Sufi Group Retreats

With Saki Lee, Ph.D.

The group retreats offers an opportunity for healing, replenishment and unfoldment within the sacred space of community. Our group retreats vary in size between 20 - 50 participants.   Spiritual companionship can have a deep effect on our inner process. In our isolated modern day society, we all long for connectedness and relationship. So when we meet together in community for the conscious purpose of re-awakening the divine within ourselves  and each other, we give and receive support from each other.

picture: smaller group retreat in Stoutenburg, Holland

Every person who is present at any given retreat is an important part of the sacred container that is created, which holds the transformative fire of love. This love awakens and purifies the heart. It is both more challenging as well easier to open our hearts when we are in the witnessing presence of others who support our own presence with ourselves.  While this is not easy for those who cherish independence and self-sufficiency above everything else, we usually find that when we are willing to risk being vulnerable and open to our own hearts, we actually can learn alot from each other!

Spiritual work within a group encourages us to collectively create a space that will affirm the infinite dimensions of the heart. When the group is dedicated to deep inner work, each person will also find a place in which to enter silence and aloneness. This is the solitude of the mystic's domain. As we meditate and pray together, this solitary journey of the essential self is also given support and shared. During our group retreats, we will find time to be alone and to be with each other; to delve into the silence and peace, and to celebrate in joy, music and dance.

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