Lose yourself to dance: France's female dervish takes transcendence online

One of the world's few female whirling dervishes, Rana Gorgani has opened up Sufism to a wider audience, and is now making surprising spiritual connections over Zoom thanks to the pandemic.

French-Iranian Gorgani, 37, used to think of whirling - a sort of "moving meditation" through which Sufis seek to commune with the divine - as something that should remain behind closed doors.