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Sufi Whirling: The Dance of Becoming

Explore a feminine approach to Sufi whirling guided by the live rhythms of the women’s LA Daf Ensemble. Through sacred dance and embodiment practices, you’ll discover how whirling is a sacred technology for becoming.

Modern science and ancient mysticism reveal how life begins in the spin, whether atoms or worlds. As you learn the foundations of whirling through a feminine lens, you’ll attune to the creational power that manifests energy into form and awaken a deeper sense of balance, clarity, and belonging within the greater dance of creation.

March 15, 2026
2:00 pm
– 4:00 pm
PT
Cost: $45
Astralab, Los Angeles
678 La Fayette Park Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Banafsheh Sayyad and LA Daf Ensemble

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