Sufi teacher Adnan Sarhan was a master of various traditions of scholarship, meditative sciences, physical exercise, mystical dance and music.
He was internationally known for his “Rapid Method” (Shattari Method) which develops higher intelligence and awareness, causing people to become creative and innovative and helps to destroy all types of bad habits which inhibit people’s ability to live full and happy lives.
A sufi master and member of five orders, Adnan was founder and director of the Sufi Foundation of America Center based in the Manzano Mountains near Torreon, NM. He was first sponsored in America by the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, the Unitarian Society of Whittier, California, and Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California. R.J. “Josh” Reynolds, III was also a major patron and student who helped support the Foundation in its efforts to fight destructive habits like smoking.
Adnan toured the world conducting workshops and gave concerts at prestigious institutions including the United Nations in New York, St. James’ Church in London, Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, the World Congress of Psychology in Switzerland, a grand concert at the Otto Zutz in Barcelona, Spain, the Earth Summit in Brazil, and conferences of Humanistic Psychology.
By invitation of the United Nations, he opened the Earth Summit in Brazil with a drumming presentation. In 1997, he received a special invitation from the Russian Parliament to present his work in Moscow.
He led participants in a wide variety of timeless techniques that signal a connection to the past stretching back twelve hundred years.
A unique master of drumming, dance, breathing and movement exercises, meditation, chanting and whirling, his special technique heightens concentration, frees the body from tension, and brings harmony, contentment and peace. Adnan directed an intensive two month summer workshop at the Sufi Foundation of America Retreat Center near Torreon, New Mexico.
Adnan said, “It is important to bring the material life and the spirit together to gain the best of existence. If people only function in the materialistic reality alone, they will be unhappy. If they function only in the spiritual, they will also be unhappy. It is the blending and the balance between spirit and the material that makes life fulfilled and complete.”
A master drummer and dancer, he developed a technique of meditative drumming unknown in the West which has a dynamic and profound positive effect on those who listen to it. After having heard Adnan’s drumming, many people have been known to be cured of their addictions including drinking alcohol, smoking, taking drugs and overeating and have been cured of disease processes as well.
What others said about Adnan’s workshops:
“Adnan can take the students to extraordinary perceptions in a brief time.” — InnerSelf Magazine
“I started to doubt if I would ever meet a real Sufi master who pays so much attention to music, poetry and dancing in life, in spiritual path as you, as Sufis of the past. Thank you very much.” — Yana Petrova, Radio Russia, Moscow
“You have taught me how to encourage the positive and discourage the negative.” — Don Blasius, Ph.D. Dept. of Mathematics, Yale University
“My life has completely turned around. I have stopped smoking, drinking and arguing with my friends and employees.” — Steven Buckwald, President, Surroundings
“The most perfected form of all body work I had come across in my years of search.” — Odile Atthalin, Psychologist/Bodyworker, Paris, France
“I previously attempted meditation by ceaselessly repeating a mantra, such meditation has never before been of such depth and tranquility as I achieved at your workshop.” — Alvin S. Hyde, M.D., Ph.D., Hyde Associates, Inc. Key Biscayne, FL
“Adnan reveals something indecipherable about humankind’s place in the universe, about the nature of being in the moment.” – Ron Gibson, Echo Newspaper, Byron Bay, Australia
“The significance of what Adnan does is ecumenical, as his emphasis is on the spiritual brotherhood of all people. The experience of his work is as valid for Christians and Jews as it is for Moslems.” — James Parks Morton, Dean, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, NY
“A most therapeutic group encounter.” — Joseph Savage, M.D., psychiatrist, V.A. Hospital, New York
“I live in a high stress life with continual travel and deadlines. I attended Adnan’s workshop and my stress was gone, my energy had increased and my sleep was like a baby’s. I glided through my busy schedule. — Gary Scott, President, World Reports
