The Will of Water – Purification
A Creative Celebration for Earth Day 2026
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
3:00–4:30 pm ET (New York) | 9:00–10:30 pm CET (Paris)
“The Message of God is like a spring of water, it rises and falls, and makes its way by itself.” —Hazrat Inayat Khan
Join us for this special worldwide Inayatiyya Ziraat and Music collaboration to celebrate Earth Day through creative arts such as photography, dance, poetry, and music.
The program will be conducted as an informal Lodge reflecting the healing power of water in a beautiful creative flow of photos, quotes, and poetry integrated with music. We invite you to engage with the presentation from the domains that speak to you uniquely. There will be a short period for sharing by participants before the closing of the Lodge.
All are welcome to attend. This presentation is free and open to the public. Video recordings will be made available on the Ziraat website’s Recordings of Past Programs page.
If you have questions about Ziraat or this program, please email us at ziraat@inayatiyya.org.
Speakers
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Aziza Charlotte Barker-StantonAziza Charlotte Barker-Stanton has been involved with the Sufi path since taking bayat in the Healing Order with Himayat Inayati in 1980, in the Sufi Order with Pir Vilayat Khan in 1982, and subsequently with Wahhab Sheets and Shahabuddin Less, her longtime guide and friend. A Suluk graduate, Aziza is a Representative and Inner School Retreat Guide, Ziraat Farmer, Knight of Purity, Healing Conductor and Healing Retreat Guide. Aziza has been serving on the Ziraat Council for 4 years. Aziza lives with her husband where the Rio Grande River meets the Gulf of Mexico on lands of the Carrizo Comecrudo. She has a healing practice at her center Laguna Madre Yoga and Wellness on South Padre Island, Texas.
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Saraswati Andrea BurkeAndrea Burke, Saraswati, is a mother and gardener residing on the South Coast in Oregon. She has been an active servant of the Message of Inayat Khan since her initiation in 1986. She is a graduate of the Suluk Class, Na Koja Abad, a Ziraat Farmer, and a Coordinator for the Inayatiyya.
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LatifaNoor AndersonLatifaNoor Elizabeth Anderson is a graduate of the Na Koja Abad Global Suluk Academy class, Vice President of the Music Activity for Oceania and the Americas, a Representative in the Inner School, Musical Representative, spiritual guide, retreat guide, and center leader for the Light of Harmony Center, Inayatiyya of Dobbs Ferry. She is also a cellist and vocalist; her Indian raga studies inspired the CD LatifaNoor, a synthesis of Raga and Western classical music for cello, voice, and tampura. As a cellist she has toured China, Japan, Mexico, Italy, England, Germany, Finland, Australia, Israel, India, and the US with the Meliora and Cassatt String Quartets and with the New York City Opera. She has recorded for Telarc, Nonesuch, and RCA and her next recordings will feature sacred vocal music for retreat.
When not traveling for concerts or leading alchemical singing retreats, LatifaNoor loves walking in nature with her basset hound Ruby, cooking for family and friends, and knitting socks.
