Full Menu of Event Offerings

Add spirit and joy to your gathering, workshop, retreat, wedding, house blessing, ritual or celebration with the Dances of Universal Peace.

 

Dances are many and varied and can be chosen to fit your event. 

Amara's repertoire includes dances of every major world religion, native traditions and non-denominational universal styles. Wonderful for children and elders.

Amara Wahaba has led dances for groups of 5 to 200 people, starting in 1986, at many events including Dance camps and retreats, Youth camps, Sufi camps, Healing and Pagan Gatherings, Rainbow gatherings, and the Oregon Country Fair. 

She has lead in England, Ireland, Bali and India, and many places throughout the US.

She is a certified Dance leader and a Mentor trainer of new Dance leaders. 

Join in rituals to celebrate the wheel of the year!  On the Solstices, Equinoxes and Cross Quarter days, in the Wiccan/Goddess tradition.  

Make magic with song, dance, drums and community. 

Specializing in:
 The Goddess Dances - Women's Dance Rituals

Visit the website for the Dances: http://www.dancesofuniversalpeace.org/ 

Amara  is available for custom creation of:  Special events

Seasonal Rituals

Sufi Zikr

Ceremonies

Weddings

Baby Blessings

House Blessings

"Your Universal Peace Dance, song and drumming was a beautiful way to open up our program. You added a great deal, not only in terms of your personality, but in the strength of your talents. Thank you for being out there in such a loving and good way." - Roberta

" You are one of the finest teachers I know, and I regularly think about the utterly joyous dances you led every Friday night in the Friends meeting house. I'm sending you happy, healing energy." -

Joel Southern

  Using Movement for Healing

When we let go of our thinking minds and allow our bodies to move as feels good in the moment, we can discover areas of our subconscious that were hidden. 

Using magnification of movement to explore our feelings can assist emotional release.  

We will practice becoming extremely present with our present sensations, and allowing emotions to flow, while being witnessed by a partner.

  Freeing Your Beautiful Belly Beast

Come join us as we support each other in re-wilding

 and opening our core bodies, 

using breath work, bodywork, sounding and playful movement!

• Do you find yourself often too busy, too scattered, stressed or distracted by other people's needs?  
• Is it sometimes challenging to know who you are, what you want and how you are feeling?  

Feelings of being lost, overwhelmed and numb are symptoms of our inner disconnection from our deep core wisdom.  We can do a lot to help each other open and heal, using the power of our combined attention to create transformation.

Speaking Truth, Meeting Needs, and Releasing Attachments

How many of us say “yes” to things we don’t actually want out of guilt or a fear of losing connection?  In many ways, “no” is the most daring and intimate response possible – if I can hear your “no”, I can trust your “yes.”  

We’ll practice the skills of self-awareness, transparency, and non-attachment, which help us find the space of mutually desired connection that is available with each person. 

   Welcome to the world, welcome to the family!

Thats the feeling each baby deserves to be greeted with when they are born.  A circle of welcoming, loving people to care for them and enjoy them.  A place to fit in, and caretakers that are sensitive to their needs and feelings.

But many of us were born into a scarcity of love.  The birth experience itself is often disturbed with hospitals, drugs, bright lights and rough handling.  The people are often disturbed and fearful, and lacking support for themselves.  

In this powerful workshop, we will give each other an initiation simulating the birth we wish we had.  Working in groups of 5, each person is wrapped in a womblike blanket and surrounded by the others, who press on them rhythmically and the gradually unwrap them to move them through the birth process and welcome them into the world.   The initiate instructs the others beforehand in how they want to be mothered and parented, and gets the wonderful feeling of having 4 loving parents!  

Healing the Holes in our Hearts

Have you wondered why it seems so hard sometimes to find a deep and lasting feeling of love?  

Almost like there are holes in your heart that cause love to leak out, and not be able to really be felt and enjoyed?  

Some of us had really attentive loving moms, and some of had moms who really struggled with their own distress to give us any nurturing.   

Some of us got lots of touching and breastfeeding, and some got very little. 

The need for the mother is so basic and primal for a baby, and it leaves such a deep grief when we are not able to be as close with our mothers as we wished.  Addressing these early distresses is challenging, and best done within a circle of loving support.  We can access the very young parts of ourselves, and listen to them well, and give them some of the nurturing that we missed.

Come join us in taking a step on this transformative journey, as we work with our relationships to our mothers, with exercises, snuggles, and compassionate listening.

  Are you sometimes told by others that you are "too sensitive"?

Do you sometimes have trouble separating your feelings from those around you?

Are you strongly influenced by the people and environment around you?

Some people are born with a natural psychic sensitivity that makes it challenging to live in our western culture.  Some naturally sense what others are feeling, and some have deep intuitive insights and feelings about the future.  Most of us who have these talents are told we are crazy and that they are not real, so we don't usually get any training in how to manage them.  Come get a class in some basic practices you can do to manage your own psychic hygiene, and gain more mastery with your energy using your mind and breath.

We will work with these topics:

· Grounding to be in the present 

· Being in your own space, owning your space 

· Defining healthy boundaries, working with energy healing

Where the Body, Soul and Awakened Mind Meet

Closeness, awakening, presence, 

deep relaxation, nurturing touch, peace, consent- rolled all together at once.  Sound good?

What happens when all the performance pressure is off, and are just together with no agenda but presence?

Magic happens.

Come join us for a special kind of snuggle ceremony, where we hold each other close, fully clothed.  We relax while we stay present and aware, and focus our awareness on various meditations on being together.

Learn tools for using in any relationship to increase intimacy.

We will begin with an overview of some basic principles of consensual, platonic touch.

We will include various hugging meditations, breathing awareness, eye gazing, focusing on our energy connections, stillness meditations while holding each other, and other connecting exercises.