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The Path of the Healer
Transforming the Inner & Outer Life – Sufi Healing Retreat 2024
Sufi Healing Leaders Training—Thursday, October 17th & Friday, October 18th
Sufi Healing Retreat Open to All—Saturday, October 19th & Sunday, October 20th

On behalf of the Inayatiyya Healing Activity, we kindly invite you to join us for our annual Sufi Healing Retreat—The Path of the Healer: Transforming the Inner & Outer Life. 

This retreat is based on the teachings of the Sufi musician and mystic, Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927) and is traditionally in two optional parts. This year the first two days, October 17th & 18th, are designed for Inayatiyya Healing Activity Leaders, and the second two days, October 19th & 20th, are held as a general healing retreat open to all. 

Faculty for this year’s program are from North America, Europe, and South Asia, and include Kafayat Amina Feliou (Greece), Shefayat Nur Alima Smith (United States), Shefayat Dr. Raqib Kogan (United States), Kafayat and Murshida Devi Tide (United States), Shefayat Qalbi Dominique Enjalbert (France), Shefayat Farzana Dalila-Boyle (England), Murshida Amat-un-Nur (Pakistan), Murshida Zumurrud Butta (Germany), Shefayat Jessica Bromby (United States), Nina Sufia El-Badry, & the Indigenous Grandmothers – Pershlie Ami (Hopi), Eila Jamia Haqq Paul (Maori), Moetu Taha (Maori), and Flordemayo Hall (Mayan).

Our draft schedule, likely to adjust itself between now and October, is shared below. We enthusiastically encourage you to attend our weekend public healing retreat and, if you are an appointed healing leader, the first two days for leaders, too. Registration is now open!

Please note that there will be translation from English into French and German. The full program is via Zoom, with the video recordings provided at the end of the program. 

R E G I S T R A T I O N  D E T A I L S

Advanced registration is required. Video recordings will be provided to all registrants after the retreat. The suggested tuition is $150 for the full four-day retreat (for designated Healing Activity leaders), and $95 for only Saturday and Sunday (open to all). Please see the sidebar to register.

Discounts are available for those from particular nations due to currency valuation. These nations include Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Turkiye. If your nation is listed, please contact your national representative for details. If you feel your nation should be listed, please email astana@inayatiyya.org.

Please contact us also at astana@inayatiyya.org with any questions about our two-part healing program. 

S C H E D U L E 

SUFI HEALING LEADERS TRAINING

October 17th & 18th, 2024

Thursday, October 17th (Healing Leaders Only) 

    • 12:00—12:15 pm ET Welcome w/ Inayatiyya Vice Presidents of Healing: Nur Alima Smith & Raqib Kogan (North America) & Amina Feliou (Europe)
    • 12:15—1:00 pm ET Deep Attunement w/ Devi Tide, Kafayat & Vice President Emeritus, United States
    • 1:00—1:15 pm ET Break
    • 1:15—2:00 pm ET Leaders Session One w/ Amina Feliou, Kafayat & Inayatiyya Vice President of Healing Europe
    • 2:00—2:30 pm ET Break w/ Optional Movement with Raqib Kogan
    • 2:30—3:15 pm ET Leaders Session Two w/ Shefayat Farzana Dalila-Boyle, United Kingdom
    • 3:15—4:00 pm ET Leader Session Three w/ Raqib Kogan & Nur Alima Smith, Inayatiyya Vice Presidents of Healing North America
    • 4:00—4:30 pm ET  Break
    • 4:30—5:30 pm ET Synthesis w/ Nur Alima Smith & Amina Feliou
    • 5:30—6:00 pm ET Day One Closing w/ Devi Tide, Kafayat, United States

Friday, October 18th (Healing Leaders Only)

