Banafsheh Sayyad – The Sacred Dance for Freedom 2024

During this enlivening course, you’ll:

• Experience dance as a fierce yet tender expression of freedom and aliveness — and your body as a channel for the Divine
• Create unity, harmony, and body-heart-mind coherence throughSama — as you touch the place within you that never changes
• Reclaim your connection to the Earth — and the sacredness of life that exists in your very bones
• Heal and dissolve body aches and pains through conscious movement
• Activate your life force and allow it to ignite, purify, uplift, and energize your body and entire being during the Shake to Liberate practice
• Learn how to access stability in the midst of chaos and turbulence by activating Divine revolutionary acts through your body — holding the joy and pain of life in a wide-open heart
• Free yourself from fear, competitiveness, insecurity, and loneliness — and activate your default state of joy regardless of circumstances
• Learn how Oneness nourishes your vitality and expression — and how your wholeness, in turn, nourishes Oneness
• Explore the Sufi Path as a feminine path of living love — and activate your intuition and access inner guidance

Most of us move through life disembodied — more aware and attuned to what’s happening outside of us than what’s going on within us.

This tendency leaves us disempowered and disconnected from ourselves, the Divine, the Earth… and the joy of the present moment.

To be swept-up in or distracted, dazed, and controlled by separation is a self-deprecating remnant of patriarchal conditioning and its power-over antics.

Few places reveal this distortion more poignantly than our relationship with the Earth and our bodies.

In this class, you’ll reclaim your connection with the Earth and the sacredness of life that exists in your very bones as a true revolutionary act…

… grounding in the present moment and uprooting your patriarchal conditioning as you consciously and lovingly take root in the Earth.

Banafsheh will guide you into her Joyful Presence dance routine, designed to ground and connect you with the Earth, and help you become present in your body in the moment.

Her invitation is to feel into where you’re holding back from allowing yourself to experience joy — and where it is resisted and twisted in our world — and release your resistances through expressive dance…

… courageously facing all of your emotions, where you are right now in your life, and where the world collectively is.

In this module, you’ll:

• Reclaim your connection to the Earth — and the sacredness of life that exists in your bones as a revolutionary act of freedom
• Awaken your whole body and weave in loving awareness with the Joyful Presence routine — designed to ground you and bring you into the present moment in a playful yet meditative way
• Feel into where you’re holding back from allowing yourself to experience joy — and release your resistances
• Direct your awareness into your body to feel whole and live with more capacity
• Experience dance as a way to journey into and with all of your emotions
• Activate healing in your feet, legs, and hips

In this class, you’ll learn techniques to ground yourself in peace, free up your life force, and experience your body as a channel… or a flute, as Rumi describes it, a bridge between the visible and the invisible.

As you awaken your life force and allow it to ignite your body and entire being, you’ll begin to embody your sacred sensuality and sexuality — balancing your inner divides as a revolutionary act.

Banafsheh will guide you through Shake to Liberate, a practice to help you open to the universal energy of love — and allow it to move through you and awaken your natural intelligence.

You’ll also explore what it feels like in your body when you allow Source energy to move in you and through you, especially during challenging situations that can make you feel “frozen” or smoldering with fury.

Ultimately, you’ll give yourself permission to dance wildly and with abandon… and celebrate being alive with all the pain and the sorrows of life. If not now, WHEN?

In this module, you’ll:

• Awaken your life force and allow it to ignite, purify, uplift, and energize your body and entire being during the Shake to Liberate practice
• Open yourself to the sheer radiance of eros, reclaim your sexuality and sensuality as sacred
• Discover the revolutionary act of balancing polarities
• Disidentify from the limited “separate” self to experience your body and being as a channel
• Activate your intuition and access inner guidance by calming your mind and clearing yourself from distractions
• Activate healing in your hips and low back

The turbulence and drama around us can rob us of our power, stability, and sense of wellbeing.

In this class, you’ll dance to fill yourself with joy and love for yourself and transform inner and outer turbulence into empowerment… fusing discipline with wild creativity to free yourself.

The invitation is to awaken fiery passion grounded in peace, remove your hijabs — inner and outer — and let your glory shine as you dance with wildness and the joy of simply being alive so no one, including yourself, can dare diminish you.

This aliveness and deeper urging to reclaim your self-worth and sovereignty is a revolutionary act of empowerment and divine right!

You’ll learn movements inspired by fiery Flamenco that activate your inner power and self-authority — beyond victimhood and blame.

As you free yourself from the chains of smallness and unworthiness that have been the inheritance of women around the world for millennia, you’ll empower yourself through a rigorous, tender, sensual, wild, and holy dance…

… and find the energy and courage to stand up, claim your sovereignty, and create real change.

In this module, you’ll:

• Claim and live your aliveness as a revolutionary act and divine right
• Transform inner and outer turbulence into empowerment through the fiery Flamenco as you dance with rigor, discipline, and wildness
• Awaken fiery passion grounded in peace — and activate your default state of joy regardless of circumstances
• Find the energy and courage to stand up, claim your sovereignty, and create real change
• Experience your own beauty with radiant confidence
• Embody true strength as you dance away unworthiness and express yourself with courage, compassion, responsibility, and stewardship toward the greater
• Boost digestion and activate core muscles through targeted movement

When you give yourself to a purpose larger than yourself, you allow the great power that has created the world to move in you and through you.

