Wilderness Dance Camp with Jen & Gayan Gregory Long
2026-06-09 - 2026-06-15 | Camp N-Sid-Sen, 36395 ID-97, Harrison, 83833, United States
I’m so excited to be joining brother of the Heart, Gayan Gregory at this beloved Camp for this special time in a very magical place right on Lake Coeur d’Alene. Lodging in the Spirit Lodge is now sold-out but there are still cabins available and RV and tent camping spots available.
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Wilderness Dance Camp is hosted annually on the shores of Lake Coeur d’ Alene in northern Idaho at Camp N-Sid-Sen. Here we have the luxury of five days to sink into the container of community and connection with nature. We dance indoors in a lovely, light filled space.
About Gayan:
Gayan is an acclaimed drummer, composer, leader of the Dances of Universal Peace, spiritual mentor, retreat leader, and storyteller. He has dedicated his life to awakening human potential through music, devotional practices, pithy teachings, and community celebration. Gayan is a direct disciple of Pir Shabda Kahn, the lead teacher of the Sufi Ruhaniat International’s school of western Sufism. He has shared the Dances world wide and and led retreats with some of the foremost spiritual leaders of our time. Gayan began drumming at age eight and has been performing ever since. Gayan has drummed for, and led, kirtan for twenty years. He is an active leader and contributor to the vibrant Boulder kirtan scene. He has also accompanied Wah!, Girish, David Newman, Donna De Lory, Dave Stringer, Sean Johnson and the Wild Lotus Band, Saul David Raye, Katie Wise, Johanna Beekman, Govind Das & Radha, Robert Gass, and Shiva Rae. Gayan has appeared on sixty-eight recording projects (including two of his own records). He has collaborated and recorded with the electronic musicians Emancipator and Desert Dwellers, and serves as a producer and music director for recorded and live music projects. Gayan teaches, performs, and leads retreats from India to Russia, Thailand to South America, and in North America.
About Jen: Once a touring singer/songwriter with two albums of original folk music, Jennifer Friedman is a certified Dance leader and Mentor in the DUP tradition living in Colorado. She founded and led the Longmont and Lafayette, CO DUP Circles for 18 years and has been a long-time member of the Canyonlands, Paonia, CO and Puerto Morelos, Mexico Dance Camp Teams. Jen led Virtual Peace Dances online for 2 years during the Covid pandemic while also working actively as a hospital chaplain at 2 Northern Colorado hospitals where she continues to this day. She currently leads monthly DUP circles in her spacious backyard home in Longmont, CO and at the Nyland Co-housing Community Common House in Lafayette, CO. Jen leads frequently at retreats throughout the US, four times a year in Colorado and in Mexico with her Dance mentor Bernie Heideman and Sky Roshay and Friends Shivadam Adam Burke and Douglas Stevenson. In 2023, after many years of organizational service, Jen was honored to step into the role of Executive Director for Dances of Universal Peace North America. To learn more: www.peacedance.org Jennifer has been personally transformed by the Dances and the direct transmission of Source energy and wisdom that they offer while simultaneously fostering a communal sense of the peace that is possible in our world.

Dances of Universal Peace at BLISS Sacred Sound Festival
2026-08-15 13:45 - 14:45 UTC | Wild Cider Garden, 11455 Country Rd 17, Firestone, CO, 80504, United States
A transformative weekend
of sound, vibration and collective awakening.
For three days, community gathers to experience how vibration heals, awakens, and reconnects us—to ourselves and to each other.
This immersive weekend weaves together sacred sound, chant, cutting-edge research, ancient wisdom, and emerging sound technologies.
The result? A deeply felt experience of personal and collective BLISS.
Now entering our third year, BLISS continues to grow as a beloved gathering for those drawn to sound as a path of healing, remembrance, and joy.
Join us and co-create an unforgettable, heart-opening weekend.
Early bird tickets are only 128.00
And go on sale April 1st
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Fall Paonia Dance Camp with Bernie, Sky, Jen & Friends
2026-09-16 - 2026-09-21 | Sage View Ranch, 40881 CO-133, Paonia, CO 81428, Paonia, CO, United States
With Bernie Heideman, Sky Roshay, Jen Friedman and friends, at Sage View Ranch in Paonia CO, with camping, lodging, goats and a hot tub. Registration is not yet open.

