Your Sun Clad Host Team
About the Teacher
Why study with them?
Miguel Villabos, Moss Tidd, and Sunfire are your Sun Clad hosts. They are eager to welcome you this summer.
Miguel Villalobos (center in the photo) first came to Easton Mountain for Expressing Your Inner Self with John Ollom in 2010, and an attachment began that has only grown over time. He had been born in Costa Rica and came to New Jersey in 1996 with his family. He moved to NYC two years later to study dance with John Ollom.
Like most aspiring dancers he worked at a number of different part-time and temporary jobs to support himself. He had a successful career that included several parts with Ollom Dance Theater and also parts in other companies. This included:
2002 -- Ollom Dance Theatre “The Journey. ”.
2003 -- An apprenticeship at the Ollom Movement Art Smith Collage Summer Program.
2004 -- Ollom Dance Theatre in “The Journey” at the Clark Theatre at Lincoln Center.
2006 -- Premieres of “Du fond de l’abime” and “the Yellow Dress” with Ollom Dance Theatre and “Anatomy of Woman” at Lincoln Center and Port Washington.
2007 -- “Internal Landscapes: LIVE III An Art Event” curated by Amadeo Penalver; with videographer Jakob Milikowski and composer Jose Javier Pena.
2008 -- He joined the Diane Dragone's Kennedy Dancers for five years of spring season performances at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
He also has been an extra for television shows like and The City "and "Law and Order."
After thirteen years in NYC , he said “I got really tired of New York City. I needed a break.” Toward the end of that time, he was coming up to Easton two to three weekends a month. In July 2014 he had a conversation with John Stasio. “I told him how I was feeling, and then after that, I spoke to Dennis, who was general manager then, and he told me they were looking for someone to help Freddy at the Front Desk.” Gradually Freddy moved on to do more marketing work, and Miguel became Front Desk Manager – a job he enjoyed very much, being the cheerful speaker with just a trace of a beautiful Latino accent that you’re very likely to hear when you first call Easton Mountain. He has since changed positions, becoming the general manager - but still being the cheerful voice that often answers the front desk phone.
Moss Tidd (right in the photo): If we were to take a poll of who has brought the most fun to Easton Mountain, nine out of ten men would say Moss Tidd. He probably can’t count the number of body painting sessions he’s led. And he always says that the aim is to have fun smearing paint on a friend’s bare skin. But sometime the results have been spectacularly artistic.
Then a few years ago he introduced the slippy-slide, where you get to slide down a hill covered with wet plastic — Sometimes one at a time, sometimes in groups.
Three years ago, he built a new mud pit for us – a source of much delight.
In addition to bringing us fun, Moss has brought us beauty. He’s an accomplished creator of welded metal sculpture; and several pieces grace our property, including one that stands on the deck of the Temple.
Its creation started with a fire ritual that Moss led during Gay Freedom Camp 2015. At a bonfire on the High Meadow, each participant was given a railroad spike to hold while he spoke of someone who was instrumental in his journey toward gay freedom. Then he threw the spike into the fire. Moss collected the spikes from the ashes, and cleaned, bent, and welded them into this sculpture which he named “Wings of Freedom.” Feeling that the center of true freedom is the art of living through love and compassion, Moss placed, in the center of the piece, a heart that spins with joy.
Moss has said, “I am forever grateful for having Easton as my ʻother familyʼ…. a place where I can connect with gay friends, new and old, and continue to contribute to the spirit of what goes on here.”
Sunfire (left in the photo) has been a student of Joseph Kramer and the Body Electric School. At the same time, he also studied energy healing at the Inner Focus School and became a Certified Advanced Energy Healer. When he first came to Easton Mountain, he was working to integrate these two methods of spiritual development – Body Electric and Inner Focus. He did that while leading one-day workshops in spirituality called “Awakening Chakra Energy” (mostly in NYC) and weekend retreats called “Exploring Chakra Energy” (at various retreat centers including – in 2001 – Easton Mountain). He is a man of many interests, and brings all of them to his work at Easton Mountain: writing, music, dance, video, and videography and other visual arts. He believes that nakedness can be part of a spiritual praxis -- something that deepens the spirituality of adults of any age
Miguel Villalobos (center in the photo) first came to Easton Mountain for Expressing Your Inner Self with John Ollom in 2010, and an attachment began that has only grown over time. He had been born in Costa Rica and came to New Jersey in 1996 with his family. He moved to NYC two years later to study dance with John Ollom.
