THE DANCE OF ONENESS LOVE & LUMINOSITY TOUR
Workshops, Courses, Retreats, Book Readings & Performances
A transformational year of movement, awakening, and heart-expanding experiences to embody love, light, aliveness, and unity through sacred dance
Upcoming Events
July 11, 18 & 25 - A 3-Part Meditation Series with Sounds True One
Rising through Love: Reclaiming the Light Hidden Within Adversity
@8-9:00am PT
What if the challenges that have shaped you could also become the doorway to your greatest renewal?
In this three-part interactive meditation series, Rising Through Love: Reclaiming the Light Hidden Within Adversity, explore how sacred movement, embodied meditation, mystical poetry, Divine Feminine wisdom, and Sufi-inspired practices can help us meet life’s challenges with greater resilience, compassion, and trust — returning again and again to the love that lives within us.
- July 11 – Episode 1: Waves of Love — Becoming What You Seek
- July 18 – Episode 2: Sama — Turning Toward Love
- July 25 – Episode 3: Rising Again — From Release to Renewal
Register today on Sounds True One to reserve your place. (They offer a month-long free membership trial)
July 25 - Guidance, Book Reading & Workshop
Pars Place Vienna, Virginia
Returning to the Heart: A Sacred Gathering of Wisdom & Whirling
@11:30am-4:00pm ET
Join me for a special day of inspiration, embodiment, and sacred dance, beginning with a free book reading, talk, and signing, Wisdom for Our Time. I’ll share reflections from Dance of Oneness: Embody Love & Luminosity to Transform Your Life and explore how embodied wisdom can help us cultivate peace, resilience, and belonging in these transformative times.
Those wishing to deepen the experience are invited to continue with Sama: Whirling Dance of the Heart, a two-hour workshop where you’ll learn the foundations of a feminine form of Sufi whirling and discover a powerful practice for finding balance, clarity, and inner stillness amidst life’s constant movement.
Register: Wisdom for Our Time: Spiritual Reflections & Book Reading
Register: Sama: Whirling Dance of the Heart
July 28 - Book Reading & Workshop at All That Matters Wakefield Village, Rhode Island
A Journey in Dance of Oneness
@6-8:00pm ET
Join me at All That Matters Yoga for an immersive evening of sacred dance, embodied wisdom, and transformation.
This special gathering weaves together an inspiring dance performance, reflections from my book, and a guided Dance of Oneness® workshop designed to help you cultivate resilience, inner peace, and a deeper sense of belonging.
Together, we’ll explore how movement can become a spiritual practice — awakening the heart, quieting the mind, and reconnecting us with the wisdom, grace, and love that already live within. Copies of Dance of Oneness will be available for purchase and signing.
July 30 to Aug 2 - Menla Retreat Center / NY
Alchemy of Oneness: The 3rd Force
Discover how compassionately weaving paradoxes together creates a third force — one that initiates transfiguration, a profound spiritual process Sufi mystics described as the alchemy of the heart, Rumi called the meeting place beyond opposites, and modern quantum physics understands as emergence through coherence and superposition. Drawing from my book, I’ll share embodiment practices, whirling, and new dance sequences grounded in mysticism and modern science, guiding you to embodied transfiguration as an antidote to inner and outer conflict.
Aug 13 to 19 - Retreat in Chartres, France
Madonna Rising: Mary Magdalene’s Path to Ascension
Recently uncovered ancient texts provide us with a new aperture of Mary Magdalene as a luminous guide for embodying our divine humanity. The Gospel of the Beloved Companion, attributed to the Magdalene, describes her ascension along the Great Tree Within.
Her mission in France and England also connect with the many manifestations of the Black Madonna, both rooted in the timeless wisdom tradition of the Dark Lady.
During this retreat, we’ll embody the stages of ascension laid out in Mary Magdalene’s gospel as we explore the boughs of the Great Tree Within.
Aug 19 - 28 Provence, France
A Pilgrimage to Walk the Path of Mary Magdalene
According to ancient tradition, Mary Magdalene arrived on the shores of Provence, France, in the first century, carrying teachings she had received directly from Jesus and tending a living stream of wisdom that would quietly shape the early roots of Christianity. In the caves, basilicas, and hidden sanctuaries of southern France, her presence can still be felt — intimate, fierce, and deeply compassionate.
