Thursday 24 October 2013

Sufi Dance: The Pathway of Divine Relaxation

The universe turns around a secret, majestic and mesmerizing flow of divine happiness. The Sufi Dance is a true form of divinity. It’s a traditional dance form formed from different sacred dances spanning over Egypt, the Middle East and India flavored with devotion and perfume with divinity. It gives a realization that god is at the centre of our being just like what the sacred dances in India signify. The Sufi Dance created by Zia Nath, commonly known as the Sufi splendor, which is a perfect fusion of sacred dances in India and the Islam world like the Classical Odissi, Gurdjieff Movements and Sufi Whirling.

The Sufi whirling workshops in Mumbai are a devotional creation of Zia Nath who is believed to be the founder of Sufi splendor. It makes your head unaware of the feet and the feet unaware of the head as neither of them care for anything, but just one to keep turning. Every moment is filled with a new thrill and optimum enjoyment derived from utter divinity. It sills the air with sweet aroma of Indian classical, fusion and Sufi music with mystical chants and forces you to wave and turn to the tapestry of sounds with a mind free from trauma and reflecting peace and love. The music and dance sandwiched with Rumis poetry is a delightful indispensable integral and enchanting part of a Sufi splendor that along with Odissi mudras take the whole show to an unbelievable height.

The Sufi splendor provides you with brilliant balancing of body, mind and feeling, quick sharpening of motor co-ordination, perfect transcending beyond personality and conditioning, peaceful meditation in motion and stillness with a mix of harmony, inner discipline and silence. The whole basic foundation of this dance form circulated along the theory that man has three source of energy that is the mind, heart and body and where these three powers merge, they give rise to a fourth sacred energy that transforms and begins an eternal authentic divine life.

So when you are in turmoil, you feel yourself to be under the hammer of that time, you see the pressure of your life crossing your shoulders, don’t wait for a second thought. Just jump on board to the Sufi whirling workshops in Mumbai and relieve yourself from all this stress and get your soul free, dancing, enjoying and transforming your life towards a beautiful dimension, which otherwise can only be achieved through the touch of god.