Program

Elias Amidon

Elias Amidon has spent the past 5 years on a pilgrimage of teaching and service throughout the world. He is co-director of the Boulder Institute for Nature and the Human Spirit (<>www.boulderinstitute.org) which runs national and international training programs in support of human rights, citizen peacemaking, environmental ethics, and indigenous cultures. He has served on peace teams in Nicaragua, Burma and most recently Iraq. During the 90‚s he taught in the masters program of Environmental Leadership at Naropa University in Colorado; he is a trained wilderness quest guide and has led quests for over 12 years. He is co-editor of the books Earth Prayers, Life Prayers and Prayers for a Thousand Years.

Elias is a Murshid (guide) and lineage holder of the International Sufi Way, an inner school in the lineage of Indian Sufi master Inayat Khan.