retreat curatorby milena chernomorets
  1. Practices
  2. Shamanic healing

Practice · ceremony

Shamanic healing with Lexa

Some ancient practices ask nothing of your understanding. You step in and let them do their work. On Lexa's retreats shamanic work happens in 2 places: in the sweat lodge, held by a man who carries the traditions of his people, and on the land itself.

M.H. Black Wolf with a staff, who leads the sweat lodge in Sedona

The ceremony

Sweat lodge ceremony

Darkness, fire-heated stones, steam, breath and the Earth. In Sedona, in October 2026, one of the days held the sweat lodge with M.H. Black Wolf. Inside, everything outside you gradually goes quiet, and what is left is only what is genuinely yours.

It matters to Lexa who the group meets these traditions through. Black Wolf heard the voice of his ancestors again in the hardest stretches of his life, and that voice set him on the Red Road, the road back to his roots and home.

On the land

Shamanic healing at places of power

Bell Rock, Cathedral Rock, Boynton Canyon, Airport Mesa, Birthing Cave, West Fork. Lexa takes the group to each one for a different reason, and they practise there rather than only look.

A place of power is where the Earth is felt more strongly. In Sedona the land becomes part of the path.

The one who leads

What is a shaman

A shaman stands between the visible world and the world of spirits and ancestors, and carries a tradition through his own life. Black Wolf does not simply know the traditions of his people. He carries them in his own history and his own path.

Lexa builds the ceremony into the days of her retreat, and the group goes into it together with her.

Where and when

Where the ceremony happens next

The next retreat — Miami, Florida, April 2027. See the retreat

Questions

Shamanic healing: what to expect

Is the sweat lodge safe for everyone?

No. It means long heat and steam. It does not suit pregnancy, heart, circulation or blood pressure conditions, epilepsy or claustrophobia, and you can leave it at any moment.

Do I have to take part?

No. The ceremony is for whoever chooses it, and the day goes on for everyone else.

Write to us

Curated retreats, practices, and expert gatherings in the United States.

Choose what speaks to you.

Message me
retreat curator