Blindfolded – A Whirling Journey & Gong Bath

Welcome to Blindfolded – A Whirling Journey & Gong Bath. Join us at 13 Hayfield Passage on October 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM for a unique experience.

To whirl is to step into mystery, to loosen the mind from its straight lines and awaken the spirals that live in the body.

In this gathering, master whirler Anna Ruya Ayyildiz invites you to explore whirling as a gateway between movement and stillness. With years of devotion to Sufi and somatic practices, Anna guides participants to enter the dance not as performance, but as prayer — a way of sensing balance where opposites meet, and of finding your inner compass through embodied turning.

Holding the ground of sound is Simone Salvatici, a multi-instrumentalist and sound artist whose work bridges acoustic and electronic worlds. Live synthesiser drones and harmonic textures will accompany your journey, creating a field in which movement expands, sensations deepen, and time dissolves. To close, Simone will offer a gong bath, inviting the body to soften into silence and integration.

No prior experience is needed. Whirling is not about perfecting a technique — it is about participation, about allowing radiance to move through you, and about returning to the body as a homecoming.

As the seasons turn and the threads of descent are stirring, we invite you to spiral inward:

—to reclaim the energy you have given out into the world,

—to feel desire and truth alive in your body,

—to bow to what is passing and what is arriving,

—to stand in the mystery rather than the certainty.

In this circle, there is no destination. Only the journey itself.

A remembering that balance is born not of control, but of surrender.

The Beloved is alive, and the lover is dead.” – Rumi



Please arrive 10 minutes early to get set up comfortably.

• Bring socks or soft soled shoes and a scarf or blindfold.

• Bring your own mat, water, and blanket for the gong bath.

Please email aW5mbyB8IG9wZW5tYXRwaWxhdGVzICEgY29t with any questions.

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