Sweat Lodge

Date: 12 October 2024

Time : 4:30pm – 7:30pm

Our Heart Centre, Midrand

R600 Investment

The Sweat Lodge is an ancient purification ritual… a sacred medicine practiced by many cultures worldwide.

The ceremony is used to give thanks and seek wisdom. It is a way to connect with mother earth, using the natural elements of fire, earth, water and air to heal and cleanse.

The sweat lodge is a dome shaped structure, which is intended to represent the womb of mother earth.

The ceremony itself is divided into four rounds. Each round differs… they may be held in silence, or accompanied by singing, chanting or prayers. Hot rocks are placed in the center of the lodge before each round, and during the ceremony, water is poured over the heated rocks – creating steam and increasing the temperature. The intense heat generated by the steam, encourages the sweating out of toxins and negative energies that create imbalance in our lives. In this way, the sweat lodge ceremony cleanses the body, mind and soul.

We will share a light dinner after your experience to nourish your body.

Here are some of the benefits this sacred practice offers:

* Detoxification

The intense heat generated by the hot rocks encourages sweating, through which toxins are expelled from your bloodstream.

*Cardiovascular Health

Spending an extended period of time in a heated and steamy environment increases your heart rate,promoting improved blood circulation and tissue nourishment.

*Spiritual well-being

The sweat lodge opens up a space of connection between yourself and a higher power, this may be your higher Self, Ancestors, Guides and/or Spirit.

*Community

In the womb of Mother Earth we are all one and the same. The sweat lodge promotes a sense of community and holds the spirit of Ubuntu. In this space we come together as one, and we carry each other through.

*Release

Should you find yourself feeling “stuck” or unmotivated, this ceremony is for you. It facilitates the process of releasing what no longer serves you. Exiting the Sweat Lodge it is symbolic of Rebirth, leaving the womb-space of Mother Earth. You are left feeling clear and fresh in mind, body and spirit.

*Transcendence

This powerful ceremony offers the opportunity to transcend. When faced with the heat and discomfort you are presented with the opportunity to become the observer. To be present with your discomfort, yet not let it consume your being. Through this practice you find connection with a higher state of consciousness.

Facilitator : Carla De Pretto

Carla began her Medicine Healing work 9 years ago. The medicine that she connects deepest with is the medicine of the Sweat Lodge. Her first sweat lodge in 2014 was a life changing experience and she knew that this path was her calling. Since then she has served in several sweat lodge ceremonies and has spent hundreds of hours inside this sacred medicine, deepening her own spiritual practice. She has an immense appreciation for this ancient technology because it is a space that allows for introspection, connection to mother earth, connection to the spirit world, and elicits the sense of being home.

Please email info@ourheartcentre.co.za to book your spot!

“What a beautiful sweat this was. I connected with a very dear friend who passed when we were 21. I haven’t thought of him in so long and just honouring him in this moment was truly profound. The “grandmother’s” were so gentle with me. Medicine space always gives us what we need. It felt like they were just enveloping me in the biggest hug filled with so much love. Soo blessed and thankful to have been present in this moment. Thanks to all the beautiful souls who shared this space with me. Thank you Carla for holding this space so beautifully and OHC – Angy-Lee for making this space available to us. So much gratitude for all you do 🥰”

– Sandra

“I did not expect anything from this experience, I also did not pre plan what I thought I wanted to experience. I allowed life to take me on a journey and I simply trusted that it has my best interest at heart and that I am safe. And wow what a journey life has been taken me on ever since then.
If you hear the call – answer it with open arms

Thank you Angy-Lee, Carla, Chloè and everyone that puts their love and energy into the Centre. Thank you for everything you mean not just to me and my family, but to all those people out there that you guide with your love and knowledge.”

– Rozelda

The Sweat Lodge is such an incredibly powerful expirience and is one of my favourite practises for two main reasons:

The sense of community and oneness felt in the space is unlike anything else, it is the epitome of the African spirit of Ubuntu and ” together we rise”.
Each time I take part in this ceremony I find a deeper sense of strength. It offers me the opportunity to transcend the human state, and any discomfort felt through the heat, and operate from a whole new state of consciousness and being.

Leaving the space is like a complete rebirth of Self.

A huge thank you to Carla for the way she holds this space.