upcoming events

With her wife, Stormi Oshun of Many Hands Light Work, Shaun hosts monthly drum circles for women, bringing plenty of loaner drums and a wealth of fascinating and fun percussion instruments.  Come discover and express your own innate musicality in this facilitated experience.  With drummers who return month after month, as well as a good crop of first-timers at each circle, we create a once-in-a-lifetime musical soundscape in an encouraging, positive atmosphere.  A great place to make friends, have a good laugh, challenge yourself to explore the unknown, and enjoy a play date for grownups!   Meets at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bozeman, 325 N. 25th Ave.  ($20 suggested contribution.)

We gather monthly in ceremonial space to set intention and practice journeying together.  This is a rich opportunity for deepening our shamanic practice in the synergistic, supportive container of a coherent circle.  Contact Shaun for more information; RSVP required.   Please note that this circle is only available to people who have already received basic training in how to journey.  (Contact Shaun if you have questions about the training you've received, or if you'd like to receive training.)  ($30 suggested contribution.)

Come enjoy some lively tunes, a fun backstory for a preincarnation of our band from our lives in the 1800's,  and the richness of Bozeman's second annual Renaissance Faire!  At the Bozeman Fairgrounds.

With our friend Ginny Watts as the choreographer, and Shaun and Stormi's women's African drum class providing the live music, we're sharing an energizing piece evoking Afro-Caribbean beats and moves in this wonderful showcase of dance instructors and students from all around the valley.  At the Willson auditorium.  Tickets available here (matinee, or evening).

For more than 30 years, women have gathered at Boulder Hot Springs for spiritual (nonreligious) communion, expression, exploration, and discovery in this indescribably rich, sustaining weekend.   Shaun and Stormi will facilitate the kickoff drum circle, and Shaun is conspiring with her  friend Jo Flagg to lead the Saturday evening High Holy Hoopla, an experiential ceremony honoring and empowering this year's theme of "Fierce Love:  Weaving Circles of Light."  Click here for more information.

The women of Yamama! will offer an evocative, soulful soundscape to encourage meditation practice through "the gate of sound."  We'll leave our African drums at home and instead will bring a variety of softer, deeper drums, rattles, bells, hand pan drum and other instruments, as well as using voices to offer chants and rounds designed to deepen participants' practice.  Contact the Bozeman Dharma Center for more information, including information regarding their donation "dana" policy.

 As  a death midwife or doula, your work asks you to give and support regularly. This retreat will be a space to focus on yourself.  Come be  free, relax and connect, explore, and learn.  You'll leave with new information, recharged, and with a restored sense of self.  Learn how  to allow space for yourself, and how to extend this to your clients and  their families.

As part of the weekend's programming, Shaun will offer the workshop,  "Shamanism:  Spiritual Perspectives on Death, Dying and Beyond," an  exploration of worldwide shamanic principles, teachings, and ways it can empower and enrich our own daily lives, as well as our work as we support others  in talking about and preparing for death.

Join the women of Yamama! for this delicious deep dive into expressive creativity and collaboration.  While the details are still in seed form, there will be sessions in World Dance and other forms of movement, collaborative music-making, organic spiritual expression in ceremony, along with plentiful time to relax, walk the trails through the nearby hills, soak in Boulder's beautiful hot springs, and refresh in this beautiful early springtime.  (Details TBA.)