Like most aspiring dancers he worked at a number of different part-time and temporary jobs to support himself. He had a successful career that included several parts with Ollom Dance Theater and also parts in other companies. This included:
2002 -- Ollom Dance Theatre “The Journey. ”.
2003 -- An apprenticeship at the Ollom Movement Art Smith Collage Summer Program.
2004 -- Ollom Dance Theatre in “The Journey” at the Clark Theatre at Lincoln Center.
2006 -- Premieres of “Du fond de l’abime” and “the Yellow Dress” with Ollom Dance Theatre and “Anatomy of Woman” at Lincoln Center and Port Washington.
2007 -- “Internal Landscapes: LIVE III An Art Event” curated by Amadeo Penalver; with videographer Jakob Milikowski and composer Jose Javier Pena.
2008 -- He joined the Diane Dragone's Kennedy Dancers for five years of spring season performances at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
He also has been an extra for television shows like and The City "and "Law and Order."
After thirteen years in NYC , he said “I got really tired of New York City. I needed a break.” Toward the end of that time, he was coming up to Easton two to three weekends a month. In July 2014 he had a conversation with John Stasio. “I told him how I was feeling, and then after that, I spoke to Dennis, who was general manager then, and he told me they were looking for someone to help Freddy at the Front Desk.” Gradually Freddy moved on to do more marketing work, and Miguel became Front Desk Manager – a job he enjoyed very much, being the cheerful speaker with just a trace of a beautiful Latino accent that you’re very likely to hear when you first call Easton Mountain. He has since changed positions, becoming the general manager - but still being the cheerful voice that often answers the front desk phone.
Moss Tidd (right in the photo): If we were to take a poll of who has brought the most fun to Easton Mountain, nine out of ten men would say Moss Tidd. He probably can’t count the number of body painting sessions he’s led. And he always says that the aim is to have fun smearing paint on a friend’s bare skin. But sometime the results have been spectacularly artistic.
Then a few years ago he introduced the slippy-slide, where you get to slide down a hill covered with wet plastic — Sometimes one at a time, sometimes in groups.
Three years ago, he built a new mud pit for us – a source of much delight.
In addition to bringing us fun, Moss has brought us beauty. He’s an accomplished creator of welded metal sculpture; and several pieces grace our property, including one that stands on the deck of the Temple.
Its creation started with a fire ritual that Moss led during Gay Freedom Camp 2015. At a bonfire on the High Meadow, each participant was given a railroad spike to hold while he spoke of someone who was instrumental in his journey toward gay freedom. Then he threw the spike into the fire. Moss collected the spikes from the ashes, and cleaned, bent, and welded them into this sculpture which he named “Wings of Freedom.” Feeling that the center of true freedom is the art of living through love and compassion, Moss placed, in the center of the piece, a heart that spins with joy.
Moss has said, “I am forever grateful for having Easton as my ʻother familyʼ…. a place where I can connect with gay friends, new and old, and continue to contribute to the spirit of what goes on here.”
Sunfire (left in the photo) has been a student of Joseph Kramer and the Body Electric School. At the same time, he also studied energy healing at the Inner Focus School and became a Certified Advanced Energy Healer. When he first came to Easton Mountain, he was working to integrate these two methods of spiritual development – Body Electric and Inner Focus. He did that while leading one-day workshops in spirituality called “Awakening Chakra Energy” (mostly in NYC) and weekend retreats called “Exploring Chakra Energy” (at various retreat centers including – in 2001 – Easton Mountain). He is a man of many interests, and brings all of them to his work at Easton Mountain: writing, music, dance, video, and videography and other visual arts. He believes that nakedness can be part of a spiritual praxis -- something that deepens the spirituality of adults of any age
