Our Center

The Light of Harmony Center of the Inayatiyya in Dobbs Ferry NY was founded by LatifaNoor in 2008 as an Interfaith-Sufi Meditation Circle. The Circle was originally named Greet the Dawn Meditation Circle, to reflect its early morning meeting time, but currently, the group meets on Thursday evenings, with occasional guest retreats/events on weekends in the Fall and Spring.

Our meetings include sitting meditation in silence and accompanied by tambura, breath practices, prayers and readings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, chants from diverse world traditions accompanied by tamboura and harmonium, and Dances of Universal Peace.

 

Center Leaders

LatifaNoor Elizabeth Anderson

A graduate of the Na Koja Abad Global Suluk Academy, LatifaNoor is a Representative, Musical Representative, spiritual guide, retreat guide, and center leader for the Light of Harmony Center, Inayatiyya of Dobbs Ferry. She is also a cellist and vocalist and her Indian raga studies inspired the creation of the CD LatifaNoor, a meeting of raga and western classical music for cello, voice, and tampura. As a cellist she has toured China, Japan, Mexico, Italy, England, Germany, Finland, Australia, Israel, India, and the US with the Meliora and Cassatt String Quartets and with the New York City Opera. She has recorded for Telarc, Nonesuch, and RCA and her next recordings will feature sacred vocal music for retreat.

When she is not traveling for concerts or leading meditation-music retreats, LatifaNoor loves walking in nature with her Basset Hound Ruby, cooking for her family and friends, and knitting socks.

 

Hayat Nancy Kennedy

has been a student of Sufism and the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan since 2009.  She was initiated into the Inner School of the Inayatiyya by Pir Zia Inayat Khan in 2013 and is a graduate of the Suluk Academy, Jabalqa Class.  Hayat is a Co-leader and Representative at the Light of Harmony Sufi Center in Dobbs Ferry, NY, has received the accolade “Knight of Purity” from the Knighthood of Purity activity and is grateful to be currently undertaking Retreat Guide Training in the Inayatiyya Inner School.  

Hayat is a jazz pianist, teacher, composer and improviser and feels blessed to have a life and career exploring and creating music and working with her many beloved students.  She is native to the San Francisco Bay Area, attended Mills College, B.A. in Music and New England Conservatory in Boston, M.M. in Jazz Studies.  She was awarded an Artists Fellowship in Music Composition from The New York Foundation for the Arts.  Hayat enjoys improvising in many areas of her life, loves traveling to new places, hiking above 8,000 feet, and cooking and sharing food with dear loved ones.

 

Hakim Gallagher

Hakim began doing the Dances of Universal Peace (DUP) in 1992 and since then the DUP has become his primary way of connecting with the divine. He became a certified leader of the DUP in 2006 and has led and participated in dance circles across the country. An initiate in the Sufi Ruhaniat International, Hakim believes that all paths lead to God and that we all can approach the divine through experience. A devoted father and native of Ossining, Hakim strives to lead with clarity, humor, and a sense of ease.