Traditional Temazcal Ceremony
2025 Spring Temazcal Lodges:
May 13/14/15 (Supporting Vision Quest)
May 22nd
June 18th
We're thrilled to reunite with our Moondance group and greater community to celebrate these prayers under the coming full moons. It's a time for gratitude, prayers to the spirits, ancestral guidance, power, intention. Let's come together to sing, share Moondance insights, and amplify the moon's energies. Bring your open hearts.
Curanderismo Advanced Students, simply send us a direct message to confirm your attendance. This Temazcal is included in your tuition, please arrive 2 hours prior to help set up and support the prayer.
This is a traditional ceremony, not a festival or retreat. Your financial contributions help ensure that the property and facilities are well maintained and available for all who come after you~
About our Ceremony:
A Temazcal is a traditional steam bath that has been used for both healing and ritual purposes in Mexico & the Americas for thousands of years. The name Temazcal comes from the Nahuatl language and means bathing house, it is one of the instruments we use to stay in touch with Teotl (Creator). In our tradition, Temazcal ceremonies are cleansing and bring spiritual peace and healing. The intention is to harmonize our being and integrate with our spirit. Being inside the Temazcal is like being in the womb...dark, warm, humid, and safe. We leave behind all of those things that don’t serve us anymore, and our life is renewed. Volcanic rocks are used to generate heat and vapor in the Temazcal ceremony with the help of a blazing fire outside. The fire man introduces red-hot abuelitas (stones) into the lodge. In our belief, these Sacred Stones carry ancient wisdom and with the fire transmit the healing we need to help us reconnect with our spirits. The sacred water enters and we say Ometeotl invoking the two creative forces of the Universe. Abuelitas inside, daubed with medicine, generally copal resin, palo santo or Lavender and the lodge door isclosed. The ceremony starts with the first "puerta" praying, singing, and story-telling. Three more puertas (door or rounds) follow, and the with the fourth puerta, we're reborn.
Traditional Sweatlodge Ceremony led by Xochitlquetzalli and Shimshai, custodians of the Temazcal, Teotlac Vision Quest and Chicuauhtlimetztli Moondance Ceremonies from the Ollintlahuimetztli Lineage. Xochitlquetzalli is a custodian of the Temazcal Ceremony, Obsidian pipe, Teotlac Vision Quest, and Leader of the Chicuauhtlimetztli Moondance in California. She is a Moondancer in Mexico, Colombia, and Canada. Keeper of time and teacher of the Tonalama and Aztec Astrology.
