Fall Community Sweat Lodge

Saturday, October 3, 2026
(Note: Previosuly published as a Moon Servce Weekend, Moon Service will be October 10)

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Sweat Lodge, and sacred fire, being prepped for ceremony.

For those who wish an opportunity to experience Sweat Lodge Ceremony outside of a regular Four Quarters event, we are offering a Fall Community Sweat Lodge.

    This will be a stand-alone Sweat Lodge Ceremony, without having to register for a larger Four Quarters Event. We are offering a Saturday Afternoon Sweat Lodge with time for conversations and teachings, exploring aspects of Sweat Lodge as Community Ceremony, and for the willing, some practical learn-by-doing! Chop Wood! Carry Water! Haul Stones! 

    While our Sweat Lodge is active at most of the event weekends of the year, there has been a growing call for more opportunities to experience this spiritual tradition. Come for the day, or make it a weekend camping on the land – Saturday sweat is scheduled for the afternoon, try to arrive before noon.

Chop Wood! Carry Water! The service that enables Sweat Lodge. Sweat Teaching Weekend 2023.

    If you are interested in learning more, we encourage people to volunteer at any event where sweat is active. We host a four day Spring Intensive Sweat Lodge Teaching Weekend on or around Memorial Day Weekend. Our Sweat Lodge Teachings provide opprtunities for deeper immersion into the lore, stories, songs, and introduction to the practical techniques of Lodge. If you have been moved by your own experience of Sweat Lodge or curious to learn morre about the process of ceremony, this is for you! If you've been volunteering down at the Lodge and would like to learn more about what we do and why, the Teaching Weekend is a further opportunity to spend time learning and sharing with our Ceremony Leaders and Ceremonial Team.

We serve the ceremony and the ceremony serves the people. Please be welcome around our fires.
  
Toksha akhe! Mitáquye oyasín!

Kurt Griffith and the Sweat Lodge Team

Planned Schedule

Friday October 2 - Early Arrival
Afternoon/Evening, Sweat Camp Open for Staff & Volunteers, at Sweat Camp
     – Land Open for Camping. Sweat Camp open for Staff and early arrivals. We may run the Welcome Fire for Community space if there is sufficient desire and guests.

Saturday October 3 - Lodge Day
10:00 AM, Sweat Camp Open for Staff & Volunteers, at Sweat Camp
     – Teachings and Conversations, Sweat Lore & Technologies

12:00 PM, Setting the Sacred Fire, at Sweat Camp
     – Setting the Stones and Lighting the Sacred Fire. Preparing the Lodge and Medicines for Ceremony. At this time we’ll also be introducing some of the lore and practives of Sweat Lodge Ceremony in the Native way, and how they are adapted to modern times and as expressed in Four Quarters Interfaith Space.

2:00 PM, Sweat Lodge Ceremony at Sweat Camp
     – “This ceremony is open to all people of all beliefs and remains a gift and an offering to those who are open and willing to further their own personal journey. It is a place to repair your spirit, of refuge and healing, and to obtain personal answers and guidance.” This is an entirely participatory ceremony! You may find yourself with a pitchfork, copping wood, or carrying water as part of your experience!

~4:00 PM,  Tear Down & Clean-up at Sweat Camp
     – As important as preparing for, and the Ceremony itself, is finishing up, putting away the Lodge materials and our medicines and making sure the site is clean and tidy. Making sure that everything is ready for the next ceremony in a good way. Make it Beautiful! He waste yakage!

6:30 PM, Community Supper: at Sweat Camp or Dining Pavilion, TBD
     – Details TBD. We will be sharing a community meal together with all our guests.

Registration Information

Members are free, Non-members by donation.
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Regular Tent Camping and Lodging Fees apply, Call the Offfice for information
If possible, please try to Arrive by 12 Noon Saturday. No one RSVPd will be turned away.
There is no charge for Ceremony. Donations purely contribute to our material costs.

Learn More about Sweat Lodge at Four Quarters here.    

Sweat stones, ancient revered Grandfathers, await their turn to serve in Ceremony.