Imam Jamal Rahman
Nourish the part of you that longs to live with deeper meaning.
Through the mystical teachings, meditations, and stories of the world’s spiritual traditions, you’ll reconnect with the Divine — and embody the peace, lightness of spirit, and purpose your soul has always known.
What if the guidance you’ve been searching for — the clarity, sense of humor, and strength to meet today’s challenges — lives in sacred interfaith traditions you haven’t fully explored?
Today, when the world sometimes feels heavy and uncertain, your heart may be calling for something deeper — not just answers, but practices that help ground you, invite happiness, and reawaken your connection to the sacred.
This is the invitation to join interspiritual teacher Imam Jamal Rahman’s joyful and transformative new 7-week journey into the spiritual teachings, practices, and meditations found in Sufism, Buddhism, Christianity, and more.
Known for his warmth, humor, and deeply inclusive approach, Imam Jamal offers more than information — he offers a path home to your heart that radiates outward in service to what you love.
You’ll be lovingly guided to discover new ways of navigating life’s complexity with greater clarity, compassion, acceptance, and inner freedom…
… and explore profound practices like the “Art of the Heart” meditation to connect with the deep nurturance and wisdom of your heart, and “Sacred Naming” to reclaim the narrative of who you are and the meaning your life holds in the world.
You’ll learn how to relate to yourself with more lightheartedness and self-acceptance, explore gentle practices to raise your consciousness…
… and discover a path where the Divine is reflected in every being — even those who challenge you.
Each week, Imam Jamal will draw from a lifetime of spiritual scholarship and lived devotion to share timeless teachings that speak directly to the soul. Through illuminating Sufi parables, healing writing practices, sacred breathwork, lovingkindness meditations, and more, you'll be guided into a deeper experience of the sacred.
All of it is delivered in Imam Jamal’s inimitable style — a rare blend of grace, wisdom, joy, and disarming humor — making complex truths feel both deeply accessible and profoundly transformative.
Rather than rigid dogma, you’ll encounter teachings that help you live more authentically, serve more joyfully, and love more expansively.
Ultimately, this course is an opportunity to embody a new way of being — one that helps you stay grounded, connected to your soul, and in service to a world that needs your light.
If your heart is ready for a deeper kind of nourishment — one that draws from many wells to awaken your greater authenticity and purpose — let the wisdom of interspiritual wisdom guide you.
During this uplifting course, you’ll:
- Learn the 5-step technique of sacred holding, the “Art of Heart” meditation, compassionate self-witnessing, sacralizing mundane moments, and more
- Practice “Sacred Naming” to develop a loving and compassionate relationship with oneself
- Discover how the mystical meditation of “Inner Circle of Love” nourishes your soul
- Laugh at the foibles of the ego — and feel the lightness that comes from releasing self-seriousness and perfectionism
- Explore a variety of meditation techniques for raising consciousness
- Learn how to deal with adversaries by differentiating between behavior and being
- Learn a Sufi writing practice to heal and empower your heart
- The art of balance in service — and contemplate, “A hand always open is as paralyzed as a hand always closed.”
- Begin to see God in everyone and everything
- Explore the practice of sharing “3 cups of tea” — and how it helps you connect with those outside your comfort zone
- Bond with yourself — realizing that all of our relationships are a reflection of our relationship with ourselves
As you deepen this relationship with yourself, you’ll find your heart naturally opening to something greater — a quiet, sacred presence that has always been with you.
Rooted in daily practice and interspiritual wisdom, this presence invites you into a deep well of stillness, where peace, clarity, and joy can rise to the surface.
In this space, the Divine meets you exactly as you are — and the light within you is free to shine more fully into the world.
Are you ready to answer the call of your heart — and walk a soulful path of remembrance, grounded in the beauty, humor, and compassion of the world’s great spiritual traditions?
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
You’ll connect with Jamal and experience his teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Jamal’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
Course Sessions 2025-07-16 5:00:00 pm
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Jamal. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to awaken a more authentic version of yourself that is guided by peace through interfaith teachings, practices, and meditations.
Module 1: Understand How Your Perceptions of Suffering Shape Your World and Begin to Heal & Reframe Them (2025-07-16 5:00:00 pm)
In our created world, things often exist as opposites. Sages say that everything is made clear by polar opposites.
High can be defined by low, long by short. Joy and sorrow exist side by side.
Messages from mystics about suffering teach that the way you acknowledge, heal, and reframe your suffering shapes your character — and sculpts the destiny of your life.
Their collective wisdom is a reminder — don’t run toward pain and suffering, and don’t run away from them.
