The Mysticism of Sound, Harmony and Healing
A Four Week Course, Tuesdays in October 2025
October 7th, 14th, 21th, 28th, from 2:00 – 3:15 pm ET / 8:00 – 9:15 pm CET
You are invited to join Tarana, Sharif Matthews, Saki Lee, Fereshta Bechtloff and LatifaNoor in harmonizing our hearts with sound, and further exploring Hazrat Inayat Khan’s The Mysticism of Sound. This class will offer an opportunity for inner listening, reading, suhbat, and experiencing sacred sound practices including the prayers of Hazrat Inayat Khan set to music. Whether you are a practicing musician, or your life is your music, you are welcome to join us! This course is open to all.
DATES & THEMES
- October 7, 2pm ET/8pm CET, Tarana Jobin, Harmony
- October 14, 2pm ET/8pm CET, Sharif Matthews, The Music of the Spheres
- October 21, 2pm ET/8pm CET, Saki Lee, The Spiritual Significance of Sound and Color
- October 28, 2pm ET/8pm CET, Fereshta Bechtloff, The Healing Power of Music
We will be reading from The Mysticism of Sound, the Centennial Edition, Volume II, but do bring any other edition you have. Your participation in the class is very welcome!
DETAILS
Translation will be provided in French and German.
There are two tuition options: $60 ($15/class) or $48 ($8/class). If you miss a class, video will be made available a day or two after each session.
If you have questions about the content of the course, please email music@inayatiyya.org. Questions about registration, payments, and logistical details may be sent to astana@inayatiyya.org.
Speakers
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Tarana JobinTarana Jobin is the Inayatiyya’s Music Director and Emeritus Vice President of its Music Activity. Professionally, she has a long career as an opera conductor and continues to freelance professionally. As a student of Sufism since 2010, and graduate of Sulūk Academy, she is dedicated to reviving and sharing the musical legacy of Hazrat Inayat Khan with all who find a home in his teachings.
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Saki LeeSaki Lee is a senior teacher and guide in the Inayatiyya and is a long time practitioner and wellness coach in East Asian medicine. Sacred music is her joy and delight, and she is a dance leader and mentor for the Dances of Universal Peace. In the Netherlands she co-hosts regular Music of Life programs featuring world music concerts as a way to inspire and awaken awareness of humankind’s oneness beyond boundaries of race, culture and religion.
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Fereshta BechtloffFor Fereshta Heidelind Bechtloff, one of the most beautiful paths to the One is music, and she loves being led on her path by these sounds that come from the source of the eternal being. She plays the piano, sang in various choirs, and was introduced to Indian classical singing by Sri Karunamayee Abrol in Delhi, where she was able to immerse in a whole new universe of music. Currently, she loves to improvise freely out of silence together with another musician. In the Inayatiyya she is initiated as a cherag and representative, and she is a member of the German Message Council for the Music Activity. In her professional life she works as a psychotherapeutic doctor in an psychosomatic clinic in southern Germany.
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Sharif MatthewsSharif Matthews is a musician and Coordinator in the Inayatiyya. First drawn to the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan through The Mysticism of Sound and Music while studying jazz trumpet and classical piano at DePaul University, he later deepened his connection through classes in Boston and a retreat led by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. Initiated in 2014, he has served as music director for the Light of Guidance Center in New York, supporting classes and occasional retreats. Trained as a composer, Sharif holds degrees in jazz and classical composition from New England Conservatory in Boston, where he studied with Bob Brookmeyer, Lee Hyla, Anthony Coleman, and Ra Kalam Bob Moses. His early work was performed by ensembles including the Minnesota Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra. He has set a number of Hazrat Inayat Khan’s prayers and texts to music and, after years working outside of music, is quietly returning to composition with a focus on devotional and contemplative forms.
