March 2023
Dear Friends, March brings us the first day of spring with the vernal equinox, and is the traditional […]
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February 2023
Dear Friends, If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area this month I hope you’ll join me […]
January 2023
Dear Friends, A big thank you to all who came to the Dance of the Soul Shebi Arus […]
December 2022
Dear Friends, This has been an amazing year of community collaborations and performances by the Simorgh Dance Collective […]
November 2022
My apologies for not sending regular updates. I have been taking a break this summer working on a […]
May 2022
Dear Friends, This May 6 -9, join the Caravan of Mystics, a mystic Sufi music and dance retreat […]
April 2022
Dear Friends, Nowruz Mobarak! Happy Persian New Year! Happy Spring! A great thank you to the Iranian Cultural […]
March 2022
Dear Friends, March is the month of new beginnings as we welcome Spring and Norouz, the Persian New […]
January-February 2022
Dear Friends, Let’s look back and pause… Think of what and who has inspired us, the journeys we’ve […]
November-December 2021
Dear Friends, What a beautiful sacred dance workshop we enjoyed last month in New York City! We laughed, […]
October 2021
Dear Friends, This Fall we welcome new classes taught online by members of the Simorgh School of Dance […]
September 2021
Similar souls wander in the similar places! They may not know each other, but often they touch the […]
August 2021
Dear Friends, We all love dance–it connects us and brings joy and healing. This month I introduce some […]
July 2021
Dear Friends, Love, laughter, tears, hugs, dance, and of course chocolate! What an amazing weekend we had at […]
May-June 2021
Dear Friends, Gradually and guardedly, our society is returning from isolation to enjoy community once more. What a […]
April 2021
“Whenever we look deep inside our dance we come to realize as human beings how we are all […]
March 2021
Dear Friends, March is the month of new beginnings as we welcome Spring and Norouz, the Persian New […]
February 2021
Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly. –Langston Hughes […]
January 2021
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” –Albert Camus […]
December 2020
Dear Friends, Last month our Vahishta: The Calling of the Angels–a multinational online performance summoning hope and renewal […]
November 2020
Dear Friends, Both worldwide and here in our community this year has been full of loss with events […]
October 2020
Dear Friends, In the Book of Avesta (the Zoroastrian holy book), legend claims that the Vahishtas, the immortal […]
September 2020
Dear Friends, We all love dance–it connects us and brings joy and healing. This month I introduce some […]
August 2020
Dear Friends, Dance therapy is about connecting a person to his or her body. Whirling and sacred dance […]
July 2020
Dear Friends, Although the world is in turmoil and so much we have been used to has changed–our […]
June 2020
Dear Friends, Amid all the world unrest and discomfort today now is the time for us to come […]
May 2020
This month I begin new classes and times for the benefit of all students that wish to join […]
April 2020
“Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional” ~Roger Crawford At this moment in time we […]
March 2020
Tarsa, the Simorgh Dance Collective’s first dance drama in collaboration with actors and directors Ali Aminipour and Sadegh […]
February 2020
This time almost a month ago the US and Iran were at high tension: Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani […]