Young Adults Workshop
Making One’s Own Nature
Young Adults Workshop with Deepa Gulrukh Patel & Jacob Ellenberg
Week 4C, August 14th – 20th, 2022
Once we contemplate and become one with nature, our hearts open to its music.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan
This year, we journey into retreat, a time-honed process of mystical transformation.
Ultimately, the retreat is about accelerating the evolution of our being, humanity, the planet, and the cosmos. The retreat process has come down to us through the ages as a synthesis of spiritual traditions and practices. Working with core elements of our experience–sound, music, breath, movement and concentration–the retreat orchestrates conditions suitable for shedding our past, deepening our present, and infusing our futures with grandeur of who we really are. Our souls long for a truth and experience beyond what the everyday world tends to offer, and the retreat is an illuminating method for approaching that hallowed ground.
Speakers
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Deepa Gulrukh PatelDeepa Gulrukh Patel is a campaigner and facilitator with a special interest in the arts, interdisciplinary collaboration, contemplation, diversity, and equality: working with organisations like the BBC, ActionAid and the Arts Council of England. Deepa has been a student of the inner life since her teens and is the director of Zenith Camp. She is also currently working with the Helen Storey Foundation on a variety of projects with Syrian refugees in Jordan at the Zaatari Refugee camp. Volunteering is important part of her life; in the UK she is Chair of Tamasha Theatre Company and The Loss Foundation, a charity that supports people bereaved by cancer. In the USA she is an advisor to the New Monastic Foundation.
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Jacob EllenbergJacob Ellenberg has been a student of Sufism for 20 years. He has 15 years’ experience in founding start-ups and working with them and Fortune 250 companies in the fields of organizational strategy, video production, marketing, and storytelling. Jacob holds a BA from New York University in Mysticism and Organizational Behaviour