Deepening Into Being Retreat with Sky, Shivadam and Jen
2027-02-03 - 2027-02-08 | Casa Escondido, 40807, Troncones, Guerrero, Mexico
2027 Dates: 25-31 January for the bilingual retreat,
and 3-7 February for the Deepening retreat.
Registration for both retreats is not yet open.
We offer two retreats each year, with a two and a half day break between them. The first is a bilingual Dance leader training with Senior Mentor Darvesha and other mentors. Staff leaders are Elizabeth Dequine, Ishtar Cynthia Valenzuela and Luis Vizcaino, with leaders, Dancers and musicians from Canada, the US, Latin America and beyond. This is an opportunity for training if you are a leader, and for supporting newer leaders in the circle if you aren’t.
The second retreat is a Deepening Retreat, taking the energy and prayers from the first week and going into that space more deeply, a retreat facilitated by mentors Sky Roshay, Shivadam Adam Burke and Jen Friedman, with guest leaders and experienced musicians.
Both retreats are a chance to practice your Spanish, or English, whichever (or not; a second language is not mandatory because everything is translated.)
“Mantras in Motion”, an article about the Dances and these retreats, written by a local journalist (in English), can be found here.
ZIH is a small, easy-to-navigate international airport, with direct flights from many US cities, including Los Angeles, Dallas/Ft Worth, Phoenix, Seattle, Houston, Chicago and San Francisco that we know of; a little research will refine that information. Troncones is an easy taxi ride (30-40 minutes) from the airport and it is easy to find a taxi. People generally arrange to share rides from the airport; we set up an arrivals spreadsheet to facilitate that.
Troncones is a small quiet town with no large loud music venues or loud partying tourists. Only the two main streets are paved.
There are a number of small tiendas (shops) to buy fresh produce and other food (yogurt, eggs, milks – including soy, oat, almond, rice, etc. – granola, peanut butter, cooking oils, herbal teas, bath supplies and medicinals), as well as a local pharmacy and a produce truck that comes by twice a week. There are also farmers markets on specific days of the week.
Restaurants include small cafes frequented by the locals, as well as more up-scale tourist restaurants. (vegan friendly restaurants, too!). The town has lots of local musicians who play in a variety of styles and appear in several of the restaurants nearly every night. One often has a fun dance floor. (And if you haven’t heard Hassan Raven Wolf sitting in with the blues band, or watched the Latin Americans dance, you’ve missed out.)
There are many lodging options, from budget to expensive. Most are within easy walking distance of Casa Escondida, the retreat center.
Casa Escondida offers a secluded retreat space, with grass to dance on under tall palm trees. We watch the whales spouting and breaching offshore (this is their migration time along the Pacific) and bask in gorgeous sunsets (and sunrises if you get up that early). There is a covered Sala (living room area) with couches for hanging out or napping, as well as hammocks, a gazebo and a swimming pool and some kitchen use. Some lodging is available at the retreat center for the second retreat (they are scholarship rooms for the first retreat.)
Uncrowded beaches with great sunrise and sunset photo ops, and waves for boogie boarding (they can be rented) or body surfing or just dancing in, are just out the gate from the retreat center, and most hotels are along the same beach. Swimming is possible if you are a strong swimmer; there is an undertow. The water is pretty warm!
A turtle refuge is located just a little ways down the beach; they release baby turtles to the ocean. If we are there when this is happening, we can go help! It has been a memorable experience in the past.
You can book a kayak tour to an estuary with lots of birds, turtles and iguanas, and/or a boat tour with snokeling. And whale watching. Somebody organized a hike uphill to a cave last year.
You can hear the sounds of the waves at night, and watch lines of pelicans flying along the water, and see whales spouting and breaching out in the distance.
ZIH is a lovely small city to spend time in before or after the retreats, with lots of hotels, restaurants and calm beaches.
We have a staff that helps with lodging and registration, answers questions, helps you arrange shared rides from the airport and more. If you need your questions answered or your hand held (metaphorically speaking), we will do that! More info about the Deepening Retreat, as well as general info on travel, pesos, lodging, etc, can be found here: https://mysticdance.com/event/troncones-mexico/
For photos from previous years, see https://skyness.net/home/

Puerto Morelos, Mexico Dance Camp
2027-02-12 - 2027-02-18 | Las Arenas Hotel, Javier Rojo Gomez, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, 77580, Mexico
