Dancing On the Edge will be hosting an Eagle Dance on October 9th at Camp Gaea. If you are interested in participating, let me know. All dancers are welcome and we need individuals to help as Dog Soldiers, vendor table help, etc.
We will begin setup on Friday, October 8th in the afternoon. The actual dance will start at sunrise on Saturday and end at Sunset and will be followed by a feast. You are welcome to stay the night on Friday and after the dance. Camp Gaea charges $10 per night per person and there is room in several lodges if you aren't the camping type. You will make cabin arrangements directly with Camp Gaea. There will be space set up for vendors and anyone is welcome to come out and watch or participate in some fashion. We also need drummers. More information coming soon.

Preparation is needed in order to dance so if you are not a current or past student, please contact Phyllis for information on how to create your shield and to get additional information. 816-353-2691 or pcronbaugh@sbcglobal.net.

We will be dancing in the area of Grover's Glen around an amazing tree that has to be over a hundred years old. Amazing energy.

Camp Gaea is located at 25210 235th St, McLouth, KS 66054 (near Tonganoxi). The Camp Gaea site is www.campgaea.org. 913-796-2141.

Here is a description of what you can expect.

As the ancestral drums come alive and merge with the heartbeat of Grandmother Earth, voices echo songs that have been sung since creation. Dancers in bright-colored ceremonial attire feel the call, take their own power, and rhythmically emerge from all eight directions of the medicine-wheel arbor. The Eagle’s piercing call resonates as the participants ride the hypnotic beat, praying and moving toward the incredible essence of the Tree of Life. The arbor is alive. It pulsates, inhaling and exhaling as the ceremony progresses. Prayers soar on the wings of the Eagle to the Great Mystery and answers spiral back to the Dancers. The energy ebbs and flows as the day wears on, but the pulse never weakens. Finally, the DanceChief announces, “This Dance is finished in Beauty.” 

Eagle Dances are most generally personal dances, where Sun Dances are more for the collective and Grandmother’s planetary dream. Dancing inwards, a prayer may be offered for personal health, prosperity, and abundance, for a sacred dream, or anything of your choosing. Moving away from the Tree, but never turning his or her back to it, the Dancer visualizes and celebrates the manifestation of their prayers. With roots reaching deep into the Earth, the Tree gives participants the strength and stamina needed to dance impeccably. The branches, stretching to the As Above, inspire lofty dreams, and keep the connecting link to intent powerful and strong and streaming into the Earth below. On and on it continues as it has since time began. It is a magickal event, facilitating the dreams of all to be danced awake. 
 

Hopefully a date will be set for 2010. If you have an interest in going, give us a call and maybe you will help us get the ball rolling. We normally leave on Thursday morning and returning on Sunday afternoon. We should be digging at Ron Colman's in Jessieville, AR and staying at Quachita River Haven Resort in Pencilville. We don't plan to change much from the way Debbi ran things, except you will have to eat Phyllis' cooking. There will be kids going, but they will be staying separate from any other adults that are going. Here's to finding a crystal like the one to the left. Click here for more pictures and additional information. Click here for a PDF flyer.