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SACRED
STONE PEOPLES
LODGE
ABOUT
SACRED STONE PEOPLES LODGE CEREMONIES
Stone Peoples Lodge is an ancient Sacred ceremony used by the indigenous and the earth-centered peoples, as a purification rite for the body, mind, soul, and spirit.
The name of the ceremony describes our relationship with the stone people who are gathered in a loving and respectful way, heated in a Fire ceremony and brought into the Lodge to generate heat and steam.
Sometimes, the Lodge is called the Sweat Lodge!
The ceremony involves building the Sacred Fire to invoke the Guardians and Keepers of the Seven Sacred Directions to be with us and guide us and to heat the stones. As we place the stone people into the Fire, we honor with gratitude, love and reverence our Sacred relationship with the stone people and their giveaway for our health and wellbeing. When stone people are ready, people come into the Lodge, and water is poured on the stones in a Sacred ceremony. In the heat and steam, we learn from this ancient wisdom and come into the
right relationship with ourselves and the world.
A Chant to Honor the Stone People
Stones and Bones
Brooke Medicine Eagle
Building a Lodge is a community event through which we create loving relationships with each other, the land, stone people, plant people, Spirit and Earth Mother.
The Lodge is built through giveaway of the plant people. We go into the woods and share our intention to build a Lodge with the tree people. The young ones, the young saplings, who are ready to give away their lives to honor our Sacred relationship with their people, let us know that we can take their lives in a Sacred ceremony, with gratitude, respect and love. When the saplings are collected, we clear their bark and start the building ceremony. The stone pit is dug in the center of the future Lodge and an altar is created with the soil from the stone pit. The Fire pit is dug in the front.
Then, we start singing to the tree people, and gently and lovingly help them band to create the dome and the hoops of the Lodge. It is the most beloved and most mind and heart opening moment, this collaboration with the tree people and with each other!
A Chant to Honor the Plant People
The Willow Song
Brooke Medicine Eagle
The Lodge, the altar and the Fire pit create a Sacred pathway through which the stone people are brought into the Lodge. This Sacred pathway represents the connection between Mother Earth and the Creation. The Lodge is the womb of the Earth Mother build in a shape of the turtle, representing the wisdom of the Turtle and honoring the Turtle Island. The pathway leading to the altar is the neck of the Turtle and the Altar is the head. We go into the Womb of the Earth Mother and bring the stones as seeds of Creation into the Lodge to be cleansed, healed, and reborn again.
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This Sacred ceremony is focused on the honoring of the forces that guide and support us, on prayers, and on respect to the traditions of the Lodge. This is profound physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual experience, that is transformational and life altering for all.
PRAYER TIES
Before entering the Lodge, participants create Prayer Ties, bundles made of cloth filled with tobacco or corn meal with tobacco. These medicine herbs are the Sacred medicine. Tobacco absorbs the prayers, and corn meal brings the feminine energy to balance them. Our prayers are blown into the herbs and the bundle is tied with a string. There are often multiple ties made in a series of 7 to represent the Seven Sacred Directions on one string holding our prayers. They can be offered to Great Spirit in Gratitude and for Blessings by burning them in Grandfather Fire, burying them into Mother Earth, placing them into the Waters, or hanging them for the winds and the element of the Air for transmutation.
A single Tobacco Tie is a square piece of cloth, usually red, folded into a tiny present containing tobacco or other Sacred herbs. A single Tobacco Tie is a nice gift for an Elder, Teacher, Fire Keeper, Ceremony Leader at a Sweat Lodge, Fire or Pipe Ceremony in gratitude for their service, medicine, and teachings.
The Sacred Stone Peoples Lodge Ceremony or a Sweat Lodge Ceremony starts days, or even months in advance.
The Spirits call us, inviting us to the ceremony.
The Keeper of the Lodge prepares the ground, cleans the Fire Pit, the altar, and the stone pit, gathers the wood, the covering materials, and prepares the stone people to be heated on the day of the ceremony.
Often, people choose to fast or cleanse in other ways to prepare physically, mentally, emotionally, and energetically for the ceremony. On the day of the ceremony, it is a good practice to eat little to nothing but drink a lot of water and electrolytes to stay hydrated.
THIS IS A WHOLE DAY EVENT, so prepare accordingly.
SUPPORT
The Sacred Stone Peoples Lodge ceremonies are community events. People of all ages are welcome. All the participants are supported by the Water Pourer, the leader of the ceremonies, the Fire keeper, Door keeper, by the organizers, and other members of the community. Every step of the ceremonies is explained and guided, and conversations are held on the steps of the ceremonies, and on safety and support as we build the Lodge and go though the events of the day.
These events are community oriented and ensure that all the participants are safe, loved, heard, and supported at all times!
Everyone is also supported by the invisible forces that have invited us to the ceremonies, and that we invite during Smudging ceremony, and creating of the Sacred space, the Creator, Earth Mother, Guardians and Keepers of the Directions, their personal guides, and guardians, and by the medicine people, Grandmothers and Grandfathers, keepers of this medicine.
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