    • 12:00—12:15 pm ET Day Two Opening w/ Nur Alima Smith & Raqib Kogan (North America) & Amina Feliou (Europe)
    • 12:15—1:15 pm ET Leaders Session Four w/ Qalbi Dominique Enjalbert, Shefayat, France
    • 1:15—1:30 pm ET Break
    • 1:30—2:15 pm ET     Leaders Session Five w/ Nur Alima Smith & Raqib Kogan, Inayatiyya Vice Presidents of Healing North America
    • 2:15—2:45 pm ET Stretch Break w/ Optional Movement with Sufia El-Badry
    • 2:45—4:15 pm ET Leaders Session Six w/ The Indigenous Grandmothers, from the Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand and North and Central America, and Devi Tide
    • 4:30—5:15 pm ET Jamila Cranston Buckley – meditation
    • 5:15—6:00 pm ET  Healing Leaders Training Closing w/Nur Alima Smith & Raqib Kogan (North America) & Amina Feliou (Europe)

SUFI HEALING RETREAT 2024

October 19th & 20th, 2024

Saturday, October 19th (Open to All)

    • 12:00—12:15 pm ET Welcome w/ Inayatiyya Vice Presidents of Healing: Nur Alima Smith & Raqib Kogan (North America) & Kafayat Amina Feliou (Europe)
    • 12:15—1:15 pm ET Peace & the Need for Harmony & the Kinship of Humanity w/ Murshida Amat-un-Nur (Pakistan)
    • 1:15—2:00 pm ET Sufi Healing Retreat Session One w/ Amina Feliou, Kafayat & Vice President of Healing Europe
    • 2:00—2:30 pm ET Stretch Break w/ Optional Movement with Sufi El-Badry
    • 2:30—3:30 pm ET Practices to Keep Yourself in Trim w/ Raqib Kogan & Nur Alima Smith, Inayatiyya Vice Presidents of Healing, North America
    • 3:30—3:45 pm ET Break
    • 3:45—5:15 pm ET Traditional Wisdom w/ The Grandmothers, from the Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand and North and Central America, and Devi Tide
    • 5:15—5:30 pm ET Day One Closing Session
    • 7:00—8:00 pm ET Joyful Music & Zikr w/ Jessica Bromby & Friends (Optionally Offered for the Americas & Oceania)

Sunday, October 20th (Open to All)

    • 9:30—9:45 am ET Opening w/ Nur Alima Smith, Amina Feliou & Raqib Kogan
    • 9:45—10:45 am ET Zumurrud Butta
    • 10:45—11:00 am ET Stretch Break w/ Optional Movement
    • 11:00—12:00 pm ET Suhbat 
    • 12:00—1:00 pm ET Healing Service & Retreat Closing w/ Devi Tide
    • 1:00—2:00 pm ET Break
    • 2:00—3:15 pm ET The Alchemy of Happiness w/ Pir Zia Inayat Khan*

*Enrollment in the Healing Activity Retreat includes a ticket and Zoom link for Pir Zia’s Sunday class that follows.

F A C U L T Y

  • Amina Feliou, Kefayat & Vice President of Healing Europe Emeritus (Greece)
  • Nur Alima Smith, Bayt-ul-Haram & Vice President of Healing North America (United States)
  • Dr. Raqib Kogan, Bayt-ul-Haram & Vice President of Healing North America (United States)
  • Murshida Devi Tide, Kafayat & Vice President of Healing Emeritus (United States)
  • Murshida Amat-un-Nur, Shefayat (Pakistan)
  • Murshida Zumurrud Butta (Germany)
  • Qalbi Dominique Enjalbert, Shefayat (France)
  • Farzana Dalila-Boyle,  Shefayat (England)
  • Shefayat Jessica Bromby (United States)
  • Nina Sufia El-Badry
  • The Grandmothers from the Indigenous Peoples (United States)

Date

Oct 17 - 20 2024

Local Time

  • Timezone: America/New_York
  • Date: Oct 17 - 20 2024

Cost

$50 - $150

Location

Zoom

Organizer

Language: English, German, French, Turkish

Speakers

  • 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. 

