Lightsong Special Events

Upcoming….NEW LIGHTSONG ONLINE CLASS SERIES

The Heart is It’s Own Medicine:  Walking the Mystical Path

A closed nine month online series with Murshida Saki Lee

“Come to the mystic then, and sit with him/her when you are tired of all these remedies you have employed in vain;  come and take a glass of wine.  The mystic wine is the inner absorption which removes  the cares and anxieties and cares and worries of the physical and the mental planes.”

Welcome to our next new online series of classes, which we have been sharing since 2015 with an international group of spiritual travellers.  Because so many seekers of mystical truth  live far from Saki, this format is a recorded monthly offering which can be downloaded and listened to at a time which is convenient for you.

Each month’s class includes a weekly contemplation as well as an open live ZOOM class on Thursday evening.  For those who live in the Netherlands, there is also a monthly in person Saturday afternoon meditation at the Sufi Center in The Hague in the sacred room where Hazrat Inayat Khan had met with his students on occasion.

This new series will have its foundation on the insights of Sufi mystics Hazrat Inayat Khan and his son Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, with updated teachings and practices from Pir Zia Inayat Khan.  Additionally we will explore the teachings of Christian mystics Theresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and  Hildegard von Bingen, and will include the insights and inspirations of contemporary Christian mystics Dr. James Finley and Rev. Matthew Fox.

We ask for a nominal fee, on a sliding scale basis, that enables us to pay for administrative and overhead costs in these offerings.  However, please note that for any sincere seeker, these classes are also accessible to those with limited funds.

If interested, please go to the sign up page by clicking here.Our past series of classes have included: Tuning the Instrument; This Blessed Journey:  Sufi Mysticism;  Spirituality in Daily Life;  The Alchemy of Transformation; The Art of Being and Becoming; Cultivating Inner Strength To Meet Life’s Challenges; Intuition and the Spirit of Guidance; The Heart of Sufism;  Awakening the Human Spirit; and Heart, Self and Soul, and the Alchemy of the Heart  

The next series of classes  The Heart is its Own Medicine will begin end of September 2024 and continue until mid June 2025.
To register, please go to Lightsong Inayatiyya online class series 2024-2025.

For more information, contact us: lightsong@gmail.com

THE MUSIC OF LIFE – CONNECTING HEARTS
OUR LIVE GATHERINGS IN THE NETHERLANDS
Change of Venue!

As a response to all that is challenging our global family today – including those who are suffering from poverty, displacement through war, social injustice and the effects of climate change and the corona pandemic, Lightsong Inayatiya has organized regular benefit concerts for specific projects including the Hope Project in India which Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan founded in the early 1980’s.

Our objective has always been  to awaken hearts and  raise awareness to what connects and unites us beyond the  boundaries of race, color, religion, culture and nation. Through  music and the creative arts, sharing potluck meals together, and meeting each other informally, we  hoped  to contribute to bringing  a bit more beauty, kindness, peace and joy to our world.

We were happy  to host many events at the Sufi Center Anna Paulownastraat 78, Den Haag for many years, including:  music from the Mediterranean with Charis Laurijsen;  Indian music concerts with Satyakam Mohkamsing (violin) and Ganesh Ramnath (tabla); dhrupad and Persian ghazal concert with singer Ilyas Nadjafi (Afghanistan) and Nathanael van Zuilen; Iranian storyteller Sahand Sahebdivan; Syrian dancer Ahmed Joudeh; Turkish music with Ali and Mehmet Ungan; Rumi poetry and Sufi music with Cengiz Arslanpay and Sipko den Boer…and many potluck dinners!

New Venue: Soefi Huis Haarlem

Starting in September 2023, we will host our Music of Life concerts in cooperation with friends from the Sufi Contact and Rumi Today  at Soefi Huis, Haarlem, Burgwal 38zw-40
2011 BG Haarlem.

2024 dates to be added!

  • all concerts begin at 16:00 – 17:30 and are followed by tea
  • Entree: suggested donation €15,- 
  • Sunday September 17, 2023:  Indian music concert with Satyakam Mohkamsing (violin) and Ganesh Ramnath (tabla) 
  • Sunday October 19, 2023:  Portals of Remembrance with Harpist and Singer Fralalai 
  • Sunday November 19, 2023:  Ilahis, healing music and zikr with Mehmet and Ali Ungan
  • Sunay December 10, 2023:  Rumi celebration with music and poetry with Sipko den Boer (lavta) and Cenghiz Arslanpay (ney)

info for all events:  lightsong@gmail.com

LOOKING BACK AT SOME WONDERFUL EVENTS WE HAVE HOSTED….

To see photo album Click here 

FOR ALL LIGHTSONG-INAYATIYYA EVENTS PLEASE CONTACT US AT:  lightsong@gmail.com. WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU TO OUR NEXT GATHERING WHETHER IN PERSON OR ONLINE!