Organizational Structure
We consider the art of healing a gracious act of solidarity with human suffering, inspired by an attunement with the divine which allows one to become a clear channel for the divine healing power. While the capacity for spiritual healing is a natural human attribute, study, training and experience can further develop and enhance this potential.
Members & Participants: The Healing Activity provides a framework for the development of those interested in growing in healing capacity. It is an organization that allows you to train without commitment, or offers initiation, which establishes a connection between the developing individual and the lineage of healers across time and cultures.
Healing Conductors: As you do further training, and develop an interest, members have an opportunity to be ordained as Healing Conductors, which authorizes them to perform the Healing Service and teach classes in healing; or you can train to take a healing presence out into your work and life.
Shefayats: The Shafayat is one who has worked with the teachings and practices over time and developed a responsibility for a particular aspect of the teachings or a geographical area.
Shafayats may initiate members and offer teaching, training and retreats.
Kefayats: The North American Kefayat takes responsibility for the overall organization in North America and Oceania, giving seminars and training programs and retreats, and working with the Shafayats and members.
Current Leaders of the Inayatiyya Healing Activity
Pir Zia Inayat Khan
Pir Zia Inayat Khan, PhD, is a scholar of religion and teacher of Sufism in the universalist Sufi lineage of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is president of the Inayatiyya and founder of Sulūk Academy, a school of Sufi contemplative study and practice. He is the author of Tears from the Mother of the Sun (expected 2025); Immortality: A Traveler’s Guide; Mingled Waters: Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions; Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and the Mystical Quest; editor and compiler of Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan, for which he also wrote the critical introduction. Pir Zia divides his time between Richmond, Virginia and Suresnes, France. inayatiyya.org
Devi Tide
Devi Tide is the Kefayat (Head) of the Healing Activity in North America and Oceania as well as the Vice President Emeritus of the Inayatiyya Healing Activity. She has over thirty years experience as a teacher of healing and the esoteric sciences, bringing the qualities of wisdom, heart, subtlety, humor, and intelligence to her role.
Devi has contributed to programs in India, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America, participating in programs in places such as the United Nations and the Harvard Mind Body Institute. As a teacher of yoga and ancient healing practices, and as a guide of Healing retreats, Devi serves medical professionals, educators, sociologists, and laypeople. As a worldwide speaker, Devi represents the inner vitality and harmony of the body, mind and spirit. She also offers personal transformation through her seminars, public speaking and individual sessions.
Raqib Misha Kogan, MD
Raqib Kogan together with Nur Alima Smith are Co- Bayts-ul-Haram, Co- Vice Presidents of the Inayatiyya Healing Activity. Raqib Misha Kogan received his medical degree from Drexel University, College of Medicine. He is the medical director of the GW Center for Integrative Medicine and associate professor of medicine in the division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at George Washington University.
Raqib has been on Sufi path since 2001. Together with his wife Rafia he completed Suluk training in 2009. Raqib has been working closely with Devi Tide and other healing activity leaders for over 10 years and assisted in organizing and running a number of annual Leadership Retreats. Raqib’s long term goal is to bring healing wisdom and practices of the Inayatiyya to more people, especially those who are vulnerable and on limited income.
To achieve this goal Raqib founded AIM Health Institute, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that provides integrative medicine services to low-income and terminally ill patients regardless of their ability to pay.
Nur Alima Smith
Nur Alima Smith together with Raqib Kogan are Co- Bayts-ul-Haram, Co- Vice Presidents of the Inayatiyya Healing Activity. Nur Alima is a Shafayat (senior teacher and healer), a Cherag, a Healing Conductor and a Raphaelite Healer in the Inayatiyya Healing Activity. She is adept with various breathing techniques, having studied this for 35 years. Nur Alima brings the Inayatiyya philosophy and practices to the community groups. She has run many trainings for staff and volunteers in Hospice and multiple Veteran Organizations focusing on these techniques and how to heal oneself with the breath.
Since 2015, Nur Alima has also led a weekly meditation group for Veterans who have PTSD. Her additional work with the Veteran Community includes teaching meditation and relaxation techniques to those on active duty about to be deployed and those who have just returned from combat. She also leads a monthly meditation session for Hospice volunteers and staff.