Sacred Dance for Personal & Collective Freedom
Transform Your Pain into Freedom: Discover the Power of Dance to Reconnect with Your Divine Self and Create Personal and Collective Change!
What does freedom feel like to you?
Do you feel joyful, at ease, energized, and confident in your body… and know how to work with your body, mind, and spirit as they are right now to live your best life?
While we all yearn to feel free, most of us have been unnaturally conditioned to expect and live within some form of limitation — whether it concerns our bodies, health, careers, relationships, dreams, or the inherent right to self-direct our lives…
As a result, we’ve been cut off not only from the Source of life, but also what matters most to us, our optimal health, and our true selves and purpose — attuning instead to a restrictive version of who we are meant to be.
This oppression and repression is the root cause of much of our emotional, mental, and physical pain and illness, says Banafsheh Sayyad, an acclaimed embodiment teacher and sacred dancer.
On Thursday, April 13, with Banafsheh, you’ll explore sacred dance as a path to freedom and a potent technology for unlocking your body’s innate ability to transform emotional, mental, and physical burdens and blocks into vibrant health, expansiveness, and aliveness.
In this empowering online event, you’ll:
- Experience dance as a fierce yet tender expression of freedom and activism — and a powerful ally to personal and social change
- Learn how Sama, the sacred whirling dance, can alchemize inner and outer chaos as you shift into the stillness, purity, and higher truth of your innate energetic state — the same state of your whirling atoms
- Be guided in a dance practice that harnesses the power of presence and your body’s own ability to track and free blocks — and unleash joy
- Explore sacred dance as a revolutionary act of embodiment, sovereignty, and love
- Discover why patriarchal systems and totalitarian regimes are so threatened by the power of dance — and how one women-led movement is countering this oppression through fearless self-expression
Go here to watch the brief invitation from Banafsheh.
Banafsheh will share how dance can reconnect us and teach us how to hold the joys and sorrows of life in a strong, compassionate, and wide-open heart, empowering the love and goodness that connects us all as we ground ourselves in the joy of being alive.
During the event, you’ll experience this ecstatic connection for yourself during a guided dance practice that harnesses the power of presence and your body’s ability to track and free blocks… and unleash the joy that is buried beneath the stress, tension, and trauma of modern living.
Live long, love life and be well.
Harold
P.S. In Sacred Dance for Personal & Collective Freedom: Transform Trauma, Open to the Divine & Embody Love as the Ultimate Revolutionary Actwith Banafsheh Sayyad you’ll dance to open yourself to Source energy, align with your authenticity, and transform your emotional, mental, and physical pain and sorrows into freedom — reconnecting with your body’s divinity, wisdom, and capacity for creating personal and collective change.
We hope you’re able to catch the event as scheduled. However, if you register and miss it, you’ll receive a downloadable recording as soon as it’s available.
About Banafsheh Sayyad
Banafsheh Sayyad is a Persian master sacred dancer, choreographer, acupuncturist, transformational teacher, and founder of Dance of Oneness®. A deeply profound and highly accessible spiritual teacher of embodiment, Banafsheh performs and teaches internationally, initiating people into the wisdom of their bodies. Her signature style of holy wildness infused with ancient wisdom activates transformation and illumination in all those who watch her and dance with her from around the globe.
Banafsheh invites the dancer within to remember, reclaim, and resource the innate healing intelligence spiraling in us and all around us. Her easeful instruction and welcoming spirit empowers students from all stages of life to feel a true sense of belonging in their bodies and passion in their lives, by integrating wisdom teachings from throughout the ages.
She is among the few virtuosos of authentic Persian dance in the world, and a pioneer in creating a liberated feminine expression in the Sufi dance genre previously performed only by men. Her modality, Dance of Oneness®, is dance as a spiritual path and science of embodiment. It is a fusion of three dimensions: healing, wisdom teachings, and the rigorous technique and self-expression of the art of dance.
Banafsheh has a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance and Choreography from UCLA and a Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her award-winning work has been presented in North America, Europe, and Australia. Her dance film, “In the Fire of Grace” with Andrew Harvey, traces Rumi’s journey of the soul in dance.
