Songs for the Lodge

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Our website focuses  on Lakota spiritual practices with respect to the sweat Lodge. We also provide some information on Yoruba tradition because of its relationship to Lakota practices. Our information is based upon years of personal experience in these traditions.  We have also done a great deal of  scholarly research.  We do not presume to be experts in either tradition although we have been initiated into Ifa and Sun danced with traditional Lakota people.  Rather, we want to share what we have learned on our journeys to help others maneuver with some through these traditions.

It is also our desire to address the issues of cultural appropriation; what it is and what it is not. We believe it is critically important that if one says we are practicing Ifa or Lakota or Cheyenne, Hmong, Celtic, Bambara or Buddhist traditions, that one have some measure of cultural markers for the tradition being addressed. To not know the cultural markers is a negation of that tradition and is a form of cultural appropriation.

That being said, we want you to enjoy the articles and that you find them stimulating and worthy of conversation. Enjoy a lodge. They are beautiful experiences. Feel free to leave comments and short stories about your own experiences.