Dunya is a dancer, author, choreographer, filmaker, and Master Teacher. As founder and Principal Teacher of the healing movement system, Dancemeditation, she specializes in techniques that open the wonderment of deep, subtle, peaceful self-perception.

She holds a BFA from Juilliard, MA from Lesley University, was an Artist Scholar at Columbia University and has trained extensively in yoga with Shri Dharma Mittra and in the shattari method of Sufi movement meditation with Adnan Sarhan, Sufi Foundation of America. Significant training with Master Dance Teachers whose work has influenced hers includes: Elena Lentini, Anahid Sofian, Janet Panetta and Alfredo Corvino.

Dunya's extensive teaching credits include:
Department Chair: Victorian College of the Arts, Australia
Faculty: Barnard College, Montclair State College, Mark Morris Dance Center
Master Classes & Residencies: Swarthmore College, New York University, Hunter College, Amherst College, Oberlin College, Mt. Holyoke College, University of Texas
Presenter: Kripalu Center, New York Open Center
Director: Dervish Society of America

A National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellow, her choreographic commissions include Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Dance Uptown, High School of Performing Arts, Barnard College, Victorian College of the Arts, Santa Fe Performing Arts. She is the recipient of Massachusettes Arts Council grants, CETA Artists Grant, Texas Arts Council grants.

She has performed widely as both concert dancer and as a Middle Eastern dancer. Her whirling veil dance is featured in the film Dances of Ecstasy. She directed the film/dance work, Shafi, for NOLA's 2007 Dramarama Festival.

Dunya is the author of Skin of Glass: Finding Spirit in the Flesh.