'Sitting with the Grandfathers' ... how very beautiful. Your videos are always interesting, always sincere and honest, trustworthy and often poignant. You teach us so lovingly, Grandfather. Thank you.
Wado Elder Wally. You shared with me and I'll do the same. I am Yunwiya (aka Cherokee). When we come out of a sweat, we "go to water." Normally a nearby cold mountain stream. We have certain things we do once there, but it is a saying for us, "go to water." I thought of that when you said you would cover yourself with earth. The implications made me think, we go to water and you guys go to earth. :)
I would love for Wally to invite a Grandmother to come and share with us women about how we could follow the teachings of the ancestral Grandmothers. Is this something that is possible?
In the LDS temples we have a similar sacred name given. I feel like so many similarites though different religions means that God comunicates to his childeren the same across the world. Thankyou for sharing.😊
Thank you for the wisdom. To think that the focus of the people was spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical in the important stages of day to day life. If we all in this world could have this, what a wonderful place it would be! So now to find someone to help me with a sweat lodge
I asked an old medicine man if I could join him and the others in a sweat lodge, and they laughed at me, but I do look and am mostly white (circumcised) and at that time 25 years old, but when he laughed, I quickly knew how many aspects he was laughing at,...
@@commanderpinnacles they teach the boys how to take care of their member that is usually un-circumcised and the way to enter the sweat lodge is naked... I think its more funny as the years go by... Im 43 now, so, a few chuckles don't hurt!!! LOL! there are some spiritual aspects of circumcision, but I'm not aware of all of those...
Can you please ask Wally to speak about the new celestial signs which have appeared in the heavens, there is a bright blue star (Ursa Major Constellation) and a red star (Betelgeuse-Orion Constellation) now shining brighter than usual matching the Hopi Blue Kachina/Red Kachina Prophecy (I have done a Livestream on this recently as well as the changes we are now seeing in our Sun). I have done some research into the Hopi name for Betelgeuse and see that it is connected to the symbol of the Badger and the Kachina Honan, I know Wally is Navajo but I am wondering if he has any further information within the Navajo mythology that may connect to the Badger symbol and the stars within Orion. Thanking you in advance.
I've questioned this theory myself , and especially now with Gaza situation biblical prophecies seems to be coming true.. enlighten us with your teachings.
...of course of course, learning appropriately and remaining and retaining integrity, balance, and intelligence.,... "Just a path to be ok.,..." And thank you for the post as always, absolutely appreciated.
The teaching songs are the reason I listen particularly closely to teachings from native elders and shamans when they deem it time to share. Precise teaching songs are very effective in transmitting knowledge without error. Consider The Alphabet Song. Same thing.
That sounds wonderful I'd love to have all these experiences and spend quality time with elders medicine men/women & natives/indigenous & connect with them & my roots etc all that..!!.. ❤️
If I went into a Sweat Lodge and my ancestors showed up, they would probably smack me around for screwing up this life. Thank you for another informative teaching Wally. 🙏
Are singing part of it as well? After a couple of beers I suppose it could happen, probably a bit more profane songs then our host here is talking about. 😉
25 years ago a navajo robe man invited us to his place for a sweat. When we showed up we noticed he was allowing male's and females to sweat together. We just left and never went back.
I have have in videos here heard warnings about charlatans. Such people exist in all cultures. Sadly you can be fooled if you do not know what to look out for. Before today I have no knowledge about this specific tabu since it is perfectly fine to gendermix in saunas here alongside seperated groups but the cultural context is different here since I know of no ritual context my Scandinavian culture.
I have attended several Lakota sweat lodges that are male and females inside but the women sit on one side. Women also pour lodge, and sun dance. Same in Mexico, and Colombia.
Didn't know the sexes should be separated when I participated in one but it was one of the most incredible experiences I've ever had. Will never forget the scent of the smoke.