In this module, you’ll:
- Discover the 5-step technique of “sacred holding”
- Learn to be compassionate with difficult feelings
- Expand the awareness that all of us carry the pain of suffering — everyone has a story
- Understand the major causes of suffering
Module 2: Transform Your Ego Into the Flow of Presence to Reignite Your Divine Spark (2025-07-23 5:00:00 pm)
To invite joy into our lives, we have to tame and transform our ego from a “commanding master” into a “personal assistant.”
Explore how layers of ego separate you from your divine spark or higher self through pride, greed, jealousy, and unrestrained anger — and how diminishing your ego traits moves you closer to your higher self where you can experience what sages call “the flow of presence.”
The Buddha, on his deathbed, offered invaluable advice: “Be a lamp unto yourselves… work out your salvation with diligence.”
The Prophet Muhammad said, “Know thyself and you shall know thy Sustainer,” and “Die to what is false within you before you die a physical death.”
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn the practice of compassionate self-witnessing
- Become aware of your conditioned biases
- Deepen your relationship with self
- Feel the joy of closeness to Divinity
Module 3: Re discover Love & Compassion as Keys to Transformation for Greater Peace, Connection & Happiness (2025-07-30 5:00:00 pm)
Mystics explain that love is the cause and essence of everything. Our life stories circle around love — about being loved, not being loved, and yearning to be loved.
Enlightened teachers posit that the key to happiness is to become aware of the inhibitions and obstacles we have unconsciously placed on the path of love. Not surprisingly, says Rumi, love is in every religion but love has no religion.
Discover how compassion is love manifested. To expound on the astonishing power and beauty of this divine trait, teachers use the metaphor of water in nature.
Water is soft and yielding — yet over time, it can wear away the hardest granite. Also, wherever water falls, life flourishes.
Being gentle and merciful with yourself and others demonstrates authentic strength and is life-affirming and life-bestowing.
In this module, you’ll:
- Practice “Sacred Naming” to develop a loving and compassionate relationship with yourself
- Discover the meditative practice of radiating light and love from your being, which opens your heart to creation
- Explore a way of dealing with adversaries by differentiating between behavior and being
- Learn to forgive yourself and others
Module 4: Purify & Open Your Heart for Deeper Connection With Divinity & Contentment (2025-08-06 5:00:00 pm)
The world’s scriptures teach that to grow in consciousness and to experience authentic joy and inner peace, you must purify and open your heart. This critical work is inconvenient but essential.
Spiritual teachers point out that everything that you possess comes from Divinity. What can we offer to God in return? Sufis encourage us to bring to God a polished heart so that Divinity’s face is reflected in it! This work of purification fills our beings with indescribable contentment.
Jamal will share how opening your heart requires that you embrace not only your ten thousand joys, but also your ten thousand sorrows of life.
When you allow your heart to break open, you can experience an expanded inner spaciousness that allows an abundance of joy to flow into your being. Any suffering in that larger space will feel less overwhelming.
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn the “Art of Heart” meditation
- Consult the heart for guidance in life
- Feel a deeper connection with your higher self
- Discover a Sufi writing practice to heal and empower your heart
Module 5: Learn to Be of Authentic Service to Comfort Your Soul & Invite Blessings Into Your Life (2025-08-13 5:00:00 pm)
The world’s scriptures offer four criteria to make charitable giving meaningful.
Give freely of what you love… give to those who ask, don’t ask, or cannot ask… give quietly, without being ostentatious… and give without attachment to the prizes, prestige or acclaim it brings you.
This last insight is critical. If you are charitable for the sake of divinity and your giving comes from the goodness of your heart, this will comfort your soul and invite blessings from those mysterious realms.
The holy books also ask, in the cause of service, that we remove injustice and oppression in our families, communities, and nations. These acts of service require courage, compassion, grace, and collective action.
Teachers insist that we engage in regular self-care. Be mindful of your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs. Self-care increases your capacity to be of authentic service to creation.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- How being of authentic service helps you fulfill a major purpose for your existence on Earth
- How service fills your being with joy
- The art of balance in service — contemplate, “A hand always open is as paralyzed as a hand always closed”
- How to prioritize acts of service
Module 6: Build a Community of Truth Seekers to Nurture Your Inner True Self & Become Comfortable With Other Perspectives (2025-08-20 5:00:00 pm)
To survive, flourish, and experience happiness, you need a community.
Poets wax eloquently on this need — “A wall standing alone is useless. Add to it other walls, and it can support a roof!”
