Storytelling
Dina Gregory
We are pleased to introduce Dina Gregory to the Abode! Dina Gregory is a teacher, storyteller, community builder, and the creative heart behind La Befana’s Table, a space dedicated to fostering connection, belonging, and shared humanity through curious conversations & storytelling. Inspired by the legend of La Befana, Dina weaves together old-world wisdom and modern […]
Peter Schein
For more than forty years Peter has been teaching math, science, philosophy, as well as writing, storytelling, juggling, and playing tennis. He has mostly avoided a full time job to be free to go on meditation retreats. He is an interfaith spiritual guide, and has studied in Taoist, Buddhist, Jewish - and most recently - Sufi traditions.
Onaje Muid
Onaje Muid, a transformative, Sufi social worker/ activist has a thirty-year career which combined human services, human rights, and spirituality, especially for descendants of formerly enslaved Africans and indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere. He is the creator of the Saba Uhuru Saba Ujija Healing System and the SEEDS Garden Network. He has served as an […]
Fatima Hafiz-Muid, PhD
Dr. Hafiz’s has more than 35 years’ experience in the field of education. Her research interests focus on emotions in social spaces where issues of race, gender, class, ethnicity and nationality intersect. Fatima currently serves as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College and Columbia University in teacher education and social work. Her pedagogical approach and […]
Pir Zia Inayat-Khan
Pir Zia, also known as Sarafil Bawal is the first son of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and Taj Inayat, born in 1971 in Novato, California. He grew up in California, New York, and New Mexico. Pir Vilayat made it clear to Zia at an early age that he wished him to continue his lineage. He prepared him by […]
Eve Ilsen
Eve Ilsen is a psychotherapist, singer and storyteller. Her studies and work have taken her from somatic psychology in California and Denmark to flying to rural villages in Alaska to Jerusalem and her studies there of the imaginal world with Mme. Colette Aboulker-Muscat. For twenty-seven years she partnered in teaching with her late husband, Rabbi Zalman […]
Dr. Randy Weston
Randy Weston, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1926, didn't have to travel far to hear the early jazz giants that were to influence him. Though Weston cites Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Art Tatum, and of course, Duke Ellington as his other piano heroes, it was Monk who had the greatest impact. "He was […]
Yaqin Joseph Aubert
Yaqin Joseph Aubert has been studying in Sufism for more than 40 years and is a senior teacher in the Inayatiyya Order, as well as the Order’s Vice President for North America. He was a student of Pir Zia’s father, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. Yaqin is a Cherag (minister) in the Universal Worship and has […]
Amanda Salima McCall
Amanda Salima McCall is a beloved mureed and coordinator within the Inayati Order. She is a graduate of Suluk Academy and has been consciously walking a personal spiritual path for many years. Her professional life is an outgrowth of her foundational belief that everyone deserves to be seen and cared for. This devotion to tending to the well-being of […]
Amin Dawdy
Producer-director Amin Dawdy has had a distinguished career as a motion picture producer, journalist, and businessman. As a student of the Sufi Inayat Khan, he is now the Writer-Director-Producer of My Heart’s Song, a documentary motion picture about the early days of the poet and influential musician who has helped shape 21st century culture. “My […]