Join Banafsheh and friends for a luminous evening where movement, music, and prayer converge in dance. In a time of profound grief and upheaval in Iran, we gather not to turn away from what is happening, but to ground ourselves together — to remember the wisdom of the body and the power of collective presence as a foundation for conscious response.
The evening will open with an ecstatic dance performed to live Iranian music, invoking and honoring the deep cultural and spiritual roots of Iran. This will be followed by an intimate reading from Dance of Oneness: Embody Love & Luminosity to Transform Your Life, with Banafsheh sharing the personal stories and lived experiences behind the words.
After the reading, we’ll dance as a way of releasing pent-up emotions, grief, and overwhelm, and to replenish ourselves with the vital energy, clarity, and resilience needed to meet the challenges we face.
This shared movement returns us to the body, restoring inner balance, and reconnecting with purpose. Together, we’ll explore how embodied practice can help us stay centered, courageous, and clear — so our actions arise from integrity, compassion, and in service to the greatest good of all.
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