Banafsheh Sayyad
Let love become the organizing principle and manifesting power of your life — even in times of stress, turbulence, and uncertainty — through sacred dance practices such as Sufi whirling and Persian dance, and authentic translations of Rumi’s poetry.
Experience feminine embodiment practices that reveal how creation flows — through alignment, receptivity, and trust instead of force — to create change within and around you and navigate challenges without hardening yourself.
Creation itself begins in the spin — from whirling galaxies to our spiraling DNA, life is born through spinning.
When we attune to this mystical truth and consciously step into the spin — embracing the many paradoxes of life — we discover that the same creative force animating the cosmos also lives within us.
By engaging with it, we awaken and manifest a sacred vision for our lives and the world, says acclaimed spiritual embodiment teacher Banafsheh Sayyad.
Banafsheh’s feminine approach to manifestation guides us in an embodied journey of Divine Feminine wisdom through sacred dance and original translations of Rumi’s poetry — one that is rooted in cultivating spiritual power instead of exerting force or control .
As we embrace the soft power of the feminine and experience a deeper sense of safety, ease, and clarity within, we become more present, relaxed, and joyful in our bodies...
... and can remember that we are actually powerful beings, capable not only of withstanding turbulence and transforming it into clarity and peace, but of shaping the world itself through love, coherence, and inspired action.
Rumi’s poetry, grounded in love, surrender, and a higher vision for our world, flowed through him as he whirled — and your sacred vision can as well.
Banafsheh has helped thousands heal their bodies, experience a greater sense of fulfillment, joy, and wholeness...
... and manifest their deeper gifts through sacred dance and Divine Feminine wisdom, much of which she received through direct transmissions.
During this 7-week journey with Banafsheh, you’ll learn a feminine methodology for manifesting a life of greater peace, resilience, and change that cultivates inner strength, balance, calm, and resilience in times of upheaval and uncertainty.
You’ll embody the love and wisdom of Rumi’s original Persian poetry — and through Dance of Oneness, Banafsheh’s modality for transformation...
... you’ll learn how to gather, circulate, and transmit loving energy through your body — as you open to the higher frequency that guides energy into manifestation.
Dance of Oneness, a Divine Feminine lineage, took form as Banafsheh whirled — in the same manner as the timeless words of Rumi flowed through him.
To fully understand the poetry of Rumi and receive its timeless blessings, she teaches that we must hear his words in his original Persian language and whirl just as he did to fully understand the divine guidance they offer us...
... and open ourselves to what the Beloved is asking of us — and wants to manifest in our world through us.
Each week, Banafsheh will guide you to embody a poem of Rumi’s through feminine embodiment practices that awaken the love within you, empowering you to navigate turmoil with grace — and to manifest your sacred vision.
Two weeks will be dedicated to Sufi whirling, or Sama, which means “to listen.” In this fertile space, you’ll experience whirling as a living prayer that harmonizes the body, heart, and mind into one coherent field of devotion and creation.
Whirling allows us to feel how love itself is encoded in the rhythm of creation — and guides us toward wholeness, joy, and compassionate action in the world... once we know how to listen.
Through Persian dance — with its rose‑perfumed grace, subtle ecstasy, and ethereal fluidity — you’ll experience an expression of the Divine Feminine that guides you deeper into your own beauty and sacred sensuality as powerful creative energies.
Together, the original translations of Rumi and Dance of Oneness form a living map for birthing a new vision for ourselves and our world, no matter what is unfolding around you.
Whether you’re a longtime seeker drawn to the mystical wisdom of Rumi, a lover of movement and dance, a practitioner of the healing arts, or simply someone longing for a deeper sense of connection, presence, and embodied love...
... you’ll cultivate the capacity for remaining aligned with what you love and expressing your sacred gifts.
No previous dance experience is required for you to experience the enriching, life-affirming power of the feminine path for personal and collective evolution.
