Navajo Sweatlodge Revealed!

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  • What happens inside the Sweatlodge? It's probably not what most people think.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 169

  • @icescrew1
    @icescrew1 Рік тому +63

    I learned to pray in a sweat lodge here in Ignacio. A Ute Elder ran an open sweat for years. So grateful for those years.

    • @Smytjf11
      @Smytjf11 Рік тому +1

      What is an open sweat? I live in the Midwest, I've got no idea about any of this.

    • @icescrew1
      @icescrew1 Рік тому +3

      @@Smytjf11 a sweat ceremony conducted by Native Americans that non Native people can attend.

  • @okiejammer2736
    @okiejammer2736 Рік тому +55

    'Sitting with the Grandfathers' ... how very beautiful. Your videos are always interesting, always sincere and honest, trustworthy and often poignant. You teach us so lovingly, Grandfather. Thank you.

  • @AnneGermainMedium1
    @AnneGermainMedium1 Рік тому +33

    I would love for Wally to invite a Grandmother to come and share with us women about how we could follow the teachings of the ancestral Grandmothers. Is this something that is possible?

  • @abc-dj3dx
    @abc-dj3dx Рік тому +12

    Wado Elder Wally. You shared with me and I'll do the same. I am Yunwiya (aka Cherokee). When we come out of a sweat, we "go to water." Normally a nearby cold mountain stream. We have certain things we do once there, but it is a saying for us, "go to water." I thought of that when you said you would cover yourself with earth. The implications made me think, we go to water and you guys go to earth. :)

  • @NaviBeanz
    @NaviBeanz Рік тому +5

    I'm Navajo but raised from a different family it's great to understand and learn about my culture .

  • @glynnphillips9703
    @glynnphillips9703 Рік тому +12

    We love you so very much Mr,Wally ✨️

  • @jeffreymonahan6826
    @jeffreymonahan6826 Рік тому +21

    Magnificent and beautiful thank you for sharing your wonderful way of living with us.

  • @Bluewaterpinessantarosabeach
    @Bluewaterpinessantarosabeach Рік тому +21

    Thank you good brother for sitting with us. ☀️

  • @medea_mujer_cuervo
    @medea_mujer_cuervo Рік тому +18

    Muchas gracias, siempre, por tu sabiduría. Sweat Lodge , en México es "Temazcalli" 🙌✨❤️‍🔥 experiencias profundas dentro del gran útero.

  • @BasicLearnings
    @BasicLearnings Рік тому +5

    I Wish Everyone would be as wise and spiritually advanced as the Navajo Traditional People ❤

  • @annebird9195
    @annebird9195 Рік тому +13

    In the LDS temples we have a similar sacred name given. I feel like so many similarites though different religions means that God comunicates to his childeren the same across the world.
    Thankyou for sharing.😊

  • @Thyalwaysseek
    @Thyalwaysseek Рік тому +14

    Can you please ask Wally to speak about the new celestial signs which have appeared in the heavens, there is a bright blue star (Ursa Major Constellation) and a red star (Betelgeuse-Orion Constellation) now shining brighter than usual matching the Hopi Blue Kachina/Red Kachina Prophecy (I have done a Livestream on this recently as well as the changes we are now seeing in our Sun). I have done some research into the Hopi name for Betelgeuse and see that it is connected to the symbol of the Badger and the Kachina Honan, I know Wally is Navajo but I am wondering if he has any further information within the Navajo mythology that may connect to the Badger symbol and the stars within Orion. Thanking you in advance.

    • @hgdfzd
      @hgdfzd Рік тому

      Orion (mulSIPA.ZI.AN.NA). Red star. The Annunaki are coming back.

    • @gregorywoods5294
      @gregorywoods5294 9 місяців тому

      I've questioned this theory myself , and especially now with Gaza situation biblical prophecies seems to be coming true.. enlighten us with your teachings.

  • @stlhottie2
    @stlhottie2 Рік тому +4

    So many jewels being dropped in these teachings! So much more knowledgeable than any university.

  • @fawndestiny4043
    @fawndestiny4043 Рік тому +8

    Thank you so much for sharing these details! I love seeing the older pictures of you (building the sweat lodge).

  • @daneweems3513
    @daneweems3513 Рік тому +8

    Thank you so much, I have always been fascinated by sweat lodge. It is so interesting.

  • @lilcricket4379
    @lilcricket4379 Рік тому +15

    Thank you, Papa 💓 such an honor to hear this.

  • @saraadams1391
    @saraadams1391 9 місяців тому +3

    To teach is to love and to learn is to respect

  • @need2know739
    @need2know739 Рік тому +6

    Thank-You Elder, always wondered about the Sweat Lodge and there function?
    Very Sacred Indeed...

