Banafsheh Sayyad: Being 100 Percent Present and 100 Percent Fully Gone
About this episode
Tami Simon speaks with Banafsheh Sayyad about being fully present and surrendered, exploring spiritual practices through movement and presence.
What does it mean to be fully here and fully surrendered at the same time? Tami Simon speaks with Banafsheh Sayyad—master Iranian sacred dancer, choreographer, transformational teacher, and founder of Dance of Oneness—about whirling as a spiritual practice, the marriage of discipline and surrender, embodied healing through movement, and how presence itself can become a form of devotion and resistance. This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
People in this episode
Host: Tami Simon
Guest: Banafsheh Sayyad
Topics covered
- spiritual practice
- surrender
- embodied healing
- movement
- presence
- devotion
- spiritual understanding
Keywords
- sacred dance
- whirling
- transformation
- discipline
- spiritual awakening
- healing through movement
- presence
- resistance
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Dance of Oneness
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