Banafsheh Sayyad
Could your body be the sacred gateway to your multidimensional nature?
Journey through the 13 Rays of Embodiment — a map for spiritual awakening through your body — to unite body and soul, enter deeper dimensions of consciousness, embody your full humanity, and live as a radiant channel for love.
What if the path to spiritual awakening is not about leaving your humanity behind, but about entering it so completely that you discover the Divine within?
In this time of great change, when so much can feel destabilizing, it’s easy to become disconnected from your center — uncertain of what to trust, how to respond, or where to turn for guidance.
Internationally acclaimed sacred dancer and transformational embodiment teacher Banafsheh Sayyad teaches that this moment is inviting you toward a deeper multidimensional way of being, rooted in oneness, harmony, feminine wisdom, and love?
Banafsheh affirms that as outdated systems and paradigms based on separation, inequity, and imbalance break down, the possibility for expanded awareness is emerging…
… and your body is the sacred place where spiritual awakening takes form.
Join Banafsheh for an 18-week journey through the architecture of the Dance of Oneness® method for spiritual embodiment — and discover how awakening happens through the body, not by transcending physicality. She cultivated this step-by-step process across decades of study in sacred movement, mysticism, Divine Feminine wisdom, and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Across 13 Rays of Embodiment, a foundational spiritual framework outlined in Banafsheh’s book, Dance of Oneness: Embody Love & Luminosity to Transform Your Life, you’ll learn how to inhabit your body with presence, love, and compassion while awakening to your multidimensional nature.
This is an opportunity to reconcile inner and outer divides, and embody greater trust, grounding, radiance, and resilience. By doing so you’ll open to the wisdom of your true self, strengthen your capacity to heal and transform yourself, and help bring this new potential for our world into being.
At the heart of this training is the understanding that embodiment is all-encompassing — physical, emotional, energetic, spiritual, and relational. You’ll awaken the full spectrum of your being as you engage the 13 Rays of Embodiment and receive their transmissions through the Dance of Oneness® method.
The Dance of Oneness® method is a rich fusion of sacred dance, conscious movement, mystical poetry, ancient Iranian mysticism, integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Divine Feminine wisdom.
Sama, the sacred dance of whirling, will be one of the central pathways for cultivating this awareness. Through turning, you’ll experience your body as an axis between Earth and the cosmos, stillness and motion, matter and spirit, opening to the many dimensions of your being.
You'll not only experience the practices, you'll begin to understand the principles beneath them so you can work with the method more consciously and, if desired, integrate its principles into the work you already share with others — although you don't need to be a dancer, healer, teacher, or practitioner to participate.
You’ll also have the opportunity for direct feedback from Banafsheh on movements as well as personal and professional adaptations. Banafsheh’s book is recommended reading and can help you get the most out of this journey but is not required.
The 13 Rays of Embodiment will become your living map for this journey.
Each Ray opens a doorway into a specific quality of awakened being. Together, they’ll help you move beyond limitation, fragmentation, and separation into greater wholeness, radiance, joy, peace, agency, and sacred service.
As this awareness deepens, you’ll experience oneness as a felt reality within your body, transitioning from separation and loneliness into connection, belonging, and harmony with all living beings.
You’ll also activate multidimensional awareness — a grounded and elevated state in which your body becomes more receptive to subtle energies, healing, higher guidance, and dimensions of consciousness beyond ordinary three-dimensional perception.
Rather than transcending the body into the realm of spiritual ideals, you’ll discover the ascent and descent of light that leads to embodied presence and inspires the way you move through life, how you love, and your innate capacity to perceive and participate in the interconnectedness of life.
Throughout the training, you’ll explore passages directly from Banafsheh’s book, Dance of Oneness, and expand them through movement, inner inquiry, sacred dance, and embodiment rooted in her lifelong body of work.
Across 18 modules, you’ll journey through the upward and downward spirals of awakening, cultivating your lightbody and learning to live as a channel for love.
Through study, practice, mentorship, and integration, you’ll cultivate grounded presence, emotional resilience, inner resourcing, feminine power, sensual grace, heart-centered leadership, deep listening, sacred expression, and the capacity to hold polarities in harmony.
Through veil dance and a range of sacred movement practices, you’ll explore reverence, awe, devotion, sensual grace, and trust as embodied qualities, allowing movement itself to become an offering of love, beauty, appreciation, and harmony with the unfolding of life.
You’ll experience a clear and time-tested map for embodiment — a path to uniting the consciousness of body and soul and living more fully from their combined wisdom, spiritual power, and capacity to serve as a channel for source intelligence.
You’ll begin to understand the Dance of Oneness® method and philosophy from the inside out.
Core practices will be deconstructed into their underlying principles, energetic pathways, movement mechanics, somatic cues, and transformational intentions, so you can understand how they work, why they work, and how to adapt them with integrity.
The emphasis is not simply on performance, but on becoming a clear, compassionate, and radiant vessel for transformation.
For those who have studied with Banafsheh before, this training offers a new level of depth. Familiar practices won’t simply be repeated — they’ll be unpacked, refined, and understood as part of a complete methodology for embodiment, transformation, and transmission. Banafsheh will also share new sacred dance sequences developed through her own evolving spiritual practice.
