Kiyana dance, mystical whirling weekendOctober 23, Friday, 7-9 pm, Conference and Demonstration

October 24, Saturday, 6-9 pm, Training, Movements & Dancing

October 25, Sunday, 4:30-7:30 pm, Training, Movements & Dancing

Sama'a master Javad Tehranian returns for a national tour with Kiyana presentations in Los Angeles in October, teaching the Persian form of whirling or Sufi dance known as Kiyana.

Wear comfortable clothes and prepare for a three-hour intense dance and exercise workshop (Oct. 23 is a conference and presentation only).

Javad Tehranian teaches vital exercises, infinity respiration, eye exercises, and body discipline, as well as symmetric and asymmetric movements by the method of divided attention, inner development, rhythmical contemplative movements, and the  enchanting, euphoric Sama'a dance.

Kiyana, meaning “the origin”, is a system of movements and internal work coming from ancient Persia; it relates to the education and the complete development, the unity and oneness of the body, mind and spirit, cleanliness, purity, equilibrium, power, health of body, tranquility in the mind and subtility of the soul of human beings.

The ceremony of Sama'a that is presented apply in two parts. The first part is the performance of Kiyana movements, the daily exercises that are useful for keeping the body in well-being, good shape and its relation with the mind. Those are necessarily exercises for preparedness, fitness, unity and the connection of body, mind and spirit. And with the rhythm they involve causes human reach to a spiritual accuracy and unite one with a power beyond of what one may be. The geometrical figures such as point, line, triangle, square, pentagon, polygon and circle that are presented during the first part are an aspect of moving without interruption from unity to multitude (from point to circle) and moving from multitude to unity (from circle to point) and each of these has mysteries and relations with numerical science and sacred geometry.

The second part of the ceremony that is being presented is an aspect of a true Sama'a, in order to give the participants a description and an idea of what a real Sama'a may be like. In this manner according to the level of the state and the condition the present participations have arrived at, an aid from above may manifest and the imaginative faculty, get empowered from celestial world; the veil of separation will be removed and a sight of the world of imagination may be manifest and the inner faculties may conceive the world of angels.