Register online at
www.esalen.org or by calling 888-8-ESALEN (888-837-2536).
ment, and service, live your flame to the extent that even chaos feels like home.” Open to all. The workshop includes ceremony and an ecstat- ic dance celebration. Please bring a yoga mat.
Recommended reading: Harvey, Light Upon Light; Barks, ed. The Essential Rumi.
Recommended viewing: Sayyad and Harvey, In the Fire of GraceDVD.
Banafsheh Sayyad is a pioneer in her unique synthesis of dance and spirituality. A licensed acupuncturist with an MFA in Dance from UCLA, she teaches and performs worldwide a mesmerizing offering of the timeless sacred feminine inside a con- temporary gypsy dervish.
www.namah.net.
The Practical Art of Intelligent Risk Taking: Soulful Life Skills
David Schiffman
To live with integrity and originality in an increasingly challenging world requires a wide variety of skills, capabilities, and attitudes: soundness in judgment, originality in action, and knowing when and how to act.
This workshop examines the essential compo- nents of making intelligent, creative choices. The foundation of the curriculum lies in consid- ering the risks we must take to make a life of depth, meaning, and integrity.
Together we will consider:
• The impact of origins and ancestry on our risk-taking style
• Conventional thinking versus kaleidoscopic, emergent logic and multi-focal vision
• Intuition and imagination: The mutability of consciousness, perception, and presence
• Recognizing and developing allies, guardian angels, and supporters
Dance of Oneness® : Dance Your Passion Banafsheh Sayyad with Tony Khalife
“In the changing face of our world, to survive and truly serve we need to be passionately alive and joyous,” writes Banafsheh Sayyad. “The time is NOW to connect deeply with what you truly love and align yourself with source energy to ignite your creative flame and uplift yourself and thereby the world. Since ‘No one can light your flame for you and keep it alive but your- self,’ as Rumi says, it is imperative to have a body/spirit-based practice that serves as a cauldron to nourish this flame. Designed by Banafsheh, Dance of Oneness facilitates a way to embody the transcendent flame through loving
our bodies, our selves, and living as a Lover.
“Drawing from Sufism, tai chi, yoga, Persian dance, flamenco and Middle Eastern tribal dances, Dance of Oneness offers a foundation for creative flight. Banafsheh and Tony will lead the group through an exploration of the chakras and how to ignite the flame in our heart through a sacred marriage of all opposites with structured and free dance, live music, chanting, and meditation. Gain transformative tools to put into immediate practice and move into a place of living an ecstatic life with source energy flow- ing abundantly and opening you to your full potential. Through peaceful groundedness, empowered embodiment, passionate engage-
• Dealing with antagonists and the judicious use of strength
• The soulful, energetic logic of improvisational spontaneity and expressiveness
• The use of accurate appraisal and critical analysis
• Affirmation and direction through oracular and archetypal perspectives
• Fluency, intelligence, and adeptness as measures for sound emotional expression
• Timing: The wisdom to know when and how in manageable increments
• If at first you don’t succeed: Cultivating persistence and emotional resilience
Together we’ll create a community based on goodwill and mutual support aimed at develop-
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