Dance invites us to take up space in the world with confidence, conviction and service. It is exhilarating, joyous, sacred, sexual, transformative, communal, and disruptive. Dance makes us whole and brings us into rhythm with others. Though resilient, adaptable, and flexible, dance also breaks the rules. In dance, polarities unite and birth art. Dance is universal. Dance is freedom. Dance invites us to ground our souls in our bodies in the most joyful and exuberant way, and live an embodied ensouled life. Dance is the hope for our humanity if we accept the invitation to dance our lives toward embodied radiance.
What does it mean to dance consciously in these times of chaos and uncertainty? In this unique Immersion, Banafsheh offers a path to incorporate the secret embodiment tools of dance, and ancient mystical wisdom into your daily life. She eloquently weaves together Western discoveries in quantum physics and neuroscience with Eastern mysticism, informed by the poetry of Rumi, Kabir and others.
Explore how dance can transform your neurobiology, freeing you of past limiting beliefs, infusing your being with the energy of the Infinite. Channel this energy of possibility and love to where it is most needed, be it personal empowerment or the healing for our world.
The Path of the Dancer initiates you into recognizing the wisdom of your body. You will find a deep sense of belonging, well-being, and a wholeness in your own skin.
Each Module builds upon the foundational principles of Dance of Oneness®.
This Immersion is suitable for ALL who love to move, all genders and age groups as an immediately accessible embodiment tool to ground and center yourself and become more conscious, joyful, and energized. In addition, this course offers trained dancers, psychotherapists, yoga instructors, creative arts therapists, and other movement practitioners the opportunity to deepen their professional skills.
This Immersion is a foundational Dance of Oneness® Course and fulfills 13 hours of the 200-hr Dance of Oneness® Certification Program.
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Banafsheh Sayyad is a master Persian sacred dancer, choreographer, activist and founder of Dance of Oneness®. With an MFA in Dance & Choreography and an MA in Chinese Medicine, she is a deeply profound and highly accessible spiritual teacher of embodiment, dedicated to individual and collective healing through dance. Banafsheh performs and teaches internationally, initiating people into the wisdom of their bodies. Her signature style of holy wildness ignites transformation and illumination in all those who dance with her from around the globe. Her easeful instruction and welcoming spirit empowers students from all stages of life to feel a true sense of belonging in their bodies and passion in their lives, by integrating wisdom teachings.
Transformative! Banafsheh skillfully takes us step by step to an experience of dance that brings me deeper into my body, to peace, feeling grounded and open to beauty and to love. Most importantly for me, the process brought me to experience a lovingness toward myself. I appreciate her presence of gentleness and fierce passion, and I’m inspired to bring my best self into my world.
Mary Regis
Dance of Oneness® is the dance I had been waiting to do all my life. From a young age I had danced, read watched and followed Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Joffery Ballet, Margie Gillis, Gabriel Roth and many more than I can name that moved in a way that spoke to me. Dance of Oneness® is the culmination of all that I had been drawn to in the other dance forms which seemed to be missing the main ingredient. Banafsheh has found the missing thread which is the opening to the Beloved, to truly give yourself in movement to the Divine energy that resides and moves through all of us from the Earth and the Heavens. I felt that for the first time in our dancing. It also reintroduced me to my own body, allowed me to accept my imperfections and for the first time in years swim naked in the ocean. All of this and more.
Janet Sawatsky