Guest guest Posted September 13, 2006 Report Share Posted September 13, 2006 As some of you may know, Amma said that she would like IAM to be taught in U.S. prisons. Circle of Love Inside letter writers write to several men incarcerated at Ryan Correctional Facility, a medium security prison in Detroit. They have had another meditation group originally started by another spiritual group. They have maintained this group over the years without anyone from outside coming in to lead it. One of the inmates sho is a Sunni Moslem has led it. Now the prison has decided that the group cannot continue unless it has an outside sponsor and someone from that outside group will come in to lead the meditation. The men who had been participating in the meditation group are not happy to have lost their opportunity to gather for this spiritual practice. The man who has been leading it says he'll work with anyone so that the meditation group can continue. Just before this development, I had written to one of the guys to ask if he could help us get IAM training into Ryan. When the inmate led group was stopped, he let me know that the folks who had benefited from the meditation group were eager to find a way to continue it and would be interested in IAM. Steve Schmidt has sent an email message about this to a man and woman in Detroit who teach IAM. So far only the woman has replied and she feels that a man should do the teaching at Ryan. I'm wondering if there is anyone on this list who lives in the Detroit area, who has benefited from the practice of IAM personally and who would be wsilling to go into Ryan to teach it, to assist in teaching it, or to follow up regularly with the group there. Sometimes we talk only to the same group of people and miss someone who would love a chance to do something like this and who is well qualified. That's why I'm putting out the request on this forum. Also I don't think the teacher needs to be a man. Missing the opportunity to respond to this invitation because of gender seems very sad to me. If you are interested in this and not yet approved to teach IAM, Amma needs to approve you before you can do it. Possibly, that can be expedited. The process of getting approved to visit the prison will then take additional time. Please respond either here or to circle.of.love.inside Jai Ma! Aikya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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