We women gather together around the full moon to connect, dance, and to pray for our lives, our families, mother earth, and all of humanity.
This dance with the moon is a remembrance that we as women cycle with her. It is also a connection with the earth who bears life as we do.
For four nights we pray while dancing under the moon which is our shadow selves. Each day and night we purify ourselves and rebirth a new with temazcals (sweat lodges). During the day we gather to learn the ancient teachings to empower the matriarch.
Our sacred danza happens during the Worm Moon in March
This full moon (metztli) is representative of change. It is a time that allows us to come out of the darkness underneath the surface to birth anew.
What do you see for yourself and wish to plant and birth into the light?
The woman who strengthens herself.
Following the lineage of their grandmother Isabel Vega, who brought back this ceremony from the ancient codices of the Anahuac Nations of Indigenous Mexico, Abuela Malinalli and other
grandmothers, carry these dances for the dignity and empowerment of women, for their healing and the healing of future generations.
We are working toward dignifying women’s role in the world, relying on our cultural heritage and our faith in a better future for all women.
To attain this, we apply our best efforts, and give the best we have: our spirituality, asking the Spiritual Essences, the sacred elements, the forces of nature, and the universe, to help us heal the injustice, scarcity, violations,
and impositions of different nature that women have endure through this day.
This is the reason why the Moon Dance has been established. The aim of this moving prayer is to help elevate our awareness, knowing that we are strong women, determined to look at our past present
and future lives in a different way, changing our attitudes toward our families, our communities, humanity and Mother Earth.
Facing our role as responsible women and essentially as educators of our children, taking care of our environment and the essential elements that Mother Earth provides to support our lives and the lives of the future generations;
and like this create new goals for our future.
The effects that moondance
has in our lives
The Moondance helps us in different ways:
• Enhances the feminine energy.
• Accelerates the thought process.
• Strengthens perception, giving a profound understanding of the personal life process.
• Connect to deep intuition and self-esteem rises.
• Increases our capacity to think about the situations in our lives helping us make wise decisions.
• Brings us into deep reflection in order to achieve change.
• Regulates and “normalizes” menstrual cycles. • Increases fertility.
• Awakens DNA memory.
• Strengthens our body.
• It shows us our limits.
• Teaches us gratitude.
• It gifts us strength, determination, comprehension, patience, compassion and humble dignity.
• It helps us develop a sense of service.
• It helps us manifest our creativity and highest potential.
• Removes masks and delusions, it shows us the dark side of our being so we can work with it and find balance.
• Changes our vibrational field.
• Helps us find harmonic balance.
A few things to get you started
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MOONDANCE SONGS
Learn the songs of the Moondance directly from our dear Abuela Malinalli. Enjoy listening to our beautiful abuela and feel her essence in these songs.
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LEARN HOW TO MAKE PRAYER TIES
This short video will show you how to make prayer ties for Moondance.
Who can dance?
Any woman who has a “call” to dance that is clear and strong.
Any woman who has danced at another Moondance (ie: Mexico, Canada)
You are asked to make your intentions clear to the Abuela and to your sponsor by completing the application form, waiver, questionnaire, and writing an intention letter explaining why you want to dance. You are also encouraged to attend any meetings and temazcales (purification lodges) in preparation for the dance.
If you do not already have a moondance sister who is guiding you, contact the abuela or someone on the counsel and will help you find someone, making sure you have all the information and guidance to participate knowingly in the moondance.
THE MOONDANCE ELEMENTS AND SYMBOLS
The Circle
The Temazcal
The Dance
The Pantli (banner or pennant)
The Staff
The Huehuetl
The Songs
The Copal
The Obsidian Pipe
The Prayer Ties
The Tobacco
The Fire
The Dancers
The Fire Eagles
All personal offerings
All of these elements shall be considered, applied, and utilized with responsibiity, awareness, and love.
Nahuatl Words to help you
Photo Gallery
A few photos representing the Moondance
