The Rainbow Dream Dance
22nd - 30th July 2011, Usk, Wales
The Rainbow Dream Dance is a three-day ceremony of healing, transformation and vision
quest born from the sacred teachings of the people of Turtle Island. It is the culmination
of the ceremonial work led each year by Dance Chief Arwyn DreamWalker, in the light
of the Morningstar Temple and the Wheel of Excalibur.
The Dance is a ceremony of great discipline. It offers an awakening and celebration
of each dancer's gifts, transforming patterns that no longer serve their sacred
dream. In the dance we honour the Rainbow Bridge linking the sacred teachings of
Native America with those of Britain, Ireland and Europe, reaching to those around
the world who love the Earth and honour the Children's Fire, the law that nothing
shall be done to harm the children.
We each come to the Rainbow Dream Dance to stand at the centre of the hourglass
of who we are. Drawing together and weaving the threads of all we have gathered
from this and past years, and intending forward our dreams.
We come in celebration, honouring all who stand with us, our circles of allies and
teachers. We dance within our own self responsibility, acknowledging all that needs
to be done so that we may walk in service for Grandmother and Her Worlds. It is
a celebration of the Sacred Hoop of life, of standing in circle with the community
of people around the world who seek to walk in Beauty with Grandmother Earth and
her Worlds.
The Rainbow Dream Dance is a ceremony of much discipline and joy offering an activation
and celebration of each dancer’s gifts and lineages. The alchemy of the dance sings
with the Rainbow Bridge of the sacred teachings of Turtle Island and Celtia, reaching
to all lineages around the world who honour the Children’s Fire and who love the
Earth. This will be the 21st Rainbow Dream Dance to be held on these Blessed Isles.
It is a time of celebration as we dream and Dance in honour of the turning of the wheel,
the entry to the next 20 count and the possibility of building a new world aligned with
the intent of the Grandmother.
Calling upon our dharma we dance with our allies and Ancestors in celebration of
our Buddha natures. We relinquish our expectations as we Dance and call to the Hokksheideh-Hey,
the Great Buddhas of the universe outside of time and space to help us connect with
our souls dream.
We dance in celebration and honouring of all the worlds of Grandmother and Grandfather,
of the Earth-Sky Alliance as we travel in the Age of Flowers may we come to enlighten
our path from within so that we may step fully into the energy dancer, that we may
know right action and right alignment.
We dance this year with the reminder that we are all Children of Noble Birth, of
Star and Earth and that now is the time to claim the Sacred Sovereignty of the Self
and Soul, extending this to the Land itself. It is a time to be within one’s nobility
outside of ego and in Sacred Service.
We dance to be within this Presence within our community, thereby bringing the Blessings
needed to all, and holding the web steady each for our own community.
Blessed Be.