Banafsheh Sayya – Liberate Your Body With Sufi & Expressive Dance 2022

Banafsheh Sayya – Liberate Your Body With Sufi & Expressive Dance 2022

Experience the astonishing light of your own being through a unique combination of sacred dance, Eastern energy medicine, and the Divine Feminine archetypes that connect with your chakras — bringing you back home to your body and your holy sensuality.

Gain a visceral experience of the Sacred Feminine to live a life of embodied love, bliss, and inspired wellbeinng.

How do we access our sacred depths in a world that is wrought with conflict, competition, and self-preservation?

How do we cleanse ourselves of the stress, polarization, and agitation in our world and reconnect with the purity of our souls?

Banafsheh Sayyad, an acclaimed mystic and teacher of embodiment, affirms that few practices can bridge the sublime and the sensual — and bring us into coherence with our own divinity — like sacred dance.

Through sacred dance, we consecrate ourselves with a visceral awareness of what it means to be alive, surrendering our egos to the oneness of All That Is… and the possibility of what could live in us and through us.

When we free our bodies, we also free our emotions, our mind, and even our soul.

Dance itself is a gateway to the wisdom of the Sacred Feminine that opens us to living love. It’s not about making perfectly choreographed moves; it’s about following our inner intelligence, natural flow, and uniqueness.

Reconnecting with this organic rhythm offers a more direct path to liberation.

At a time when our survival relies on our ability to live harmoniously with each other and our planet, sacred dance is deep medicine. It grounds us in divinity — and a new kind of physical and spiritual equilibrium that makes it joyful and easy to live as our full selves in the world.

On a transformative 12-module journey with Banafsheh, a profoundly awake spiritual teacher, you’ll have the opportunity to harness the power of dance to become a vessel for the love, compassion, and divine wisdom of the Sacred Feminine. You’ll emerge more free, relaxed, and whole.

You’ll explore powerful, bold, grounding, compassionate, and inspiring new potentials, gain an understanding of the flow of energy in your meridians, and tune in to your greater physiology using Eastern energy medicine techniques.

You’ll find the Earth as your true foundation and discover what you need to release for the fullness of the union of body and soul to be possible with the Black Madonna…

… you’ll see through the heart of the Sufi mystic Hazrat Rabia, allow Egyptian goddess Sekhmet to fan the flame of empowerment in your solar plexus chakra, feel held in the soul of the world with Sophia…

… and cultivate symbolic sight and powerful intuitive abilities with the Egyptian goddess Isis.

No previous dance experience is required. Anyone can learn and benefit from this form of divine healing practice.

Banafsheh will share powerful healing practices that do wonders for alleviating stress and pain and balancing body systems.

She’ll also show you how dances such as Sama, the whirling dance of darvishes, and the great spiral are based upon the sacred geometry of the body…

… and possess immense alchemizing power that harmonizes your masculine and feminine energies, heightens your health and intuitive skills, and grounds you in the present moment.

These dances also serve as portals to an intimate relationship with the Beloved and the vast Oneness from which your life unfolds — and from which we receive and manifest our deepest desires into the world.

As the founder of Dance of Oneness^® and a renowned mystic, Banafsheh performs and teaches internationally, initiating people into the spiritual wisdom of their bodies.

During your time with her, you’ll deepen your connection with your body, exploring your body as both a tangible miracle and a vessel for miracles that’s capable of shifting, influencing, and shaping your consciousness.

Are you ready to welcome the Sacred Feminine to rise within you — allowing love, compassion, wisdom, and reverence for the Earth to flow unimpeded into every facet of your life?

Join Banafsheh on this profound journey to connect with the Sacred Feminine archetypes that most resonate with you — and live the path of embodied love through Sufi and expressive dance.

Do I Have to Be a Dancer to Participate?

Who Is the Sacred Feminine?

What Is Sama?

