Zenith Sufi Summer Camp

05/05/2026

🏜️ Follow the caravan into the desert! For 25 years, Bettina Specht has been guiding silent retreats in the Sahara. This June, she's bringing the desert to you — wherever you are. An online retreat in everyday life, June 8–14. 🐪✨.

Desert Light – A Retreat in Everyday Life Desert Light A Retreat in Everyday Life with Bettina Specht online via Zoom, June 8 – 14, 2026 For 25 years, I have been accompanying people through silent retreats in the desert. Perhaps you have read or heard about this before. At the camp, the retreat...

18/03/2026

🐰🌸 Easter's soon, and the annual Inayatiyya DE Easter seminar with Pir Zia offers a chance for the European Inayatiyya community to gather and celebrate. This year's theme is "Forgiveness, Healing, and Wholeness". Something we could all use a little more of right now . 🕊️ Parts of the Zenith team and board will traditionally be there as well!

https://www.inayatiyya.de/events/easter-retreat-2026/

07/03/2026

"When the soul is attuned to God, every action becomes music."
– Hazrat Inayat Khan
❤️ You are warmly invited to join us for morning meditation with Ophiel starting on Monday at 6:30 a.m. CET. We will attune ourselves to the day through light, sound and mantric chanting. 🧘 To conclude the week, there will be a concert with Mehmet and Ali Ungan on Friday at 8 p.m. CET, the ecstatic finale of this year's Winter Online program.

Donation-based and open to everyone:

Winter Online Program 2026 March 9 – March 13, 6:30 – 7:30 am CET via Zoom: Morning meditation with Ophiel Van Leer Our morning meditations will include: Attuning to the finer realms of our being, immersing into practices with light and subtle sound, concentration on archetypal qualities, mantri...

05/02/2026

“Spiritual practice is like a tuning fork that attunes us to the divine frequency, allowing us to hear the subtle whispers of inner guidance.”

🧘 Our winter online programs continue! From next Monday on, Saki Lee will lead us into deep attunement each morning. This time not on Friday, but on Sunday, Zuleikha will offer a musical Zikr at 15:00 CET.
❤️ All Donation based & Zoom Link on our Website: https://zenithinstitute.com/

“Freedom gives infinite power, it can move mountains.”– Camp founder Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Welcome to Zenith! Zenith Camp is a Sufi meditation camp with a community that comes together every summer to celebrate love, harmony and beauty. Tracing back to the youth camps Pir Vilayat organized i...

10/01/2026

🧘 Come join our morning meditation series & concert starting this Monday! ❤️ All Donation based & Zoom Link on our Website https://zenithinstitute.com/

13/09/2025

"Liberte!" - "Freedom!". She died with this words on her lips in Dachau 81 years ago fighting against the evil that was devouring Europe during the WWII. Noor Un Nissa Inayat Khan - the Indian princess, daughter of a Sufi mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan, poet, musician, heroine by necessity of times she lived in, very fine soul. We remember her today!

“At Thy feet o Madzub,
I come to seek for rest
In the fire of Thy glance,
may this yearning soul be blessed..."

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Winter is a time of preparation for the next year in the Camp but there will be online programs to keep in touch.

🕊PEACE TO ALL

26/08/2025

🌿Dear Camp Familly🌿

We were lucky to have Masoom again in our Camp, our special guest. That means wonderful Indian Chai, or Pakora, as well as just beautiful open hearted presence of someone from the heart of The Hope Project in India.

Our Zenith Summer Sufi Camp and The Hope Project are sister organizations fathered by Pir Vilayat long time ago.

The Hope Project in Nizamuddin Basti started as giving out milk to the kinds on the street of Basti, New Delhi, India - which was a very poor neighborhood. In meantime there is a small clinic, nursery, and school and programs for woman and young people, so they learn basic skills needed for life, that really poor people might not have like cooking, but also to give them profession so they can have a better life and be a part of society.

You can volunteer in The Hope Project but also, which is really essential, to support it by giving the gift of money, so the programs can go on, and kids are fed, healthcare can be provided, and school after being flooded last year by monsoon can get some computers again etc.

Check it out:
Office addresses The Hope Project 127, Basti Hazrat Nizamuddin, New Delhi-110013
Phone: +91 7303 501 350
Email: [email protected]

http://hope-project.de
http://hopeproject.nl
https://www.facebook.com/HopeProjectIndia - not sure if this link works in your country, let us know if it opens for you.
Instagram: hopeprojectindia
www.hopeprojectindia.in

May we all unite in one human family...
✨💖✨

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11/08/2025

🌿Dear Camp Familly🌿

Two wonderful weeks of camp behind us. Extremely touching week of remembering and actualizing presence of Atum O'Kane in this beautiful Camp community of just has begun.

🐾 We, as a team, already think on take-down, and we might need your help with it. We are a little short of people to take down the Camp starting on August 17th. If you have little time to come and support us for couple of days or a week plus, please, write to us and join. 👉 [email protected] The summer just returned and hopefully we will have a great weather and well as fun together.

This is a beautiful adventure of making the Camp a round circle: birth, fulfillment, and finally the transformation journey and opportunity to connect deeper with this part which makes camp possible. Spiritual work in action.

