Wilderness Dance Camp 2025

A Unique Opportunity at Camp This Year!
Grace D. Marie (one of our Guest Leaders) has been working on notating her dances and will offer a unique opportunity to experience her dances a second time in an afternoon workshop where she will demonstrate both the original and preferred movements and record them for the DUPIN library. This will be an excellent experience for dance leaders.

“Our Nature Is to Love, So Love WILDLY!”
This is the theme we have chosen to help inspire and shape our planning as we move towards camp. Be prepared for an exciting week, filled with dancing, singing, playing, praying, sharing, eating, learning, and loving, and be prepared to get a little bit (or a lot) WILD with all of it!

Dance Leader Bios
The planning team is excited about the Dance Leaders we have invited to be with us at camp this year. Grace D Marie, who is based in Colorado, and Yarrow Nelson, who is based in California, will each be bringing high quality and inspiring Dances to enliven our hearts and get our bodies moving. Here is a bit about each of them.

Grace D Marie was born in the US to immigrant Polish parents. The picnics in the forest, parks, picking mushrooms after a rainstorm, visiting farms, singing in a choir from childhood, in addition to Polish weddings once a month with music and dance, were a beautiful life foundation. She has a degree in Forest and Natural Resources Management, and has worked for the Forest Service in Alaska and Colorado.

Grace’s love of the natural world led her to learn how to read, hear, and decipher the sounds of nature, the beings of nature, seen and unseen, with elder teachers. This combination of music, dance, and natural sciences formed the foundation of Grace’s focus on the body in movement therapy to exercise the relationship with our inner and outer world. She has shared her focus of peace through movement and dance with many communities worldwide through Dances of Universal Peace.

Yarrow Nelson has been a long-time leader of the Dances of Universal Peace in the Ithaca, NY and San Luis Obispo, CA areas. He runs the Dancing Hearts Dance Leader Training camp in the San Luis Obispo area every spring, where new Dance leaders have been unfolding for the past 20 years.

Yarrow’s spiritual path is closely tied to his love for Nature, and he is now helping to lead the Ziraat concentration, which invites us to connect with Nature through the wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan. He has a deep connection with the wilderness, and is excited to bring his enthusiasm for Nature and his Dance leading concentration to the Wilderness Camp this year.

For more information, contact: wdcregistrar1@gmail.com