Dancemeditation with Dunya
Autumn Zooms
"Dancemeditation is like exploring a dark but safe cave where I discover gems of indescribable beauty.” —Chava
Fall Cycle: A Month of More Dunya Zoom
Tuesdays & Thursdays, Oct 20th to Nov 12th
10 – 10:45am ET US
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Sunday, November 15th
11am – 12:30pm ET US
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Our body and Being need time to unwind and dream…
Dancemeditation™ regenerates, heals, connects, and transports us to embodied presence again, and again. Dancemeditation™ helps us trust ourselves. We move through the crust of harried surface worries and into our huge spiritual intelligence. Body speaks to us from the flow of our most Original self, freeing us from habitual patterns, and increasing our awareness of embodied present-ness. Without words, with beautiful music, with eyes open or closed, in the continual flow of breath awareness, we weave our inner and outer space and ignite our spiritual heart. Dunya’s powerful teaching guides participants into their depths, their aliveness, their presence.
Using Slow Movement, Breath-based Movement, Intuitive Dance, Whirling, Somatic Exploration, Sufi Chanting and more, we enter our depth through the transformative process of Relaxation, Receptivity, Reciprocity, and Rest
A Month of More Dunya Zoom
Fall Cycle
Tuesdays & Thursdays, Oct 20th to Nov 12th
10 – 10:45am New York
3pm Ireland
4pm France & Italy
7am Los Angeles
9am New Orleans, LA
8am Mexico City
Donation Sliding Scale $40 – $100
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Sunday, November 15th, 11am – 12:30pm
ET US
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Donation Sliding Scale $10 – $125
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Session Guidelines
Meeting Prologue & Login: I’ll open our meeting room 10′ before we start. Log in any time during the Prologue period, making sure you have enough time to check your connection and get settled. Your mic will be muted to support a peaceful ambience as we prepare for our meditation.
Session Format: I will guide the initial concentrating practices for us to sink within. We follow this with time to unfold and explore on our own. We will conclude with a period of quietude.
Process Support
Gallery View: I suggest using Gallery View throughout. I will spotlight myself for the instruction period so you can see me clearly then return to Gallery View during the session so we know we are side-by-side virtually as we move. Though we do most of our movement with closed eyes, a glimpse at others can be comforting.
Our Time Together: Create an undisturbed, comfortable, spiritual ambience for yourself with reliable WiFi. Please turn off your phone. You’ll need to be close enough to your computer to see and hear me. I hope you’ll choose to keep your video on so that we may see each other. This means your background – house, closet, walls, doors, windows – will be visible to others. Be mindful of your privacy. You might want to have your journal & pen nearby, as well as a veil if you have one.
“I am in love with the journey...I’m learning something very deep, something words would never cover…” — K
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.
