Welcome to Rising Tide International

The mission of Rising Tide International is to cultivate the inner spiritual message that is the secret of all religions and to develop, nourish and sustain a local and global community working towards unity.

Rising Tide International is a spiritual community located in beautiful Sarasota Florida, on the west gulf coast about an hour south of Tampa. Rising Tide is housed in a lovely one story, gold building where most of the activities and esoteric teachings take place. Rising Tide was founded in 2001 by Shahabuddin David Less and continues to serve locally, nationally and internationally.

IT'S HERE! Announcing the publication of Universal Meditations: Recipes for a Peaceful Mind by
Shahabuddin David Less. Shahabuddin's first book about Meditation and providing 12 weeks of guided medtiations.
Please Go to www.UniversalMeditations.com for more information and online purchasing.

We now offer you the ability to read our latest monthly newsletter online, Ahura's list (Rising Tide's community network email) and weekly reminders that are sent out to people on our email lists. Now they are available to anyone who wishes to view them. Simply click this link.  Want to stay informed of events?    Join Our Mailing List

Weekly Events open to the public

• Sundays from 10:30 to 11:30 AM, Universal Worship Service
• Winter Feast 2010: Open Meditation Class: Every Day 6-7 PM
• Tuesday evenings 7:30 PM, Class on Spiritual Liberty and training of the ego. As of October 2008 All classes can be listened to LIVE by telephone. Click here for details.
• 1st Tuesday evening of the month 7:30 PM, Dances of Universal Peace.
• Thursday evenings 7:30 PM, Zikr - Sufi pracitce of Remembrance through Sacred sounds.
• Thursday evenings 6:30PM, Gatha class, Readings from the writings and teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Rumi Studies the 1st, 3rd and when available the 5th Sunday of the month. 4:30-6:00 PM

To see a full list of our upcoming events and to view our yearly yahoo calendar click on Upcoming Events or our Daily calendar page.

To join our Email list click on Contact Us. This will take you to a page with contact information and a box to "Join Our Email List." Fill in your email and you will be subscribed to the "All the RTI News" list. Once subscribed, you will see other emails list options including text only, fewer messages or more email messages.

Directions and a map are also found on the contact us page.

Prayers and Teachings can be found on the Teachings page.

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Coming Up Next...

   Winter Feast 2010, 40 days of meditations. For listening or downloading the Winter Feast Meditations simply go to http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=72422&cmd=tc

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