German Spring Retreat 2026
Forgiveness, Healing, and Wholeness
Discourse, Meditation, Music and Interfaith Worship with Pir Zia Inayat Khan
April 2nd to April 6th, 2026
Gersfeld (Rhön), Germany & via Zoom
“If you could turn back the clock, would you fly back and change the past? Of course, we cannot change what we have said and done, or the actions of others—but we can change the way the past and present live in us.
Knowingly or unknowingly, we are all creating a world within our heart, a world destined to outlast the seemingly objective world outside. The inner world becomes a Garden to the degree in which old enmities are transformed by means of fortifying insight, the circulation of life’s vital sap heals our most enduring wounds, guilt dissolves and coagulates as wisdom and acceptance, and the body-mind-soul nexus is made lucid and whole in the light of the All-Encompassing One.” — Pir Zia Inayat Khan
This program is in-person and via Zoom, with registration for both through Inayatiyya Deutschland. Please see their website for all details.
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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 author of Tears from the Mother of the Sun with visual artist Amruta Patil, Immortality: A Traveler’s Guide; 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.