This immersive training weaves together guided sacred movement and dance, free-style exploration, meditation, teaching, and sharing. Mystical poetry from Rumi, Hafez, and other beloved poets will perfume your sessions, while wisdom from Divine Feminine, Sufi, mystical Iranian, and Taoist traditions will be woven together with sacred geometry, self-healing modalities, and modern science.
You’ll also learn self-healing techniques that employ breath, awareness, movement, and the palpation of key meridian points, supporting greater balance, vitality, inner resourcing, and a more intimate relationship with your body’s intelligence.
And, if you wish to bring this work into what you already offer to others, you’ll learn how to adapt the Dance of Oneness® method into your personal or professional practice, with opportunities to receive Banafsheh’s feedback on your own practice adaptations for deeper integration.
By the end of this journey, you’ll have developed a profound understanding and working knowledge of the 13 Rays of Embodiment, a deeper relationship with the Dance of Oneness® map, and foundational skills for bringing the method into your own life and work.
Are you ready to awaken the many dimensions of your being — and become a more grounded, radiant, and embodied channel for love?
Who This Training Program Is For
This training is for you if you feel called to explore sacred dance and conscious movement as a path of spiritual awakening, healing, and transformation, deepening your own journey while developing practices you can bring into your work with others.
Whether you’re new to Banafsheh’s work or already guide others through healing, movement, creativity, or spiritual practice, you’ll develop a deeper understanding of the Dance of Oneness® method and discover how to adapt and integrate its principles into your existing personal or professional practice with integrity.
This training is especially suited for:
- Spiritual Practitioners
- Healers & Energy Medicine Practitioners
- Dancers & Movement Practitioners
- Yoga, Qigong & Embodiment Teachers
- Therapists & Somatic Practitioners
- Artists & Creative Practitioners
- Workshop & Retreat Facilitators
- Spiritual Teachers & Movement Guides
- Anyone called to embody and share sacred movement as a pathway to greater wholeness, connection, and Oneness
You do not need to be a professional dancer, healer, teacher, or practitioner to participate — you may simply long to experience your spirituality as something you live rather than merely understand.
What You’ll Explore in This 18-Week Training
You’ll learn how to:
- Work with the 13 Rays of Embodiment as a unified path for awakening, healing, lightbody activation, and multidimensional integration
- Experience your body as a sacred instrument of wisdom, guidance, love, transformation, transmission, connection, and divine remembrance
- Navigate the upward and downward spirals as an energetic map for becoming fully human, fully luminous, and multidimensional — allowing your body to become a vessel for the light of your higher self
- Deepen your Dance of Oneness® practice through real-time feedback from Banafsheh and the class on your submitted adaptations
- Access the infinite love intelligence at the core of your being, connecting you with the source of life and the wellspring of abundance within, and revealing that the wisdom, guidance, and healing you seek are already inside you
- Embody your true self through the heart, cultivating greater presence, compassion, courage, and authenticity
- Use sacred dance and conscious movement — including Middle Eastern Tribal dance, Flamenco, Persian dance, veil dance, Tai Chi, Qigong, and a feminine form of Sufi Whirling — as portals into presence, freedom, expanded awareness, and embodied transformation
- Activate multidimensional awareness through Sama, the sacred dance of whirling, experiencing your body as an axis between Earth and the cosmos, stillness and motion, matter and spirit
- Draw upon wisdom from Rumi and Sufi, mystical Iranian, Taoist, and Divine Feminine traditions as sources of inspiration, revelation, and transmission
- Embody the Divine Feminine through soft power, sensual grace, and fierce compassion, awakening your sovereignty, receptivity, creativity, devotion, and capacity to be both tender and strong, fluid and rooted, receptive and radiant
- Work with Traditional Chinese Medicine, meridians, and energetic pathways to understand and support your body’s flow of energy, vitality, balance, and self-healing
- Release paradigms of lack and low self-worth so you can open more fully to delight, joy, abundance, and thriving
- Use healing and energy practices informed by Traditional Chinese Medicine, meridian pathways, the chakra system, and subtle energy healing to cultivate balance, vitality, inner resourcing, and embodied transformation
- Open, balance, and activate the wisdom of the eight chakras through breath, awareness, movement, and presence, developing a deep embodied relationship with each energy center
- Embody love as a living practice, allowing it to refine, deepen, and evolve you into the truest expression of who you are
- Experience Oneness as a felt reality within your body, moving beyond separation and loneliness into connection, belonging, and kinship with all living beings
- Explore the sacred geometry of dance as a way to unlock revelations through movement and support the evolution of body and soul
- Cultivate joy, playfulness, gratitude, and delight as essential qualities of embodied, multidimensional awakening and a more abundant, loving relationship with yourself and life
- Deconstruct Dance of Oneness® practices into their underlying principles, energetic pathways, movement mechanics, somatic cues, and transformational intentions, giving you a deeper understanding of how the method works and how to adapt it with integrity
- Adapt and incorporate the Dance of Oneness® method into your existing practice while honoring its underlying principles and intentions
Mystical scholar, spiritual teacher, and founder of the Institute of Sacred Activism
Create Your Own Learning Experience
Join the Livestream – or Enjoy Flexible Access to the Recorded Sessions Anytime, Anywhere!
