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Shannon Jones My alignment with Gypsie Nation came after a prayer that I put out to the Universe while in ceremony with my closest circle of women. My prayer was asking the Earth and the Great Spirit to show me the path that would lead me to becoming the clearest and most potent vessel of service that I was capable. One week later...I was on the phone with Skywalker, the founder of Gypsie Nation.
I had always contributed the dance as my strongest healer, and had many of my own visions of large communities of people moving together to the pulse of incredible music and magic! As we know, the Universe magnetizes like energies, so my coming into contact with Gypsie Nation shouldn’t have been a surprise, but it was so clearly my ultimate dream that it felt totally surreal!
The reception of this medicine in our Boulder community validated that my visions were real, and that I was merely answering a call from the collective to bring forth this seed for the people…But it is now the entire tribe that is nourishing this seed, which has quickly grown into a place where we see one another as Soul Family, and each week we dance our prayers, in a place we call Home!
Ahva Lenay 
I am here to express, to love and be loved, to heal and be healed. My entire journey has been on the Road to Wholeness. There I reclaim the fractured parts of my soul through the mirrors of those who are willing to dance with me for a moment or more. I am a networker, lightworker and loveworker. Dancing in spirals I become aware that every being on this planet is dear to me and offers me up a part of myself forgotten, ignored, reviled, unwanted, cherished or otherwise unknown until that precious moment of rekindling. Let us lift each other up higher and higher, let us be met in stillness, in silliness, in silence, in holiness, in redemption and in celebration.
Ahva has been actively involved in community theater and education for over thirty years. She currently resides in an old Denver neighborhood bungalow with her son Lennon, and canine pal, Lucy. She is flanked by her grown son Ry and his wife Debby, amazing daughter Niya, and a support team of Beloveds. She is a massage therapist, teaches dance at Studio Soma and is co-founder of Dancing Coyote Wilderness Sanctuary. She is the current dance administrator for Gypsie Nation Denver, and serves on the Gypsie Nation Global Council.
Chris Bousted  An education in science and engineering taught me the importance of rational thought but denied me the spiritual experience that I deeply craved most of my life. Due to a personal disagreement with the premise of the Iraq War, I left the US Air Force in 2004 after serving eight years, including a tour of duty in the Middle East. Afterwards, I began connecting with my own personal spiritual experience through playing the didgeridoo that has led me on an enlightening path ever since. I believe it is important to regain a connection to the mysteries of the primal world that our modern communities have forgotten. Gypsie Nation offers a unique opportunity to reconnect with a personal spiritual experience by reintroducing the primordial practice of ecstatic dance and communal ceremony. I like the fact that it is free of dogmatic belief structures so that any person of any faith has access to all the spiritual treasures it possesses without feeling threatened by a differing belief system. My goal is to spread my appreciation for the spiritual experience to others by supporting this movement and creating an open and free space to celebrate life and all of the wonderful mystery that pervades it.
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