The Sweat Lodge

The sweat lodge is an important therapy and spiritual practice of most, if not all, native American culture. Culture from South America to South America, you can see sweat hut variants. It uses extreme heat and water to produce that effect, so it can be thought of as a kind of spa. Specifically, I will explain my personal journey and experience as a participant of Mohawk Sweat Cottage. Each tribe has its own way of expressing its own sweat, even if they have the same basis to personalize everything.

Sweat cabin or purification cabin is one of the oldest rituals in the United States. The sweat cabin is a physical and mental cleansing place, a place to communicate with the great power of nature, water, fire, air, and the great spirit to create them (Cohen, 2003) . Participants eliminate disease, pollution, negative thoughts and energy. According to Cohen (2003, p.257, para.4), "The ceremony is generally divided into four rounds, after each round the threshold is temporarily opened, unnecessary force flows out, A lot of energy enters. "Many people participate in weekly sweating ceremony. This is a wonderful place for mental regeneration and spiritual and emotional clarity

Sweat cabin is an indispensable part of Native American life. Native Americans completed the purification ceremony at these sweat huts. This ritual involves purifying the human body and soul. The sweat lodge layout, the practice of purification ceremonies, and the symbolic meaning of these things are all part of the Native American ritual. The Navajo people used to call the sweat hut "a pain" before. They are made of branches of willow birds like a honeycomb. A hut outside the sweat is the fire used to warm the rock. The unpaved road outside the fire is passing through a door leading to fire. The door is always facing east. In the middle of the sweaty lodge there is a hole outside the rock heated by flames.