You’ll connect with Banafsheh and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device.
Not able to attend the live sessions? No problem! With our flexible access options and Banafsheh’s extensive handouts and in-class demos as support, you have the freedom to create your own classroom experience on your own terms.
Whether you want to dive deep into regular training sessions or savor the journey over an extended time period, you can choose how to best benefit from this one-of-a-kind training program:
- Tailor Your Experience: Watch the sessions at your own pace, whenever it suits you. You can mix and match, replay your favorite parts, or spread out the content over several days (or even months).
- Ultimate Flexibility: Whether you’re an early bird or a night owl, our recorded sessions are available to you 24/7. Create a learning experience that fits your schedule.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Eighteen 120-Minute Class Sessions With Banafsheh Sayyad
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from master sacred dancer and visionary teacher Banafsheh Sayyad, founder of Dance of Oneness® — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option, a teaching segment of 60 minutes, a Q&A for 30 minutes, and an optional breakout session for 30 minutes. Program sessions are on 2026-10-15 10:00:00 am.
Eighteen 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.
Eighteen 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.
Eighteen Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcript after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the insights and practices you found most impactful.
Eighteen 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
Following each 90-minute live class, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive breakout session. You’ll be placed in a small, intimate Zoom group with a few other participants to interact, reflect, and share around a weekly topic, helping you more fully integrate the lessons. Breakout sessions are not recorded. Whether or not you attend the live sessions, the online community group provides a space for you to connect with each other and arrange alternative times to interact.
Energetic Practices and Reflection Questions
Between class sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to complete energetic protocols, practice new tools, and reflect upon your experience to accelerate 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 program materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
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.
Program Details & Curriculum
Course Sessions are on 2026-10-15 10:00:00 am.
This immersive training will feature LIVE teachings, guided sacred dance and conscious movement, experiential practices, meditation, reflection, sharing, and opportunities for feedback with Banafsheh.
Across 18 modules, you’ll journey through the 13 Rays of Embodiment — the foundational architecture of the Dance of Oneness® method — progressively awakening the physical, emotional, energetic, spiritual, and relational dimensions of your being.
The training begins by establishing the foundations of embodied presence. You’ll be introduced to the Dance of Oneness® map of embodiment and experience your body as a sacred portal to presence, grounding, healing, and Oneness — creating a strong foundation for the deeper transformational work that follows.
The journey unfolds through a gradual and grounded awakening of the chakras, flowing through:
The Upward Spiral — Awakening Into Your Fullest Potential
Journey from presence and grounding into creative life force, sovereignty, heart-centered love, surrender, expanded perception, reverence, and sacred purpose — progressively awakening to your multidimensional nature and the guidance of your higher self.
The Downward Spiral — Embodying Your Higher Self
Learn to bring the light, love, and wisdom of your higher self fully into your body and everyday life — becoming more luminous, grounded, and capable of expressing your spiritual awareness through your choices, relationships, movement, and service.
Along the way, you’ll experience specific sacred movement practices including Oneness Yoga, Middle Eastern Tribal Dance, the Infinity Wave, Flamenco Fusion, Persian dance, veil dance, and Sama, the sacred dance of whirling. You’ll also work with meridians, key energy points, sacred geometry, breath, movement, and subtle-energy practices to deepen your relationship with your body’s innate intelligence.
The final modules bring the 13 Rays together into an integrated experience of embodied wholeness. You’ll revisit the complete Dance of Oneness® map through movement and reflection, deepen your capacity for joy, divine play, resilience, and service, and explore how the method can become a living practice within your own life.
For those who wish to bring this work into an existing personal or professional practice, you’ll also explore how Dance of Oneness® practices are constructed from the inside out — including their underlying principles, energetic pathways, movement mechanics, somatic cues, and transformational intentions.
The training culminates in practical application and sacred transmission. You’ll explore adaptive ways to incorporate the Dance of Oneness® method into your work, with selected participant adaptations workshopped in real time and feedback from Banafsheh and the class.
This progressive journey allows you to move from personal embodiment to integration to transmission — so the Dance of Oneness® becomes more than a collection of practices, but a living methodology you can embody, adapt with integrity, and carry forward into your life and work.
The Dance of Oneness® Map of Embodiment - Journey into Ray 1: Presence Begins in the Body (2026-10-15 10:00:00 am)
This opening module introduces the foundational map of Dance of Oneness® - the Sun of Love - the body as a sacred portal to presence, love, healing, and multidimensional awakening. You will enter the sacred field of this immersive training by discovering how embodiment begins as a direct felt experience of presence and consciousness within your body.
Through a guided Oneness Yoga practice, you'll experience embodied presence, discover your body as a portal to oneness, and awaken a clear, energized yet calm inner state you can return to anytime for grounding, healing, and deeper connection.
