A writer who sets out on a wellness journey to a Mexican sweat lodge instead uncovers the importance of trusting—not just challenging—your body.

She described sweat lodge ceremonies as a supplement to religion. Erin, Evans' older daughter, and Roaneagle testified about observing the child in the sweat lodge and not noticing him to be in ...

No spiritual tourists here tonight. Hundreds of strings of prayer ties — relics of previous ceremonies — hang from the latticework of the sweat lodge frame, gently swaying in the wind.

The County Board approved a $30,000 contract in April with American Indian OIC to construct the lodges and facilitate the sweat lodge ceremonies beginning this summer through the end of the year.

Sweat lodge ceremonies, an important part of maintaining that path for many Native American tribes, are again being offered at the prison after a hiatus due to pandemic safety measures.

A sweat lodge ceremony where two people died last week in Arizona was improperly conducted and not representative of a true American Indian tradition, local American Indians said Wednesday.

In the past decade, 257 sweat-lodge ceremonies involving more than 2,300 people have been held on the VA grounds at Hot Springs. The Inipi (sweat lodge) is one of the seven sacred rites of the Lakota.

PRESCOTT — The deaths of two people during a sweat-lodge ceremony led by self-help expert James Arthur Ray are being investigated as homicides, authorities said Thursday.

FLAGSTAFF — A woman who took part in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony tells The Associated Press that the spiritual guru who led the event pushed participants too far in what was supposed to be a ...

The Mi'kmaq Nation in Maine spent about $50,000 of its opioid settlement funds to build a healing lodge it will use for traditional sweat ceremonies to help people recover from addiction.