During this journey to embody love through dance and Sacred Feminine wisdom, you’ll:

• Experience a visceral understanding of the Sacred Feminine by exploring what her many attributes invoke within your soul, body, and life — including your physiology
• Discover the hidden aspects of the Sufi path as the Sacred Feminine path of embodied love
• Activate deep awareness of your body’s sacredness — and experience your body as both a miracle and a vessel for miracles
• Balance your root chakra with inspiration from the Black Madonna — and deepen your bond with the Earth as the root and foundation for all of your movement
• Activate your life force, learn specific movements and key meridian points to balance your body systems — and heal ailments and alleviate pain throughout your body
• Harness the radiance of eros with the goddesses Inanna and Aphrodite to activate and open your sacral chakra — and learn to balance the energies of yin and yang through the expanded Infinity Dance practice
• Revolutionize your attitude toward your body
• Explore transfiguration — and the union of matter and light, particle, and wave
• Deepen the practice of Sama — to untangle and release layers, habits, thoughts, and emotions that block the flow of the Divine in you
• Feel balance, harmony, and coherence between your feminine and masculine energies
• Learn to embody grace and fuse the sensual and the ethereal through mystical Persian dance
• Activate the Mingmen (Gate of Life) meridian point to cultivate power and vitality, build energy, and increase libido
• Reclaim your sexuality as sacred — and dance ecstatically to experience sensuality as your natural and holy birthright
• Activate a sense of balance and the ability to remain present, grounded, and centered in the midst of turbulence by moving in spirals
• Allow the energy of the lion to fan the flame of your solar plexus chakra — and activate self-authority, sovereignty, and confidence through the fiery and empowering movements of Flamenco
• Activate self-reliance, resilience, and self-esteem — and develop steadfastness to become unstoppable

— Bestselling Author Andrew Harvey: “I Believe That Banafsheh
Is Quite Simply the Greatest Living Teacher of Sacred Dance”

What You’ll Discover in These 12 Modules

In this 12-part transformational intensive, Banafsheh will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to experience holy sensuality and the astonishing light of your own being through sacred dance, Eastern energy medicine, and the Divine Feminine archetypes that connect with your chakras.

This course will feature step-by-step teachings and experiential practices with Banafsheh. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to experience holy sensuality and the astonishing light of your own being through sacred dance, Eastern energy medicine, and the Divine Feminine archetypes that connect with your chakras.

Module 1: Mapping Your Journey Into Oneness

Who is the Sacred Feminine? And how is she revealing herself within your soul, body, and life?

The oldest and most enduring image of the Sacred Feminine is the Great Mother. Humanity has imagined her as the immensity of cosmic space, the Earth, and nature.

As the invisible dimension of the soul, the Great Mother inspires and instills within us a sense that the Universe is an organic, alive, and sacred whole…

… one in which humanity, the Earth, and all life on Earth participate as her children.

During the opening class, you’ll explore deeper insights into the true nature and purpose of the Sacred Feminine — and where she intersects with your physiology and chakras.

You’ll also journey deeper on the Sufi path — the path of living love — and learn about Chinese meridians to help maintain inner balance…

… and establish the foundational principles of Dance of Oneness for correct posture and mind-body-soul alignment.

As you map your journey into oneness, you’ll:

• Begin your journey to experience the Sacred Feminine by exploring where she reveals herself within your soul, body, and life
• Explore the hidden aspects of the Sufi path as the Sacred Feminine path of embodied love
• Experience the posture and alignment needed to operate at your fullest potential
• Learn about the pathway of Qi throughout the meridians of your body
• Activate deep awareness of your body’s sacredness — and begin to experience your body as both a miracle and a vessel for miracles

Module 2: Earth Dance Prayer of the Root Chakra — Gaia & the Black Madonna

The mysterious Black Madonna is both the Cosmic Mother and the Earth Mother. Your connection with the Earth as Gaia is key to receiving sustenance for your mind, body, heart, and soul — and for your dance.

In this class, you’ll learn how to call upon the Black Madonna’s fierce yet tender essence and innate vibrance to ground yourself in the present moment, establishing deeper presence and overall health in your body.

You’ll focus on form and technique — experiencing the Earth as the foundation of all of your movement… learning how to execute dance and daily life movements freely and safely… and understanding how economy of movement can help you live life with more capacity.

You’ll also discover how the Sacred Feminine works with the Yin meridians, or pathways of energy, in your legs and hips — and how allowing the Sacred Feminine to emerge within you and your life can help you live as one with the Earth.

