Jane Sibbett is no stranger to performing in front of others.

She began acting 30 years ago and appeared in guest spots on several television shows including “Cheers,” “21 Jump Street,” “Matlock” and “Touched By an Angel.” But she’s best known for playing Carol, Ross Geller’s ex-wife on “Friends.”

Even though she still acts in plays and occasionally in movies and television, these days her time is spent producing and presenting at numerous events featuring spiritual leaders and healers. But over the last year she has been front and center with a class she’s hosting across the country called Jane’s Dancing Hands Circle.

“Just one year ago this weekend, they [hands] spontaneously began dancing the first time I met Abdy [Abdy Electriciteh] and the second time when he touched my third eye,” Sibbett said.
“Right away several participants in Abdy’s audience noticed that there was something new, unusual and quite beautiful going on with them and it seemed to be energy streaming from my hands as they moved or even as I opened and reached out with them.”

Sibbett brings her Dancing Hands Circle to Sedona with a pair of classes on Saturday, May 7, at the Sedona Public Library. The first is for kids 12 and under [with parents] from 10 to 11 a.m. This event is free. The second will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The cost for that class is $30 for adults and $15 for seniors, students 13 and older as well as veterans. Tickets can be purchased at the door.

In a YouTube video describing her program, Sibbett jokes that if she were watching someone leading a dancing hands circle, she would ask, “Where did this person come from,
she’s insane.”

“I always want to do what I can to help,” she said. “That’s just my nature. And perhaps not so much here in Sedona, but you bet that many would find this weird for many reasons.

“I still feel a little shy because again it’s not me, it’s not choreographed and the dancing hands are often wildly dancing, drumming and clapping and taking me all over the room whether I’m in a circle working with greater groups or doing individual sessions.”

She said she’s both humbled and grateful by the response she has received from participants.  

“It’s been everything from reports of bliss, awe and wonder, to flat out giggling or crying joy to be immersed in the perfection of their connection with pure source,” she said. “Some, who report they’ve meditated for 30 years or more, have said a dancing hands session is deeper and more rich than they’ve ever experienced in their meditations and longer lasting.”

And it’s not just participants who have gotten a lot out of her class.

“I really feel like a kid on a summer day just knowing that it is wide open for all sorts of fun, joy and adventure,” she said. “I never expected to be here so I am in utter awe every day and if I was grateful to be alive before, it is a million times more now because every day I lift my hands and they dance I get to see through God or pure source’s ‘eyes’ and all I see is perfection.”

For more information on Sibbett and her program, visit janesdancinghands.com.