Return Restoration Dance Camp

from $750.00

Join us at the Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch for an unforgettable weekend of dancing in nature. Fee includes three nourishing meals per day, outdoor dance experiences, ecosystem restoration activities, plant identification wanderings, healing music sessions, a tea ceremony, a cauldron cookout, a waterfall hike, and a dancing picnic inside the world’s largest living organism by weight, Pando Aspen Grove - “The Trembling Giant.”

July 9-13, 2026
Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch in Boulder, Utah
All dance levels welcome - no previous dance experience necessary.

All dance experiences feature live music and are held in stunning outdoor locations in the Southeastern Utah mountainous deserts and forests around Boulder, Utah. Land-based dance processes and ecosystem restoration activities are facilitated by master dance instructor Rosangela Silvestre, an Afro-Indigenous dancer known worldwide for her dance offerings rooted in nature and spirit, and Lorin Hansen, founder of the Return Dance Project. Plant identification walks and healing tea ceremony are facilitated by dancing botanist, Christina Kilbane.

You have the option to stay in a bed in a shared yurt or cabin, or to bring your own tent and camp. Three meals per day will be provided to all participants, and campers are welcome to use the kitchen and bathrooms inside the main cabin. There are also outdoor bathrooms and showers on site for all to use. Campground and yurts / cabins have Wi-Fi, but no cell service. Read this page for more information about the ranch site and accommodations: https://bouldermountainguestranch.com/before-you-go

Come dance with your feet on the Earth and your hands in the soil. Return to your dancing body, return your feet to the land. Connect your spirit with movement and nature, engage in ceremony, and restore degraded land with a group of open-hearted, creative people.

“The Earth never pushed us away - any illusion of separation comes from us. Anytime we gather in a circle with a group of people ready to dispel that illusion, the Earth comes rushing in.” -John Seed

Any questions, please email Lorin@returndanceproject.org

Registration Options:

Join us at the Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch for an unforgettable weekend of dancing in nature. Fee includes three nourishing meals per day, outdoor dance experiences, ecosystem restoration activities, plant identification wanderings, healing music sessions, a tea ceremony, a cauldron cookout, a waterfall hike, and a dancing picnic inside the world’s largest living organism by weight, Pando Aspen Grove - “The Trembling Giant.”

July 9-13, 2026
Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch in Boulder, Utah
All dance levels welcome - no previous dance experience necessary.

All dance experiences feature live music and are held in stunning outdoor locations in the Southeastern Utah mountainous deserts and forests around Boulder, Utah. Land-based dance processes and ecosystem restoration activities are facilitated by master dance instructor Rosangela Silvestre, an Afro-Indigenous dancer known worldwide for her dance offerings rooted in nature and spirit, and Lorin Hansen, founder of the Return Dance Project. Plant identification walks and healing tea ceremony are facilitated by dancing botanist, Christina Kilbane.

You have the option to stay in a bed in a shared yurt or cabin, or to bring your own tent and camp. Three meals per day will be provided to all participants, and campers are welcome to use the kitchen and bathrooms inside the main cabin. There are also outdoor bathrooms and showers on site for all to use. Campground and yurts / cabins have Wi-Fi, but no cell service. Read this page for more information about the ranch site and accommodations: https://bouldermountainguestranch.com/before-you-go

Come dance with your feet on the Earth and your hands in the soil. Return to your dancing body, return your feet to the land. Connect your spirit with movement and nature, engage in ceremony, and restore degraded land with a group of open-hearted, creative people.

“The Earth never pushed us away - any illusion of separation comes from us. Anytime we gather in a circle with a group of people ready to dispel that illusion, the Earth comes rushing in.” -John Seed

Any questions, please email Lorin@returndanceproject.org