It varies by tribe...where I'm from the NW we often go in completely naked. Not a law or anything. Younger folks might keep their underwear or some trunks on.
8:49-9:04 Wife is permitted to know husband's SACRED NAME. ( I will presume Husband is permitted to know wife's SACRED NAME .) The first shared confidence ( of many ) between husband and wife ONLY. 😊
Your back drop is a Chief Joseph blanket. He is my mother's, mother's father. I'm Nezperce/Colville. Born in Spokane. Adopted very young. I wish I knew more then I know of my people.
That only during the day time restriction is interesting because the local native tribe that lives in my area only holds sweat lodges at night and their most sacred teachings can only be told when snow is on the ground
🙏🏽4️⃣🌎. Once again I am grateful for this teaching and your profound words. Thank you Wally 🙏🏽our paths crossing are for reasons I'll continue to seek to understand... you've taught me to find truth in that these things are organized this way. Hope to gift you a necklace soon☮️
Thank you grandfather ,thank you teacher! I have had the honor of being in a bunch of inepi, as the Penobscot tribe’s called them. They did mix genders, unless a woman was on her moon time. Although some tribal people left angry because of this. As a young white dude at the times, I made a fool of myself so often it’s taken twenty years of thinking and still I cringe at new realizations of my foolishness. . So many questions. Why do they call the stones ancestors? Why are perfectly round stones able to move spaces? What do the Sasquatch people have to do with holding the space for the ceremony? I don’t expect answers, just some thoughts your teaching brought to the surface. I was changed on a very deep level by this ceremony. All my relations 🙏🏻
My great grandmother mov3d from her family on the reservation and she stopped associating with them. Therefore, I do not have any contact with my Navajo roots. I want very much to recon with my people and find my family again. Do you know how I might be able to do that? I only know the name she went by after she left which I think she made up and I do not know what her true name was. I feel very lost because I feel like I’m missing a large part of who I am. In fact, we know she was Navajo, but we have no documentation because she cut herself off from it. Does anyone know how I might find my family?
I was encouraged to go and sweat from a Native lady friend of to rid myself of my "kookoos" as she put it. It took me 3 1/2 yrs before i felt comfortable with myself and the elder who does sweats. Intent for going in is everything. Be CLEAR on ur intentions before going in. Or the spirits can woop ur a**. The elder had men and women in the same sweat. My native lady friend was shocked when i told her. "Absolutely not!!", She yelled at me. She said if she was me, she would never do that again. A woman can be on her moontime and make everyone sick. But if i did, take a good piece of silver and at least put in my pocket. Ppl wore shorts and t-shirts for women too. So i would also go to another ceremony he did called a Talking Circle. More casual ceremony. The elder called it the first group therapy in the Americas. I was asked if i got sick the last sweat, which i didn't but i was told everyone else did. I said, Huh and didn't say anything more. Neeways, i asked my native lady friend, Why are some ceremonies done in the dark?? Like in a sweat. As in what Mr.Brown talks about closing the door with blankets, skins. You can't see ur hand in front of ur face. She said, "b/c in the darkness u get to know who u really are, in light there's too many distractions". I enjoy just sitting or lying down in the dark now. It doesn't bother me or scare me. In fact I feel joy. I think that's why ppl in general are afraid of the dark. They're afraid of themselves and base everything they think they are in the light of day, too many identities if u ask me causing confusion and delusion of self. Know urself at ur core and fear leaves the system. Compassion comes into play in and out of urself. And in that i am Free not the illusion of being free. That's one thing sweats have done for me. Wishing all beings the best on their quest.A'hou Ma'halo Wally for ur teachings. 🌺🙏🌺😺🌺🤙🌺
i used to up the speed too but it wasn't right i realized his natural speech pace is the right its our modern overstimulate hurrying brain thats miswired in our times... i watch this on 0.75 too!
Good, the world need some mystery, no need to spoil it for everyone. In seriousness I understand and respect that people want preserve some cultural secrets for themselves and as such should not intrude.
