One World Spirit Dance
Dances of Universal Peace: One World Spirit Dance
The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center is a leader in Peace Initiatives offering a dance of universal peace through our One World Spirit Dance. The One World Spirit Dance is a multicultural ceremony that incorporates many of the worlds wisdom traditions, with participants who bring the richness of many different spiritual paths. The One World Spirit Dance is the fulfillment of Crazy Horses vision of all peoples, colors, and nations dancing together for Peace under one tree. It is an opportunity to create Peace by Being Peace.
The Purpose of the One World Spirit Dance is to invoke the forces of the heavens and the Earth to create a synergy of World Peace and to bring upon ourselves the revelation of God’s Light. ~ Yellow Horse (Rabbi Gabriel Cousens), One World Spirit Dance Chief
The One World Spirit Dance, formerly the White Buffalo Spirit Dance, is an expression of the White Buffalo Medicine which is a high teaching of the Native American Way that belongs to all peoples, all of the Rainbow Nations upon the Earth. It is a path of holiness and purification involving vegetarianism, abstinence from drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, and an inward focused awareness so one may merge ones consciousness with Great Spirit. It is a path of truly becoming World Peace and actualizing spiritual Liberation. “Mitakuye Oyasin” To All My Relations
The One World Spirit Dance is held in the National Forest behind the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona. This fifth annual Spirit Dance is sponsored by the Essene Order of Light, a branch of the Tree of Life Foundation. It is facilitated by Yellow Horse (Rabbi Gabriel Cousens). Yellow
Horse is a four-year Sun Dancer, Spirit Dancer, Pipe Carrier, and head of the Horse Clan. Representing the presence of the Sacred Feminine, Parashakti, serves a Co-facilitator. Jerusalem-born Parashakti is a certified Shamanic Practitioner, Yoga instructor and TranceDance Facilitator in private practice in NYC. She has apprenticed with the Shoshone and Lakota Indians and has Spirit Danced for four years.
The One World Spirit Dance begins with three and one half Preparations Days that are a time of intensive purification for Dancers and Supporters, those who assist with the physical needs of the dance.
During the Prep Days:
- Tree of Life Spirit Dance Inipi or Sweat Lodge
- Daily Sunrise and Sunset inipis (sweat lodges)
- Daily teachings with Yellow Horse
- Daily Mikvah (spiritual purification bath)
- Daily Yoga Class
- Daily Meditation
- Daily work-time to prepare the Dance Circle (Medicine Wheel)
- One evening of DanceRitual with Parashakti
- Simple organic, vegan, live-food meals provided
- Non-smoking environment
More about One World Spirit Dance
In alignment with the White Buffalo Medicine, it is imperative to begin the purification process even before the Preparation Days. A 40-day period of purification and energy preparation before the Dance helps protect you from detoxing during the ceremony so that everyones energy will be focused on merging with the Divine. Read more about the purification process. The Spirit Dance itself is a four-day Dance during which Dancers remain in the Dance Circle (Medicine Wheel) except for calls of Nature. The Dance is a deeply meditative process, stepping to the beat of the drum, becoming the heartbeat of the Earth. At all times there will be dancing, with dancers rotating to sleep. During these four days Dancers water fast. The Dance itself is beyond the process of purification. It is an invocation of Divine Union.
If you would like comprehensive information about the One World Spirit Dance, please contact Lynne Weatherby, Spirit Dance Coordinator, at spiritdance@treeoflife.nu, or if you do not use e-mail, call (520) 394 2244. We will be happy to send you a One World Spirit Dance informational letter via e-mail or U.S. mail.
Mitakuye Oyasin Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti Shalom, Shalom, Shalom
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