Holding space along the Way.
About Pilgrim Table
Pilgrim Table exists to offer spaces of hospitality, spiritual accompaniment, and belonging for pilgrims and seekers, especially those moving through times of transition.
In a world shaped by urgency, productivity, and answers, Pilgrim Table practices a slower kind of presence. It’s a place to pause, to set down what you’re carrying, and to listen more deeply before, during, and after life’s journeys.
Pilgrim Table is hospitality practiced as a way of life — chaplaincy without institutional walls, and spiritual care that moves with people as their journeys unfold.
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 exists for these in-between spaces.
Here, hospitality is about making room for rest, reflection, and honest listening, so that each person can discern their own way forward in freedom and in a community that deepens as it moves with you.
Meet Kashmiri
Hi, 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 early experiences formed a sensitivity to suffering, and a deep awareness that the spiritual life is inseparable from the realities of the world. Nature became an early teacher through long walks, quiet attention, and moments of wonder that arrived before I had words for them and often continue to reveal more than words can hold.
I fell in love with pilgrimage while studying at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, during a season marked by both darkness and light. 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.
Again and again, I noticed the same pattern: people come alive on pilgrimage and often feel alone when the walking ends.
Pilgrim Table grew from a desire to offer accompaniment in these moments—not to explain the journey, but to walk alongside others as they listen for what is being born, and to allow pilgrimage to be the beginning of deeper community rather than the end.
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 served in university and healthcare settings, such as working with local faith communities at Duke Divinity School, accompanying students as a chaplain at Yale 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.
Formation and Practice