You'll awaken the understanding that the mind and the emotions can be in the past or focused on the future, but the body is here now and our compass for being present. You'll also experience an embodied awareness of Mother Earth Gaia, connecting with her loving awareness through your body.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How to find greater ease, comfort, and safety in your body
- A felt sense of presence you can return to again and again
- How to shift from living in the mind to consciously inhabiting the body more fully
- An embodied awareness of Gaia - connecting with her loving awareness through your own body
- A foundational experience of the body as a trustworthy home
- How embodiment becomes the beginning of healing, awakening, and transformation
- The Oneness Yoga practice where you'll experience your body as a portal to oneness, presence, grounding, and connection
Embody Free Will - Journey into Ray 2: You Are a Channel & Ray 3: Journey in the Upward Spiral (2026-10-20 10:00:00 am)
You'll explore free will as a sacred power and ask the essential question: what are you serving with your attention, energy, movement, and life? You will awaken to yourself as a channel between Earth and the cosmos, matter and energy, and begin the journey of the upward spiral, where choice becomes conscious, embodied, and aligned with love.
Through Toroidal Shaking, clear your body as a channel, release unconscious conditioning and paradigms that keep you in lack and low self-worth to open to delight, joy and thriving as you ascend in the upward spiral of conscious choice, inner freedom, and alignment with love.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How to recognize what your energy, attention, and choices are truly serving
- A deeper sense of agency, responsibility, and spiritual maturity
- How to become a clear channel rather than being driven by unconscious patterns
- How to align your will with love instead of fear, habit, or external pressure
- A stronger connection between choice, movement, purpose, and inner freedom
- The guided Toroidal Shaking practice to release unconscious conditioning and ascend in the upward spiral of conscious choice
Cultivate Stability & Belonging by Taking Root in the Here & Now - Journey into Ray 4: Ground Yourself Lovingly in the Earth (2026-10-22 10:00:00 am)
You'll anchor into the here and now as the sacred ground of embodiment, learning to root lovingly in the Earth while developing stability, belonging, and a deeper sense of trust in your body. Movement becomes a way to make peace with physicality and descend fully into life, allowing presence to grow from the ground up.
You'll also learn about the foundational yin meridians, or pathways of energy, in your legs and hips - and how to bring them into balance through movement which is key for the overall health and vitality of the body.
Through The Weave and Middle Eastern Tribal Dance, you'll experience the nourishing power of grounding, embody a deep sense of rootedness and belonging, and discover the confidence that comes from being fully present. You'll also deepen into a tangible experience of Mother Earth Gaia in your body.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How to make peace with physicality and feel more grounded, settled, and supported by the Earth
- A deep sense of belonging in your body and in the present moment
- How to let gravity become a source of nourishment rather than heaviness
- A tangible experience of Gaia and the Divine Feminine in your own body
- Tools for calming anxiety or disconnection through rooting
- How to activate the releasing and healing powers of the "Bubbling Spring" kidney points on the soles of your feet
- The embodied confidence and assuredness that comes from being fully here
- The Weave and Middle Eastern Tribal Dance practice to experience a deep sense of presence, vitality, and belonging
Awaken Flow to Activate Allowance & Reclaim Balance & Inner Stability - Journey into Ray 5: Embody Your Sexuality as Your Creative Life Force in the Sacred Union of Polarities (2026-10-27 10:00:00 am)
You'll enter flow and allowance through the sacred dance of polarity, exploring sexuality as creative life force and the union of opposites within your body.
Through the sacred geometry of the Infinity Wave, you'll experience continuous flow, unify polarity, and awaken your creative life force while cultivating eros as a source of beauty, vitality, and transformative power.
You'll dance to embody the fertile lusciousness of the Divine Feminine, bringing greater fluidity and softness to the sacred and sensual dimensions of your being.
Drawing on Chinese Medicine, you'll explore the key role of kidney yin and yang in supporting your overall health and vibrance. You'll also discover Ming Men (Gate of Life), an important meridian point for activating power and vitality.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How to relate to sexuality as sacred creative life force - and cultivate a felt sense of eros as a source of life, beauty, and inner power
- The bliss of being in your body - releasing the shackles of shame and guilt that trap you in a limiting paradigm
- How to embody the fertile lusciousness of the Divine Feminine
- Fluidity and softness as gateways into ease and the real you
- How to activate the Mingmen meridian point which cultivates power and vitality, builds energy and increases libido
- How flow cultivates allowance of yourself, others, and life without the need to control and dominate
- A more integrated relationship with desire, vitality, creativity, and spirit
- How to hold polarity without splitting, numbing, or creating conflict
- Greater fluidity in your body, relationships, and creative expression
- A guided Infinity Wave sacred dance practice to unify polarity, awaken your creative life force, and harmonize the sacred and the sensual
Navigate Life From Your Inner Sun With Love & Sovereignty - Journey into Ray 6: Love Who You Are (2026-10-29 10:00:00 am)
You'll awaken your inner sun as the seat of embodied self-love, trust, sovereignty, and radiance, learning to move from your center rather than external approval or pressure to perform. As your body becomes a sphere of presence, you'll allow movement, choice, and expression to emanate from the infinite source of love within.
Through the guided Circles & Spheres sacred dance practice, you'll awaken your inner radiance and experience what it feels like to be self-sourced, grounded, and aligned with your true essence.
