the sweat lodge
I been to a couple a few times.
1. naked
no one around here goes naked, we men go in in shorts and the women wear night growns.
there was a lady who asked if she could take her shirt off when we were in the lodge but the answer was no
2. it is differnt
it is differnt whever you go in the native communties as they all have their traditions,
even up here in ojibwe country the sweat lodges are done diffently from sweat lodge caretaker to sweat lodge caretaker.
example one is in a building and the rest is outside.
one uses clean water, and one uses medicine water to splash the grandfathers.
you have your healing sweat, your eagle sweat where you sing four songs ,, and probaly some i haven't heard about
3. the mother womb
when you are in the lodge,, the teaching here is you have returned to the mother womb and you are safe with the spirits,,
many times i been in there and i thought it was just an hour or hour and half and it turned out to be 4 to five hours during the night.
but for proper sweat lodge,,
not all lodge are unisex,, there is the woman sweat , the men sweat, the children sweat,
lodges for a woman who is undergoing her first woman time
lodges for people who are about to go on spiritual fasts, and for afterwards.
all these lodges are proper at least here.