New Year's 2025 Retreat - Discover Mystical Freedom

Name: New Year's 2025 Retreat - Discover Mystical Freedom
Start: 2024-12-29T11:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-01-03T14:00:00-07:00
Location: Franciscan Renewal Center

Schedule

Sun Dec 29 2024 at 11:00 am to Fri Jan 03 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Franciscan Renewal Center | Paradise Valley, AZ

Discovering Mystical Freedom New Year's Retreat
December 29th, 2024 – January 3, 2025
Inspired by the Mystical Freedom of Noor-un-Nisa, Sufi Mystic & WWII Spy
Led by Susanna and Puran Bair
The Franciscan Renewal Center, 5802 E. Lincoln Drive, Scottsdale, AZ 85253
More Details and Registration:
https://www.iamheart.org/new-years-retreat-2025/
What happens when you are raised in a family of Sufi leaders spreading the wisdom of mysticism and meditation throughout the west at the turn of the 20th century, but during your young adult years, two world wars break out?
AND, you are a woman, who was not offered a leadership position in the family’s spiritual Order.

At our 2025 New Year’s Retreat, Exploring Mystical Freedom, we will use the inspiration of Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, sister of Vilayat Inayat Khan, from whom our school’s teachings come, and daughter of Inayat Khan, the first sage to bring Sufism to the west, to explore ‘freedom.’

As a decorated spy veteran of WWII, featured in the 2019 movie, “A Call to Spy,” Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, despite being a woman, found a way to build upon her mystical skills and pacifist beliefs to have the courage to work in secret against the Nazi regime in occupied France, attempt prison escape, protect Allies’ secrets and prepare for the ultimate sacrifice, facing death in the Dachau Concentration Camp.

What qualities must be developed in the heart to choose this dangerous path as the most authentic expression of self? By being grounded in the heart, Noor-un-Nisa had the quality of mystical freedom to lead the way.

Our sharings and meditations in this retreat will dive into the roots of mysticism as they relate to freedom, exploring concepts such as the limitations of identity, freedom through the examination of our desires, and ecstatic spiritual practice as a method for experiencing freedom. The retreat will help you define your path in the new year and bring you closer to your heart and your mystical freedom.