“Joyous, multidimensional, transcendent, revealing, opening, challenging!”
- Eryn Hampson - Naturalist

"I have a totally new understanding of who I am.  Working with you has given me the courage to know that I HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE MY LIFE, and the knowledge that I am supported by love to make these changes!  I am ready to move forward from a trust in my own light and power."
-Roko Ona, Tokyo – M.D.

“How did VISION change my life?  I am claiming and remembering my power. I am remembering to listen for my inner guidance. I am remembering the language of my heart. I have ALL the power within me NOW.  It is not outside. I remember I am the ONE I had been waiting for. I carry this message with me every day!”
- Meghan Dwyer, Sedona – Our Goddess of Ease and Grace

"When I dance, I remember my oneness with everyone else in the room and with the universe. It's so easy. All we need to do is dance."
- Kusoro, Arizona – Raw Food Chef and Master Drummer

"It was like the dam broke, and everything came out to be healed.  I felt totally revealed and safe in the nurturing space you created.  We went so deep, and yet it was so easy.  Thank you."
- Shela Tarwater, Florida - Paralegal

" Fun, spiritual, freeing and alive...best group activity of the week!"
- Rebecca Reeves, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada – Neuroscientist

“I am home.”
- Yoichi, Tokyo

“Dancing Freedom allows me to move beyond my limitations and brings me into alignment with my essence.”
-  Lauren “Lotus” Thomas, New York – Vita Nuova

“I feel totally connected!  I have the courage and self-trust to make a beautiful life.”
- Chie Yamaguchi, Tokyo

“Thank you for the space you held on the dance floor, for the vibrational energy of your spirit/mind/body that helped to make such magic happen.  I loved the way you addressed the mind with powerful words and invocations, and the body and spirit with music and dance.  Much radiant Love and gratitude.”
- Todd Stuart, Sf Bay Area - Massage Therapist, Writer, Editor

"There were many moments when I was overwhelmed to tears with gratitude for the way Samantha held the container for our journey.  The moments she brought forth, from the heart, deep Wisdom and love for us;  and  for the level of Presence Samantha was able to maintain throughout the days.  I have immense gratitude and respect for her True heart leadership." 
-Nicola Povey, BC, Canada – Community Activist, Dancing Freedom Teacher

“The deepest insight that I had while on the quest was that I am falling apart- or I was.  Since then, I have really fallen into accepting that falling apart is exactly where I am meant to be at this time.  I have been experiencing a process of unravelling for the past 5 or 6 years.  So many changes have occurred in my life over that time.  I went from a state where my entire life was about trying to keep it together to present a certain image of myself to the world, to a place where I can truly just be who I am.  On the quest I realized that who I am, naturally, without trying to be anything else, is an amazing, exquisite individual.  I am different from every other person on the planet, and that person is who the world needs me to be in order to do whatever it is that I am meant to do on this planet.  And at the same time that I am different than others, I also really get how we are all unique emanations of spirit- that we are all truly connected.  This was highlighted for me as we were sitting around the fire sharing our stories.  As I heard the details of each person's journey, I felt as though each person was reflecting emotions and experiences that I myself have felt at different times.  For example, my path at this time was not necessarily to be scared out of my mind, or to encounter a bear, or to face my struggle with addiction..  And yet, as I heard the shares, I knew that some other part of myself has experienced these things- or will at some time.”
-Savra Kramer, Los Angeles – Raw Food Chef

That was so transformational!  The pillar you helped us create helped me discharge layers and layers of old wounding.  My prayers centered around issues of forgiveness and the dance provided a vehicle for that.  I went down, in, and came up, and felt myself stepping out of an old cocoon and into my birthright as a healer.  Of course, I have been helping people heal for 21 years, but have eschewed the title of healer as I see how much ego attachment people can have around that.  But stepping out of the cocoon, I felt myself to be not a healer, but one with The Healer.  It wasn't "me", but our communal self that contains It.
- Ethan D. Feldman, D.C. Back in Action Chiropractic Center

"Enlivening Body, Mind, and Spirit"
-www.BackNAction.com

"The Best Practitioner for Aches and Pains" in Berkeley
- San Francisco Magazine 2004

“This experience created a greater acceptance of ME! And ohhh it felt AWEsome and Terrible exploring my shadow self. I realized I was exhausted holding my past all in! I allowed myself to FEEL and express my emotions. My experience expanded my heart's capacity for greater self-love and acceptance which has also translated over into my connections to community/friends/family/other.”
- Meghan Dwyer, Sedona – Conscious Language Healer