Irina Tweedie

Irina Tweedie (* 1907 in Russia; † August 1999 in London) was a Russian- English Sufilehrerin.

Life

The Russian-born married after her studies in Vienna and Paris, and after the end of World War II, a British naval officer, who died in 1954.

Due to their interest in theosophy it is taking in 1959 a trip to India, where it meets " Bhai Sahib ", a Hindu Sufi master from the line of Naqschbandiyya - Mudschaddidiyya Sufi line (side line of the Naqshbandi Tariqa ). She became his student. He asks her to write a diary of her spiritual training, which she published in 1986 in English.

After the death of Sheikh in 1966, Irina Tweedie goes for eight months in the Himalayas and attracts 1967 to London. There she works until her death in 1999 as a teacher and companion of many Western seekers ( for example, by Llewellyn Vaughan -Lee and Annette Kaiser). In England, Germany and Switzerland, it gives numerous lectures and seminars and has her students into the silent meditation of the heart and the spiritual dream work.

Literary works

• Like a phoenix from the ashes. My adventure of self-discovery on the way of the Sufis. Munich 1980, 320 pages, ISBN 3499601486
• Daughter of Fire. Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master. Munich, 1988, 1036 pages, ISBN 3-7787-7144-2 ( line edition ), ISBN 3-4537-0011-2 ( paperback edition ) - (This is the later edited and uncut version of " Like a phoenix from the ashes" )