The Dancers as a whole are responsible for holding the center of the energy. They are often in a whirlwind of energetic flow, like a storm of consciousness striving to resolve its inner conflicts. This is the circle finding its step, its frequency of motion that releases the power of the Sky into the Earth world… The Dancer knows the feelings of weakness and the feelings of strength and learns to dance without shame or false pride…

Their bodies are conduits for the group mind to think of itself and come into union with the Ainya of the land and the piercing light of the sky… It is hard sometimes… but they fast and drum and sing and dance… and the hardness softens and the veil between the worlds becomes transparent… the wind becomes the sweet kisses of our creator… the Sun becomes the penetrating power of divine Love… the ground quakes and the land begins to speak through the soles of their feet…

They bring this power to the people in the form of Tobacco as an honoring… compassion and good will as the anointing oil, and blessing with the brushing of the fans..

-John Armbruster