Infinite Dance

Dance Oracle Practitioner Training
2025-03-02 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Online, Online
Dance Oracle Practitioner Training

Heartly welcome to our virtual dance temple in community of fellow dance pilgrims. In this meeting, we continue to practice with the known tools. We turn towards what interests and concerns us, in the sancturary of our own being and within the group. Wake up, dance and celebrate the dance of life.
We gather about once a month. Connecting our spirit to our heart, we dance with what rises in the present moment. We dialogue with one another and within our selves, practicing our awareness of “the one witnessing the dance”.
Anyone, who has completed the “Dance Oracle” series or is well familiar with the tool of the “golden key” can join. Best is to check in advance with Paramjyoti, wether she recommends this class for you.
This class is a chance to stay alive and deepen your practice and have your participation be a gift for your fellow practitionners. What a wonderful opportunity to be able to meet over long distances and beyond country borders under the virtual roof of our dance temple.
We ask you to transfer 30 Euro until the evening before our gathering.
Time of our meeting is 5-6.30pm.
Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81973958395?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting-ID: 819 7395 8395Kenncode: 530573

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Where music and whirling meet
2025-03-09 14:00 - 17:00 | Soulspace, Thun, Rampenstrasse 1, Thun, Bern, 3600, Switzerland
Where music and whirling meet
Dive with us into the mystical world by practising meditation, chanting, physical warm up, physical opening and warming up practices, exercises which prepare us for whirling, deep relaxation and whirling itself. Paramjyoti will transmit this aesthetic art of whirling in her intuitive approach and expression, a school for connecting our body-mind, spirit and soul.

Listening to our breath, we get in touch with the puls and rhythm which emerges from within, as we embark on our dance pilgrimage along our own belief systems and beyond. Unlike in traditional Sema known from Sufi traditions, we as the dancers also make the music ourselves. For this purpose, we sing the names of “the Beloved” from various traditions, illahis, mantras and songs.

Time: 2-5 pm, please come timely

2 – 3.15 pm singing together, Warm-Up & meditative exercises for preparing whirling as well as the ritual itself
15 minutes pause
3.30 – 5 pm whirling celebration with live music and our joint voices singing. We close with a meditation and/or a deep relaxation exercise (shavasana).

Contribution: 95 CHF
Let us know if you really want to come but can not afford the fee. Together we shall find a solution.
We are striving for creating a vibrant community. Let ´s move and enter the magic of whirling!
No previous experience is needed in order to participate in the class.

Bring along a water bottle, good fitting socks or shoes with leather soles and a scarf, which you can cover your body with in order to feel warm and comforted.

For registration and reservation, please contact Regina Hans by Email or phone: 0041 79 406 17 76

Event description PDF (German language only)

Introduction into Whirling & Sema
2025-03-14 - 2025-03-16 | Kientalerhof, Griesalpstraße 44, Kiental, 3723, Switzerland
Sema is a ritual known from the Sufi tradition, with sacred music and dance. It invites the practitioner to loosen fixed ideas, concepts and belief systems about ones perception of oneself and the world in order to have fundamental spiritual experiences in the natural expanse of ones own consciousness.
Immerse yourself in the mystical world of Whirling and Sema. A ritual known from the Sufi tradition, in which poetry, music, singing and dancing merge into one. Experience with Paramjyoti and friends an approach that honors the form, origin and spiritual path of Sufism and transcends it, entering into the universal language of spirit, heart and soul.
Practice of Whirling and Sema ritual with Paramjyoti and her musician friends Herbert Walter (ney, oud, voice and more; oriental music theraphy, sufi music), Wolfgang Obrecht (accordion, mandola, setar, dulcimer, percussion, voice & all kinds of surprises), Daniel Haas (percussion).
Join us embarking on a spiritual journey with music and dance. Paramjyoti will lead us into the practice of whirling along her free approach and lyrical style. A sacred space is being created which has a healing effect on the individual as well as the group and the collective. Both, by the live music which we will enjoy as well as our movement prayers. Your individual pilgrimage finds support within the group dynamic. Ready to experience the secret of the dance?
Sema is the experience and celebration of that, which truly moves us.
Prerequisites: none
You can register here.

