Click for updates & pictures from Bapak Waleed & the ISFA's summer tour to Indonesia, including Padang, Bukittinggi, and other locales,
ISFA@Yale is a student group dedicated to sharing the arts, cultures, natural healing methods, and traditional dances of Indonesia and Southeast Asia
with the Yale University and New Haven community. CLICK for more information
on Indonesia's History & Culture
We hold ongoing sessions on campus and special events throughout the
year. For more information, to subscribe to our email list, or if you have questions or comments, please
contact us.
Meditation and Sufi Zikr have a Healing quality to them, cleansing the inner self much like water is used to cleanse the outer self.
Click for more pictures of Bapak's recent visit to this sacred waterfall deep in the Indonesian rainforest...
Click for more pictures of Bapak's Indonesia Tour 2007...
Bapak Waleed was invited up onto the main stage, with other dignitaries and officials, for the opening ceremonies of 'Pekan Budaya Sumatera Barat 2008,' the week-long Cultural Festival in Padang in July, 2008.
Bapak Waleed also met with the Mayor of Padang, Walikota Fauzi Bahar, as well as professors, researchers, and officials at Andalas University and other top schools throughout West Sumatra.
The tour also featured visits throughout the city of Padang, and also a road trip up into the mountains, through Padang Panjang, to the Tanah Datar regency and Batusangkar, where there are currently efforts underway to reconstruct the King's Palace 'Istano Basa Pagaruyung', and also to Bukittinggi, a 'cultural capital' of West Sumatra.
International Silat Federation of America
Meditations in Motion 
Spiritual Dance
Silat Training
ISFA@Yale gives thanks and recognition to the many groups on campus and in the community who are dedicated to building bridges between communities, including:
...and many more.
