Ozark Sufi Camp, Spring 2010

Annual Retreat taking place at the Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, USA

Saturday, May 29, 2010
Session 1: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 1 (Length 51:55)

  • Opening: Singing of the Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan and the Sacred Sound "Hu"

  • Invocation of Hazrat Inayat Khan

  • Setting the Intention for the Retreat

  • Reading from the Sufi Message Volume 4,

    Mental Purification Number 11, Mystic Relaxation 1.

  • Q&A and Discussion

  • Practice: The Three Rhythms
    • The Mobile Rhythm: creative, productive, constructive, and through that rhythm all power and inspiration are gained, and peace is experienced.

    • The Active Rhythm: the source of success and accomplishment, of progress and advancement, the source of joy and fulfillment.

    • The Chaotic Rhythm: the source of failure, of death, of disease and destruction, the source of all pain and sorrow.

Saturday, May 29, 2010
Session 2: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 2 (Length 56:07)

  • Practice: The Three Rhythms -Continued

  • Reading: Sufi Message Volume 4,

    Mental Purification Number 11, Mystic Relaxation 1.

  • Discussion: Breath and Rhythm

  • Reading: An Introduction to a Message in Our Time

    by Hidayat Inayat-Khan.

    • The symbol of the yellow rose in Sufism and Hazrat Inayat Khan’s affinity for the yellow rose.

    • Reading: Quote from the 1926 American Radio recording of Hazrat Inayat Khan regarding the Sufi Message.

  • Practice: Purification Breaths

  • Practice: Nayaz on the Breath

Sunday, May 30, 2010
Session 1: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 3 (Length 58:36)

  • Opening: Singing of the Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan and the Sacred Sound "Hu"

  • Invocation of Hazrat Inayat Khan

  • Reading: from the Flower Garden of Inayat Khan,

    Available through Sufimovement.org

  • Reading: Gamakas, on the subject of "Silence".

  • Review: The Three Rhythms
    • The Mobile Rhythm: creative, productive, constructive, and through that rhythm all power and inspiration are gained, and peace is experienced.

    • The Active Rhythm: the source of success and accomplishment, of progress and advancement, the source of joy and fulfillment.

    • The Chaotic Rhythm: the source of failure, of death, of disease and destruction, the source of all pain and sorrow.


  • Reading from the Sufi Message Volume 4,

    Mental Purification Number 11, Mystic Relaxation 1.

Sunday, May 30, 2010
Session 2: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 3 (Length 51:06)


Monday, May 31, 2010
Session 1: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 1 (Length 46:14)

  • Opening: Singing of the Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan and the Sacred Sound "Hu"

  • Invocation of Hazrat Inayat Khan

  • Reading: An Introduction to a Message in Our Time

    by Hidayat Inayat-Khan.

    • Chapter: Alchemy of Happiness
    • Poem: to the Song called Chanson Exotique
    • Biographical Notes: on Pirani Ameena Begum

Monday, May 31, 2010
Session 2: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 2 (Length 56:25)


Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Session 1: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 3 (Length 47:47)

  • Opening: Singing of the Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan and the Sacred Sound "Hu"

  • Invocation of Hazrat Inayat Khan

  • Review: The Three Rhythms
    • The Mobile Rhythm: creative, productive, constructive, and through that rhythm all power and inspiration are gained, and peace is experienced.

    • The Active Rhythm: the source of success and accomplishment, of progress and advancement, the source of joy and fulfillment.

    • The Chaotic Rhythm: the source of failure, of death, of disease and destruction, the source of all pain and sorrow.

  • Reading from the Sufi Message Volume 4,

    Mental Purification Number 11, Mystic Relaxation 2.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Session 2: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 3 (Length 46:41)

  • Practice: Five Stages of Concentration on the Sufi Symbol

    The Heart and Wings
    • Observation
    • Visualization
    • Creative Concentration
    • Projective Concentration
    • De-concentration

  • Practice: Singing Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan