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	Sweat lodge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are several styles of sweat lodge including a domed or oblong hut similar to a wickiup, a teepee, or even a simple hole dug into the ground and covered with planks or tree trunks.
		In the northern part of North America, the sweat lodge is a low dome-like structure built on dirt (as opposed to grass or forest brush).
		The lodge may be oriented within its environment for a specific purpose; for example, a lodge constructed near a lake could be run with the intention of connecting to the spirit of the lake.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sweat_lodge (1179 words)

	Building a Sweat Lodge
		Seldom is a sweat lodge built for only one evenings activity; therefore, always consider that high winds can come up during the time the fire is heating the rocks for a later ceremony and resulting sparks and drier conditions could result in a fire.
		Sweat lodges are easily constructed structures made of saplings bent together and tied with twine to form a half sphere.
		While the sweat lodge itself is simple to describe, it is impossible to convey the ultimate culmination of spiritual, mystical and psychic expression of the Sweat Lodge Ceremony.
	www.think-aboutit.com /native/building_a_sweat_lodge.htm (1985 words)

	A Sweat Lodge
		The fire pit is to the left, with the uncovered sweat lodge behind it.
		The dor of the sweat lodge faces to the NW in this case.
		The three jugs are for drinking water to be used during the sweat, and the blue bucket on the right it for splashing on the rocks.
	www.welcomehome.org /rob/sweat/sweat.html (2401 words)

	Sweat Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The sweat lodge ceremony is one of physical and spiritual purification practiced by Native Americans to overcome illness, to prepare for other ceremonies, or anytime there is a need for an answer on some level.
		The sweat lodge is performed in a dome tent-like structure with a round pit dug into the center of the floor.
		The door of the sweat lodge is opened four times during the ceremony representing the four directions, allowing the prayers out and fresh air in to rejuvenate you.
	quicksitebuilder.cnet.com /juliawiddop/kalikoguys/sweat.html (829 words)

	The Native American Sweatlodge, A Spiritual Tradition
		The floor of the lodge may be clean swept dirt, or natural grassy turf, or may be covered with a mat of sweetgrass, soft cedar boughs, or sage leaves for comfort and cleanliness, kept away from the central pit.
		Between the entrance to the lodge and the sacred fire pit, where the stones are heated, is an altar barrier, beyond which none may pass except the lodge or fire keepers, to prevent participants from accidently falling into the fire as they emerge from sweat.
		The sweat leader then dips water and pours it onto the hot stones in the pit, producing large amounts of steam, usually one dipper for each of the four directions, or until he is told by the spirits to stop.
	www.barefootsworld.net /sweatlodge.html (2255 words)

	SWEAT LODGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The sweat lodge is made from twelve or sixteen young willows, and these too have a lesson to teach us, for in the fall their leaves die and return to the earth, but in the spring they come to life again.
		The willows which make the frame of the sweat lodge are set up in such a way that they mark the four quarters of the universe; thus, the whole lodge is the universe in an image, and the two-legged, four-legged, and winged peoples, and all the things of the world are contained within it.
		When we leave the sweat lodge we are as the souls which are kept, and which return to spirit after they have been purified; for we too, leave behind in the lodge all that is impure.
	www.geocities.com /ravnwolff2001/sweat.html (610 words)

	Sweat Lodge - Crystalinks
		Use of the sweat lodge was chronicled by the earliest settlers in America.
		The Sioux, see the interior of the sweat lodge as representing the womb of Mother Earth, its darkness as human ignorance, the hot stones as the coming of life, and the hissing steam as the creative force of the universe being activated.
		In one of the Omaha Indians' chants, the sweat lodge rock is called 'Grandsire'; or 'Aged One.'; The stones symbolized the state of being, immovable and steadfast, dwelling place of all.
	www.crystalinks.com /sweatlodge.html (3384 words)

	The Sweat Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Such lodges can be, and often are, a portal for communication with a Higher Power, the Creator; it is very necessary to exercise care and good intent in all things connected with a sweat lodge, its construction and its rites.
		The sweat bath prepared bathers for the rituals that attended birth, adulthood, marriage and death rites of passages--times when awe of the unknown was highest.
		Pine Arbor sweat leaders include appropriate fans in their sweat lodge gear such as a bird wing, stretched leather on a wooden frame or a woven fan such as that used at the Busk Fire.
	www.tfn.net /Museum/culture/sweat_lodge.html (3957 words)

	Sweat Lodge
		In my teachings, the sweat lodge begins with building it in a special place, usually it is by water, if that is possible, if not, it will be in a place selected by the sweat lodge conductor.
		This teaching varied from lodge to lodge but I was taught to be gentle and caring with people, not to make them suffer from the heat in the lodge.
		As I shared with you, the building of the sweat is done with kindness and gentleness and in my teachings, when we build a new lodge, it is an all day affair and ends with the sweat being conducted before the sun sets.
	bearspiritvision.com /sweatlodge.htm (1792 words)

