Speakers

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  Amida Cary
  

  Amida Cary

  Amida Cary is co-Madar-ul-Muham of the Inner School of the Inayatiyya in North America and Oceania. She was first initiated in 1975, and studied deeply with Pir Vilayat until his passing and now supports Pir Zia and his work. She has presented several teaching and training programs in the Inayatiyya Inner School in person and online. Amida directs the Inayatiyya’s Retreat Concentration and Retreat Guide Training Program. In that capacity she works with an international network of experienced retreat guides and mentors. She has served in many capacities within the Inayatiyya over the 50 years, including as a founder of Suluk Academy. Currently she is designing programs for Coordinator and Representative training, and for the Sophic Whorl/Spagyric Gyre as retreat. Her professional background is in education. She has taught in progressive independent schools in Maryland and California. She now lives in the high southwestern desert, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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  Jacob Miraj Dominicus
  

  Jacob Miraj Dominicus

  Jacob Miraj Dominicus, co-Madar-ul-Maham of the Inner School of the Inayatiyya, helps people deepen their meditative practice. Jacob has been a murid of the Inayatiyya since 1997, served on the Inayati Order Board of Trustees under Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and Pir Zia Inayat Khan, and helped start Suluk Academy serving as its inaugural administrator. In 2007, he graduated from Suluk’s Kafur class. Since 2015 Jacob has co-led retreats with Gulrukh Patel at the Zenith Institute in Switzerland. He currently serves as the co-Madar-ul-Muham of Inayatiyya Inner School (Oceania and North America). Professionally, he consults with corporate teams and teaches meditation. Jacob holds a B.A. from NYU in Organizational Behavior, Narrative Theory, and Mysticism and has been a Visiting Scholar at NYU Tisch’s Interactive Communications Program (ITP). He lives in Los Angeles, where he studies the Chinese martial arts of Xingyi and Bagua and lives with his wife, daughter, and two cats.

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  Karima Hilary Parkinson
  

  Karima Hilary Parkinson

  Karima Parkinson lives next to a nature reserve and near the ocean in Newcastle on the east coast of Australia. She holds the concentration for the Inner School in Australia and is a Representative, Guide, Retreat Guide, Shafayat, Cherag, Mentor for Suluk and leadership training programs, and grandmother. Karima loves to engage with the mystery in each being she encounters whether walking in nature, spending time with family and friends, gardening, reading or making handicrafts when she has time.

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  Suhrawardi Gebel
  

  Suhrawardi Gebel

  Suhrawardi Gebel is Chancellor of the Knighthood of Purity, a member of the Esoteric Training Committee of the Inayatiyya Inner School, a grandfather, a gardener, and author of two books, Root Speaks to Bud and Nature’s Hidden Dimension. He enjoys mentoring retreat guides and leaders in the Inner School. He also mentors Cherags for the Universal Worship. He lives in Boulder, Colorado at the intersection of the great Western prairie with the foothills of the Rocky Mountain range.

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  Jamila Cranston-Buckley
  

  Jamila Cranston-Buckley

  Jamila Cranston-Buckley began her journey on Sufi Path with the words “Toward the One, the Perfection of Love Harmony and Beauty” and in her heart there was a deep resounding response. As a 26 year old seeker an inner decision was made: To live for Love, Harmony and Beauty, with reverence and homage to all who carry this lineage, and tend this sacred flame of the Message brought by Hazrat Inayat Khan. Jamila is an Inayatiyya Representative and Guide in Aotearoa, New Zealand and holder of the Inner School of Sufi Wisdom. She is also an Alchemical and Healing Retreat Guide, mentor for Suluk Academy, and treasures tending her garden and food forest, exploring wellbeing through movement, eating well, cultivating community and consciously working with all states of mind.

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  Mansur Rahm
  

  Mansur Rahm

  Mansur Rahm has trained in the Inayatiyya since 1976, having been deeply drawn to Pir Vilayat at the final summer camp in Chamonix. He is a Representative/Guide, has nearly completed the Retreat Guide training, and is one of the teachers for the Inayatiyya Online Gatha and Githa Classes. Mansur’s teaching experience also includes several years offering an inquirers’ class on Meetup. In 2013 he graduated in the Nasim Suluk class. Other relevant education includes an M.A. in Transpersonal Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. Serial entrepreneur and life-long athlete, Mansur lives in Sisters, Oregon, where the high desert meets the Cascades, and he spends as much of his spare time as possible in the beauty of nature.

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  Salima Jenn Greaves
  

  Salima Jenn Greaves

  Salima Jenn Greaves has been a murid in the Inayatiyya since 1995, and graduated from Suluk in 2013. She has led the Portland, Maine Sufi Center since 2011, and is the Representative for Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Salima has also served on the Northeast Regional Council since 2011, and coordinated the Northeast Region Sufi Family Camp for several years. She enjoys leading retreats, and is a Healing Conductor. In 2022, she retired from her psychotherapy practice as a clinical social worker and alcohol/drug counselor in order to dedicate more time to service and continued learning in the Inayatiyya. Salima also sings regularly in a local Threshold Choir, whose mission it is to sing for those who are dying. She has two adult children, and is excited that she will be a grandmother by the end of 2025!

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  Nizam un Nisa Ayeda Husain
  

  Nizam un Nisa Ayeda Husain

  Nizam un Nisa Ayeda Husain is a senior teacher and guide in the Inayatiyya. A long-time journalist specializing in Sufism with a double masters in journalism and Near Eastern studies from NYU, she teaches Sufi meditation, chanting, and philosophy with a special emphasis on Rumi’s poetry as a means of healing and evolving. Ayeda has run Sufi centers in her hometown of Lahore, Pakistan; in Dubai, where she once lived; and in Oakville, Ontario where she lives and works. She has led spiritual retreats worldwide, taught Sufi meditation to Buddhist monks in Tokyo, and has been invited to the United Nations as part of an international delegation of spiritual leaders.