Zenith Sufi Summer Camp

11/10/2026

It's a free, donation based offering. Check our website for the zoom link

28/09/2026

Sufi Summer Camp 2027 – Save the dates ✍

July 25 – August 07

The dates are set, and preparations for our next Sufi Summer Camp are underway!
In 2027, we’ll gather for two weeks at Windlicht, a beautiful community seminar center on the Windberg, in the heart of Thuringia.

- A diverse program for all ages
- Up to 75 beds available
- Plenty of space for tents, trailers & RVs
- A new place, a new chapter, and plenty of opportunities to connect, learn and
grow together

Our program planning group is just getting started, and we’ll keep you updated through our newsletter, website and social media. Pir Zia will not be attending the 2027 camp, but we’re confident that an inspiring and enriching seminar
program awaits us. Curious about the venue? Have a look at Windlicht: https://windlicht.amwindberg.de/

Hope to see you soon ❤

04/09/2026

🚨 Volunteers Needed for a Workcamp! 🚨

Our storage facility in Bodio has been unexpectedly terminated because the building needs to be renovated. This means we have to move out at very short notice – and we need your help! ❤️

At the end of September, we want to work together to move, sort and store tents, equipment, wood and other camp materials. We are looking for around 15 people who can support us for 1–2 weeks.

Yes, the work will be physically demanding and sometimes challenging. 💪🏼 But a workcamp is also about working together, laughing, singing, cooking, spending evenings together and making a real difference as a community. 🫶🏼

Because this move is about more than just hard work: we are saving the foundation that will allow Zenith Camp to continue for many years to come. ✨

📅 28 September – approx. 10 October 2026
📍 We'll stay in a house near Biasca, Ticino

Whether you help with carrying, sorting, cooking or organising – every helping hand counts!

👉 Can you join us? Please get in touch with us soon via DM or email ([email protected]) and send us a few details about yourself (photo, place of residence, age, how much time you have)

Let’s work together to make sure that Zenith Camp can continue! ❤️

25/08/2026

A Look Back at the Sufi Camp in Pfarrkeßlar ✨
A week of Sufi practice, connection, and shared presence 🤍

Nearly 100 people came together in July for a week of Simplicity, connection and community at the 2026 Sufi Summer Camp. ✨

This year, there were no permanent teachers. Instead, we embraced a new Community Camp format, with the program created and shared by the participants themselves. From meditations and workshops to music, nature, children’s activities and meaningful conversations, everyone contributed their gifts and energy. In this way, the camp became a living expression of the Sufi path: many hearts, many forms, one gathering.

We shared meals, helped with daily tasks, welcomed newcomers and old friends, and created a space filled with love, harmony and beauty.

Throughout the week, we explored the five elements: earth, water, fire, air, and ether; as doorways into deeper awareness and connection. 🌍

Through zikr, meditation, movement, music, silence, contemplation, and shared
practice, we explored the qualities of the elements within ourselves and in our
relationship with one another.

A week of remembering, opening, and returning to the heart.
A space to meet the Beloved in many forms.

A beautiful reminder that there are many ways to come together, learn from one another and nurture our community.

Thank you to everyone who made this special week possible. ✨
May the fragrance of this gathering continue to live in our hearts. 💛

24/05/2026

☀️ Earth, water, fire, air. Each day a new element to guide your awareness. "Desert Light" with Bettina Specht is an invitation to slow down and feel what's right here. Morning sessions, evening meditations, and the endless sky within. June 8–14, online. 🏜️🔥 Registration via our website!

https://zenithinstitute.com/events/wuestenlicht/

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/