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Anna Less
Sarasota, FL
Dr. Anna Less has been a spiritual teacher for over 30 years. She is one of the only Westerners in the world to hold a Ph.D. in Traditional Chinese Medicine, granted by the government of China. As an internationally known practitioner and teacher of spirituality and healing, she shares a deep understanding of the esoteric principles needed to awaken the mind.
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Aqdas Newmark
Half Moon Bay, CA
(520) 300-0086
Aqdas Newmark (formerly Ishi Nili ) has been a mureed since 1976 and served as a Representative, SW Regional Representative, Retreat Guide, and Mentor for Suluk Academy. She has been a full time psychologist in private practice for over 30 years. Aqdas is part of the team that is developing training modules for Leaders; and she mentors Coordinators and Representatives in training. She is available to teach the Leaders Training Modules on Breath, Concentration, or other upcoming modules. Her retreats and workshops highlight illumination, integration, and the application of psychology and spirituality to life's struggles and challenges.
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Aziza Scott
Middlefield, MA
(413) 623-5987
Aziza|azizascott#aolc
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.
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Devi Tide
Seattle, WA
Devi|devi#sufihealingrdero
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
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Gayan Macher
Fairfax, CA
(415) 482-0110
Gayan|GayanM#comcastn
Gayan is a companion and guide to those called to the courageous path of Love. He has been a student of the universal Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan for over 30 years. He co-created Sufi Retreats, a process of transformation integrating mysticism with modern psychology. Gayan helped shape the training curriculum in the Sufi Order, and is a lead teacher in Suluk Academy. Professionally, he consults to corporations about the art and practice of human relations. Gayan is also a singer/song-writer.
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Hafizullah Chishti
Seattle, WA
(908) 328-9903
Hafizullah|hafizullah
Hafizullāh has walked, stumbled, crawled, and danced the Sufi path since 1976. He is a Sufi Order International Senior Teacher, Retreat Guide, is active in developing core curriculum for the Order, and is an active mentor for Coordinators and Guides/Representatives in training. He teaches “the Turn” of the Dervishes and has a special interest in the interface between psychology and spirituality, and in 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. His passion is sharing in sacred space and spiritual practice with those who are awakening.
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Mahdiah Jacobs Kahn
Mill Valley, CA
(415) 383-3548
Mahdiah|mahdiah#comcastn
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.
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Melissa Clare, Eureka Springs, AK
(479) 253-8252
Melissa Clare|melissaclare01#gmailc
Melissa Clare met her Sufi teacher, Pir Vilayat , as a teenager, and later emigrated to America from England to live in a Sufi community. For seven years she was the acting director of the Sufi Healing Order which continues to be her main focus. She is available on a limited basis to bring introductory programs about the Sufi Healing Order, with the purpose of strengthening this activity in the smaller Sufi Centers.
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Mu‘inuddin Smith
New York, NY
(212) 477-6085
Mu‘inuddin|muinuddin#verizonn
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.
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Raqib Ickovits
Brentwood, California.
(310) 979-7814
Raqib Ickovits is a senior teacher, a mentor for representatives and retreat guides, and a direct student of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan for over thirty five years. Encompassing the teachings of mystical schools of Buddhism, Sufism, and Judaism within the framework of a physicist's perspective, Raqib teaches sufi theory and practice, mystical Jewish practice at rabbinic seminaries, and specialized curricula to individuals seeking spiritual training. Raqib takes special delight in teaching ancient esoteric texts extracting hidden practices encoded therein and redefining them in modern context.
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Saki Lee
Voorburg, Holland
tel. 00-31-70-3867800
Saki Lee|saqi.lee#planet.nl
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. Saki's upcoming seminars and retreats are described at http://www.lightsong.info.
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Sarmad Tide
Seattle WA
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Shahabuddin Less
Sarasota, FL
(941) 349-7717
Shahabuddin|unerring99#gmailc
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.
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Sharifa Norton
New York, NY
(212) 477-6085
Sharifa|sharifanur#earthlinkn
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.
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Taj Inayat
Mill Valley, CA
707.981.7375
Taj|Hurkalya#aolc
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.
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Tasnim Fernandez
Burbank, CA
(818) 841-3246
Tasnim|tasnimf#aolc
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.
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Wadud Cretella
Wadud|hecca#frontiernetn
Wadud is in love with the Sufi path! He is a senior teacher and Shafayat, Representative and guide, Cherag, Retreat Guide, Raphaelite practitioner, Farmer in Ziraat, and with his partner Zaynab is a Regional Representative. He is an active musician, dance leader and mentor. Professionally, Wadud continues to practice psychiatry. He has edited two volumes on the heart for the Dynamics of Healing Series and is actively involved in developing material for leaders' training in the Esoteric School. Wadud is interested in sharing about the heart, psychological principles for spiritual guides and practitioners, music-dance-and zikr, the journey of the soul for modern life, and more. Most of all, he emphasizes the integration of many experiences and concepts within modern Sufism, and the practical application of Sufism in our life.
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Zaynab Fitzpatrick
Zaynab|zaynab#frontiernetn
Zaynab is a longtime Sufi initiate, guide, retreat guide, Shafayat, Raphaelite practitioner, Farmer and Cherag. With Wadud Cretella, she serves as Regional Representative and is a member of the Board for the Sufi Healing Order. Zaynab is interested in sharing the Message far and wide.
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