She also helped to expand the small Gokarna Camp in 2022 and 2023 in India into an international gathering, which continues to flourish to this day. Over the years, Yelena has witnessed how the dances transform lives — including her own — opening the heart and deepening connections beyond the differences. Yelena has shared and […]
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.
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 – Bettina Shakura has had a love for dancing, singing and drumming since childhood. She engaged particularly in African, Oriental and Sacred Circle Dance before the Dances of Universal Peace came into her life and took her on a profound journey into healing and wholeness. She has been leading DUP since 2001.
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.
Dances of Universal Peace & Mindfulness – Daren ‘Kagyu Senje’ is a personal student of Akong Rinpoche in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. After a long nearly 2 year pilgrimage in India in 1989/1990 he was initiated and trained in Mahamudra and chod by Tibetans.
Taize – I am inspired by the wonderful ability that singing together has to build community and well-being. I have a particular attraction to the sacred in song, which can be found in many guises and many places.
Vocal Improv – Dee Jarlett has been a Unicorn Voice Camp teacher since the inception of the camp. She co-founded Gasworks Choir, Naked Voices, Sweet Soul Sisters, Gasworks Scratchy Folk Orchestra, Strings and Things, Classical Gas and Sing Your Socks Off.