4 songs, 4 parts, sung 4 times. Like the 4 points of the compass ( NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, and WEST ), protection from ALL sides, as if one is in a bubble.
I was in a sweat lodge on the Choctaw Aboriginal peoples land in Philadelphia Mississippi. The medicine man learned from the Navajo medicine person. What I am hearing the lodge was done incorrectly cause women and teens were all in their and it was done at night tyme each tyme I participated. My ancestors are of various tribes Lakota, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Osage, African, and others. We told we couldn't discuss what was witnessed or experienced from the sweat lodge.
I have absolutely zero interest in sitting in a hot hut, then covering myself with dirt after sweating. Never understood saunas either. I just don't get it.
Hastiin I have not sweated in a sweat lodge for many years unfortunately. But a very serious question to ask.I was born a true two spirited.Both genders.So what lodge am I supposed to be in female or male? I want To start sweating in the sweat lodge again. I am a 1/2 breed Navajo. My grandfather was Tafora New Mexico side. And he was a full blood.. Unfortunately, he is past And he did not pass on the Traditions. I follow your teachings and appreciate them and your wisdom.
Sweat lodges keep me sober. The best person I can be. As woman, I wear an African dress- humble. Not when Im on my period. Otherwise, we are welcome. Karuk Tribe.
I learned to pray in a sweat lodge here in Ignacio. A Ute Elder ran an open sweat for years. So grateful for those years.
What is an open sweat? I live in the Midwest, I've got no idea about any of this.
@@Smytjf11 a sweat ceremony conducted by Native Americans that non Native people can attend.
'Sitting with the Grandfathers' ... how very beautiful. Your videos are always interesting, always sincere and honest, trustworthy and often poignant. You teach us so lovingly, Grandfather. Thank you.
Wado Elder Wally. You shared with me and I'll do the same. I am Yunwiya (aka Cherokee). When we come out of a sweat, we "go to water." Normally a nearby cold mountain stream. We have certain things we do once there, but it is a saying for us, "go to water." I thought of that when you said you would cover yourself with earth. The implications made me think, we go to water and you guys go to earth. :)
I'm Navajo but raised from a different family it's great to understand and learn about my culture .
I would love for Wally to invite a Grandmother to come and share with us women about how we could follow the teachings of the ancestral Grandmothers. Is this something that is possible?
We love you so very much Mr,Wally ✨️
Thank you good brother for sitting with us. ☀️
❤Many, Many, Blessings❤
To teach is to love and to learn is to respect
Muchas gracias, siempre, por tu sabiduría. Sweat Lodge , en México es "Temazcalli" 🙌✨❤️🔥 experiencias profundas dentro del gran útero.
Does Temazcalli mean 'Great Womb" in English?
@@GrannyGooseOnTH-cam No. The meaning Is "casa de sudor". 💚💚
I Wish Everyone would be as wise and spiritually advanced as the Navajo Traditional People ❤
Magnificent and beautiful thank you for sharing your wonderful way of living with us.
Thank you, Papa 💓 such an honor to hear this.
Thank you so much for sharing these details! I love seeing the older pictures of you (building the sweat lodge).
Thank you so much, I have always been fascinated by sweat lodge. It is so interesting.
Thank you Wally and Shane
Thank-You Elder, always wondered about the Sweat Lodge and there function?
Very Sacred Indeed...
I found this very interesting. Thank you,for your time you put in.❤
Thank you so very sir.
Thank you! Your lessons are wonderful!
Thank you.
In the LDS temples we have a similar sacred name given. I feel like so many similarites though different religions means that God comunicates to his childeren the same across the world.
Thankyou for sharing.😊
Great video; thank you.
Fantastic as always.
Thank you appreciate for sharing father's knowledge..Mm.
