The moon dance prayer is about expanding our own consciousness, honoring life and all what it is part of it and the empowerment of women so they can be more centered, connected and healthier, bringing clarity and an open heart to their homes and communities, as well as balancing the female and masculine energies in women and men, so each one can honor each other as much as themselves, honoring and taking them own place on earth, so we can nourish all life from a beautiful and balanced heart and spirit.

The Moon Dance is a four-night and four-day ceremony, that unfolds in a natural setting, providing a sanctuary with the appropriate measures to facilitate our prayer and our inner personal work in balance with nature. To be part of this prayer and path, it is required to be willing to have discipline and commitment, respect and humbleness, because during this ceremony we will acknowledge our power of will through a food fasting (we eat very little), sleep fasting (we sleep very little), offering our steps in our dance (Free style) and our breath and mind through singing (medicine songs), praying and looking at our own thoughts, as well as attending the 8 temazcal-sweatlodges (2 doors during the day and 2 doors during the night) and completing the 4 nights inside the dance circle.

The moon dance will be accompanied by the grandmothers guides of this Moon Dance from México, the smoke of copal and traditional chants with the beat of the big drum, as well as the sacred fire on during the 4 nights, and all the elements that are part of it, and sustained by a great mystery that it is beyond the understandable. During our dance we will create a bond of strength and a web of prayers for humanity, balance, health, peace, where each participant dances in accordance with their own deep personal intentions and prayers too, maintaining a spirit of goodwill, love, unity, and respect.

In this shared journey, our growth deepens, as does our understanding of ourselves more fully, harmonizing our being and reflecting in our connection with all that is related to our walk on this life and its cycles. This is not about becoming shamans, etc. It is more about grounding, connection, alignment, love and personal growth.

The History of the Moon Dance

The 1st moon dance came during the 80’s by the Grandmothers from the red road in México, unifying a sacred vision with ancestral ways of the Red Road from México and It came as a respond to a sequence of visions that came during a vision quest to the medicine grandmother Patricia Guerra, who later shared her vision with other grandmothers and grandfathers and together they got into the mission of making that vision to happen, and later on, researching into the old sacred codices they founded a code in which we can see a yearly ancestral ceremony that use to happen on ancient times in México, guided manly by women, and had been related to the vision of the grandmother Patricia, however the certainty of this code as a representation for the moon dance, still is in discussion.

In October of 1992 the elders supported the 1st Moon dance and from that very first circle later in the future the prayer of the Moon dance had been extended throughout the world and the main grandmothers who had been pioneers and warriors to awake this prayer and spiritual path, spreading this wisdom and traditional work in the 90´s are the grandmother Patricia Guerra, grandmother Isabel Vega, grandmother Tonalmitl, grandmother Mallinalli (In the picture) and later on the moon dance had been flourishing around the world by women who had feel the commitment to support more women into this path. Being the first moon dance circle named Coyolxauhqui (guided by the grandmother Patricia Guerra and Isabel Vega) the second moon dance Xochimeztli (guided by the grandmother Tonalmitl) and then the 3rd moon dance Ollintlahuimeztli (guided by the grandmother Malinalli), and from there many moon dances spread around the wold, being now days a worldwide net of prayers, growth and connection.

The moon dance was created to reclaim with love the respect for all the feminine in healthy balance with the masculine. In this perfect duality, we can make our home, the Earth, a better world for the future generations, feeling our love and gratitude for this planet and passing it out to our childrenn. Rooting ourselves in our origins and walking the path of our hearts taking good care of our precious planet, embracing all races, all colors and religions, unifying the heart of all beings.

The work of the prayer of the moon dance opens our hearts to a memory of ourselves as wise, intuitive, guardians of the medicine of love and compassion.

How the prayer of the Moon Dance came to Finland

Honoring the grandmothers who had walk before us, letting this path open for all of us, so today we can continue this beautiful work in service for the life.

In the moon dance it is required a total of 13 years of dancing and work to bring and plant a new circle: First 9 years of dancing, but also of service with our communities to become a good leader of a Moon dance circle and those years are the base to start the next 4 years full of the guidance, preparation and initiations of the grandmothers in the new circle, so the new circle can have a good leader and we can make of this prayer a beautiful , rooted, respected and deep work, in service for a major purpose, which it is the main call for this new circle Ollin Metzcitlalinicue guided by Brenda Miquiztli and planted by the grandmother Lupita Itztlixochitl and this is how this story started:

The moon dance was a call I already felt when I was in México in 2008-2009 when I was very active in the Mexica dance and red path (Red road of Aztec, Chichimec and the toltec culture), but before that, I already meet with the grandmother Malinalli and Tonalmitl in the Mexica dances and ceremonies. However in 2011 I move to Finland while I was pregnant and it was till 2016 that I went for the first time to the Moon Dance in Teotihuacan, México, having as a grandmother, also my godmother and guide of the moon dance Ollintlahuimeztli, the grandmother Malinalli and already in my second moon dance I committed to do 9years and I talked and asked to the grandmother Malinalli to come to Finland to plant the moon dance with me ones I finish my first 9years of dance, she saids that it would be beautiful to make it happen and visit the north and it was a Yes if the great spirit will give her the permission (good health and long life), sadly and unfortunately the grandmother Malinalli ascended to the world of spirits at the end of 2020 due to health issues, leaving such of a big whole, sadness and deep feelings in many of the people who had follow her teachings and steps.

After the grandmother ascension new groups were born with the permission of the grandmother Malinalli: Ollinmalinalmeztli and Tlazolteotl Xochimetzli and I was dancing for the next years in both groups (sometimes in one, sometimes in the other and sometimes in both), deepen my path in this prayer and preparing my self for bringing the Moon Dance to Finland by the hand of the grandmother Lupita Itztlixochitl (guide of Tlazolteotl Xochimetzli) to who I asked formally at the beginning of 2021 to be the grandmother planting the moon dance in Finland when I finish my first 9 years of dance to which she accepted happily. Later I asked to my dear sister Adriana (the drum leader and part of the council of Ollinmalinalmeztli) to come to support the planting of the moon dance in Finland in the drum and she said yes:). Also last year confirming the support of the grandmother Juana Itzpapalotl (The leader of Sahumadoras in Ollintlahuimeztli and Tlazolteotl Xochimetzli), and its like that, that Ollin Metzitlalinicue comes from the lineage of the grandmother Malinalli, Ollintlahuimeztli and will be planted by the grandmother Lupita Itztlixochitl from Tlazolteotl Xochimetzli and the support of grandmothers and sister from the tree moon dances circles.

Also super important its to mention my dear moon dance sisters: Annukka Tlahuimeztli from Finland, supporting this vision and prayer and how will be the leader of Sahumadoras (from Ollintlahuimeztli, Ollinmalinalmeztli and Tlazolteotl Xochimetzli), and also our dear sisters from USA Daniela Soulux, Jaki Devi and Brenda Cuevas (from Ollintlahuimeztli and Tlazolteotl Xochimeztli), all of them with more than 9years experience in the moon dance, supporting so beautifully the planting of this new circle and prayer.

It is like that, that the main base of the dance had been taking shape, with the support also of our dear brothers fire eagles (Fire keepers) Manuel and Eerik and many more dear sisters from México, Estonia, USA, Norway and Sweden, traveling to support this prayer with them experience in this spiritual path and the ones here in Finland, specially my dear moon dance sister Vilja Kettu helping with all the management of this prayer and Zsofia helping with the cocreation of the Pantli (the face and banner) of this dance Ollin Metzitlalinicue.