Sama – Conscious Dancer

MENACASEA 2025: Third Symposium on Middle Eastern, North African, Central Asia and South East Asian Dances, Music and Performing Arts: Sama: From Sacred Ritual to Embodied Liberation
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MENACASEA 2025: Third Symposium on Middle Eastern, North African, Central Asia and South East Asian Dances, Music and Performing Arts: Sama: From Sacred Ritual to Embodied Liberation

MENACASEA 2025: Third Symposium on Middle Eastern, North African, Central Asia and South East Asian Dances, Music and Performing Arts: Sama: From Sacred Ritual to Embodied Liberation

2025-11-18T00:32:30-05:00November 18th, 2025|Tags: dance, MENACASEA, movement workshop, music, performance, Sama, whirling, workshop|

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 [...]

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Sufi Dance of Oneness
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Sufi Dance of Oneness

Sufi Dance of Oneness

2025-08-20T14:09:08-04:00August 20th, 2025|Tags: Banafsheh, BanafshehSayyad, connectingtotheuniverse, DanceAndPoetry, EmbodyYourSpirit, enlightment, HigherConsciousness, InnerStillness, IntuitionActivation, Meditation, MeditativeDance, MindBodyConnection, MysticalPoetry, Rumi, SacredDanceExperience, SacredMovement, Sama, SelfDiscovery, Shams, SpiritualAwakening, SufiDance, whirling, Yoga, YogaRetreat|

With Banafsheh Sayyad December 25 - 27, 2025 3-day Beach Retreat Sivananda Ashram, Bahamas Dance in Paradise this Winter. This holiday, trade snow for golden sands and turquoise seas. Join Banafsheh at the Sivananda Ashram, Bahamas for a Sacred Dance Beach Retreat. 3 days to move, breathe, whirl and awaken joy in rhythm with the ocean, [...]