Inayatiyya Healing Retreat 2021
October 14th – 17th, 2021
Healing practices support people in times of great change. They can also expand our capacity to serve humanity and the world. Over four days, Pir Zia, Devi Tide, Amina Feliou & Raqib Misha Kogan will explore practices for renewal, deep connection with the Divine, and expressions of Divine Healing power in everyday life.
The first two days of this retreat are open to Shafayats (senior teachers) and active Healing Conductors in the Inayatiyya Healing Activity. The second two days are open to everyone – to all those interested in healing.
Part I: Shafayats, October 14 & 15, 2021
Part II: Everyone, October 16 & 17, 2021
We will meet each day from 1 pm to 4:30 pm Eastern Time (New York Time), with a half-hour break in between two sessions. Pir Zia will teach the first session each day, for approximately one hour and fifteen minutes. Please see the sidebar for the time in your local area.
On Sunday, October 17th, from 3-4:30 pm ET, we will join Pir Zia’s Nature Meditations class w/ special guest, the Jungian analyst and author, Sylvia Perera. The class theme will be “The Mother.”
Tuition for each two-day part of the retreat is $85 or $45 if you are on a more limited income. The cost of the full four-day retreat, designed for leaders within the Inayatiyya Healing Activity, is $150 or $90.
If you have questions about the retreat’s content, please email healing@inayatiyya.org. Any questions about registration, logistics, scholarships, and/or technology may be sent to astana@inayatiyya.org.
Speakers
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Devi TideDevi Tide is the Kefayat (Head) and Vice President of the Sufi Healing Order in North America, New Zealand and Australia. She has over thirty years of experience as a teacher of healing and the esoteric sciences, bringing the qualities of wisdom, heart, subtlety, humor, and intelligence to her role. Devi has contributed to and offered programs in India, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America. In her seminars, public speaking, and individual sessions and retreats, Devi represents the inner vitality and harmony of the body, mind and spirit, the vitality of our interconnected world, as well as personal transformation.
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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
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Raqib Misha Kogan M.D.Raqib Misha Kogan, M.D. received his medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine. He’s the medical director of the GW Center for Integrative Medicine and associate professor of medicine in the division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at George Washington University. Raqib has been on the Sufi path since 2001 and is a Conductor in the Inayatiyya Healing Activity. Together with his wife Rafia, he completed Suluk training in 2007. Raqib has been working closely with Devi Tide and other Healing Activity leaders for over 10 years and has assisted in organizing and running many annual Leadership Retreats. Raqib’s goal is to bring healing wisdom and practices of the Inayatiyya to more people, especially those who are vulnerable. To achieve this goal, Raqib founded AIM Health Institute, a non-profit organization in the Washington, D.C. area that provides integrative medicine services to low-income and terminally ill patients regardless of their ability to pay.
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Amina Georgia FeliouAmina Georgia Feliou is the Kefayat and Emeritus Vice President of the Inayatiyya Healing (IH) for Europe and Pakistan. She is the leader of the IH in Athens, Greece and a representative for the Inayatiyya Inner School. She is a psychotherapist following Murshid’s path since 2008. Before working as a psychotherapist, she was working for more than 10 years at the United Nations and in particular the United Nations Information Center for Greece, Cyprus and Israel, stationed in Athens, Greece. She has studied philosophy, psychology, psychotherapy, and library and information science. She enjoys swimming, hiking and practicing fascia exercises. She is dedicated to the service of fellow human beings, non-human friends and Mother Earth to the best of her abilities.