Thank you
Thank you for the wisdom. To think that the focus of the people was spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical in the important stages of day to day life. If we all in this world could have this, what a wonderful place it would be! So now to find someone to help me with a sweat lodge
I returned to the sweat lodge after the pandemic. We need people who are willing to carry on this tradition.
Thank you so much for sharing this precious information.
Thank you very much.
I asked an old medicine man if I could join him and the others in a sweat lodge, and they laughed at me, but I do look and am mostly white (circumcised) and at that time 25 years old, but when he laughed, I quickly knew how many aspects he was laughing at,...
If you're white, they usually won't just allow you unless you're an inlaw.
circumcision is important? How would they even know?
@@commanderpinnacles they teach the boys how to take care of their member that is usually un-circumcised and the way to enter the sweat lodge is naked... I think its more funny as the years go by... Im 43 now, so, a few chuckles don't hurt!!! LOL! there are some spiritual aspects of circumcision, but I'm not aware of all of those...
@@markgibsons_SWpottery how little you know.
@@Fire0warrior182 knew... how little I knew...
Thank you Wally for these wonderful insights and teachings into the purpose(s) of the sweat lodge.
Thank you sir.
Spiritual Blessings 😇
Can you please ask Wally to speak about the new celestial signs which have appeared in the heavens, there is a bright blue star (Ursa Major Constellation) and a red star (Betelgeuse-Orion Constellation) now shining brighter than usual matching the Hopi Blue Kachina/Red Kachina Prophecy (I have done a Livestream on this recently as well as the changes we are now seeing in our Sun). I have done some research into the Hopi name for Betelgeuse and see that it is connected to the symbol of the Badger and the Kachina Honan, I know Wally is Navajo but I am wondering if he has any further information within the Navajo mythology that may connect to the Badger symbol and the stars within Orion. Thanking you in advance.
Orion (mulSIPA.ZI.AN.NA). Red star. The Annunaki are coming back.
I've questioned this theory myself , and especially now with Gaza situation biblical prophecies seems to be coming true.. enlighten us with your teachings.
Thanks for continuing sharing your traditions!🙏🌈
Gratidão pela partilha amorosa de sempre!!! A'ho!!!
...of course of course, learning appropriately and remaining and retaining integrity, balance, and intelligence.,...
"Just a path to be ok.,..."
And thank you for the post as always, absolutely appreciated.
The teaching songs are the reason I listen particularly closely to teachings from native elders and shamans when they deem it time to share. Precise teaching songs are very effective in transmitting knowledge without error. Consider The Alphabet Song. Same thing.
Awesome!!! Thank you so much.
Thank you, Grandfather.
Hello, Brother Shane 😉
Big hug 😎
Love this show
From Alaska 😊
That sounds wonderful I'd love to have all these experiences and spend quality time with elders medicine men/women & natives/indigenous & connect with them & my roots etc all that..!!.. ❤️
One of my many dreams as well 💖
I’ve done many sweats, even was asked to lead a few. Inipi is what we call it. One time I went to a Navajo sweat and it was far more intense
Sacred Number 4
🙌🏼♥️
Thank you for your wisdom. 🙏🏼 ✨
If I went into a Sweat Lodge and my ancestors showed up, they would probably smack me around for screwing up this life.
Thank you for another informative teaching Wally. 🙏
Once again, thank you for sharing. From Dahlonega, Georgia
Thank you so much for sharing 🙌👏
Grandfather
Healing ceremony for veterans? Good topic
And I am here for it!!! Aaaa ohhh!!! Thank you.
Thank you for updating our relatives on the right way of sweat lodging as we don't do a co sweating
If by any crazy chance that Richard Castle is reading the comments...thank you. Thank you. You did it correctly.
Tyvm
I’m guessing that like a Finnish sauna, you wear nothing but the skin you were born with.
Surf shorts are great. 👍🏻😂
Are singing part of it as well? After a couple of beers I suppose it could happen, probably a bit more profane songs then our host here is talking about. 😉
25 years ago a navajo robe man invited us to his place for a sweat. When we showed up we noticed he was allowing male's and females to sweat together. We just left and never went back.
