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With Internationally Celebrated Sacred Dance Artist, Ritualist & Movement Educator
Miriam Peretz
 
01/31/2025 1:30:00 AM
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Imagine transforming your movements into sacred rituals, where each breath and motion aligns your intentions and prayers, honoring your body as the holy temple it is with every gesture becoming a pathway to inner peace, clarity, and spiritual alignment.

Discover the transformative fusion of devotional whirling, Sufi rituals, breath, and dance awakening profound love, unity, and a deep connection with all of creation.

 

You may dream about living a more soulful life attuned to the wisdom of your heart...

Many spiritual seekers are finding a path to wholeness through the ancient practices of sacred dance, Sufi mystical whirling, and the power of their breath, says Miriam Peretz, an internationally celebrated sacred dance artist.

Turning toward the heart as the center of our being is a powerful theme in Sufi ritual, and Indigenous cultures throughout time have used movement and dance to sanctify the body, connecting the human spirit to the Divine.

The child of two mystics, Miriam is on a lifelong journey to connect with the Divine through embodiment. Her love of dance has taken her throughout the Middle East and Central Asia as she studied with many prominent mentors. She is a student of Hilal Sala, a teacher of the Mevlevi Order of America, and Dr. Ibrahim Baba Farajaje, a Sheikh from the Chishti lineage.

Miriam ultimately found her spiritual home in Central Asian dance, Sufi whirling, and sacred circle dances, many of which are rooted in shamanic wisdom traditions.

Integrating intentional breath with movement to deepen the healing potential of dance can help you ease the pain of fragmentation, alienation, and loneliness. You become empowered to open and embrace your broken heart as an opportunity to expand your capacity to love.

Miriam beautifully weaves together movement and ritual to create safe, communal spaces for healing and embodiment. Through these sacred practices, you’ll connect to the deepest parts of yourself finding emotional release, peace, and a profound sense of vitality and wellbeing.

You’re invited to experience these timeless modalities in action during our brand-new event as Miriam shares how your movement can transform your consciousness and bring profound healing to your body, mind, and soul when you focus your intention and prayer, allowing them to guide you.

As she’ll explain, the art of creating a sacred dance practice aligns your intentions and prayers with your breath and movement sanctifying your body as the holy temple of your soul.

During the event, Miriam will guide you through a 3-part embodiment practice, in which you’ll bring more presence and gratitude into each moment as you focus on purifying and cleansing your organs and honoring the four directions through the ancient practice of bowing.

Join us as Miriam shares sacred dance and whirling as expressions of profound gratitude, the embodiment of Divine Feminine spirituality, and pathways to lasting transformation.

 

In this hour-long free online event, you’ll discover:

 
  • How your movements can have a profound impact on your sense of wholeness and transform your body into a sacred vessel of healing and growth when you focus on intention and prayer through the embodied intention of sacred dance
  • A guided 3-part embodiment practice to bring more presence and gratitude into each moment, with a focus on purifying and cleansing the organs, and honoring the 4 directions through the venerable practice of bowing
  • The ancient practice of whirling and its profound ability to connect you with the deepest parts of yourself as part of the entire Universe
  • How Miriam’s gratitude breathing in Sufi dance connects your breath and intention to bless and empower your body and awaken your heart
  • A guided prayer-formance to awaken the heart, drawing you into the experience of unity and equanimity, where you’ll allow the sense of isolation and separateness to dissolve
 
 
 

When you join us, you’ll also hear about the chance to delve more deeply into sacred dance, whirling, and breath in Miriam’s new 7-week live video course, where she’ll guide you on a healing journey as you incorporate poetry, prayer, and embodied spirituality into your daily life.

 

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Join this FREE video event with Miriam Peretz and turn toward the heart through sacred dance, breath, and spiritual wisdom.

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01/31/2025 1:30:00 AM

 
 
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What People Are Saying About Miriam Peretz...

 
“I feel cradled in sanctuary...”