  • @paulhastert1518
    @paulhastert1518 Рік тому +5

    Thank you so very sir.

  • @tarareberger3639
    @tarareberger3639 Рік тому +7

    I found this very interesting. Thank you,for your time you put in.❤

  • @timothymeehan5680
    @timothymeehan5680 Рік тому +5

    Thank you Wally and Shane

  • @heathersteinhoff9540
    @heathersteinhoff9540 Рік тому +6

    Thank you.

  • @okaminess
    @okaminess Рік тому +5

    I returned to the sweat lodge after the pandemic. We need people who are willing to carry on this tradition.

  • @StarNanny
    @StarNanny Рік тому +5

    The teaching songs are the reason I listen particularly closely to teachings from native elders and shamans when they deem it time to share. Precise teaching songs are very effective in transmitting knowledge without error. Consider The Alphabet Song. Same thing.

  • @JazzMaven
    @JazzMaven Рік тому +9

    Great video; thank you.

  • @barnabusoskineegish364
    @barnabusoskineegish364 Рік тому +4

    Thank you appreciate for sharing father's knowledge..Mm.

  • @marywood8852
    @marywood8852 Рік тому +6

    Thank you! Your lessons are wonderful!

  • @shelleyharris9349
    @shelleyharris9349 Рік тому +6

    Spiritual Blessings 😇

  • @markgibsons_SWpottery
    @markgibsons_SWpottery Рік тому +17

    I asked an old medicine man if I could join him and the others in a sweat lodge, and they laughed at me, but I do look and am mostly white (circumcised) and at that time 25 years old, but when he laughed, I quickly knew how many aspects he was laughing at,...

    • @MrStaybrown
      @MrStaybrown Рік тому

      If you're white, they usually won't just allow you unless you're an inlaw.

    • @commanderpinnacles
      @commanderpinnacles Рік тому +5

      circumcision is important? How would they even know?

    • @markgibsons_SWpottery
      @markgibsons_SWpottery Рік тому +4

      @@commanderpinnacles they teach the boys how to take care of their member that is usually un-circumcised and the way to enter the sweat lodge is naked... I think its more funny as the years go by... Im 43 now, so, a few chuckles don't hurt!!! LOL! there are some spiritual aspects of circumcision, but I'm not aware of all of those...

    • @Fire0warrior182
      @Fire0warrior182 Рік тому

      @@markgibsons_SWpottery how little you know.

    • @markgibsons_SWpottery
      @markgibsons_SWpottery Рік тому +2

      @@Fire0warrior182 knew... how little I knew...

  • @ragheadand420roll
    @ragheadand420roll Рік тому +4

    Thank you

  • @kathyabeauty
    @kathyabeauty Рік тому +3

    Thank you so much for sharing this precious information.

  • @suesanders1169
    @suesanders1169 Рік тому +13

    Thank you Wally for these wonderful insights and teachings into the purpose(s) of the sweat lodge.

  • @FacesintheStone
    @FacesintheStone Рік тому +5

    Fantastic as always.

  • @Marise2010
    @Marise2010 Рік тому +5

    Gratidão pela partilha amorosa de sempre!!! A'ho!!!

  • @jayf6206
    @jayf6206 Рік тому +16

    I would love to hear what is remembered of "those of two minds". Do you see similar people in the world today?

  • @ilonaroem1916
    @ilonaroem1916 Рік тому +2

    Awesome!!! Thank you so much.

  • @JR-nm2zu
    @JR-nm2zu Рік тому +3

    Thank you very much.

  • @wendymcgough2498
    @wendymcgough2498 9 місяців тому

    Thank you so much for sharing 🙌👏

  • @stewwilliams1537
    @stewwilliams1537 Рік тому +2

    Thank you for the wisdom. To think that the focus of the people was spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical in the important stages of day to day life. If we all in this world could have this, what a wonderful place it would be! So now to find someone to help me with a sweat lodge

  • @leehouston5436
    @leehouston5436 Рік тому +3

    I’ve done many sweats, even was asked to lead a few. Inipi is what we call it. One time I went to a Navajo sweat and it was far more intense

  • @angelabrainky7786
    @angelabrainky7786 Рік тому +3

    Thank you sir.

  • @peterforsberg6587
    @peterforsberg6587 5 місяців тому

    Thanks for continuing sharing your traditions!🙏🌈

  • @roeberdt-bT.1021
    @roeberdt-bT.1021 Рік тому +1

    ...of course of course, learning appropriately and remaining and retaining integrity, balance, and intelligence.,...
    "Just a path to be ok.,..."
    And thank you for the post as always, absolutely appreciated.

