Speakers

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  Wali Via
  

  Wali Via

  Wali Via has been following the Sufi path since 1978 and serves a number of roles within the Inayatiyya, including as the current Vice President of Ziraat in North America. Wali has spent his adult life farming organically and biodynamically at a commercial scale. He is now retired from farming, though the farm continues on in good hands (wintergreenfarm.com). He spends as much time as he can in the wilderness, hiking, backpacking, climbing mountains, and kayaking, and playing with his grandchildren. Wali is dedicated to providing opportunities for people to deepen their spiritual lives including their relationship with the natural world to foster the Earth’s healing.

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  Mariam Mary Neil
  

  Mariam Mary Neil

  Mariam Mary Neil was Initiated by Pir Zia in 2016 and given the name Mariam by him.
  She is currently engaged with the online Suluk program. Within the Inayatiyya, she is a Coordinator, Cherag, and Healing Conductor. Mariam is involved with the Inner School, Healing Activity, Ziraat, Dances of Universal Peace, and the fledgling Music Activity in Australia. She is the mother of four and a grandmother of four, as well. She lives alone in close proximity to some Aussie bush. Her interests include music, gardening, poetry, and walking in nature.

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  Mumtaz Kammerer
  

  Mumtaz Kammerer

  Mumtaz Kammerer, a murid since 1976, lives in Baltimore, Maryland. He spreads the Message of Love, Harmony, and Beauty as a representative and guide of
  the Inayatiyya Inner School, the center leader for Sufi Order Baltimore, a
  Universal Worship siraj, a Sufi Healing Order conductor, a Ziraat farmer, a
  Knight of Purity, and a certified leader of the Dances of Universal Peace. He
  currently serves on the Universal Worship board of trustees and on the
  Knighthood Council, and formerly served on the board of trustees for Sufi
  Order International and the Abode of the Message. Retired from a career in
  management, Mumtaz enjoys spending time with his husband of 43 years,
  gardening, and volunteering as a docent at Evergreen Museum and Library.

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  Karima Hilary Parkinson
  

  Karima Hilary Parkinson

  Karima Hilary Parkinson has been blessed to live next to a nature reserve and near the ocean in Newcastle on the east coast of the vast land of Australia. She engages in the music of life in many different ways including being active in the Inayatiyya Sufi community which is very spread out across the continent, as well as being happily involved with family near and far which includes grandchildren ranging in age from seven months to 30 years.

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  Nirtana Vivienne Robertson
  

  Nirtana Vivienne Robertson

  Nirtana Vivienne Robertson is a Representative, Guide and Retreat Guide in the Inner School, a Healing Conductor, Sahabat as-Safa and leader of Dances of Universal Peace. She is dedicated to exploring the collaboration between Sufi and Indigenous ways, and co-leads Sufi/Indigenous retreats in the West Australian desert. She is also passionate about the arts, and creative director of Reclaim the Void: weaving country whole, which draws together Sufi, Indigenous and artistic threads in a collaborative act of apology to country (and its custodians) that has been impacted by mining.

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  Tasnim Stupac
  

  Tasnim Stupac

  Tasnim Stupac graduated from the Suluk Tuba class and since January 2023, serves as Vice President of the Inayatiyya Ziraat Activity in Europe. She studied history of Eastern Europe and slavistics and has worked with refugees and migrants for over 15 years. She is passionate about permaculture and gardening. Tasnim was born in Bosnia and Herzegowina and is now living in Switzerland.

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  Haqqiqa Noor Gail Stephenson
  

  Haqqiqa Noor Gail Stephenson

  Haqqiqa Noor is a Shafayat and holds the Healing Concentration for Australia.
  Driven by a passion to empower others to help themselves, Haqqiqa Noor taught yoga for 16 years in ashrams as well as in the wider community. More recently, having been present during the deaths of close family and friends over the years, she was led to volunteer in palliative support, trained as a death doula, and continued this work for 11 years. She feels privileged to be able to sit with people who have a life ending condition, in the sacredness that exists at that time. Haqqiqa Noor has a family of adult daughters and a newly adult granddaughter with whom she treasures spending joyful times and going on many adventures.

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  Nehmat Kyan
  

  Nehmat Kyan

  Nehmat Kyan was initiated as an Experienced Farmer by Pir Zia in January 2023 and has held the Ziraat Activity for the Australian Message Council since 2011. She has been involved in Inayatiyya activities for nearly 20 years, and is a graduate of the Alif and Na-koja-abad Suluk classes. She lives near Canberra, and brings the Australian Ziraat family and friends together once a month for a Lodge by zoom, sharing her love of nature, contemplation of the elements and natural cycles of life and inner guidance from elemental beings, with a uniquely Australian flavour.

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  Abdul Hakim Oerton
  

  Abdul Hakim Oerton

  Abdul Hakim Oerton is a Representative and Siraj living in the leafy Adelaide Hills of South Australia. He was initiated into the Ziraat activity twenty years ago and participates in the Oceania Ziraat events while ploughing in the inner and in the family garden. His work background includes many years as a registered psychiatric nurse and then as a spiritual care provider in mostly institutional settings. He and his partner share a love of nature’s abundance and divine immanence in all its manifestation.

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  Aqila (Margie) Moore
  

  Aqila (Margie) Moore

  Aqila (Margie) Moore has been involved in meditation and yoga since the 1960’s, with Sufi practices and Dances of Universal Peace since the 1990s and was initiated into the Inayatiyya in 2019. She has focused on trainings and development within that order since then, across a broad range of concentrations. She is a graduate of the Suluk Na-koja-abad class. She lives on a rural property outside Brisbane in Eastern Australia.