🌺 So "come come whoever you are, wonderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. Ours is not the caravan of despair. Ours is the caravan of love." - Rumi

07/08/2025

🌿✨ Dear Camp Family ✨🌿
The sun smiles down on us this week. In the retreat area the Healing of the Soul Retreat takes place and In the main hall we have a wonderful music program. In meanwhile the last week of the Camp is slowly approaching, starting on Sunday.

Week 3 - 10-16.08.2029
🌟We invite you to to the seminar Honoring and Awakening Atum's Presence, where Ulrike Greenway and Atum's son Emmanuel will guide participants on a journey in Atum's footsteps. I have just compiled the announced archive with recordings from many seminar weeks for the participants. Those of you who are spontaneous (or have been undecided until now) are still welcome to join us! You can also participate online.
🔗https://zenithinstitute.com/events/honouring-atums-presence-week-3-2025/

🌸 In the retreat meditation tent Aziz Dikeulias and his group will listen to the echoes of the heart and walk the paths of the mystics. Depending on the energy and needs of the group, he offers individual exercises and evening programs. There are still about six places available in this seminar if you feel spontaneously inclined to embark on an intense inner experience.
🔗https://zenithinstitute.com/events/echoes-of-the-heart-week-3-2025/

🌱And there is still possibility to go on individual retreat with Bettina, Fatimabi, or Amaité, though you must register in advance. And we have beautiful dedicated area for individual retreats with its own dining tent and wash hut, so you can stay in silence and your attunement without mingling with the rest of the camp.
🔗https://zenithinstitute.com/events/individual-retreat-week-3/

You are cordially welcome to join us in Caduceus Centrum in Bad Bevensen.
🕊
Aman Aman Aman
May all beings be well, safe, and protected.

31/07/2025

🌿✨Dear Camp Family ✨🌿
We are half way through travelling with Pir Zia through the realms Reality in micro and macro scale. Making the bond of our body mind and soul of if you prefer our angelic, astral and physical self more conscious and deeper and at the same time connecting our small sense of self - small body, mind and soul to their cosmic dimensions. It is a delightful journey.

Our day is also filled with music in different ways and forms, meeting old and making new friends, or going deeper in silence, and joy of being.

If you sit at the edge and are not sure what to do next week - starting on August 3rd, just come to the Camp.

💫
We will have a heavenly Music Program.
🔗https://zenithinstitute.com/events/music-and-dance-of-the-soul-2025/
There will be beautiful-soul Arat along with Bolat and Ophiel van Leer. We will also whirl with Fatimabi and Allaudin Gieger.

Come come and play the strings of your own heart, let your soul dance in cosmic harmony. And if you play an instrument, bring it with you!

As Rumi says: “You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

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We will find a place or two for people who want to still join our healing program:
🔗 https://zenithinstitute.com/events/soul-healing-2025/

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An you can still choose to do individual retreat in our large retreat area under the supervision of our wonderful guides this week.
🔗 https://zenithinstitute.com/.../individual-retreat-week-2/

Looking forward to see you next week or beyond in week 3.
🔗 https://zenithinstitute.com/registration-2025/

May all beings be well and happy! May all beings know peace!

22/07/2025

🌿✨Dear Camp Familly✨🌿
In a few days the Camp begins in Bad Bevensen. We are full into getting ready to receive guests. Most tents are standing, though more little works need to be done.
Our team this year spans between 2 and nearly 70 year old. There are 8 languages so far present which makes it beautiful intercultural event. Toward the One! 🌟

Our program updates! 🪽
WEEK 1 -starts on Sunday! Main program is fully booked, however, you can still participate in the program with Pir Zia online. We will broadcast all sessions in our usual high quality, including recordings. 💫
🔗 https://zenithinstitute.com/events/pir-zia-week-1-2025-online/

WEEK 2 - August 3rd -9th - registration for the “Soul Healing” program is possible again, as two places have become available. 🌸
🔗 https://zenithinstitute.com/events/soul-healing-2025/

An individual retreat in our large retreat area under the supervision of our wonderful guides is also still possible this week. 🌱
🔗 https://zenithinstitute.com/events/individual-retreat-week-2/

There has been a change to the main program, Music and Dance of the Soul: Tarana is unfortunately unable to attend for professional reasons. However, with Ophiel, Fatimabi, Alaudin, and Sinan, we still have a strong team that will be supported by other outstanding musicians such as Latif Bolat.

We are also pleased to announce a concert by the Sufi duo MaQam on Wednesday evening.

WEEK 3 - August 10th-16th, we would be delighted to welcome a few more registrations for the seminar Honoring and Awakening Atum's Presence! At the moment, 55% of places have been filled, so there is still room :-). Participation in the seminar with Aziz Dikeulias and an individual retreat are also still possible this week.
🔗 https://zenithinstitute.com/events/honouring-atums-presence-week-3-2025/

STAFF OPPORTUNITY:
We are actively seeking additional staff members for week 3 (August 10–16) and 1–2 additional staff members for week 1 (July 27–August 2). If you would like to help out and be part of the team that makes the camp possible, please send us a short application or email us at [email protected].

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We hope to welcome You soon in wonderful Caduceus Centrum in Bad Bevensen. 🌺
Love, Light, and Peace to all beings everywhere! 🫲❤️🫱