Speakers

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  Devi Tide
  

  Devi Tide

  Devi 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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  Raqib Misha Kogan M.D.
  

  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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  Jessica Bromby
  

  Jessica Bromby

  Jessica Bromby has had her home healing practice called Hearthaven for over 25 years. She offers healing retreats in her Home or on zoom remotely. She guides and organizes individual or group retreats and programs locally or online globally. She teaches the Awakened Healer class with Devi Tide and is helping to teach the Healing retreat guide training with Devi, Sarmad, Gayatri and Jamila this coming year. She’s a Shafayat, Healing Cherag , Ziraat Farmer, Raphaelite Healer and healing retreat guide. She is a zikr leader and offers zikrs monthly. She is also a certified dance leader in the dances of universal peace, a representative in the Inayatiyya as well as friend of all Sufi orders and friends of all of creation. Jessica teaches children at her local school, Mangrove community school, in Florida. She also guides a rights of passage group for young teens called Daughters of the Earth. She is Canadian raised on a farm in rural Quebec, avid traveler ~ globe trotter, now living in Florida with her two cats Bibi and Mani and husband Akbar by the Gulf of Mexico in their jungle home Kalama.

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  Nur Alima Smith
  

  Nur Alima Smith

  Nur Alima Smith is a Shafayat, a Cherag, a Healing Conductor and a Raphaelite Healer in the Inayatiyya Healing Activity. She is adept with various breathing techniques, having studied this for 35 years. Nur Alima brings the Inayati philosophy and practices to the community groups. She has run many trainings for staff and volunteers in Hospice and multiple Veteran Organizations focusing on these techniques and how to heal oneself with the breath. Since 2015 Nur Alima has also led a weekly meditation group for Veterans who have PTSD. Her additional work with the Veteran Community includes teaching meditation and relaxation techniques to those on active duty about to be deployed and those who have just returned from combat. She also leads a monthly meditation session for Hospice volunteers and staff.Nur Alima serves on the Inayatiyya Healing steering committee, and lives in Syracuse, New York.

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  Sitara Mitten-Lewis
  

  Sitara Mitten-Lewis

  Sitara Mitten-Lewis founded the first Sufi Order center in Sydney, Australia in the 1990’s and served as Regional Representative for Australia until 2010. As a Senior Teacher, she also serves as a Shafayat in the Healing Activity and a Mentor in the Dances of Universal Peace. She coordinated the Inayati Order Leaders Training Committee from 2010-15 and helped develop the training module on Sacred Sound. She guides murids and offers retreats and workshops on meditation, music and movement in the US, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

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  Ushi Darena Burgess
  

  Ushi Darena Burgess

  Ushi Darena Burgess is a long-time murid in the Inayatiyya. She grew up in small towns in the forests of the rural Pacific Northwest.
  A deep longing brought her to this spiritual path and the Inayatiyya. She is a Shafayat in the Healing Activity, a Cherag in the Universal Worship, and served on the national Board for five years. She brings spirituality into the world in a very real way, with clarity, acts of kindness, compassion and heart.
  Her career spanned decades of public service. Currently, she co-leads Wings of the Message Sufi Center in Seattle, Washington and facilitates a weekly Healing Service for the World. She acknowledges the interconnectedness of all humanity with the biosphere, and includes a global perspective in all her work.

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  Hakku Ron Rivard
  

  Hakku Ron Rivard

  Hakku Ron Rivard was born and raised in Wyoming in a devout Catholic family. Mystical experiences began in childhood and have continued into adulthood. His relationship with the Beloved has run the gamut from extremely rocky to deeply embracing. Through it all, Love has prevailed. Hakku was a counselor for 25 years. An initiate in the Inayatiyya since 1987, he has experience as a Healing Conductor and Healing Retreat Guide. He has a deep kinship with other Sufi orders and spiritual paths. Hakku has a range of experiences with Light for healing and
  illumination. Hakku brings these experiences to his work within the Essential Healing Practices, and into his own seeking on the Path of Love and Light.

• Sarmad Michael Tide
  Sarmad Michael Tide

  Sarmad Michael Tide, an initiate since 1982, is a senior teacher, representative, retreat guide in the Inner School. He is a Cherag, a Ziraat farmer, and a Shafayat and healing retreat guide. in the Healing Activity. He has been a center leader in Seattle and at the Abode. He was employed by the Sufi Order (now Inayatiyya), editing and publishing twelve booklets of Pir Vilayat’s teaching, editing and publishing the Heart and Wings newsletter, producing promotional materials, and was the Creative director for Elixir magazine. He served as activities director for Pir Vilayat’s camps and seminars, and was chairperson of the Jamiat Am from 1991 to 2006. He is also a certified Dances of Universal Peace leader. He is graced with barakat connections with the Ruhaniat, Mevlevi and Rifai orders. He is currently active in online teaching and mentoring, guiding retreats, and training Healing Retreat guides. He resides with his wife, Devi Tide, in Seattle.

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  Avalon Gallien
  

  Avalon Gallien

  Avalon Gallien is a Senior Teacher in the Inayatiyya, a Shefayat and Conductor in the Healing Order, Retreat Guide, and a dedicated student of the Divine Light found in life, in healing, in the world, and as an integral, dynamic, component of our own beings. Avalon and her husband Wajid founded Wings of the Message Center – Inayatiyya/Seattle over 30 years ago and continue to offer and sponsor online classes, personal and group spiritual/alchemical retreats, Zikr gatherings, and community gatherings in the Puget Sound area of Washington. Avalon is a retired Hospice Social Worker/MSW, and is now a busy volunteer, sings in a choir, and has recently discovered her artist within.