This pilgrimage is an opportunity to walk in her footsteps and visit places long held as sanctuaries of her life, prayer, and transmission. You’ll discover Mary Magdalene in her many expressions — Apostle to the Apostles, mystic, teacher, and embodiment of sacred love — while allowing the land itself to awaken something within you.
As we move through these holy sites, you may find yourself touched by remembrance, devotion, and a renewed connection to your own inner divinity.
Save the Date:
October 15, 2026 - March 4, 2027
A New Online 18-week Training with The Shift Network
Based on the Rays of Embodiment in Banafsheh’s new book
Registration Opens Soon
Join me for an 18-week training in the Rays of Embodiment — part of a deeper methodology for spiritual embodiment and awakening rooted in Divine Feminine wisdom and mapped in Banafsheh’s new book, Dance of Oneness: Embody Love & Luminosity to Transform Your Life.
We’ll explore the body as a sacred vessel for love and revelation, combining movement, ritual, mysticism, and science as pathways for luminous embodiment.
Banafsheh’s book, seven years in the making, emerged through direct transmissions from the Divine Feminine. Be immersed in these revelations as you cultivate a body of light.
Past Events
June 25 - July 30 New Online Course with The Shift Network
The Sacred Geometry of Dance: Move Through Sacred Patterns for Revelatory Wisdom, Deeper Alignment & Embodied Awareness
At a time when so many of us feel exhausted, overwhelmed, or disempowered to create meaningful, lasting peace and change, the sacred geometry of dance offers a radically different path for accessing the insight that can carry us forward…
Engage with your body as the place where the infinite takes shape and become a chalice for divine revelation and expression as you dance the sacred geometries that shape your inner and outer reality.
You’ll enter the energetic architecture of some of humanity’s oldest sacred symbols and dimensions of consciousness through movement, whirling, Divine Feminine wisdom, and embodied mystical practice — unlocking deeper dimensions of spiritual awareness, healing, sovereignty, and coherence.
June 20 & 21 - FREE Solstice Events
Tirgan: A Solstice Rite of Renewal – Dance Performance with Video Art, Whirling Workshop, Sound Healing & Community Dialogue
Donations Accepted | RSVP Required
Gather for the Summer Solstice at the zenith of light for an immersive weekend of dance performance with video art, whirling workshop, sound healing, and community dialogue rooted in Iranian mystical and artistic traditions. Through a sacred journey of movement, visual storytelling, sharing, and sound, we will explore grief, renewal, resilience, and deeper purpose — illuminating the path, nourishing the spirit, and offering healing connection in these turbulent times.
The weekend features dancer/choreographer Banafsheh Sayyad, video artist Shaghayegh Cyrous, sound healer Shila Ommi, and mythologist Maryam Sayyad, with an original soundtrack and DJ set.
June 13 - FREE Online Event with The Shift Network
Dance the Sacred Geometry of the Rose
@10:00am-11:00am PT
Connect with the invisible architecture of life through the sacred geometry of dance to discover deeper dimensions of consciousness, healing, and presence — and unlock the revelatory wisdom held in the energetic patterns that shape your reality.
Banafsheh will also guide you into the spiraling sacred geometry of the rose during a gentle movement practice, unlocking its wisdom and deeper states of coherence, stability, clarity, and peace.
At a time when so many feel scattered, overwhelmed, and disconnected from their true selves, potential, and each other, sacred dance offers a way to return to the alchemical illumination of body and soul — where consciousness moves like liquid gold in physical form, revelatory in its power and embodying creation itself.
Experience firsthand the mystical world of sacred geometry and embodied revelation through the sacred geometry of dance.
May 17 - The London WeHo Los Angeles
Sacred Movement Meditation @9:45am – 11:00am
In a world that constantly pulls us into stress and overstimulation, what if you could return to calm—through your body? In this one-hour journey, Banafsheh guides you through breath, awareness, and accessible sacred dance practices inspired by her Dance of Oneness® method. Blending Divine Feminine wisdom with embodied science, this experience is designed to help you release tension, regulate your nervous system, and restore a sense of balance from within. No dance experience is needed. You’ll leave feeling more spacious, centered, and resilient—able to meet life with greater capacity, steadiness and grace.
