Aziza Scott — Middlefield, MA 413.623.5987 Aziza Aziza Scott has been a student of the retreat process for 30 years and serves as the head of the Esoteric School, as Director of the Retreat Guide Training Program of the Sufi Order International, and as a Core Faculty member of Suluk Academy, working closely with Pir Zia Inayat-Khan. She has many years of experience leading individual and group retreats and conducting workshops in the US, Europe and India. Aziza lives and guide retreats in Middlefield, MA. Click here for her 2007–2008 schedule in PDF Devi Tide — New Lebanon NY 518.794.0096 Devi Devi heads the activities of the Sufi Healing Order in North America. She is a Sufi Order Retreat Guide, a Shafayat in the Healing Order, and guides workshops and retreats all over the world. Hafizullah Chishti — Flemington NJ 908.788.6089 Hafizullah Hafizullah has walked, crawled, stumbled, and danced the Sufi path for 32 years. He is a Sufi Order International Senior Teacher, Retreat Guide, and serves in an adjunct capacity in the Sufi Order’s Curriculum Committee. He teaches “the Turn” of the Dervishes and has a special interest in the interface between psychology and spirituality, and how establishing a spiritual basis for one’s life is the most pragmatic approach to living with authenticity, inner freedom, and dignity in today’s world. Mahdiah Jacobs Kahn — Mill Valley, CA 415.383.3548 Mahdiah Mahdiah Jacobs Kahn is a Senior teacher and Retreat Guide in the Sufi Order International. She is a Shafiyat in the Sufi Healing Order and a teacher of the Rafaelite Work. Mahdiah is an active Cheraga and a Farmer in Ziraat. She is a longtime student of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. Mu‘inuddin Smith — New York, NY 212.477.6085 Mu‘inuddin Mu‘inuddin Smith is a long time student of the Sufi and Buddhist meditative traditions, and of the sacred teachings called “Ziraat” given by Hazrat Inayat Khan. He serves as a senior teacher and retreat guide within the Sufi Order International. Saki Lee — Voorburg, Holland tel. 00-31-70-3867800 Saki Lee Saki Lee has been a student of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan since 1973. She serves as a retreat guide and personal guide to many mureeds in Europe, and considers this a most sacred privilege. Saki also serves as the head of the Esoteric School for the Netherlands, a member of the European Esoteric Training Committee, and one of the vice presidents for Kinship. Music is her bliss. Click here to download Saki’s 2008 schedule in PDF. Sarmad Tide — New Lebanon, NY 518.794.0096 Sarmad Shahabuddin Less — Sarasota, FL 941.349.7717 Shahabuddin Shahabuddin Less has been studying and teaching the Sufi Message of Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan for nearly forty years. He is a direct student of Pir Vilayat Khan and Murshid Samuel Lewis. He also studied with Murshid Shamcher and Mother Krishnbai, and has absorbed teachings from many schools of mysticism throughout the world. He lives in Sarasota, Florida, where he serves as director of Rising Tide International, an organization promoting spirituality and the arts, which he founded. Sharifa Norton — New York, NY 212.477.6085 Sharifa Sharifa serves as head of Ziraat in the Sufi Order International in North America (www.Ziraat.org). She is a long time student of the Sufi and Buddhist meditative traditions, and of the sacred teachings called Ziraat given by Hazrat Inayat Khan. She guides workshops and retreats and serves as a senior teacher and retreat guide within the Sufi Order International. Ziraat teachings bring us greater awareness of the dynamic process unfolding throughout this life, unveiling the light of the soul and our divine essence. These teachings can open us fully to our kinship with the sacredness of all life and to our own unique contribution to an earth of awakening. Taj Inayat — Mill Valley, CA Taj Taj Inayat is the Vice President of the Sufi Order International, and the long time spiritual companion of Pir Vilayat. She is a co-founder of Sufi Retreats, a process of unfoldment based on the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan and the insights of modern psychology. Tasnim Fernandez — Burbank, CA 818.841.3246 Tasnim Reverend Tasnim Hermila Fernandez was initiated into the way of the Sufis by Hazrat Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan in June 1971 and serves the Sufi Order International as a Representative and Center Leader, a Healing Conductor, and as a minister (cherag) of the Universal Worship. She is a co-founder, with Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz, is the co-founder of the International Center for the Dances of Universal Peace, building upon the seminal work of Murshid Samuel Lewis.