I have have in videos here heard warnings about charlatans. Such people exist in all cultures. Sadly you can be fooled if you do not know what to look out for. Before today I have no knowledge about this specific tabu since it is perfectly fine to gendermix in saunas here alongside seperated groups but the cultural context is different here since I know of no ritual context my Scandinavian culture.
I have attended several Lakota sweat lodges that are male and females inside but the women sit on one side. Women also pour lodge, and sun dance. Same in Mexico, and Colombia.
@@ariannagonzalez2618 yup, navajo are not supposed to combine. Navajo sweat differs from other tribes. But lately it is all mixing off various tribes.
Many beautiful blessings 🙏❤️🔥
Thank u
Otherwise known as. ... a living
definition of such a heart.
Didn't know the sexes should be separated when I participated in one but it was one of the most incredible experiences I've ever had. Will never forget the scent of the smoke.
It varies by tribe...where I'm from the NW we often go in completely naked. Not a law or anything. Younger folks might keep their underwear or some trunks on.
@@dat1ndnguy 👍
8:49-9:04 Wife is permitted to know husband's SACRED NAME. ( I will presume Husband is permitted to know wife's SACRED NAME .) The first shared confidence ( of many ) between husband and wife ONLY. 😊
Your back drop is a Chief Joseph blanket. He is my mother's, mother's father. I'm Nezperce/Colville. Born in Spokane. Adopted very young. I wish I knew more then I know of my people.
Wow!
Happy Fathers Day ALL❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
That only during the day time restriction is interesting because the local native tribe that lives in my area only holds sweat lodges at night and their most sacred teachings can only be told when snow is on the ground
I would love to hear what is remembered of "those of two minds". Do you see similar people in the world today?
Of course. Intersex conditions.
🙏🏽4️⃣🌎. Once again I am grateful for this teaching and your profound words. Thank you Wally
🙏🏽our paths crossing are for reasons I'll continue to seek to understand... you've taught me to find truth in that these things are organized this way.
Hope to gift you a necklace soon☮️
I'm curious if using lava rocks is ok?
What Happens Inside The Sweatlodge?.......Stays in the Sweatlodge.
You get that idea...😁
@@robertallen6710Sounds like the Freemasons - 😆
Thank you grandfather ,thank you teacher! I have had the honor of being in a bunch of inepi, as the Penobscot tribe’s called them. They did mix genders, unless a woman was on her moon time. Although some tribal people left angry because of this. As a young white dude at the times, I made a fool of myself so often it’s taken twenty years of thinking and still I cringe at new realizations of my foolishness. . So many questions. Why do they call the stones ancestors? Why are perfectly round stones able to move spaces? What do the Sasquatch people have to do with holding the space for the ceremony? I don’t expect answers, just some thoughts your teaching brought to the surface. I was changed on a very deep level by this ceremony. All my relations 🙏🏻
Who builds the sweat lodge?
Yes i know.
12:48 PURIFICATION. 😊
Would dandelion tea be good?
My great grandmother mov3d from her family on the reservation and she stopped associating with them. Therefore, I do not have any contact with my Navajo roots. I want very much to recon with my people and find my family again. Do you know how I might be able to do that? I only know the name she went by after she left which I think she made up and I do not know what her true name was. I feel very lost because I feel like I’m missing a large part of who I am. In fact, we know she was Navajo, but we have no documentation because she cut herself off from it. Does anyone know how I might find my family?
Yá`át`ééh..!!
I was encouraged to go and sweat from a Native lady friend of to rid myself of my "kookoos" as she put it.
It took me 3 1/2 yrs before i felt comfortable with myself and the elder who does sweats. Intent for going in is everything. Be CLEAR on ur intentions before going in. Or the spirits can woop ur a**.