Copies of Banafsheh’s new book, Dance of Oneness: Embody Love and Luminosity to Transform Your Life, will be available for purchase, and she will be happy to sign them.
June 20 & 21 - FREE Solstice Events
May 6 - Free Online Sacred Movement Session
Radiant Presence @6:00pm – 7:00pm
In this experiential session, you’ll be guided to arrive more fully in yourself as you reconnect with your body as a source of calm, clarity, inner steadiness, and radiant presence.
Through embodied practices inspired by Banafsheh’s Dance of Oneness® method, you’ll learn how movement, breath, and awareness can help soften stress, quiet the mind, and open a more spacious connection to yourself.
This session offers a taste of the deeper in-person workshop, Embody Love & Calm: A Sacred Movement Meditation, where Banafsheh will guide you through a fuller one-hour journey of breath, sacred movement, nervous system regulation, and Divine Feminine wisdom.
April 18 to May 9 - An Online Sacred Journey
Embody Love as Spiritual Power
Discover a sacred methodology for awakening inner and outer transformation that is rooted in soft power, the wise, noble, fierce, and loving creational energy of the Divine Feminine. Drawing from my book, I’ll share practices and new dance sequences that are rooted in mysticism and modern science as we embody love as a transformative spiritual technology for activating inner and outer positive change.
April 26 - Free Book Reading & Sacred Movement Gathering
Come Home to the Body through Sacred Movement @4pm-6:30pm
Enter a shared field of movement where sacred dance becomes a pathway to heal, reconnect, and remember yourself in community — restoring balance within, opening the heart, and awakening a deeper sense of presence, compassion, and unity through embodied practice.
April 19 - LA Times Festival of Books
Book Signing @12-2pm Booth 948
Join Banafsheh at the LA Times Festival of Books for a live reading and book signing of Dance of Oneness: Embody Love & Luminosity to Transform Your Life.
In a time with so much division and uncertainty, the unification of body and soul reminds us how to inhabit our lives more fully, meeting each moment with greater capacity, compassion, truth, and personal agency.
March 28 @ 6:00pm PT - Barnes & Noble Encinitas, San Diego
An Interactive Book Reading, Signing & Sacred Practice
Join Banafsheh for an intimate reading and signing of her new book, Dance of Oneness: Embody Love & Luminosity to Transform Your Life. Banafsheh will also guide the audience in a sacred practice that brings to life the Divine Feminine wisdom transmissions she received during the many years’ journey of writing the book. No ticket required.
February 22 - Conscious Life Expo Los Angeles
Dance of Oneness®: Opening Sacred Realms
An Interactive Workshop & Book Signing
A new interactive workshop and book signing that explores how sacred movement becomes a living portal to non-ordinary states of awareness. We’ll explore how the body becomes the threshold for higher consciousness where intimacy with the Beloved can be directly felt. And you’ll leave inspired, with a reliable practice and daily ritual to integrate higher states of awareness into your daily life.
The Conscious Life Expo is dedicated to the evolution of humanity and creation of a new world. This workshop is open to all levels. Dress comfortably, come as you are, and prepare to move with intention as we open the sacred realms within.
March 14 & 15 - Astralab, Los Angeles
Welcoming the New: Dancing the Awakening Light
An Interactive Performance, Book Reading & Open Dance For Freedom
+ 2 NEW In-Person Workshops
Join Banafsheh and friends for a luminous evening on March 14 where movement, live music, and prayer converge in the dance. Activate healing and reconnect with the inner resources needed to meet this moment with courage, integrity, and love through embodied practices rooted in Divine Feminine wisdom, as transmitted in Banafsheh’s new book, Dance of Oneness: Embody Love & Luminosity to Transform Your Life. This potent evening leads into two new workshops on March 15 accompanied by the powerful live rhythms of the women’s LA Daf Ensemble. You’ll enter the field of the Divine Feminine through the pulse of the daf activating an elevated state to dream in a new reality for Iran and our world. You’ll also delve deep into the spiritual practice and foundations of Sufi whirling.
Dance of Oneness Book Podcasts, Articles & Interviews
Get Your Copy of the Dance of Oneness Book!
Embody Love and Luminosity to Transform Your Life
Discover how spiritual embodiment through sacred dance leads to healing, transformation, joyful liberation, and living a more vibrant, aligned, and abundant life with this empowering, interactive guide to embodied spirituality.
