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Accommodations: camping. Although, if you wish to stay in a nearby motel, a list will be provided upon registration, along with our suggested camping list. Three ceremonial meals will be provided as well as snacks, tea and juice. You will need to bring food for two breakfasts and one lighter evening meal. We enter the lodge in humility, crawling on hands and knees, a severing from the social or daily world. We enter the world of the invisibles. In darkness we open our hearts and body to this invisible world, the elemental dance of water poured on stones heated in the sacred fire and the herbs sprinkled on the stones. Architecturally, the only permanent shrine in Oglala religion is the sweat lodge. It stands, sometimes wavering in the wind… a dome made of willow saplings stuck into the ground, bent over, and tied in place with cloth strips or rope…The sweat lodge reflects the Oglala principle of austerity and simplicity: The entire universe is a cathedral: everything is permanently sacred unless desecrated by human foibles that cause disharmony between human and the rest of nature. -YUWIPI, Vision & Experience in Oglala Ritual by William K. Powers Developing a Sweat Lodge Medicine Bundle: THE NATURE OF EACH DIRECTION EAST—SELF AND INSPIRATON FOR LIVING, LIFE: WABUN, GOLDEN EAGLE WEST—MATURITY, LEADERSHIP, DESTINY, SOUL: MUDJEKEEWIS, GRIZZLY BEAR NORTH—EARTH, MATERIAL WORLD, BODY, ELDERS: WABOOSE, WHITE BUFFALO
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FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO LEARN TO USE SWEAT LODGE FOR THE HEALING OF SELF, FAMILY AND COMMMUNITY.
TRISHUWA is Ceremonial Director of the Church of Gaia and founding member of Foundation for Gaian Studies. She is an Earth Keeper and Metis of Irish and Cherokee lineage. Her first ceremonial experiences were with the San Juan Pueblo people who live 25 Miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the Rio Grande where she lived as a child. Trishuwa works with the 4 great ceremonies of the Earth—the experiential forms of working with the invisibles of the world—Sweat Lodge, Sacred Pipe, Vision Quest and the Medicine Wheel. She continues to travel and teach internationally each year. Her work has been profiled in The New York Times, on “Good Morning America,” and on “CNN.” She now lives in New Mexico with her partners, Julie McIntyre and Stephen Buhner, author of The Fasting Path, Lost Language of Plants., and The Secret Teaching of Plants.
DAVID & LENA WELKER are herbalists who work with edible and medicinal plants, David has been in the outdoor education filed for many years. Blue Heron Outdoor School is dedicated to preserving and disseminating the skills and understanding to live in cooperation with the natural world offering classes in Plant Identification, Cordage and Basketry, Tracking, Firemaking and Toolmaking. Lena is a teacher of Sacred Plant Medicine, a ceremonialist and gifted artist. 
