Dear Friends,
Two more opportunities this summer to join Pir Zia on retreat!
Inayatiyya Labor Day Retreat
September 2 - 5, 2022
Registration closes Friday, August 19th!
After two years away, 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. Amida Cary and Jacob Miraj Ellenberg will be assisting Pir Zia as co-faculty.
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.
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.
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. We expect this event to sell out quickly, so please register soon!
Zenith Camp
July 24 - August 20, 2022
Registration now open!
Zenith Camp returns to the Swiss Alps this year with four weeks planned, July 24th to August 20th, 2022. The theme of this year’s Camp is The Call of the Earth.
Pir Zia will lead programs for Week I: July 24th-July 30th, and for Week II: July 31st-August 6th.
Additional Inayatiyya teachers and guides offering programs include Malik Hirschberg & Batin Hermes, Robin Becker, Fatimabi Grieger, Deepa Gulrukh Patel, Saki Lee, Latif Brinck, Zuleikha, Ophiel van Leer, HuDost, Jacob Ellenberg, and Aziz Dikeulias, with more faculty and special guests soon to be announced.
Please visit Zenith Institute’s website to learn more about all four weeks of programs.