Salima Adelstein

I've got a good job.

I love life.

It's all of it, yeah.

It's not limited in that way, especially now at the university.

You know, we have employees, for example, at our university who are on that autism spectrum.

We have students who are on that.

We have some students that have different kinds of mental illness.

So it's really not pigeonholed in that way.

Because of COVID, we are now online.

So we are global.

We have students at the University of Sufism and Spiritual Healing that are from as far away as Australia.

They sometimes stay up till 3 a.m.

in the morning because of the time chain.

But we really have students all over the world now who attend our programs.

So we do do it live three times a year for five to six days, depending on the program.

We have shorter programs that meet over the weekend, and those programs are live, and then they get a recording that they can listen to again.

They also get support from the other teachers in between the time periods that we have the classes at the university.

Students can come and get a master's degree if they wish, if they stay with the program for four years, or they can just take it because they have a desire to learn.

For example, we offer a course in living and dying in dignity for someone who might want to work in hospice or might want to help be a birth doula.

One of my students is now a birth doula, you know, helping to