When all the dancers are working together to be as clear as possible with movement, emotions and thoughts, I feel that the energy channelled will be that much purer and more able to serve the individuals, the group and the planet.
I used to think that the energy we produce by dancing together is channelled through the Spirit, but I have since come to believe that there are three ways - channelling, activating and generating.
Channeling is a hot line to God through the spirit or Soul and by opening ourselves to the highest good for all concerned the energy can be channelled cleanly, or as cleanly as we are able to manifest, through the dances we are doing.
I see activating as the earth connection. As birds dance on the earth after rain to encourage the worms to surface, so I believe that the patterns we make in the circle with our feet on the ground awakens the energies that recognize that pattern which, in an ancient dance, has been repeated thousands of times over the years. This is another reason for performing the steps correctly.
The third one is generating, which is done by the group dancing together. The synthesis of that particular group's individuals coming together as one generates a unique energy. Even if those same people dance together as the people are not exactly the same people they were the day before because of the events in between. So in dancing together we receive energy from above and below, the vertical line; and from ourselves as a group, the horizontal.
I like to work with these two lines in the beginning attunement. I suggest that everyone acknowledges the link between heaven and earth (spirit and earth) through the body from head to toe, imagining a golden thread stretching from far above the head, down through the body and deep into the earth, drawing in the spirit and earth energies to merge and integrate within us. This I see as the line of individuality, acknowledging our own unique qualities which make us different from everyone else, each able to give something to help the group which no one else can. Then we imagine a golden thread linking us around the circle, hand to hand, heart to heart, whichever each person prefers. This horizontal line links us as a groupe, drawing the many individuals into the whole. Now if we visualize the two lines together they form a cross and we concentrate on the small point where they mee each other. This is the centre, the balance between individuality and oneness, the still point of Peace. From this point we can work together and still be ourselves to bring the Healing and any other qualities into the circle to use for the benefit of ourselves and the rest of the Planet at the end of the session.