Mudra Mantra Mandala - the sacred in dance
2025-03-21 19:30 - 2025-03-23 13:00 | Zentrum der Einheit, Schweibenalp, Schweibenalp, Brienz, 3855, Switzerland
Mudra Mantra Mandala – The Sacred within Dance

We practice within the sacred dance tradition founded by Paramjyoti and its basic elements. We work with both free and set movement. We explore the interplay of body-movement and mind in mudras, learn simple step sequences to mantras we chant and dance (instant) choreographed mandala dances in group formation.
in this seminar, we focus on the group formation. We agree on “keys” by words, music and/or gesture and allow spontaneous mandalas take form. Additionally we continue to engage in mudra, the connection between body and spirit and the embodyment to mantra, by dancing step sequences to the mantras we chant and study the MANDALA film choreography and its impacts on us.
Prerequisites: Dropping into the seminar series by joining this MMM part 3 is possible. Completing all four modules will make you familiar with the MANDALA film choreography and can enable you to build your own MANDALA dance groups and/or join common future dance(film)projects.
Live music accompaniment by Wolfgang Obrecht (accordion, mandola, setar, dulcimer, percussion, voice & all kinds of surprises)..
Seminar fee: CHF 380.- for registration until 21.12.24, CHF 430.- for registration from 22.12.24
You can register here

Where music and whirling meet
2025-03-30 16:00 - 19:00 | Soma Yoga, Weinfelden, Bahnhofstrasse 24B, Weinfelden, Thurgau, 8570, Switzerland
Where music and whirling meet
Dive with us into the mystical world by practising meditation, chanting, physical warm up, physical opening and warming up practices, exercises which prepare us for whirling, deep relaxation and whirling itself. Paramjyoti will transmit this aesthetic art of whirling in her intuitive approach and expression, a school for connecting our body-mind, spirit and soul.

Listening to our breath, we get in touch with the puls and rhythm which emerges from within, as we embark on our dance pilgrimage along our own belief systems and beyond. Unlike in traditional Sema known from Sufi traditions, we as the dancers also make the music ourselves. For this purpose, we sing the names of “the Beloved” from various traditions, illahis, mantras and songs.

Time: 4-7pm, please come timely

4 – 5.15 pm singing together, Warm-Up & meditative exercises for preparing whirling as well as the ritual itself
15 minutes pause
5.30-7 pm whirling celebration with live music and our joint voices singing. We close with a meditation and/or a deep relaxation exercise (shavasana).

Contribution: 95 CHF
We are striving for creating a vibrant community. For all, who decide to sign up for three announced whirling gatherings at one, you receive a discount and pay 240 CHF total. Let ´s move and enter the magic of whirling!
As you are getting familar with the event, you may volunteer and receive additional dicount. Contact Paramyjoti for volonteer work requests. Also let us know if you really want to come but can not afford the fee. Together we shall find a solution.

No previous experience is needed in order to participate in the class.

Bring along a water bottle, good fitting socks or shoes with leather soles and a scarf, which you can cover your body with in order to feel warm and comforted.

For registration and reservation, please contact Rita.

Dance Oracle Practitioner Training
2025-04-05 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-06-08 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-07-06 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-08-23 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-09-13 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-10-04 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-11-15 10:00 - 11:30 | Online, Online
Dance Oracle Practitioner Training

Heartly welcome to our virtual dance temple in community of fellow dance pilgrims. In this meeting, we continue to practice with the known tools. We turn towards what interests and concerns us, in the sancturary of our own being and within the group. Wake up, dance and celebrate the dance of life.
We gather once a month. Connecting our spirit to our heart, we dance with what rises in the present moment. We dialogue with one another and within our selves, practicing our awareness of “the one witnessing the dance”.
Anyone, who has completed the “Dance Oracle” series or is well familiar with the tool of the “golden key” can join. Best is to check in advance with Paramjyoti, wether she recommends this class for you.
This class is a chance to support you in your practice and deepen it. Your participation is a gift for your fellow practitioners. What a wonderful opportunity to be able to meet over long distances and beyond country borders under the virtual roof of our dance temple.
We ask you to transfer 30 Euro until the evening before our gathering.
Time of our meeting is 5-6.30pm.
Link, ID and password will be announced.

