Roving the Riverbeds
Ten Valleys on the Path to Awakening

With Pir Zia Inayat Khan

Saturday, November 7, 2026 via Zoom
11:00 am – 4:00 pm EST (New York)

Overview

You are warmly invited to spend a day with Pir Zia, continuing the journey through the stations of the path. All are welcome, whether or not you’ve joined Pir Zia on this journey before.

Wadis are undulating valleys and ravines carved into a landscape by the action of floodwater following rain. In the wadis of the pilgrim’s journey, the flow of luminous waves emanating from inner realms lays bare a sequence of paths toward the object of the quest: illumination.

The wadis are named the practice of beauty (ihsan), knowledge (‘ilm), wisdom (hikma), insight (basira), intuition (firasa), exaltation (ta’zim), inspiration (ilham), serenity (sakina), tranquility (tuma’nina), and aspiration (himma).

In this one-day retreat, through reflection, meditation, and the invocation of Divine Names we will rove the riverbeds where the living Earth and the ever-transforming self coincide in a geography of awakening.

Everyone is welcome — this is an open program for people at every stage on the spiritual path of Sufism. To accommodate a variety of languages, there will be German, French, and Turkish translation.

Details

Our retreat is on Saturday, November 7, 2026, in three sessions of an hour and fifteen minutes with breaks between, beginning at 11:00 am EST (New York) / 5:00 pm CET (Paris) and ending at 4:00 pm EST / 10:00 pm CET. Please check your local time here.

There are three tuition options to meet all needs:

• Supporter: $80. If you’re able to give a little more, this helps sustain the program and the wider work of the Inayatiyya.
• Standard: $60. Our suggested level.
• Limited Income: $40. If the standard level is a stretch.

Scholarships are available — please email astana@inayatiyya.org before registering.

With advance registration, both the video and the audio will be made available afterward, so you can experience the retreat at any time.

We warmly encourage participation in real time together, with cameras on, to grow our collective attunement and to be present to one another within our tariqa — the Inayatiyya Sufi school of wisdom.

Zoom will open 15 minutes before our start time, allowing us to center and find ourselves internally and within the digital space. A reminder and the Zoom link will be sent a few days before, and again on the day of the retreat.

Please contact astana@inayatiyya.org with any questions about this one-day program.

Schedule