Guided by Banafsheh Sayyad, founder of Dance of Oneness, this self paced course blends Sufi whirling, Persian dance, Tai Chi inspired movement, Flamenco, Middle Eastern and tribal dances, breathwork, meditation, chanting, and mystical poetry. You will learn when and how to summon each element to regulate your systems and shift your state. Water cools anxiety, fire enlivens low energy, air lifts heaviness, light and sound soothe sadness, and ether opens new possibilities. The curriculum draws on Dance MFA training, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Gurdjieff movement, and Divine Feminine wisdom to clear blockages, increase resilience, and reconnect you with your sacred body and the Earth.
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Banafsheh is an internationally acclaimed spiritual embodiment teacher, sacred dancer, choreographer, speaker, and activist.As the founder of Dance of Oneness® — a Divine Feminine lineage for healing and transformation — she fuses Sufi whirling, Persian dance, conscious movement, Chinese Medicine, and mysticism into a step-by-step methodology for luminous embodiment. She holds an MFA in Dance from UCLA and a Master’s in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and for more than two decades, has taught and performed worldwide. Her work is devoted to helping people heal and transform their lives by embodying love and luminosity.
Dance has always been her way of praying, healing, accessing higher consciousness, and connecting with the Divine — and she believes it can be yours, too.
Contact the Dance of Oneness Team if you’d like to invite Banafsheh to partnerships, collaborations, events, keynotes, conferences, retreats, workshops, performances, festivals, philanthropic opportunities, or educational outreach programs.
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