Wilderness Dance Camp – June 9 – 14, 2026
5 Days of Music, Dance & Fellowship
at Camp N-Sid-Sen, Harrison, Idaho
Jennifer Friedman
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 17 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.dancesofuniversalpeaceNA.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.
Our Guest Leaders
“Forget yourself, get into the spirit of song, rise and fall on the waves of ecstasy, and express [your] pure being. Then you escape all differences, all divisions, all duality, all pain, all sorrow.”
~ Murshid Samuel Lewis
Sheikh Gayan Gregory Long
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. H
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.