  • @sandmaker
    @sandmaker 11 місяців тому

    Once again, thank you for sharing. From Dahlonega, Georgia

  • @ericmichael3643
    @ericmichael3643 Рік тому +3

    That sounds wonderful I'd love to have all these experiences and spend quality time with elders medicine men/women & natives/indigenous & connect with them & my roots etc all that..!!.. ❤️

    • @Jetmab04
      @Jetmab04 Рік тому

      One of my many dreams as well 💖

  • @Kate13.
    @Kate13. Рік тому +1

    Sacred Number 4
    🙌🏼♥️
    Thank you for your wisdom. 🙏🏼 ✨

  • @suekelsey1329
    @suekelsey1329 Рік тому +2

    Love this show
    From Alaska 😊

  • @ga7261
    @ga7261 Рік тому +3

    Grandfather
    Healing ceremony for veterans? Good topic

  • @grammamellow1219
    @grammamellow1219 Рік тому

    And I am here for it!!! Aaaa ohhh!!! Thank you.

  • @vtpoet5300
    @vtpoet5300 Рік тому +2

    Thank you, Grandfather.
    Hello, Brother Shane 😉
    Big hug 😎

  • @JudyinAZ3
    @JudyinAZ3 Рік тому +2

    Tyvm

  • @MrStaybrown
    @MrStaybrown Рік тому +6

    25 years ago a navajo robe man invited us to his place for a sweat. When we showed up we noticed he was allowing male's and females to sweat together. We just left and never went back.

    • @michaelpettersson4919
      @michaelpettersson4919 Рік тому +1

      I have have in videos here heard warnings about charlatans. Such people exist in all cultures. Sadly you can be fooled if you do not know what to look out for. Before today I have no knowledge about this specific tabu since it is perfectly fine to gendermix in saunas here alongside seperated groups but the cultural context is different here since I know of no ritual context my Scandinavian culture.

    • @ariannagonzalez2618
      @ariannagonzalez2618 Місяць тому

      I have attended several Lakota sweat lodges that are male and females inside but the women sit on one side. Women also pour lodge, and sun dance. Same in Mexico, and Colombia.

    • @MrStaybrown
      @MrStaybrown Місяць тому +1

      @@ariannagonzalez2618 yup, navajo are not supposed to combine. Navajo sweat differs from other tribes. But lately it is all mixing off various tribes.

  • @marialuis5107
    @marialuis5107 Рік тому

    Many beautiful blessings 🙏❤️‍🔥

  • @txtardis7887
    @txtardis7887 Місяць тому

    If I went into a Sweat Lodge and my ancestors showed up, they would probably smack me around for screwing up this life.
    Thank you for another informative teaching Wally. 🙏

  • @suesanders1169
    @suesanders1169 Рік тому +3

    8:49-9:04 Wife is permitted to know husband's SACRED NAME. ( I will presume Husband is permitted to know wife's SACRED NAME .) The first shared confidence ( of many ) between husband and wife ONLY. 😊

  • @user-ic7qc4gb5s
    @user-ic7qc4gb5s Рік тому +2

    Thank you for updating our relatives on the right way of sweat lodging as we don't do a co sweating

  • @saraadams1391
    @saraadams1391 9 місяців тому

    Wow!

  • @loriburnham966
    @loriburnham966 Рік тому +1

    Thank u

  • @1ACL
    @1ACL Рік тому +1

    If by any crazy chance that Richard Castle is reading the comments...thank you. Thank you. You did it correctly.

  • @Aaaaaaaaairdavis
    @Aaaaaaaaairdavis Рік тому +6

    🙏🏽4️⃣🌎. Once again I am grateful for this teaching and your profound words. Thank you Wally
    🙏🏽our paths crossing are for reasons I'll continue to seek to understand... you've taught me to find truth in that these things are organized this way.
    Hope to gift you a necklace soon☮️

  • @user-tm1ec2on6w
    @user-tm1ec2on6w Рік тому +18

    I’m guessing that like a Finnish sauna, you wear nothing but the skin you were born with.

    • @dbuck1964
      @dbuck1964 Рік тому +2

      Surf shorts are great. 👍🏻😂

    • @michaelpettersson4919
      @michaelpettersson4919 Рік тому

      Are singing part of it as well? After a couple of beers I suppose it could happen, probably a bit more profane songs then our host here is talking about. 😉

  • @chucklillard1243
    @chucklillard1243 Рік тому

    Your back drop is a Chief Joseph blanket. He is my mother's, mother's father. I'm Nezperce/Colville. Born in Spokane. Adopted very young. I wish I knew more then I know of my people.

