Reconnecting to the earth element is more about doing less than adding more. Simplifying, letting go, and getting back to our most primal selves can serve as a way to feel grounded, rooted, and earthed.

Grounding can lower levels of inflammation, enhance the immune system, help wounds heal quicker, and gently treat chronic inflammatory conditions.

In this module, you’ll learn to ground yourself and establish presence in your body with a focus on form and technique. You’ll explore how to execute dance and daily life movements using the economy of movement to feel energized and prevent injury.

Clear yourself of busy forgetfulness and fragmentation, so you can come to see and feel and know the blazing truth that all is love. Dedicate your dance as a prayer to Gaia, our precious Earth.

During this session, you’ll:

• Discover how to ground yourself through dance when you feel disembodied, anxious, and fearful
• Connect deeply with the Earth and access the stability and security of this connection
• Become present and focused — and more adept at dealing with mental and emotional overwhelm
• Discover the changes that happen in your body when you set clear boundaries and accept “what is”
• Be guided through the “Weave” and Middle Eastern/tribal dances

Enter the element of water in this module as the inner space and the realm of the psyche, the unconscious, emotions, and feelings.

What is water like? Water is life-giving and generative — it’s fluid and flows continuously. It’s cooling, refreshing, purifying, nurturing, and nourishing. It’s resilient and adaptable, taking the form of what it’s poured into yet always free, always maintaining its own identity.

You’ll get in touch with how your body is 50 to 70% water (depending on your age) through fluid movement inspired by Tai Chi and Dance of Oneness “Waves” and “Infinities”…

… and embody the oceanic Goddess Aphrodite through liquid, sensual movement that unveils the fountain of the water of life within.

During this session, you’ll:

• Summon the cooling power of water through dance to ease anxiety and anger — and to calm your senses
• Let your creativity flow by being fluidly present in your body
• Explore how your body is 50 to 70% water
• Be guided in Tai Chi-inspired movement and Dance of Oneness “Waves” and “Infinities” to get into the flow and become more fluid

This module takes you into the fire element as passion, transformation, creativity, destruction, and resurrection.

You’ll learn basic Flamenco as the alchemical dance of fire, sparking the transformation of shadow content into art and the transmutation of lead into gold…

… exploring how to use fire as a tool to uplift yourself during moments of low energy, sadness, depression, uncertainty, or despair.

By summoning the energy of fire, you can transmute these emotions, sparking enthusiasm, passion, and unconditional joy. Ultimately, this exploration empowers you to activate a fiery resilience, transforming adversity into vitality and embracing life with renewed zeal.

During this session, you’ll discover:

• How to summon fire through dance to enliven your energy and uplift your mind and spirit when in despair
• Flamenco dance as the alchemical dance of fire and its transmutative power
• Your own capacity for easeful change through renewed vitality and a revived zest for life
• How to turn adversity into passion and purpose for being alive

What is your breath but the presence of the unlimited — the presence of Spirit in you?

For an element that can’t be seen, air certainly holds a vast array of sacred symbolism — such as communication, breath, and life. When we consider how the air element interacts with our senses, we can experience this part of nature in a way that helps us become more present and sensitive to the world around us.

This week, you’ll discover air as the element that connects you to the present moment through your breath… and dance with awareness of your life-giving breath and the divinity within you.

You’ll experience how what you seek is truly within you and learn to blend the celestial and the sensual through the ethereal beauty of Persian dance as you experience your body as more energy than matter.

During this session, you’ll:

• Summon the buoyancy of air through dance to uplift you when you feel heavy — and when situations and responsibilities are weighing you down
• Learn how to breathe for optimum health
• Experience the celestial and sensual through Persian dance
• Be guided through a breathing practice to build coherence between the mind, heart, and body

For the journey into sound, you will be initiated into Sama , the Sufi practice of whirling, which means “to listen.”

An inner journey to the Beloved as the source of All That Is, Sama dissolves the limited mind into the unlimited ocean of presence, and you begin to simply be a channel for compassion and wisdom.

Physics states that matter is actually space spinning. How profound to spin consciously, activate supernatural powers, and upgrade ourselves.

Rumi’s poetry flowered while whirling in perfect rhyme and meter — a testament to the power of Sama to receive direct transmissions from the source… and create body-heart-mind coherence.

Banafsheh will also guide you through a chanting practice to open to unconditional loving.

