Come Home To The Body Through Sacred Movement

Enter a shared field of movement where sacred dance becomes a pathway to heal, reconnect, and remember yourself in community — restoring balance within, opening the heart, and awakening a deeper sense of presence, compassion, and unity through embodied practice.

Space is Limited — Email RSVP is Required: connectwithcce@gmail.com

April 26, 2026

4:00 pm

– 6:30 pm

Mixed Levels

1 Certification Pts.

Cost: Free

Reed Park Auditorium

1133 7th St. Santa Monica, CA 90403

Come Home to Yourself Through Movement, Music & Collective Presence

This experience opens with a talk and selected readings from Banafsheh Sayyad’s new book, Dance of Oneness: Embody Love & Luminosity to Transform Your Life, exploring sacred dance as a path of embodiment, healing, and spiritual connection.

In a time when so many of us feel overwhelmed, split in many directions or ungrounded, embodied practice can help us return to our center, restore balance, and remember what matters most — so our actions arise from integrity, compassion, and in service to the greatest good of all.

The second half of the event is a guided workshop in sacred movement and meditation inspired by Banafsheh’s Dance of Oneness® method. Through gentle yet powerful movement, you will be guided to calm your mind, center yourself, open your heart, and cultivate the clarity and courage needed to meet life with greater presence, capacity, and grace. No dance background is required.

Copies of Banafsheh’s new book will be available for purchase, and she will be happy to sign them.

This event will be in English and Persian. All are welcome.

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

USA

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

Canada