EVENTS
24th European Sufi Summer School
Saturday, 27 June – Friday, 3 July 2026, Proitzer Müehle (Germany)
RESTORING OURSELVES TO LIFE:
The Sufi ways of healing, empowerment, and rejuvenation
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Registration opens on Sunday, February 1
To live to our fullest capacity, to love our life, to feel that we are bringing joy, beauty, and aliveness into this world is what each of us hopes for when we begin our journey on this planet.
In its countless ways, the world affects us, resulting in a loss of our physical, mental, and spiritual vitality, due to the weakening of our alignment with the source of all healing – the energy of Life itself, Al-Hayy.
At this year’s Summer School, we will explore many different aspects of healing and wholeness. What the Sufis call unity, tawhid, needs to be experienced in the most expansive part of our being as well as in the most deeply embodied. This only happens when we dive into the genuine warmth of our spiritual heart, the “heaven of the heart,” as some Sufis called it.
Our diverse teaching staff will share teachings and practices that unite us in experiences of remembering and enacting our wholeness. We are fortunate to have five Shafayats (senior initiates of the Dervish Healing Order) on our team, all skilled in different modalities of healing.
Our themes and practices will include: self-protection and boundaries, connection in a healthy way to the unseen worlds; channelling and radiating magnetism and blessing; clearing the mind to free the creative focus in life; using breath, heart and eye to change one’s self and surroundings; the healing power of sound and music, and more.
Natalia Nur Jahan will present a class
The Most Precious Gift: The blessing and the responsibility of being made “in the divine image”
What is a human being for here on Earth? And, what can a Sufi’s best work here be? Bringing through baraka (blessing) in support of good causes and souls in need seems to be a worthy goal. One wonders though if it is the highest we should aim for.
Could it be that the very way we are trained to use our minds is what keeps “rearranging the bars of the prison” of this world, for ourselves and for others? What if this is the main thing that stops us from building the life we desire, and the world we would love?
In this class we will explore the ways to heal our hearts-minds from the habitual enslavement to the world as we know it. We will use a variety of tools, among them sitting and walking Sufi meditation, asma-ul-husna (“Beautiful Names”), dhikr, and others, to remind ourselves of our fundamental divine inheritance — and to consciously re-join the process of co-creation.
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The European Sufi Summer School is open to all. It is rooted in an open spiritual tradition of the ancient Chistia lineage of Sufism. Our transmission (ruhaniyya) is through Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, Murshid Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti (Samuel L.Lewis) and Murshid Moineddin Jablonski. Threads of their individual spiritual practice also include Zen Buddhism, mystical Christianity, Bhakti and Advaita Yoga, and Kaballah.
The Summer School is staffed by dedicated students connected in various ways to and through this line of spiritual transmission. It is not legally or financially connected with any other Sufi corporation, organisation or project. Our international Summer School celebrates the living tradition of the many paths of the heart through Sufi zikr (Remembrance), sitting and walking meditation, healing, spiritual music, Soulwork and Spiritual Psychology, art and Dances of Universal Peace, and more.
We emphasize teaching “in the footsteps of” our spiritual ancestors with language and practice adapted to the current challenges of humanity and the planet as a whole.
All classes are conducted in English and German (with translation.)
23rd European Sufi Summer School
Saturday, 28 June – Friday, 4 July 2025, Proitzer Müehle (Germany)
The Language of Continuing Creation in a World of Change
The whole-school class presented by our director Saadi Shakur Chisti (Neil Douglas Klotz.)
Natalia Nur Jahan presented a class
Carrying the Light: the Sacred Purpose of the Spiritual Practice
The first thing we usually think about when taking on a spiritual practice is that it will help the expansion of our consciousness. If we do the practice as intended, with sincerity and dedication, we indeed notice that happening. Once we have enhanced our “own” light though, we become centres of radiance, of brightness and get the ability to enhance the life of others and the environment around us. That is a natural development on the path. Yet perhaps even that is not the ultimate purpose, and true reason, for the practices we do. We will explore this theme and dive deep into the Sufi exercises we are used to doing, like breathing exercises, the Beautiful Names, meditation, and dhikr (zikr). The class is open to those on the Sufi path, as well as newcomers, alike.
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22nd European Sufi Summer School
Monday, 1 – Sunday, 7 July 2024, Proitzer Müehle (Germany)
The Return of Holy Wisdom: Uncovering the Forgotten Way of Being Human:
The whole-school class presented by our director Saadi Shakur Chisti (Neil Douglas Klotz.)
