Lodge Teachings
Fri April 24 - Sun April 26, 2009
Sweat Lodge Teachings at Four Quarters
to benefit the Sweat Lodge Site
at Four Quarters
An intensive weekend of focus on the
Art and Ceremony
of Sweat Lodge
and the creation of our own personal Medicine.
 Sweat Lodge
is an important ceremonial at Four Quarters and reflects the diversity of cultures
that have developed traditions of the sweat as spiritual practise. We offer open
Wiccan and Eclectic sweats every other Month throughout the year and and at our
major ceremonial gatherings. Please see our Wheel
of the Year Calendar for complete listings of open sweats at Four Quarters.
We sometimes
host traditional sweats on an invitational basis out of respect. Medicine Lodge
is not a traditional ceremonial. It is hoped that it may become a bridge to traditional
ceremonials for those who are so called.
Lodge Teachings is a weekend of
focus on Sweat Lodge, a practicum for the ceremonial role of the Sweats in your
life. And an opportunity to use these ceremonials in developing your own personal
Medicine.
This weekend is not intended to prepare
you to conduct Sweat Lodge nor is it a formal Vision Quest; but it will prepare
you to grow in your own life through these ancient and diverse traditions.
Lodge
Teachings will begin Friday with staff arrivals for opening setup, we urge you to be
here by 9:00AM Saturday morning. Saturday will be filled with the Sweats, drum,
song and prayer. The event will allow for individual all
night Prayer Fasts on the Land of Four Quarters, and this commitment is encouraged
of those attending. Sunday morning drum and sing; closing sweat will end around
noon, Sunday.
All food and meals
are made communally and camping will be at the Sweat Lodge site, alongside our
river. Traffic through Main Camp will be diverted in order to maintain seclusion
and privacy for the event.
Pre-registration is strongly urged and you must contact Joe Scott
directly at buffaloheart@earthlink.net
for food and ceremonial arrangements.
Lodge Teachings is a benefit for the Four Quarters Lodge Site,
and all monies received go towards improving the Lodge site.
$35 Pre-registered please.
Thank you for your interest in our Prayer Fast. If you are
considering or have decided to join us for this ceremony, the following is a list
of things to bring and a general outline of the schedule. The basic start and
completion times are as accurate as these things can get.
For more details contact:
Joe Scott directly at buffaloheart@earthlink.net.
Bring an offering for the water pourers.
Two to three towels one
to keep clean and the other for lodge.
1 Liter bottle of water, water will
also be on site.
A small blanket or serape to sit on, and one to keep warm
with.
Any spiritual items you need (Drums, rattles etc…).
Personal
items and personal food.
A food/meal item for the shared meal at the end of
the ceremony.
In keeping with the traditions that have been handed down we do not charge money
or fees for attending Ceremony. The donation request of 35.00 for attending the
Medicine Lodge this weekend is for the continued upkeep of the lodge site at Four
Quarters. In no way is a donation required to be made and is no way your participation
in ceremony dependant upon a donation. All donations received at the lodge site
at Four Quarters are put into the continued upkeep and improvements of that site.
Four Quarters directly absorbs the thousands of dollars that are required every
year to operate the Lodge Site.
We would also
like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has donated time, blood, sweat,
tears, and money in the past. Donations can and have come in many forms. Donations
of tarps, sage, sweetgrass, cedar, food, blankets etc are just as important and
helpful as cash, and just as appreciated. Your previous and continued support
of the lodge site is what makes it possible for us to continue to provide Ceremony.
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