Guided by Christina Gulzar Lausevic and Jilani Cordelia Prescott
A two year course including four residential retreats in beautiful and comfortable venues
This programme is for mentored leaders of the Dances of Universal Peace, and also for those new to the path of Dance Leading.
We invite you to embark on this deeply enriching and exciting journey with us, not only on your path as a Dance Leader, but also as an opportunity for profound personal development, spiritual growth and self-discovery. Jilani and Gulzar are currently the only mentors offering a Dance Leader training course in the UK. After running our highly successful course in 2017/18 and again in 2020/21 we are delighted to be able to offer this opportunity for a third time in 2024.
YOUR GUIDES
Jilani Cordelia Prescott trained as a classical musician, and has over 30 years of teaching experience. Her main focus is now leading the Dances. She has led Dance and Sufi retreats, teacher trainings, and camps across the world. She is also a Sufi guide, and acts as the Facilitator on the Board of Trustees for the Sufi Ruhaniat International. Her passion is to work with people, enabling them to shine more fully as themselves, and to share their gifts with others.
Christina Gulzar Lausevic is a highly experienced teacher, having been a teacher and teacher educator in her first career. She is engaged in Dance Leading and developing Dance Leaders in many countries. Trained as a Facilitator in personal and collective transformation, she founded Emergent Space with her partner, with whom she runs Retreats. Gulzar is passionate about how the Dances help people heal and awaken to their highest potential.
ASPECTS OF DANCE-LEADING TO BE STUDIED
Breath Practices
Voice Work
The Sacred Phrase
Leadership Skills
Developing Magnetism
Spiritual Walks
Dance Repertoire
Musicianship
Confidence
The Dances as a Healing Practice
Energetic Holding Skills
History and Background of the Dances
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS TRAINING PROGRAMME?
We will guide and support you on this journey every step of the way. Included in this 2 year training are:
Four residential training retreats, including 16 nights full board accommodation. The retreats are held in comfortable and beautiful venues with expansive grounds. We will have sole use of these country houses for our own group. Between these live trainings, you will be supported in your unfolding development with regular group video conference calls (16 calls, or 24 hours in total).
As a Dance Leader, you will:
Find and develop your unique voice as an expression of your heart and soul
Expand your Dance repertoire and deepen in the spiritual traditions and practices of the world
Develop an understanding of the power of sacred mantra and the energetic and healing effects of sound
Develop your musicianship and learn how to embody a greater sense of rhythm
Explore how different Dances support our grounding and expansion in different ways
Understand group harmonisation and how you can use this to support healing and transformation
Expand your energetic range so that you can embody different qualities, elements and polarities at will
Develop your capacity to speak to peoples’ hearts and open them with your words
Allow your gift to flow through you from a place of empowered surrender and magnetic presence
Discover practical marketing tools to help you to take your transmission of the Dances out into the world
Explore how to adapt the Dances for various situations and needs, to support a wide range of communities
Many Dance Leaders, even those who have already completed a training, still feel held back in their leading, or in putting themselves out there in their communities. In this particular training, with its added focus on supporting you with personal development as well as leadership ability, we aim to help you from the start to discover and overcome potential obstacles to being a successful and magnetic Dance Leader. Both Jilani and Gulzar are trained and very experienced teachers and guides, and a particular skill they share is to see your gifts and to let these unfold joyfully and with ease.
We will help you to be the best Dance Leader you can possibly be.
PRACTICAL DETAILS
Residential Retreats in two beautiful country house retreat centres, in Northumberland and Cheshire, both easily accessible by air, rail and road.
Please also let us know when you have completed the form. If you are successful we will offer you a place and send you payment details.
Prices
Investment: £3670
Reduced price for full payment received by 18th October 2024: £3470
Supplement for a guaranteed single room on all retreats: please add £240
Subsidised price for people who have completed a training with us before: Deduct £200
Deposit to secure your place: £400 (non-refundable – this is less than what we need to pay the venues to book your place)
Absolute deadline for all bookings: 5th February 2025
We prefer people to pay in full if they are able to do so, due to the high non-refundable deposits we have to pay to the venues. If you need to set up an instalment plan, please contact us as soon as you can. We will work to find a suitable arrangement for you and for us, taking into account our fixed expenses and costs.
Bursaries: We hope to be able to offer some generous bursaries to those who would really need one in order to attend. Please contact us to discuss your needs. And if anyone would like to donate to our bursary fund, to support someone else attending, it would help immensely – please let us know.
For more information, click on the links to contact Jilani or Gulzar
TESTIMONIALS
I really value and honour the visible and invisible work you’ve been doing, inviting me in a very sensitive way to explore some paths where I wouldn’t have been by myself. I felt really safe and joyful about the way you’ve been holding the group and all the training.Thank you. (Solène Garrin – France)
Your capacity of listening and channelling all the situations was impeccable. Keep going please! Congratulations! (Juan Nuraddin – Spain)
I grew up so much! Thank you!!!!! I’m so grateful…(Paloma – Belgium)
Jilani and Gulzar know what they are doing. You can trust them. (Sarah McCulloch – UK)
“Wow! No words! It was amazing”
“A very sensitive way to explore some paths where I wouldn’t have been by myself.”
