Rose of Love -- Journey Into Persian Dance with Banafsheh -- 4-week Series starts Nov. 5th Let the Rose of your heart blossom through Persian dance and mystical poetry as you embody love and the great mystery, perfumed by the Divine Feminine. The Rose is the alchemical symbol of the heart opening to love [...]
“ You can't help getting older ,but you don't have to get old.” ~ George Burns How do we know when someone is over the hill? What exactly does “washed up” mean anyway? Is math and the simple counting of years really the best measure? Today I’m going to make the argument that [...]
Free Weekly Dance From the Heart class every Wednesday till the end of the year plus Fall Well:spring, Saturday Oct 21st With this weekly class, we aim to facilitate a simple, comfortable, familiar place for people to gather and experience communal support in their Dance From The Heart and other community care practices, co-create [...]
“ Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” ~ Alexander Smith Have you ever been recognized by surprise? What’s the difference between keeping a low profile and being anonymous? And when is it wiser to fly under the radar? Way back in the 60s Andy [...]
Join Tamalpa's Daria Halprin at the Esalen Institute, October 2nd - 6th How can art contribute to healing while staying centered in the creative process? What kind of art-making responds to the therapeutic experience? What does it mean to live an aesthetic life? And what is possible when we do? In the early 1960s, [...]
“ My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.” ~ Marlo Thomas What's something that makes a huge difference in your life, but you probably don’t think about it much, especially while you’re doing it? When we [...]
Join Banafsheh for Dance of Oneness®: Poetry in Motion, Dance the Revolution Monthly Live Online Workshop -Sunday, September 24th Dance mystical poetry into motion for healing yourself and our collective, for creating an inner and outer revolution. Dance to harmonize with the Earth through a full-bodied, robust dancing that makes you fully ALIVE and [...]
“ I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time.” ~ Bill Laswell Do you ever feel like you’re riding your unicycle backwards? Does it seem like everything is due for a review? Have you been noticing things about [...]
Bay Philharmonic presents Broadway’s Best! '23/'24 Season Opener kicks off at its new premier location at 3pm on Sunday, October 1st Artistic Director and Conductor extraordinaire, Jung-Ho Pak, brings all-star performers, Julius Thomas III (leading star of Hamilton), Lissa deGuzman (King Kong, Aladdin, Wicked), and Jason Gotay (Evita, Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark), backed [...]
“ We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Will Durant Routine gets a bad rap. People label it boring, it gets summed up as a humdrum part of life. You even hear it used as a derogatory term or an insult sometimes. “What a [...]
