Roving the Riverbeds: Ten Valleys on the Path to Awakening

Roving the Riverbeds
Ten Valleys on the Path to Awakening
With Pir Zia Inayat Khan

Saturday, November 7, 2026, via Zoom
11:00 am – 4:00 pm EST (New York)

You are warmly invited to spend a day with Pir Zia, continuing the journey through the stations of the path. All are welcome, whether or not you've joined Pir Zia on this journey before.

Wadis are undulating valleys and ravines carved into a landscape by the action of floodwater following rain. In the wadis of the pilgrim's journey, the flow of luminous waves emanating from inner realms lays bare a sequence of paths toward the object of the quest: illumination.

The wadis are named the practice of beauty (ihsan), knowledge ('ilm), wisdom (hikma), insight (basira), intuition (firasa), exaltation (ta'zim), inspiration (ilham), serenity (sakina), tranquility (tuma'nina), and aspiration (himma).

In this one-day retreat, through reflection, meditation, and the invocation of Divine Names, we will rove the riverbeds where the living Earth and the ever-transforming self coincide in a geography of awakening.

This is an open program for people at every stage on the spiritual path of Sufism. Translation will be offered.

Details

Our retreat is on Saturday, November 7, 2026, in three sessions of an hour and fifteen minutes with breaks between, beginning at 11:00 am EST (New York) / 5:00 pm CET (Paris) and ending at 4:00 pm EST / 10:00 pm CET. Please check your local time here. If you're joining from Australia or New Zealand, the retreat falls on Sunday morning, local time.

There are three tuition options to meet all needs:

• Supporter: $80. If you're able to give a little more, this helps sustain the retreat and the wider work of the Inayatiyya.

• Standard: $60. Our suggested level.

• Limited Income: $40. If the standard level is a stretch.

Scholarships are available — please email astana@inayatiyya.org before registering.

With advance registration, both the video and the audio will be made available afterward, so you can experience the retreat at any time.

We warmly encourage participation in real time together, with cameras on, to grow our collective attunement and to be present to one another within our tariqa — the Inayatiyya Sufi school of wisdom.

A reminder and the Zoom link will be sent a few days before, and again on the day of the retreat.

Please contact astana@inayatiyya.org with any questions about this one-day program.

Schedule

Biography

Pir Zia Inayat Khan, PhD, is a scholar of religion and teacher of Sufism in the universalist Sufi lineage of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is president of the Inayatiyya and founder of Sulūk Academy, a school of Sufi contemplative study and practice. He is the author of Tears from the Mother of the Sun with the visual artist Amruta Patel (Inner Traditions, 2026); Immortality: A Traveler's Guide; Mingled Waters: Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions; Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and the Mystical Quest; and the editor and compiler of Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan, for which he also wrote the critical introduction. Pir Zia divides his time between Richmond, Virginia, and Suresnes, France. inayatiyya.org