The elder had men and women in the same sweat. My native lady friend was shocked when i told her. "Absolutely not!!", She yelled at me. She said if she was me, she would never do that again. A woman can be on her moontime and make everyone sick. But if i did, take a good piece of silver and at least put in my pocket. Ppl wore shorts and t-shirts for women too. So i would also go to another ceremony he did called a Talking Circle. More casual ceremony. The elder called it the first group therapy in the Americas.
I was asked if i got sick the last sweat, which i didn't but i was told everyone else did. I said, Huh and didn't say anything more.
Neeways, i asked my native lady friend, Why are some ceremonies done in the dark?? Like in a sweat. As in what Mr.Brown talks about closing the door with blankets, skins. You can't see ur hand in front of ur face. She said, "b/c in the darkness u get to know who u really are, in light there's too many distractions". I enjoy just sitting or lying down in the dark now. It doesn't bother me or scare me. In fact I feel joy. I think that's why ppl in general are afraid of the dark. They're afraid of themselves and base everything they think they are in the light of day, too many identities if u ask me causing confusion and delusion of self. Know urself at ur core and fear leaves the system. Compassion comes into play in and out of urself. And in that i am Free not the illusion of being free. That's one thing sweats have done for me. Wishing all beings the best on their quest.A'hou
Ma'halo Wally for ur teachings.
🌺🙏🌺😺🌺🤙🌺
I’m here cuz of CONEJO
i used to up the speed too but it wasn't right i realized his natural speech pace is the right its our modern overstimulate hurrying brain thats miswired in our times... i watch this on 0.75 too!
I Wanna Go to a Sweat Lodge one day❤
THANK YOU SIR
RESTORE OUR REPUBLIC / JEFFREY PRATHER
Is a hogan the same as a sweat lodge?
Some things stay STRICTLY in the SWEAT LODGE, while there are certain things that CAN BE SHARED, just NOT SPECIFICS/ DETAILS. 🙂
Good, the world need some mystery, no need to spoil it for everyone. In seriousness I understand and respect that people want preserve some cultural secrets for themselves and as such should not intrude.
Ancestral Batchelor Prayer..
I love my Elders sir not all of us is okay with this being publicly known, did you seek your counsel before airing?
4 songs, 4 parts, sung 4 times. Like the 4 points of the compass ( NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, and WEST ), protection from ALL sides, as if one is in a bubble.
❤
♥️♥️♥️
Nenee the Siberian tribe also &
still use tepees some of them have
light brown eyes. 😉
I was in a sweat lodge on the Choctaw Aboriginal peoples land in Philadelphia Mississippi. The medicine man learned from the Navajo medicine person. What I am hearing the lodge was done incorrectly cause women and teens were all in their and it was done at night tyme each tyme I participated. My ancestors are of various tribes Lakota, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Osage, African, and others. We told we couldn't discuss what was witnessed or experienced from the sweat lodge.
💜
I have absolutely zero interest in sitting in a hot hut, then covering myself with dirt after sweating. Never understood saunas either. I just don't get it.
You are missing out. 😉
👍✌️🙏💯😊
10:05 ANCESTORS.
My apt is like a sweat lodge😂😅
I would love to see a woman speaking about a women's sweatlodge. Would that be possibe on yhis channel?
Hastiin I have not sweated in a sweat lodge for many years unfortunately. But a very serious question to ask.I was born a true two spirited.Both genders.So what lodge am I supposed to be in female or male? I want To start sweating in the sweat lodge again. I am a 1/2 breed Navajo. My grandfather was Tafora New Mexico side. And he was a full blood.. Unfortunately, he is past And he did not pass on the Traditions. I follow your teachings and appreciate them and your wisdom.
Sweat lodges keep me sober. The best person I can be. As woman, I wear an African dress- humble. Not when Im on my period. Otherwise, we are welcome. Karuk Tribe.
🏔️⛰️🗻🌋
I could use a good sweat.
👍🙏>>>💚--- Thank You