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Welcome to Dance of Oneness® Academy

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Dance of Oneness® is for you if you are…

A young dancer and want to connect your movement with spirituality, wisdom and healing modalities that can evolve you and help ignite global change though a modality that is a blend of guided and free-style dance.
A professional dancer, devoted to movement, who is looking to find a deeper meaning, sacredness and joy in your practice.
An ageless dancer (female, male, nonbinary), who embraces the body as essential to becoming whole and wants to ground your spirituality in the body.

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Follow this journey of Courses to open to your full potential.

Dance of Oneness® Daily Practice Level I

A 37-min mixed levels daily practice with the live music of Tony Khalife and the love poetry of Rumi. Activate a sensual grace, and gain tools to navigate our challenging times from a grounded, centered and elevated state of joy, love and wisdom.

The Rose Path of Love

In this mixed levels in-person series, embody the love essence of the Rose through Persian dance, Flamenco and whirling. The Sessions are a balance between guided and free-style dance, Sufi and Divine Feminine teachings and mystical poetry.

30 Days of Dance 

A 30-hr mixed levels journey through the 4 Elements designed for physical, emotional and mental fitness. Energize yourself and activate joy and calm through a Dance of Oneness medley emphasizing Tai Chi, Persian dance, Flamenco and Tribal Dances.
 

Whirling Dance of the Heart 

Learn how to whirl in this 2.5-hr mixed levels Course with a simple method combined with Sufi teachings and philosophy that will guide you to overcome dizziness and fear, so you can access the profound benefits of this sacred movement meditation.

Radiant Embodiment Series

A 64-hr mixed levels immersion in the Chakras and the Feminine Archetypes designed to activate your light body. Come home to your body with loving, sensual grace, balance the Chakras and embody the Feminine Archetype corresponding to each Chakra.

Womb of Compassion

A 13-hr mixed levels Course centered on Sufi and Divine Feminine teachings, focusing on the sacred dance of whirling, and the ethereal yet sensual figure of Saghi, the Muse in Persian dance. Empower your inner core and dance to spread compassion.

Path of the Dancer, 1.0 

A 13-hr intermediate/advanced Course exploring the secrets known only to dancers that can open you to your fullest potential. Embody the power, freedom, exuberance, resilience, flexibility, and grace of dance and transform your neurobiology and your life!

Please email us if you have any questions or need guidance in
starting your journey.

We all know that we cannot solve problems at the same level that created them. Luckily, we have Banafsheh. Her classes have actually opened me to that sought-after next level. Through dance, she shows me that it lies only a short distance beyond my personal or global crises. Come dance with her, heal yourself, heal the world, and…have fun!

Joanna Veldt

USA
Banafsheh’s training transports me to the timeless crossroads where infinite and matter intersect. Dancing from this state of the felt unity in every cell, every breath, and all that is, I’ve truly learned to move and live!

Deirdre Stone

USA
Banafsheh has such an amazing way of taking large concepts and weaving them into the graspable, and embodying them into mindful movement that’s truly a transformational experience! Even from my living room!

Hilda Massoud

USA
To say Dance of Oneness® changed my life is an understatement! I’ve been struggling with depression and anxiety that I have dragged along with me from childhood. I was so tightly bound up in nerves and anxiety that I could barely breathe through the heaviness I was carrying in my heart. Dance of Oneness® slowly unwound and unfurled me with gentle coaxing rhythms into a more beautiful, vibrant, sensual love-filled version of myself than I feel I have ever been.

Katie Watt

Canada

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

Canada

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

USA