Intensive Sufi-Training Days

Sufi methods and techniques on the Path to Self-Knowledge (DE/EN)
In-person in House of Peace, Vienna, and online via Zoom

These 5 intensive days are meant as a retreat which will give participants the opportunity to work as a group, in pairs and alone, and to go deeper into the following:

  • Healing rituals: meaning, background, effects and when to use them
  • Sufi whirling: effects, various methods, different schools, different uses
  • Working with the Divine Names: when and how they are used, how they work and how they are used for spiritual knowledge
  • Awareness and breathing practices: for self-knowledge and healing
  • Energy & form, spirit & body: how they combine to help us on the path to our individual 
    completeness;techniques to reach Unity.

The teachings will be held in German and in English (with translation).
You are invited to join online on Zoom if you cannot attend in-person in Vienna, Austria.
Audio files (and all relevant material) of the sessions will be sent per email after the training days (for personal use).

 

A Five-Day Journey into the Heart of Unity

“We shall show them Our signs on the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that He is the Truth.” (41:53)
 

There is a garden within the heart untouched by time. A place beyond all separation, where the feminine and the masculine have never been apart.

There they recognize one another as two mirrors reflecting the same Divine Light, two breaths of the One who reveals Himself in infinitely diverse forms.

The feminine is the mystery of receptivity, mercy, and beauty (Jamāl). The masculine is the mystery of clarity, responsibility, and majesty (Jalāl). Neither finds its fullness without the other.

As day and night embrace the same sky, as inhalation and exhalation belong to the same breath, so these two realities rest in the Unity of Allah.

The Sufis teach that everything which appears divided is simply waiting to be recognized again.

It is not the world that is divided, it is our way of seeing.

When the eye of the heart awakens, all opposition begins to dissolve. Beauty becomes strength, and strength becomes mercy. Truth loses its harshness, and love its blindness. Everything finds its rightful place within the perfect harmony of the Divine Order.

In a time when voices have become louder than hearts, and judgments are spoken more quickly than prayers, Love invites us to another way.

The way of return, the return to the heart that excludes no one.

The return to that inner silence where Allah entrusts the human being with His Divine Secret.

For every soul carries within itself beauty and majesty, gentleness and strength, surrender and responsibility.

These five days are not a search for something new, they are an act of remembrance, a remembering of what the soul already knew before it entered this world.

Perhaps we will discover that healing does not come by adding something to ourselves, but by letting go of everything that separates us from our original nature.

Perhaps we will realize that the deepest strength is born from love, and the highest wisdom blossoms from a silent heart.

And perhaps, in the stillness, the heart will reveal the secret safeguarded by the friends of Allah throughout the ages:

Tawḥīd is not merely the knowledge that Allah is One. Tawḥīd is seeing the One in everything.

It is recognizing that every encounter bears His Face, every trial conceals His Wisdom, and every experience of love is a call back to Him.

When the heart awakens to this Unity, the struggle of opposites comes to an end.

Then the human being becomes a bridge between Heaven and Earth, between Mercy and Truth, between the seen and the unseen.

Then the heart becomes a mirror of the Beloved and within that mirror, the soul discovers that it has never been separated from Allah.

Programme and schedule:

The Intensiv-Training Days will start August 22nd 2026 at 11:00 AM (CEST) and end August 26th, 2026 after the closing lunch at 2:30 PM (CEST). 

We offer 5 days of intensive programme throughout the day:
(Changes might be possible)

06:30 – 07:30:  Morning exercise (body exercise or mediation)
10:00 – 13:30:  Teachings with Sufi teachers, group works 
13:30 – 15:00:  Joint lunch 
15:00 – 16:00:  Break 
16:00 – 17:30:  Individual exercise and exercise with a partner 
17:30 – 18:30:  "Question and Answer" Session with Sufi teachers
18:30 – 19:30:  Joint dinner
20:00 – 21:30:  Evening activity (e.g.  Dhirk, Sufi music, tbc)

You will receive audio recordings of the teachings per email (so in case you cannot join all days / sessions you can listen to it later).