Most of the prayer song compositions I use for Tapping Zikr have been composed by the following inspired sources:

Leilah Be
Allaudin Dean Ottinger
Maitreya Jon Stevens
and 
Basira Beardsworth

 They have all so thankfully provided me with their blessings and formal official permission to use their material as part of the cannon of Tapping Zikr songs. This makes me feel more free to further share this hybrid practice in new ways in the coming year. Thank you so much to my Sufi teacher Fazl for help and encouragement around this.


I have been asked re: my thoughts on the future of our Zoom Tapping Zikr as things reopen. My intention for now is to continue indefinitely as long as it continues to be well attended.

Fun tapping fact: Did you know it is normal to yawn a lot when you tap a lot? It means your nervous system is flipping out of sympathetic Fight/Flight/Freeze and into Rest and Digest, a sign of the kind of deep relaxation and release that can happen from tapping. 

The Tapping Zikr!  

I have now accumulated more individual tapping patterns for more songs than can be done in a single session! last time, per request, I spent more time on individual ones and we got so beautifully into the lusciousness of it that time flew super fast! every session is unique with its own flow and selection.

Re: this new evolving practice:
Tapping zikr is a way to do a delicious kind of multitask and optimize all sorts of benefits. We tap on acupoints from Emotional Freedom Techniques, a kind of acupressure for mental health while we do spoken and melodic zikr. The acupoints sooth the nervous system and provide help with any stress, trauma, pain, anxiety and more.

 Zikr is a sufi practice of chanting/singing certain traditional phrases to invoke remembrance we are in essence never separate from the One, that we are part of that Divine reality of love; that Love is fundamentally who we are.

A side bonus is some body percussion! 

Please note you do not have to understand anything I said to thoroughly enjoy this-- you can just come for the experience:

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Sarvamangalum---HAPPINESS FOR EVERYONE!
May you be Well, May you be Happy, May you be Healthy, and May you have Peace---Sadaya
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A very brief summary of common traditional Sufi Zikr remembrance words transliterated from Arabic with  definitions per request:

Allah----a word for God in Arabic. It also has an Al and a La, meaning yes and no--like the yes/no of the universe. It also has male and female in it. And because Arabic is a root language where the roots themselves have different meanings, this word contains a root for wild passionate love.

La Illah iL Allah----there is nothing (or nothing important, or no little gods) but GOD

Eshq Allah Mahboud Leilah----Love(Eschq) of God, Lover, beloved (These names for lover and beloved refer to the same as the Persian mystical stories of divine love and devotion, Leilah and Majnun in Bahaullah's Seven Valleys) or God is Love, Lover, and Beloved

Hu--the name of God beyond names, closer than your life vein 

Bismillah----We begin in the name of Allah

Er Rahman, Er Rahim----Divine Mercy and Compassion in the Womb of God as we all are (rahm is a root that means womb)

Ya Fattah----May the way keep opening and opening to your Beloved, to your heart's desire

Ya--invoking the Divine, bring it on

Hayy --Divine Life force (think La Chaim to life---Hebrew is sister language to Arabic so many of the same roots)

For more in depth translations and information, check out the Physicians of the Heart book: https://www.physiciansoftheheart.com__available on the web in kindle, print and othe forms
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The Sufism referred to here is a form of Universal Sufism, the Ruhaniat Sufi Order, one of the streams from the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Here is an elegant answer he gave on the subject of religion and Sufism. Pir Shabda read this aloud to us way back when I was first enjoying singing and dancing with the Sufis but was also very dedicated to my religion. It was a great comfort to me to know there was no conflict and that what I was experiencing in terms of inclusion and a complete absence of pressure to join anything, also had underpinnings in this form of Sufism itself.

Question: Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall]“I have come across a great many Sufis in the East, and have read a great deal of Sufi Literature from early times, and I have never yet heard of any Sufism which was not definitely Islamic, nor of any Sufi who did not accept the Koran as the final Revelation. This is why I was led to believe that in joining a Sufi community I was associating with Muslims, of my own religious faith...Is the Sufi Order really Muslim-or, to put it in the straightest terms, Mohammedan?”

[Murshid’s answer:]“To a Sufi revelation is the inherent property of every soul, which has worked through all stages of the world’s evolution and developed in every state of individual evolution. It is, to a Sufi, an unceasing flow of the divine stream, which has neither beginning nor end. Our Order is composed of truth-seeking people of different faiths and beliefs, who are not in any way obliged to give up the faith or belief they may have nor to accept a certain faith or belief, nor are they if they have none, compelled to adopt one. As long as all tread in harmony in the path of love and light no member of the Order is concerned to enquire into the faith of any other. It is not intended that all members of the Order should label themselves followers of a certain faith; the members of the Order should keep whatever faith or belief they have. It is not even required of them that they should all call themselves Sufi. With regard to teaching, for a certain way they are, of course, guided by the Murshid, but, after that is passed, they each have their own path and are master of their path.”

For more information see: https://ruhaniat.org/index.php/resources-2/esoteric-papers-library/180-esoteric-papers-library/2966-ten-sufi-thoughts-new

Dorood- Invocation Prayer of Hazrat Inayat Khan:

Toward the One,
the Perfection of Love, Harmony and Beauty,
the Only Being,
United with All the Illuminated Souls,
Who form the Embodiment of the Master, (the Message, the Mystery, the Mother)
the Spirit of Guidance.

12 Allahs and an Eshq

This is a sample of chanting Tapping Zikr. Tapping Zikr is Sadaya’s new evolving practice of using Emotional Freedom Techniques/Tapping Acupoints as a medium for Zikr.

Zikr is the sufi practice of “remembrance.” We remember that we are never truly separated from God, that God is Love, Lover, and Beloved and that in our essence, the heart of reality, that is truly all there is.