During this enlightening journey, you’ll:
- Discover a feminine path to manifesting and living your vision and purpose that is grounded in love, receptivity, trust, and inspired action
- Experience a poem of Rumi in Persian and English translation — and embody the poem through sacred dance, movement, and symbolic decoding
- Embody soft power — the courage to stay open, to ground yourself in love, and to live from that place in our daily choices
- Clarify a soul-aligned vision rooted in love, devotion, and service, plant it within your body and the feminine flow of creation — and whirl it into being from the ecstatic stillness at the center of the spiral
- Receive clear guidance on the foundation and technique of whirling through the lens of a Divine Feminine lineage and how to persevere in the spin — and begin to spiral your soul-aligned vision from seed into form
- Experience Persian dance as the rose perfume of Rumi’s teachings and the Divine Feminine
- Be guided in sacred dance practices that fuel your vision, awaken your hands as instruments for shaping and directing subtle energy, center you in the present moment, activate vitality in your body, and more
- Receive a Divine Feminine transmission from Banafsheh to bless your path
- Explore sacred yearning as the holy fire and the alchemical power of creation that propels your path of manifesting through love
- Learn how to gather, circulate, and transmit loving energy with intention and reverence
- Embody your sacred vision and learn to live your life as a dance
In a time of widespread chaos, uncertainty, and crises, we often try to harden ourselves to find balance, resolve, and strength. The feminine path reminds us that we don’t need to toughen up to make it through — or make a difference.
Lasting positive changes happen through soft power — when we center ourselves in our hearts and authenticity, ground our intention in love, and open to guidance that reflects what we hope to see more of in our world.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Banafsheh will share these sacred teachings to help you manifest joy, purpose, and connection through an embodied journey of sacred dance, including Sufi whirling, and the original translations of Rumi.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Banafsheh and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Banafsheh’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions 2025-10-09 10:00:00 am.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Banafsheh. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to discover your body as a portal for awakening and manifesting.
Module 1: Plant Your Soul-Aligned Vision in the Feminine Flow of Creation (2025-10-09 10:00:00 am)
Manifesting begins with aligning with the feminine flow of creation — a calling rooted in love and attuned to the highest good of all.
In this opening session, you’ll clarify a vision that nourishes your personal path while serving the greater whole — and plant it as a living seed in your body and the subtle field of creation…
… in harmony with the feminine way of manifesting — receptive, intuitive, and infused with devotion rather than effort, force, or attempting to control outcomes.
You’ll also receive an introduction to Rumi’s life, lineage, and influences — a context that will deepen as you journey through his poetry…
… and explore your first poem of Rumi’s, experienced in both Persian and English. Through guided and freestyle dance, you’ll embody the poem’s essence, then decode its mystical meaning through a Sufi lens. The five elements — earth, water, fire, air, and ether — become living allies as you root your vision in devotion and open to the love that flows through creation.
Banafsheh will guide you through The Weave movement practice, a weaving of loving awareness that embodies the feminine flow of creation — inviting ease, stability, and loving presence into your body.
In this module, you’ll:
- Clarify a soul-aligned vision rooted in love, devotion, and service — and plant it in your body and the feminine flow of creation
- Engage the five elements as allies in soulful creation
- Be guided in The Weave practice — combining breath and movement to awaken your body and intention, harmonize with the elements, and center you fully in the present moment
- Receive an introduction to Rumi’s life and the cosmology of his teachings
- Experience a poem of Rumi in Persian and English translation — and embody the poem through sacred dance, movement, and symbolic decoding
Module 2: Ignite Your Vision With Passion Through the Alchemy of Shaking, Ecstatic Bliss & the Divine Spark of Holy Yearning (2025-10-16 10:00:00 am)
Awaken the vitality of your vision in this session through a guided shaking practice that awakens your life-force energy, releases stagnation, and ignites the sacred fire of devotion.
Guided by a Persian and English translation of Rumi’s poetry, you’ll explore longing not as lack but as holy yearning — a divine spark that propels you toward soulful creation.
Through guided and freestyle dance, you’ll animate your vision and feel its energy rise through your body.
After embodying the poem, you’ll decode its mystical symbolism and uncover how passion, joy, and yearning become alchemical forces in the creative process.
In this module, you’ll:
- Be guided in a shaking practice to ignite your vision, awaken dormant energy and activate vitality in your body
- Explore sacred yearning as the holy fire and alchemical power of creation that propels your vision forward
- Release physical tension and stagnation — and feel energized throughout your day
- Explore energy rising as devotion in the creation process
- Apply the timeless wisdom of Rumi’s poetry directly to your vision and manifestation process
- Experience a poem of Rumi in Persian and English translation — and embody the poem through sacred dance, movement, and symbolic decoding
Module 3: Awaken Your Womb-Dantian & the Energy in Your Hands Through the Rose Perfume of Rumi's Teachings & Align Your Body With Your Vision (2025-10-23 10:00:00 am)
With passion awakened, the next step is alignment — bringing body and mind into unified service to your soul-aligned vision. You’ll awaken the womb-Dantian (core) and hands as conduits of subtle energy, learning to gather, shape, and transmit energy with loving intention.
