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


By AGENCY

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.

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