Online Programs

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NEW! Living Sufism:The Rose & the Thorn (October 2026 - March 2027)

The Feminine Face of Sufism (November 2026 - March 2027)

Open Path - Recognizing Non-dual Awareness - (January - March 2027)

Walking with Wisdom (September 2026 - May 2027)

Sufism Today

Living Sufism 2026-27

October 2026 to March 2027

We live in a time of extraordinary opportunities and bewildering challenges. How do we meet both the Rose and the Thorn of our daily experiences with wisdom and equanimity? Each of us must find our own way.

This year’s Living Sufism program will offer a series of experiential encounters illuminating five gateways of Sufi practice. Our aim is to deepen our abilities to engage with whatever shows up in our everyday lives more creatively, effectively and harmoniously. This is what is meant by living Sufism.

What is Living Sufism?

The Rose and the Thorn is Inspired by Hazrat Inayat Khan’s five portals of engagement as described throughout  The Sufi Message.  Using contemporary language, we’re calling these portals the ways of: wholeness, compassion, action, worship and mysticism. These gateways also serve as activation points for the development of the spirit of aliveness that Pir Elias is now emphasizing in our ongoing work together. 

The Way of Wholeness (Shafi)

The Sufi phrase, “ya Shafi”, is a divine name used to invoke the healing energies of The One. In our time we have come to understand that achieving wholeness is no longer just a matter of personal physical and mental well-being. We can be in the service of healing our environment, our societies, our family circles, our relationships.

 The Way of Compassion (Ishq)

Ishq is an Arabic word meaning love that goes far beyond everyday affection.  Profound and intense, this is the love that we hope to experience with and in the divine Beloved. Yet it is also the flame of compassion that can warm, illuminate and guide our interactions with all living beings. 

The Way of  Action (Qadir)

Al Qadir is also one of the divine names meaning something like, “The One who can do anything”. Calling on this attribute reminds us that whatever we undertake in life can be a creative partnership between ourselves and the reality around us. Leaning on this divine capacity enables us to succeed and flourish,  supported by energies beyond our personal resources.

The Way of Worship (Salat)

Salat simply means prayer. Religions answer the question, “who is praying to whom for what purpose?”. But Sufism suggests that conscious living itself is a form of prayer.  We can connect to a deep source of blessings and bounty when we acknowledge the sacredness of everything around us.  As Inayat Khan suggested, “Make God a reality and God will make you the truth”. 

 The Inner Life (Tasawuuf)​

In its essence, Sufism is mystical; this is what is meant by tasawuuf. It is a way of insight and vision. It doesn't lead away from the world, but through it to the now of union.  

Facilitated by the Living Sufism Team:

Puran Perez, Angelika Macarthur,
Isha Francis & friends

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These Zoom sessions will be almost entirely experiential and held on
the last Sunday of the month.

Instructional content will be delivered through a monthly mailing of videos, text and exercises as a framework for each interactive session. 

For more information: https://livingsufism.com/

A creative, contemplative & collaborative enquiry

Lynn Raphael Reed & friends

November 2026 to March 2027

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This experiential and immersive online offering will explore the Feminine Face of Sufism in a way that is engaging and enlivening for all, drawing upon a variety of creative, contemplative and collaborative approaches.

Together we will consider the contribution of selected women mystics within classical and contemporary strands of Sufism, as well as some of the ways in which the Feminine has been conceived of within Sufi teachings.

We will share and honour our own relevant personal and communal experiences and insights. Finally, we will turn our gaze toward the many ways in which Feminine wisdom might resource us to stay present and responsive to the tangled and troubled world in which we live.

Registration is open to mureeds of the Sufi Way plus those who have attended Open Path programmes or other Sufi Way offerings, or who have a genuine interest in the Feminine Face of Sufism and a committed and heartfelt spiritual practice. Participants from across the full diversity of sex and gender identities are welcome.

Everyone will be invited to contribute to our emergent understandings of the Feminine Face of Sufism ~ expressions of which will be fluid, non-definitive, poetic and inclusive.

“The Feminine Face of Sufism is a brilliantly conceived and much needed addition to the offerings of the Sufi Way. The fact that it’s a creative, contemplative and collaborative enquiry brings it alive and relevant to our moment. Count me in! “

~ Pir Elias Amidon

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For a more detailed written outline please click HERE

Dates (2026-2027)

Orientation session (recorded): 5-6:30pm (BST) Oct 11, 2026

Feeding the Flame: Sundays, 5-7pm (GMT) Nov 8, Dec 6, Jan 10, Feb 7, Mar 7

Crucible Spaces: Sundays, 5-6:30pm (GMT) Nov 22, Dec 20, Jan 24, Feb 21

REGISTER HERE by 1st October 2026

Open Path Training

w/ Pir Elias Amidon

January-May 2027

What is the Open Path?