  • @jo-annebellamy5983
    @jo-annebellamy5983 Рік тому

    Otherwise known as. ... a living
    definition of such a heart.

  • @michaeladronsmith6043
    @michaeladronsmith6043 8 місяців тому

    Yes i know.

  • @DesperateForSanity
    @DesperateForSanity Рік тому +3

    Didn't know the sexes should be separated when I participated in one but it was one of the most incredible experiences I've ever had. Will never forget the scent of the smoke.

    • @dat1ndnguy
      @dat1ndnguy 8 місяців тому +1

      It varies by tribe...where I'm from the NW we often go in completely naked. Not a law or anything. Younger folks might keep their underwear or some trunks on.

    • @DesperateForSanity
      @DesperateForSanity 8 місяців тому

      @@dat1ndnguy 👍

  • @greenman4508
    @greenman4508 Рік тому +10

    Thank you grandfather ,thank you teacher! I have had the honor of being in a bunch of inepi, as the Penobscot tribe’s called them. They did mix genders, unless a woman was on her moon time. Although some tribal people left angry because of this. As a young white dude at the times, I made a fool of myself so often it’s taken twenty years of thinking and still I cringe at new realizations of my foolishness. . So many questions. Why do they call the stones ancestors? Why are perfectly round stones able to move spaces? What do the Sasquatch people have to do with holding the space for the ceremony? I don’t expect answers, just some thoughts your teaching brought to the surface. I was changed on a very deep level by this ceremony. All my relations 🙏🏻

  • @jerredhamann5646
    @jerredhamann5646 11 місяців тому

    That only during the day time restriction is interesting because the local native tribe that lives in my area only holds sweat lodges at night and their most sacred teachings can only be told when snow is on the ground

  • @Platero505
    @Platero505 Рік тому +1

    I'm curious if using lava rocks is ok?

  • @jensenchavez265
    @jensenchavez265 Рік тому +2

    Who builds the sweat lodge?

  • @suesanders1169
    @suesanders1169 Рік тому +1

    12:48 PURIFICATION. 😊

  • @wilddesertladiesvanlife4399
    @wilddesertladiesvanlife4399 2 місяці тому

    Hastiin I have not sweated in a sweat lodge for many years unfortunately. But a very serious question to ask.I was born a true two spirited.Both genders.So what lodge am I supposed to be in female or male? I want To start sweating in the sweat lodge again. I am a 1/2 breed Navajo. My grandfather was Tafora New Mexico side. And he was a full blood.. Unfortunately, he is past And he did not pass on the Traditions. I follow your teachings and appreciate them and your wisdom.

  • @KaterinaStClaire
    @KaterinaStClaire Рік тому

    Would dandelion tea be good?

  • @loriburnham966
    @loriburnham966 Рік тому

    Happy Fathers Day ALL❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

  • @BiologyBabe
    @BiologyBabe 7 місяців тому +1

    My great grandmother mov3d from her family on the reservation and she stopped associating with them. Therefore, I do not have any contact with my Navajo roots. I want very much to recon with my people and find my family again. Do you know how I might be able to do that? I only know the name she went by after she left which I think she made up and I do not know what her true name was. I feel very lost because I feel like I’m missing a large part of who I am. In fact, we know she was Navajo, but we have no documentation because she cut herself off from it. Does anyone know how I might find my family?

  • @markgamble7699
    @markgamble7699 Рік тому

    💜

  • @timothygazda9441
    @timothygazda9441 Рік тому

    ♥️♥️♥️

  • @ricardohighlander1984
    @ricardohighlander1984 Рік тому +5

    Yá`át`ééh..!!

  • @BasicLearnings
    @BasicLearnings Рік тому

    I Wanna Go to a Sweat Lodge one day❤

  • @earthinspiredart7773
    @earthinspiredart7773 Рік тому

  • @cysigh11
    @cysigh11 Рік тому

    Is a hogan the same as a sweat lodge?

  • @nmcondon
    @nmcondon Рік тому

    THANK YOU SIR
    RESTORE OUR REPUBLIC / JEFFREY PRATHER

  • @user-yr5nv2gv7m
    @user-yr5nv2gv7m Рік тому

    i used to up the speed too but it wasn't right i realized his natural speech pace is the right its our modern overstimulate hurrying brain thats miswired in our times... i watch this on 0.75 too!

  • @geelee1977
    @geelee1977 Рік тому +4

    What Happens Inside The Sweatlodge?.......Stays in the Sweatlodge.

