About Nura
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For more than forty years, Nura has been serving as a spiritual mentor and loving guide. Her passion is service. She lives to help others come more fully into themselves, so they can engage effectively in their lives.
Nura does not walk the path of one tradition. She is a synthesizer and a gatherer of seeds. Her eye is attuned to the unique gifts that are placed within every human heart and every human soul.
Her gathering began early. As a teenager growing up in Northern California in the sixties, she was exposed to the leaders in the burgeoning healing and spiritual movements. Her yearning to understand the mysteries of human experience led her to travel around the world for the first time at the age of 20, where she lived for two years with the indigenous peoples of North Africa, Iran, Afghanistan and India.
In the ways of the people, the depth and simplicity of their connections with the past, with each other, and with the natural world, she glimpsed an understanding about the possibility for an unremitting expression of passion in the face of life's greatest challenges.
When she returned to the United States, she founded a center for yoga and healing, and her spiritual exploration exploded. The seeds that had been sown in the East propelled her to seek instruction from some of the greatest living Masters of our time. They were Hindus and Buddhists; Christians and Jews; Sufis and Native Elders. Just as Nura had lived among the indigenous peoples, absorbing their ways through the rhythms of daily life, so she lived with her teachers, on an intimate and personal basis.
Nura carries their grace and mercy that she passes as a lineage carrier to beloveds from all over the world. Her teaching is called the Way of the Love. This is the original journey, the pathway that moves from the human heart through the soul to the mysteries of all Creation.
Nura is closely mentoring students in the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel in the Journey program. She leads regenerative retreats. And as the director of the third generation nonprofit, Link Hands for Humanity, she participates in giving back to the indigenous people and the land that inspired her forty years ago.
Nura divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico where she lives with her husband, daughter and community of beloveds and the service projects with which she is engaged in Southeast Asia.