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Zarifah Kadian and Munawir Mangold are psychotherapists in private practice in Bethesda, Maryland, integrating the psychological and the spiritual. Jack is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, and Nancy leads ongoing women’s groups and retreats. Both have studied Sufism with their teacher Pir Vilayat Khan for over 30 years, teach in the Sufi Order International (SOI), and serve as co-coordinators of the Kinship activity of SOI. Their great love for God and humanity is the guiding impulse that that shapes all of their work. |
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Devi Tide is the Kefayat (Primary Representative) of the Sufi Healing Order in North America. Devi is a healer, retreat guide & teacher of spiritual healing practices and meditation. She has led healing retreats and seminars all over the world and speaks internationally on healing.
Sarmad Tide is a senior teacher in the Sufi Order
International, a certified retreat guide, and a mentor-teacher for the Dances of Universal Peace. His approach to spirituality is: "It's what we are doing right now." Describing himself as a recovering intellectual, he combines a deep knowledge of esoteric lore and practices with a lively sense of humor |
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Aziza Scott has been a student of the retreat process for over twenty years and serves as the head of the Esoteric School and as Director of the Retreat Guide Training Program of the Sufi Order International, working closely with first Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and now Pir Zia. She has many years of experience leading individual and group retreats and conducting workshops in the United States, Europe and India. Aziza runs a retreat center in Western Massachusetts.
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Pir Zia Inayat-Khan is the spiritual leader of the Sufi Order International and founding director of the Suluk Academy, an esoteric school located at the Abode of the Message. His initiatory heritage integrates the sacred transmissions of the Chishti, Suhrawardi, Qadiri, and Naqshbandi lineages within a post-denominational, interspiritual trajectory. Pir Zia holds a Phd in Religion from Duke University. |
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Shahabbuddin Less has been studying and teaching the Sufi message of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan for over 30 years. He is a direct student of Pir Vilayat Khan and Murshid Sam Lewis, and has studied with Shamcher and Mother Krishnabai. In addition to teaching in Sarasota, Florida, he may be found leading spiritual tours of sacred sites around the world.
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Sharifa Norton is a teacher and retreat guides within the Sufi tradition. Sharifa serves as the Head of the Ziraat Concentration of the Sufi Order International within North America. She iss co-founder of the Light of Guidance Center for Sufi Studies in New York City.
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Summer Gathering 2008