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Where music and whirling meet
2025-04-06 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-11 14:00 - 17:00 | Soulspace, Thun, Rampenstrasse 1, Thun, Bern, 3600, Switzerland
Where music and whirling meet
Dive with us into the mystical world by practising meditation, chanting, physical warm up, physical opening and warming up practices, exercises which prepare us for whirling, deep relaxation and whirling itself. Paramjyoti will transmit this aesthetic art of whirling in her intuitive approach and expression, a school for connecting our body-mind, spirit and soul.

Listening to our breath, we get in touch with the puls and rhythm which emerges from within, as we embark on our dance pilgrimage along our own belief systems and beyond. Unlike in traditional Sema known from Sufi traditions, we as the dancers also make the music ourselves. For this purpose, we sing the names of “the Beloved” from various traditions, illahis, mantras and songs.

Time: 2-5 pm, please come timely

2 – 3.15 pm singing together, Warm-Up & meditative exercises for preparing whirling as well as the ritual itself
15 minutes pause
3.30 – 5 pm whirling celebration with live music and our joint voices singing. We close with a meditation and/or a deep relaxation exercise (shavasana).

Contribution: 95 CHF
Let us know if you really want to come but can not afford the fee. Together we shall find a solution.
We are striving for creating a vibrant community. Let ´s move and enter the magic of whirling!
No previous experience is needed in order to participate in the class.

Bring along a water bottle, good fitting socks or shoes with leather soles and a scarf, which you can cover your body with in order to feel warm and comforted.

For registration and reservation, please contact Regina Hans by Email or phone: 0041 79 406 17 76

Moving into the Infinite
2025-04-24 20:00 - 2025-04-26 22:30 | Schloss Goldegg, Schloss Goldegg, Hofmark 1, Goldegg, 5622, Austria
Moving into the Infinite
“Moving into the Infinite – The desire for truth in the guise of dance” a poetic documentary about the life of a contemporary temple dancer. Find all information about the film here >>
Script, direction, dance, production and distribution by Paramjyoti C. Stieber; Cinematography and editing by Eckart Reichl
In Schloss Goldegg we celebrate a live screening. We watch the film in a group, enjoy a director´s talk and the possibility to ask questions.
Come and celebrate with us.
Venu & Event description >>

Dance of the Heart, Whirling and Sema
2025-04-25 - 2025-04-27 | Schloss Goldegg, Schloss Goldegg, Hofmark 1, Goldegg, 5622, Austria
Introduction into “Dance of the Heart”, Whirling and Sema
Immerse yourself in Whirling and Sema, a mystical world, in which poetry, music, singing and dancing merge into one. Experience with Paramjyoti and friends an approach that honors the form, origin and spiritual path of Sufism and transcends it, entering into the universal language of spirit, heart and soul.
Musicians: Herbert Walter (ney, oud, voice and more; oriental music theraphy, sufi music) and Daniel Haas (percussion).
Paramjyoti will lead us into the practice of whirling along her free approach and lyrical style. By the live music as well as our movement prayers a sacred space is being created, which has a healing effect on the individual as well as the group and the collective. Your individual pilgrimage finds support within the group dynamic. Ready to experience the secret of the dance?
Anyone can take part in this seminar, also without prior experience and regardless of physical fitness level or state of health.
Bring along:Comfortable clothes, warm, good fitting socks or flat dance shoes with leather sole and a long wide skirt if you like or any dress which makes you feel like celebrating.
Further details you find here

Semaconcert & whirling ritual
2025-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Diakonie Kirche Salzburg Aigen, Guggenbichlerstraße 20, Salzburg Aigen, Salzburg, 5026, Austria
Semaconcert with dance ritual presentation in the Diakonie church in Salzburg-Aigen.
Music: Georg Degenhardt and iranian musician friends
Dance: Paramjyoti and dancestudents Florian Bauer, Hana Zanin and others
Further details will be announced shortly.