You'll also explore Lao Gong (Palace of Toil), key meridian points in the palms used in healing and energy work. Together, these practices support you in cultivating a more centered, radiant, and embodied relationship with your own inner authority.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How to move from your center rather than seeking approval outside yourself
- A stronger sense of inner authority, self-love, and embodied confidence
- How to feel radiant, whole, and self-sourced
- The difference between performing as you and emanating from your essence, the true you
- Practices for activating your core as a source of clarity, vitality, and trust
- The Lao Gong meridian point in your palms that are essential for healing and energy work.
- A guided Circles & Spheres sacred dance practice - moving from your center to awaken inner radiance, and embody the feeling of being self-sourced, grounded, and aligned with your true essence
Alchemical Fire: Centering Power Through the Body to Express Yourself with Truth, Dignity & Grounded Authority - Integrating Rays 1-6 (2026-11-03 10:00:00 am)
You'll deepen grounding into embodied power, exploring how true strength arises from sovereignty - being rooted and centered in yourself rather than relying on force. Through the fire and precision of Flamenco-inspired movement, you'll learn to inhabit power with dignity, passion, and grounded authority while embodying the fierce wildness of the Divine Feminine.
You'll explore how to hold and transmute pain and grief into greater aliveness and joy, allowing these profound teachers to soften, deepen, and evolve you.
Through the Flamenco Fusion sacred dance practice, you'll embody sovereignty, awaken rhythmic vitality, and integrate Rays 1-6 into a felt experience of centered, confident, and empowered movement. Together, these practices invite you to stand more fully in your power while remaining grounded, open, and deeply connected to your center.
Begin thinking of ways that you can incorporate the Dance of Oneness(R) method into your existing personal or professional practice. You can share your 5-minute video before Module 16 - at the latest - in a Whatsapp group for Banafsheh to give feedback during Modules 17 and 18.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How to inhabit power without becoming forceful, rigid, or armored
- Greater strength, rhythm, vitality, and self-possession in your body
- An embodied experience of the fierce wildness of the Divine Feminine
- Deepened capacity to hold and transmute pain and grief
- An integration of Rays 1-6
- A more embodied relationship with passion, precision, and confidence
- How to stand in your power while remaining connected to your center
- A guided Flamenco Fusion sacred dance practice to embody grounded strength and awaken rhythmic vitality - and integrate the teachings of Rays 1-6
Open Your Galactic Heart to Awaken & Radiate the Unifying Intelligence of Love - Journey into Ray 7: Let Your Heart, as the Portal to the Infinite Field of Love, Guide You (2026-11-05 10:00:00 am)
You'll discover your heart as a multidimensional portal, awakening the infinite love intelligence that can guide your perception, movement, and relationships. Through movement, you'll open the pathways of the heart and pericardium meridians, supporting greater energetic flow and expansion.
Through the Waves of Love sacred dance practice, you'll soften the protective armor around your heart and allow your body to become a vessel for love's unifying intelligence.
You'll experience your heart as the wellspring of abundance within and a source of wisdom and guidance, while embodying the flow of universal love throughout your whole being. These practices invite greater emotional spaciousness, tenderness, and connection as you learn to let love move through you more freely.
In this session, you will discover:
- How to soften protective armor around the heart
- A felt experience of the heart as the wellspring of abundance and source of wisdom and guidance
- How to awaken, circulate, and transmit love through the body
- Greater emotional spaciousness, compassion, and tenderness
- How the heart can become a portal of universal love
- Key heart and pericardium meridian points that reduce tension and mental overwhelm, and help treat insomnia
- Ways to alleviate pain in the upper back and shoulders through movement
- The Waves of Love sacred dance practice to soften the protective armor around your heart and embody the flow of universal love
You Are the Beloved's Beloved: Dancing Beauty, Grace & Devotion - Embodying Ray 7 (2026-11-12 10:00:00 am)
You'll explore Persian dance as a devotional expression of subtle ecstasy, beauty, grace, and love, entering the sacred remembrance of being loved by the Beloved.
Through gesture, gaze, rhythm, and presence, you'll embody the tender, loving grace of the Divine Feminine and experience your body as an offering of love. Through Persian dance that is both ethereal and sensual, you'll cultivate beauty, refinement, and devotion while deepening your connection to your embodied presence.
You'll experience the joy and delight of dancing as an offering of love, allowing movement to become a way of both receiving and expressing divine affection. Through this devotional practice, you'll awaken a felt sense of being deeply loved, fully present, and at home within the universe of you.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How to enter the universe of you and transform your perception of your body to an abode of love
- A more graceful, refined, and devotional relationship with your body
- Awaken a blend of the ethereal and sensual within yourself and embody the Divine Feminine through Persian Dance
- How beauty can become an embodied spiritual practice
- How gesture, gaze, and movement can become expressions of love
- The joy of dancing from devotion rather than performance
- Persian dance - guided movement to embody beauty, refinement, and devotion and experience the bliss and delight of dancing as an offering of love
Surrender Into Ecstatic Presence & Open to the True Power of Love - Journey Into Ray 8: Let Go of Your Thinking and Allow Yourself to Be Danced (2026-12-17 10:00:00 am)
You'll move beyond mental control into surrender, trance, and ecstatic presence, learning to release overthinking and open to the deeper intelligence of love. Through the Ritual Bowing practice, you'll experience devotion and embodied surrender, allowing your body to soften into the experience of being moved - or "danced" - by love.
