The Art of Suluk: Cultivating Moral Culture in Everyday Life
A Four-Part Monthly Journey into the Teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Thursdays, February 13th, March 13th, April 10th & May 8th, 2025
2:00 – 3:15 pm ET (New York) / 8:00 – 9:15 pm CET (Paris)
Explore the transformative practice of Suluk, or moral culture, as taught by Hazrat Inayat Khan. This four-part monthly series offers a unique opportunity to align your inner life with divine principles and bring harmony, compassion, and integrity into your daily actions.
Through contemplative practices, reflective discussions, and actionable tools, this course will guide you in:
- Refining the ego to foster humility and inner freedom.
- Cultivating virtues like kindness, patience, and gratitude.
- Balancing spiritual ideals with the responsibilities of daily life.
- Integrating selfless service as a way of living in harmony with others.
Whether you are beginning your journey or deepening your practice, this course offers a space to connect with timeless wisdom and practical approaches for cultivating moral strength.
Session 1: The Foundation of Moral Culture
Discover Suluk as a practice of aligning your inner self with divine harmony, building a foundation for spiritual growth.
Session 2: The Discipline of the Ego
Explore how surrendering selfishness and embracing humility can bring freedom and strength to your spiritual journey.
Session 3: The Practice of Virtues
Learn how cultivating virtues like patience and forgiveness creates a garden of the soul, fostering resilience and harmony.
Session 4: Living Suluk in the World
Integrate Suluk into daily life through acts of service, aligning spiritual ideals with worldly responsibilities.
Step into the art of Suluk and discover how moral culture can transform your daily life into an expression of divine harmony and love. Join us for this journey of refinement and connection with the timeless teachings of the Inayatiyya tradition.
Amida Cary and Jacob Dominicus, Inner School Vice Presidents for North America & Oceania, are our faculty. This program is designed as a stand-alone course and also as an introduction to Suluk Academy, with a new two-year class beginning September 2025. All are welcome to this six-part mini-series!
Our program gathers monthly on Thursdays, February 13, March 13, April 10 & May 8, 2025. This series is in English only.
There are two tuition options: $60 ($15/class) or $40 ($10/class). If you miss a class, video will be made available a day or two after each session.Â
If you have questions about this program, please email us at astana@inayatiyya.org.Â
Speakers
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Amida CaryAmida Cary is Director of the Inayatiyyaâs 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.