Echoes of the Heart, The Mystic’s Path: A Sufi Workshop/Retreat for Spiritual Discovery, Transformation and Unity

Echoes of the Heart, The Mystic’s Path:
A Sufi Workshop/Retreat for Spiritual Discovery, Transformation and Unity

A Retreat in Bad Bevensen, Germany
Week 3, August 10 – August 16, 2025

This world to a mystic is like a dome, a dome that re-echoes all that is spoken beneath it. What is spoken from the lips reaches only as far as the ears, but what is spoken from the heart reaches the heart. – Hazrat Inayat Khan

A Sufi workshop/retreat centered on connecting with the Beloved can be a profound experience, combining traditional Sufi practices, teachings, and contemplative methods to deepen our connection with the Divine, the Beloved. Focused on integrating Sufi ideas into everyday life can be a profound journey to self-awareness, spirituality, and connection.
This retreat can serve as both a grounding experience and a transformative journey, helping participants return to daily life with a renewed perspective and tools for bringing more compassion, mindfulness, and harmony into their lives.

– We contemplate the Sufi concept of the Beloved, exploring love and union with the Divine.
– We chant sacred names of the Beloved to centre the heart.
– We focus on breathing and silent meditation to release negative emotions.
– We purify our intentions, discover and align ourselves with the Beloved’s will.
– We share poems from Rumi, Hafiz, Attar, Hazrat Inayat Khan and others to highlight the journey of surrender and love.
– Silent Contemplation: Time in silence to meditate on the idea of unity with the Divine.
– We discuss and experience the Sufi concepts of Tawakkul (trust in God) and Fanâ (annihilation of the ego) as practices of surrender. We examine the importance of trust in navigating uncertainty and change.

Aziz Dikeulias officially joined the Sufi Caravan in 1982 mainly because it mirrored his fundamental belief and knowledge of the unity of all religions. He has spent 40 years teaching Mathematics to Inner London teenagers, trying to inspire them through  the indisputable logic and elegance of pure thinking, simultaneously discovering the elegance, logic and depth of Sufi teaching that went beyond the inability of rational thinking to resolve paradoxes.

Aziz is a senior teacher and guide of the Inayatiyya Sufi Order and has led retreats and workshops for 40 years in Europe and North Africa. He is a Siraj in the Universal Worship, teacher of the Dances of Universal Peace, mentor for retreat guides in training, and a friend to many seekers on the spiritual path. He has introduced a lot of pilgrims in retreats to deserts in Morocco, Sinai and the Sahara and simply lives for music.

Growing up in Greece, he is fully committed to the Delphi instruction of “Know Thyself” and helps people discover the divine strength or power that is beyond the dualism of praise and blame. This is the strength that naturally flows from intrinsic, essential worth.

Aziz teaches in English, hell’ll be translated consecutively into German.

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