Join acclaimed spiritual embodiment teacher and sacred dancer Banafsheh Sayyad on Wednesday, December 24th, 3-6pm PT as she performs in the 66th annual holiday variety show, the Emmy® Award-winning L.A. County Holiday Celebration. This free, three-hour live performance—also broadcast on PBS SoCal—features more than 20 local music ensembles, choirs, and dance companies. It’s Southern California's largest [...]
How should humanity refine its consciousness to creatively respond to the four most consequential truths of our time: planetary ecological collapse, turbulence at every level of human affairs, exponential growth in AI, and the reality of cosmic intelligence on Earth? The online State of World Forum 2025, December 14-17, aims to answer this question: How can [...]
This interactive workshop offers participants a direct, embodied experience of Sama, the sacred practice of listening and turning that lies at the heart of Sufi mysticism. Traditionally practiced primarily by men as a form of ritual devotion, Sama has, in contemporary times, become a field through which women are reclaiming and reinterpreting sacred movement as a [...]
Live, in person class $20–108 donation suggested MORE IF YOU CAN All proceeds go directly to feed the hungry via local food banks. This event is co-sponsored by Redwood Rainbows providing the space. More info: https://zuzaengler.com/schedule
Event Title: Sacred Dance & Rumi’s Original Translations Embody Love as the Feminine Path for Manifesting Greater Peace, Resilience & Positive Change Event Information: Have you ever wondered how to navigate life’s turbulence with grace, peace, and love — even when everything feels uncertain? What if the key to transforming stress and chaos lies not in [...]
A lightly facilitated half hour dance to help us get through the week. This FREE session is offered every Wednesday morning, and led by Zuza or another facilitator. It is attended by a diverse group of people, some of whom have practiced conscious movement for years, while some ~ never before.
This day together is a wild and luminous offering of the body in motion to the sacred Presence that is continually breathing us into Being. Through the practice of Soul Motion™ we will meet self and other in a dance that is profoundly nourishing, creative, emotionally savvy, heart-breaking, community-making, and transforming. We will travel across the [...]
ON THE VERGE: A Live Wire 5Rhythms Ritual Theatre Wing Adventure With LORCA SIMONS & JULIE STUART What Are You On The Verge Of? Glimpses Into The Face Of Transformation... The Body's Sweet Salvations. The Heart's Passionate Stories. The Mind's Mysterious Poetics. The Soul's Vast Sky. The Spirit's Ignited Dream... Live Wire ritual theatre expands the imagination [...]
The beauty of our 5R practice from a theatre prospective is having the opportunity to reflect life, absorbing every morsel of its offering and gifting it back to the dance over and over again. In living this practice as artists we embody the rhythms through every breath we take, through every offering we make. Each gesture [...]
Grappling with Our Luminous Doom Do you notice sometimes, especially after some deep, connected, expressive dancing, how the darkness that surrounds us, so vast and dense, seems lit from within by a luminous glow? How buried at the heart of pain lies the portal to unexpected spaciousness of love? Join us for a day of furious [...]