You'll discover what it feels like to move beyond the habitual mind while remaining centered and grounded in your body. Through intentional movement and postural awareness, you'll also explore ways to create greater ease in your neck and support comfort and mobility.
Together, these practices invite you into deeper trust, grace, and the experience of being guided by a wisdom greater than the thinking mind.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How to release overthinking and surrender into deeper embodied trust
- A safe relationship with trance, ecstasy, and moving from within
- How devotion can open the body to grace
- The difference between surrender and losing your center
- A direct experience of allowing love, as something greater than the mind, to move you
- Practices to ease neck tension and support greater comfort, mobility, and alignment
- The Ritual Bowing practice to enter a safe experience of surrender, ecstatic presence, and trance
Unearth the Jewel Within Through Vesica Pisces - Journey into Ray 9: Cultivate Spatial Awareness & Let Dance Be the Invisible Architecture of Your Vision (2027-01-07 10:00:00 am)
You'll awaken vision through spatial awareness, learning to perceive and engage with dance as invisible architecture that can shape and expand your inner seeing. You'll explore the mandorla as a sacred geometry of convergence, where inner and outer, seen and unseen, body and vision come together through love.
Through the Embodying the Sacred Geometry of the Mandorla sacred dance practice, you'll cultivate expanded perception and experience vision as something that arises through your whole body. You'll discover the "hidden jewel" of insight that can emerge through presence, sacred movement, and embodied awareness.
Through this practice, you'll deepen your relationship with intuition, imagination, and multidimensional awareness, opening to new ways of perceiving yourself and the world around you.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How to expand your perception beyond ordinary seeing
- A felt sense of vision as something that arises through the whole body
- How sacred geometry can awaken insight, orientation, and inner clarity
- How to sense the hidden jewel within challenge, mystery, or uncertainty
- A more spacious relationship with intuition, imagination, and multidimensional awareness
- The Embodying the Sacred Geometry of the Mandorla practice - awakening expanded perception and whole-body vision, and uncovering the "hidden jewel" of insight
Veil Dance for Flowering Into the Unknown With Reverence - Journey into Ray 10: Let Reverence for Life Infuse Your Movement (2027-01-14 10:00:00 am)
You'll explore reverence as a way of moving, perceiving, and being, allowing a deeper appreciation for life to infuse your body, movement, and relationships. As you embody the benevolent expansiveness of the Divine Feminine, you'll practice meeting the unknown with beauty, trust, and awe rather than control.
Through the Wings of Love veil dance practice, you'll cultivate the embodied qualities of reverence, devotion, and sacred attention. You'll discover how your body and movement can become a living expression of love, beauty, appreciation, and trust in the unfolding of life.
Through this practice, you'll deepen your capacity to flower into the unknown with grace, opening to greater wonder, tenderness, and connection.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How to meet the unknown with trust rather than control
- A deeper capacity for awe, devotion, and sacred attention
- How reverence can soften fear and open the body to mystery
- An embodied experience of the benevolent expansiveness of the Divine Feminine
- A more tender and graceful relationship with life, self, and others
- How movement can become a flowering into beauty, wonder, and devotion
- The Wings of Love veil dance practice to embody the qualities of reverence, awe, and devotion
Tune In to Your North Star to Align With Your Higher Self - Journey into Ray 11: Let True Purpose Guide You (2027-01-21 10:00:00 am)
You'll explore sacred purpose as your North Star, discovering true purpose not as pressure or ambition, but as a guiding light that fills you with joy, wonder, and delight.
Drawing on the ancient Iranian understanding of the higher self, you'll deepen your connection with your higher self, inner guide, or guardian angel and open to purpose as a sacred current of guidance.
Through the Ascending Spiral practice, you'll experience the ascending spiral as a pathway of alignment with the light that guides you from within.
You'll also deepen your experience of dancing with veils as an embodied path of movement and devotion, strengthening intuitive knowing and authentic expression. Through these practices, you'll cultivate greater trust in your inner North Star, allowing it to guide your choices, movement, and life path.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How to clarify what is truly guiding you from within
- How to connect with your higher self who loves you and guides you into becoming the greatest version of yourself
- The difference between soul purpose vs external pressure
- How to move with greater direction, devotion, and alignment
- A stronger connection between purpose, expression, and embodied truth
- Calmness, serenity and peacefulness growing inside you that events in the outside world cannot touch
- How to let your higher self, your inner North Star guide your choices, movement, and life path
- The Ascending Spiral practice - deepening your practice of dancing with veils, and strengthening intuitive knowing and authentic expression
The Descent of Light - Journey into Ray 12: Become Luminous in the Downward Spiral (2027-01-28 10:00:00 am)
You'll enter the downward spiral as the descent of luminosity into embodied life, discovering how to become luminous not by escaping your body, but by allowing love, light, and the wisdom of your higher self to fully inhabit you.
