If you ask anyone who has had a transformative spiritual experience – the kind that gifts a person clarity and perspective beyond the realm of the physical – where exactly they happened to have this ...

Noella, Gina, and Emily took part in a cleansing ceremony and sat in a sweat lodge, which proved to be a very emotional experience for the women. In the episode, we couldn't see exactly what was going ...

The Temazcal is a ritual sweat lodge historically used by indigenous people in mesoamerica. It was meant to facilitate moments of change; connect with underworld, water, and fertility spirits; cleanse ...

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Iswore I would never do it. Never set foot inside a sweat lodge, never chant, never drum and never, ever spend hours streaming perspiration in a small, dark space with a group of friends and strangers ...

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Outside the Mi'kmaq Nation's health department sits a dome-shaped tent, built by hand from saplings and covered in black canvas. It's one of several sweat lodges on the tribe's ...