Maitreya
Group Healing Retreat with Devi and Sarmad Michael Tide
Supported by Jessica Bromby & Akbar Miller
When – April 3rd – 6th, 2025 : Thursday, April 3rd, 7pm – Sunday, April 6th, 12:30pm EST
Also – Individual Healing Retreats – April 6th – 12th : 3-, 5-, and 7-day Retreats Available)
Where – In-Person at Rising Tide International, in Sarasota, FL 10 minutes from Siesta Key Beach, and online via Zoom
Contact: Jessica and Akbar Chris Miller, risingtideinternational@gmail.com
Healing Retreat * Sufi Practice * Nature * Beach Meditation * Community * Breath * Light * Clearing * Releasing * Guidance * Inner Journey * Renewal * Restorative * Chanting * Teachings * Poetry * Song * Music * Body, Heart, Mind & Spirit * Spring Cleaning * Transformation *
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“One day of retreat gives the same benefit as one year of spiritual practice”
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Retreat Description:
Join Senior Healing Retreat Guides Devi Tide and Sarmad Michael Tide for a 3-day group healing retreat. Delve into Sufi and nature-based healing practices that will revitalize and illuminate your heart, mind, body, and spirit.
This is a time to resource, renew, restore, and rejuvenate.
Take the time and space to go deeper within, in a space held and guided by longtime retreat guides, Senior Teachers in the universalist Inayati Sufi Order, with over 40 years of experience teaching, guiding, and leading retreats.
Remember the capacity for miracles, within and without, seek and find guidance, and journey through, heal, and release impressions stored in the mind, heart, and at the cellular level.
Devi is a Kefayat (Head) of the Inayati Healing Activity, and Sarmad is a Shefayat, both have great reservoirs of experience, attunement, love, laughter, and wisdom, having guided many retreats and workshops over the years.
The retreat is supported by Jessica Bromby, and Akbar Chris Miller. Jessi and Akbar often lead workshops, services, zikrs, and other programs together at Rising Tide and around the world.
The Weekend Retreat is open to all, and especially for those going through a transition, change, loss, release, big next step, seeking new direction, and more.
TO THE HRGT GROUP:
This is a special opportunity for participants of the Healing Retreat Guide Training Program to gather in person, sit and dive into the healing practices, process with fellow participants, and check in with Devi, Sarmad, and Jessica about the training with a special session dedicated. Come and do an in-person healing retreat for part of your requirement in the course in beautiful, sunny Sarasota, with friends and fellow retreat guide trainees.
FOR THOSE ONLINE OR IN EUROPE:
Sessions will be held and facilitated by Sarmad with support from Akbar. Individual retreats for those online are also possible with Sarmad, and possibly also with Devi and Jessica, depending upon availability and the number of retreaters in-person, please contact and make a deposit to get your name at the top of the list.
Schedule
Thursday, April 3rd: 7:30pm – 9pm – Welcome Zikr with Jessica, Akbar, Maitreya and Pam
- Check in for the Retreat, welcome tea: 7pm
- Opening Zikr
Friday, April 4th: 9:30am – 5:30pm – All Day Retreat, Rest / Evening Practices on your Own
- Indian Lunch with Rekha & Angelo (Rekha is an Ayurvedic Chef)
Saturday, April 5th: 9:30am – 9pm – All Day Retreat (with breaks)
- Optional Sunrise Meditation on Siesta Key Beach with Akbar (Time TBD)
- Italian Lunch with Rekha & Angelo (Angelo owned an Italian Restaurant for years!)
- Group dinner at Bangkok Thai Restaurant, walking distance from Rising Tide (or 2min drive)
- Evening Group Sema – Deeper sharing, zikr, singing, prayers, poetry, and offerings from the heart.
Sunday, April 6th: 9:30am – 12:30pm
- Closing Group Session
- Lunch: Leftovers, or, on your own.
Sunday April 6th: 2 – 4pm – Session with Healing Retreat Guide Training Participants
Housing Options
- Group / Solo AirBnB: Tons of AirBnBs in the area. We’ll connect the group when everyone starts registering and people can book group stays together, there are options close to or on the beach!
- Local Sufi Community Home-Stay: Limited availability, suggested donation, $25-50/night. Some hosts don’t ask for any donation at all also, maybe bring a gift J
- Rising Tide: Sleeping at Rising Tide (no showers, but, bathroom and kitchen) is an option for a low-cost way to participate! Suggested donation $20-33/night + helping out a little.
- Hotels Nearby: Some nearby and decently affordable hotels include: Hilton Spark Siesta Key, Hibiscus Suites, The Palms Resort, Sarasea. Many others on Siesta Key, a 10-20min drive from Rising Tide where the retreat will be held.
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Pricing: Sliding-Scale Group Healing Retreat Payment:
- Online: $133 – $233
- In Person: $233 – $333 (Scholarship available upon request)
- Lunches: Pay Separate, $15-20
- Personal Retreats: See below, depends on the guide, $66-$200/day
Individual Healing Retreats: April 6th – 12th
In-Person Personal Healing Retreats with Devi Tide, or online with Sarmad Michael Tide
(5 People minimum for in-person to take place — please RSVP as soon as possible.)
7-Day Retreaters start Sunday night, the 6th until April 12th
3- and 5-day Retreaters start Monday night, the 7th – April 11th or April 9th
10- or 14- Day Retreats – please inquire.
Individual Retreat Accommodation by Group AirBnB, with some possible Sarasota Sufi Community Home-stays in addition to retreat price. AirBnB price TBD based on availability and retreat-groups preferences J Maybe a pool, nice yard, shared rooms, close to the beach… Sarasota in April is a beautiful place to retreat, in the 70s/80s in the day, 60s at night, perfect weather for doing practice, healing in the elements, and more.
Depending on how many people are coming, and amount of advance notice, we may be able to book the retreat group into a large AirBnB where any group sessions can occur. =
There are massage therapists who can come to the AirBnB to offer healing massage and body work during the retreat, and other opportunities to rest, recover, restore, rejuvenate, replenish, and renew your self, inside and out.
Personal retreat prices (per day):
- Devi: $100 – $200/day, sliding scale
- Sarmad: (Online): $75 – 150/day, sliding scale
Devi Tide is the Kefayat (Head) and Vice President of the Sufi Healing Order in North America, New Zealand and Australia. She has over thirty years of 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 and offered programs in India, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America. In her seminars, public speaking, and individual sessions and retreats, Devi represents the inner vitality and harmony of the body, mind and spirit, the vitality of our interconnected world, as well as personal transformation.