Reignite the Reality-Shaping Power that Lives Within the Unity of Body and Soul
Discover sacred dance and conscious movement as gateways to Divine Feminine creational intelligence — the wise, noble, fierce, and tender energy that generates inner and outer transformation.
Within each of us lives an untapped spiritual power — one that arises from the deep interconnectedness of all life and the creational energy that is inherently life-giving. This is the power of the Divine Feminine: a soft yet potent field of intelligence that creates through receptivity, coherence, resonance, and love.
Unlike paradigms rooted in will or control, Divine Feminine power flows through our relationship with our body, Mother Earth, the unseen, and one another. When embodied, this power becomes a living force that restores balance, awakens inner authority, and generates meaningful, sustainable change from the inside out.
Embodying Love as Spiritual Power is a 4-week spiritual embodiment journey rooted in sacred dance and Divine Feminine wisdom. Through newly created dance practices and intentional movement sequences, you will learn how to cultivate, build, and refine “soft power” — as a coherent, responsive, and deeply transformative field of presence.
In this sacred dance journey, you’ll:
- Experience and embody love as sacred technology that reorganizes your inner and outer world for coherence and peace, deepens your capacity to remain open and grounded, and strengthens your ability to meet life with clarity, courage, and agency
- Learn sacred dance and feminine embodiment practices that anchor you in Divine Feminine wisdom, care, and coherence, allowing the field of love and unity to naturally expand for the betterment of all beings
- Awaken soft power within — a whole and regenerative presence that is compassionate, just, fierce, tender, and essentially life giving
- Discover the science and mysticism that reveals love as a spiritual technology that heals us at a cellular level and realigns us with our deeper authenticity
- Gain a deeper understanding of the evolutionary power of love when embodied — one of the most powerful agents for personal and collective transformation
Course Requirements:
This course is suitable for anyone who is interested in accessing the spiritual power of love and awakening through sacred dance. It also offers trained dancers, somatic movement practitioners, psychotherapists, yoga instructors, creative arts therapists, and other movement practitioners the opportunity to deepen their professional skills.
Week 1: April 18, 10-11:30am PT
Remembering Love as Creational Power
You’ll begin by awakening your body’s innate relationship with love as a generative, organizing force. Through foundational sacred dance practices, you’ll reconnect with the currents of life-giving energy that flow between Earth, body, and spirit, restoring trust in your natural rhythm and inner guidance.
This module establishes love as a field you can consciously enter, inhabit, and express through movement.
Week 2: April 25, 10-11:30am PT
Cultivating Soft Power through Embodied Presence
Here, you’ll explore how softness, receptivity, and vulnerability become sources of strength. Through fluid, sacred dance and conscious movement practices, you’ll learn to stabilize your nervous system, empower your sensitivity, and build resilience without armoring, numbing yourself, or becoming too hard with others.
This is where love becomes a felt capacity — one that allows you to remain open, responsive, and sovereign even in the presence of turbulence, intensity, or uncertainty.
Week 3: May 2, 10-11:30am PT
Radiating Love as Coherent Influence
This module shifts from internal cultivation to integration that empowers conscious engagement with the world around you. You’ll work with sacred dance practices that strengthen your ability to remain energetically balanced and sovereign, while transmitting love as clarity, compassion, and coherence.
As your inner field stabilizes, you’ll explore how embodied love naturally influences your environment — shaping communication, relationships, boundaries, and connection without force or persuasion.
Week 4: May 9, 10-11:30am PT
Living Love as Wisdom, Embodied Sensuality & Luminous Strength
In the final week, you’ll integrate love as a way of being — a sacred orientation toward life. Through integrative dance sequences, you’ll learn how to return to this field again and again, especially during moments of challenge, transition, or transformation.
This module anchors love as a sustainable spiritual power — one that supports authentic action, wise discernment, and a deeply rooted sense of inner authority aligned with the greater good.
Learning Streams
Dance & Movement
A combination of new sacred movement and routines from the Dance of Oneness repertoire, Sufi whirling, Persian dance, yoga, seated meditation, and free-style dance.
Divine Feminine Wisdom
You will be initiated into the mysteries and wisdom transmissions of the Divine Feminine. She calls us to enter a harmonious relationship with all Her creation. By coming into loving conscious awareness in your body, you’ll dissolve inner divides and experience greater wholeness, vitality, joy, and presence.
Mystical Teachings & Science
Experience gnosis, or the experiential knowing of the Sufis and the Taoists, and drink from the poetic wellspring of Jalaleddin Rumi and other mystics. You’ll also explore parallels between these mystical teachings and insights from quantum physics.
Healing
Experience the full-on transformation that comes from discovering and releasing deep-seated beliefs that have blocked you from living your full potential. You’ll find the balm you yearn for to heal the wounded places inside your being. And, you’ll discover the medicine you carry within you to heal and bless our world.
Community
Through dancing and sharing, you’ll enter an energy field that supports each of us in finding our unique gift. Our own light becomes magnified when shared and merged with like-hearted people.
Dance Experience
This retreat is mixed level and open to ALL who love to move.
Additionally, this retreat offers trained dancers, somatic practitioners, psychotherapists, yoga instructors, creative arts therapists, and other movement practitioners the opportunity to deepen their professional skills.
Certification
This retreat fulfills 6 hours of the 200-hr Dance of Oneness® Certification Program.
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How this Dance Journey Works
Each session is 1.5 hrs long including instruction and a community sharing circle after we dance
Sessions will be conducted on Zoom
Recordings of live sessions will be available up to 48 hrs post session in the student dashboard
Pre-registration is required
Registration includes permanent access to session recordings, music list, and course material
Tuition for Embody Love as Spiritual Power
4 Saturdays, April 18 - May 9
@10-11:30am PT
Permanent Access to Recordings
Price: $197
About Banafsheh
Banafsheh Sayyad, MFA, Choreography and MA, Chinese Medicine, is a master sacred dancer, choreographer, and visionary teacher of spiritual embodiment whose life’s work is devoted to helping people activate greater health, awareness, and resilience through conscious movement. Internationally acclaimed for her pioneering fusion of spirituality and sensuality, she is the founder of Dance of Oneness®, a Divine Feminine lineage of healing and transformation uniting Sufi whirling, Persian dance, flamenco, mysticism, and Taoist wisdom.
Banafsheh’s forthcoming book, Dance of Oneness (St. Martin’s Essentials, March 2026), invites readers to rediscover the body as a portal to presence, vitality, and joy. Drawing from her own awakening through dance that transmuted the pain of exile from Iran, Banafsheh weaves Rumi’s poetry, feminine mysticism, and embodied healing into a radiant call to live as a channel of love and light. Born in Iran, she defied cultural taboos to create a feminine expression of Sufi whirling, transforming dance into a pathway of liberation, divine communion, and activism.
Through her non-profit Dance of Oneness and her transformative teachings, Banafsheh has inspired thousands across the world to awaken, embody love, and dance the divine into being.
