This will be the last Women's Lodge of the year, so please join us at this time. The women's lodge circle has been a beautiful journey for me throughout this year & has become part of my way of life. I feel to thank all the women who have joined me on this growing journey, for your open hearts, your teachings, your courage, your voice.

We return back to the womb of the earth mother with intention & prayer to understand ourselves as women & come into a deeper relationship with the Divine Feminine. In the lodge, we give honour to the Great Spirit, Mother Earth, Sacred Fire, Grandmother Stones & the elements.

All women are called back to the womb of the Mother, back to where the darkness & the mist completely envelopes us, where time & place do not exist. This is where we will learn about the feminine aspect of God. As women we come to understand the cycle of creation, because our bodies repeat the rhythm of the moon. Our Women's lodge is an invitation for all women of any age, race or religion, it does not matter what stage of your moon cycle you are at. This work is done to balance feminine & masculine energies within ourselves, our families & communities.

Please book ahead of time to secure your place. The Cost is R200, if pre-paid by internet or deposited into my account before the evening. Or R250 on the evening. A light meal is included. We begin at 6:30pm. We will end between 10 and 11pm.

Venue: Good Vibrations Sanctuary in Rivonia, Johannesburg.

More info about the Sweat Lodge:

...Sweat practices differ slightly amongst cultures; however they all share the elements of purification, prayer and deep connection to life. In most traditions, this powerful ceremony is a place of spirit where one goes to cleanse the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual body, and to pray. All sense of race, colour and religion disappears in the heat and darkness of the lodge. In the womb of Mother Earth, we are all the same and have the ability to sit with the Great Spirit. It is a place to seek answers and guidance by asking spiritual entities, totem helpers and the Great Spirit. As the steam rises so do our senses and our prayers. In the heat and darkness of the lodge we can come closer to ourselves, our creator, and to understanding each other.

The Sweat Lodge is literally a place of rebirth. The ceremony is designed to facilitate the release of emotions that no longer serve us (anger, jealousy, frustration or any other emotion). Each sweat has an introspective, a release and a consolidation round where individuals have the opportunity to silently request that what is needed in order to move forward. They exit the lodge a new person, reborn with a new perspective from the womb of the Sweat Lodge, having let go of the old.

There is always a fire keeper who consciously tends the sacred fire and carries the hot stones into the lodge. The stones used represent Earth as both Grandmother and Mother, an eternal matrilineal kinship and are symbols of endurance in the same manner in which Earth endures. They are alive. Stone absorbs the essence & power of fire and when water is splashed on them in the lodge, the steam or vapour produced is considered powerful and holy, the visible symbol of Creator's Breath. Finns call this vapour"loyly," spirit of life.

The greater underlying intention in all such ceremonies is to acknowledge, feel and experience our spirit bodies. When groups of people come together and focus their intent, it becomes a potentially powerful and creative situation. By doing these ceremonies we gently weave a web of connections between those present and all of our Relations (all of creation or all sentient beings).

In Love,
Leeane Chalice & Niyan

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