Classes offered in 2014: Murshida Baraka von Kügelgen (Germany) Featured Teacher: Pir Shabda Kahn (USA) Healing Class: Peace and Healing for Our Bodies, Hearts Life as the Teacher: Integrating Spiritual Liberty with the and Souls. Impermanence of Everyday Live As mystics on the Sufi path we treat ourselves as patients who In the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan : “….the soul is an un- need to be healed, curing ourselves of our weaknesses. We long divided portion of the all-pervading consciousness. It is undi- for life, for health and for peace. Peace is the nature of the soul, th vided because it is the Absolute Being; it is completely filled as Murshid SAM points out. In his Ryazat Papers we find precious teachings 12 EUROPEAN with the whole Existence. The portion of it that is reflected by a certain name and interesting hints regarding the tools to deepen in to reach this goal – or form, becomes comparatively more conscious of the object reflected in it.” Nimaz, Wazifas, Zikr, Fikr, Kasab, Shagal. “By this the body becomes a fitting So we live in the paradox of essentially being the whole Universe and feeling instrument for a fuller experience of life“ (H.I. Khan). We will perform also limited in our apparent sense of an impermanent separate self. Transform- the Healing Ritual. RUHANIAT ing our limiting notion of being a separate self into the direct experience of the All in All is the heart of the spiritual path. As we awaken to this whole- Khalif Wali & Sheikha Ariënne van der Zwan (Germany) SUMMER SCHOOL some reality our ability to serve becomes more and more profound! The Path of Attainment: A Gita paper by Inayat Khan with commentary from Murshid Samuel Lewis Murshid Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz (Scotland) In the Path of Attainment, Inayat Khan describes how Self-Protection: Walking Our Path with Strength and Peace 2014 (based on papers of Murshid Samuel Lewis) to become a master on your path to accomplishment. Whether the goal is material or spiritual, the first step Life is change, and modern life can easily trigger our anxiety is to feel and realize what your heart yearns for. The and fears. Murshid Samuel Lewis provides active practices to first and best tool to fulfill this yearning is concentration, focusing on your help develop peacefulness with love, life and strength. In ad- goal with all that’s in you. In this class, open for all, we’ll explain some of the dition, we will draw from the lineage of Abdul Qadir Jilani and the ‘beauti- mechanisms behind success drawn from this paper, illustrated with practices, ful names’ of the Qur’an. We will share much as walking meditation, so that DUP, stories, dharma talk and Q&A. we can carry realizations gained into everyday life. Zikr, body prayer, sitting meditation and Dances of Universal Peace will also be included. Sheikha Alima Stoeckel (Germany) Send us the Peace of Thy Divine Spirit. Class for Sufi initiators (by invitation only) With Pir Shabda Kahn and Murshid Saadi Shakur Chishti We connect with the divine source by sensing the holy names within us, and by walking with the energies of the planets This class focuses on themes and practices for Sufi guides and initiators, and in the atmosphere of the masters, saints and prophets. including wasifa, advanced breath practice, tassawuri and attunement, fana- In connection with the greater life true peace can become a fi-sheikh and working with students. Lessons are drawn from the papers of reality in the midst of all polarities and challenges of our daily life. Source of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Murshid Samuel Lewis, Murshid Moineddin Jablonski inspiration will be the “Book of Peace” by Murshid SAM, the prayer Khatum and others in our lineage in response to the needs of the group. and the Prayer of Peace by Hazrat Inayat Khan. Inner Peace: Murshida Gita Sophia Onnen (Germany) Khalif Jelaluddin Sturm (Germany) Sufi-Zikr – The Central Practice of Remembering Creating Peace in Relationships. Dealing with Conflicts. Loving People. Exploring our holy relationship with the Divine source Source and Fuel for - inside and outside. Murshid SAM: Zikr is life itself. It The nature of our relationships with other people depends expresses growth, feeling, thoughts, energy; life is pulsing, on whether we live with conflicts or in peace in the world. vibrating, magnetic and mobile. All qualities in a personality Which attitudes can we develop to help us cope with difficult All Our Life- may be perfected through Zikr; the lions and tigers in us will be tamed. To situations? Can we be peaceful and strong, respectful and loving? In “Moral come into peace with yourself, perfect your peace with God, with HU. Feel Culture” Hazrat Inayat Khan offers us a varied range of opportunities – sup- God in heart, breath and voice through dances, walking-concentrations, plemented by Samuel Lewis’s passionate comments. Potentials meditation, experience of various Zikr-forms, stillness. Sheikha Rahmana Dziubany (Germany) Murshid Tansen Philip O’Donohoe (England) Pearls in the Ocean of My Soul Kashf: Insight – Seeing with the Ears and