Decolonial Devotion
& Sacred Creation
September 10-15, 2025 | ÓRGIVA, SPAIN
Decolonial Devotion and Sacred Creation is a five-day retreat in Andalusia for artists, activists, and healers devoted to the intersections of spirit and justice, creation and prayer, scholarship and ancestral memory.
Rooted in liberatory Jewish and Muslim lineages, Decolonial Devotion and Sacred Creation invites us into embodied remembrance—of who we are, where we come from, and what we are here to heal. It is a return to the heart, to the joy and aliveness of being, to the wisdom that lives in breath, movement, and connection.
The weavers of this space are aligned in solidarity for a Free Palestine, firmly against all forms of colonialism, occupation, apartheid, oppression and genocide. We come together to explore decolonial devotion- acknowledging that our mere union is in itself a political action, and that there is no separation - our faiths have been used to instigate and fuel violence and we gather to reclaim, repair, remember and pray.
This retreat is for artists, healers, organizers, spiritual seekers, and activists who live the intersections of Jewish and Muslim identity, lineage, and practice; are grounded in earth-honoring, justice-centered tradition; and seek space to rest, create, pray, and be in sacred community.
We gather in a lived experience of community that includes diversity of backgrounds, and also the diversity of emotions, practicing the ability to grieve together, inspired by our Muslim 3aza and Jewish shiva traditions, to mourn the innocent souls slaughtered unjustly, and to rage for the injuries to our shared humanity.
Decolonial Devotion is also an invocation of the sacred traditions of Andalusia—a land once marked by convivencia, where Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities coexisted, created, and dreamed together. That time inspires us now as we stand in solidarity with Palestine and gather to rekindle relationships across differences and to imagine justice as a form of sacred living. Through ritual, rest, learning, and creative expression, we open space for healing and transformation—attuning to the rhythms of body, land, and the divine. Our retreat flow includes spacious mornings gathering in prayer, afternoons in creative workshops and evenings in ritual, with topics including the Wonders of Whirling, the House of Grief, Voice as a Healing Instrument, Eating as Sacred Practice and more …
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Built in the traditional Alpujarra Moorish style, Casa Jazmíin’s wood & stone house provides for a contemporary idyllic hospitality experience, while its ancient connected water channel (acequia) runs a long way back into the historical golden age of Islamic civilization in Andalusia, synchronizing the olive, fig and pomegranate trees-filled courtyard garden with the nurturing rhythm of the mountains.
We gather at Casa Jazmín, a bed and breakfast and retreat center, located in the present time spiritual heart of Andalusia.
Casa Jazmín expresses an oasis of beauty and serenity, charming her visitors with an enlivening garden and expansive mountain views, while guiding them into gradual states of presence and calm.
Centrally located in the old town of Órgiva, it offers a balance of convenient proximity to day-to-day amenities and the discreteness of a secluded oasis. As for wider explorations, the Sierra Nevada mountains, the Mediterranean coast, and the picturesque Alpujarra villages of Pampeneira & Capileira are all a short drive away.
Our five-day retreat, including accommodations, food and programming is offered on a sliding scale of 500-1000 Euros. Admission is rolling, with limited spaces.
Our gathering is co-facilitated by Hadar Cohen, Rawan Roshni & Medina Tenour Whiteman, with creation-weaving from Taya Mâ Shere, sacred cuisine by Izzeldin Bukhari, and hosted by Ibrahim Bokharouss and in collaboration with Malchut.
Together, we co-create a space in the spirit of what Sheikh Dr. Ibrahim Baba Farajajé calls scholartivism—where study becomes prayer, food becomes ritual, and where devotion and creation meet at the altar of life.
Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic, and artist whose work focuses on multi-religious spirituality, politics, social issues, and community building. She is the founder of Malchut, a spiritual skill-building school teaching Jewish mysticism and direct experience of God. She teaches and consults in a variety of settings and formats, from one-on-one coaching to online group classes and in-person retreats. Her podcast, Hadar’s Web, features community conversations on spirituality, healing, justice, and art. Hadar is a 10th-generation Jerusalemite with lineage roots also in Syria, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Iran. Subscribe to her Substack for access to her latest writings, offerings, and media appearances. @hadarcohen32
Rawan Roshni is a Palestinian/Balkan, Global Citizen, Arab Woman, based in Jordan, Waging Love across the world. She uses her voice as an Artivist through her singing/songwriting and facilitation of brave spaces focusing her work in the SWANA region. Her facilitation over the past decade has ranged from issues such as conflict transformation, collective liberation, decolonization, catalyzing community, emotional processing tools, conscious relating, consent, women's work and more! She fuses Sound, Movement and Intuitive Rituals as tools in her work, bringing elements such as group singing, sound work through vocalization, whirling dance, and intentional nature-based practices. She has co-founded multiple interfaith and world music projects and most recently has been touring her solo tri-lingual live-looping Music & Poetry performance Al-Tuyoor: Messages from the Birds for 2 years across 7 countries and counting! She began her journey with plant teachers in 2019 and is a humble student of the plantcestors, in service as a voice and a bridge for the healing of our human species as but a part of our larger ecosystem of creation. @rawanroshniofficial
Izzeldin Bukhari is self-taught chef and founder of Sacred Cuisine; a culmination of Izzeldin's life experiences that are deeply embedded in his Sufi roots. It embodies everything he values and aspires to instill Originating from Bukhara - Uzbekistan his family migrated to the Old City of Jerusalem in 1616 to teach Sufism. As a young adult, he moved to the United States and discovered his passion for cooking when missing Palestinian cuisine. It was then that he discovered cooking as a form of meditation, through which he could lose himself and connect to the world around him. This experience was transformative, allowing him to mindfully contemplate the world around him and inspire his vision for SacredCuisine. Izzeldin is on a mission to introduce Palestinian cuisine to the world. @sacredcuisine
Medina Tenour Whiteman is an author, poet and singer-songwriter born into a highly creative British-American Sufi convert family in Granada, Andalusia in 1982. Having studied anthropology, languages, history, religion and literature at SOAS through the lens of Africa, she returned to her city of birth in 2005, where she has been raising three children and several iterations of productive and medicinal gardens more or less ever since. She has also been learning from local herbal medicine and permaculture practitioners, as well as classical Andalusi mystics, poets, botanists and farmers through the literary, musical and agroecological traditions of Al-Andalus. Medina believes that it is only by reconnecting the spiritual and the embodied domains that consciousness can bear fruit in the tangible world, and facilitates workshops around voice, plants, and mysticism to this end. Find out more about Medina here and read her blog here. @medinatenour
Taya Mâ Shere is a ceremonialist embracing embodied, earth-honoring devotion as liberatory spiritual practice. She serves as a professor of Organic Multi-Religious Ritual at Starr King School for the Ministry and as Associate Director of the Center for Multi-Religious Studies, where she co-convenes The House of Dates. Taya Mâ is founder of from the deep, an emergent mystery school of earth, sea and soma and currently offers online courses and individual sessions in ancestral exuberance. She created & hosted the acclaimed Jewish Ancestral Healing podcast and The Sarah & Hajar Series: Sacred Practice and Possibility at the Intersections of Judaism and Islam. She co-founded the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess movement as well as Makam Shekhina multi-religious Jewish and Sufi Muslim community committed to counter-oppressive devotion. Taya Mâ’s albums of sacred chant have been heralded as "cutting-edge mystic medicine music" and "transmissions which tap into collective memory." @tayatransforms
This retreat is co-sponsored by
Malchut and Makam Shekhina
Malchut is a mystical school led by Hadar Cohen for those seeking to cultivate a personal relationship with God. Our teachings focus on relating to life’s experiences as channels to the Divine and understanding the self as the portal to liberation. The transformation of the self is inseparable from the world we live in—shifting one brings healing and renewal to the other. Through our two core offerings, God Fellowship and Jewish Mystical School, we provide pathways for spiritual growth, integrating ancient wisdom and modern perspectives, timeless practices with modern approaches. Our purpose is to support participants in ending cycles of trauma and suffering within themselves, creating the foundation for a more liberated and compassionate world.
Makam Shekhina is an evolving expression of multi-religious Jewish and Sufi Muslim counter-oppressive devotion co-founded by Taya Mâ Shere and Sheikh Dr. Ibrahim Baba Farajaje.
Our album Makam Shekhina: Hebrew & Arabic Chants of Counter-Oppressive Devotion is an invitation to immerse in lush, pulsing prayer in Hebrew, Arabic & English and counter-oppressive Jewish and Muslim multi-religious devotion as woven by Ibrahim Baba, Taya Mâ & Makam Shekhina beloveds.