As you explore the Sacred Feminine through your root chakra, you’ll:

• Balance your root chakra with inspiration from the Black Madonna — and deepen your bond with the Earth as the root and foundation for all of your movement
• Attune yourself to the pathway of energy in the Yin meridians of your legs and hips
• Revitalize yourself and deepen your connection with the Earth through tribal Middle Eastern dance
• Learn specific movements to heal ailments in your legs, knees, ankles, and feet
• Gain tools for getting out of your head and directing your awareness into the rest of your body — to feel whole and live with more capacity
• Activate the healing powers of the kidney point on the soles of your feet

Module 3: Dance of Yin and Yang — The Sacral Chakra & the Goddess Inanna

Open yourself to the sheer radiance of eros, and reclaim your sexuality and your body as sacred with the goddess Inanna.

The Sumerian goddess of love, eros, and fertility, Inanna is considered the Queen of Heaven, Earth, and the Underworld.

In this class, you’ll be initiated into a dance to balance the polar energies of yin and yang — the feminine and masculine inside yourself.

You’ll learn about the key role your yin and yang kidneys play in the overall health and vibrancy of your body from the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and explore an important meridian point to activate power and vitality.

In this module, you’ll:

• Harness the radiance of eros with the goddess Inanna to activate and open your sacral chakra — and learn to balance the energies of yin and yang through the expanded Infinity Dance practice
• Learn about goddess Inanna and embody her confident sensuality to integrate the light and dark within you
• Feel the bliss of being in your body and release the limiting emotions of shame and guilt
• Activate the Mingmen (Gate of Life) meridian point to cultivate power and vitality, build energy, and increase libido

Module 4: Embrace Holy Sensuality — The Sacral Chakra & the Goddess Aphrodite

Freely and ecstatically express your sensuality as natural and holy with Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, eros, and beauty.

Aphrodite represents the flood of corporeal energy and is at the same time heavenly, thus opening up the celestial, spiritual realm.

In this class, you’ll discover why true sensuality is an expression of how you love yourself in the moment — feeling natural and at ease with what is.

You’ll learn about the anatomy and physiology of your hips…

… and call upon Aphrodite through dance to overcome the survival emotions of fear, anxiety, suffering, hostility, anger, judgment, shame, and guilt — liberating your body and your energy.

As you begin to feel free within your body and release the chains of the past, you’ll create more energy in your field to create the future you truly want.

As you embrace your holy sensuality, you’ll:

• Activate your life force and let it set your whole body ablaze — energizing and elevating you through the Shake to Ignite Joy Dance practice
• Embody the sensual grace and beauty of Aphrodite
• Reclaim your sexuality as sacred — and dance ecstatically to experience sensuality as your natural and holy birthright
• Feel and embody your own beauty with radiance
• Learn how to heal ailments that involve your hips, pelvis, and lower back through movement

Module 5: Core of Empowerment — The Solar Plexus Chakra & Sekhmet

You’ll learn how to dance to empower yourself and take up residence in your body with sovereignty from the empowered Egyptian goddess Sekhmet — the Lioness who guides us to believe in ourselves.

You’ll develop the ability to hold and shine your light in any circumstance as you own your ferocity and balance it with compassion.

Banafsheh will guide you through movements — inspired by Sekhmet and the fiery Flamenco — that activate self-authority and strength, awakening the solar energy of the lion within you.

Flamenco gives us the strength to stand with confidence in all that we are, teaching us the posture of resilience and preparing us to face life’s challenges with the inner strength and power of dignity.

As you allow the Sacred Feminine fire of Sekhmet to fill your body, you’ll know with certainty that nothing in the outside world can limit the human spirit, especially when the spirit is alive with love.

As you explore the core of your power, you’ll:

• Allow the energy of the lion to fan the flame of your solar plexus chakra — and activate self-authority, sovereignty, and confidence through the fiery and empowering movements of Flamenco
• Learn how to embody Sekhmet’s powerful lioness attributes
• Build stamina and cultivate wholeness through the Circles and Spheres Dance practice
• Activate self-reliance, resilience, and self-esteem — and develop steadfastness to become unstoppable
• Learn key meridian points that support optimal digestive function

Module 6: Integrating Your Physical Chakras

Just how do your chakras work together in a harmonious and unified way to support you on the Sufi path to embody love through the Sacred Feminine?