Introduction into Whirling
2025-05-01 17:30 - 19:00 | Vienna, “ich bin ok” school, Goethegasse 1,3.Hof, Vienna, 1010, Austria
Einführung in den Drehtanz

Tauche ein in die mystische Welt des Drehtanzes. Über Meditation, Warm Up, vorbereitende Übungen zum Drehen und das Tanzgebet selbst, vermittelt Paramjyoti ihren intuitiven Zugang zu dieser ästhetischen Form der Körper-Geist Schulung.
Mitbringen: Wasserflasche, gut sitzende Socken oder Tanzschuhe mit weichen Ledersohlen und ggf. ein kleines Handtuch.
Kosten: 50 Euro
Organisation: Hana Zanin
Anmeldung bei Ingrid Dellmour, Tel.: 0043 6767012484
>> Einladung und Infoblatt als PDF
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ascending, a whirling dance offering
2025-05-10 10:30 - 11:30 | Verena Münster, Cathlic Church, Bad Zurzach, Switzerland, Hauptstrasse 44, Bad Zurzach, Aargau, 5330, Switzerland
ascending

Group dance performance by Paramjyoti with her dance students to live music for mother ´s day. In Church service in Verena Minster, Bad Zurzach. The service will be held by Pastoral Area Manager Cordula Napieraj and Pastor Bernhard Ollmert.
A new project series by Infinite.dance is ascending. Paramjyoti dances solo or with a group of her Devadasi – Dance of the Heart” school practitioners. The whirling dance offering, that is being presented with live music, is meditative, and at times even ecstatic. Its frequency and radiance is grace, peace and freedom. In the infinite whirl that is anchored in the unmoving, bliss shimmers. Something incomprehensible becomes visible and tangible.

Dance Oracle - part 1
2025-05-16 - 2025-05-18 | Schloss Hohenfels, Schloss Hohenfels 1, Hohenfels, 78355, Germany
Dance Oracle

Part 1: Presence, Golden Key, Power Dances
The world with all its phenomena is a great mystery. We cannot comprehend it. But we can ask questions and dance. The dance oracle offers a special opportunity to do so. We playfully combine body awareness with creative expression and gain the freedom to dance with what is. By connecting with what moves us in our hearts we allow the “dance of life” to unfold. In this way the dance becomes the mirror of our heart.
The Dance Oracle can be practiced on its own or serve as a foundation for subsequent courses. You can practise The Dance Oracle for yourself, as a dance meditation, to promote your emotional balance and mental calmness, or use it when you want answers to your questions. Later on, you can also use The Dance Oracle to offer support to other people.
We dance with what is: We focus our attention on body awareness and the breath. Listening to the cycle of the breath, we invite our body to move freely, carried by the flow of the breath. Everything that arises in the awareness of body perceptions, thoughts and feelings can flow into the dance. The synchronization of breath, movement and mind sets an alchemical process in motion. We become calmer, more balanced and more present. In dancing with what moves us we remain the witness to what is and stay free. Judgements, preferences, attachments and aversions may fall away. We are empty and fulfilled in equal measure. Everything that emerges nourishes the dance and this in turn nourishes us. At this point we are in touch with the origin of dance.

Seminar times: Fr. 7-8.30/9 pm, Sa. 9-12. 3-5 and 7-9 pm, Sun 9-12am
Seminar fee: 380 Euro with registration till 14.4.25, after that 430 Euro (accommodation and food not included). If you decide to directly register for the entire dance oracle part 1-4 course, you receive 120 Euro discount.
For accommodation in the castle and its neighbouring buildings please contact Schloss Hohenfels directly: +49 7557 929190, info@schloss-hohenfels.de. All meals are prepared with organic local products. If you choose an accommodation outside of the castle you can choose to sign up with Schloss Hohenfels for sharing meals with us.
Registration form >>
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People from all fitness levels and age groups are welcome, including professional dancers. Their individual motive might be to revive:

A rejuvenating and blissful treat for him/herself
Support in a challenging life situation
Initiation and personal coaching into dance as a spiritual practice. Introduction into its method and entering free flowing improvisation with the dance of your heart.
For professional dancers the dance oracle offers a new dimension for their performing art

Benefits of these sessions are: improving health, body fitness, calming of mental activities, relaxation of the nervous system, harmonizing and balancing emotions, triggering intuition and self confidence, detecting and breaking through habits and old patterns which cause suffering, supporting transformation, evoking natural ease, wellbeing and encouraging a life in expanded consciousness.

