Michelle Ayazi
About
Michelle Ayazi (she/her) is the proud daughter of Iranian immigrants and a student of Sufism, the mystical dimension of Islam. She has been trained in the practice of Tamarkoz—the Sufi art of concentration and meditation—and is approved to teach Tamarkoz by Hazrat Salaheddin Ali Nader Angha, the current and 42nd appointed Sufi Master of the 1,400-year-old Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi (MTO) Shahmaghsoudi School of Islamic Sufism. She has been offering Tamarkoz classes to UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff and alumni, and to the greater community, since 2010. Michelle is also a full-time staff member at UC Berkeley in the Berkeley Study Abroad Office as an adviser for University of California Education Abroad Programs (UCEAP). She received her Master’s degree from the University of Maryland, College Park in International Education Policy, where her areas of research were spirituality and peace education, and study abroad and peace education.
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