Consider the first three chakras, which are the physical chakras of your body:

The more rooted and connected you are with the Earth, the more you are able to connect with your eros and free up your life force to ignite the full potential of your whole body and being…

The more you embody your eros in a healthy and unashamed way, the more empowered and confident you feel…

And the more you accept, like, and love yourself… the more you are able to honor your roots, all people, and living beings.

The domains of influence in these chakras form an important constellation in dance and movement…

… providing groundedness, vitality, and balance between feminine and masculine energies, and deepening your experience and capacity for sensuality, centeredness, relaxation, ease, stamina, endurance, discipline, resilience, and power.

For most people, chakras one through three, along with the throat chakra, tend to be closed and require the most focus and energy to activate and open.

In this module, you’ll revisit knowledge gleaned from the Sacred Feminine and the embodied dance practices shared by Banafsheh within previous modules to further integrate the insights and inspiration held within the root, sacral, and solar plexus chakras.

In this module, you’ll:

• Deepen your understanding of the interrelatedness of your physical chakras
• Integrate the insights and inspiration held within the root, sacral, and solar plexus chakras
• Revisit the gifts and wisdom of your first 3 chakras — gleaning higher insights from the Sacred Feminine and the embodied dance practices shared by Banafsheh within previous modules
• Review and deepen dance and movement sequences from the previous modules

Module 7: Waves of Love From the Heart Chakra — Mother Mary & Mary Magdalene

Let the rose of your heart blossom into love, compassion, and courage with inspiration from Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene (teacher to the Apostles) both of whom model unconditional love and compassion.

In this class, you’ll experience your heart as the gateway to the quantum field of love…

… exploring and opening the pathways of the heart and pericardium meridians through movement.

You’ll also learn about the anatomy and physiology of the lungs as the wings of the heart, how to balance unconditional love and forgiveness with courage, and how to embody the energy of your heart as you deepen and expand your experience of the Waves of Love Dance practice.

As you experience the sacred physiology of your heart, you’ll:

• Discover your heart as the gateway to the quantum field of infinite consciousness
• Call upon and embody the courageous and loving energy of Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene
• Learn from the wisdom of your lungs, which works in concert with your heart — and open and balance your heart chakra through an expanded Waves of Love Dance practice
• Explore key heart and pericardium meridian points that reduce tension and help treat insomnia
• Alleviate pain in the upper back and shoulders, open chest constriction, and resolve breathing issues through movement

Module 8: Surrendering to Love — The Throat Chakra & Hazrat Rabia

Activate your center of creativity and will… and cultivate ease in expressing your truth with Rabia, one of the only women mystics in the Sufi path who lived in the 8th century.

In this class, allow Rabia to inspire you to surrender to the Beloved and courageously express your truth by being anchored in the heart.

You’ll deepen your experience of the ecstatic practices of Sama (whirling) and Zikr (chanting) as two of the main pillars of the Sufi path — and explore variations of the Sama.

You’ll also be introduced to Persian dance as a graceful dance of adoration and an invitation to dissolve into ecstasy through sensual yet ethereal movement.

You’ll also develop the ability to balance discernment and surrender… create union between your mind and heart as you liberate your authentic voice… and learn how to create ease in your neck through awareness and movement.

As you explore the gifts of your heart chakra, you’ll:

• Embody the energy, wisdom, and gifts of the Sufi mystic Rabia — and experience total adoration of the Beloved
• Liberate your voice and experience your throat and expression as the bridge between your heart and mind
• Learn to embody grace through Persian dance as a form of ecstasy that’s perfumed with the poetry of the Persian mystics
• Create coherence between your body, heart, and mind through the sacred Sufi dance of Sama and variations of this profound practice
• Surrender and become still enough to hear the intuitive guidance in your heart through a seated meditation following the Sama
• Learn ways to alleviate issues with the neck and throat

Module 9: The Wings of Love — The Third Eye Chakra & Goddess Isis

Expand your inner vision, imagination, and wisdom…

… and cultivate symbolic sight and powerful intuitive abilities with the Egyptian goddess Isis, the Great Mother of life, death, and regeneration.

The wisdom of the sixth chakra tells us that whatever we focus on grows — that the only thing that can grow is what you give energy to. All things are possible when you believe they are.

You’ll explore the Egyptian goddess Isis to let your imagination take flight in union with your heart, and learn how activating the pineal gland can help draw to you that which you most desire.

You’ll also learn to dance with veils and activate coherence and balance between your intellect and intuition.

