Entering the Consciousness of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

Entering the Consciousness of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan:
A 100^th Birthday Celebration
June 16-19, 2016
The Abode of the Message
New Lebanon, New York

We are coming upon a very special time – the 100^th birthday of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan on Sunday, June 19, 2016 – a time that also corresponds with Pir Vilayat’s 12^th Urs a couple of days before on Thursday, June 17, 2016.

The weekend will feature Pir Vilayat’s son and successor, Pir Zia Inayat-Khan, one of his closest students, Aziza Scott, classical conductor, Sara Jobin, and many others. You are cordially invited to join us for this unique program entering into the consciousness of a great Sufi mystic of the 20^th Century.

See Pir Vilayat’s Biography Here
https://inayatiyya.org/pir-vilayat-inayat-khan/

See Here to Participate in Selections of Bach’s B Minor Mass
https://inayatiyya.org/b-minor-mass/

Please note that this program will take place on the Abode’s Main Campus, primarily in the Meditation Hall.

SCHEDULE

Thursday, June 16^th

2:00 pm Arrivals (Vakil First Floor)
6:00 pm Dinner (Dining Room)
7:00 pm Sufi Message Class w/ Aziza, Sharif and Taj (Meditation Hall)
8:30 pm Iftar (break fast) & Maghrib Prayers (Family Room)
8:50 pm Iftar Dinner (Back Dining Room)

Friday, June 17th

Pir Vilayat’s 11th Urs

7:00 am Taj (Meditation Hall)
8:00 am Breakfast (Dining Room)
9:00 am Pir Zia (Meditation Hall)
10:30 am Tea Break (Dining Room)
11:00 am Aziza (Meditation Hall)
12:30 pm Lunch (Dining Room)
1:00 pm Jumma Prayers & Ramadan Khutbah (Sermon) (Family Room)
1:15 pm Archives Tour (Archives, 2^nd Floor Rezak)
2:00 pm Sharif (Library)
3:30 pm Tea Break (Dining Room)
4:00 pm Procession to Pir’s Pod (from Courtyard, shuttles available)
4:30 pm Urs Gathering at Pir’s Pod (Pir’s Pod)
6:00 pm Dinner (Dining Room)
7:00 pm Urs Celebration (open to the public)
8:30 pm Iftar (break fast) & Maghrib Prayers (Family Room)
8:50 pm Iftar Dinner (Back Dining Room)

Saturday, June 18th

7:00 am Taj (Meditation Hall)
8:00 am Breakfast (Dining Room)
9:00 am Aziza (Meditation Hall)
10:30 am Tea Break
11:00 am Pir Zia (Meditation Hall)
12:30 pm Lunch (Dining Room)
1:15 pm Archives Tour (Archives, 2^nd Floor Rezak)
2:00 pm Sharif, Aziza & Taj (Library)
3:15 pm Break (Dining Room)
3:30 pm Special Presentations (Library)
   Tasnim Fernandez (3:30)
   Zarifah Kadian (3:50)
   Saphira Linden (4:10)
   Mikhail Horowitz (4:50)
5:15 pm Substantial Snacks (Dining Room)
6:00 pm Bach’s B Minor Mass w/ Sara Jobin and Friends (open to the public)
   See the following link to participate in the Mass:
   https://inayatiyya.org/b-minor-mass/
8:30 pm Iftar (break fast) & Maghrib Prayers (Family Room)
8:50 pm Iftar Dinner for All (Dining Room)

Sunday, June 19th

Pir Vilayat’s 100th Birthday

7:00 am Taj (Meditation Hall)
8:00 am Breakfast (Dining Room)
9:00 am Aziza (Meditation Hall)
9:30 am Falcon Demonstration (Herb Garden)
10:30 am Tea Break (Dining Room)
11:00 am Cosmic Celebration (Meditation Hall)
12:30 pm Lunch w/ Birthday Cake and Ice Cream (Dining Room)
2:00 pm Rabia Longworth Memorial (Meditation Hall)

The Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan is universalist in nature, meaning that we recognize the wisdom of all prophetic traditions and often celebrate holidays from many religions. The holy month of Ramadan falls during our Pir Vilayat gathering. Related Ramadan activities are listed on our schedule. All are welcome to participate.

