TRADITIONAL SWEAT LODGE AND CIRCLE - BERRILEE SYDNEY JUNE

About
We are very blessed with the opportunity to be immersed in 2 days of ceremony.
The weekend will be starting with a mens sweat lodge (Temazcal) on Friday Afternoon and then on Saturday moving into the day ceremony for the women. In the morning we will be sitting in circle which also includes cacao and sharing food, then we move into the sunset Temazcal. It is preferred and recommended to join both the circle and temazcal to get the most out of the experience.
Step into the sacred space of the Temazcal—a powerful ancestral ceremony of purification, renewal, and connection. Rooted in the ancient traditions of the Americas, the Temazcal is not just a sweat lodge; it is a rebirthing process, a place where we come together in prayer, in humility, and in deep respect for the elements that sustain life.
Guided by the Roots of the Earth Family, a global organization carrying these traditions across five continents, this ceremony is an opportunity to realign with your intentions, release what no longer serves you, and step forward with clarity and strength. Through the heat of the stones, the medicine of the songs, and the power of collective prayer, transformation happens—not just in the body, but in the heart and spirit.
This is for those seeking real change, for those ready to show up with sincerity, and for those called to remember the ways of their ancestors.
Alongside the Temazcal the womens circle and ceremony is potent and transformative...
This circle and temazcal is the second of a 4 series.
The theme for this first meeting:
The Mental Body
Your thinking mind—the one that often feels so much like you—lives trapped between what once was and what might be. It rushes ahead, clings to the past, repeats patterns, judgments, beliefs. But… who educated it? From where do your thoughts truly arise?
So often, that mind is held up by ancient structures, silently inherited through generations. It was built upon what you heard as a child, on the unspoken words, the glances, the expectations placed upon you and everything you never allowed yourself to become.
And without realizing it, many times that mind is still deciding for you… still narrating your life with voices that aren’t even yours.
But there is a sacred possibility: to re-educate your mind. To reprogram it from a place of consciousness. To choose a new narrative—one that doesn’t repeat the wound, but transforms it. The mind can be your greatest limitation or the most powerful bridge to an awakened, coherent life.
From this space, I invite you to the Mental Body Circle in 13 Moons Sacred Women’s. Not just to understand the mind, but to transform it. To make it your ally. To turn it into a tool at the service of your soul.
Ask yourself, with honesty:
• What do you believe about your mind?
• Do you truly know it, or are you simply living inside its labyrinths?
• When you speak to yourself… who is actually speaking?
• When you recall your mother, your father… what words come back to you?
• What story have you repeated so many times that it now feels like the truth?
• What limiting stories are you still carrying out of loyalty or fear?
• What new stories could you begin to write if you knew everything could change?
What lives in your mind today… and what are you willing to plant in it to create a new, true, expansive life in full alignment with your being?
Because yes… your mind can become the very channel of your deepest healing. Let us walk this passage of life with full openness—for in order to truly know what lives within us, we must dare to journey there.
NOTE: Pregnant women can participate in sweat lodge from 5 months into pregnancy. Please reach out for support on this matter if you need it :)
Event Rundown:
Friday 13th June
Men's Temazcal
Arrive by 4:30pm to enter the lodge by 5pm (please reach out for any circumstances regarding work where you may not be able to arrive by 5pm but can not long after)
Brothers you are welcome to arrive for the lighting of the fire at 3pm
Saturday 14th June
13 Moons Sacred Circle Series
Women's Circle
Arrival 11 - 11:45am
Circle: 12pm - 3pm
Pot Luck Style Lunch/Snacks please bring a plate to share - we will have a break in the middle of the circle to share food and cacao
Closing Ceremony
- Sunset Temazcal 4pm-7pm (approx)
* (If you are just coming for this Sweatlodge, please arrive by 3:30pm)
What to bring:
Men's Friday Temazcal:
Fruit, Water and Coconut Water to share
Towel
Change of clothes
Offerings to land - Tobacco, flowers
Women's Saturday Ceremony
Circle
Pillow and Blanket
Journal and Pen
Water Bottle
Offerings for land: Flowers, tobacco
Plate of food to share
Temazcal
Towel, change of clothes, to wear into sweat lodge Dress or skirt and blouse or sarong
Drums, Rattles
Water bottle
Offerings to land: Crystals, tobacco, flowers
If you have any further questions please reach out to me via email: heidi_papin@live.com or phone: 0451511401
If you would like to book in a private 1-1 session with Javiera please contact via email or text to book in - Limited to 5 spots maximum
Date
2 Days Of Ceremony: 13th - 14th JuneLocation
Berrilee - DHARUG COUNTRY
3 Charltons Creek Rd, Berrilee NSW 2159