Schirin Chams-Diba

Schirin Chams-Diba is a mystic, dancer, yogini, healer, and pilgrim at heart. From a young age, she has followed a distinct call to embark on a life-long journey of healing, adventure, and truth. From a long line of Persian healers and wise women, she has trained intensively in sacred dance, yoga, spiritual lineages, esoteric arts, and herbal medicine. After years of exploring the world, devoting herself to an in-depth study, and shaping her own practice, she feels called to share her skills in service to the Greater Good. Bringing together all these riches has led her to develop her method for Essence of the Feminine™. For the past decade, Schirin has taught sacred movement medicine through feminine-aligned yoga, sacred dance traditions from the Middle East to India as a transformational and empowering experience, various esoteric traditions seen through the feminine lens, lunar rhythms and holistic lifestyle choices. Whether alone or in a circle of sisters, the practices serve the experience of connection, naturally arising wisdom, intuition, vitality, creativity, healing and joy. Women are enriched with the skill to create their own movement ritual prayers. She has held workshops and retreats in New Zealand, Australia, Bali, Thailand, India, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, USA, Kazakhstan and Guatemala. She has taught at renowned festivals such as the Bali Spirit, Spirit of Tengri, Agape Zoe, Symbiosis, Lightning in a Bottle, etc. As a multi-disciplinary dance artist, Schirin is a founding member of the world music project Karavan Sarai, with both albums ranked in the top 10 World Music charts. She regularly performs live with world-renown musical acts at festivals and concerts. Live performance highlights include: virtuoso Omar Faruk Tekbilek , Beats Antique, Yuval Ron Ensemble, Bedouin Jerrycan Band, Peruquois & Praful, Rajasthani Gypsy Caravan, Grammy winner Hamid Saeidi, the cast of Jillina Carlano’s Bellydance Evolution ˜Fantasm - Odyssey of Dreams’ production.