Classes
Presentation at DHO gathering in 2020
Protection from Mawakuls (Obsessive, Infectious Feeling/Thought Forms)
This two-class series from 2020 focuses on Hazrat Inayat Khan’s teachings on mawakuls, obsessive and infectious feeling/thought forms, entities which may become obsessional for us. In the age of virtual information, these feeling/thought forms have become more prevalent. The series provides highlights from Hazrat Inayat Khan’s writings on mawakuls and includes practices to address them. It ends with a presentation by Natalia on developing control over our thoughts. A link to Hazrat Inayat Khan’s writings on mawakuls is also provided.
- Audio: Readings from Hazrat Inayat Khan and Murshid SAM, using Irfan and wazifas to screen or filter impressions that have become obsessional for us (11/12/20)
- Audio: Mawakals as entities or elements, use of the elemental breaths, practices of Ya Shakur, Ya Ghafur, Natalia on practices for developing control over our thoughts (11/26/20)
- Document: Mawakul -Hazrat Inayat Khan Sangitha Series II (PDF)
Healing Pathways of the Heart
Audio of a weekend healing retreat that Saadi offered in 2009 in Asheville, NC, “Healing Pathways of the Heart,” which uses as a “thread” the stages of the healing ritual and as “beads” various Beautiful Names. It is a live recording, mostly unedited, so there are dances, chants, and meditations in addition to work with the “names.”
- 1. Introduction to workshop, 99 names, pathways to the heart
- 2. Sufi Invocation, sacred names Er-Rahman, Er-Rahim, Introductory Bismillah dance
- 3. The world is a bridge dance, sacred name Subhan Allah
- 4. Introduction to 99 names of God, topics for weekend, the Prophet Mohammed and 3 wazifa stories, 3 wazifa practices, chant
- 5. Subhan Allah Raga dance, Kalama dance
- 1. The healing breaths of Hazrat Inayat Khan
- 2. The Sufi Invocation
- 3. Ya Hayy Ya Haqq dance, La Ilaha Illallah Muhammad-ar Rasulillah song
- 4. La Ilaha Illallah Muhammad-ar Rasulillah zikr
- 5. 3 phases of the Healing Ritual and relationship to Sufi tradition, first phase, unity, Islamic version of Adam and Eve, question of controlling one’s destiny in 3 traditions, first phase of healing, reconnecting, Ya Wahid, Ya Ahud, Ya Samad, The Caravan guided meditation, practices related to the line “the peace and unity of the whole creation”, Aramaic version of words, Q&A
- 6. Abba Abadah dance
- 7. Quotes from Hazrat Inayat Khan regarding zikr and the 99 names, zikr song
- 8. Zikr
- 9. Second part of Healing Ritual, roots and stages of fana, the nafs, the silsila, Al Khafid,
relationship to Kafi, Ya Ra’uf, Ya Nafi’, wazifa practice, Ya Muqsit, Ya Muhaimin, Ya
Mu’min, Amen, working with nafs, Murshid SAM and Ruth St. Dennis, Hazrat Inayat
Khan and Ruth St. Dennis
- 10. Allaha Abaru dance
- 11. La Ilaha Illalla Hu zikr, Q&A, vibration of sound, sacred sounds in the 99 names, using a
wazifa to call upon an aspect of yourself, checking in with your guide on use of new
wazifas, Sufi Book of Life, Stories of the Prophet Mohammed, Ya Qayyum Ya Ba’ith
- 12. Chant of healing prayer that Pir Barkat Ali gave Murshid SAM, Murshid SAM and Zen and
Sufi tradition, song, zikr
- 13. Sufi stories as introduction to zikr or practices, Mullah Nasruddin stories, introduction to zikr
- 14. Zikr
- 1. Review of healing breaths, the 3 wazifas, walks of the 3 wazifas
- 2. The Three Wazifas dance
- 3. Three phases of personal healing, unity, personal clearing and exploring the darkness, emanating blessing, working with the elements to do clearing and personal healing,HIK’s writings on the elements, Ya Warith, a guided meditation using the elements, nature, and the elemental healing breaths