Helen BetGivargis

Helen BetGivargis, L.Ac., M.S. A former researcher and IVF embryologist and is a licensed Acupuncturist, with over 28 years of practicing chigong, TaiChi, Yoga and various styles of meditation practices. She has completed MBSR course and attended many silent meditation retreats in different traditions in the past 20 years. In her pursue of working on social justice issues, Helen has also completed the Race and Dharma course at Insight Meditation by invitation in 2018, where she began working deeper with integrating mindfulness with racial justice and weaving this work into her presence as a board member at CBI. 

Helen BetGivargis, was born and raised in Iran to an indigenous Assyrian Parents in Azerbaijan region of Iran, with a rich diverse ethnic groups of Kurdish, Turkish, Assyrian and Arminian living in villages near each other. She speaks fluently in both Farsi/Persian and Arameic/Syriac/Assyrian her mother tongue. Iran has a rich history of great poets such as Hafiz, Saadi, khayam, and Rumi/Molana. 

Over the past two decades, Helen has been particularly revisiting Rumi’s poetry and reciting them in her native Persian/Farsi language, the language in which Rumi wrote most of his poems. In the past two decades Helen has attended various workshops on Rumi’s poetry, mystical Sufism and Sama with Coleman Bark, Andrew Harvey, and Banafsheh Sayyad. She has been a student of Banafshe Sayad and her work with Dance of Oneness for over a decade. Helen has developed a meditative and embodiment practice of “The Alchemy of Whirling” an inner work practice where she integrates the wisdom of 5-Spirit Alchemical work of her mentor Lorie Dechar, and Dance of Oneness, with alchemy of Sufi poetry and music. In her spare time Helen practices Calligraphy Art inPersian, Arabic and Arameic/Assyrian on paper and on silk scarves.

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