Hearing with Hazrat Inayat Khan’s Universal Worship Service, honours and the Eyes unifies the world’s spiritual traditions. We will explore this Kashf is direct and immediate. By removing inner confusion ritual by direct experience, attuning to the streams of wisdom and darkness we build our capacity for inner knowing, clarity through dance, body-prayer, tassawuri walks, also sharing talks and understanding in life. Based on the paper Kashf: Insight given by Inayat Khan to Cherags. We culminate in a co-created 28.June–5.July 2014 by Hazrat Inayat Kahn - with commentary by Murshid Samuel Lewis, we will cosmic celebration of Universal Peace. This class is for cherags, cherag explore practices of heart, breath and glance to uncover that place of peace candidates and all drawn and inspired by attuning to the mystical paths of the Proitzer Mühle near Uelzen and power within. worlds traditions through sacred ritual and celebration. th UROPEAN UHANIAT UMMER CHOOL 12 E R S S 2014: ManyWenn people Du denthink Sufiweg they are erforschen striving for möchtest, peace. Tisthis die is Som-illusory.Som- 10. EUROPÄISCHE RUHANIAT SOMMERSCHULE 2012: Wenn Du den Sufiweg erforschen möchtest, ist die Som- merschuleThe very struggle, ein guter the Platz very zum sense Starten. of struggle, Die Vielfalt divides der the Klassen per- Das LichtInner der Peace: Schönheit: ebensosonality. wie A sdie we entspannte, relax, as we informelle refine the Atmosphäre breath, as wesowie keep das the Das Licht der Schönheit: Miteinanderconsciousness von on Menschen spiritual practices,aus vielen weverschiedenen go deeper and Ländern deeper KreativitätSource undand dieFuel Sufi-Kunst for All sindtoward belebend that which und stärkend. is the source Wenn of Du both den peace Weg andschon power seit längeremwithin.längerem T hus,gehstgehst peace undund HerausforderungenHerausforderungen is not different from begegnestbegegnest power and (was(was power wirwir is Ourder PersönlichkeitLife-Potentials allenot tun),different kannst from Du peace. hier sowohl Unterstützung als auch Weg- gefährten finden, die Dich mit offenen– Murshid Herzen Samuelund Armen L. Lewis willkommen heißen. Wir hoffen, daß Du dabei sein kannst! - Spezieller Fokus in diesem Jahr: Sufilehren zu den kreati-kreati- willkommen heißen. Wir hoffen, daß Du dabei sein kannst! - Introduction to the Sufi path and to the lineage of Hazrat our potentialities and all attainments because this place of Universal ven Künsten – Musik, Tanz, Poesie, Kunst und zur Kunst der ber Hunderte von Jahren hat die Chisthi Sufi-Linie Musik, MurshidMurshid SaadiSaadi ShakurShakur Chishti,Chishti, DirectorDirector Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, Hazrat Pir Samuel L. Lewis and Peace is bertheir Hunderte source and von all Jahren things hat proceed die Chisthi from Sufi-Linie there. Musik, Persönlichkeit,Hazrat Pir Murshid Moineddin Jablonski. ÜTanz, Poesie und die kreativen Künste benutzt, um spiritu-spiritu- elle PraxisTo foster zu verkörpern this awareness und auszudrücken. we will draw fromHazrat the Inayt teachings Khan und of our Die A varietyKlassen of in classes: diesem for Jahr: those Kunst already und on Kreativität the Sufi durchpath, incluMu-Mu-- MurshidSufi lineage Samuel sharing Lewis habena wide beidevariety diese of classesWerkzeuge including betont –meditation, für die sik,ding Gänge Sufi und guides, Tänze, as Heilungwell as for und those die exploringKunst der taking Persönlich-Persönlich up Sufi- fortlaufendesoulwork, spiritualalchemistische dance, Verfeinerung self-protection des practices, Selbst. Die healing, tiefere Seitethe keit,practice. Rumis Weg der Verwirklichung, Sufi Poesie, spiritueller fortlaufende alchemistische Verfeinerung des Selbst. Die tiefere Seite Tanz und mehr. Besonderer Gast: Murshida Fatima Lassar, derdevelopment Kreativität ist of nicht, insight, „Objekte“, the path „Werke“ of attainment, oder „Kompositionen“ music, walks, sufizu Guided retreat processes using Dances of Universal Peace, produzieren,zikr, wazifa, sondern and tassawuri. uns selbst We neu are zu delighted erschaffen. this year to welcome Einführung in die Sufilinie von Hazrat Inayat Khan, Pir Einführungmeditation, in Sufi die Sufiliniezikr and wazifa von Hazrat (mantric Inayat practice), Khan, Pirwalking once again as featured teacher Pir Shabda Kahn, the Spiritual Murshid Samuel Lewis und Murshid Moineddin Jablonski Wir werden diese reiche Ader der Lehren und Übungen unserer Murshidconcentration, Samuel body Lewis awareness, und Murshid Sufi Moineddin soulwork, JablonskiSufi healing DirectorWir werden of the diese Sufi reiche Ruhaniat Ader International, der Lehren und who Übungen will be unserer joined by Linie während der diesjährigen Sommerschule erforschen. Als Teil Einepractice, Vielzahl silence von and Klassen Sufi fürstories. Menschen auf dem Sufiweg Sheikha Tamam Kahn, who will present some of her new research davon werde ich Lehren aus den „Spirituelles Tanzen“ Kommentaren – AAnfänger, wonderful Mittlere way to und experience weiter Fortgeschrittene and share practices (einschl. with theSufi- and poems on Fatima, daughter of Prophet Muhammad.