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Danzantes
All women over the age of 16 can be dancers and younger girls only when accompanied by their mother, subject to prior notice and discussion with the Grandmothers of the dance. All women who feel the call to dance are very welcome. To do this, the first stage of approaching the dance is to write your email to the moon dance council sharing your heart feelings why you feel the call.
It will be very important to be healthy and in a stable mental and emotional state to be able to participate in this prayer.
Do you feel the call to dance? Please take a look at Preparation, Guidelines and Registration.
It is very important that we keep mentioning that this is a very deep and transformative prayer and ceremony. It is not a festival, a rainbow gathering or recreational entertainment. Everyone is welcome and it is important to us that you are aware of the depth of this prayer. So please read all the information carefully. THANK YOU
Moondance is a prayer and a path that we commit ourselves to follow for at least four years in order to understand and deepen ourselves, completing a circle that goes in all four directions during those four years of dance.
The Moon Dance is a collective ceremony that seeks deep prayer and introspection for the growth of the dancer as an embodied wise woman. We ask all participants to be aware of the ceremonial sacred field that we co-create together, and for this we ask much observation, silence and respect for all the guidelines given during the moon dance days. With your support we can hold a profound and powerful field of transformation, healing and reconnection with life.
Attitude during the dance
During the dance the women are committed to fast, so we begin to slow down our rhythm and turn to each other’s depth. We work with the feminine essence, the lunar power and with the nourishing and soft energies of the Goddess and the priestess.
During the ceremony we always receive a few drops of honey and you can also bring your own jar of honey to regulate and support your sugar balance during the day. Don’t worry, this is more than enough to keep you strong. We drink enough water throughout the day and can make our own electrolyte drinks from salt, water, honey and lemon. That gets us through the four days with the temazcalli.
The temazcalli itself is a wonderful field of regeneration, and a wonderful opportunity to be reborn again and again. After four days you will feel how your mind, body and spirit are strengthened.
In the case of pregnant or lactating women or any illness, you are allowed to eat and drink well according to your condition. Pregnant and lactating women can also eat cooked food in the dining area.
In the case of a pregnancy of less than three months, participation is only allowed at your own risk (as everything is still very delicate at this point of pregnancy and the baby needs a lot of rest and stability to grow and thrive) .
If underage women (under 16 years old) want to participate in the dance, a special agreement with the parents is required in order to determine the conditions for her, please contact the Moon Council.
Each participant is responsible for her own health and is asked to communicate to the Council any special conditions (medications, emotional or mental states, pregnancy or abortion, general illness or chronic illness and other particularities).
Inside and outside the circle, women are encouraged to care for, support and respect each other in order to maintain unity, balance and harmony, while responsibly respecting each other’s privacy and freedom, as well as safety to maintain the integrity of everyone around and in the dance.
It is obligatory that all moon dancers who join the circle attend all temazcallis- sweatlodges of the ceremony until it is over. If this promise is intentionally broken and was not communicated to the Council with the absence in one of the temazcallis, the council is predestined to decide to sanction this behavior since the promise applies from the first to the eighth temazcalli.
For discipline, safety and commitment, the dancers are required to remain in the circle during the night to rest. Permission to leave can only be requested in urgent cases, with the intention of returning as soon as possible. Visits to the bathroom are planned for all dancers ONLY during breaks in the ceremony.
All participants must be present at the lighting of the Sacred Fire at the opening ceremony. It is not possible to enter later in the ceremony. It is not possible to be there from the second Temazcal onwards. If there is a justifiable reason to miss a temazcalli, the Council will take care of that after the first night.
If the dancer does not enter the temazcalli and the dance circle for any reason, or if she has to leave before the end of the ceremony, the dance will be canceled and may be repeated the following year.
After the dance
We recommend that you organize a good landing place for the first days after the ceremony, where you can recover for two to three days, get deep sleep and come to rest, to process your experience and allow it to be well integrated. Nature, healthy food and lots of fruit are the perfect support for this. Lots of sleep and rest, nature and good and healthy food are the perfect way to integrate the moon dance medicine.