The Open Path is an invitation to awaken — awaken to our true nature and to our seamlessness with all of reality. At the same time, the Open Path is an invitation to live free, open-hearted, and fully-embodied lives.

The Open Path is “open” — it does not require belief in a specific spiritual tradition or adherence to a series of esoteric practices. Rather it is a living path of natural “enlightenment” that belongs to all of us. The Open Path is dedicated to the direct experience of our “natural state”, a state known as pure awareness, selflessness, nonduality, Oneness, rigpa, original spirit, and many other names. As recognition of our natural state comes alive for us, we experience release from our insecurities, self-doubt, and judgments of others, and are better able to respond spontaneously to whatever comes up for us in life with equanimity, creativity, and a kind heart.

About the Training

This online program consists of 10 intensive sessions with Pir Elias held twice each month on Sundays, from January 17 to May 16. Each session will consist of talks, guided meditations, and Q & A interactive exchanges. The Sunday sessions will be recorded so that if one is missed it can be experienced as soon as convenient.

In addition to these sessions, there will be five “Open House” sessions for participants to work on the material together. During these sessions participants will also have the opportunity to form small work groups to meet at other times if they wish.

Pir Elias’s book, The Open Path – Recognizing Nondual Awareness, will be a primary resource during the training. The Sunday sessions will weave together elements of the book’s chapters as the program proceeds. In addition, there will be additional readings and practices made available on the training’s learning platform.

Throughout the program we will be reminded of our natural state through a series of “pointings-out” by Pir Elias, along with practices that serve this fundamental recognition. However, even to say it like this implies that it is a revelation we don’t already know, and we do know it — for after all, it is our natural state, our basic nature. In a way it’s like remembering something that’s always been here but that we’ve been too distracted by the confusion and fears of our lives to notice. We will be helped in our remembering by guided meditations, practices, and by the words of luminous people from many traditions.

In addition, a number of the sessions will be devoted to practices of self-inquiry and the release of fixations and self-stories that tend to obstruct recognition. This can be challenging for us because many of these fixations have their roots in early traumas and long-held habits of mind, and have become part of our neural anatomy. But this is not to say they are intractable. Rather than trying to eradicate them, we open to them, and learn the subtle ways by which we can dis-identify from their stories. In a wonderful way, opening into openness is a particularly sensate experience — our bodies give us cues to help free us from the habitual contractions of our fixations and identities.

Finally, we will focus on what all this means for how we live our lives — in our intimate relationships, our work and service life, parenting, aging, and dying. Here we will open to the essence of what it is to love and to “doing the beautiful” — as in Rumi’s phrase: “Let the beauty you love be what you do.” This is not a matter of exhorting ourselves to be “good” or to improve ourselves. Being human means fully embodying our clear, open presence as we live our lives, coming from the natural source of the loving awareness that we are, and responding to all our relations with sensitivity, intimacy, humor, and kinship.

Dates

The Sunday sessions will be held at 5:00 PM GMT on:

January 17, 31
February 14, 28
March 14, 27 (a Saturday, as Easter Sunday is on the 28 th )
April 11, 25
May 9, 16

The Friday Open House sessions will be held at 5:00 PM GMT on:

January 22
February 19
March 19
April 16
May 14

What’s Included:

• Ten 1 ½ hour online live sessions with Pir Elias and the community of participants, with talks, practices, guided meditations, and Q & A sessions.

• Recordings of the Sunday sessions available on the training’s “learning platform.”

• Five 1-hour online Open House sessions for participants to work on the material together, and also to form small work groups if desired.

• A series of suggested practices throughout the training, posted on the learning platform.

• A series of additional readings posted on the learning platform.

• Opportunity to submit written questions which will be responded to either in writing or during the online sessions.

Required: All participants are asked to purchase and read Pir Elias’ book The Open Path – Recognizing Nondual Awareness, available in English, French, Dutch, German, and Italian versions.

Tuition Fee:

• Standard Fee for the training is $750 (€645; £550.) A limited number of scholarships will be available for those on low income.

• Supporter’s Fee for the training is $900 (€770; £660). The excess of the Supporter’s Fee will be applied to scholarships.

Registration will open on October 1, 2026

Pir Elias' special presentation of "The Open Path" is available on the Waking Up app.

This program anchors the listener in some of Pir Elias' central teachings, while inviting an open receptivity and acceptance of what is flowing into one's own life right now. It also offers a prelude to the broader themes of The Open Path Training,

The team at Waking Up has graciously offered us a free trial link, so that anyone who does not yet have access to the app can listen to this series.

Click below to download the Waking Up app and start your free trial.

Returning September 9, 2026

Join Murshid Ihsan Covey for a new series of gatherings devoted to the wisdom sources of the Sufi Way. Through teachings, contemplation, and reflective conversation, we will explore what is alive and real in the unfolding of our spiritual lives. All are welcome.

2nd Wednesday of the month

1pm EST / 6pm UK / 7pm EU