Inayatiyya Labor Day Retreat w/ Pir Zia Inayat Khan
Claymont Retreat Center, Charles Town, West Virginia
September 2nd to 5th, 2022 
Registration Deadline Extended to Tuesday, August 23rd
Please join us for our Inayatiyya Labor Day Retreat w/ Pir Zia! Our three-day program will be half silent retreat and half shared teachings and community time. We still have space available with registration extended through Tuesday, August 23rd. Please consider traveling to West Virginia to be with us! Register today via Eventbrite.
After three long years, we are happy to announce the return of the Inayatiyya’s Labor Day Retreat w/ Pir Zia Inayat Khan, Friday, September 2nd through Monday, September 5th, 2022.
This year we will gather at the Claymont Retreat Center in beautiful Charles Town, West Virginia. Claymont has a close affinity with the Inayatiyya, founded in 1974 by J.G. Bennett, a successor of Gurdjieff, and as a long-time retreat home of the Mevlevi Order of Sufis. We will be housed, fed, and retreating in Claymont’s Great Barn, which offers two large meeting spaces, smaller break-out rooms, wings of bedrooms, and a centralized kitchen w/ a dining room.
Having been apart for so long, we are approaching this annual event a bit differently. Pir Zia will guide us each morning and late afternoon as always; there will be silence from waking until lunchtime. The afternoons through the evenings will provide time for community interaction, teachings, friendship, music, and zikr. We will be together both inwardly and outwardly.
Check-in begins on Friday from 2:00 – 6:00 pm, with dinner at 6 pm and an evening program at 7:30 pm. We will end on Monday at noon with an optional lunch at 12:00 pm.
Being at a smaller retreat center this year, our gathering will be limited to 90 people including staff. Also, due to the limited technology at the retreat center, this event will not be live-streamed—it will be an in-person event only. Registration now closes on Tuesday, August 23rd.
If you have questions about the Inayatiyya’s Labor Day Retreat 2022, please contact us at astana@inayatiyya.org. We hope to see you!