“I would highly recommend this pair of very gifted and experienced dance leaders. Thank you so much.”
“Beautiful holding of a very diverse group.”
“I have attended two training courses before, and on this one my heart has felt safe enough to open fully to feel joy and pain, and to connect with the Divine within.”
“Gulzar and Jilani create a safe, warm, heart-centred, non-judgemental space in which to overcome fears about leading dances.”
An event organized by the Papillons Voyageurs association.
Papillons Voyageurs is a French association whose purpose is to open
spaces for sharing, learning and putting ourselves into action, through the
co-creation of transformative experiences at the service of life.
Based on the 7 petals of the permaculture flower, with a predilection for
agroecology, eco-construction and living together, we participate through
our light and colorful wingbeats in what we perceive as a global evolution of
humanity.
GUIDES OF THE DANCES
J I L A N I C O R D E L I A P R E S C O T T
A dedicated musician and guide, she has been combining music, meditation, and Sufi practices
since 1997 to promote inner peace and healing. She organizes retreats and workshops at the Heart
Centre near Hebden Bridge, where she resides. With an approach that is both accessible and
grounded, she helps young and aspiring leaders realize their potential. Her work focuses on
personal and collective growth, bringing joy, unity, and deep connection to participants through
practices that celebrate life, music, and simplicity of heart.
>> https://www.jilanicordelia.com/ <<
M A L I K A E L E N A S A L A Z A R
Colombian by birth, initiated in the lineage of Sufi Ruhaniat International. With formal studies in
music, literature, transpersonal psychology and anthropology. She is certified in Kundalini Yoga,
Universal Peace Dances (DPU) mentor, flutist, performer and singer of sacred music from various
mystical philosophies. Malika leads meditation sessions with mantras and has explored a path to healing through her voice and transpersonal psychology.
>> Listen on Spotify <<
HOSTING PLACE
Les Damias is a hamlet in Éourres, a village of initiatives… a little remote, at the
end of a green valley, a haven of peace and nature! At an altitude of 1000m, the
winter is harsh, the spring late, the summer full of sun and the autumn is adorned
with a thousand colors. Each season has its charms: spring and autumn ideal for
hiking or relaxing stays, summer for welcoming families and seminars, and winter…
for rest.
Les Damias is a collective farm which cultivates, with minimal mechanization, its
own fruits and vegetables for personal consumption while offering a quality table
d’hôtes. It also practices conscious sourcing of foodstuffs not produced by the farm
and favors local producers (flour, cheese, beer, etc.). Food is one of the pillars of
Damias and we will have the pleasure of tasting the buffets prepared by their
kitchen team every day. The products, served generously, will be local, organic and
mostly from their vegetable garden, served generously!
LOGISTICS
By car
Via Lachau or Barret sur Méouge (Col d’Araud), direction Eourres. Do not go up to the village of
Eourres, follow the direction of Les Peyres/Les Damias. Cross the hamlet of Peyres and
continue the asphalt road to the end.
Public transportation
By Sisteron or Carpentras stations (shuttle from Aix TGV) or Laragne. From Carpentras, Sisteron
or Laragne, from Monday to Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., a Drôme taxi (Transdrôme
service) can pick you up and drop you off in Lachau where we will pick you up (Let us know in
advance, €5 contribution requested).
Accommodation and equipment list
A list of equipment will be sent to those registered at the beginning of August in order to make
their stay as pleasant as possible and to give them the latest practical information related to
the course.
Any other question ?
Please write us to ensemble@papillons-voyageurs.net and we will be pleased to answer you !
RESERVATION
60 places are available for this camp, taken in order of validated registrations. We have 20
campsite places and 40 lodge places. The food offered includes lunch/dinner and as often in
peace dances, breakfasts are freely managed by the participants.
CAMP PRICE – Package
The balance allowing the sustainability of the
event and the following ones
280,00€
ACCOMMODATION IN GITE- Per night 40,00€
Allow 5 nights on site. Shared rooms
CAMPING OR VEHICLE – Per night 10,00€ Allow 5 nights on site
Prepare your camping/truck equipment
FOOD – Per day 30,00€
Allow 5 days of camp
Organic/local buffet for lunch and dinner
Confirm your reservation
Places are limited to 60 people and will be allocated in order of registration. We ask you to pay
a deposit of €250 to reserve your place, regardless of the option you choose. Please make this
payment by check or bank transfer to the account of the PAPILLONS VOYAGEURS association:
Mail address : Papillons Voyageurs, 62 rue du Coulet, 04240 Annot
Any place confirmed by email will be held for 10 days, if payment of the deposit is not
made within this period, we will release this place again. In the event of cancellation by you
up to 1 month before the course, €200 will be refunded to you, less than 15 days before half
of your deposit, less than a week before we will keep your deposit. In the event of
cancellation due to Papillons Voyageurs, you will be refunded 100%.
