LIVE FROM YOUR HEART
UPCOMING EVENTS​​​
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November 16 – Whirling Workshop at Seminarkristall Iselsberg (Austria)
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Berlin Whirling returns to the Seminarkristall for another whirling dance workshop. Participants will learn all basics to spin confidently and steadily around their own axis. Everyone will be guided through the spinning process and brought back out again.
After a break, we will move on to the heart of every workshop: the whirling session. We will embark on a journey guided by music for a good chunk of time. Everyone at their own pace. This can begin with free movement—tumbling, dancing or stretching—and only lead to spinning at a later stage. At the end everyone will have time to come back to themselves and find peace in a landing meditation before we end the workshop together with a closing circle.
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Learn the fundamentals of Whirling.
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Explore techniques for centering and balance
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Tap into deeper layers of consciousness
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Experience the connection to yourself and to others
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Release baggage and move in freedom
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WHEN: November 16 2025, 2-6pm
WHERE: Seminarkristall, 9992 Iselsberg 201, Austria
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Contribution: 75€
Please register with an email to mail@berlinwhirling.com
Thank you.
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November 18&19 – Whirling Evenings at U7 Bewegungs- und Erfahrungszentrum Aldrans/Innsbruck (Austria)
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I am joining whirling sister Helga Jenewein in Innsbruck for two consecutive whirling evenings on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 18&19 2025 at U7 – Bewegungs- und Erfahrungsraum. These evenings are open to all levels. They are easy-going, afterwork sessions. We will teach or refresh the fundamentals of whirling as a movement-based meditation practice and go into the experience of it together. I
It is advised to not have eaten directly before, to wear comfortable clothes to move in, to bring good socks to whirl in and to bring a shawl, sweater or blanket for the landing at the end of the evenings. It will be good to wear another warm layer, when the body cooles down after the whirl.
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WHEN: November 16 2025, 2-6pm
WHERE: Seminarkristall, 9992 Iselsberg 201, Austria
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Contribution: pay-what-you-can for one day 15-45€, for both days 20-60€
Please register with an email to mail@berlinwhirling.com
Thank you.
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Berlin Whirling Workshops and Sessions at Studio2, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin:​​​​​​​​
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Sunday, November 23 2025, 2-4pm ​introduction, 4.30-7pm whirling session
Introduction: 55€, reduced 45€
Session: 45€, reduced 35€
Full workshop: 90€, reduced 70€
Reduced price for students, teens, unemployed and elderly people
Successful registration via payment to Berlin Whirling – Lisa Stertz
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Sunday, December 14 2025, 5pm, Sema, Rumi, Light and Music with Ali Kalantary (live-music and poetry)
Contribution:
until 16.11.2025 35€
until 30.11.2025 40€
as of 01.12.2025 45€
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Dates 2026:
Saturday, March 14
Saturday, April 11
Saturday, May 09
Saturday, June 13
Saturday, July 11
Saturday, August 08
Saturday, September 12
Saturday, October 10
Saturday, November 07​
PAST EVENTS:​​
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August 13-17 – Into the vortex, Berlins first whirling intensive with Lisa Stertz and Dhyana Vargas, 90mil
July 27 2025 – Whirling workshop and performance at 8. Berliner Faiths in Tune Festival, ufa Fabrik Berlin
July 25, 7pm – LOVE AS AN ACT OF BEING, Lecture & Performance, SomoS Art House, Kottbuser Damm 95, 10967 Berlin
July 19/20 – 2nd Berlin Whirling Sufi Weekend with Asal Lebaschi and Ali Kalantary, Studio2 Art Center Bethanien, Berlin
June 20-22, Whirling Workshop during the Elementemagie Retreat at Seminarkristall Iselsberg, Austria
