The more the dancers feel their boundaries dissolve into the circle, the less they feel like separate individual egos, and soon they come to a state where they are not so much doing the dancing as being the dancing. They just get their egos out of the way and allow the One Light to use their bodies to dance with. So one way to look at it is, Sufi Dancing is something you don't do personally. Expanded consciousness is easy enough to think about, but we often find it elusively hard to experience. And of all the techniques that cultures around the planet have evolved for inducing this blissful state, Sufi Dancing must be the most fun.
Sufi dancers fall effortlessly into an innocent and joyful meditation.
As they stand together between each dance, closing their eyes and holding hands, they continue to feel a powerful harmonious energy sweeping through the circle, washing away their thoughts and leaving their minds flooded with pure light. Sufi Dancing is irrestibly good-natured. It's impossible to leave a Sufi Dance feeling depressed. In many respects, Sufism is the practical, technical wing of Islam, much as Yoga can be considered to be the practical, technical wing of Hinduism. In order to experience the joyful infinite space within, Yoga uses the method of sitting silently in solitude, doing nothing.