Natalia Nur Jahan presents a class dedicated to the increase of our connection to the Light, both in and without forms:
Thy Light is in All Forms, Thy Love in All Beings
The hypnosis of this apparent world makes us believe ourselves to be small and fragile, sometimes even unloved and unworthy. We forget the magnificence of Love and Light that we are part of, that is our Truth, our real Life. Just how can we re-discover that, in reality, we are capable of embracing and sustaining a great amount of Light, are able to channel boundless Love and Delicacy into the world?
Through Sufi practice, which will include the Beautiful Names, zikr and tasawwuri walks, as well as though meditation and energy work, we will endeavour to reach for the Light, expecting to open our hearts to the ongoing flow of support that is pouring upon us each moment of our life.
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health for the healer 2022/23
This course is now finished. To get the access to the recordings, please enquire here.
The purpose of these classes is to offer help for the conductors of the healing ritual of Hazrat Inayat Khan to overcome some of the usual difficulties. These issues are predominantly the same that get in the way of any healer, as well as of anyone who regularly offers help to others, be that by the way of a therapy, caring, or even when raising a child.
All sessions also include the Sufi Absent Healing Ritual.
If you have any questions, please use the email address at the top of the page to get in touch.
Health for the Healer sessions information
From August 2022 we will be focusing the first half of our meeting on the things pivotal for the healer’s health.
Predominantly, these are the same issues that make the difference for the physical and mental health of anyone who is striving to be in service to others, as well as of people we are aiming to help.
The classes will be rooted in Sufi teachings, energy work, and modern psychology. Open to Sufi mureeds and DHO initiates, and others by permission – please get in touch and let me know what your interests and experiences are.
These sessions are done by freewill donations.
The meetings are monthly and last up to 1h30min.
You are welcome to take part in the first part of the session and then leave before the healing ritual commences, however please notify me in advance if you are planning to do so ♥
Our topics will include:
• August: our need to be fully present in the body, and the best ways to achieve that
• September: healthy boundaries: how do we get to have problems in that area, how to solve them
• October: how truthfulness, and the lack of it, including to oneself, influences our energy and health
• November&December: how to grow in magnetism, and how to retain it
• January: breaking free from under the control of one’s thoughts
• February&March: self-protection: who needs it, why, when and how to do it
• April&May: learning to connect with our “own” inner healer/inner teacher; connection with the “departed” teachers – what do we need it for, the best ways for “getting in touch”
All the exercises offered are intended as practices – that is, they need to be practiced in order to bring results. Please do not expect a great change after repeating a technique a few times during the session!
The Light of Purpose
A short course in “Sadhana: The Path of Attainment”
“There is no such thing as impossible. All is possible. Impossible is made by the limitation of our capacity of understanding.” Hazrat Inayat Khan.
December 2022
“Possibility is the nature of God, and impossibility is the art of man.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Many of us genuinely love helping people, be that through healing, therapy, storytelling, through our presence. Yet we know very well that we are also “a work in progress.” We can have many great, connected days, and then there might come some weak, low ones, especially now when the times are so full of uncertainty about the future. We wish we were able to reliably pull ourselves out of that, so that we could return to feeling hope, love, connection with the One Life, and could again authentically share it with others.
Over three short sessions in December – and in the spirit of getting ready for the turn of the year – I will be offering an introduction to the paper “Sadhana: The Path of Attainment” by Hazrat Inayat Khan, with the commentaries of Murshid SAM.
What is it that your heart is wishing for right now? Not necessarily a spiritual yearning, could be one of the “usual” life. What if, by achieving what you desire, not only your heart grew in strength, not only your mind got clearer, but also your direct connection with the Spirit of Guidance expanded and became enlivened – and all that started with you going after an “earthly” wish?
That is what the paper “Sadhana” is about. It is a teaching showing us how to turn our daily life into success – and at the same time, into the advancement in the life spiritual. One who steadfastly follows this path will arrive to the point of becoming a servant of the dream bigger than one’s own, the vision of the Illuminated Souls.
During the three sessions we will go over the main topics of the paper, some of which are:
- December, 1– The role our heart plays in choosing the object we go for. What happens when we accomplish what we wanted. How to “pull oneself out” of weakness, develop resilience and strengthen the heart. What turns the “usual” path of attainment into the spiritual path.
- December, 8– Choosing the aim to achieve so that there is never a regret. The role of our spiritual guidance on the path of attainment. The external help on the path, when to use it and when not.
- December, 15– The one thing that needs to be mastered so that one can become “the master of all difficulties.” The main pointers on the road towards any goal. What to do after the achievement.
All sessions will be recorded.
*Sadhana – root “sadh-,” ‘to accomplish’: attainment, a way of life designed for the realization of one’s highest ideal.
