Becoming Clear Blog

Muiz’ inner and outer work draws from the richness and depth of 55 years of ongoing, spiritual practice and training, from a variety of metaphysical and mystical spiritual traditions before connecting with the Sufi Path: Transcendental Meditation (TM), Theosophy, the Liberal Catholic Church and Co-Masonry; Anthroposophy; the Rosicrucians AMORC; and other eclectic New Age teachings. This gestalt is leavened by multiple periods of focused psychological and psychic personal growth work, clearing, and healing during the past 45 years.

With this diverse background, and its large variety of approaches and modalities, Muiz is able to offer a unique combination of embodied spiritual practice, focused cultivation of heart presence, specific tools for building personal magnetism, deepening spiritual attunement, clearing blockages and old beliefs, cultivating a healthy sense of humor, and learning not to take self so seriously.,

He likes to work with what IS, in the Present Moment, while also holding a safe and nurturing space for psychological introspection and catalyzing the alchemical transformation and healing of those parts of awareness which are stuck cycling through past experiences and associated self-judgments, or distracted by fantasies and future projections — all of which can be understood as ongoing permutations of clinging and avoidance.

An openly gay-identified man, since 1975, with a strong pro-feminist consciousness which awakened and developed in the 1980s, during his 7 years on the island of Maui, in Hawai’i, Muiz often uses a collaborative, sacred-circle leadership model when teaching in group settings. His deep respect and honoring of Divine Mother, Divine Father, and Divine Androgyne in all their manifestations, provides a healing matrix for balancing and integrating masculine, feminine, and non‑binary aspects of personality and psyche.

Muiz was formally initiated in 1975, by Murshid Wali Ali Meyer, into the Sufi Ruhaniat International (at the time named Sufi Islamia Ruhaniat Society), a western, universalist branch of the Chishtiyya Order, founded in 930 CE in the town of Herat in what is now Afghanistan. The renowned Sufi Saint and Master Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti introduced the lineage and body of practices to India in Ajmer, Rajisthan, in the middle of the 12th century, where it spread and flourished to the present day.

Since his Certification in 1979, by Pir Moineddin Jablonski, head of the Ruhaniat from 1971 to 2001, as a Leader of the Dances of Universal Peace (DUP, commonly referred to in the ’60s and ’70s as “Sufi Dancing”), and his further initiation as a Sheikh (spiritual guide) in 1995, Muiz has led ongoing DUP circles and Sufi Studies classes, and both DUP and Sufi Practices at seminars, camps, and retreats around the USA, annually in the United Kingdom from 2003 – 2017, single weekends at the main Sufi Center of Sufi Movement International, in the Hague, Netherlands (2007), co-leading 3 week-long retreats in Morocco (2015-2017), a long weekend in the south of France (2017), plus an evening of DUP and an evening class of Sufi Practice in Cape Town, South Africa in January of 2020, not long before the Covid shutdown.

His training and experience in western Universalist Sufism (in the branch of the Chishti lineage brought to the West from India by Hazrat Inayat Khan in 1910) has resulted in formal certification in 1979 as a Leader of the Dances of Universal Peace, in the late 80s as a Dance Leadership Mentor, and in 1996, initiation by his own Sufi teacher (Murshid Wali Ali Meyer) as a Spiritual Guide within the Sufi Ruhaniat International. These teaching positions have also been recognized by the Sufi Order in the West (now called the Inayatiyya Order), the Sufi Movement International, and The Mevlevi Order of America.

Drawing from this extensive background, he emphasizes a balanced, grounded, and embodied approach to inner development, and incorporates Spiritual Dance and Walk, Breath and Sound Practices, exercises in Concentration, Meditation, Spiritual Attunement, and Mastery, with the effacement, refinement, softening, and clarifcation of the ego structure.

Over the past 43 years Muiz has led the Dances and Sufi Practice around the USA, in the UK, Netherlands, France, Morocco, and South Africa, at evening and day-long events, weekend and week-long camps and retreats, and a variety of ongoing local, in-person classes over the years.

His Dance and Sufi work has been broadened and deepened by many years of work with other modalities, including: Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ externalization of emotion; Rev. Freda Waterhouse’s 3-Selves/Huna work, and Soulwork (which evolved out of 3-Selves work); several years of HIV/AIDS education, counseling, and support during the mid 80s; a year of studying and performing ancient Hawaiian Hula (Kahiko-style); co-facilitating two court-mandated groups of men who batter women through the Alternatives to Violence program on Maui in Hawai`i; several years as the facilitator of a weekly Sufi Men’s in Marin County, California; a staff member for Peaceworks Dances of Universal Peace (DUP) Leadership Training Camps at Lama Foundation, in New Mexcio for 5 years in the late 80s and early 90s, offering Dance Leadership modeling and feedback, and onsite counseling; completion of National Coalition Building Institute Training (NCBI) and co-facilitation of three other NCBI training weekends.

Muiz also has an extensive photography portfolio on display at his Visible Impressions website.