Through intimate poetry recitations, candid commentary, and transmissions by Banafsheh in both Persian and English, you’ll go deeper into Rumi verses, deepening embodiment and strengthening your connection to the Beloved. This audio series integration coincides with Dancing Rumi’s Poetry, a 4-week video course but can also be purchased alone to embody, rather than simply listen to, and integrate Rumi’s wisdom into your being and everyday life.
Session 1:
In this 21-minute journey and guided meditation, Banafsheh takes you deeper into the heart of Rumi’s verse, “A version of the Divine script you are… Whatever you seek, you are,” recognizing your body and being as the source of what you long for.
Session 2:
With every breath, a messenger from the Beloved arrives. In this 15-minute journey into a poem from Rumi’s Divan-e Shams, go deeper into Rumi’s thought of how when you become empty like the reed flute, divine music flows through you, and can guide you through challenge, uncertainty, and heartache.
Session 3:
In this 15-minute journey, go deeper with Banafsheh into one of Rumi’s most disarming teachings from the Masnavi — a passage that quietly overturns how we tend to interpret our inner world. It begins with a simple, almost unsettling recognition: something is always arriving in you with direction, timing, and a kind of hidden intelligence that is easy to miss when we are only trying to manage or escape it.
Session 4:
In this 13-minute journey, Banafsheh guides you deeper into Rumi’s radical invitation to stay open when you don’t know what’s going to happen next. You’ll also experience your heart as a site of continuous transmutation — where darkness is not rejected but metabolized into clarity, and where experience is not judged as “good” or “bad,” but received as part of an ongoing spiritual process of becoming.
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