with Sara Saberi
Friday, May 19th
5:30 - 7:00 PM
$45
In this unique class, you will be guided through meditation and a restorative practice, followed by a Persian classical music performance. Passion is paramount, but passion refined and sublimated so that longing and desire break through ordinary habituated consciousness to point to something unlimited, such as an overwhelming sense of the beyond. The traditional poetry and music of Iran aim to create a threshold space, a zone of mystery; a psycho-emotional terrain of suffering, melancholy, death and loss, but also of authentic joy, ecstasy, and hope. In the Persian tradition, music is not only for pleasure, but has a transformative purpose.
Sound is meant to effect a change in the listener’s consciousness, to bring them into a spiritual state (hāl). -Darius Sepehri