December 2018
Rumi’s Wedding Celebration: Mysteries of Living & Dying
with Banafsheh, musician Tony Khalife and surprise guests Sunday, December 16, 2018 2-4 PM Eugene and Michael Rosenfeld Auditorium at Franklin Canyon Park 2600 Franklin Canyon Drive, Beverly Hills (close to the Mulholland Dr. and Coldwater Canyon Ave. entrance of the park in Studio City) Even if the darkness of hell should swallow the sun and the moon…where is your flame, where is your light? - Rumi Join us in remembrance of Rumi’s Shab-e Arus, his passing into union with…
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Webinar: Dance of Oneness®Online Circle | Path of the Dancer
Dance of Oneness® Online Circle Sunday, April 28 10-11am PDT on Zoom Timezone converter Join Tony Khalife and me for a webinar to learn more about our dance intensive in September, Path of the Dancer. We'll also discuss what it means to dance. Dance gives us an immediate visceral experience of the miracle of being alive. It allows us to truly experience the interconnectedness of the universe in our flesh and bones, and no other practice may be as powerful…
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Dance of Oneness®: Awaken Radiant Beauty | Retreat in Yalova, Turkey
7-day WOMEN ONLY Dance Retreat Featuring musicians and guest speaker, Cathy Pagano, Jungian-trained dream worker and archetypal astrologer REGISTER NOW! "You are the Secret of God's Secret. You are the mirror of Divine Beauty." - Rumi True beauty radiates from an inner core of love - love for yourself, the Earth and all beings. Release old resistances and blockages in your body that hold you back from experiencing ease and comfort within yourself, so you can connect with your innate…
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Dance of Oneness®: Summer Solstice Dance
Weekend Workshop Friday, 21 June - Sunday, 23 June, 2019 Waldhaus Centre Lützelflüh, 3432 Lützelflüh, Switzerland Dance for the Sun that gives you life, and cultivate the energy of the Sun within. Embody and live your dreams, and create positive change in yourself and the world. Loving kindness is the Sun within which makes us most ALIVE and vital. Affirm life like the Sun and generate ALIVENESS like the Sun in the world of darkness. Learn to trust your deepest…
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The Cosmic Dance of Astronomica
Week-long Intensive presented by Ubiquity Chartres Academy July 7-13, 2019 Chartres, France REGISTER HERE! Join an extraordinary confluence of thinkers, artists, movers and shakers to explore the influence of the heavenly bodies on our psyches and destinies in the context of the 7th liberal art of Astronomica. Step into a field of empowering grace through reflective time in the cathedral, shared dreams, ritual, walking the labyrinth, singing and dancing the patterns & rhythms of the cosmos. In studying the seventh and…
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Madonna Rising: Visions of the Feminine and Masculine in Union
Week-long Intensive presented by Ubiquity Chartres Academy August 12-19, 2019 Chartres, France REGISTER HERE! Join us at Chartres’ holiest time during the Feast of the Assumption of Mary and the adoration of the Black Madonna in procession out in the open for a time for a full immersion in the divine feminine and her union with the divine masculine through deep reflection, joyous celebration, ritual, walking the labyrinth, dance and singing. This pilgrimage will center us deeply in the heart…
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Dance of Oneness® Intensive Training: Path of the Dancer
with Banafsheh and Tony Khalife 7-day Intensive: September 13-20, 2019 Weekend only: September 13-15, 2019 REGISTER HERE! The entire universe belongs to the dancer. If you don’t dance, you won’t know what will come to pass. -Jesus Dance invites us to take up space in the world with confidence, conviction and service. It's exhilarating, joyous, sacred, sensual, transformative, communal, and disruptive. Dance makes us whole and brings us into rhythm with others. Though resilient, adaptable, and flexible, dance also breaks…
