The Smudging Ceremony

For thousands of years, many Native American peoples have performed a ritual of cleansing and purification through the use of sage. Every object has it’s own energy field (aura), which can collect negative energy. This results in an imbalance. In a healthy balanced state, our bodies work like a well-oiled machine, each part doing a different job, but all parts working together for the good of the whole body. When imbalance occurs, disease sets in and the body begins to break down. In the smudging ritual, the sage is lighted until it smokes and a feather is used to fan the smoke along your body. The left side of our body carries negative ions and the right side carries positive. The fanning helps to equalize the ions as does the sage smoke. Meditation and prayer during the ritual, cleanse your mental state.