The Alchemy of Happiness—Part I
A Six-Part Course w/ Pir Zia Inayat Khan via Zoom
Sundays, October 6th to November 10th, 2024, 2:00 – 3:15 pm EDT / 8:00 – 9:15 CET
This fall we turn toward what it means to create happiness in life. Over six weeks, Pir Zia will guide us through our own inner happiness landscape, providing simple yet profound teachings from the work of the Sufi mystic, Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927).
We will explore themes such as cultivating purpose, developing a positive attitude, dealing with life’s struggles, tempering our reactions, and how to find meaning—all leading to greater contentment and happiness.
Each class is an hour and 15 minutes long and includes teachings followed by spiritual practices to continue throughout the week ahead. As in last spring’s course, “Being in the World,” our six weeks together will be directly applicable to our day-to-day lives.
Our companion text for this class is the Sufi Message Volume Series book number six—The Alchemy of Happiness, soon to be available from Suluk Press.
Please join us in real time, via Zoom, the day of each class, or watch the video after. Pre-registration is required to receive the video. This is the first part of a two-part series, with continuation in Spring 2025.
REGISTRATION DETAILS
General tuition is $60 ($12/class) with a limited income rate of $48 ($8/class) for the six-part series. Donations of any amount are also welcome.
As part of your registration, you will receive the course video which will be posted within 24 hours of each class via Dropbox. The course is designed to be attended in its entirety. If you begin with us after the course starts, video from past classes will be made available to you.
If you have questions about the Alchemy of Happiness series, please happily reach out to us at astana@inayatiyya.org.
BIOGRAPHY
Pir 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 author of Immortality: A Traveler’s Guide; Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan with a Critical Commentary by Pir Zia Inayat Khan; Mingled Waters: Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions; and Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and the Mystical Quest. Pir Zia divides his time between Richmond, Virginia and Suresnes, France. inayatiyya.org
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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