Please let us know if you plan to observe Ramadan, and especially if you plan to participate in the later mealtime each night, by emailing frontdesk@theabode.org.

Special Note: The full program will eat dinner together Saturday night at 8:50 pm (French Dinner Time), for a special Ramadan Feast. Substantial snacks will be served at 5:15 pm, before the Bach concert, for anyone who needs to eat earlier.

BIOGRAPHIES

PIR ZIA INAYAT-KHAN, familiarly known as Sarafil Bawa, is a scholar and teacher of Sufism in the lineage of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan. He received his B.A. (Hons) in Persian Literature from the London School of Oriental and African Studies, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion from Duke University. Pir Zia is president of The Inayati Order and founder of Suluk Academy, a school of contemplative study with branches in the United States and Europe. He is also founder of the interspiritual institute Seven Pillars House of Wisdom. He lives with his wife and two children at the Abode. www.pirzia.org

AZIZA SCOTT, M. ED., has been a student of the retreat process for over thirty years and serves as the head of the Esoteric School and as Director of the Retreat Guide Training Program of the Inayati Order, working closely with first Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and now Pir Zia. She has many years of experience leading individual and group retreats and conducting workshops in the United States, Europe and India. Aziza runs a retreat center in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.

TAJ INAYAT is the Vice President of The Inayati Order. She offers spiritual guidance to many who wish to know the Sufi path of transformation and service to the world. Taj is a minister and pastoral counselor dedicated to honoring all the world’s faith traditions, and also offers individual and group retreats. Together with Gayan Macher, she designed and led Sufi Retreats for fifteen years. She and Gayan currently co-lead New Rain, an online and in-person group dedicated to a Sufi approach of awakening and supporting spiritual practice in modern life. Taj lives in Petaluma, California. newrain.info

SHARIF MUNAWWIR, aka Donald Avery Graham, grew up in Arizona in the western United States. He studied at Yale University and became a professor of Literature and Comparative Religion, He began studying Sufism when he first encountered Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan in Paradise (Arizona) in 1970 and worked closely with Pir Vilayat on several of his books, also editing books of Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan. In 1982 he visited the archive of the Biographical Department in Suresnes, France, and from that time began working on The Complete Works of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan every summer. In 1998 he moved to Suresnes to work full time on The Complete Works, During Pir Vilayat’s last years, Sharif was a close friend and neighbor. He retired and moved back to Tucson in 2014. He has given seminars in many places about Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan and his teachings, and is now pursuing a new career as a wandering Sufi storyteller.

SARA JOBIN, a Grammy-nominated conductor, joins our program to lead Pir Vilayat’s favorite, Bach’s B-Minor Mass. Currently Resident Conductor of the Toledo Symphony and Opera and Chief Conductor of the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York, Jobin has conducted the opera companies in San Francisco, Arizona, Pittsburgh, Santa Barbara, Anchorage, Tacoma, and Idaho. She has also conducted the Dayton Philharmonic, Symphony Silicon Valley, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Szegedi Szimfonikus Zenekar at the Armel Festival, and the Bochumer Philharmoniker. Her first full-length recording, the American comedy Volpone by John Musto, was nominated for a 2010 Grammy. Sara currently lives in Toledo, Ohio.

PRICING

All pricing includes tuition plus room and board or commuter fees.

Single Room $625
Shared Room $580
Dorm (3+ People) $520
Tenting $505
Commuter $460
Abode Resident on Meal Plan $325
Young Adult (under 35) in Dorm Room $275
Young Adult (under 35) as Commuter $200

REGISTRATION

Please register via our online registration system, through our Pir Vilayat 100^th Birthday page on EventBrite, or by contacting Moon Mooney, Abode Front Desk, frontdesk@theabode.org or 518-794-8095.

Questions? Email frontdesk@theabode.org.

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