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by Banafsheh Sayyad (Author), Andrew Harvey (Foreword by)
Discover healing, transformation, and joyful liberation through sacred dance with this empowering guide to embodied spirituality.
Your body--the material aspect of your soul--is a living map to freedom, joy, and your highest potential. In Dance of Oneness, Banafsheh Sayyad offers a transformative path to attune to your body's wisdom and awaken love as a healing catalyst for greater well-being, awareness, ease, and connection. This book isn't about professional dance techniques. Instead, Sayyad shows how you can reclaim your body as the temple of the soul--a holy instrument through which the greater consciousness expresses love, unity, and the miraculous wonder of existence. Rooted in Divine Feminine wisdom and a spiritual awakening through dance that transmuted the pain of exile from her Motherland, Iran, Sayyad's Dance of Oneness(R) modality fuses Sufi whirling, Persian dance, and flamenco with Traditional Chinese Medicine, mysticism, and feminine embodiment practices to dissolve patterns of constriction, activate your light body, and awaken vitality and purpose. For the first time in a book, Sayyad initiates you into whirling as a living portal to embodied love, higher consciousness, and union with the Divine. In this guide, you will find: - A step-by-step path to embodied spirituality to unify body and soul- Divine Feminine, Taoist, Sufi, and mystical teachings to expand awareness and inspire wisdom, joy, connection, and freedom
- Mystical poetry to awaken the heart and welcome you home to yourself
- Written, audio, and video practices, including whirling practice, are accessible via QR code to enliven your journey "Dance of Oneness invites you to live your life as a dance that brings you into unity with all through embodied love," writes Sayyad. "True embodiment is experiencing yourself as a channel of light to help heal the Earth." With graceful and warm presence, Sayyad's own story out of a tumultuous Iran and into the freedom of dance as a spiritual practice, Dance of Oneness invites you to embrace a soulful, embodied life.
Author Biography
Banafsheh Sayyad is an acclaimed spiritual embodiment teacher, sacred dancer, choreographer, activist, and founder of Dance of Oneness(R)--a Divine Feminine lineage for healing, transformation, and spiritual evolution. Banafsheh has helped thousands of people around the world awaken and align with their full potential, including innovating Sama (whirling) as a path to spiritual awakening for all. Bridging Sufi ritual, feminine embodiment, and contemporary dance, Banafsheh's groundbreaking expression of Sama is an embodied living art of liberation. With an MFA in Dance from UCLA and an MA in Traditional Chinese Medicine, she performs and teaches worldwide.
