Gather Your Scattered Energy with Sacred Dance – Free Class with Banafhseh Sayyad
When notifications, competing demands, endless information, and world events keep pulling at your attention, it can be hard to feel fully present in your own life. You may move through ordinary moments on autopilot, only to realize your energy feels scattered across everything asking for a piece of you.
Banafsheh Sayyad offers a different approach to focus: rather than forcing your mind to concentrate harder, she invites you to gather your whole being. Through Dance of Oneness®, movement, breath, sensation, feeling, and attention become part of a more embodied way of returning to the present.
You’ll explore the Infinity Wave, a foundational Dance of Oneness® practice inspired by the sacred geometry of the figure eight. Banafsheh will guide you in using the body as an anchor for attention while exploring the relationship between focus, balance, harmony, flow, and spiritual presence.
The session also looks at how everyday activities can become opportunities for conscious participation rather than automatic doing. Preparing food, walking, listening, creating, and completing a task can all become places to practice greater attention, reverence, and devotion.
Why Attend “Gather Your Scattered Energy with Sacred Dance”
Modern life can fragment attention in subtle ways. You may be listening while thinking ahead, starting one task before finishing another, or moving so quickly that even meaningful moments pass without your full participation.
Banafsheh teaches that focus is not only a mental skill but a whole-being process. Her Dance of Oneness® method brings movement, breath, sensation, feeling, and attention together, offering an embodied way to gather energy that feels dispersed and reconnect with what is happening now.
This perspective also places spiritual practice directly inside daily life. Drawing from decades of dance, Sufi mysticism, spiritual practice, sacred geometry, and somatic exploration, Banafsheh approaches the body not as something to transcend but as a living doorway into greater presence, awareness, and relationship with the sacred.
What You’ll Learn
We’ll begin by exploring focus as a whole-being capacity, so you can consider what changes when attention is anchored not only in thought but also in your body, breath, senses, and feelings. You’ll look at distraction as something that can be met through embodied awareness rather than simply more mental effort.
From there, Banafsheh will guide you through the Infinity Wave, which means you’ll encounter a foundational Dance of Oneness® practice through movement rather than concept alone. The figure-eight form becomes a way to explore balance, harmony, flow, and coherence across movement and stillness, body and soul, and the seen and unseen.
Along the way, you’ll connect this practice with ordinary life, so that attention is not limited to a formal spiritual setting. Banafsheh will explore how joy, gratitude, care, and completing what you begin can support a more coherent relationship with what is in front of you.
- How Banafsheh approaches focus as a whole-being capacity rather than a purely mental effort
- Ways movement, breath, sensation, feeling, and attention can work together in embodied practice
- What the Infinity Wave is and why it is foundational within Dance of Oneness®
- How the figure-eight form is used to explore balance, harmony, flow, and coherence
- Why the body can become an anchor when your attention feels scattered
- How shifting from automatic doing to conscious participation changes your relationship with everyday moments
- Ways ordinary activities such as walking, listening, creating, or preparing food can become part of spiritual practice
- How joy, gratitude, care, and completing what you begin relate to the cultivation of attention
- How Banafsheh connects sacred dance with embodied awakening and the experience of life as sacred
Who This Is For
This event may resonate if you feel overstimulated, pulled in too many directions, or frequently caught in autopilot. It is especially relevant if you are looking for a more embodied way to work with attention, presence, and spiritual practice rather than relying on mental focus alone.
It may also speak to dancers, movement practitioners, meditators, spiritual seekers, and anyone curious about Sufi mysticism, sacred geometry, somatic exploration, or Dance of Oneness®. The Infinity Wave is presented as a foundational practice, making the session a natural place to encounter Banafsheh’s approach while also offering meaningful material for those already engaged in embodied or contemplative work.
- People who often feel scattered, overstimulated, or pulled between competing demands
- Those who notice themselves moving through daily life on autopilot
- Spiritual seekers interested in bringing more attention into the body
- Dancers and movement practitioners drawn to sacred or contemplative movement
- People curious about Dance of Oneness® and the Infinity Wave
- Those interested in Sufi mysticism, sacred geometry, or somatic exploration
- Anyone wanting to explore everyday activities as opportunities for presence and devotion
About Banafsheh Sayyad
Banafsheh Sayyad is a Persian master sacred dancer, choreographer, acupuncturist, transformational teacher, activist, and founder of Dance of Oneness®. She performs and teaches internationally, bringing the wisdom of the body into spiritual practice through movement and embodied exploration.
She is among the few virtuosos of authentic Persian dance in the world and has pioneered a liberated feminine expression within the Sufi dance genre, which was previously performed only by men. Her Dance of Oneness® modality brings together healing, wisdom teachings, rigorous dance technique, and self-expression.
Banafsheh holds 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, created with Andrew Harvey, traces Rumi’s journey of the soul in dance. In this event, her background in sacred dance, Sufi mysticism, spiritual practice, sacred geometry, and somatic exploration comes together through the Infinity Wave and a practical inquiry into whole-being presence.
Endorsements
“I Believe That Banafsheh Is Quite Simply the Greatest Living Teacher of Sacred Dance”
“Banafsheh uses dance as a holy ritual. Her dancing is more than a feast for the eyes, it’s a joy to the spirit and an opening of the heart.”
“In watching Banafsheh dance, I knew I was witnessing a master performer in action. Banafsheh is the quintessential professional in her field, not only as a dancer, but as an artistic interpreter of Rumi — and in explaining the brilliance of that renowned Sufi mystic.”
“Master of mystical Persian dance, when Banafsheh teaches or performs, she moves with an attitude of liquid gold pouring over silk velvet. She embodies what it means to dance with abandon, what it means to fully live the ecstatic poetry of Rumi, of luminous moonlight on radiant silver clouds.”
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- Sep 20 2026
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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