Holding space along the Way.
About Pilgrim Table
Pilgrim Table grew out of a love for pilgrimage, hospitality, and the conversations that happen when we make space for one another along the way.
Rooted in spiritual care, Pilgrim Table is a kind of chaplaincy without institutional walls: a place for people to bring the questions, transitions, and experiences of their lives. Through community gatherings and one-on-one spiritual accompaniment, we make space to pause, reflect, and journey together.
The Heart of this WorkPilgrimage often awakens something profound. People come alive on the road, and many return unsure how to hold what the journey has stirred.
Pilgrim Table grew from a desire to nurture the hospitality, reflection, and companionship that make pilgrimage meaningful—not only while we're on the road, but in the lives we return to.
Meet Kashmiri
Hi there! I'm Kashmiri, a fellow pilgrim on the Way.
I’m a pilgrim and spiritual accompanier shaped by pilgrimage, chaplaincy, and a lifelong love for interfaith encounter. I was raised in an interfaith household, with a Muslim mother and a Jewish father. Later, I found my way into the Catholic tradition, a journey that continues to shape how I listen, accompany, and hold presence with others.
As a child, I spent significant time visiting family in Mumbai, India, where devotion, beauty, and poverty existed side by side. These experiences shaped how I see the world and deepened my awareness of the many ways people seek meaning, connection, and the sacred.
Walking my first Camino de Santiago in 2019 revealed a vocation rooted not in certainty or answers, but in presence, service, and companionship along the Way.
Pilgrimage has carried me across landscapes and traditions.
I have offered spiritual care to pilgrims at Lough Derg in Ireland, walked the Shikoku Pilgrimage in Japan, taught yoga to migrants in the Western Sahara, encountered pilgrimage sites from Bosnia to Assisi, and walked the Camino many times while serving within pilgrimage, monastic, and intentional communities.
Living in Santiago de Compostela for a season deepened my experience of pilgrimage as something that shapes not only those who walk, but also the places and communities that receive them. Through accompanying pilgrims in Spain, I've continued to learn from the many ways people seek meaning, encounter the sacred, and make sense of their journeys.
These experiences continue to shape my approach to spiritual accompaniment: listening to people's stories, staying with their questions, and walking alongside them without needing to know exactly where the road leads.
My work is shaped by formation in spiritual care, chaplaincy, and theology, including graduate study at Yale Divinity School and training in interfaith clinical pastoral education.
I have accompanied people through many different seasons of life and in a range of settings—from the hospital bed to the university to the pilgrimage route. My experience includes serving as a chaplain at Yale University, working with local faith communities at Duke Divinity School, serving as University Minister for Spiritual Accompaniment and Engagement at Villanova University, and providing end-of-life spiritual care as an interfaith chaplain at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
I am also trained in yoga, which supports an embodied, attentive approach to presence and listening.
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