June 20 Dancemeditation & Spiritual Bellydance
with Dunya at UU of Falmouth
Saturday June 20, 10 – 11:30am
UU Falmouth, 840 Sandwich Rd, East Falmouth, MA 02536
$15 – $25 Sliding Scale Donation Sign me up!
You are warmly invited to join us for a delicious healing session of Dancemeditation™ with Founder, Dunya McPherson. Dancemeditation invites us to be fully present in our bodies, opening a path to solace, stability, and quiet magic. This session includes the delicious joyfulness of Spiritual Bellydance, an ancient Sufi-rooted tradition.
You are welcome to register in advance to secure your place. Sliding scale donation benefits UU Falmouth and Dervish Society of America.
“I am in love with the journey…I’m learning something very deep, something words would never cover…” – K.
Breathe, move, and feel the magic within ~
You are warmly invited to join us for a healing, enlivening session of Dancemeditation™ with Founder, Dunya McPherson. Set aside this time for yourself – for your body, your energy, and your renewal. The session includes elements of Spiritual Bellydance.
No previous experience necessary. All are welcome. Being a friend!
About Dancemeditation™
Dancemeditation™ is a way to solace, stability, and quiet magic. It invites us to be fully present in our bodies. With gentle music, attention to our breathing and movement, eyes open or closed, we move beyond the surface worries into the present moment and inner stillness. We turn our attention inward—and experience embodied awareness. Our body has time to unwind and dream.
More About Spiritual Bellydance
The natural timeless movements of belly dance—an ancient, origin dance—are both grounding and deeply pleasurable. The fluttering and shaking, swirling and undulating resonate with the rhythms of Nature—trees filled with wind, rolling, undulating ocean waves, birds and animals moving over the earth, connecting us to the natural forces around us. When we include it in the Dancmeditation session, we can focus on encouraging each part of the body having its own voice. A shoulder softens away from the ribcage; the sternum floats; the hips remember their ancient intelligence. As we unhook long-held patterns of tension, what was stiff and silent begins to move, and our body awakens.
What We Will Do
Dunya will guide us in a period of relaxing, wordless instruction to focus and orient our attention, then suggest a simple, rich moving meditations to sink down a couple of notches inside the self, touching Self. There will be a spacious period of time for participants to do their own exploratory intuitive movement, to digest and integrate meditative efforts.
Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing to move in and bring a thick yoga mat or blanket. Bring a sash to tie around your hips if you wish. (It helps to feel the movement.) Chairs are available in the space.
"I walked in like concrete and at the end am a flowing river." - Nannette O.
"Dancemeditation is like exploring a dark but safe cave where I discover gems of indescribable beauty.” —Chava
Come and bring a friend!
Pioneer in embodied mysticism and Founder of Dancemeditation™, Dunya McPherson specializes in opening the wonderment of deep, subtle, peaceful self-perception. Juilliard alumna, Sufi Master, NYTimes critically acclaimed choreographer, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient, Dunya is a practicing artist, academic educator, presenter at healing arts centers worldwide including Kripalu, and author of two beloved books on dance as spiritual path. Full biography
Skin of Glass: Finding Spirit in the Flesh, memoir of Dunya’s journey in dance and mysticism.
Sojourn the Inner Heaven: Movement Meditations for Awakening, guidebook and practice companion.
She is a contributing author to several books on healing and spirituality.
"Kindness to our body is the beginning of kindness to all.” —Dunya McPherson
“During tonight’s session, I noticed how much I lean into your presence and anchor, Dunya, to find the courage to be alone with myself, to venture into my inner world. If it weren’t for your commitment to this work, I would have missed out on knowing the depths of myself and feeling the intimacy of being present. I would have skimmed the surface of so many moments, afraid of the void, the pain, the vastness of everything. I feel I can trust the authenticity of your movements and your expressive soul. Because I know you are there, I dare to be here.” – G. M., psychotherapist
“The work transcends the therapeutic— it’s profoundly finding the self as part of the spiritual path.” – P.
“I was tickled…by ‘it all,’ the infinite in everything…Especially me & my experience.” – J.
“These Dancemeditation sessions have meant so much to me. I am deeply grateful to you for making them possible for us all to be together while going down deep. It is hard to describe what I have been experiencing. The work helps me access my heart body. Nurturing myself, feeling the softness of my animal self.” – S.
“The continuous flow took me deep within. I experienced myself from the inside out. Time stopped. It seemed like we had just begun when you said it was time to ‘rest.’ I actually checked my watch because I couldn’t fathom that so much time had passed.” — K.
