TRADITIONAL SWEAT LODGE AND CIRCLE - BERRILEE SYDNEY JULY

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 Saturday Morning and then on Sunday 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 the third meeting:
🌿 PHYSICAL BODY CIRCLE & TEMAZCAL
Kuranda | The Body as Temple, Memory & Cyclical Wisdom
Your body is a sacred codex where your soul writes without ink.
Every cell holds a memory. Every symptom carries a voice. Every gesture is a prayer.
It is not only biology.
It is emotional vibration, ancestral narrative, and living intelligence.
Your body stores what was never spoken, digested, or honored — and also holds the wisdom to guide you home.
This is a sacred space to return to your body as an altar, a compass, and a living record.
Through ritual, movement, touch, and the medicine of the temazcal, we remember how to listen again.
🍂 SEASONAL CYCLICITY: The Body in Autumn
The body is not linear.
It follows the rhythm of nature — expanding, shedding, integrating, and resting.
In autumn, your physical body naturally enters a cycle of release, reflection, and purification.
The immune system becomes more delicate. The lungs and large intestine (the ruling organs of this season) invite you to let go of what is no longer needed — physically, emotionally, and energetically.
Warm foods, grounding practices, and slowness become sacred medicine.
Honoring your body’s cyclical needs is a revolutionary act of sovereignty.
🌀 What will you experience?
✧ A deep reconnection to the body as a sacred living archive of your life story.
✧ Somatic awareness practices: listening to fatigue, pain, menstrual wisdom, breath, and movement.
✧ Ancestral & seasonal nutrition: how to nourish and support your body through autumn’s call for cleansing.
✧ Sacred touch, conscious movement, and intuitive listening.
✧ Temazcal: a purifying womb of steam, prayer, sweat, and remembrance.
🔥 This gathering is for you if…
• Your body is asking to be heard in a new, deeper way.
• You are experiencing symptoms, tension, or exhaustion and feel ready to explore their root meaning.
• You long to live in your body with truth, softness, and sovereignty.
• You want to align your physical rhythms with nature, not with the noise of modern culture.
✨ This is a ceremonial, somatic, and cyclical journey
— grounded in ancestral wisdom, sacred biology, and seasonal consciousness.
Because your body is not something to “fix.”
It is something to honor.
Your body is your first altar.
To inhabit it fully is the deepest act of healing
NOTE: Pregnant women can participate in sweat lodge from 4-5 months into pregnancy. Please reach out for support on this matter if you need it :)
Event Rundown:
Saturday 19th July
Men's Temazcal
Arrive by 11am to enter the lodge by 11:30am
Brothers you are welcome to arrive for the lighting of the fire at 9:30am
We will have a bbq as brothers post sweat - bring something to share :)
Sunday 20th July
13 Moons Sacred Circle Series
Women's Circle
Arrival 10 - 10:15am
Circle: 10:30am - 2pm
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
- Afternoon Temazcal 2:30pm -5pm (approx)
* (If you are just coming for this Sweatlodge, please arrive by 2pm)
What to bring:
Men's Saturday Morning Temazcal
Fruit, Water and Coconut Water to share
Towel
Food for bbq - side or some meat
Change of clothes
Offerings to land - Tobacco, flowers
Women's Sunday 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: 19th - 20th JulyLocation
Berrilee - DHARUG COUNTRY
3 Charltons Creek Rd, Berrilee NSW 2159