My Body is Sacred:
Through the Lens of Sufism
In-Person or Via Zoom, November 2025
(rescheduled)
Join health educator, author, and Murabbi Ruhi, Julia Sumaya Considine Pierce, MPH, MDiv. for a women’s weekend at the Farm of Peace, as we gently explore issues of language, culture and identity around the female body.
The common threads of religious and spiritual texts teach modesty and respect. However, girls and women often grow up without guidance, regard, or consciousness of their bodies, especially their reproductive anatomy. Together, we will gently explore the transition from the inherited societal veil of unconsciousness to a protective and sovereign veil illuminated by Divine Love.
Through a discussion of the historical context through which we have learned about our bodies, we will explore an inherited lineage of veils or barriers that have written their confining essence on our bodies, using accurate anatomical terms rather than euphemisms.
We will use Divine Qualities to consciously step out of this lineage and relax into the Ocean of Divine Love. These teachings intertwine women’s reproductive health information, Sufi teachings, Divine qualities, and breathing practices.
Dates and Times: May 24th, 9-5, and May 25th, 9-12.
Where: Farm of Peace, 1212 Haven Lane, Warfordsburg PA 17267
Rescheduled for November due to timing of book publication.
Details to be provided closer to the event.
Interested? Email Julia Sumaya with questions.
Julia Sumaya Considine Pierce is an author, educator, and advocate for women’s and girls’ health and wellness. She has shared her expertise in the public school system, where she taught puberty and sexual health education. She also taught health and wellness at the local community college and currently teaches Baraka, an online class series about the interconnectedness of female reproductive health and spirituality.
Julia earned a Master of Public Health degree from UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. Additionally, Julia earned a Master of Divinity degree from the University of Sufism and serves her community as a Murabbi Ruhi. She is a mother of two, stepmother to six, and lives with her husband in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her children’s book, My Body is Sacred: Tales of Health and Wellness for Little Girls, will be published in May.