Whirling in Sudan…

In December, while I was uncovering a Meroitic temple from the sands of the Sahara in Sudan, some Sufi friends taught me how to whirl like a dervish in the Sudanese style. Though the form is a bit different than the whirling style which I learned in Cairo and Istanbul, my Sudanese Sufi friends reminded me that “all whirling is one.”

Bring the pure wine of love and freedom.
But sir, a tornado is coming.
More wine, we’ll teach this storm
A thing or two about whirling…

— Rumi