Purity of Heart
Prayer, Music and Contemplation w/ Pir Zia Inayat Khan
Townhall Gersfeld (Rhön), Germany, Schloßplatz 9 and Online via Zoom
Thursday 14th to Monday 18th of April 2022
“Mental purification is the only method by which one can reach the spiritual goal.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan
We wash our bodies every day. How often do we wash our minds and our hearts? In this three-day retreat, using breath, sound, and contemplation, we will undertake a series of ablutions to freshen our spirit and cleanse our vision. Mental purification culminates in mystic relaxation, a state of calm that unveils our essential nature, a mode of being that intimately includes our day-to-day identity while at the same time sublimely transcending it.
Pir Zia Inayat Khan
Programme (Time CET)
Thursday, 14th of April
8.15 am: Townhall open for registration
9.30 – 11.15 am: Pir Zia Inayat Khan
11.30 – 12.30 pm: Inayatiyya activities (no Zoom broadcast)
lunchbreak
13.45 – 14.30 pm: Choir with Ophiel
14.45 – 16.30 pm: Pir Zia Inayat Khan
break
17.00 – 18.30 pm: Pir Zia Inayat Khan
no evening programme but time for meeting and sharing
Friday, 15th of April (day of silence)
7.00 – 8.00 am: Morning meditation w/Amaité Willand
9.30 – 11.15 am: Pir Zia Inayat Khan
11.30 – 12.30 pm: Inayatiyya activities (no Zoom broadcast)
lunchbreak
14.45 – 16.30 pm: Pir Zia Inayat Khan
break
17.00 – 18.30 pm: Pir Zia Inayat Khan
break
20.00 pm: Concert with Tammo Heikens (Sitar) and Suresh Sardjoe (Tabla)
Saturday, 16th of April (day of silence)
7.00 – 8.00 am: Morning meditation w/Amaité Willand
9.30 – 11.15 am: Pir Zia Inayat Khan
11.30 – 12.30 pm: Inayatiyya activities (no Zoom broadcast)
lunchbreak
14.45 – 16.30 pm: Pir Zia Inayat Khan
break
17.00 – 18.30 pm: Pir Zia Inayat Khan
break
20.00 pm: Zikr evening w/ Ophiel Maarten van Leer and Mehmet Ungan
Easter Sunday, 17th of April
7.00 – 8.00 am: Morning meditation w/Amaité Willand
9.30 – 11.15 am: Pir Zia Inayat Khan
11.30 – 12.30 pm: Inayatiyya activities (no Zoom broadcast)
lunchbreak
14.45 – 16.30 pm: Pir Zia Inayat Khan
break
17.00 – 18.30 pm: Pir Zia Inayat Khan
break
20.00 pm: Dances of Universal Peace w/ Rafia Sieglin (no Zoom broadcast)
Easter Monday, 18th of April
7.00 – 8.00 am: Morning meditation w/Amaité Willand
10.00 – 12.30 pm: Universal Worship (open to public, guests are very welcome)
Sign up
The Easter seminar takes place in the Townhall Gersfeld (in-person) – alternatively we will also make the full retreat available via Zoom (live) and video posted each day (available 30 minutes after the live-session). You may attend in real-time or any time you’d like by watching the video.
Hints:
IN-PERSON: By registering to participate in Gersfeld, you agree to comply with the current local corona rules of the state of Hessen (see below under ‘Corona regulations’).
ONLINE: The Zoom link to the seminar will be sent to the email address given in the transfer.
Payment options:
1. Transfer of the seminar fee to the account of Inayatiyya Deutschland e. V.: GLS Bank Bochum,
IBAN DE61 4306 0967 8204 4188 00 / BIC GENODEM1GLS
Please state your full name, your e-mail address and the comment Easter 2022-online or Easter 2022-in-person on the transfer.
2. Alternatively, you can make your transfer here via Paypal .
In the ‘Add message’ field, please enter your full name, your e-mail address und the comment Easter 2022-online or Easter 2022-in-person.
Seminar Fee
Regular Price: 275,- €
Reduction on a sliding scale up to 100,-€ (Minimum amount). Please note, that the participation in the seminar is at your own risk.
Accommodation
Please contact Tourist Information in Gersfeld. Phone: +49 6654 – 1780
Online booking via www.gersfeld.de (Button „Unterkunftsuche aktivieren“) or contact seminare@inayatiyya.de Phone: +49 5506 999 11 69
Youth hostel
Low price accommodation is available in the Youth hostel of Gersfeld. Please contact seminare@inayatiyya.de
Corona / Covid restrictions
Please check actual restrictions. With your registration you accept the actual regulation within the seminar.
For further information or any support please contact:
seminare@inayatiyya.de Phone: +49 5506 999 11 69
Biography
Pir Zia Inayat Khan carries the Sufi lineage of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan. He received his Ph.D. in Religion from Duke University. His books include Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity, and the Mystical Quest, Mingled Waters: Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions, and Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is president of the Inayatiyya and founder of Suluk Academy. Now based in Richmond, Virginia, he and his family live both in the United States and France.
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.
