Awaken profound love, inner peace, and a connection with yourself, spirit, and all of creation — through the ancient heart-centered practices of devotional whirling, embodied ritual, breath, and sacred dance.
Experience movement as prayer, and rediscover your body as a living temple of love.

Rooted in a lineage of mystics and guided by decades of cross-cultural study, Miriam Peretz's work integrates spiritual devotion with the artistry of movement as a sacred embodiment practice. Her lifelong exploration of sacred dance has taken her throughout the Middle East and Central Asia where she has studied and been immersed in the cultural and spiritual practices.

Miriam is the student of Hilal Sala, a Sufi Sheikha of the Mevlevi Order of America, and the late Dr. Ibrahim Baba Farajaje,a sheikh from the Chishti lineage.

Miriam has been offering Turning Towards the Heart workshops for over a decade and is is excited to now offer it via online through the Shift Network.

Turning Towards the Heart is an invitation to remember the heart as the innermost sanctuary of the body. Through our movement practices, we will transform what feels heavy into fluidity, what feels separate into connection, and what feels dormant into awakened life-force. We will explore how the heart can become a compass for living—in our bodies, our relationships, our creative expression, and our spiritual path.

In this 7-week sacred journey, you will be held in community, guided teachings, somatic dance practice, and spiritual inquiry. Together we will move, breathe, feel, remember, and return to the deeper knowing within us that the body is not only a vessel—but a living prayer.

Through this journey, you will:
• Rekindle the wisdom of the heart as spiritual compass and inner guide
• Develop a devotional movement practice that supports healing and nervous system regulation
• Learn embodied rituals and breath practices that can anchor and support you in daily life
• Transform personal stories of limitation into pathways of creative expression
• Move through life transitions with tools that bring grounded clarity instead of confusion
• Reconnect with your lineage, intuition, and ancestral guidance through the body

When you complete this journey, you will carry:
• A renewed sense of inner connection, presence, and embodied intuition
• Greater clarity in your purpose, your gifts, and how to share them in the world
• A sacred toolkit of movement practices and rituals to support inner peace and equilibrium
• A felt sense of belonging—to yourself, to community, and to the living universe

All are welcome to join, regardless of background or movement experience.

This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Miriam. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to awaken profound love, inner peace and a connection with your spirit and all of creation through an embodied devotional practice.

Recordings of each class will be sent out weekly and you will be able to access them at any time.

Full Details of the course and each class can be found on the Shift Website.