	Sweat Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sweat lodges are found everywhere in North America and are made of various materials: In the northeast the sweat lodge is made from willow poles with birch bark or skins; in the southeast, earth mounds; in the plains, buffalo skins; in the northwest, cedar planks.
		Among Native Americans the sweat lodge is more sacrament than recreational and is associated with prayer and preparation, but in California the sweat lodge is both a dwelling place and ceremonial center.
		There are three major types of sweat structures: The lodge in which stones are brought in and water poured on them; a lodge with a central fire in which no water is used; and a stone or clay house using a duct to bring heat from an outside fire.
	www.ausbcomp.com /redman/sweat_lodge.htm (344 words)

	SPIRIT GATHERING Salt Lake City Utah SWEAT LODGE SCHEDULE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Enter The Sacred Sweat Lodge Womb of the Earth Mother and be reborn in the Sacred Energy.
		The sweat lodge is the womb of the Earth Mother.
		After the sweat the lodge is disassembled and food is shared.
	www.spiritgathering.com /slcschedule.htm (970 words)

	Sweat Lodges
		A small dome shaped lodge constructed of bent willows and covered with skins, or blankets, or alternatively, of dirt-covered stacked wood, that encloses heat for a sweat bath.
		The Native American rights associated with the sweat bath are themselves refered to by the term "Sweat" or "Sweat Lodge." The Sweat Lodge is used as a place of teaching, planning, praying, singing, and communing with others.
		The sweat is often done in preparation for other rites and as a means of returning to the non-ritual world after the performance of great ceremonies.
	members.tripod.com /~northlight22/index-4.html (396 words)

	The Sweat Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The sweat lodge was a dome-like tent made from fresh cut willow branches and covered with hides and blankets.
		The rocks (which had been heating outside) were brought into the lodge by the fire keeper and placed into the center pit by the leader.
		This comes from the belief that the sweat lodge had the spiritual powers and feelings of a woman's womb.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /luxton/sect_4/4c.htm (274 words)

	Sweat Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The sweat lodge is a ceremony of purification and healing that embodies, in its structure, a microcosm of the entire universe.
		The experience of the sweat lodge is transcendental, taking the practitioner beyond the physical into the spirit world.
		The participants walk around the fire in a sun-wise direction and enter the sweat lodge on their hands and knees, after being purified by sage incense.
	www.sixdirections.com /sweat.htm (321 words)

	The Sweat Lodge
		The lodge was built in line with the four directions and became a microcosm of the whole universe as everything was contained within it: water, earth, air and fire.
		Rocks were heated in a small pit a few yards from the lodge and brought in by the tenders of the sweat lodge called water carriers.
		All things used in the sweat lodge ceremony are sacred and must be understood if true purification is to be accomplished as it is in the act of symbolism and intent that the power of the sweat lodge resides.
	www.astrostar.com /Sweat-Lodge.htm (947 words)

	Sweat Lodge
		Sweat lodge ceremonies are good for body cleanliness as the heat and the steam can help the body to get rid of toxins.
		The fire-pit should be about eight paces away from the sweat lodge, dug as a kind of trench that is six feet long the direction of the lodge, four feet across and about two feet deep.
		Building the lodge and preparing the fire-pit are tasks that don't need everyone to be involved though, so if you have brought hand-drums, now is a good time to play for the builders and diggers, to help get everyone in the mood.
	www.feedback.nildram.co.uk /richardebbs/meditation/sweatlodge.htm (2197 words)

	The North Speaks (An Inipi Sweat Lodge Ceremony) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Inipi or "Sweat Lodge" as they are most commonly called is a sacred ceremony that is still used by Native Americans and utilizes the four primary elemental powers of the universe.
		Sweat lodges exist within most every culture and serve many purposes but among the Native Americans, the Inipi is a place of spirit where one goes to cleanse the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual body, and to pray.
		Outside the lodge in a larger fire pit the sacred Stone People are tended by the Fire keeper until their color is red.
	www.healing-systems.com /inipi.html (1161 words)

	Nimue . sweat lodge. - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A sweat lodge is used to remove toxins from the body.
		On a spiritual level the lodge is symbolic and intent and motive must be pure from the moment you begin to build and work towards creating the lodge and taking part in the ceremony.
		The style of Sweat Lodge we use is the 'hot rock' style which means that a fire is built in order to heat stones, which when they are hot enough are placed inside a dome shaped structure which we have built.
	www.nimuemysteries.co.uk /sweat.htm (657 words)

	THE SWEAT LODGE PURIFICATION
		The sweat lodge purification ceremony is known and used in every comer of Native America.
		In every area the lodge is used to gather the elements of the land and the powers they call upon.
		I was once in a sweat lodge with a young Indian leader who went by very strict procedures.
	www.arthurjoseph.org /sweatlodge.html (1429 words)

	Sweat Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The sweat lodge is both a Native American and Celtic tradition to help purify and heal body and mind.
		The lodge is often viewed as the womb of the earth.
		We conduct sweat lodges during the seasonal turnings of the year, as well as at other times of the year.
	www.sacredtouch.org /SWEAT.htm (169 words)