Through The Downward Spiral practice, you'll experience the descent of light into your body and awaken a more grounded sense of embodied radiance. You'll explore how your body can become a radiant vessel for the wisdom of your higher self, allowing that wisdom to be embodied, shared, and expressed. You'll discover how ordinary movements, gestures, choices, and actions can become expressions of love and higher wisdom.
Through this practice, you'll deepen your capacity to bring spiritual awareness fully into embodied life, becoming more luminous, present, and aligned with your higher self.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How to receive light into the body through the movement of the Downward Spiral
- A more grounded experience of luminosity, love, and presence
- How your body can become a vessel for the wisdom of your higher self
- The difference between embodied radiance vs spiritual bypassing
- How to embody the luminosity of love through ordinary gestures, choices, and relationships
- The Downward Spiral - experiencing the descent of light into the body and discovering how ordinary movement can become expressions of love and higher wisdom
Experience Grounded Flight Through Whirling - Journey into Ray 13: Unite Matter and Spirit Through Love & Serve the Greater Good (2027-02-04 10:00:00 am)
You'll be introduced to Sama - the sacred dance of whirling, exploring turning as a pathway for activating multidimensional awareness and uniting matter and spirit through love. Through Sama, Part 1, you'll learn the foundations of whirling - grounding through your feet, discovering your axis, cultivating presence, and finding balance as you become the still point within motion.
You'll experience your body as an axis between Earth and the cosmos, opening to the many dimensions of your being while being enlivened by the devotional essence of the Divine Feminine.
As you enter the stillness at the center of the spin, you'll discover how whirling can help you meet life's turbulence with greater grace, rootedness, and unshakable calm.
Drawing on the Sufi tradition that helped inspire Rumi's transformation, you'll experience Sama as a sacred practice of devotion, embodied love, and grounded flight.
In this session, you'll discover:
- 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
- How to find stillness, center, and spaciousness while turning
- A grounded experience of whirling as prayer, devotion, and surrender
- How to unite Earth and the cosmos through the axis of your body
- The devotional, enlivened essence of the Divine Feminine
- How turning can open you to love, service, and the greater field
- How Sama, or whirling, guides you into the stillness within movement as you experience turning as prayer and devotion, and embody the harmony of matter and spirit through the axis of your own body
The Revolutionary Turn - Embody Ray 13 to Dissolve Separation & Devote Yourself to Love in Action (2027-02-11 10:00:00 am)
You'll deepen your experience of Sama as a revolutionary practice of love, resilience, and embodied transformation, discovering how whirling can become both mystical surrender and courageous service.
Through Sama, Part 2, you'll explore how turning can dissolve patterns of separation, deepen embodied presence, and awaken a felt sense of Oneness.
As you turn, you'll experience how love can reorganize perception and call you into a greater field of connection and responsibility. You'll deepen your capacity to remain centered and resilient while allowing love to move through you into action.
Through this practice, you'll discover how Sama can become an expression of love in action - transforming inner awakening into service and sacred action in the world.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How turning can help transform chaos into resilience and centered calm
- A more courageous relationship with love as a revolutionary force
- How to let movement dissolve separation and reorganize perception
- A deeper sense of responsibility to serve through embodied presence
- How Sama can become both mystical practice and spiritual activism
- A deepening of Sama to dissolve patterns of separation, deepen embodied presence - and awaken a sense of oneness expressed through service and sacred action
Weaving the Rays Into Embodied Wholeness - An Integration of Rays 7-13 (2027-02-18 10:00:00 am)
You'll gather the journey of the Rays into a cohesive experience of embodied wholeness, revisiting the map, practices, and transmissions you've explored throughout the training.
Through movement and reflection, you'll experience how the Rays interweave within your body as one integrated field rather than as separate teachings. You'll deepen your understanding of how the Rays can support healing, awakening, inner resourcing, and transformation in your everyday life.
You'll also take time to recognize and honor the ways you've changed, allowing your experiences to settle more deeply into your body and awareness. Through this integration, you'll begin to embody the Dance of Oneness® method as a living practice you can continue carrying forward.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How to feel the Rays as one integrated field within your body
- A clearer recognition of how you have changed through the training
- Tools for inner resourcing, self-reflection, and continued embodiment
- How to weave your personal healing, awakening, and practice into wholeness
- A deeper sense of the Dance of Oneness® method as an embodied reality
- How to integrate the rays through movement and reflection to experience them as one integrated field within your body
Embody the Transformational Essence of the Rays as Joy, Divine Play & Service (2027-02-25 10:00:00 am)
This week, you will revisit the major themes, Rays, practices, and transmissions from the previous modules, allowing the material to settle more deeply into your body, awareness, and daily life.
You'll begin to integrate the Dance of Oneness® map of embodiment through movement and reflection, revisit and weave together the full arc of the journey, cultivating deeper connection, unconditional joy, and the capacity to embody the work with presence.
Banafsheh will provide feedback to a selection of adaptive videos sent in by participants.