As you expand your vision and imagination, you’ll:

• Explore and activate the pineal gland as your inner eye or third eye
• Embody the intuitive powers and wisdom of the Egyptian goddess Isis — and learn ways to draw in what you most desire
• Dance with veils in the Wings of Love Dance practice
• Learn how to heal and alleviate headaches and eye issues

Module 10: Sacred Union — The Crown Chakra & Shekinah

The crown chakra is our connection to the greater field of consciousness and what motivates us to seek an intimate connection to the greater in everything we do. Our dance is about experiencing this connection.

As you call upon Shekinah, the feminine godhead from the mystical Jewish tradition of the Kabbalah, you’ll activate the crown chakra and union of the Sacred Feminine and Divine Masculine.

You’ll move in spirals of all kinds. Spirals are the most advanced human movement, as the invisible world comes into manifestation through the spiral… with the divine mystery at its innermost level, and physical forms of matter at the outermost.

You’ll also learn about the anatomy and physiology of the spine and brain with an emphasis on the pituitary gland, and you’ll continue to deepen your experience of dancing with veils.

As you explore the Shekinah and the crown chakra, you’ll:

• Learn about the Shekinah and embody her union with the Sacred Masculine
• Activate the teachings of the crown chakra with the Spiral of Life Dance practice
• Deepen your experience of dancing with veils
• Activate a sense of balance and the ability to remain present, grounded, and centered in the midst of turbulence by moving in spirals
• Experience an intimate connection with the Beloved through dance

Module 11: The Sacred Geometry of the Body — The Soul Chakra & Goddess Sophia

The soul star, or eighth chakra, is the energetic portal to your higher awareness and soul-level purpose. It’s your connection or gateway to the greater Universe and the Cosmos.

As the seat of your subconscious mind, it also interplays with your dream space as the transpersonal chakra of unity awareness… or consciousness of the greater whole or oneness, of which we are all a part of and can embody in human form.

Accessing such expanded awareness enables you to transcend the limitations of your human perception and remember that you are not alone — because All Is One.

In this class, you’ll be inspired by the loving wisdom of Sophia, a Gnostic feminine archetype who represents the soul of the world, to embody your soul and step into your unlimited self.

You’ll explore transfiguration, the union of matter and light, particle, and wave… deepen the practice of Sama and its variations, and begin to receive direct transmissions from Source.

You’ll also deepen your experience of Persian dance as an expression of liquid light.

As you explore the sacred geometry of the body, you’ll:

• Activate the teachings of the soul chakra and develop clarity about your purpose in life
• Embody your soul and be inspired by the loving wisdom of Sophia — the soul of the world
• Explore transfiguration — and the union of matter and light, particle, and wave
• Experience spirit and matter, soul and body as one and feel interconnected to All That Is
• Experience movement as liquid light through Persian dance
• Deepen the practice of Sama — to untangle and release layers, habits, thoughts, and emotions that block the flow of the Divine in you

Module 12: Living the Path of Embodied Love

How can we consistently live the path of embodied love in our burning world?

During your final class with Banafsheh, you’ll review and further integrate important insights, practices, and teachings from previous modules.

You’ll also experience a visceral understanding of the Sacred Feminine by exploring what her many attributes invoke within your soul, body, and life…

… and which of the sacred archetypes resonates most with you — whether with the qualities you feel you have or ones you feel you need to develop.

You’ll be invited to reflect on what — in light of your purpose and your calling — doesn’t serve you anymore even if it has been worthy in the past…

… and what aspects of your life require a little sacrifice in order for you to become who you are meant to be — remember, sacrifice means to make sacred.

Ultimately, you’ll learn how to embody the Sacred Feminine within your day-to-day life so you can embody the love, beauty, harmony, wisdom, compassion, discernment, and justice to elevate yourself and our world.

During your final class, you’ll:

• Integrate important insights, practices, and teachings from previous modules — and explore how to embody the Sacred Feminine in your day-to-day life
• Review and deepen the dance and movement practices you learned in previous modules
• Explore the transformational arc you have experienced over the past 12 modules
• Feel balance, harmony, and coherence between your feminine and masculine energies
• Experience a visceral understanding of the Sacred Feminine by exploring what her many attributes invoke within your soul, body, and life

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