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May 2024 – May 2025, Participation in the Awareness Intensive Training guided by Ganga Cording, Vardha and Pramod
Friday, May 23rd 2025, performance "Hathis" at KC GRAD, Belgrade
Fri-Sun, Jan 24-26th 2025, Winter Whirl and Awareness Weekend, Bludenz/Austria
co-leading a weekend of whirling, winter hikes, awareness practices and a sema evening with live music by Andreas Amann
Sunday, December 15 2024, 4pm – Rumi and the Dervishes
hosting an event with poetry, zhikrs & whirling with live music by Wassim Mukdad and Siamak Moghaddam, Art Center Bethanien, Berlin
Saturday, November 16 2024, Dervish Whirling Workshop at Adélie Studios Cambridge, UK
Saturday, October 26 2024, 8.30pm – Ha'this (Day 7: Black Light)
doing a ritual performance for Ming Poon's eight-day-oeuvre Stardust at Uferstudio 1, Uferstraße 23, 13357 Berlin Wedding
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Sunday, Sept 22 2024 – Berlin Whirling at Faiths In Tune Festival Dresden (workshop and performance with Wassim Mukdad)
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Sat/Sun, Aug 10/11 – 1st Berlin Whirling Sufi-Weekend with Rasha Vrede, Studio2 Art Center Bethanien, Berlin
Friday, July 19 2024, 9pm – Performing White
whirling dance performance during the opening of "Lucid City" at Zemin Art Space, Urbanstraße 3, 10961 Berlin
Wednesdays, 5-8pm (Feb 28, Mar 6, Mar 13) – Whirling Dance Classes at Sensible.Earth, Goa/India
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Feb 15 - March 15 2024 – Artist Residency at HH Art Spaces Foundation, Goa/India
Project residency: "I listen to you" (2024) – Presentation/Performance on March 16 2024
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Saturday, February 10th 2024 – performing for Tania Bruguera, 9-10am at Hamburger Bahnhof
Tania Bruguera's piece " Donde tus ideas se convierten en acciones civicas – Where Your Ideas Become Civic Actions" was a 100-hours reading. People read from Hannah Arendt's book "The Origins of Totalitarianism", one hour each person. My turn was on Saturday morning. I read in German from 9-10am.
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Sunday, November 19th 2023 – Berlin Whirling Workshop for Peace and Humanness
This BERLIN WHIRLING WORKSHOP is dedicated to the world we live in. It was dedicated to all humans we have recently lost, all humans that are in direct pain and grief of these losses and all humans that ceaselessly put their heart, sweat and effort into stopping the crimes we are witnessing. – It was dedicated to us humans. All earnings went to humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Saturday, November 18th 2023, Dervish Whirling Workshop, Wolfson College, Cambridge
Friday, October 6th, 6-9pm, Berlin Whirling Session
Sunday, September 3rd 2023 – BUTOH DERVISH together with Ylva Falk
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​Sat+Sun, July 29/30 2023, 12-6pm – Berlin Whirling Weekend at Studio2, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
Thu-Sun, May 4-7 2023 – workshop and performance during MERASA – a 72h Wellness Experience
​organised by Fa'Pawaka together with Potatohead, Bali/Indonesia​
Friday, May 5, 1h workshop: The Body WithIn
Saturday, May 6, 1h workshop: Butoh Dervish w Ylva Falk
Sunday, May 7, closing ceremony and performance
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Sat, April 8 2023, 4-8pm – Dervish Whirling Workshop at Sana, Monteiro Waddo Anjuna, Bardez, Goa
An introductory workshop into the world of whirling with an opening circle, learning the basics, implementing the basics, short break, physical warmup, whirling session, landing meditation and feedback.
Location (Posa Mindful Gastronomy)
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Fri/Sat, March 17/18 2023, "11:11" – durational performance in the frame of ANTIBODIES, Fort Aguada, Goa/India
HH Art Spaces, Goa and The Tetley, Leeds are thrilled to invite you to 'Antibodies', a collaborative Live Art programme supported by British Council’s India/UK Together Season of Culture Grant.
The list of artists include; Amol K. Patil, Afrah Shafiq, Bandu Manamperi, Hetain Patel, Jana Prepeluh, Joydeb Roaza, Lisa Stertz, Muhammad Shahab Sahel, Nicola Singh, Raisa Kabir, Violeta Lisboa
Performances will happen through the night for 24 hours.
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Older activities can be found in my archive.
All performances are linked and listed under PERFORMANCES.
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