Lightsong Special Events

upcoming….

JUNE 17, 2023:  URS  FOR PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN 
ON ZOOM:  write to us for the link lightsong@gmail.com
JULY 30 – AUGUST 4, 2023
individually guided retreats with Saki
Zenith Institute, beautiful Swiss Alps camp
info: https://zenithinstitute.com
August 7 – 12, 2023
Group Retreat with Saki and Latif:
Let Love Lead Your Soul
Zenith Institute, beautiful Swiss Alps camp
info: https://zenithinstitute.com
August 26 – 27 2023
Retreat with Pir Zia Inayat Khan
“Acacias of Friendship”
Murad Hassil
Katwijk aan Zee, Holland
FOR FLYER AND TO REGISTER:  TEL. +31650572424,
e-mail: info@inayatiyya.nl
SACRED ELDERING AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE 
IN PERSON INDIVIDUAL RETREATS
Kissamos, Western Crete
limited places!
September 25 – 29, 2023

  

December 15 – 17, 2023
Annual winter retreat with Saki
Lioba monastery, Egmond Binnen, Holland
limited places! inquire early.
NEW LIGHTSONG ONLINE CLASS SERIES
(theme t.b.a.)
SEPTEMBER 2023 – JUNE 2024

Since 2015, Saki, has been giving a 9 month series of online Sufi classes as an ongoing support to spiritual travellers from over eighteen countries.  These series of classes run from September through June each year.  Once a month, registered participants receive a class with four sections.  These classes can be  listened to whenever you wish.

Each class consists of four sections that are 30-40 minutes each, and can be listened to separately:

  •  Section one:  an early morning meditation with prayer, sacred music, and  practices with breath, light, and sacred sound to start the day off on a good note!
  • Section two:   a  monthly theme with  Sufi teachings, guided meditation and  relevant wazifa practice (a quality to contemplate in relation to your daily life)
  • Section three:  continuation of the monthly theme with a corresponding zhikr practice  (mystical practice of remembrance)
  • Section four:  a shorter section with a  musical interlude for deep relaxation

Besides these monthly 4 sections, which you can download and listen to whenever you wish, we also have a “live” monthly ZOOM class only for this group, as well as an open live ZOOM class to include our wider community.  These are optional and sometimes recorded.

Our classes draw on the universal Sufi teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, and Pir Zia Inayat Khan.  Spiritual teachings, sacred music and poetry from other mystical traditions are often included as well.

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.  

The next series of classes (Life Is A Pilgrimmage)  will begin mid September 2023 and continue until mid June 2024.

To register, please go to Lightsong Inayatiyya online class series 2022-2023

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

THE MUSIC OF LIFE – CONNECTING HEARTS

OUR LIVE GATHERINGS IN THE NETHERLANDS

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 organizes 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 is to awaken hearts and  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 our hope is to contribute to bringing  a bit more beauty, kindness, peace and joy to our world.

These gatherings  have been taking place in the Sufi center for many years at   the  Anna Paulownastraat 78, 2518 BJ Den Haag, nearby the world-renown Peace Palace.  Sadly, we are moving our venue to another place in Haarlem and will be adding our new Music of Life programmes here as we create them.

We were happy to have been able to have these events taking place live following our Sufi meditation classes:   a New Year’s reception; 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!

We were also happy to be able to host live in person healing and personal retreats this past year at Lioba Benedictine monastery in the Netherlands, nearby sea and dunes.

To inquire about all events write to us at:  lightsong@gmail.com

SUFI MUSEUM

Upstairs from where our live Sufi classes and Music of Life events take place, a beautiful museum now showcases the odyssey  and biographical history of Hazrat Inayat Khan as the first Sufi mystic journeying to the west. He and his brothers, cousin and surviving nephew Shaikh al mashaikh Mahmood Khan have had a very special relationship with the Netherlands.  Visitors are welcome but please contact us for an appointment!

LOOKING BACK AT SOME WONDERFUL EVENTS WE HAD….AND HOPE TO HAVE ONCE AGAIN!

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!