They also exclaim, “Only when ink joins with a pen, can the blank paper say something!” Take note, say the sages. Even prophets needed companions!
From the world’s scriptures, teachers have gleaned three gateways for making meaningful community.
The first gateway is love — choose friends and family members for whom you feel love and affection. The second gateway is trust — without trust, there is no vulnerability, and without vulnerability, relationships are not genuine. The third gateway is love of truth — The Buddha famously said, “Find friends who love the truth”
In this module, you’ll:
- Discover how the mystical meditation of “Inner Circle of Love” nourishes your soul
- Explore the practice of sharing “3 cups of tea” — and how this helps you connect with those outside your comfort zone
- Learn to bond with yourself — realizing that all of our relationships are a reflection of our relationship with ourselves
Module 7: Spiritual Meditations & Practices to Raise Your Consciousness & Support Your Growth (2025-08-27 5:00:00 pm)
We need to engage in regular spiritual practices to raise our consciousness and evolve into developed human beings.
This is essential if we aspire, individually and collectively, to heal the social injustices and planetary degradation of our times.
To overcome divisiveness, conflicts, and inequities in our families and communities, we have no choice but to come face to face with our conditioned biases, prejudices, and stereotyping of the other.
About the abuse of Mother Earth, it is said that the biggest environmental problems are not loss of biodiversity, climate change or ecosystem collapse. The biggest problems are selfishness, greed, and apathy.
In this module, you’ll:
- Explore a variety of meditation techniques for raising consciousness
- Discover the practice of sacralizing mundane moments
- Recognize how to see God in everyone and everything
- Learn to be grateful in times of adversity
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Jamal’s transformative 7-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Making Spiritual Practice a Way of Life
Chapter From the Book Finding Peace Through Spiritual Practice
Be inspired by this 32-page chapter authored by Jamal, Pastor Don Mackenzie, and Rabbi Ted Falcon. The Interfaith Amigos, from their respective religions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, write about their daily practices and how they walk this practice into the world.
Inequality of Men & Women: The Patriarchal Stranglehold on Power
Chapter From the Book Religion Gone Astray
Enjoy this 28-page chapter by Jamal, Pastor Don Mackenzie, and Rabbi Ted Falcon. The Interfaith Amigos, from their respective religions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, write about the unequal status of women and offer insights and practices to overcome patriarchal bias and create healing and higher awareness.
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Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Imam Jamal Rahman will share in this powerful program.
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Imam Jamal Rahman
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from author and speaker Imam Jamal Rahman, co-founder of Interfaith Community Sanctuary — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to greater peace, clarity, and capacity in turbulent times. Course sessions are on 2025-07-16 5:00:00 pm
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are not recorded for playback; if you’re unable to attend the live sessions, the Facebook online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Laughing With the Divine Through “Interspirituality”
We feel honored that Imam Jamal Rahman has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with an author, speaker, and co-founder of Interfaith Community Sanctuary whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about opening to the wisdom of interfaith traditions, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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About Imam Jamal Rahman
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Imam Jamal Rahman is a popular speaker on Islam, Sufi spirituality, and interfaith relations. Along with his Interfaith Amigos, he has been featured in the New York Times, and on CBS News, BBC, and various NPR programs.
Jamal is co-founder and Muslim Sufi minister at Interfaith Community Sanctuary, and adjunct faculty at Seattle University. He is a former co-host of Interfaith Talk Radio and travels nationally and internationally, presenting at retreats and workshops.
He is the author of Sacred Laughter of the Sufis: Awakening the Soul with the Mullah's Comic Teaching Stories and Other Islamic Wisdom... Spiritual Gems of Islam... Hadith, Rumi & Muslim Teaching Stories to Enlighten the Heart & Mind... and The Fragrance of Faith: The Enlightened Heart of Islam
He is the co-author of Finding Peace Through Spiritual Practice: The Interfaith Amigos' Guide to Personal, Social, and Environmental Healing... Religion Gone Astray: What We Found at the Heart of Interfaith... Getting to the Heart of Interfaith: The Eye-Opening, Hope-Filled Friendship of a Pastor, a Rabbi, and an Imam... and Out of Darkness into Light: Spiritual Guidance in the Quran with Reflections from Jewish and Christian Sources.
Jamal's passion lies in interfaith community building. He remains rooted in his Islamic tradition and cultivates a “spaciousness” by being open to the beauty and wisdom of other faiths. By authentically and appreciatively understanding other paths, Jamal feels that he becomes a better Muslim and a more developed human being. This spaciousness is not about conversion but about completion.