Maia Pelham-Greene
I am deeply in love with circle dance, always have been, though relatively new to teaching it. I am really looking forward to teaching this year at the camp I love so much.
I am deeply in love with circle dance, always have been, though relatively new to teaching it. I am really looking forward to teaching this year at the camp I love so much.
She still loves the opportunity to offer these dances, to lead the traditional steps to music from the communities of many cultures as well as to share dances which have evolved as modern expressions of this ancient tradition. Circle dances offer us the opportunity to join together in joy, in playfulness or in mindful focus
For the past 25 years Michael has worked as a transpersonal psychotherapist, trained at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education in London. He also teaches meditation and Indian psychology. His previous career was in documentary films, including some of the first TV programmes about climate change, the environmental crisis and alternative health. Distractions include
About the same time she started her journey on the Sufi path, followings the teaching of Universal Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Over the years her spiritual journey brought her to Mewlevi Sufi Order. Mo’unisa is a certified Dance leader and mentor-in-training. Among other Dances of Universal Peace her special passion is Zikr and Sufi
Here is a bit more about him: Allaudin was born in Kansas City, Missouri. A lifelong dedication to music, gathering people together and pursuit of the miraculous, led him to a study of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. This in turn led him to find “Sufi Dancing” in the college town of Lawrence, Kansas circa 1976. In
Katinka ended up doing a degree in Indian music and touring Indian musicians, dancers and puppeteers around UK. She spends as much time as possible in India, still on her quest, always learning more of the unfathomable ocean of knowledge there! She also teaches yoga, works in community arts, making giant puppets and processions, plays
Joanna has played violin for Circle Dance and DUP at voice camp and is looking forward to offering a session this year in improv and Circle Singing with Dee.
Dances of Universal Peace – John began spiritual practice in 1987 doing tai chi, and followed the “watercourse way ” to Taiwan where he lived for 5 years. In 1996 he was initiated into the raja yoga line of Paramahansa Yogananda which remains his central practice to this day. He discovered the Dances that same year and began training with Amida Harvey.
Dances of Universal Peace – Glen’s spiritual background is in Sufism and Advaita Vedanta and this breathtakingly beautiful form of sacred song and dance has been alive in him for 25 years. The dances are a tool for the transmission of blessing that opens the heart to qualities of love and reconnects dancers to the natural state of pure awareness beyond thought.