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.

Preview of our 2026 Program

While we won’t have our classic summer camp this year, we have something different to offer: An online program with meditation and music in winter, an interfaith excursion to Taizé, and a community gathering in summer! 

Winter Online Program: 1st week Jan 12 – 16
Encouraged by the positive response in recent years, we are once again organising three weeks of morning meditation in winter, as well as three ‘living room concerts’. These online programmes offer the chance to bring the spirit of the camp to life in winter, to experience warmth and connection during the cold months and to start the day in a conscious way. 

Community Gathering in Pfarrkeßlar, July 19 – 26
We’ll hold this space for our community to meet each other, from July 19-26, 2026, in Pfarrkeßlar (approx. 25 km southwest of Jena in Germany). There will be no conventional seminar program, but rather a colorful program sourced by the participants themselves, including morning meditations, zikr, singing, dancing, movement, Ziraat and much more.

More Information will follow soon!

Group Trip to Taizé, August 02 – 09
For Teenies and Young Adults 15–35
There will be a special offer for young adults and teenagers this year: in the spirit of interfaith dialogue, Gemma & Nori are organising a group trip to Taizé. It’s an opportunity to see friends from camp again, literally camp together, share new experiences and discuss them.

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