Ecstatic Ritual with Live Music

Every Monday night dance the poetry and teachings of Rumi and Hafez. From high-powered ecstatic dance and Sufi Ritual to deep calm, take a journey in the inner terrain with hypnotic Middle Eastern trance music.

Feel your fullest presence in the Here and Now with movement, luscious and devotional that brings us in touch with our core - calm, centered, radiant, open and free. Guided by Mystical teachings and the teachings of Rumi and Hafez, let inspired music lead you from a thorough warm-up to ancient and new rituals of shaking, waves, reverential bowing and free-form. Arriving and ready for Sema, you have the option to whirl or sit in meditation. Open your Heart and unleash your creativity through liquid yet grounded movement, whole body undulations, and sensing your chakras.

Open to All. You can join anytime. Dress comfortably and bring soft-soled shoes or socks
$20 for single class, $170 for 10 classes

Banafsheh Sayyad is an internationally acclaimed Sufi dancer and teacher. With an extensive background in mysticism and Ecstatic dance, she has been guiding people to find their inner bliss through dance around the world. A pioneer in Contemporary Mystical Persian dance, she communicates the universal message of Sufism in a physically passionate and explosive yet quietly intuitive way, an interplay between trance and directed movement. Banafsheh holds a Masters in Chinese Medicine and an MFA in Dance from UCLA where she taught Mystical Persian dance. She draws from the Taoist view of the internal functioning of the body and Persian mysticism to uncover movement that is at once healing, self-illuminating and connected with the spirit. Drawing from her extensive background in Persian Dance, Sufi Ritual, Flamenco and Tai Chi, Banafsheh’s work has been presented extensively in festivals and by presenters in North America, Europe and Australia where she has gained tremendous audience and critical acclaim.

Location: Church In Ocean Park

Address: 235 Hill St.

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Website: http://www.namah.net/classdetail.aspx?it...
E-mail: namah@namah.net

Phone: (310) 499-7100