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 in the French Alps, we’ve been organizing multi-week summer events for over 50 years.

Meditation and retreat are the central focus at these gatherings, while dance, movement, and music are integral as well. There are spaces for silent retreat, for workshops, for conversation. Essential to our community is collective effort: Volunteers build the Camp’s structures and meeting places before the participants arrive, make running the camp possible through their work in a variety of staff positions, and later dismantle the buildings at summer’s end.

While being an independent organization, the Zenith camp stands in the tradition of the Inayatiyya, a Chishti Sufi tradition brought to the Western world by Hazrat Inayat Khan. The Sufism of the Inayatiyya is universal in its acceptance of all people and paths leading to the unfoldment of the light and power latent in the human being. Read more about our mission and values here.

Summercamp 2025:

For 2025, we’re pleased to announce that camp will take place at the Caduceus Center once again. With the experience of a surprisingly beautiful and successful summer, this decision was relatively easy for us as a team and board. Here’s all the important info about our camp this year:

And here’s a preview of our wonderful 2025 program, all of which you’ll find in detail and with the option to register right away on the individual program pages.

Week 1, July 27 – August 02
Main program: Discovering the Spirit of Guidance with Pir Zia Inayat Khan.
Also: Program for young adults with Deepa Gulrukh Patel, program for teenagers with Delphine and David-Julian, children’s program & individual retreat

Week 2, August 03 – 09
Main program: Music and Dance of the Soul with Ophiel van Leer, Tarana Jobin, Fatimabi & Alaudin Grieger and Sinan Arat.
Also: Soul Healing with Amina Feliou, Qalbi Siddique and Kabir Findeisen, children’s program & individual retreat.

Week 3, August 10 – 16
Main program: Honouring and Awakening Atum’s Presence with Ulrike Greenway and Emmanuel O’Kane.
Also: Echoes of the Heart, The Mystic’s Path with Aziz Dikeulias, children’s program & individual retreat

Winter Online Program 2025:

To help you experience warmth and connection during the winter season, we are once again offering three weeks of morning meditations and three wonderful concerts, online on Zoom and entirely on a donation basis. Here’s what expects you next month:

March 10 – March 14, 6.30 – 7.30 CET via Zoom: Morning Meditation with Zumurrud Butta

“A great spring has begun; full of love, it approaches our door.”

With this quote from Jalaluddin Rumi, Zumurrud invites you to a week of early morning meditation together in March. We will tune in to the new day, listen to the music rising from the silence and open ourselves to what this spring brings to awakening.

March 14, 20.00 CET via Zoom: Kirtan with Nirtan

Nirtan is a singer and musician, who leads chants to sing along from different spiritual traditions. Through music he aims to inspire people and build bridges from heart to heart. In this Kirtan, he invites you to chant these songs of the heart together, creating a magical group atmosphere, even through the digital realms.

Some images from past years, showing the old location of the camp in Campra / Pü: