Lightsong Special Events

Upcoming….

JUNE 17, 2023: URS  FOR PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN
ON ZOOM:  write to us for the link lightsong@gmail.com

IN PERSON RETREATS

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 Guide 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

SPIRITUAL ELDERING INDIVIDUAL RETREATS
Kissamos, Western Crete
limited places!
September 25 – 29, 2023

BIRTHING LIGHT IN TIMES OF DARKNESS
December 15 – 17, 2023
Annual winter retreat
Lioba monastery, Egmond Binnen, Holland
limited places! inquire early.

NEW LIGHTSONG ONLINE CLASS SERIES
The Alchemy of The Heart

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 The Alchemy of the Heart  will begin end of 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
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.

  • 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!