Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz

Self-Protection and our Spiritual Immune System (all-school class)

Hazrat Inayat Khan speaks of the importance of recognizing and dealing with “mental-emotional viruses,” which he calls muwakkils. Dealing with these, which surround us via the media, internet, and the emotional atmosphere of modern life is one of the most important healing issues today. To this we will add lessons and practices on self-protection—establishing healthy boundaries by boosting our spiritual immune system. We will also dive into accounts of Jesus’ healing and the practices he uses, viewed from Aramaic. Updating these teachings for today, we will explore other tools for psychic and spiritual self-defense, all of which can lead us from perceived difficulties to the ease of a deeper connection to our heart and soul-nature.

Alima Silke

Rhythms of Life – In Tune with the Seasons within and around us

In nature, the great breath of life unfolds in cycles of growth and decay, light and darkness, fullness and stillness. In this class, we attune to the seasons – both around us and within. Through Sufi-inspired practices, and nature atunements, we reconnect with the rhythms that flow through all life. When we once again entrust ourselves to these rhythms and cycles, we strengthen our vitality and sense the wisdom inherent in change. An invitation to remember that we belong to the great cycle, with life breathing in us and through us.

Brita Baraka & Hauke Jelaluddin

The boundless power of the heart

Our heart truly has boundless power, if we allow it. Discord, fear, and worry often lead us to want to protect and close it off. But with love and compassion, we can reopen this protective shell around our heart. Let us unfold the boundless power of the heart together — for healing, forgiveness, and peace — inside and out. The walking meditations of the symbols and the “walks of the healer” help us build heart resilience. Also with other Sufi exercises, meditation, healing service, and Sufi Soulwork—for a “living heart awakening,” as Samuel Lewis describes it. 

Jean-Pierre Salik David

Tuning toward the heart for grounding, healing and remembering the One

 Practice becomes an anchor in our heart to stay in the centre of the circle of life that pulls us in all directions. The remembrance of the divine presence will be done over the week with deeper understanding of all the elements associated with it, including rhythm, tone, posture, symbology and visualization. This is the Zikr of Hazrat Inayat Khan as he played it nightly to his children before bedtime.

The practice of the prayer Nayaz will be shared to show the way to seek vital energy from the spheres themselves, going back to the source and the One. The soul is the divine breath, and Nayaz was called the path itself by Murshid SAM.

We will also do the purification healing breaths and share original dances of universal peace from Murshid SAM. 

Raaja Hakim

Healing Songs: Singing Towards the One

In this class I will offer a variety of Sacred Songs and singing Zikr. They range from a simple mantric style up to 4-part harmonies. The music consists mainly of original compositions inspired by my spiritual practices with a focus on Sufi contents or Aramaic words of Jesus (Yeshua). Also some of Nickomo´s Harmonic Temple songs as well as other Heart Songs might be presented.

The main focus this year is on Healing Songs.

Rafia Sieglin

Surah Fateha – Opening to Healing, Unity, and the Power of Love

This powerful prayer helps us to align ourselves with God/Allah and connects us with the all-encompassing power of love of the divine being, Reality itself.

We get in touch with the individual lines of this first Surah, in meditation, body awareness, chant, and movement. Through this, our confidence and trust in our connection to divine guidance is strengthened. Beautiful Names, Dances of Universal Peace, Sufi practices, being together and sharing will also support our journey.

Rahmana Dziubany

Landscapes of Our Soul – Feminine Sources of Wisdom and Healing Through the Ages

On every life’s path, the landscape of the individual soul reveals itself. We tune into the timeless stories of great women – their qualities of mastery and their human nature. What is the secret of their greatness, embodiment, and spiritual vitality? Were their life and work influenced by the landscapes of their external world?

Umm Salama, Rabia, Nur-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, Ruth St. Denis. We make ourselves receptive to the flow of blessings from these souls through the Beautiful Names, body prayers, walking, and nature meditations, Soulwork and of course, Dances of Universal Peace  with a focus on the Native Middle Eastern Cycle.

As always, the landscape around the Proitzer Mill will be a central part of our meditation practice – the mill waters, the ancient trees, and the wide horizon of the fields.

Tara Andrea and Maboud Charles

Portals of Potential: The Healing Alchemy of the Beautiful Names

Together we will attune to the 99 Beautiful Names (asma ul husna) as referred to in Sufi traditions. In this offering we will cultivate a relationship with this type of prayerful attunement through original Dances of Universal Peace and body prayers, guided and silent meditations, intonation of the Beautiful Names, and group sharing.

We engage with the mystery of a Unifying Higher Power in this to experience the Names as living archetypal energies of our potential for healing and wholeness. Each Name contains qualities or attributes that may release us from the limitations, wounds and defensive patterns of our ego-self and liberate the energies of our soul-self or true self. In this way we may be able to live with greater honesty, vulnerability, authenticity and loving kindness.

Glen Unmana

Doorways to Reality (early morning class)

“Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think “I am”, and add nothing to it. Be aware of the stillness that follows the “I am”. Sense your presence, the naked unveiled, unclothed Beingness. It is the spacious womb of all creation, all form.” ― Ramana Maharshi

In this morning meditation class Glen will offer anchoring practices to guide us into the silent depths of our Being. Working with breath, chanting, chakras, body prayer and our own simple “I Am-ness” these practices drawn from the non-dual Advaita Vedanta, Kashmiri Shaivism and other traditions will take us beyond the fluctuations of the mind to a direct encounter with the timeless lifespring within. Among treasures we will draw inspiration from are the Upanishads and the Vijñāna-bhairava-tantra, a famous 1,400 year old scripture presenting 112 methods of meditation that reveal the true nature of Reality.

Khabir Wali

Early Morning Sufi Practice Class

“Breath is the principal and essential power that can help in healing.

“Breath is the bridge between body and soul.

“Breath is the link between visible and invisible life.

“The whole universe is rhythm, and man himself is rhythm. When the rhythm of breath is in harmony, the whole being is in tune.”  — Hazrat Inayat Khan

In this morning class, we start the day by consciously turning to our breath and prayer, and thus to our own rhythm, in order to experience it from day to day more and more easily, simply, and deeply — so that healing could happen.