The Shaman's Dream Music Collective is a group of musicians, artists, and producers dedicated to creating peace and unity through music, dance, art and ritual.

 

Be it yoga, meditation, ecstatic dance or just the act of daily living, the music of Shaman's Dream is an ideal accompaniment that supports the path towards wellness and joy.

 

 

	Craig Kohland The driving force inside Craig Kohland is the healing rhythm of the drum. He is a talented multi-percussionist, drummer and world music producer. Like his heart, he is always beating his love for life and the creative expression of the sacred. Shaman's Dream is Craig Kohland's multi-faceted musical project. The music-which is beautifully ambient and world beat orientated-lends its self well to yoga, meditation, healing, and ecstatic dancing. Shaman's Dream can take on many shapes and has involved a multitude of talented musicians.
	Micheline Berry Micheline Berry's Liquid Asana Yoga and Zen Dancing/Ecstatic Dance bring you into alignment with your own personal potential to thrive both on and off the mat by teaching you how to source deep, transformational states of "pranic" flow and meditation. In addition to her own somatic explorations, her classes combine Ashtanga, Forrest, Iyengar & Rea/Prana Vinyasa influences and are informed by her years of study of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism, Somatic Dance and Native American purification ritual.  As the founder of Zen Dancing® and co-producer of Shaman's Dream, she has led over 400 ecstatic dance/world music journeys since 1996. Also a dancer, musician and award-winning filmmaker, Micheline has a powerful ability to bring people together and to inspire their creativity, healing, transformation and joy through yoga, ecstatic dance, world music and deep immersion retreats in the wild, including yearly excursions to her 2nd home, Brazil. Micheline currently teaches yoga workshops, leads ritual concerts and yoga retreats internationally and is based in Venice, California where she teaches at Exhale Center for Sacred Movement.

 

 

Over the years, Craig and Micheline have worked with some amazing composers to create the studio sound of Shaman’s Dream Music.
	Rara Avis Producer/Performer Rara Avis combines over 15 years of multi-genre musical study with an intuitive understanding of modern technology.  His classical training partnered with his passion for electronic dance music, results in original lush downtempo compositions fuelled with psychedelic guitar, vocals, and a healthy dose of improvisation rooted in jazz.  His current projects include writing and performing solo music for San Francisco based label Six Degrees Records, yogic world fusion grooves with Craig Kohland & Shaman's Dream out of Los Angeles, and multi genre electronic alchemy with Desert Dwellers - a collaboration that includes Amani Friend (Santa Fe), and Treavor Moontribe (LA).
	For more information please visit www.raraavis.cc,www.sixdegreesrecords.com - or goto the Itunes Music Store and search for Rara Avis (both in Electronic & Dance genres)
	Jason Hann Producer/Performer Multi-percussionist Jason Hann is a masterful djembe, conga, dun dun, and contemporary drum set player. Jason tours the US playing and recording with various contemporary rock, R & B, and world beat artists (including Grammy award-winning artist Isaac Hayes, Ricki Lee Jones, and Andre Crouch). He has also traveled through the world to study the art of percussion including Ghana, Korea, and Haiti.
	Amani Producer Amani Friend (founding member of Desert Dwellers & Liquid Bloom) has been a musician since his fingers could reach a keyboard or percussion instrument. A graduate of the College of Santa Fe's cutting-edge Contemporary Music Program, he has nearly two decades of music production experience in jazz, blues, dub, electronica, ambient, world music, yoga, healing, and progressive dance music ...always combining the diversity of the world with the most modern production methods. Amani produces regularly with studio partners Treavor Moontribe and Rara Avis under the name Desert Dwellers. The roots of this “virtual band" come deep from within the electronic music gatherings taking place in the deserts of the Southwest. The Desert Dwellers have remixed artists such as Deep Forrest and Karsh Kale; their music appears on White Swan Records, Six Degrees, Native State, Bedrock, System Recordings, Ritual Sounds, and their own label Desert Trax. Amani also produces under Shaman’s Dream, Liquid Bloom, Amani vs. Teapot, and Cerebral Dub.  When not making music, Amani has become known for his strong vision in graphic design and digital artwork (Global Dragon).
	Carlos Torres Engineer/Performer Carlos Torres is a two-time Emmy Award winner, and is a well known sound engineer on the West Coast. He has worked with a wide variety of artists such as: Bjork, Radiohead, Stevie Wonder, Bowie, Dylan, Sugar Ray, Gloria Estefan, Marc Anthony, Deep forest, and many more. He has composed several soundtracks for Films and documentaries, plays and choreographies such as: “Crossover”(for Showtime), “Ex Voto” (AFI), “Lacam Tum” (BBC), “Eternal Mexico” (INHA), and more. His further research has led him into the field of music therapy including techniques such as: Music thru colors, Rhythmic medicine, and Vibrational music for the Chakras.

 

Along with Craig, Micheline, Rara, Jason, and Carlos come an amazing cast of highly talented musicians who bring years and years of collective music experience to our humble stage.

       

Domonic Dean Breaux

The presence of Domonic Dean Breaux's elegantly composed music in one's life serves as the perfect substitute for love. A life-long master of woodwinds, such extraordinary talent has not gone unnoticed. Domonic Breaux commands his audience to experience the pure essence of being, bending wind into beauty, and transforming moments into savory audioscience. His music brings a high level of excitement, spiritual intensity, and ethnicity to music that makes him a welcome addition to any musical project. Those who experience his sound have been led into their dreams. His musical sight is boundless...

       

Joey Lugassy

Moroccan American, Joey Lugassy, started his musical career at age seven spending most of his childhood Fridays chanting in a Sephardic temple. At 15 he was offered a scholarship for Brandeis University to become a Cantor. As an adult he has been in various rock bands in the US and England including Daysix. Among his musical highlights are; a song he wrote and performed called “Today (A Song for Amnesty)” which became an official song and video for Amnesty International (currently in eight countries); became the singing voice for the starring character in the popular cult series, Port Charles (ABC); was nominated for two Emmy Awards in the category of Outstanding Original Song in a Drama Series. A multi-instrumentalist and lyricist, Joey is usually on vocals and harmonium of late, bridging the gap between prayer and performance. His vocals are as natural crooning in Spanish as droning in Sanskrit and leading kirtan. His melodic sense and style goes from soulful-funky to reverent ecstatic chant.

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Dave Stringer

     

Donna DeLory

     

TONY KHALIFE

     

PHILIPPO FRANCINI

     

JIM MCGRATH

     

PAUL TCHUNGA

     

MILES

     

JOHN OSHMOND

     

MICHAEL NOW

     

IAN WALKER

     

MARTIN ST. PIERRE