What is the experience of Oneness? When does our essential nature show itself? How do we become Oneness in everyday life? 

At this one-day gathering, including meditation, teachings, ritual, and music, we will experiment with the concept and experience of Oneness. As part of this unique day, Pir Zia welcomes special guest Yuval Ron for a concert of Middle Eastern Sufi music. You can read more about Yuval below.  

If you would like to attend the concert with Yuval Ron online, you can register for it here. 

SCHEDULE

Please know that we might tweak the schedule a bit as we get closer to our gathering. Start and end times will remain the same.

• • 9:30 am – 10:00 am: Doors Open
  • 10:00 am – 11:00 am: Oneness w/ Pir Zia 
  • 11:00 am – 11:30 am: Tea Break
  • 11:30 am – 12:30 pm: Oneness w/ Pir Zia
  • 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: Luncheon
  • 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm: Oneness w/ Pir Zia 
  • 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm: Tea Break
  • 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm: One Soul—Ruh Wahida: A Concert w/ Yuval Ron 
  • 6:00 pm: Goodbyes

LOGISTICS

Our program is designed so that you can easily make a day trip out of it if you live in the region. We invite our friends from every distance to come lean into Oneness. 

Tuition for the day is $50 including refreshments, lunch and the concert. It is $35 for those on a limited income and/or students currently enrolled in school.

You can find details about travel, parking, accommodations, and local restaurants at astanarva.org. As you make your plans, please send any questions to astana@inayatiyya.org. 

BIOGRAPHIES

Pir Zia Inayat Khan, PH.D., 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 Immortality: A Traveler’s Guide; Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan with a Critical Commentary by Pir Zia Inayat Khan; Mingled Waters: Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions; and Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and the Mystical Quest. He is editor of Caravan of Souls: An Introduction to the Sufi Path of Hazrat Inayat Khan and A Pearl in Wine: Essays in the Life, Music and Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Pir Zia divides his time between Richmond, Virginia and Suresnes, France.

Yuval Ron is one of the most prolific presenters of Sufi music in the United States. He offers passionate, soulful and devotional Sufi sacred music arranged for the Middle Eastern lute, known as the oud. Contemplative, meditative and deeply moving, his concerts showcase the various expressive sounds of the oud, an ancient biblical instrument that was used to inspire prophets and poets.

Yuval is an award-winning composer, record producer, touring and performance artist, peace activist, a story teller, author and educator, who began playing the oud with the Bedouin tribes in the Sinai desert. Later on, he worked with Turkish, Iraqi, Palestinian and Armenian master-musicians. His style of playing is also influenced by Gypsy-Flamenco, Andalusian, Blues and Jazz music. Yuval was invited to perform meditative music for the Dalai Lama and the Sufi Sheikh Sidi Muhammad, and has collaborated with numerous master musicians including Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Sukhawat Ali Khan, Khawaja Ehrari, Estrella Morente, Deva Premal, and with the Zen Buddhist priest and master artist Hirokazu Kosaka. yuvalron.com