This course is a transformational journey of self-realization through embodiment and creativity with 13 hours of self-paced Dance of Oneness® sacred arts curriculum.
In Womb of Compassion, Banafsheh initiates you into Sama, the holy ritual of whirling, as a complete spiritual path that evolves through 4 stages called Salaams or Greetings based on Rumi’s teachings. Sama is a spiritual journey from awakening to love as the governing intelligence of the universe, then witnessing this loving intelligence in all of nature and people, and surrendering and dying into love, to be reborn as the living embodiment of love in the world.
The poetry of Rumi flowered through him as he whirled in perfect rhyme and meter in the Persian language. It stands as a testament to the power of this sacred dance to connect you directly to the source of consciousness and constant stream of intuition.
Banafsheh eloquently draws parallels between Eastern wisdom teachings including the mystical poetry of Rumi, Rabia, Hafez, Kabir, and present-day western discoveries in quantum physics and neuroscience. You will also be guided into embodying Saghi, the sensual muse and cup-bearer who is a central figure in Persian poetry, painting and dance. Through an original choreography, you’ll experience a blissful surrender into the embrace of love.
Emerge from this course forever transformed with a deep sense of embodied belonging and compassion.
Course Audience: This course is suitable for all gender orientations and for all those who love to move, as an immediately accessible embodiment tool in becoming conscious and whole. In addition, this course offers trained dancers, psychotherapists, yoga instructors, creative arts therapists, and other movement practitioners the opportunity to deepen their professional skills.
Certification: This Retreat 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