In this session, you'll discover:
- A clearer understanding of the full arc of the Dance of Oneness® training
- Time to digest and integrate the depth of material received over the previous modules
- How the Rays, practices, and teachings interconnect within your body and life
- A greater sense of embodiment and capacity to meet challenges with grace and resilience
- A deep sense of unconditional joy and allowance
- Part 1 of the full Dance of Oneness map integration through movement and reflection that weaves together the full arc of the Dance of Oneness® journey
- Real-time feedback from Banafsheh and the class on a group of adaptations submitted earlier
Transmission - Holding the Field & Practical Application of Your Experience of the Dance of Oneness® Method (2027-03-04 10:00:00 am)
This culminating module brings you into the art and responsibility of holding space, facilitating transformation, and integrating the Dance of Oneness® method with integrity.
You'll refine your presence, voice, pacing, energetic awareness, and ability to adapt teachings through movement, inquiry, and embodied experience, closing by honoring the journey from personal embodiment to sacred transmission.
You'll experience real-time workshopping of adaptive ways to incorporate the Dance of Oneness® method from the volunteers who signed up in module 16 as they receive feedback from Banafsheh and the class, deepening your understanding of how to adapt and share the work while honoring its transformational essence.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How to incorporate the Dance of Oneness method into your personal or professional practice
- Adaptive ways to incorporate the Dance of Oneness® method
- How to create a safe, sacred, and transformational container when applying Dance of Oneness practices for others
- Part 2 of the full Dance of Oneness map integration through movement and reflection that weaves together the full arc of the Dance of Oneness® journey
- Real-time feedback from Banafsheh and the class on adaptations submitted earlier that incorporate the Dance of Oneness method
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2026-09-13 11:59:00 pm , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Banafsheh’s transformative 18-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
Embody Love as Spiritual Power - Sacred Dance Session
One Hour Dance Session With Banafsheh Sayyad
Remember love as creational power in this 90-minute class, which is part of Banafsheh's 4-week live online course, Embody Love as Spiritual Power. You'll begin by awakening your body's innate relationship with love as a generative, organizing force. Through foundational sacred dance practices, you'll reconnect with the currents of life-giving energy that flow between Earth, body, and spirit, restoring trust in your natural rhythm and inner guidance. This module establishes love as a field you can consciously enter, inhabit, and express through movement. The remaining sessions are recorded and available on Banafsheh's website should you desire to continue the journey.
You are What You Seek - Transmission from The Embodied Rumi Audio Journey
Audio Journey With Companion PDF From Banafsheh Sayyad
Immerse yourself in two of Rumi's mystical poems as you experience the beauty, rhythm, and resonance of the original Persian. You'll hear Banafsheh recite these sacred verses as living transmissions of love and sovereignty. As she shares her heartfelt English translations, you'll uncover the deeper wisdom woven into each poem while staying connected to the spirit of the original. This guided audio journey invites you to awaken greater self-authority, open your heart, and deepen your relationship with Rumi's enduring teachings. The companion PDF will help you revisit the poems, reflect on their meaning, and continue integrating their insights long after you've finished listening.
Sacred Poetry Collection in Persian & English
Exclusive Online Collection From Banafsheh Sayyad
You'll receive an exclusive collection of five mystical poems that have profoundly inspired Banafsheh's teachings and sacred dance practice. As you immerse yourself in these timeless verses, you'll discover wisdom that speaks not only to your mind but also to your heart and body. Returning to them throughout your training, you'll find that new layers of meaning naturally reveal themselves as your own embodiment deepens. These sacred poems can become trusted companions, offering inspiration, reflection, and guidance whenever you need them. Available through a private webpage created exclusively for participants, this collection gives you a beautiful resource to revisit again and again.
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Sacred Movement Playlist From Banafsheh Sayyad
Exclusive Online Playlist From Banafsheh Sayyad
You'll receive a personally curated playlist featuring the music that has inspired Banafsheh's sacred dance practice and creative journey for years. As you listen, you'll be immersed in mystical Persian melodies, Sufi devotional music, and soul-stirring contemporary and world music that invite you into greater presence, beauty, and wonder. Whether you're moving, meditating, praying, or simply taking a quiet moment for yourself, these selections can help create a deeply nourishing atmosphere for your practice. Return to this playlist throughout your training to support your embodiment and deepen your connection to the teachings in an experiential way. Long after the course is complete, you'll have a beautiful sanctuary of sound to accompany your ongoing journey.
Radical Embodiment: Modern Science, Sufi & Taoist Paths to the Divine Feminine
PDF Chapter from Banafsheh Sayyad
In Chapter 2 of Dance of Oneness: Embody Love and Luminosity to Transform Your Life, Banafsheh explores the profound question: What is embodiment? You'll discover how modern science, Taoist wisdom, and the Sufi path all point toward the body as a sacred gateway to awakening while revealing their connection to the ancient Divine Feminine tradition. As your understanding deepens, you'll begin seeing embodiment not as a concept, but as a living practice that can transform the way you experience yourself and the world. Return to this inspiring chapter whenever you'd like to ground yourself in the deeper wisdom behind your journey.
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If you’re serious about moving beyond spiritual understanding into embodied transformation, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
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