Find out more »Circle of Love | Performance at Stowel Lake Farm
Tender yet fierce ecstatic dance and music performance followed by a free-style dance celebration Dancer Banafsheh & musicians Tony Khalife & guests Saturday, September 14 8:00 - 9:30 pm Stowel Lake Farm Salt Spring Island, B.C. Tickets: $15 Contact: (250) 709-1921 or info@shaunadevlin.net All are welcome in this circle of love Come, unleash your wild devotional dance and voice! Tony Khalife, is a Lebanese born singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Ojai. He creates a seamless flow in which the…
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Dance of Oneness®: Ecstatic Gratitude
5-day Workshop With Tony Khalife and guest musicians November 24-29 Esalen Institute Big Sur, CA REGISTER HERE! “The whole universe is love’s endless dance.” - Kabir Please read slowly, and as you read come in touch with something you are grateful for. Allow the feeling of gratitude to expand inside of you, into every cell, until you feel your wings. The energy of gratitude is both enlivening and soothing. Let this energy open you to the grace that can live…
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Whirl in the Quantum Field of Oneness
Workshop with Banafsheh, Andrew Harvey, Jim Garrison and special guest Calen Rayne 5-day Workshop - December 13-18 Weekend Only - December 13-15 Friday at 7:30pm – Wednesday at 11:45am followed by lunch 12-1pm Menla Mountain Retreat Center, Phoenicia, NY (Catskills) *Contact Amber at Menla Registration for rates: (845) 688-6897 EXT 101 or Email REGISTER HERE! Explore the intersection of Sufism, Tibetan Buddhism and quantum physics in the crucible of the Sama (whirling) to gain a deep experiential understanding of living…
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Mehr be Mehr
Featuring: Banafsheh, Koobang Ensemble and Mojdeh Habibi Banafsheh dances in a program based on the poetry of the Iranian mystic poet and teacher, Tahereh Ghoratoleyn with musicians of Koobang Ensemble and the recitation of Mojdeh Habibi in Persian. Information and Tickets: (818) 679 8352
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Featuring: Banafsheh, Koobang Ensemble and Mojdeh Habibi Banafsheh dances in a program based on the poetry of the Iranian mystic poet and teacher, Tahereh Ghoratoleyn with musicians of Koobang Ensemble and the recitation of Mojdeh Habibi in Persian. Information and Tickets: (818) 679 8352
Find out more »Dance of Oneness®: LIVE LOVE NOW | Workshop in LA
with Banafsheh, Tony Khalife and guest musicians Tara Sanctuary, Topanga Sunday, February 16, 2020 REGISTER NOW! Banafsheh and Tony are back leading a 1-day workshop in Los Angeles in February. Register for the whole day to receive the full transmission or join only the morning or afternoon session. The extreme times we live in demand that we be PRESENT, PASSIONATELY ALIVE, PEACEFUL, and stand in and for what we believe in. The time is NOW to surrender to the power…
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Dance of Oneness®: Dance for LIFE | 30-day Virtual Marathon
30-day Virtual Marathon with Banafsheh April 1 - 30, 2020 on Zoom 10-11am PDT | 1-2pm EDT | 7-8pm CET REGISTER NOW! Seize the moment every day while at home and get yourself up and moving, deepen your breathing, elevate your state, boost your immune system, align your heart and mind with your purpose for being alive, and spread love far and wide! Activate the power of the dance to ground yourself in PEACE and become PASSIONATELY ALIVE and LOVING –…
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Dance of Oneness®: Womb of Compassion | Month-long Virtual Retreat
Month-long Virtual Retreat with Banafsheh May 3-31, 2020 on Zoom 3 days a week: Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays 10-11am PDT | 1-2pm EDT | 7-8pm CET Recordings are available if you can’t join the live zoom sessions You can still join for the whole month and follow Weeks 1-3 sessions via video REGISTER NOW! “Open the treasure house of abundance from inside yourself.” Rumi Join our dance community right from your home, and shift your focus from the outer world…
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