DUPNA Youth

One of DUPNA's 2011 Goals is to support and encourage our next-generation Dance leaders and dancers throughout the USA and Canada. This new Youth & Next-Generation Page presents resources that we hope will provide the tools you need to promote, inspire, and enliven your interest and enjoyment of the Dances of Universal Peace. Please return often as we will be adding new materials in 2012!

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Youth-oriented Dance Camps and Events

Take a look around...Does your circle include some dancers or Dance leaders in their 20s and 30s? Would they be interested in attending a camp where they could meet others in their generation? Many camps offer special activities for teens, children, and young adults.

Calling all young lovers of the Dances of Universal Peace: Come meet your tribe!
Riding the Wave - Ecoaldea Atlantida (Ecovillage Atlantis), Colombia South America, April 1-8 2012

A weeklong event including Dances of Universal Peace, workshops and Dance leader trainings, zikrs, meditations, ceremonies, sweatlodge, formal teachings and classes and more. In 2011, the event attracted 130 people from 15 countries; over 70% of them were in their 20s and 30s. This event has been going on for a number of years now and has evolved in the past three years as a Dance leader training with many extras.

The organizers, including Arjun Jorge Calero, are offering a special minimum rate of $99USD (you can always offer more!) for young Dance leaders from around the world. You must be a member of the Leaders Guild, be working with a mentor, and be immersed in the practice of the Dances for this to apply to you as a leader.

The nearest international airports are Cali (CLO), three hours from the ecovillage, or Bogota (BOG) and take a flight to Cali or Popoyan, a small city one hour from the ecovillage. Prices of flights vary with your capacity for discount hunting.

Oneness Project, Sufi Ruhaniat International (SRI) [see letter, below*] and DUPNA have offered to assist young Dance leaders in North America in doing fundraising for their trips, although they cannot offer scholarships.

To see more about Ecoaldea Atlantida - including an English link down on the right side - see www.ecoatlantida.blogspot.com. For more information on the camp, email Arjun Jorge Calero at lacarretadelapaz@yahoo.com

*Sent: Wed, Nov 9, 2011 10:48 am
Subject: Riding the Wave -- An International Dance Leadership Training and Youth Retreat

Beloveds,

I am writing to let you know about an exciting opportunity to help strengthen the growing community of young leaders in the Sufi Ruhaniat and Dances of Universal Peace family.

In April 2012, younger leaders from around the world will gather at Ecovillage Atlantida, near Cali, Colombia, for a weeklong retreat dubbed Riding the Wave www.ridingthewave2012.wordpress.com These young people are coming together to cultivate their awareness through meditation and to receive practical instruction in dance leadership skills. Attendees will explore the Walks, the roots of the Dances and the Sufi path, and elements of mastery in leading Sufi practice and Dances.

My hope that this letter will reach fellow travelers on the path immersed in the practices of the Sufi Ruhaniat and the Dances of Universal Peace who may wish to join in. The organizers of Riding the Wave are offering a deeply discounted retreat fees for those travelling internationally (as little as $99). The significant, and potentially prohibitive, expense for young leaders wishing to attend will be airfare.

For that reason, I appeal to our wider family: We need your help to manifest the vision of this special retreat as a truly international gathering.

Here's how all of us in the Dance community and the Sufi Ruhaniat can support this important project:

~Make a donation to help pay for a young attendees' airfare. Donate to the Sufi Ruhaniat Youth Scholarship Fund by sending a check to the Ruhaniat Secretariat at the mailing address below or donate online via PayPal at www.ruhaniat.org/util/link2paypal.php For donations via credit card, please contact the Secretariat by e-mail. (Please indicate Riding the Wave on your check memo or in the special instructions box on PayPal.)
~Sponsor a young leader from your community. Do you know a young leader in your community who would benefit from this rich opportunity? Raise funds on the local level to pay for travel expenses for your emerging leader.
~Donate your frequent flyer miles. Do you have accumulated frequent flyer miles you would like to share? We'll connect you with a young leader so his/her airfare can be purchased with your miles.

Please share this letter with your community and make this a regular announcement at your gatherings. And, please, if you do have a leader in your community who you believe should attend this event, be in touch with me via e-mail sriyouthcouncil@earthlink.net

I look forward to hearing from you.
In loving service
Diana Lyon
For the Sufi Ruhaniat International Youth Council
sriyouthcouncil@earthlink.net (917) 318-5866

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