Purification ceremonies.
Readers are asked to share their sweat lodge experiences.
Australian woman tells her story about visiting the United States and participating in a Native American sweat lodge ceremony
The Native American sweat lodge or purification ritual cleans and heals the body, mind, and spirit.
A traditional Sweat Lodge is a wickiup made up of slender withes of aspen or willow, or other supple saplings, lashed together with raw hide, or grass or root cordage, although in some areas the lodge was constructed of whatever materials were at hand, from a mud roofed pit house to a cedar bark and plank lodge.
Frank Blazquez has been through hundreds of %u201Csweats%u201D during his lifetime, and each experience has been different.
Molly describes her first sweat lodge experience in her online blog. She writes about the preparation for the ceremony (building the lodge, preparing medicine bundles), intentional prayer meditation, honoring children of the world, and exploration of past lifes and past deaths.