With Miriam’s classes and teachings, I feel cradled in sanctuary, guided to the deepest inspirations, healings, and joys. I believe that Miriam’s classes are for everyone a loving call and a guiding hand to our better selves. Her teachings and rituals have become core to my practice and identity. I am indescribably grateful for all that she shares.

 
Ronnie Brodsky

Boston, Massachusetts

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“[Miriam’s] dance prayers have supported me through these difficult times.”

Your dance prayers have supported me through these difficult times. You open my heart from the moment of your first transparent gesture. I love so much that you invite us into dance through blessings and rituals, so I feel connected from the very first moment to the essence, what the movement is about. You somehow open a space where we can speak in another language of our dreams, our joys, our sufferings, and our longings, and experience what is sacred.

 
Monika Koch

Salzburg, Germany

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“I feel like I'm blooming again like roses in Spring.”

Thank you for the joy you bring out in me with your lessons full of love, passion, generositym and connection with the whole Universe. Every time I dance with you I feel like I'm blooming again like roses in Spring.

 
Rita Carlacci

Rome, Italy

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“When you dance, my soul dances too.”

What you have done is bring the true spirit of dance, as a divine expression, into the present — from such a distant past we know not when. But the soul understands.

 
Wendy Salter

Berkeley, California

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“[Miriam] is a living embodiment of divine grace...”

Miriam Peretz’s teachings transcend physicality and transmit sincere potent spiritual wisdom teachings. She is a living embodiment of divine grace, illuminating pathways towards the sacred within every heart.

 
Tatiana Rodeiro, Florida
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About Miriam Peretz

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Miriam Peretz is an internationally celebrated performing artist, ritualist, and movement educator whose work is dedicated to creating transformational experiences for her students around the world. Over the past 20 years, she has offered dance intensives and trainings in locations such as the Bay Area, Hawaii, Europe, the Middle East, and South America, cultivating a global community of dancers.

Rooted in a deep spiritual lineage, Miriam’s journey into the sacred arts began in her family of origin, where she was exposed to a variety of mystical traditions, including Kabbalah and Sufism. A disciple of the beloved Sufi Sheikh Ibrahim Baba Farajaje, former provost of Starr King School of the Ministry, Miriam’s own spiritual path was profoundly shaped by her initiation into the Mevlevi Order of Sufism as a whirling dervish.

Drawing on the Divine Feminine wisdom of embodied spirituality, Miriam integrates Indigenous dance traditions from around the world into her teachings. Her work spans a wide range of cultures and practices, incorporating elements from North African, Middle Eastern, and Central Asian dance forms. As a contemporary pioneer of sacred dance, Miriam has inspired teachers and practitioners globally to use movement and ritual as tools for creating inclusive community spaces for facilitating embodied, non-denominational prayer.

Miriam holds an MFA from Mills College of California, where she studied contemporary dance, pedagogy, and a range of somatic practices. Her thesis, Dance Art Sanctuary: A Holistic Approach to Dance Practice & Pedagogy, included a collaborative study with renowned dance therapist Dr. Ilene Serlin. In this work, Miriam explored the intersection of Indigenous sacred dance practices and contemporary therapeutic dance applications, bridging the spiritual and the healing aspects of movement.

Miriam’s studies have included travel throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, where she immersed herself in ancient forms of dance and ritual many of which are rooted in shamanic wisdom traditions. During this time, she also studied percussion and music theory at The Center for Middle Eastern Classical Music in Jerusalem, deepening her understanding of the relationship between music, movement, and ritual.

Miriam is the founder of the Nava Dance Collective, an international community of dancers based in the Bay Area. Through this collective, she teaches weekly classes and nurtures a vibrant community of students. Miriam’s choreographic work has also extended to numerous interfaith collaboration projects and theater productions, both locally and internationally, where she has used dance as a means to bridge cultural and spiritual divides, creating spaces for authentic connection through ritual and movement.

 
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