Reflections on Sufi Dance of Oneness at Menla
Workshop participant Guy Crittenden shares beautiful insight into Sufi Dance of Oneness® at Menla Retreat Center last month. Original post can be found here. Over the weekend of November 4 to 5, 2017 I was privileged to attend a workshop in Sufi whirling dance with renowned international teacher Banafsheh Sayyad. It’s not an overstatement to say…
Dance Your Passion at Hollyhock
My heart is so full from our 5 days of Dance Your Passion at Hollyhock September 22-27. Love and gratitude to all the dancers who came and danced into being a circle of oneness that brought all of us to wholeness in grace. We were as old as 6 and as young as 76…we cried together,…
Sufi Dance Q&A: Learning How to Whirl
One of my dear students asked me some questions about Sufi Dance and the Sama as a follow up to our time in an immersive workshop at The Rowe Center. Here are my answers…
Dance of Oneness® Inspired Poetry
Writers, poets and workshop participants generously share responses to Dance of Oneness® through beautiful, inspired poetry.
Sufi Dance of Oneness® at Menla
The Fascinating History of Menla Retreat Center And why it is the perfect place for our healing sacred dance! 375 million years ago, a half-mile-wide meteor crashed here, creating the oldest known meteor impact crater on Earth, equivalent of several hundred million tons of TNT and pulverized the bedrock, leaving a 6-mile-wide crater.
Dancing the Divine
Sacred Dance as a return to the root of our Self Have you ever considered dance as a practice that can support your living at your highest potential and a tool for coming to know yourself, remembering who you truly are? Dance today is experienced anywhere from fun, sexy and a way to keep fit…
In The Fire Of Grace
Clip from the DVD of: In the Fire of Grace This clip is from the dance, Lover Embodied Choreography and Dance: Banafsheh Music: Babak Sharifimajd and Pejman Hadadi from their album Release Recitation: Andrew Harvey Poem: Rumi Working on this piece was both challenging and rewarding. I subjected myself to the essence of what I was trying to portray.…