Guided by a Persian and English translation of Rumi’s poetry, you’ll embody the poem’s essence through core-centered movement and Persian dance — a form imbued with grace, ecstasy, and subtle devotion.
Persian dance carries the rose perfume of Rumi’s teachings, expressing beauty and reverence as a direct manifestation of the Divine Feminine. Its delicate hand gestures and flowing shapes attune you to love’s refined vibration, allowing your energy to become both powerful and tender.
After dancing, you’ll decode the poem’s Sufi teachings on inner discipline, resonance, and alignment with Divine will — strengthening clarity and focus so your vision unfolds in harmony with your being.
Banafsheh will also guide you in the practice of The Inner Sun, Energetic Hands and Persian Dance — a core-centered dance to activate the womb-Dantian and awaken your hands as instruments for shaping and directing subtle energy, integrating the sacred, sensual beauty of Persian dance as an expression of the Divine Feminine.
In this module, you’ll:
- Experience Persian dance as the rose perfume of Rumi’s teachings and the Divine Feminine
- Activate your core and hands as instruments of creative and devotional power
- Be guided in a sacred dance practice that awakens your hands as instruments for shaping and directing subtle energy
- Cultivate soft power — the calming, generative energy of water and yin flowing through you and into our world
- Learn to embrace your sensuality as sacred
- Gather, circulate, and transmit loving energy with intention and reverence
- Experience a poem of Rumi in Persian and English translation — and embody the poem through sacred dance, movement, and symbolic decoding
Module 4: Infuse Your Vision With Love & Harmonize It With Divine Flow & Blessings for All (2025-10-30 10:00:00 am)
Love is the field of creation — the force that magnetizes vision and draws it into form. In this heart-centered session, you’ll awaken your emotional body to devotion, longing, and sacred love — qualities Rumi describes as the key to union with the Beloved.
Guided by a Persian and English translation of Rumi’s poetry, you’ll soften and open your heart, infusing your vision with the highest vibration of love and transforming it into a blessing for all beings.
You’ll also explore the mystical and scientific dimensions of the heart — both as the seat of divine union and as an electromagnetic field that harmonizes and amplifies intention.
Through guided and freestyle dance, you’ll embody the essence of Rumi’s poem, then decode its imagery to understand how love harmonizes vision with divine flow.
Banafsheh will guide you in the flowing, undulating movements of Waves of Love and Infinity Waves to open your heart and expand its magnetic field — merging your vision with the infinite currents of love.
In this module, you’ll:
- Awaken your heart as a magnetic center for soulful creation
- Merge love with vision to harmonize and bless what you bring forth
- Explore longing and devotion through movement and Rumi’s poetry
- Transform your vision into a gift for both self and collective
- Experience love as the guiding current in embodied creation
- Continue cultivating soft power — the courage to stay open, to ground yourself in love, and to live from that place in our daily choices
- Experience a poem of Rumi in Persian and English translation — and embody the poem through sacred dance, movement, and symbolic decoding
Module 5: Spiraling Your Soulful Vision Into Form - Whirling Part I (2025-11-06 10:00:00 am)
The spiral is the sacred geometry of becoming — a living pathway through which love and vision take form. This week’s poem by Rumi invites you into whirling as a living prayer that harmonizes the body, heart, and mind into one coherent field of devotion and creation.
As you turn, you become the stillpoint within motion as thought softens into prayer, feeling becomes magnetism, and movement births creation.
Whirling mirrors the storms of life — the world spins, yet at the center of the spiral arises a profound stillness and unshakable calm. By entering this still point, you learn to withstand turbulence with grace and rootedness, embodying love even as everything swirls around you.
This first whirling session focuses on foundations: grounding through the feet, discovering your axis, cultivating presence, and finding your balance.
You’ll experience whirling as a sacred technology for manifestation, and decode the essence of Rumi’s poem and its mystical symbolism, opening into the spiral as a portal for creation.
Remember that Rumi became Rumi through the sacred dance of whirling!
