"Suddenly, after
your workshop, my body did not even feel like smoking. Aside from the
unexpected benefit of discarding a dangerous habit. I continue to feel
alive and energetic and more capable in my work."
— Ann Victoria Hopcroft, Attorney at Law
"I experienced
totally unexpected and remarkable visual clarity under your direction."
— Edwin Lincoln Wildner, Jr., M.D.
"This work is always
renewing; the dance makes you inseparable from the moving universe."
— Tamsin Murray, Audio Visual Director,
S.F.A.
"There is a deep
concentration present in Adnan which can manifest in almost superhuman
efforts. This wave spreads so that one finds oneself pleasantly shocked
at the new flexibilities and strengths of the body and mind. The best
part is the fluidity, the control of the mind, body and more coming
together in movement and dance."
— Caroline Lewis, Ph.D., Physicist, University of Texas, Austin, TX
"Adnan has shown
me the true dance - the dance of the heart."
— Shelli Goldstein, Masters Candidate
"My body feels
like a river flowing through dreams of music, beautiful, deep and profound."
— Mary Anne Bachia
"Adnan’s work integrates
all the pieces, the body, the mind, sound, meditation, diet, exercise,
ritual and movement with the utmost simplicity."
— Christina Casanova, Psychologist/Administrator, New York City Schools
"My heart knows
that my work with you has been the most important thing that has happened
to me in my life. Thank you for teaching me what is real in this world.
I have tasted the true wine and felt the essence of life. The rose that
you offer me is the sweetest joy of my life."
— Ambie Hay, Proprietor, Ambrosia’s Garden, Delray Beach, FL
Adnan, "the man/spirit
who takes people from cocoon to butterfly RAPIDLY! I know I’ve hardly
begun." — Cynthia Minucci, Tiger Tamer, Tampa
"I love the dance,
each delicious moment, leading to the next, each one different and new
and then . . . Ecstasy !!!" — Marianne Damhuis, International
Fashion Forecaster
"The men and women
you worked with (here) have been in and out of correctional institutions.
They felt an emotional connection with you. Very authentic. Very rare."
— Maximo Blake, Executive Director, Court Employment Project, New York
"I attended your brief
workshop at Safety Harbor. I found that I could empty my mind of thought
and feel a calmness with which I was hitherto unfamiliar. Although I
have 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
"Thank you, Adnan,
for guiding me to my Self by never trying to tell me who I am. You always,
with kindness, returned me to myself. — Barbara Geary, Attorney at Law
World Wide Quotes:
"His special genius
lies in his ability to translate his work into tasks and exercises that
are palatable for westerners." — Albuquerque Journal
"Adnan exercises,
whirls, sings, chants, drums and dances. He does this for hours and
everyone in the room tries to match his unbelievable stamina."
— The Toronto Globe
Adnan "can take the
student to extraordinary perceptions in a brief time." — InnerSelf
Magazine
Rod Gibson for the Echo
Newspaper, Byron Bay, Australia, said Adnan is revealing "something
indecipherable about humankind’s place in the universe, about the nature
of being in the moment."
"I can feel changes
taking place deep within me...like a whole new view of the world, spirit
and belief system is unfolding." — Liz Parkinson, Merchant Ivory
Films, London, U.K.
"Adnan makes music
(with his drum) that is a call to wakefulness." — Habibi Journal,
Adnan Sarhan, A Dancer’s Teacher, A Drummer’s Drummer, A Sufi
by Jenna Gracia Woods.
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
"Our plans for modernization
of the New York City Subway System are almost complete. Much of my success
in coordinating the project and leading a team of 36 architects is due
to the teachings in your workshops." — Claude Samton, Total Design
Group, Architects
"(My) research in
Cell Biology as well as my teaching to medical students is very important
to me. As more and more tension and fear left me, my experiments improved
and I began to lecture with more confidence. As a result I feel more
in harmony at work both with my colleagues and students." — Harriet
Meiss, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, NYU Medical
Center
"You have taught me
how to encourage the positive and discourage the negative." — Don
Blasius, Ph.D. Dept. of Mathematics, Yale University
Adnan’s "teachings
have an exquisite quality of rhythmic balance that is connected with
the cosmic rhythm." — Maria Gracia, Editor, Estructura,
a monthly architectural magazine, Madrid, Spain
"I’ve been sleeping
so well that I need two clocks to wake up in the morning." — Pamela
McPartland, Director, International English Language Institute, Hunter
College
There is "considerable
psychotherapeutic value in the work with Adnan. An individual can achieve
a heightened state of awareness of oneself with one’s environment. In
this state the relative insignificance of one’s personal problems becomes
apparent." A "most therapeutic group encounter." — Joseph
Savage, M.D., psychiatrist, Veteran’s Administration Hospital, New York
"Each time I attend
one of your workshops, I feel afterwards a surge of creative energy.
My concentration grows enormously." — Francisco Javier Sanchez
Gonzalez, Head, Speech Processing Laboratory, Instituto de Electrónica
de Comunicaciónes, Madrid, Spain
"I live in a high
stress life with continual travel and deadlines. I attended one day
of Adnan’s workshop and my stress was gone, my energy had increased
and my sleep was like a baby’s. I seemed to glide through my busy schedule.
My intuition became razor sharp and these feelings lasted! — Gary Scott,
President, Financial Newsletter Advisor and Educator, Gary
Scott’s World Reports
"The matter is that
I started to doubt if I ever meet a real Sufi master who will pay 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
"The labor of intellectual
production is not easy because it demands mental concentration. Only
your work has given me that. One more time I want to thank you for the
restitution of my physical health. And the anxiety and depression that
used to concern me in my relation with my students and colleagues have
disappeared. Today I have a trust in life and in the future." —
Luis Fernando Ocampo, Ph.D., Universidad Autonoma de Guerrero, México
"At the end of the
first session of Adnan’s workshop in Paris, I found myself in an exalted
state of high energy and fulfillment. This work was IT! The most perfected
form of all body work I had come across in my years of search."
And later: "It seemed I was going to be fed exactly the food I
expected. But soon, the long moments of rest, before, in the middle
or at the end of the exercises, became more important — moments of meditation
I had never known before; not that slow drowning into a pool of muddy
waters, but a delicious stillness." — Odile Atthalin, Psychologist/Bodyworker,
Paris, France
"It’s time again...to
feel the sea at the edge of the desert where the tides arise behind
the time.... Straight to willness...and the music of ten thousand wings
seems to break the air." — Jesus Armando Haro, M.D., Sonora, Mexico
