Decolonial Devotion

& Sacred Creation

September 10-15, 2025 | ÓRGIVA, SPAIN

Decolonial Devotion and Sacred Creation is a five-day retreat 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.

It is 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.

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.

The weavers of this space are aligned in solidarity for a Free Palestine, firmly against all forms of colonialism, occupation, apartheid, oppression and genocide.

Taking place at Casa Jazmin in Órgiva, southern Spain, 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. Letting that time inspire us now as we stand in solidarity with Palestine. In that spirit, we gather to rekindle relationships across differences, to practice solidarity, 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.

Retreat themes include:

  • Decolonial Devotion

    Reclaiming sacred traditions beyond systems of domination

  • Sacred Creation

    Honoring art, ritual, and expression as sacred acts

  • The Heart’s Center

    Deepening spiritual practice through presence and emotional honesty

  • Scholartivism

    Integrating intellect, spirit, and justice-rooted practice

  • Embodied Aliveness

    Living through the senses, welcoming pleasure and beauty

  • Ancestral Resonance

    Honoring memory, inheritance, and sacred continuity

We gather at Casa Jazmin, a Bed and Breakfast and retreat center, owned and managed by Sufi visionaries who share the values and vision expressed in this project. 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.

Built in the traditional Alpujarra Moorish style, Casa Jazmin’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. 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 gathering is woven by Hadar Cohen, Rawan Roshni, Medina Tenour Whiteman & Taya Mâ Shere, with sacred cuisine by Izzeldin Bukhari, and hosted by Ibrahim Bokharouss.

Together, we co-create a space in the spirit of what Sheikh Dr. Ibrahim Baba Farajaje 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 woman who lives her life to it’s fullest expression as a global citizen co-creating the reality on this earth. By profession she is a singer-songwriter, perfomance artist, whirling dance instructor, sound practitioner and facilitatory. She brings the gift of her voice, as a singer and also a truth-speaker, storyteller and space-holder to every circle she is a part of. @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