In this module, you’ll:
- Explore foundational principles of Sufi whirling — and how this relates to manifestation
- Learn a simple technique for whirling that gives everyone, regardless of their movement background, access to this profound movement meditation
- Discover how to persevere in the meditative spin without losing your balance — and how this will help you maintain equilibrium in your everyday life
- Begin to spiral your soul-aligned vision from seed into form through whirling
- Experience a poem of Rumi in Persian and English translation — and embody the poem through sacred dance, movement, and symbolic decoding
Module 6: Release Control & Surrender Your Vision to the Beloved - Whirling Part II (2025-11-13 10:00:00 am)
Manifestation finds its deepest potency in surrender — the moment we release personal control and entrust our vision to the Beloved.
Guided by a Persian and English translation of Rumi’s poetry, you’ll offer your creation as prayer, allowing divine intelligence to shape and carry it beyond what the mind can imagine.
Through extended whirling, movement becomes prayer and devotion — the spiral dissolves separation, and you merge with the greater flow of love. This is the feminine way of creating — receptive, intuitive, and infused with devotion rather than using effort, force, or attempting to control outcomes.
Banafsheh will guide you in a deeper whirling practice where you’ll surrender your vision as a prayer and enter the ecstatic stillness and silence within the spiral.
After the dance, you’ll decode the poem’s mystical teachings on trust, divine timing, and the art of letting go, anchoring this wisdom through reflection and shared dialogue.
In this module, you’ll:
- Access profound inner silence and stillness for greater receptivity and intuitive guidance
- Discover surrender as an integral part of manifestation
- Harmonize your body, heart, and mind through the spiral of love — and activate coherent brain waves
- Deepen your whirling practice including variations
- Experience a poem of Rumi in Persian and English translation — and embody the poem through sacred dance, movement, and symbolic decoding
Module 7: Live Your Life as a Dance Through Integrated & Embodied Creation (2025-11-20 10:00:00 am)
Guided by a final poem by Rumi in Persian and English, embody your vision as a living offering to the world — rooted in love and devotion.
In this closing session, you’ll gather the threads of the entire journey — planting, igniting, aligning, infusing, spiraling, and surrendering — and weave them into a single ritual of embodied blessing.
Banafsheh will guide you in the dance practice, Living Dance — a synthesis ritual uniting all previous practices and freestyle movement into one embodied blessing that seals your creation and brings it into the world as a devotional act of love and service.
You’ll honor the feminine path of creation — receptive yet powerful, intuitive yet deeply embodied — celebrating love as both the journey and the destination.
After dancing, you’ll decode the poem’s mystical teachings on living love in the world through ongoing service.
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn to integrate and embody the full arc of feminine manifestation practices into your daily life
- Receive a Divine Feminine transmission from Banafsheh to bless your path
- Feel empowered to step forward embodying your sacred vision with devotion, clarity, and embodied love
- Be guided in the Living Dance as the alchemy of your journey in manifestation
- Experience a poem of Rumi in Persian and English translation — and embody the poem through sacred dance, movement, and symbolic decoding
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Banafsheh’s transformative 7-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Modern Science, Sufi & Taoist Echoes of the Divine Feminine
PDF Excerpt From the Book, Dance of Oneness: Embody Love and Luminosity to Transform Your Life, by Banafsheh Sayyad
This chapter from Banafsheh’s new book — set to be released by Sounds True in February 2026 — explores the Divine Feminine tradition as a path of embodiment which is spirit in a lived, felt experience. It explores the quantum field as a modern reflection of the Divine Feminine womb that holds and births worlds, and it uncovers the hidden threads of this wisdom in Sufi and Taoist teachings. In this meeting of science and mysticism, the body emerges as the sacred gateway to the Divine.
Oneness Yoga Practice
Video Teaching From Banafsheh Sayyad
In this mixed level yoga and stretching practice, Banafsheh will guide you on a journey from rigorous asanas to a lying down meditation that will ground you deeply in your body. It is recommended to do parts of this practice or the whole practice after each module to stretch and unwind. This practice will guide you to become more present in your body, and help heal some structural ailments.
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
90-Minute Class Sessions With Banafsheh Sayyad
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from Banafsheh, founder of Dance of Oneness® — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to awaken your true self and sacred vision with Sufi whirling and Divine Feminine wisdom. Course sessions are on 2025-10-09 10:00:00 am.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are not recorded for playback; if you’re unable to attend the live sessions, the online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Sacred Dance & Rumi’s Original Translations
We feel honored that Banafsheh has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with Banafsheh — a sacred dancer and founder of Dance of Oneness® — whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about discovering what the Beloved is asking of you right now in this time of great change, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
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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 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 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 often 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.