Speakers

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  Cofe Inayat Fiakpui
  

  Cofe Inayat Fiakpui

  Cofe Inayat Fiakpui, who is of Ghanaian heritage, has been immersed in the Eastern traditions of mysticism, music, and healing for 26 years. He owns and runs an internationally renowned healing center in Mexico (Cofethehealer.com), where radiant and sound frequencies are used to heal many conditions. He leads Sound Healing Journeys with his wife, Ishi Nili, and they offer their music at ceremonies and spiritual events. He has performed with his group, Indigo Triangle, in the World Sacred Music Festival in Los Angeles and the Million More March in Washington, D.C.

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  LatifaNoor Anderson
  

  LatifaNoor Anderson

  LatifaNoor Elizabeth Anderson is a graduate of the Na Koja Abad Global Suluk Academy class, Vice President of the Music Activity for Oceania and the Americas, a Representative in the Inner School, Musical Representative, spiritual guide, retreat guide, and center leader for the Light of Harmony Center, Inayatiyya of Dobbs Ferry. She is also a cellist and vocalist; her Indian raga studies inspired the CD LatifaNoor, a synthesis of Raga and Western classical music for cello, voice, and tampura. As a cellist she has toured China, Japan, Mexico, Italy, England, Germany, Finland, Australia, Israel, India, and the US with the Meliora and Cassatt String Quartets and with the New York City Opera. She has recorded for Telarc, Nonesuch, and RCA and her next recordings will feature sacred vocal music for retreat.
  When not traveling for concerts or leading alchemical singing retreats, LatifaNoor loves walking in nature with her basset hound Ruby, cooking for family and friends, and knitting socks.

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  Ishi Nili
  

  Ishi Nili

  Ishi Nili was born in Mexico. She studied psychology, dance therapy, body psychology, and deep tissue massage in Mexico, Argentina, and California. In India, she studied Khatak dance and Indian classical music. She has also studied Waldorf pedagogy and Anthroposophy and is the mother of 4 children. As a doula, she has accompanied many women in preparation for natural conscious births. Together with her husband, Cofe Inayat, she has guided circles of sound and healing through music. For her, music and dance are sacred arts that allow us to connect with The One. She is currently studying in the Inayatiyya Leadership Program, giving a monthly class on meditación with the aim of opening an Inayatiyya center in Mexico.

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  Hormoz Etemad
  

  Hormoz Etemad

  Hormoz is a student of the heart, drawn to the way music can gently lead us into remembrance and healing. With roots in Persian mystical traditions and the Indigenous heritage of Southern Iran, he feels a natural connection to the universal teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, where sound and silence are understood as paths of connection. His journey weaves together counselling studies, creative expression, and Sufi practice, guided by a wish to serve through presence, listening, and care. He approaches music with gratitude, seeing it as a way to bring people together in a shared spirit of love and unity. Hormoz lives and works at the Sharda Centre, a place dedicated to the Sufi path of Love, Harmony, and Beauty.

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  Hayat Nancy Kennedy
  

  Hayat Nancy Kennedy

  Hayat Nancy Kennedy has been a student of Sufism and the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan since 2009. She was initiated into the Inner School of the Inayatiyya by Pir Zia Inayat Khan in 2013 and is a graduate of the Suluk Academy, Jabalqa Class. Hayat is a Co-leader and Representative at the Light of Harmony Sufi Center in Dobbs Ferry, NY, is a Retreat Guide, has received the accolade “Knight of Purity” from the Knighthood of Purity Activity, and is blessed also to be a Representative in the Music Activity of the Inayatiyya.
  Hayat is a jazz pianist, teacher, composer and improviser, and feels blessed to have a life and career exploring and creating music and working with her many beloved students. She is native to the San Francisco Bay Area, and is a graduate of Mills College, B.A. in Music, and New England Conservatory M.M. in Jazz Studies. She was awarded an Artists Fellowship in Music Composition from The New York Foundation for the Arts. Hayat loves traveling to new places, hiking above 8,000 feet, cooking and sharing food with dear loved ones and long walks with her husband and dog Theo.