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Banafsheh Sayyad's Dance of Oneness®	Email to Friend Add to Favorites Print
Santa Monica, California 90404 Dance of Oneness is uncovering the Sacred Feminine inside a contemporary gypsy dervish, weaving Sufi Ritual, Persian Dance, Flamenco, Tai Chi & Eastern mysticism for a peaceful groundedness, empowered embodiment & passionate engagement in the world. t: view phone(310) 499-7100 w: http://www.danceofoneness.com e: namahdance@yahoo.com Banafsheh Sayyad’s Dance of Oneness® Certified Training Program is a way of life - rigorous, disciplined and passionate – an active ground for self-knowledge, healing and living in JOY. Students learn technique but also the inner dimensions of movement - through full-bodied robust dancing, releasing oneself to feel free, fearless, creative and exuberant. Mystical teachings from around the world invite us inside, where living itself is an art, so that our dancing becomes both an expression of our authentic self and guides us to live ecstatically amidst everyday life. Sufi Trance, Persian Classical and Tribal, Flamenco, Yoga, Tai Chi, Ritual movement, the poetry of Rumi and Hafez and Chinese Medicine are some of the influences that define Dance of Oneness®. This is a way to integrate oneself, harmonize with others and serve the greater Existence. Dance of Oneness® workshops are designed with the understanding that dance is not only a beautiful and exhilarating medium to master, but also a powerful teacher. Through a dialogue with Grace, through sensing our Chakras, and through the discipline and joy that creates whole body movement, lithe and free in our wholeness, we become a Dancer of Oneness. Banafsheh has been leading transformational classes and workshops across North America, Europe and Turkey. All of her ongoing classes and upcoming workshops and retreats count towards the certification. Visit www.danceofoneness.com for more information. Banafsheh Sayyad Internationally acclaimed, Banafsheh is an electrifying Persian dancer and choreographer who fuses Sufi Ritual and Rumi’s message with Persian Dance, Flamenco and Tai Chi, creating her signature style of wild total abandon while holding a serene grounded core. Banafsheh's mesmerizing offering of the timeless Sacred Feminine inside a contemporary gypsy dervish beckons all to not merely sit still, but to engage, impart, and exalt. Internationally known for her innovative movement vocabulary and high artistry, Banafsheh is one of the few bearers of authentic Persian dance in the world and considered a pioneer in her style of dance. Banafsheh’s work has been hailed by critics and audiences in North America, Europe and Australia where she has toured her solo work and ensemble dances with her dance company NAMAH. Shokooh Mirzadegi, a prominent Iranian critic writes, “Banafsheh’s form is what for the first time one could call contemporary or modern Persian Dance– a dance with its own artistic language, neither Eastern like Arabic and Indian nor Western as in Flamenco, or Modern European. The dance form created by Banafsheh Sayyad can be called the Banafsheh Dance, representative of Persian culture much like how Flamenco is particular to Spanish culture”. Banafsheh draws from her extensive background in Persian dance, ritual, Tai Chi and Flamenco to present a form that is both new and universal yet rooted in tradition, in the words of the Los Angeles Times, "fusing ancient forms with a postmodern punch". Banafsheh holds an MFA in Dance from UCLA where she taught Mystical Persian dance. Also an acupuncturist and Doctor of Chinese Medicine, she draws from her knowledge of the Taoist view of the internal functioning of the body and Persian mysticism to uncover movement that is at once healing, self-illuminating and connected with the spirit. “Part whirling dervish, part flamenco femme fatale, sensuous and audacious, Sayyad’s dance is a mesmerizing foray into the body as trance mechanism; a DNA strand, supple, fluid and noble, come to life.” - Los Angeles Times http://www.danceofoneness.com Ongoing Weekly Classes in Santa Monica and Westwood: Mystical Persian Dance & Flamenco, Tuesdays 6:30 – 8:00 PM Ecstatic Ritual, Tuesdays 8 – 9:30 PM Persian Healing Dance & Tools for Conscious Living, Fridays 10 - 11:15 AM Upcoming Retreats: Charlotte, NC Vancouver, BC Dusseldorf, Germany Frankfurt, Germany Venice, Italy Madrid, Spain Yalova, Turkey Locations Church in Ocean Park - 235 Hll St., Santa Monica, CA 90404 Wheel of Well-Being - 1575 Westwood Blvd., Third Floor: #303, Los Angeles 90024 Banafsheh Sayyad's Dance of Oneness® offers the following products and/or services: » World and Traditional (26)
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