Caravan of Love

Allaudin Ottinger is a Murshid (senior teacher) in the Sufi Ruhaniat International. He is a long time practitioner in the way of love, harmony, and beauty. As a lifelong musician, Allaudin has presented in a variety of settings throughout the world offering sacred Sufi music, World music, children’s music and more. He’s also recorded several albums of Sufi music, jazz, and poetry. Allaudin has led Dances of Universal Peace since 1979 and is a mentor/member of the Dances of Universal Peace network, a Cherag (Sufi minister), and a Dervish Healing Order initiate. With great thanks to his teachers, he continues to travel the world and present the Sufi message. Allaudin has helped to steer the Ozark Sufi Camp for 40+ years. Among the many beautiful places he has presented Sufi teachings are the Abode of the Message in New York, the Lama foundation in New Mexico and the Mendocino Woodlands Camp in California. Allaudin is honored to have led tours to Ajmer, India (Moineddin Chishti’s tomb), Uluru (an Aboriginal sacred site), Western Australia and Burning Man of the Nevada Desert. But most of all, he is looking to help the Caravan of Body, Heart, and Soul of every being that he encounters along the way.

Jessica is a healer, teacher and nature farm girl raised in the eastern townships of Quebec, on her ancestral farm Bromhaven. She is now living with her daughter Gigi and husband Christopher Akbar by the Gulf of Mexico with her two cats Bibi and Mani. They live by Rising Tide International where they host various programs, retreats, events through Heartway center.

She has taught at numerous Sufi camps/retreats with children/families, teens and young adults, and all ages and generations including  various programs and schools in North America and Europe. Ozarks sufi camp, Mendocino sufi camp, Zenith Institute and Abode sufi camps are some of the various places she's served among others.

She has recently taught at Mangrove Community School locally in Sarasota, where she helped start the Forest Friday program and ran the school garden. She also recently hosted a coming of age program for young women locally called Daughters of the Earth. Jessi is also an alumni instructor at Flying  Deer Nature Center, where she worked for over a decade. She has run a parent / child program called Seedlings and Habibikins as well.

She is a Cherag Interfaith  Minister in the Universal Worship, where she served on the board for 5 years and has hosted  all generations services with her husband for several years at Rising Tide and at the Parliament of the World Religions in  Toronto, and Convocation in Virginia, and last year's Abode 50th  reunion.

She is a Shafayat in the Sufi healing order and is presently co-teaching in the Foundations of Healing program online through Astana this spring season with other wonderful senior teachers. Jessi is a Zirat farmer and enjoys being/working with the elements and being in nature very much. She is an avid nature lover and naturalist, nature walks and hikes are top favorites.  She is Representative and guide in the Inayatiyya. Dances of Universal Peace leader and creator of some recent dances. She has traveled worldwide on Sacred tours with her partner Christopher Akbar, the  purpose often of these travels are  for healing journeys and peace tours with Indigenous Grandmothers and AR Peace workers, and Sufi teachers  worldwide, Turkey, India, Israel, New Zealand, Turtle Island Usa/Canada. She is presently an active Healing retreat guide and has a healing practice, mostly right now guiding group retreats and individual healing retreats online remotely or in person. She is a zikr leader recently hosting monthly zikrs at Rising Tide. She’s a singer and songwriter, mostly zikrs and sacred songs/chants for healing and love. She is an author of her upcoming book called In the Great Sun , a book for all children and creation debuting very soon.

Right now she is above all  a mother and receiving this sacred honor of motherhood as her sacred most precious gift of her baby Gigi and enjoying this sacred opportunity to the fullest.

Jessica is the visionary and instigator, co-creator of this Caravan of Love Sufi camp and is working with the Abode, especially Lucas and Iromee to create and help host a special Sufi Camp for all of us this coming summer, we hope you join the Caravan of Hearts.

Looking forward to being with you all soon and grateful for our beautiful family of the heart and loving community of friends on the sacred path of Love, Harmony and Beauty and in service of the One.

Originally from Italy and founder of Newburgh Yoga Shala, Bibi Lorenzetti is a Level 2 Authorized Ashtanga teacher with over a decade of experience studying under her guru, Sharath Jois, in Mysore, India.

Also a certified teacher of Vedic chanting, Bibi blends accessible, intelligent instruction with a deep focus on inner growth. Her teaching uses breath and movement as tools to help students find mental steadiness and a balanced, ease-filled life.

Links:

https://newburghyogashala.com/

https://www.bibilorenzetti.com/

IG: @bibi.lorenzetti

Born into a culture where over 75% of the population practices Buddhism, I was immersed in spiritual traditions from the very beginning. By the age of three, I found myself naturally entering deep states of meditation, experiencing silent communion with the natural world both within and around me.

At six, I began secretly joining monks at a local Buddhist temple to practice Shamatha meditation, driven by a quiet yearning for peace and stillness. That same year marked the beginning of my lifelong commitment to peace activism and social service.

As a teenager, I was initiated into Transcendental Meditation (TM) by a revered Indian sage in her nineties—an extraordinary woman who, in deep meditation, would sometimes levitate. My upbringing was steeped in Ayurveda and Yoga, enriched by a native language rooted 75% in Sanskrit and 25% in Pali, connecting me deeply to ancient wisdom.

Over the past 25 years, I have been devoted to the practice of Mindful Walking Meditation, as taught by the beloved Vietnamese Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh. His gentle yet profound approach to mindfulness continues to guide me in every step.

I carry immense gratitude for the opportunity to share healing practices and spiritual insight with communities across the world, always in service to peace, compassion, and the awakening of collective well-being.