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A FREE VIDEO EVENT

With Sacred Dance Artist, Ritualist & Movement Educator
Miriam Peretz
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Imagine transforming your movements into sacred rituals, where each breath and motion aligns your intentions and prayers — honoring your body as the holy temple it is as every gesture becomes a pathway to inner peace, clarity, and spiritual alignment.

Discover how devotional whirling, embodied rituals, breath, and sacred dance can transform a broken heart into a deeper experience of love, unity, and a connection with all of creation.

Do you dream about living a more soulful life attuned to the wisdom of your heart?

Turning toward the heart as the center of our being is a powerful theme in Sufi mysticism. 

In this free online event, sacred dance artist and movement educator Miriam Peretz will share why you can create a path to wholeness through the ancient practices of sacred dance, Sufi mystical whirling, and intentional breath.

Indigenous cultures throughout time have used movement and dance to sanctify the body, connecting the human spirit to the Divine. 

Integrating intentional breath with movement to deepen the healing potential of dance can help you ease the pain of fragmentation, alienation, and loneliness. You become empowered to open and embrace your broken heart as an opportunity to expand your capacity to love.

Miriam beautifully weaves together movement and ritual to create safe, communal spaces for healing and embodiment. Through these sacred practices, you’ll connect to the deepest parts of yourself — finding emotional release, inner peace, and a profound sense of vitality and wellbeing.

During the hour, you will experience these timeless modalities in action as Miriam shares how your movement can transform your consciousness — and bring profound healing to your body, mind, and soul — when you focus your intention and prayer, allowing them to guide you.

You’ll be invited into the art of creating a sacred dance practice to align your intentions and prayers with your breath and movement.

Miriam will also guide you through a 3-part embodiment practice, in which you’ll bring more presence and gratitude into each moment as you focus on purifying and cleansing your organs — and honoring the four directions through the ancient practice of bowing.

The child of two mystics, Miriam has been on a lifelong journey to connect with the Divine through embodiment. Her love of dance has taken her traveling throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, where she deepened her studies of Indigenous sacred movement practices.

Miriam is the student of Hilal Sala, a teacher of the Mevlevi Order of America, and the late Dr. Ibrahim Baba Farajaje, a sheikh from the Chishti lineage.

Miriam’s work has been inspired by many contemporary visionaries, including Shift Network faculty Banafsheh Sayyad, whose pioneering devotion to sacred dance has opened hearts around the world.

Miriam has traveled the globe to learn and deepen her sacred dance practices and knowledge. After a lifelong journey through many modalities and cultures, she ultimately found her spiritual home in Central Asian dance, Sufi whirling, and sacred circle dances, many rooted in Shamanic wisdom traditions.

Join us as Miriam shares sacred dance and whirling as expressions of profound gratitude, the embodiment of Divine Feminine spirituality, and pathways to lasting transformation.

In this enlivening free online event, you’ll discover:

  • How movement can profoundly deepen your sense of wholeness — transforming your body into a sacred vessel for healing and growth through embodied intention and sacred dance
  • A guided 3-part embodiment practice for bringing more presence and gratitude into each moment, with a focus on purifying and cleansing the organs and honoring the 4 directions through the ancient practice of bowing
  • The sacred practice of whirling and its profound ability to connect you with the deepest parts of yourself as part of the entire Universe
  • How Miriam’s gratitude breathing connects your breath and intention to bless and empower your body and awaken your heart
  • A guided prayer-formance to awaken the heart, drawing you into the experience of unity and equanimity, where you’ll allow the sense of isolation and separateness to dissolve
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When you join us, you’ll also hear about Miriam’s new 7-week live video course, where you’ll learn how to awaken profound love, inner peace, and a connection with yourself, spirit, and all of creation — through the ancient heart-centered practices of devotional whirling, Sufi ritual, breath, and sacred dance.

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What People Are Saying About Miriam Peretz...

