| Find live water. By "live" I mean it has living things in it | | | | speaking their individual prayers and wishes. |
| such as healing minerals, and water spirits. This water | | | | After this is done, everyone will lie down or sit down in |
| is best found in a mountain stream, river, or at a natural | | | | the water. Or the water can be gently poured over |
| spring. If you are unable to conduct the ceremony at | | | | everyone. As the water runs down our bodies it takes |
| one of these locations, get plenty of the live water and | | | | the impurities with it and sends them back to the |
| carry it back in a container for use at another location. | | | | mother earth for purification and reuse. |
| This ceremony is most powerful at night just after sun | | | | A final song or prayer to thank the spirits, angels, |
| down or even more powerful after midnight, but | | | | helpers, etc. completes the ceremony. After this, it is |
| before 3 am. This is the time of spirits. During the day | | | | always good to share food. |
| there are far too many distractions and interferences | | | | As a note, this is another water ceremony, but it is |
| for the spirits to have much impact or communication. | | | | much simpler and can be used daily. Pour water (this |
| Have the all the people stand in a circle. Sing a song or | | | | can be regular tap water) into a container, I use a |
| make a prayer that calls in the helper spirits | | | | gourd or a wooden bowl, but a simple glass would do. |
| (Tunkasilas) or angels or whatever type of spirit being | | | | Walk outside and sing a song or say a prayer, then |
| you are used to or comfortable with. Then go to each | | | | four times pour a portion of the water into the ground. |
| person with burning sage, cedar, sweat grass or other | | | | Drink the remaining water so the prayers enter your |
| medicinal herbs and let the smoke cover their bodies | | | | being. Pouring the water into the ground is returning the |
| to purify and clean away all negative energies. While | | | | life blood (water) of mother earth to her. This water |
| this is being done some people get messages for the | | | | once poured into the ground will travel all around the |
| person being cleansed. This adds a special meaning to | | | | planet in underground waterways and maybe even to |
| the ceremony. | | | | the ocean depending on where you live. I would |
| A song or prayer for healing of physical, mental, | | | | suggest if you feel the urge to pray for peace or |
| spiritual and heart matters is appropriate at this time. | | | | environmental concerns this is the ultimate way to |
| After the song/prayer, the people go around in a circle | | | | send those prayers. |