Individual Retreats guided by Murshida Saki
in person or online
“Retreat is a dress rehearsal for daily life.” – Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan–
Retreats can be arranged in person or via Zoom. Over the years, they have been offered in person in beautiful natural sanctuaries around the world — from the desert of Rajasthan to the Swiss Alps at the Zenith Sufi Camp, from forests of the Caduceus Center in Germany to the wilderness of Cala Jami in Sardinia, and the dunes and beaches nearby Lioba Monastery in North Holland. Click here for more information on in person retreat or online retreats in 2025 – 2026.
What is An Individual Retreat
An individual retreat is a sacred gift to yourself. For a focused time — whether for five days or up to 40 days — you step outside the rush of daily life and into the timeless presence of your own inner being.
These retreats offer a rare opportunity to listen deeply with the ears of the heart. In the stillness of solitude, in communion with nature and spirit, the quiet guidance within begins to reveal itself.
Each retreat is uniquely crafted around your needs, intention, and soul’s longing — whether for deep healing, silence, visioning, or renewal. All are rooted in an alchemical process of transformation. It is a journey of purification, integration, and rediscovery of your essential, luminous Self.
What to Expect
Each day includes a personal session with Saki, your retreat guide, meditation and spiritual practices, time to reflect on dreams, insights, or anything stirring within you, and walks in nature. Based on this, Saki offers practices for the day, which may include:
- Sufi practices with sacred breath, light, wazaif, and zhikr
- Silent meditation and mindfulness
- Healing practices and energetic balancing
- Nature walks and elemental attunement
- Reflection and self-inquiry
You are invited to let the world take care of itself while you step into sacred time. Your retreat may be silent, expressive, devotional, or contemplative — depending on what your spirit calls for.
About Your Guide
Saki was trained in the alchemical retreat process by her teacher, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, from 1985 to 2004. She also draws from Taoist, Buddhist, and Christian mystical traditions to offer a universal path of healing and spiritual realization.
She has guided hundreds of seekers through this deeply transformative journey — bringing together the sacred art of alchemical and healing retreat with compassion, clarity, and embodied wisdom.
Begin the Journey
By the time your retreat concludes, you’ll return with renewed inspiration and clarity — and with the perfume of your retreat gently blessing your home, your relationships, and your wider world.
To inquire about an individual retreat with Saki, please write to: lightsong@gmail.com
The fulfillment of spiritual practice is diving deep within oneself; it is communicating with each atom of life existing in the whole world; it is realizing the real ‘I’ in which is the fulfillment of life’s purpose. – Sufi mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan-