SWEAT TENT | HEALING CIRCLE | FIRE CEREMONY | NATIVE SONGS
My name is Carlos Sauer, I was born in 1959, in Brazil. I am a holistic therapist, teacher, speaker, and I was adopted in 1993 by an Indian elder of the Cheyenne tribe, named Nelson Turtle. I introduced North American Native Traditions (Shamanism), including the Tent do Sweat ceremony in Brazil in 1988. I work with native spiritual healing, and come from a long line of healers (4th generation) from Rio de Janeiro, and work with spiritual practices that I learned from my own family, along with what I learned from my father Cheyenne, and from my teachers and indigenous relatives in Brazil and the USA.
Born into a spiritualist family, Carlos Sauer comes from a long line of mediums (4th generation) working with spiritual healing. Sauer was always interested in matters related to spirituality and found his own spiritual path when he discovered the “Red Path”, also known as Shamanism.
In 1982, at just 22 years old, Sauer was invited by his sister Maria Lucia Sauer to study at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he began to participate in indigenous rituals, such as the Sweat Tent, and was initiated as a Fire Man.
The introduction to shamanism took place in 1984, through the shaman anthropologist and author of the book ‘The Way of the Shaman’ Michael Harner (the diffuser of universal shamanism in the West), who became Sauer’s teacher, friend and later co-worker. This is how the young man who would become one of the great names of Shamanism in Brazil was introduced to North American Shamanic philosophy.
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The Sweat Tent was introduced in Brazil in 1988, in Posse, Petrópolis and Visconde de Mauá by Carlos Sauer.
The Sweat Tent is an ancient purification ceremony used by different cultures especially indigenous peoples around the world to honor and consecrate our Creator (Maheo) and our Mother Earth to honor our relationship with all forms of life. She represents the womb of “Mother Earth”. This powerful ceremony must always be conducted by a couple, the masculine and feminine representing duality, “Heaven and Earth”.
In Native Traditions it is believed that fire is the natural element that helps us communicate with spirits and our ancestors, because if you listen close enough, you can hear them talking.
Fire helped in the creation of the universe and our own world, fire was and still is one of the most important elements for our life.
Come connect with this powerful element at our Bonfire Ceremony
The Drum is considered a catalyst of energies, it emits natural sounds that relate to a refined energy available in the universe.
This vibration penetrates the matter of our bodies, relaxes the musculature, loosens the bonds between molecules and provides deeper levels of concentration, inviting us to connect our heart with the heartbeat of Mother Earth.
Together with the Drum we can externalize our emotions through the chants, vibrating out of the body, making our prayers with the sacred Native Chants, and creating a powerful vortex of strong energy, of healing energy.
My name is Carlos Sauer, I was born in 1959, in Brazil. I am a holistic therapist, teacher, lecturer, and I was adopted in 1993 by an indigenous Cheyenne elder named Nelson Turtle. I introduced North American Native Traditions (Shamanism), including the Sweat Tent ceremony in Brazil in 1988.
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