Dancing Rumi’s Poetry: Embodying the Original Persian Transmissions

Most people have never actually encountered Rumi’s poetry as it was originally written…

What we’ve inherited are interpretations —smoothed, simplified, and often stripped of the raw, paradoxical intensity that lives in the original Persian.

Rumi’s true voice is not only beautiful and poignant… but disruptive.

It’s devotional to the full experience of being human, seeking not only to offer wisdom and relief to the heart but to reinterpret what it means to be a divine being in human form. When experienced in its original language and energetic form, and danced — just as Rumi danced while transmitting it — we receive the true transmission of Rumi’s poetry.

This is medicine for our time. In a world wrought with division, uncertainty, injustice, and chaos, Rumi’s original teachings call us back into direct contact with the sacred — where wisdom, truth, courage, and beauty are remembered as our true essence.

Through sacred dance practices such as Sufi whirling, Persian dance, and Iranian tribal movement, this wisdom can take root in the body.

Just as Rumi’s poetry emerged while whirling and communing with the Beloved, you are invited into that same current —where the body is recognized as a holy vessel and becomes a channel for the sacred.

Here, you don’t just study the Beloved… you begin to move, breathe, and create as a channel for what the Beloved wants to express through you.

In this sacred dance journey, you’ll:

Experience Rumi’s original Persian poetry and English translation as wisdom transmissions for awakening, healing, and higher guidance
Integrate Rumi’s teachings through Sufi whirling, Iranian tribal dance, and Persian dance — turning poetic insight into embodied awareness, flow, and presence
Work with Rumi’s teaching on surrender, presence, and “holy madness” as a response to modern overwhelm
Explore your body as a mirror of the Divine — where longing, seeking, and fulfillment become one
Recognize how the Beloved emerges in your everyday life — and can guide you through challenge, uncertainty, and heartache
Discover the deeper meaning of some of Rumi’s most recognizable poems — and how they unlock deeper dimensions of spiritual power when embodied
Receive an introduction to Rumi’s life, lineage, and mystical path of love and devotion
Explore the chaos of life as a catalyst for sacred unfolding
Learn how love, in Rumi’s perception is the foundation of unshakable stability, presence, and clarity

Course Requirements:

This course is ideal for those interested in Rumi, sacred dance, embodiment practices, Divine Feminine wisdom, mystical teachings, and spiritual growth — whether you are a beginner or experienced in movement or meditation.

By the end of the course, you’ll have a stronger understanding and integration of Rumi’s deeper wisdom, and begin to experience yourself as a channel through which the energy of the Beloved can move, breathe, and express.

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.