During this session, you’ll:

• Embody the element of sound through sacred dance to dissolve the limited mind and open to deeper presence
• Discover how to effectively ground and center yourself in preparation for whirling
• Learn how to whirl without getting dizzy and persevere in the spin for a sustained period of time
• Learn the philosophy and short history of Sama as a spiritual path
• Create unity, harmony, and coherence between your body, heart, and mind through the profound Sufi movement meditation of Sama
• Begin to surrender the chatter of the mind and become empty
• Become silent and still enough to listen to your inner voice for guidance through a seated meditation following the Sama

This week, you’ll clear yourself of distractions — including the incessant need to stay busy — and be open to receiving and filling yourself with light.

You’ll explore how the more light you can hold and emit, the higher the frequency of your being and your level of consciousness.

As you begin healing and repatterning ailments, limited beliefs, and fragmentation, you’ll begin to access your lightbody more and more…

… and sustain an elevated and empowered, loving, and joyful state in your heart, body, and mind — truly opening your wings to fly.

Through the “Shake to Liberate ” routine, you’ll free the central channel of your body to receive light unobstructedly — and activate your inner vision, imagination, and intuition.

During this session, you’ll:

• Access your lightbody through sacred dance and illuminate your true self and potential
• Awaken your life force and let it ignite your whole body, energizing and uplifting you through the “Shake to Liberate” dance routine
• Gain deeper access to your inner vision, imagination, and intuition
• Elevate yourself — and feel energized — throughout the day
• Feel and begin to embody your own beauty with radiant confidence

Moving from the stability of earth, through the flow of water, the passion of fire, the lightness of air, sound, and light… you’ll reach the element that makes everything else possible — ether (or space).

In this final module, you’ll explore ether as nothing and everything at the same time. It’s stillness, yet it’s the very thing that makes all movement and life possible — connecting us to spirituality, intuition, and our full potential.

Medieval alchemists were fascinated with the ether element, believing it could turn lead into gold and even prolong life. They referred to the space element as “quintessence,” a term also used to describe the heavenly bodies, such as stars and galaxies.

For the journey into ether, you’ll deepen your experience of Sama (whirling) and access the profound stillness at the core of your being.

You’ll also integrate all that you’ve learned through a celebration of coming home to your body and discover your capacity to dance the pain and the joy, the sorrow, and the deliverance.

During this session, you’ll:

• Embody the element of ether — emptiness and spaciousness — through sacred dance to open to possibility when feeling confined and hopeless
• Integrate all that you’ve learned over the past 6 weeks
• Be here now, surrendered to “what is” as you access inner peace and joy — regardless of circumstance
• Experience the sacred and the unfathomable in the still depths of your being beyond concepts, dogmas, conditioned activity, and all preferences
• Learn to summon an element on the spot when you need its qualities

Unleash Your Authentic Self With Goddesses Artemis & Sekhmet
An 8-Hour Sacred Dance Course With Banafsheh Sayyad

Your relationship with yourself shapes the quality of your life, influencing your experiences, relationships, work, healing, and intuitive abilities. In this transformative 8-hour course, you’ll deepen self-understanding, self-acceptance, and self-love as you activate self-authority and sovereignty through the powerful art of flamenco. Guided by the fierce and compassionate energies of goddesses Sekhmet and Artemis, you’ll learn to trust your inner knowing with conviction, courage, and strength.

Register by December 31 to claim this bonus before it expires.

In this video, Banafsheh Sayyad discusses how dance can give us the capacity to not only withstand emotional difficulty and challenges with grace, but also to process them. We can access an expanded state of being that allows us to tune into a perspective that is greater than the difficulty, enabling us to transmute challenges into wisdom and compassion. After all, challenges are nothing more than opportunities for growth and spiritual evolution. Learn about the power of dance to help you withstand and process difficult emotions, how being present in the body helps you live with more joy and fulfillment, and gain practical tools for being present and more at ease in your body through an experiential practice.

In this video, Banafsheh Sayyad and Anastacia White explore the Five Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine — Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. These foundational principles of Chinese philosophy and medicine reveal the interconnected dynamics of the universe. Each element represents a transformative phase, a season, and unique qualities — Wood embodies growth and vitality, Fire ignites passion and expansion, Earth offers stability and nurturing, Metal refines with clarity, and Water flows with introspection. Together, these elements create cycles of creation and regulation, offering profound insights into natural rhythms, health, and harmony.