Workshop Leaders for 2025
We are gradually adding workshop leaders for 2025 as they are confirmed so check back here in the months leading up to camp to see any new additions.
Gulzar [DUP / Integration Practice in Community]
Sharing the Dances and creating heart-centred community is one of the greatest joys in my life.
I lead Dance days and Retreats in the UK and abroad, also combining the Dances with the powerful practice of Heart IQ (Emergent Space) which I offer with my partner, Simon.
I am a Mentor for Dance Leaders and am delighted to be able to share the love of the Dances in this way.
I have been co-creating and teaching 2-year long international Dance Leader Training programmes for 8 years and we are launching a new programme starting April 2025. I have also been involved in Dance Leader trainings in other countries like India and Spain.
I am currently honoured to be serving as the Camp Advisor for our beautiful camp. Apart from my love of the Dances, I hope to bring to camp safely held spaces to practise deep listening where people feel included and accepted, especially deeper connection and understanding across the generations.
My passion is that camp can serve as a resource and inspiration for the world we want to create in our communities.
Grace D Marie [DUP]
Grace D Marie is an international teacher and facilitator, teaching Dances of Universal Peace, voice, Harmonic Temple, 5 Rhythm Wave, Nia, Barre Fitness, and movement meditation that are interwoven to balance health for body, mind and spirit.
Grace is an initiator with the Sufi Ruhaniat International, and a Dances of Universal Peace Mentor. She has organized and co-facilitated Dance meetings, camps and leader trainings worldwide.
Grace co-facilitates and organizes group Dance journeys and pilgrimages worldwide, blending the group within the culture.
Working directly with many wisdom traditions worldwide, Grace has enriched the DUP repertoire, adapting traditional prayers into meaningful songs and accompanying them with original, insightful and inspiring Dances.
Her 4 albums, Kunda, One Love, All My Relations, and Life as a Garden, recorded in Peru and the US, are listened to worldwide.
Dakini [DUP]
Born in Estonia, Dakini started leading regular dance groups in Eastern Europe 30 years ago, initiated a dance camp in Estonia (2001), and following a move to Scotland in late 1990-s, began leading dance and sufi events worldwide, started a Sufi camp in Scotland (2012) and co-founded a Buddhist retreat centre in Findhorn, Scotland (2005).
Now based in the North West of England, she serves the international dance family as a senior mentor, a Sheikha (sufi teacher), as well as a newly appointed member of the DUP International Ethics Council.
Having worked professionally with children and teenagers all her life, she loves to spark the enthusiasm for the dances and Sufi path in younger people, and has supported and held teenagers at dance camps in UK and New Zealand for many years.
Tom [DUP]
I love the way the dances bring people together to open our hearts and creating a space where prayers can flow, for peace, and for healing of the earth.
I lead dances regularly in York where I live and sometimes with friends further afield around the North.
I love the morning dance session at Sacred Arts Camp, where the richness of our community’s dance leaders shines.
It will be my privilege to look after this session and I look forward to spending time in the field with friends old and new.
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Click here to see the workshop leaders for 2024 to give you an idea what to expect.
"The camp leaders and loyal campers are amazing people, they run the camp like the most nurturing home with open arms to newcomers like me. Many people came and
chatted or just smiled to me over the course of the week and by the end
of it I felt we had become part of an amazing family." - Emma
