Many members wear shiny metal stars on their shirts, rather reminiscent of those being worn by sheriffs in western movies. Three kinds of rituals can be distinguished. There are rituals were people sit, and there are dancing rituals. A female and a male senior church member will take care that everything is going along the rules of the church. It is for example not allowed to sit cross armed or cross legged.
Participants have to sit or dance in one line.
The purpose of all these rules is to establish a certain group energy that has to result in a spiral towards heaven. Two fardado's will stay outside the mandala-shaped ritual to supervise and to aid affected participants if necessary. A woman will supervise the female part of the ritual, and a man does the same with the male part of the ritual. There are right now three chapters of the Santo Daime church in Holland. They mainly attract baby boomers, people in their forties and fifties.