Faculty:
Anine van der Meer, Andrew Harvey, Veronique Flayol, HeatherAsh Amara, Margot Borden, Tony Khalife, Jim Garrison, Calen Rayne and Banafsheh Sayyad
Join a stellar group of teachers and artists for a 7-day immersion in Chartres during the Feast of the Assumption—this holy city’s most resplendent time of year, when the Black Madonna is carried in procession through the streets and placed in the Cathedral for seven sacred days.
Dance, sing, and engage in sacred ceremonies in the labyrinth and crypt of the magnificent Chartres Cathedral with a community of like-hearted seekers.
Presented by Ubiquity Chartres Academy
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