  • Jamia Haqq
    Jamia Haqq

    Jamia Haqq (Eila Paul) of Tainui descent has been walking a spiritual path all her life. Introduced to the Inayatiyya in 1997 she was soon initiated by the late Murshida Halima McEwan at the Sharda Centre, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Through her Maori heritage, having a strong connection with nature drew her to the Inayatiyya’s annual Summer Camp in Switzerland in 2002, where she was initiated into Ziraat by Pir Zia. In the last 15 years she has been a trustee, and at times custodian and kaitiaki/guardian, of the Sharda Centre, caring for the beautiful natural native forest, stream and visitors with an outward expression of her inner path.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Amina Georgia Feliou
    Amina Georgia Feliou

    Amina Georgia Feliou is the Kefayat and Emeritus Vice President of the Inayatiyya Healing (IH) for Europe and Pakistan. She is the leader of the IH in Athens, Greece and a representative for the Inayatiyya Inner School. She is a psychotherapist following Murshid’s path since 2008. Before working as a psychotherapist, she was working for more than 10 years at the United Nations and in particular the United Nations Information Center for Greece, Cyprus and Israel, stationed in Athens, Greece. She has studied philosophy, psychology, psychotherapy, and library and information science. She enjoys swimming, hiking and practicing fascia exercises. She is dedicated to the service of fellow human beings, non-human friends and Mother Earth to the best of her abilities.

  • Zumurrud Butta
    Zumurrud Butta

    Zumurrud Butta serves as Vice President of the Inner School of the Inayatiyya in Europe and leads the Inner School in Germany. She offers individual and group retreats and retreat guide training, has taught at Suluk Academy in North America and Europe and is serving on the Suluk Global Committee. Zumurrud teaches courses on Sufi mysticism in Europe and online, with a focus on the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Ibn ´Arabi and the female transmission of mysticism.

  • Farzana Dalila-Boyle
    Farzana Dalila-Boyle

    Farzana Dalila-Boyle has been on the endless path in the Inayatiyya for over 30 years. She serves as the UK Shefayat and as a representative in the UK Inner School. She has moved recently to Portugal, where she is leading solo and group retreats. She works a a transpersonal psychotherapist and combines different healing modalities, ceremonies and indigenous teachings in her work.. She is a retreat guide in the Inner School and on the retreat guide training with the Healing Activity in North America. The Dances of Universal Peace captured her heart for many decades and so she dances and is a certified leader in the dance network. Farzana is a mother and a grandmother. mariehelenedalilaboyle.com

  • Amat-un-Nur Hayat
    Amat-un-Nur Hayat

    Amat-un-Nur Hayat has been walking the Sufi Path of the Inayatiyya since 2004. She serves as a Regional Representative of South-East Asia, National Representative for Pakistan, and a Guide in the Inner School of the Inayatiyya. Additionally she is a Shefayat in the Inayatiyya Healing Activity. She has represented Sufi teachings as part of many international conferences and has led Sufi inner training and healing retreats.
    She lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan.

  • 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.

  • Sufia Nina El-Badry
    Sufia Nina El-Badry

    Sufia Nina El-Badry is a yoga teacher and certified trauma-sensitive meditation instructor. She has been practicing yoga all her life and teaching it for almost 20 years. Sufia’s journey as a dancer and the founder of Fluere dance company, instilled in her a deep understanding of movement, grace, and the mind-body connection. flueredance.com/nina

  • Qalbi Enjalbert
    Qalbi Enjalbert

    Qalbi Enjalbert is the Shefayat of Inayatiyya Healing in France and a representative of the Inner School of Inayatiyya-France. As a Jungian analyst, she accompanies people through the individuation process. As a psychologist in a hospital, she assists human beings at the end of their lives in their psychological and spiritual processes. She has taught these subjects at university and regularly offers training courses for a variety of audiences.