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Workshop: The Pulse of Life: Feminine Embodiment through Sacred Dance
March 15 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Enter the field of the Divine Feminine — the wise, noble, fierce, and tender creational energy of life — through sacred movement, breath, and deep embodied presence.
Drawing from her book, Dance of Oneness: Embody Love & Luminosity to Transform Your Life, sacred dancer and spiritual embodiment teacher Banafsheh Sayyad will guide you to reconnect with your sacred sensuality, reignite your aliveness, release constriction and heavy emotions held in the body, and consciously transmute them into grounded strength, clarity, and life-affirming vitality.
Banafsheh Sayyad, MFA, Choreography and MA, Chinese Medicine, is a master sacred dancer, choreographer, and visionary teacher of spiritual embodiment whose life’s work is devoted to helping people activate greater health, awareness, and resilience through conscious movement.
Internationally acclaimed for her pioneering fusion of spirituality and sensuality, she is the founder of Dance of Oneness®, a Divine Feminine lineage of healing and transformation uniting Sufi whirling, Persian dance, flamenco, mysticism, and Taoist wisdom.
Her forthcoming book, Dance of Oneness (St. Martin’s Essentials, March 2026), invites readers to rediscover the body as a portal to presence, vitality, and joy. Drawing from her own awakening through dance that transmuted the pain of exile from Iran, Banafsheh weaves Rumi’s poetry, feminine mysticism, and embodied healing into a radiant call to live as a channel of love and light. Born in Iran to legendary filmmaker Parviz Sayyad, she defied cultural taboos to create a feminine expression of Sufi whirling, transforming dance into a pathway of liberation, divine communion, and activism.
Through her non-profit Dance of Oneness and her transformative teachings at centers such as Esalen, Kripalu, Omega, and Hollyhock, Banafsheh has inspired thousands across the world to awaken, embody love, and dance the divine into being.