Rumi Cafe Night with Jilani and Friends at the Soul Wellness Hub, Friendly, Sowerby Bridge

Saturday 13 December 2025

7-9.30 pm

In honour of Rumi’s Urs

Poetry, Music, Sohbet, Chanting and Zikr

The Soul Cafe will be open serving drinks and cakes

£10 in advance or £15 on the door. Advance tickets can be purchased here.

Contact Jilani with any questions

Join Jilani Cordelia and friends for a Rumi Cafe Night, to celebrate the Urs of the mystic Sufi poet Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi. 

In the Sufi tradition, the Urs, or ‘Wedding Day’, marks the moment when the Lover dissolves into the Beloved, the Soul’s return to Bliss and Divine Union. 

Jilani will share readings of Rumi’s mystical poetry, accompanied by beautiful live music, on guitar, viola and percussion. There will be times of Sohbet, or Sufi teaching through soulful conversation. Jilani will also lead the group in chanting Zikr and other sacred phrases in Arabic from the Sufi tradition. 

Zikr means ‘remembrance’ and refers to the Arabic phrase La illaha il’llah, which could be translated as “no God but God”, “no reality except Unity”, “all separation is illusion”. In practicing Zikr, we practice remembrance of our inherent unity with the Divine, recognising our human tendency to forget. Chanting Zikr can be a powerful and heart-opening experience, unifying a group and harmonising the atmosphere in a vibration of grounded, sacred, loving connection.

The chants are simple and easily learned, not unlike kirtan or bhajan, but rooted in the Sufi tradition. Even if you don’t understand all of the words, you will have an embodied experience, which many describe as inducing feelings of joy, inner peace and a deep sense of connection to the Beloved. 

The Zikr journey can pass through times of high energy and ecstasy, usually ending in a space of stillness and silence, resting in awe-filled experience of Unity with All-That-Is.

The gorgeous Soul Cafe will be open, serving hot and cold drinks and delicious, healthy cakes, and providing a friendly and welcoming cafe atmosphere for this sacred time of sharing together.

Jilani is a member of the teaching circle of the Sufi Ruhaniat International, a Universal Western Sufi Order in the Chisti lineage. She travels widely, teaching in many countries including Australia, New Zealand, India and the USA as well as across Europe. Resident in the Calder Valley for nearly 30 years, she is happy to be able to share her work near home as well. Jilani will be supported by a group of talented musicians.

20 December 2025

At Om Yoga Works, Farsley, Leeds

Dance the Prayers of your Body, Heart and Soul!

Jilani and Salik invite you to join us for our heart-warming celebration of the returning of the Light, at the Celtic festival of the Winter Solstice. Come together with like-minded friends in the beautiful, welcoming space of Om Yoga Works, from 5-8 pm to include time for a Solstice Feast. (Please bring a contribution of something delicious to share!)

Using chant and movement, ritual and feasting, we invite you to open your hearts to the light and to each other.

The Winter Solstice can be a time to look back and reflect, but also to look ahead, to dream into the coming year, and to rejoice in the light returning. We will feel into and explore the nourishment and regeneration of this time of fertile darkness, and we will rejoice in the rebirth and returning of the light. We will work with simple sacred chants and movements, beautiful live music, powerful breath practices, and sharing; and the power of ritual and ceremony. We offer the opportunity to meet one other, fully embodied, in the heart-space of deep meditation and devotion.

Everything will be clearly guided and held. All are welcome, whether you are new friends or old.

5-8 pm on Saturday 20 December 2025

£25 (£22 if booked and paid by 30 November)

Email Jilani to book

Om Yoga Works

Springfield Commercial Centre
Unit 15D (1st Floor)
Bagley Lane
Farsley, Leeds.
LS28 5LY

Course Fees: 

Early bird price till Oct. 31st £345

 £375 after Oct. 31st

Community NFA rate £290