sweat lodge

noun

(among native North American peoples) a structure in which water is poured onto hot stones to make the occupants sweat for religious or medicinal purposes

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Many guests opt out, he says, even though his sweat lodge is not “very hot.”

Terry Greene Sterling reports on the fallout of the sweat lodge business.

The spa ran a sweat lodge about once a month, until news of the Sedona deaths broke.

Now clients are not “as gung ho,” she said, and the spa has offered only one sweat-lodge experience this year.

In 2006, the International Spa Association promoted “sweat-lodge ceremonies” as a “one-of-a-kind experience.”

Well, first you must go to the sweat-lodge, and purify yourself so that you can pray to Getanittowit, the Great One.

No Klamath or Modoc sweat-lodge can be properly called a sweat-house, as is the custom throughout the West.

You shall build the lodge like the world, round, with walls, but first you must build a sweat-lodge of one hundred sticks.

There he immediately built a fire and heated stones for the first sweat lodge.

Upon the great stone heating in the fire within the sweat-lodge an Indian lad poured water.

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