“I feel cradled in sanctuary...”
With Miriam’s classes and teachings, I feel cradled in sanctuary, guided to the deepest inspirations, healings, and joys. I believe that Miriam’s classes are for everyone — a loving call and a guiding hand to our better selves. Her teachings and rituals have become core to my practice and identity. I am indescribably grateful for all that she shares.
Ronnie Brodsky

Boston, Massachusetts

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“Miriam’s dance prayers have supported me through these difficult times.”
Your dance prayers have supported me through these difficult times. You open my heart from the moment of your first transparent gesture. I love so much that you invite us into dance through blessings and rituals, so I feel connected from the very first moment to the essence, what the movement is about. You somehow open a space where we can speak in another language of our dreams, our joys, our sufferings, and our longings — and experience what is sacred.
Monika Koch

Salzburg, Germany

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“I feel like I’m blooming again like roses in spring.”
Thank you for the joy you bring out in me with your lessons full of love, passion, generosity, and connection with the whole Universe. Every time I dance with you, I feel like I’m blooming again like roses in spring.
Rita Carlacci

Rome, Italy

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“When you dance, my soul dances too.”
What you have done is bring the true spirit of dance, as a divine expression, into the present — from such a distant past we know not when. But the soul understands. When you dance, my soul dances too.
Wendy Salter

Berkeley, California

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“Miriam is a living embodiment of divine grace...”
Miriam Peretz’s teachings transcend physicality and transmit sincere potent spiritual wisdom teachings. She is a living embodiment of divine grace, illuminating pathways towards the sacred within every heart.
Tatiana Rodeiro

Florida

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About Miriam Peretz

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Miriam Peretz is a performing artist, ritualist, and movement educator whose work is dedicated to creating transformational experiences for her students around the world. Over the past 20 years, she has offered dance intensives and trainings in locations such as the Bay Area, Hawaii, Europe, the Middle East, and South America, cultivating a global community of dancers.

Rooted in a deep spiritual lineage, Miriam’s journey into the sacred arts began in her family of origin, where she was exposed to a variety of mystical traditions, including Kabbalah and Sufism. A disciple of the beloved Sufi Sheikh Ibrahim Baba Farajaje, former provost of Starr King School of the Ministry, Miriam’s own spiritual path was profoundly shaped by her initiation into the Mevlevi Order of Sufism as a whirling dervish.

Drawing on the Divine Feminine wisdom of embodied spirituality, Miriam integrates Indigenous dance traditions from around the world into her teachings. Her work spans a wide range of cultures and practices, incorporating elements from North African, Middle Eastern, and Central Asian dance forms. As a contemporary pioneer of sacred dance, Miriam has inspired teachers and practitioners globally to use movement and ritual as tools for creating inclusive community spaces for facilitating embodied, non-denominational prayer.

Miriam holds an MFA from Mills College of California, where she studied contemporary dance, pedagogy, and a range of somatic practices. Her thesis, Dance Art Sanctuary: A Holistic Approach to Dance Practice & Pedagogy, included a collaborative study with renowned dance therapist Dr. Ilene Serlin. In this work, Miriam explored the intersection of Indigenous sacred dance practices and contemporary therapeutic dance applications, bridging the spiritual and the healing aspects of movement.

Miriam’s studies have included travel throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, where she immersed herself in ancient forms of dance and ritual many of which are rooted in shamanic wisdom traditions. During this time, she also studied percussion and music theory at The Center for Middle Eastern Classical Music in Jerusalem, deepening her understanding of the relationship between music, movement, and ritual.

Miriam is the founder of the Nava Dance Collective, an international community of dancers based in the Bay Area. Through this collective, she teaches weekly classes and nurtures a vibrant community of students.

Miriam’s choreographic work has also extended to numerous interfaith collaboration projects and theater productions, both locally and internationally, where she has used dance as a means to bridge cultural and spiritual divides, creating spaces for authentic connection through ritual and movement.

Turning Toward the Heart Through Whirling, Breath, & Sacred Dance
Miriam Peretz
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