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ascending, a whirling dance offering
2025-06-21 20:00 - 21:00 | Ecovillagesanctuary, Bordei & Terra Vecchia, 6657 Palagnedra -, Ticino, 6657
ascending

Dance presentation for the opening of the Ecovillage Sanctuary Bordei/Terra Vecchia.
ascending
A meditative to ecstatic whirling dance presentation. Dancers of the Devadasi – Dance of the Heart School are continuously turning within a flock around their own axis. The sight of this dance as well as its energetic radiance is gracefulness, peacefulness and freedom. In this seemingly endless whirl, which originates in that, which does not move or change, a bliss becomes visible and tangible.
Participation in this event as well as over night stays go by request to the organizers.

Where music and whirling meet
2025-06-22 10:00 - 13:00 | Soma Yoga, Weinfelden, Bahnhofstrasse 24B, Weinfelden, Thurgau, 8570, Switzerland
Where music and whirling meet
Dive with us into the mystical world by practising meditation, chanting, physical warm up, physical opening and warming up practices, exercises which prepare us for whirling, deep relaxation and whirling itself. Paramjyoti will transmit this aesthetic art of whirling in her intuitive approach and expression, a school for connecting our body-mind, spirit and soul.

Listening to our breath, we get in touch with the puls and rhythm which emerges from within, as we embark on our dance pilgrimage along our own belief systems and beyond. Unlike in traditional Sema known from Sufi traditions, we as the dancers also make the music ourselves. For this purpose, we sing the names of “the Beloved” from various traditions, illahis, mantras and songs.

Time: 10am-1pm, please come timely

10 – 11.15 pm singing together, Warm-Up & meditative exercises for preparing whirling as well as the ritual itself
15 minutes pause
11.30am -1pm pm whirling celebration with live music and our joint voices singing. We close with a meditation and/or a deep relaxation exercise (shavasana).

Contribution: 95 CHF
We are striving for creating a vibrant community. For all, who decide to sign up for three announced whirling gatherings at one, you receive a discount and pay 240 CHF total. Let ´s move and enter the magic of whirling!

No previous experience is needed in order to participate in the class.

Bring along a water bottle, good fitting socks or shoes with leather soles and a scarf, which you can cover your body with in order to feel warm and comforted.

For registration and reservation, please contact Rita.

Whirling, introduction & practise
2025-06-29 | Otterhof, Otterwald 6, Niederried, Bavaria, 87767, Germany
Immerse yourself in the mystical world of Whirling. A ritual, in which poetry, music, singing and dancing merge into one. Enjoy entering the practice with the intuitive sacred dance style by Paramjyoti, its methodology and universal expression. It is the language of our spirit, heart and soul.
Facilitator: Paramjyoti. Live music by: Wolfgang Obrecht (accordion, mandola, setar, dulcimer, percussion, voice & all kinds of surprises)
Seminar contribution fee: 130 Euro
Seminar hours: 10 am – 5pm
Prerequisites: none
Bring along: good sitting socks, if you like also dance shoes with leather soles, a water bottle, a shawl to wrap and comfort your body in and some food for lunch which we will put on the table to share with all.
You can register here.

Dance Oracle - Part 1-2
2025-07-11 - 2025-07-13 | Schloss Hohenfels, Schloss Hohenfels 1, Hohenfels, 78355, Germany
Dance Oracle Part 1 & 2