In this class, you’ll learn how to balance pain and joy by opening your heart to the wholeness of life…

… and entering your heart space and the quantum field of infinite consciousness through the Waves of Love routine.

In these turbulent times, there’s so much pain and suffering on individual and collective levels… yet there is also beauty and goodness present in each moment.

Learning how to hold the joy and pain of life in a wide-open heart is a revolutionary act of love.

In this module, you’ll:

• Learn how holding the joy and pain of life in a wide-open heart is a revolutionary act of love
• Open to the wholeness of life by increasing your capacity to hold pain and joy in your heart
• Explore the Sufi Path as a feminine path of living love
• Experience your heart as the gateway to the quantum field of infinite consciousness
• Dance to let your body “become an instrument playing a love song,” as Rumi says
• Learn how to maintain an open heart by remaining grounded and centered — and create balance between giving and receiving love
• Deepen your breathing and activate healing in your heart center/chest, shoulders, arms, wrists, and hands

Fear is what blocks our transformation and our growth — and physical death is the primary source of our fears.

In this class, you’ll explore how the way you view death determines how you live your life… and through the sacred, meditative dance of Sama (whirling), face your fears, uncover your relationship with death, and touch the infinite place within you that never changes.

Transmuting your fears surrounding death and integrating death as a natural aspect of life is a revolutionary act that will change your life.

Banafsheh will share the secrets of Sama for spiritual evolution that not only brings your heart, mind, and body into coherence, but also gives you the capacity to access stillness, peace, and stability amidst chaos and turbulence — for through Sama, you experience within you that which never changes or diminishes. In fact, Rumi became Rumi through the powerful dance of Sama !

Understanding death is not only important for your spiritual growth and evolution, it literally shapes how you live. Believing that life ends when your physical body dies or that your soul is eternal and life is everlasting has vastly different implications.

In this module, you’ll:

• Gain a deeper understanding of how your view of death is shaping how you live your life
• Create unity, harmony, and body-heart-mind coherence throughSama as you face your fears, uncover your relationship with death — and touch the place within you that never changes
• Learn how to whirl without getting dizzy and persevere in the spin for a sustained period of time
• Learn the philosophy and short history of Sama as a spiritual path, a dying, and a rebirth
• Surrender your mind and become empty to receive guidance
• Learn how to access stillness and stability in the midst of chaos and turbulence
• Activate healing in your neck and throat

Given the state of our world, and the level of deception that’s embedded within our most “trusted” institutions and people in positions of power…

… simply trusting ourselves and knowing that we have all we need inside of us, as well as trusting life, the unseen, and that a larger divine plan is unfolding is a revolutionary act.

We’re taught early on to rely upon “experts” instead of trusting our own knowing — and to be suspicious of others.

In this class, you’ll develop the capacity to trust through Banafsheh’s wisdom teachings and the Wholy Circles and Spheres Sequence.

You’ll also explore how being in your body with conscious love is the key to manifesting the world you long to live in…

… where the sacredness and sanctity of life and freedom of all beings are honored — as within so without.

In this module, you’ll:

• Reclaim trust as a revolutionary act that can open your life and our world to an expanded sense of possibility
• Develop the capacity to trust through wisdom teachings and the Wholy Circles and Spheres Sequence
• Learn how to move beyond your conditioning to trust your own knowing
• Receive guidance on how to trust that a larger plan is unfolding — which you are a vital part of — and guidance on knowing when to take action in an aligned way in service to love
• Learn how to build stamina and cultivate wholeness through the Wholy Circles and Spheres Sequence
• Activate healing in your head and face

For millennia, a power-driven mindset has done everything it can to separate us from our true selves, the Earth, each other, and our divine place in the Oneness of All That Is.

You’ll debunk this story during the final class, where you’ll explore your individuality and newfound wholeness through dance — a divine path for bringing love into our world and the greater… and the ultimate revolutionary act.

Banafsheh will share how when you experience yourself as one with the One, you’re no longer at the mercy of your fears, competitiveness, insecurity, and loneliness — all of which stem from a sense of separation.

As you explore how to live with authenticity, your consciousness expands to hold the whole as well, nourishing your vitality and expression as a soul or energy in physical form.

Your dance then becomes a powerful way to embody and manifest your dreams, the dreams of the collective, and the dreams of the Earth — as you influence and shape consciousness through living love.

In this module, you’ll:

• Explore Oneness as the ultimate revolutionary act in a world that has fostered separation for millennia
• Free yourself from fear, competitiveness, insecurity, and loneliness — all of which stem from a sense of separation
• Learn how Oneness nourishes your vitality and expression — and how your wholeness, in turn, nourishes the Oneness
• Experience dance as a divine mechanism for personal and collective freedom — as you bring your newfound wholeness and authenticity into the greater
• Discover the sacred and the unfathomable in the still depths of your being beyond concepts, dogmas, conditioned activity, and all preferences
• Review, deepen, and integrate the dance and movement sequences from the previous classes