Daughter of the Moment
In Daughter of the moment we will explore what it means to meet the Divine beyond the inherited wounds that have shaped how we see God, and discover who we might become in their absence.
In our first session we lay the foundation by exploring the human condition and our early years and who the Beloved is. We come into honest contact with the ways societal structures and conditioning have shaped our inner world and our experience of God.
In our second session we challenge these assumptions and find a new ground to stand from, one rooted in divine love as the foundation of our existence.
This class is for all Muslims women, or those familiar with the Islamic tradition.
FIRST SESSION Thursday 19th of November
SECOND SESSION Thursday 26th of November
7pm BST | 8pm CEST | 2pm ET | 11am PT
What This Class Offers
Embodied Inquiry • Sufi Teachings • The Family Field
This class addresses two things at once. First, we come into contact and bring awareness into the ways that conditioning in our early have shaped our perception of God and reality, our sense of belonging, our relationship with Islam. And then, from that honest ground, we ask: who would I be if this wasn't true? Who would God be?
In the Sufi tradition, the true seeker is called ibn al-waqt the child of the moment. At each breath, a new self arrives from God. Each instant is a renewal. What shifts when you realise that who you are right now, in this body, in this feeling, is exactly who God is creating you to be?
We are not alone in this. Through the lives and words of great women saints and sheikhas, the lineage of female Sufis who carried and transmitted this tradition, we remember that our longing, our questions, our embodied devotion are the path itself.
A short excerpt from a previous Daughter of the Moment Container
O God,
Whenever I listen to the voice of anything You have made
The rustling of the trees the trickling of water
The cries of birds the flickering of shadow the roar of the wind
The song of the thunder, I hear it saying:
"God is One”
Nothing can be compared with God!
- Rabia al- Basri
What you will receive
- Two and half hour live teaching sessions on Zoom with Medina
- Resources to guide you throughout your journey.
- Poetry, writing and somatic practice and embodied inquiry
- Exploration of the Family Field and Human Development
- Teachings on Sufi metaphysics
The sessions will be recorded
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
streaming through widening channels into the open sea.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Meet Medina
Medina Trevathan is an interdisciplinary artist, mentor and facilitator based in the United Kingdom and Southern Spain.
She grew up in an international Sufi Muslim community in Andalusia, and her roots span far and wide from North Africa to Pakistan and Cornwall.
Medina teaches courses and facilitates on the themes of womanhood, Sufism, mythopoetic and dreams through a somatic lens. She has been trained as a coach in the pioneering method of Body Mind Maturation.
Everyone knows that each of us stands in the midst of development and unfolding. What is being unfolded is simply our self, but each self is unique. We do not know the full answer to what we are because at the moment we are only what we are right now, and at every moment of our existence, we are something new. So what is our self? It is the I of the moment, and each moment is new.
A famous aphorism tells us, “The Sufi is the child of the moment” (as-suf ibn al-wagi). One of its meanings is that the true Sufi lives in the constant awareness that his self is nothing but what he is at the present moment. And since each present moment is unique, each moment of the self is unique....
What is this new self that we experience at each breath?
- William Chittik
Medina Trevathan
Daughter of the Moment