The world with all its phenomena is a great mystery. We cannot comprehend it. But we can ask questions and dance. The dance oracle offers a special opportunity to do so. We playfully combine body awareness with creative expression and gain the freedom to dance with what is. By connecting with what moves us in our hearts we allow the “dance of life” to unfold. In this way the dance becomes the mirror of our heart.
The Dance Oracle can be practiced on its own or serve as a foundation for subsequent courses. You can practise The Dance Oracle for yourself, as a dance meditation, to promote your emotional balance and mental calmness, or use it when you want answers to your questions. Later on, you can also use The Dance Oracle to offer support to other people.
Content of Dance Oracle Part 1: We dance with what is: We focus our attention on body awareness and the breath. Listening to the cycle of the breath, we invite our body to move freely, carried by the flow of the breath. Everything that arises in the awareness of body perceptions, thoughts and feelings can flow into the dance. The synchronization of breath, movement and mind sets an alchemical process in motion. We become calmer, more balanced and more present. In dancing with what moves us we remain the witness to what is and stay free. Judgements, preferences, attachments and aversions may fall away. We are empty and fulfilled in equal measure. Everything that emerges nourishes the dance and this in turn nourishes us. At this point we are in touch with the origin of dance.
Content of Dance Oracle Part 2: We dance in dedication to a theme: We dedicate our dance to a specific topic. This can have a personal or a collective motif. For example, we dance with something that is currently causing us difficulties in our lives. Or we dedicate our dance as a prayer to a collective theme, such as “world peace”.
With an open mind, we dedicate ourselves to our chosen theme and allow the dance to take shape. This “coming into connection” nourishes us personally, encourages mutual support and strengthens our group and has a positive and transformative effect on the collective field around us. The dance starts to unfold.
Arrival : Friday
Seminar times: Fr. 4 – 8.30 pm, Sa. 9-12. 3-5 and/or 7-9 pm, Sun 9-12am
Seminar fee: 380 Euro with registration till 31 days prior to the event, after that 430 Euro (accommodation and food not included).
Participation requirements: This weekend is open for all who took Dance Oracle part 1 and those who book an introduction in form of a single class (online) with Paramjyoti prior to the seminar. Book now >>
For Information about the rooms in the castle and its neighbouring buildings and booking please contact Schloss Hohenfels directly. Tel.: +49 7557 929190, Email: info@schloss-hohenfels.de
Fee for the room includes breakfast. Lunch is usually booked for the entire group and costs 24,50 Euro per meal. Additional bookings are on individual responsibility.
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ascending, rehearsal
2025-08-09 07:30 - 13:15 | Obere Kirche, Bad Zurzach, Hauptstrasse 42, Bad Zurzach, Aargau, 5330, Switzerland
ascending

This is an internal meeting of those involved in the ascending project.
A new project series by Infinite.dance is ascending. Paramjyoti dances solo or with a group of her dancers. The whirling dance offering, that is being presented with live music, is meditative, and at times even ecstatic. Its frequency and radiance is grace, peace and freedom. In the infinite whirl that is anchored in the unmoving, bliss shimmers. Something incomprehensible becomes visible and tangible. The program also provides the opportunity for the audience to join the dance. Introductions into whirling are often offered prior to the public events.

ascending, a whirling dance offering
2025-08-15 18:30 - 19:30 | Katholische Kirche, Pastoralraum Zurzach Studenland, Hauptstrasse 42, Bad Zurzach, Aargau, 5330, Switzerland
ascending

Solo dance performance by Paramjyoti with organ music by Daniel Zehnder in Verena Minster on the occasion of the Assumption of Mary. The service will be held by Pastoral Area Manager Cordula Napieraj and Pastor Bernhard Ollmert.
A new project series by Infinite.dance is ascending. Paramjyoti dances solo or with a group of her Devadasi – Dance of the Heart school practitioners. The whirling dance offering, that is being presented with live music, is meditative, and at times even ecstatic. Its frequency and radiance is grace, peace and freedom. In the infinite whirl that is anchored in the unmoving, bliss shimmers. Something incomprehensible becomes visible and tangible. The program also provides the opportunity for the audience to join the dance. Introductions into whirling are often offered prior to the public event.

ascending, a whirling dance offering
2025-09-14 10:30 - 11:30 | Katholische Kirche, Pastoralraum Zurzach Studenland, Hauptstrasse 42, Bad Zurzach, Aargau, 5330, Switzerland
ascending

A dance prayer by Paramjyoti in the ecumenical service in the Verena Minster of the Catholic Church Bad Zurzach. For the occasion of the Zurzach Festival. Two choirs merge into one, under the guidance of Jörg Hofarth. The service will be held by Pastoral Area Manager Cordula Napieraj und Ref. Pfarrer Michael Dietliker.
A new project series by Infinite.dance is ascending. Paramjyoti dances solo or with a group of her Devadasi – Dance of the Heart school practitioners. The whirling dance offering, that is being presented with live music, is meditative, and at times even ecstatic. Its frequency and radiance is grace, peace and freedom. In the infinite whirl that is anchored in the unmoving, bliss shimmers. Something incomprehensible becomes visible and tangible. The program also provides the opportunity for the audience to join the dance. Introductions into whirling are often offered prior to the public event.