	Sweat lodge: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A sauna, the wet version also called steam bath, is a small room or house designed as a place to experience dry or wet/dry heat sessions, or an establishment...
		There are several styles of sweat lodge including a domed or oblong hut similar to a wickiup wickiup quick summary:
		A wickiup (or wikiup) is domed hut-like dwelling used by the semi-nomadic native american tribes of the arid regions of the west and southwest north america,...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sw/sweat_lodge.htm (788 words)

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		When a man first receives the sweat lodge medicine he has seventeen willows used in the framework, and as he grows older he changes to twenty-five, then to forty-one, and finally to one hundred and one.
		With his invited guests the giver of the sweat enters the sudatory, and sitting at the back, opposite the entrance, draws with the tip of his finger in the exposed soil of the stone pit two parallel lines with each pair of ends connected by a V-shaped indentation.
		The giver of the sweat lifts the pipe, points it to the cardinal directions, goes out, passing to the left of the stone pit, and lays it against the buffalo skull, the stem between the horns.
	www.curtis-collection.com /cheyannesweatlodge.html (1107 words)

	ancestral circle \| sweat lodge
		On a rotating basis, the students are expected to either assist the ceremony as one of the Fire Keepers, or be in the ceremony as a participant.
		Our Sweat Lodge Ceremonies are an opportunity for people of many diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds to come together for cleansing and prayer, to honor the Ancient Ancestors out of their own tribal past.
		The study of the Sweat Lodge also approaches the ceremony from the four aspects of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels – but from a more advanced perspective than was done for the Fire Keepers.
	ancestralcircle.org /sweatlodge.htm (1250 words)

	Sweat Lodge Etiquette
		The lodge represents Mother Earth and when we crawl out at the end of the ceremony it is like a rebirth.
		That is a ceremony in itself and according to the elders we cannot be in two ceremonies at the same time.
		When in the lodge women should wear a dress or skirt and shirt that covers some of the arm and is long.
	www.worldcouncilofelders.org /SweatLodgeEtiquette.html (578 words)

	FollowingAncestors EarthWisdom
		This Lodge provides an awe inspiring experience that can truly be considered a piece of life changing history.
		Sweat Lodge Work Parties - Volunteer/Free - 11-3 pm held on Thursdays, are community service to the land.
		There is plenty of room A host of activities occur, from retying loose spots on the lodge, to weeding the area so we can pass the fire inspections.
	www.followingancestors.net /sweat.html (262 words)

	SWEAT LODGE
		Here at Jalbun Lodge the Sweat Lodge is provided for those who have done deep work on themselves already, for those who have “sweated” before, and for those who don't know why but have been touched or pulled by a sense of its potential.
		The Conductor of the Sweat Lodge is required to “hold space” for the rest of the participants, to be strong and open and ready to deal with whatever arises.
		Inside the lodge, everything is intensified; every emotion, feeling and thought, which is why we try to clarify and clear as much as possible prior to entering.
	www.miditrax.com /sweat.htm (489 words)

	Celtic Sweat lodge in a native land
		The sweat lodge is as ancient as sweat itself perhaps.
		The Celts and Druids had sweats made of stone and sod and perhaps other materials whose layering became a chamber where the creative life force was gathered.
		Whether it is a web of willow that supports the lodge or the ancient rocks and verdant sod, it resonates with the great web of life that encircles the earth and supports it; and that web connects with the sun and the stars; web into web on into infinity.
	www.arizonahealingtours.com /sweat.html (418 words)

	The Sweat Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sweat lodges have been used by American Indians for centuries as spiritual cleansing rituals.
		For several years now, attendees at Adventure Trekkers' MMBA trip have built a sweat lodge for the enjoyment of all.
		There is nothing better than a nice hot sweat in the desert after a longs days ride, a good meal and cool drink.
	www.adventuretrekkers.com /sweat.html (87 words)

	The Sweat Lodge
		In her Prayers, Great Mystery took pity on her sorrow, and Gave her the Sweat Lodge Ceremony, and told her that if she did the Ceremony, her Son's life would be restored.
		A Lodge Leader should be able to answer clearly any question you might ask concerning the symbolic nature of the Lodge Structure itself and any part of the Ceremony.
		I say qualified because a Lodge Leader must be, as he is completely responsible for everything that goes down in the Ceremony whether Spiritual or Physical, and there is much, much, more to that than just pouring water on hot rock and singing songs.
	www.soquilicenter.org /eds6.htm (1121 words)

	Sweat Lodge
		The term Sweat Lodge has been used for a long time and doesn't truly express the purpose of this ceremony.
		The Sweat Lodge is made of saplings set in the ground in a circle and lashed together to form a rounded frame, which is then covered with blankets, blocking out all light.
		The door to the Lodge is built low so we have to enter on our knees, a reminder to be humble and to understand we are no greater or lesser than other life-forms.
	thelandcelebration.org /lchapel2/sweat.htm (297 words)

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