  • @JoseCVilla
    @JoseCVilla Рік тому +1

    Nenee the Siberian tribe also &
    still use tepees some of them have
    light brown eyes. 😉

  • @suesanders1169
    @suesanders1169 Рік тому +1

    4 songs, 4 parts, sung 4 times. Like the 4 points of the compass ( NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, and WEST ), protection from ALL sides, as if one is in a bubble.

  • @pumapaw2020
    @pumapaw2020 Рік тому

    I was encouraged to go and sweat from a Native lady friend of to rid myself of my "kookoos" as she put it.
    It took me 3 1/2 yrs before i felt comfortable with myself and the elder who does sweats. Intent for going in is everything. Be CLEAR on ur intentions before going in. Or the spirits can woop ur a**.
    The elder had men and women in the same sweat. My native lady friend was shocked when i told her. "Absolutely not!!", She yelled at me. She said if she was me, she would never do that again. A woman can be on her moontime and make everyone sick. But if i did, take a good piece of silver and at least put in my pocket. Ppl wore shorts and t-shirts for women too. So i would also go to another ceremony he did called a Talking Circle. More casual ceremony. The elder called it the first group therapy in the Americas.
    I was asked if i got sick the last sweat, which i didn't but i was told everyone else did. I said, Huh and didn't say anything more.
    Neeways, i asked my native lady friend, Why are some ceremonies done in the dark?? Like in a sweat. As in what Mr.Brown talks about closing the door with blankets, skins. You can't see ur hand in front of ur face. She said, "b/c in the darkness u get to know who u really are, in light there's too many distractions". I enjoy just sitting or lying down in the dark now. It doesn't bother me or scare me. In fact I feel joy. I think that's why ppl in general are afraid of the dark. They're afraid of themselves and base everything they think they are in the light of day, too many identities if u ask me causing confusion and delusion of self. Know urself at ur core and fear leaves the system. Compassion comes into play in and out of urself. And in that i am Free not the illusion of being free. That's one thing sweats have done for me. Wishing all beings the best on their quest.A'hou
    Ma'halo Wally for ur teachings.
    🌺🙏🌺😺🌺🤙🌺

  • @genuinesterling-yp6fx
    @genuinesterling-yp6fx Рік тому +1

    👍✌️🙏💯😊

  • @suesanders1169
    @suesanders1169 Рік тому +1

    Some things stay STRICTLY in the SWEAT LODGE, while there are certain things that CAN BE SHARED, just NOT SPECIFICS/ DETAILS. 🙂

    • @michaelpettersson4919
      @michaelpettersson4919 Рік тому

      Good, the world need some mystery, no need to spoil it for everyone. In seriousness I understand and respect that people want preserve some cultural secrets for themselves and as such should not intrude.

  • @suesanders1169
    @suesanders1169 Рік тому

    10:05 ANCESTORS.

  • @olafaalop1188
    @olafaalop1188 Рік тому +2

    I have absolutely zero interest in sitting in a hot hut, then covering myself with dirt after sweating. Never understood saunas either. I just don't get it.

  • @yvonnehebert8579
    @yvonnehebert8579 Рік тому

    I would love to see a woman speaking about a women's sweatlodge. Would that be possibe on yhis channel?

  • @josephvargas9707
    @josephvargas9707 Рік тому

    I’m here cuz of CONEJO

  • @PedroPeyolo
    @PedroPeyolo Рік тому

    Ancestral Batchelor Prayer..

  • @imfloridano5448
    @imfloridano5448 Рік тому

    I was in a sweat lodge on the Choctaw Aboriginal peoples land in Philadelphia Mississippi. The medicine man learned from the Navajo medicine person. What I am hearing the lodge was done incorrectly cause women and teens were all in their and it was done at night tyme each tyme I participated. My ancestors are of various tribes Lakota, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Osage, African, and others. We told we couldn't discuss what was witnessed or experienced from the sweat lodge.

  • @tyyazzie4720
    @tyyazzie4720 Рік тому +1

    🏔️⛰️🗻🌋

  • @suesanders1169
    @suesanders1169 Рік тому

    1:52 used only during DAYTIME HOURS. What is done in the light is OF THE LIGHT. What is done in the dark is OF THE DARK. ( Eternal battle of GOOD vs EVIL.)

  • @edithcultee7558
    @edithcultee7558 Рік тому

    I love my Elders sir not all of us is okay with this being publicly known, did you seek your counsel before airing?

  • @Kane-ez
    @Kane-ez Рік тому

    My apt is like a sweat lodge😂😅

  • @alienallen2983
    @alienallen2983 Рік тому +2

    👍🙏>>>💚--- Thank You

  • @suesanders1169
    @suesanders1169 Рік тому

    12:29 Another 4. 🤔