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.
We begin our Path of the Dancer Immersion in reverence to life and cultivating kindness towards ourselves and others as the central technique of Dance of Oneness®. In this module, we explore two fundamental principles of Dance of Oneness® that are about surrendering the idea that we are separate from the Earth and from Spirit, the all encompassing energy that permeates the entire universe. What dance reveals to us is that the more we release our sense of separateness and connect with the Earth, and the more we open and allow Spirit or energy to move in us and through us, the more we can access power and strength, and the freer we begin to feel. We develop our capacity to face challenges in our life. This module will give you the transformational experience of letting go of what no longer serves you, and a renewed dedication to freedom and creativity.
In this empowering module, we continue to build on the fundamental grounding techniques, and begin to cultivate a deep sense of presence and balance, ease and comfort in our own skin. This foundation becomes the base for accessing your core or your center. You will learn how the more you feel your self-worth and embrace yourself exactly as you are, the more you can access your core, our center and cultivate a true sense of sovereignty in your body.
This mystical and enlivening module anchors you in your heart and connects you deeply to the energy of gratitude. Building on the deep yet invigorating journey of the 2 previous modules, we open our heart, the gateway to the Infinite and ignite the power of love through moving in sacred geometric shapes and patterns. Banafsheh will guide you into the sacred geometry of your body as you dance the infinity symbol to life and integrate your body, heart and mind in a harmonious resonance. In this module, Banafsheh will also lead you into a heart coherence meditation as well as a movement sequence leading you into becoming aware of the toroidal field of your body that can bring you into absolute bliss!
You will learn the sacred dance of Sama (whirling) and enter into the spin that is now understood as the fundamental dynamics of everything in the universe. We will also explore moving in The Dance of Oneness Spirals, and Dancing with Veils. The practices in this module show you how you have the power in every moment to choose how you feel and how you show up in the world. Your choices matter in your own life and in the lives of those around you. The practices will remind you of the sanctity of life, and inspire you to “Let the beauty you love be what you do” (Rumi). They will reignite your dedication to creating beauty through loving and listening to the intuitive wisdom of your body temple. We will review the simple and accessible wisdom tools cultivated throughout this Immersion and how to apply the skills we cultivated through the Path of the Dancer to our daily life, so we can live our life as a sacred dance – thrilling, illuminating, compassionate, loving and in service to beauty, love and goodness.
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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
