Identify the elements — earth, water, fire, air, and ether — that are creating physical, mental, or emotional blocks within you, and explore how sacred dance can help activate the element that can awaken in you greater vitality, mobility, and joy.
Be guided by an acclaimed embodiment teacher in a sacred dance practice to activate 5 of the elemental forces, releasing tension and stress, increasing energy, and igniting a felt sense of peace and presence.
Dance is medicine that can ground and inspire you as you navigate the many stressors and complexities of today’s world.
Acclaimed sacred dancer and embodiment teacher Banafsheh Sayyad says it’s also a potent tool for balancing your body’s systems, releasing trauma, and re-establishing a loving, conscious connection with your body and your divinity that supports optimal health.
This includes your innate connection with Mother Earth, whose elements not only bring life to your body but act as powerful change agents that reinforce your ability to regulate your own physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
Pain, illness, overwhelm, chronic conditions, and even dis-ease are often telltale signs of an elemental imbalance within you.
Sacred somatics via dance, embodied movement, and knowledge of the elemental forces within can help you activate the elements you need to rebalance and regain greater agency in your physical, mental, and emotional health.
Every element has a corresponding body movement, says Banafsheh, that can nourish and fuel your body’s systems. Her approach to embodied health is anchored by an MFA in Dance from UCLA, an MA in Traditional Chinese Medicine, extensive study of Gurdjieff movements and philosophies, Sufi whirling, mystical poetry, and sacred initiation into Divine Feminine wisdom.
All of this synergizes in her work to clear the physical and energetic blockages that lead to pain — and elevate your overall experience of life.
During this empowering hour with Banafsheh, you’ll have the opportunity to add soul to your somatic practice as you learn how sacred dance and conscious movement can be used to summon and embody the element you need to correct physical, mental, and emotional imbalances, ease pain and ailments — and reclaim your connection with your body as a sacred vessel for love.
Knowing how to activate the right element at the right time can help you regain stability and inner balance — and heal what ails you, while also instilling a felt sense of health, clarity, calm, strength, and capacity.
Through dance, you can break through these blocks, she affirms, as you bring your body into coherence — even when you’re stressed, disconnected, defeated, or unsure of how to move forward in life.
In this life-affirming event, you’ll experience the transformative power of sacred dance during a guided 15-minute sacred dance practice that activates five elemental forces to help you release stress, ground your energy, and inspire peaceful presence.
While learning how to consciously embody their sacred selves, previous students of Banafsheh’s have also alleviated stiffness and muscle contractions, emotional overwhelm, mental fixations, anxiety, depression, circulatory health conditions, and chronic conditions — and began reconnecting with others and their true gifts in an easeful, open, and meaningful way.
