What if the doorway to higher consciousness isn’t something you reach for — but something you gently access through your own body? Join Banafsheh on February 22, 6-8:30pm at the Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles for “Dance of Oneness: Opening Sacred Realms,” a new interactive workshop and book signing that explores how sacred movement becomes [...]
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
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.
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 [...]
"You’ve got to bloom where you’re planted!" ~Rafi แก้ว Metz How far along are you on your ‘walk of life’? Has it been the same path so far? How intentional have your choices been along the way? You’ve probably heard people described as having come from ‘all walks of life’. Indeed, when [...]
