Seven Supports for Meditation
A 6 Week Course w/ Amida Cary & Jacob Miraj Dominicus
Thursdays, April 13th – May 18th, 2023
11:00 am – 12:15 pm EST (New York); 5:00 – 6:15 pm CET (Paris)
One’s attitude is the secret of life, for it is upon one’s attitude that success and failure depend. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Meditative practice is central to the Sufi path of inner attainment. And yet, maintaining a high-quality, consistent, rewarding practice can be challenging. If we manage to find time, our practice may be filled with mind-wandering, boredom, tiredness, lack of intention, and conceptualizations, among other detractors. This situation can be frustrating when we either know or sense that our meditative practice could be filled with a vast, clear, focused mind and a heart flowing with profound love, joy, and peace. To attain a successful practice one’s attention toward one’s attitude is paramount.
How do we close the gap between our aspiration and the actual condition in which we might find ourselves?
The Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan offers guidance on pursuing and reaching spiritual goals. In this six-week course, we will focus on seven qualities that directly support the cultivation and maintenance of a high-quality meditation practice: Desire, Renunciation, Receptivity, Commitment, Reverence, Intelligence, and Trust.
Hazrat Inayat Khan offers an eighth quality that must be present in all life’s activities: Balance.
Together, these qualities allow us to diagnose and tune our meditation practice to our aspiration and achieve our heart’s spiritual longing.
This six-week series is led by Inner School Vice Presidents Amida Cary & Jacob Miraj Dominicus.
Classes are on Thursdays, April 13th, 20th, 27th, May 4th, 11th & 18th from 11:00 -12:15 pm New York Time, 5:00 – 6:15 pm Central Europe Time.
The Seven Supports for Meditation is open to anyone with sincere interest.
This course requires advanced registration and provides video recordings if you are unable to attend every class. A suggested tuition of $72 ($12 per class) is recommended for the whole course and a reduced tuition price of $48 ($8 per class). Attending all sessions is recommended, but all are welcome to join at any time throughout the course.
If you have questions about the content of the course, please email innerschool@inayatiyya.org. Questions about registration, payments, and logistical details may be sent to astana@inayatiyya.org.
Speakers
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Amida CaryAmida Cary is Director of the Inayatiyya’s Retreat Concentration in North America and its Retreat Guide Training Program, working in concert with an international network of experienced retreat guides and trainee mentors. Her primary focus is encouraging all involved to enter the transformative depths of the retreat process. Amida is an experienced retreat guide herself and has worked closely with Pir Vilayat, Aziza Scott, and Pir Zia. She is a founder of Suluk Academy and has served as Suluk faculty. Amida lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Jacob Miraj DominicusJacob Miraj Dominicus helps people deepen their meditative practice. Jacob has been a murid of the Inayatiyya since 1997, served on the Inayati Order Board of Trustees under Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and Pir Zia Inayat Khan, and helped start Suluk Academy serving as its inaugural administrator. In 2007, he graduated from Suluk’s Kafur class. Since 2015 Jacob has co-led retreats with Gulrukh Patel at the Zenith Institute in Switzerland. He currently serves as the co-Madar-ul-Muham of Inayatiyya Inner School (Oceania and North America). Professionally, he consults with corporate teams and teaches meditation. Jacob holds a B.A. from NYU in Organizational Behavior, Narrative Theory, and Mysticism and has been a Visiting Scholar at NYU Tisch’s Interactive Communications Program (ITP). He lives in Los Angeles, where he studies the Chinese martial arts of Xingyi and Bagua and lives with his wife, daughter, and two cats.