The Ziraat Concentration of North America

An Activity of the Sufi Order International
       

Ziraat was inaugurated in 1926 by Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan of India, who taught in the United States and Europe in the early 1920's. Inayat Khan introduced the inner life to many westerners, and spoke of spiritual liberty and the underlying unity of all the world's spiritual traditions.

Ziraat uses the symbols and dynamic processes of agriculture as ways of describing the inner life, and as ways of finding a bridge between the spiritual and material worlds.

Ziraat is an initiatic school, open to all who feel a commitment to spiritual awakening and to the protection of this sacred world. It is an activity of the Sufi Order International, but one need not be a member of the Sufi Order to join. Initiation in Ziraat confirms a pledge to affirm and cultivate the divine seed within our being, and thereby to help in the preservation and restoration of our world.

For more information about Ziraat, please contact Sharifa Norton, Head of the Ziraat Concentration in North America at ziraat@earthlink.net.

 

PAST WORKSHOPS AND RETREATS WITH
SHARIFA NORTON AND MUINUDDIN SMITH

2008

 
June 22, 2008
Summer Solstice Retreat,
East West Books, NYC. New York
 
June 8, 2008
Emerald Earth Part 3
Flemington, New Jersey

April 16-20, 2008
Caravan of the Beautiful
The Orchard in Spring
Sarasota, Florida

March 22, 2008
Spring Equinox Retreat
East West Books, NYC, New York
 
2007
 
November 7, 2007
Emerald Earth Part 2
Flemington, New Jersey
 
September 22, 2007
Autumn Equinox Retreat
East West Books, NYC, New York
 
June 30, 2007
Boulder, Colorado
 
June 23-24, 2007
The Soul's Journey and Spiritual Ecology
Alburquerque, New Mexico

May 12, 2007
Wakefield, Rhode Island
The Emerald Earth

March 4, 2007
Emerald Earth, Part 1
Flemington., New Jersey

 

 

 

 

 

 

To a little band of sowers has been given a handful of living grain.

Faithfully it must be sown; surely, it will be reaped;

and the harvest shall be for the sustenance of all.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

2008

August 11-15, 2008
Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New YorkEarly morning meditations-- open to all
Workshop I: The Essence of the True Human Being: Meditations and Poetry from the Sufi Tradition
Workshop II: The Emerald Earth:  Bringing Creative Beauty into Everyday Life
with Sharifa Norton & Muinuddin Smith

September 22, 2008
New York City, New York
Autumn Equinox Retreat with Sharifa Norton and Muinuddin Smith
East West Books, 78 Fifth Ave. @14th St. New York
To register, call 212-243-5995

Sunday, November 2, Flemington, NJ
2-5:30 PM, followed by a pot-luck dinner
Sharifa Norton & Muinuddin Smith,
"Emerald Earth Workshop, Part 4",
To register contact NoorAllah,
noorallah@earthlink.net, 908-788-6089

December 21, 2008
New York City, New York
Winter Solstice Retreat
with Sharifa Norton and Muinuddin Smith
East West Books
To register: 212-243-5995

 
2009
 
May 1-3, 2009
New Lebanon, New York
Abode Programs
Emerald Earth Ziraat Workshop/Retreat
with Sharifa Norton and Muinuddin SmithTo register:
Call Abode programs 518-794-8095
or email programsoffice@theabode.net

June, 2009
Pacific Northwest Ziraat Event
(details forthcoming)

 

Ziraat Retreats & Workshops (listed on this page) affirm the true goal of the spiritual path: a natural and spontaneous freshness, a broad vision and the upholding of the beauty, sacredness of all life. These events, open to all, employ classical Sufi meditation methods to balance and purify our beings and to uncover and live more deeply from our essence. Using practices of breath, light, sound and creative imagination, we will affirm the sowing of the divine seeds of love, harmony and beauty in life.

 

LINKS:

ZIRAATWATCH: HOMAGE TO THE EARTH

The link above offers important and current information about issues of the environment, peace, compassion and justice.

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE

There is much information and further links on the Environmental Defense website on how we can help more to protect our precious earth.

 

Thoughts on Fruitfulness By Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

Let the heavens be reflected on the earth, Lord, that the earth may turn into heaven. .........

Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

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