Banafsheh Sayyad
Discover how Sufi whirling and the profoundly wise and loving teachings of Mary Magdalene provide an ancient map for healing, inspiration, and ascension that can steady your steps and open your heart amidst chaos, uncertainty, and struggle.
Did you know that your body holds a built-in blueprint for grounding your spiritual evolution and expanding your capacity to live a fulfilling life of unconditional joy, abundance, and wellbeing?
It begins with the activation of your light body — the energetic dimension of your physical body that holds and emits higher-frequency energy or light, according to many spiritual and mystical traditions.
Banafsheh Sayyad, sacred dancer and embodiment teacher, uses movement, meditation, Traditional Chinese Medicine practices, mystical poetry, and Divine Feminine wisdom to activate the light body...
... which then cleanses and purifies the energy field — and allows your luminous self to integrate with the physical body and spark profound states of connection, love, peace, healing, and transformation.
Activating your light body, she says, is catalytic for your spiritual evolution and essential for remembering who you really are — and why you are here.
During this inspiring event with Banafsheh, you’ll be guided in a heart-opening sacred dance practice that will give you a taste of being infused with light.
Across history, many spiritual teachers have mapped out a process for light body activation and ascension. Among them, Mary Magdalene and the Sufis align in a profound and curious way...
You’ll explore this connection with Banafsheh, as well as little-known truths about Mary (including her real name!) that are sure to touch your heart and inspire a new understanding of our current global imperative to evolve beyond polarization and our limiting beliefs into the greatest versions of ourselves.
As you open your body to receive light, you become a carrier of light — suffusing your body, mind, and heart with awakened spirituality, presence, and purity of being whose intelligence is divinely designed for your highest good.
In this free online event, you’ll:
- Discover the hidden connection between Mary Magdalene and the Sufis
- Learn how sacred dance can activate your light body and catalyze your ascension by bringing you into trance or altered states — and helping you embody your spirituality and spiritual growth
- Experience a guided movement and meditation practice that opens and balances the heart chakra through dance, breath, sensual fluid movement, and visualization
- Explore what the light body actually is — which is not about vanishing into the light but unifying body and soul, matter and energy, for wholeness and spiritual development
- Be introduced to Mary Magdalene’s map of ascension along the Great Tree within to gain a greater understanding of your own great potential for ascension
- Discover how profoundly important you and your contributions are in helping humanity make an evolutionary leap forward as we clear old paradigms individually and collectively at this pivotal time in history — the profound transition point between the end of one precession cycle and the beginning of a new one, which only happens every 12,000 years
As the founder of Dance of Oneness®, Banafsheh has helped thousands around the world break free of limiting beliefs, trauma, and pain and embody their true potential, peace, and clarity through sacred dance.
She teaches that through the activation of your light body, you hold the power within yourself to shift any emotional state, come into balance and coherence, and heal your ailments.
In this enlightening event, you’ll explore how activating the light body through sacred dance can propel your spiritual evolution forward as you begin to remember, in a gentle yet visceral way, who you really are and why you are here.
In joining us, you’ll also be among the first to learn about Banafsheh’s new immersive 12-week live video program for fully activating the light body through sacred dance, sufi whirling, Traditional Chinese Medicine, the wisdom of the mystics, and more. This profound journey is inspired by Mary Magdalene’s map for ascension, as written in The Gospel of the Beloved Companion.
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Join this FREE video event with Banafsheh Sayyad to discover how sacred dance and the ancient wisdom of Mary Magdalene provide a map for healing, inspiration, and ascension.
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What People Are Saying About Banafsheh Sayyad...
Banafsheh’s teachings opened my heart. The dancing opened my spirit! I loved this class.
Arkansas
Besides enjoying all the beautiful depth of the class, the class ended up being an amazing aid to me in recovering from hip replacement surgery that I had right before the class began. I was able to do that in a safe and very fluid way that has enabled me at course’s end to be fully functional and more tuned in to my body than ever.
Newton, Massachusetts
Banafsheh uses dance as a holy ritual. Her dancing is more than a feast for the eyes, it’s a joy to the spirit and an opening of the heart.
Internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer
In watching Banafsheh dance, I knew I was witnessing a master performer in action. Banafsheh is the quintessential professional in her field, not only as a dancer but as an artistic interpreter of Rumi — and in explaining the brilliance of that renowned Sufi mystic.
Bestselling author, medical intuitive, and the founder of CMED (Caroline Myss Education)
I believe Banafsheh is the greatest, most luminous, most profound teacher of embodiment on the planet — an incarnation of the Divine Feminine, and someone whose life, mind, heart, and body is devoted to the birth of a new kind of human, a humbly, rapturous divine human being.
Mystical scholar, spiritual teacher, and the founder of the Institute of Sacred Activism
About Banafsheh Sayyad
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Banafsheh Sayyad is a Persian master sacred dancer, choreographer, acupuncturist, transformational teacher, activist, and founder of Dance of Oneness®. A deeply profound and highly accessible spiritual teacher of embodiment, Banafsheh performs and teaches internationally, initiating people into the wisdom of their bodies. Her signature style of “holy wildness infused with ancient wisdom” activates transformation and illumination in all those who watch and dance with her from around the globe.
Banafsheh invites the dancer within to remember, reclaim, and resource the innate healing intelligence spiraling both in us and all around us. Her easeful instruction and welcoming spirit empower students to feel a true sense of belonging in their bodies. Students also experience more passion in their lives by integrating wisdom teachings from throughout the ages.
She is among the few virtuosos of authentic Persian dance in the world, and a pioneer in creating a liberated feminine expression in the Sufi dance genre, previously performed only by men. Her modality, Dance of Oneness®, is both a spiritual path and a science of embodiment. It is a fusion of three dimensions — healing, wisdom teachings, and the rigorous technique and self-expression of the art of dance.
Banafsheh has a master’s degree in dance and choreography from UCLA, and a master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her award-winning work has been presented throughout North America, Europe, and Australia. Her dance film In the Fire of Grace, with Andrew Harvey, traces Rumi’s journey of the soul in dance.
