Sufi Healing Retreat North America
The Spirit of Healing
October 19th – 22nd, 2023
Healing practices support people in times of great change. They can also expand our capacity to serve humanity and the world. Over four days this fall, we invite you to explore themes of healing in the tradition of the Sufi mystic, Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927).
The first two days of this retreat are open to senior teachers (Shafayats) and active Healing Conductors in the Healing Activity. The second two days are open to Shafayats, Healing Conductors, healing members and anyone interested in healing. Both sections of the retreat will be via Zoom. Translation into French, German and Turkish will be available.
Faculty for this retreat includes Pir Zia Inayat Khan, Devi Tide, Dr. Raqib Kogan, Nur Alima Smith, Yuval Ron, Amina Feliou and Saki Lee.
Advanced registration is required. Video recordings will be provided to all registrants after the retreat. The suggested tuition is $150 for the full four day retreat (for designated Healing Activity leaders) and $80 for only Saturday and Sunday (open to all). Student and limited income discounted rate options are available. Please see the sidebar to register.
Discounts are available for those from particular nations due to currency valuation. These nations include Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey. If your nation is listed, please contact your national representative for details. If you feel your nation should be listed, please email astana@inayatiyya.org.
The Spirit of Healing Retreat Schedule (subject to change)
Our schedule is as follows (EDT/New York Time). Please see timeanddate.com for the time in your region:
Thursday, October 19th
1:15 – 2:30 pm Session One
2:30 – 3:00 pm Break
3:00 – 4:15 pm Session Two
Friday, October 20th
10:00 – 11:15 am Session One w/ Pir Zia
11:15 – 11:45 am Break
11:45 – 1:00 pm Session Two
1:00 – 3:00 pm Break
3:00 – 4:15 pm Session Three
4:15 – 7:00 pm Break
7:00 – 9:00 pm Session Four*
Saturday, October 21st
10:00 – 11:15 am Session One w/ Pir Zia
11:15 – 11:45 am Break
11:45 – 1:00 pm Session Two
1:00 – 3:00 pm Break
3:00 – 4:15 pm Session Three
4:15 – 7:00 pm Break
7:00 – 9:00 pm Session Four, Zikr w/ Yuval Ron*
Sunday, October 22nd
10:00 – 11:15 am Session One w/ Pir Zia
11:15 – 11:45 am Break
11:45 – 1:00 pm Closing
*These sessions are timed for our friends in Oceania. Please note there will not be translation for these sessions.
If you have questions about the content of the retreat, please email healing@inayatiyya.org. Questions about registration, payments, and logistical details may be sent to astana@inayatiyya.org.
Hosted by the Inayatiyya Healing Order of North America & Oceania.
Speakers
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Devi TideDevi Tide is the Kefayat (Head) and Vice President of the Sufi Healing Order in North America, New Zealand and Australia. She has over thirty years of experience as a teacher of healing and the esoteric sciences, bringing the qualities of wisdom, heart, subtlety, humor, and intelligence to her role. Devi has contributed to and offered programs in India, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America. In her seminars, public speaking, and individual sessions and retreats, Devi represents the inner vitality and harmony of the body, mind and spirit, the vitality of our interconnected world, as well as personal transformation.
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Pir Zia Inayat KhanPir Zia Inayat Khan, PhD, is a scholar of religion and teacher of Sufism in the universalist Sufi lineage of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is president of the Inayatiyya and founder of Sulūk Academy, a school of Sufi contemplative study and practice. He is the author of Immortality: A Traveler’s Guide; Mingled Waters: Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions; Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and the Mystical Quest; and the editor and compiler of Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan, for which he also wrote the critical introduction. Pir Zia divides his time between Richmond, Virginia and Suresnes, France. inayatiyya.org
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Raqib Misha Kogan M.D.Raqib Misha Kogan, M.D. received his medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine. He’s the medical director of the GW Center for Integrative Medicine and associate professor of medicine in the division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at George Washington University. Raqib has been on the Sufi path since 2001 and is a Conductor in the Inayatiyya Healing Activity. Together with his wife Rafia, he completed Suluk training in 2007. Raqib has been working closely with Devi Tide and other Healing Activity leaders for over 10 years and has assisted in organizing and running many annual Leadership Retreats. Raqib’s goal is to bring healing wisdom and practices of the Inayatiyya to more people, especially those who are vulnerable. To achieve this goal, Raqib founded AIM Health Institute, a non-profit organization in the Washington, D.C. area that provides integrative medicine services to low-income and terminally ill patients regardless of their ability to pay.
