles are continually springing up around the globe, with hundreds of circles meeting weekly or monthly in North America alone.
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