Dances of Universal Peace in Portugal
Our certified dance leader lives in Portugal. Anne Rasquin will join us from Milfontes. She will be assisted by Banu Cetin, an experienced Turkish Dutch dance leader, and with emerging dance leaders Marta Besio and Marie-Monarchs David, both living in the Algarve.
Anne Rasquin:
In 2005, I met the dances by Lila Avestury, who brought the dances and my later mentors and beloved friends, Wali & Arienne, to Portugal. In the following years, I continued to study retreats with them in Portugal & Germany. I became a certified leader in 2014. In The Summer School &the European Jamiat Ahm, my heart and soul opened to the international family of the path toward the One. I am initiated into the Sufi Ruhaniat and travelled with the Sufi caravan to Turkey in 2022. What a blessing, happy, and lucky for the connection to the international family. Working for more DUP Portugal to be !
I am Anne Rasquin, a mother, grandmother, sister, daughter, partner, and lover of Life. A body-mind therapist for over two decades, learning and experiencing the power of movement and the vast possibilities of personal and cosmic development. My journey brought me in contact with several teachers and masters, to name: Hazrat Inayat Khan and Sufism, Shree Mooji, Naomi Imber Feinberg, and her deep study of kabbalah and The Way of the Tree of Life. All this felt like a bridge from my body work to the spiritual and mystic part of all, to ensure a safe and deeply knowledgeable therapeutic space, so needed in our modern, challenging time.
Some of my professional trainings and certifications are:
Heilpraktikerin Psychotherapy (health practitioner) Minister of Health, Cologne, Germany 2021;
Sufism, Studies- Initiation to the Ruhaniat Sufi Order-2010- now;
Dances of the Universal Peace-Dance Leader-2006- now.
Banu is a Turkish Dutch dance leader who has been active since 2022, both in Turkey as well as in Europe, inspired to share the dances everywhere she is called to. She loves to travel and is always open to co-creation and activating new areas, concentrating in building bridges and communities, bringing people together. Passionate about sharing the Dances, as it has been part of her healing journey and has become an important part of her life, in which she combines her academic background with her cultural heritage, yogic path, healing work and shamanic background.
As a holistic therapist and coach, working with groups in ceremony and as a workshop facilitator in different areas within the spiritual spectrum, i have combined all these experiences and qualities within my role as a dance leader for the Dances of Universal Peace, working on deepening the experience and embodiment of these sacred body prayers. Toward inner peace, alignment, love, harmony, beauty and unity, toward the One.
