The chanting and singing started at dusk, and the women’s voices had only increased in strength and volume since then. the men who were healers had started to dance, and some had even begun to trance. even the men who usually did not enter into trance were present at the ceremony, and most eventually joined in the dancing, circling around and around the singing women. the entire community had come together to dance for an elder woman who was ill, so that the healers could enter into trance in order to speak with the gangwasi. even though only one or two healers worked directly on the woman herself, it took the efforts of each member of the community for the ceremony to be successful.