Sweat lodge ceremony - a purification to align mind, body and spirit, now central to most Native American cultures and spiritual life. With the help of Medicine Men and Women, they could repair the damage done to their spirits, their minds and their bodies. The Sweat Lodge is a place of spiritual refuge and mental and physical healing, a place to get answers and guidance by asking spiritual entities, totem helpers, the Creator and Mother Earth for the needed wisdom and power. Stones are heated in a ritual fire for many hours and then placed in a pit in the middle of the lodge. The lodge, usually made of saplings. A framework is formed into a dome shape that is covered by blankets, tarps, canvas or animal skins to keep the heat in. Water is then poured on the rocks, creating steam. It is an honoring and uses the four elements and is usually done in four "rounds" corresponding to the four directions - four times stones are added, making the lodge progressively hotter. The process is one of returning to the "womb" and of being "reborn". During the purification of one's spirit inside a sweat lodge, all sense of race, color and religion is set aside. As in the Mother's womb and the Father's eyes, we are all the same, we are One. Each of us has the ability to sit with the Creator himself. Healing begins here for disease, physical, emotional, directional and spiritual.

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