Excursion and whirling practice
2025-09-19 16:00 - 2025-09-21 13:00 | Ecovillage Sanctuary, Bordei & Terra Vecchia, Palagnedra, Ticino, 6657, Switzerland
whirling practice

Excursion to and whirling practice in the Ecovillage Sanctuary Bordei/Terra Vecchia.
Meditative to ecstatic whirling dance practice with live music. There will be a one hour introduction for beginners on Friday evening, and a three hours whirling practice session Saturday morning, with coaching, also for advanced students. Join us spinning and getting in touch with that, which does not move nor change.
Additionally we will have time for strolls in the beautiful environment and photo/video shooting times for the students who are involved in the project “ascending”.
Arrival Friday from 3pm onwards, and for those who come Saturday only, from 8-9.30am.
Friday from 8-9.30pm will be the introduction course. Whirling practice for all will be Saturday morning from 10 am – 1pm. Sunday from 12-1pm we meet to conclude our gathering. (Photo shooting for ascending might continue in the afternoon)
Fee for the seminar: 108 CHF
Additional fee for the introduction hour: 40-60 CHF sliding scale
Meal times: 8-9 am breakfast, 1pm lunch and 6pm dinner
In order to reserve your place, please fill out the Anmeldeformular I.D, Bordei and send it together with the receipt of your seminar fee transaction to us by email or post (postal address is written on the registration form)
Find information and register for meals and accommodation here. For any questions, do not hesitate to contact the ecovillage office itself.
Bring along: good fitting socks, a shawl to cuddle yourself in, a water bottle, a small towel. People from ascending project bring their white whirling dresses. For everybody: if you have white clothes and a skirt for whirling, please bring them along, too. It is recommended to also bring shoes for inside the houses or thick socks, for even in the summer the stone floors might feel cold to your feet.
Some (orange) rental dresses are available, at the cost of 30 CHF.

Mudra Mantra Mandala - CELEBRATION
2025-10-31 19:30 - 2025-11-02 13:00 | Zentrum der Einheit, Schweibenalp, Schweibenalp, Brienz, 3855, Switzerland
Mudra Mantra Mandala – CELEBRATION

MMM (part 4) is dedicated to dance the MANDALA choreography and to celebrate a several hours long whirling ritual. We deepen the experience, surf, ask questions and dance dance dance.
Beginners are welcome. You will receive an introduction both into whirling as well as simple MANDALA step sequences, which will enable you to join the dance.
For advanced students this seminar serves to deepen the experience of Mudra, Mantra and Mandala, to work on details of the 5 roles of MANDALA and mostly to activate the power this prayer wheel sets forth for us inside your own heart.
For those, who joined the full seminar series: You may want to look into leading your own MANDALA group? Please bring possible questions regarding his topic. You are also welcome to join future projects, such as “MANDALA goes global” and “himmelwärts”. More about those projects will be provided as we meet.
Prerequisites: non
Live music accompaniment by Wolfgang Obrecht (accordion, mandola, setar, dulcimer, percussion, voice & all kinds of surprises) and Prasadini Mayer (voice and harmonium, priestess of “temple of unity” at Schweibenalp) and others.
Seminar fee: CHF 380.- for registration until 31.07.25, CHF 430.- for registration from 01.08.25
You can register here

Whirling and Sema - deepening the practice
2025-11-07 - 2025-11-09 | Kientalerhof, Griesalpstraße 44, Kiental, 3723, Switzerland
Whirling and Sema – deepening the practice
Practice of Whirling and Sema ritual with Paramjyoti and her musician friends Mehmet Ungan (ney, oud, voice; founder of OMM = Oriental Music Academy Mannheim) and Daniel Haas (percussion).
Join us embarking on a spiritual journey with music and dance. Paramjyoti will lead us into the practice of whirling along her free approach and lyrical style. A sacred space is being created which has a healing effect on the individual as well as the group and the collective. Both, by the live music which we will enjoy as well as our movement prayers. Your individual pilgrimage finds support within the group dynamic. Sema is the experience and celebration of that, which truly moves us.
Prerequisites: none
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