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Jessica BrombyJessica Bromby has had her home healing practice called Hearthaven for over 25 years. She offers healing retreats in her Home or on zoom remotely. She guides and organizes individual or group retreats and programs locally or online globally. She teaches the Awakened Healer class with Devi Tide and is helping to teach the Healing retreat guide training with Devi, Sarmad, Gayatri and Jamila this coming year. She’s a Shafayat, Healing Cherag , Ziraat Farmer, Raphaelite Healer and healing retreat guide. She is a zikr leader and offers zikrs monthly. She is also a certified dance leader in the dances of universal peace, a representative in the Inayatiyya as well as friend of all Sufi orders and friends of all of creation. Jessica teaches children at her local school, Mangrove community school, in Florida. She also guides a rights of passage group for young teens called Daughters of the Earth. She is Canadian raised on a farm in rural Quebec, avid traveler ~ globe trotter, now living in Florida with her two cats Bibi and Mani and husband Akbar by the Gulf of Mexico in their jungle home Kalama.
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Amina Georgia FeliouAmina Georgia Feliou is the Kefayat and Emeritus Vice President of the Inayatiyya Healing (IH) for Europe and Pakistan. She is the leader of the IH in Athens, Greece and a representative for the Inayatiyya Inner School. She is a psychotherapist following Murshid’s path since 2008. Before working as a psychotherapist, she was working for more than 10 years at the United Nations and in particular the United Nations Information Center for Greece, Cyprus and Israel, stationed in Athens, Greece. She has studied philosophy, psychology, psychotherapy, and library and information science. She enjoys swimming, hiking and practicing fascia exercises. She is dedicated to the service of fellow human beings, non-human friends and Mother Earth to the best of her abilities.
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Saki LeeSaki Lee is a senior teacher and guide in the Inayatiyya and is a long time practitioner and wellness coach in East Asian medicine. Sacred music is her joy and delight, and she is a dance leader and mentor for the Dances of Universal Peace. In the Netherlands she co-hosts regular Music of Life programs featuring world music concerts as a way to inspire and awaken awareness of humankind’s oneness beyond boundaries of race, culture and religion.
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Nur Alima SmithNur Alima Smith is a Shafayat, a Cherag, a Healing Conductor and a Raphaelite Healer in the Inayatiyya Healing Activity. She is adept with various breathing techniques, having studied this for 35 years. Nur Alima brings the Inayati philosophy and practices to the community groups. She has run many trainings for staff and volunteers in Hospice and multiple Veteran Organizations focusing on these techniques and how to heal oneself with the breath. Since 2015 Nur Alima has also led a weekly meditation group for Veterans who have PTSD. Her additional work with the Veteran Community includes teaching meditation and relaxation techniques to those on active duty about to be deployed and those who have just returned from combat. She also leads a monthly meditation session for Hospice volunteers and staff.Nur Alima serves on the Inayatiyya Healing steering committee, and lives in Syracuse, New York.
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Yuval RonYuval Ron is an award-winning composer, record producer, touring and performance artist, peace activist, author and educator, who began playing the oud with the Bedouin tribes in the Sinai desert. Later on, he worked with Turkish, Iraqi-Israeli, Palestinian and Armenian master-musicians. His style of playing is also influenced by Gypsy-Flamenco, Andalusian, Blues and Jazz music. yuvalronmusic.com
