Traditional Indigenous Smudging
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- A smudging ceremony uses various medicines such as sage to create a cleansing smoke that is meant to heal the mind, body and spirit. As the smoke rises, our negative energy and feelings are lifted away. Smudging may also be used to cleanse rooms or Mother Earth before ceremonies and special events, and may also be used to purify ceremonial objects such as an eagle feather.
To take part in a smudge, participants stand in a circle while an Elder or First Nations person will move from person to person with a feather and a smudge bowl. Upon your turn, cup the smoke in your hands and waft it over yourself to cleanse your body, (much like how you would use water to cleanse your hands and face).
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It is done in rituals of different countries, in their own ways, especially to purify their spirituality. Madam has so nicely explained it. Great.👍
Beautiful explanation. Thank you ❤
I am comfortable using White Sage very much. I also have a Palo Santo wood.
Smudging for me is asking the Holy Spirit to cleanse me and our home. A purification.
Inviting good things & wishing good thoughts to others. What we wish on others comes back to us....always wish goodness.
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Sweet grass works Very well, My personally favorite..
Where do you get sweet grass?
@@bonniekerr6890 online,
That is beautiful
Thank you 💖
I have a question. Let’s say my class has a Indigenous guest speaker come in and we do a Smudge together. (I’m non-indigenous by the way). It is also my first Smudge. Afterwards I might send the speaker an email saying how it was a great experience. Am I allowed to say ‘it was very cool’? Would they appreciate that or would it be inappropriate?
I would say it :) I’m native btw lol
Codie and Dan Really? Cool, thank you! I wasn’t sure how colloquial I can get.
I’m like 3 years late. But I’m fine if anyone says it. I’m Métis. Partly indigenous from here in Alberta, Canada. 🇨🇦
@ninjaweretiger4273 I have a question for you as a Metis person. I grew up and spent most of my life having a grandmother who quite casually said that she was French indian. She said it frequently. Well and later years, after she was gone, I did research and realized that what she probably meant was Metis. She was from the Great Lakes region in the United States, b 1897 .That's quite a ways south from Red River, but I figured, history is weird, somehow she wound up in illinois. Well fast forward to 2 weeks ago, when I got my DNA results. I showed no native ancestry or First Nations ancestry whatsoever. I'm a little bit shell-shocked. Could my grandmother have been completely of European ancestry, and yet part of an offshoot metis (lower case "m") community? Now I'm trying to figure out why she would call herself French indian if that's not what she meant. As a child, she was sent to live with a Frenchman and his large family, and I have no idea why she was sent there. Maybe she picked up some sort of culture from them? I would love any insight you can give me. Best wishes.
Very insightful!
Can you do this on your own?
I do it on my own. I was introduced to the practice by friends and community..I was taught the medicine is for everyone and as long as you are setting a good intention, and recognize the reciprocity in the ritual..give it back to the earth as your offering after you have burned the herbs.
Where can you purchase white sage?
Why am I tearing up watching this?
Omg me too! I thought this was so cool very educational but also moving
I'm glad I'm not the only one! Lol
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Thank you for explaining from an academic view.
Cool
Amazing.
Hello, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the current sentiment from the younger generation of Native Americans that non natives should not use white sage to smudge. Thoughts?
Why you wouldn't want to share such of wonderful thing? After all we are all children of mother earth! Maybe it's what many people need to clean themselves
@@elibeth06 there is a huge movement of gen z protesting its use by non indigenous. Saying that use of white sage in smudging rituals is appropriation. I used to use it but I grew it myself. now I only use Golden sage.
elibeth06 you sound like a colonizer
Jose Figueroa and you sound stupid! Educate primero
Spirituality goes beyond blood and skin. If they’re doing it correctly, learning and being respectful, then there shouldn’t be a problem. Allowing yourself to be offended by something that does not apply to you only holds you back.
Please do not use sage from the Americas indiscriminately. It is being harvested right and left by new agers wanting to purify their homes and bodies. If you are part of, or invited to join a Native American ceremony and you are smudged, this is an honor and a gift. It is not something to buy at an occult bookstore and use as a bug repellent. LOL just saying.