Rose of Rapture

Experience the mystery of the universe in your body and soul and become multi-dimensional, commune with the  Beloved, gain coherence, and unleash your ecstatic self through trance dancing, Rumi’s poetry, whirling and chanting in community with like-hearted people to elevate our world into peace and aid our ascension.

In ancient mystical traditions, the Rose symbolizes the heart. Her beautiful, spiraling petals reveal the infinite journey of the soul awakening to and deepening in love through life, death, rebirth, and model the power of living in peace and harmony with oneself and the Greater.

Sama, the sacred whirling dance that allowed for Rumi’s ecstatic yet lucid poetry to flower from him, is a way to open the Rose of your heart as a portal through which higher guidance and frequencies of the universe can manifest. 

Combined with the ritualistic fervor of wild dancing, the soul-calibrating power of chanting and the heart-opening invocation of Persian poetry, the Rose of your heart becomes the Rose of Rapture. 

During this 7-week journey, you’ll invoke the sensual intoxication of the Rose of Rapture, experiencing movement and sound as a self-realignment tool for the body and soul that invites the primal reemergence of your inner truth, light, and fragrance. 

Sacred dance and especially whirling and trance-inducing movements awakens the body, heart, and mind into a unified expression of love, beauty, and goodness and you begin to experience yourself as multi-dimensional. This is like a natural psychedelic journey or trance state in the invisible realms as you delve deeply into the unknown terrains of your body, mind, and soul and ascend to higher dimensions amidst our 3D world.

Each session will begin with a recitation of a poem by Rumi. On some days we will have a combination of warm up, ritualistic trance movements, and whirling and chanting (zikr) set to live drumming. On other days, we will journey into the ethereal Persian Dance followed by whirling and chanting. At the end of sessions, we will revisit the poem from an embodied, ecstatic place in ourselves and decipher its meaning as a group.

Highlights of this 7-week dance journey include:

• Allow the Rose of Rapture to awaken your mind, body, heart, and soul through ecstatic bliss and soulful intoxication 
• Experience Sama, the sacred dance of whirling that opens like a rose in perpetual movement that reconnects you with the Beloved in the core of your being and accelerates your ascension
• Experience sacred dance as a powerful tool for creation and manifesting your desires in the physical world and elevating the world
• Connect with your primal self and true inner longing without fear through wild, ritualistic dancing that welcomes the hidden away parts of yourself to be known
• Chant in community to create a sacred container for your deepest held desires — and those of the collective
• Discover the ancient symbolism of the Rose and the transformative power of trance
• Dive deep into the teachings and poetry of Rumi that illuminate and invoke rapture in the mind and body
• Experience Sama as a universal symbol of life, death, rebirth, and the cosmic dance of existence, and how you step into being multi-dimensionality and channel love into the world
• Discover the fascinating parallel between sacred whirling and the nature of the universe — where every living thing, including atoms perpetually spin in a harmonious dance 
• Experience dance as medicine and ceremony that weaves together the symbolism of the Rose, the power of whirling, and our true essence of love to… help usher in peace for our world

Join us to discover how to harness the energy of the spin to ascend, commune with the Beloved and manifest your spiritual and worldly desires through sacred whirling, short choreographies and sequences of Persian Dance, free-style dance, trance-inducing practices, chanting with drumming, the poetry of Rumi, Eastern energy medicine, wisdom teachings, meditation and visualizations in a community of open hearts dedicated to highest good of all.