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 [...]
