Banafsheh Sayyad: Being 100 Percent Present and 100 Percent Fully Gone
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The Sounds True Podcast Network. I'm not interested in being in control of what I'm doing entirely because I want to be danced. I want this other energy to move through me. And if I'm held and controlled, that can never happen. If I'm on the
other side, then there is that that tension doesn't exist between being here and being gone. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Bhanafsheh Sayad, master Iranian sacred dancer, choreographer, transformational teacher, and founder of Dance of Oneness. She is a trail blazing human, an innovator of Sufi dance forms, previously only performed by men. Banavshe invokes the ancient roots of dance.
devotion, prayer, and adoration. She's taught Persian dance at UCLA, toured and performed internationally with her dance company, Nama, has created a film with Andrew Harvey on dancing Rumi's Journey of the Soul. The film's called In the Fire of Grace, and she's the author of a new sounds true book. It's called Dance of Oneness. Embody Love,
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