In this workshop, Banafsheh shares how sacred dance functions as a portal to non-ordinary states—realms where insight, presence, ancestral memory, and the Beloved become tangible. Why do these encounters matter, and how can we translate them into clarity, resilience, and compassionate action? Rooted in Dance of Oneness®—a Divine Feminine lineage of healing, spiritual embodiment, and transformation woven with Sufi and Taoist threads—this session invites you to cross the threshold into subtle realms of awareness. Expect grounded somatic practices, stillness for integration, and optional turning. All levels welcome. You’ll leave with a reliable practice and daily ritual for integration. Dress to move with ease.
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