# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Tantra Sweat Lodge Retreat Sweat Lodge Retreat for Men Who Love Men: The Ceremony of Togetherness
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 07 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 am – Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 03:00 am
- **Event Description**: Welcome to the Conscious Pathways Tantra Sweat Lodge Retreat for Men Who Love Men: "Ceremony of Togetherness".

Each Conscious Pathways Residential Retreat is unique and open to both newcomers and returning retreat participants, singles and couples.

This Conscious Pathways Sweat Lodge Tantra Retreat, "Ceremony of Togetherness” will be an exploration of togetherness: how we support each other in our personal growth through connection and community. In Tantra, this togetherness is called satsang, "a sacred gathering". This togetherness is a powerful support for us to experience our natural state, a state of natural joy, presence, and connection.  During this retreat we will learn powerful practices together to help us experience deeper connection, communication, and intimacy. 

Retreat Elements will include:

Tantric meditation and embodiment practices to help us find and connect with our natural state of meditation.

Tantric energy work to uncover our natural well-being and joy.

Participation in a Native American Sweat Lodge ceremony.

Daily Heart Circle in safe sacred space to practice conscious, authentic communication.

Interactive exercises to help us connect to our body with awareness.

Assimilation exercises to help us integrate retreat practices into daily life. 


Meditation Mentor Grant Shepherd will guide us in these retreat elements. All practices and exercises will be taught in a simple, effective format so you can take them home with you after the retreat to experience the many benefits they can offer you in your life. Exercises will be interactive and fun; bring your sense of curiosity and play!

The Sweat Lodge Ceremony, a traditional Native American purification ceremony, will be an integral part of the retreat. Ceremony is central to many spiritual traditions. The Sweat Lodge is known by the Native American Lakota people as the Inipi ceremony, and it is a ceremony of renewal that brings deep spiritual and physical purification.  Taking part in this sacred ceremony brings healing and new beginnings into our lives. Each Sweat Lodge ceremony takes us deeper into our understanding of ourselves and our true nature. The entire event will be shared safe space. The exercises will be clothed, consent based, and respectful at all times.

Our ceremony facilitators for the lodge are deeply experienced in the sweat lodge ceremony. For many years they have been participating in and leading ceremonies under the guidance of respected elders and teachers from North America, Canada, Alaska, and here in New Zealand. They have a personal commitment to honouring their elders and teachers, and they received blessings from their elders and teachers to continue taking on the responsibility of offering these ceremonies in a nurturing and safe place. This ceremony is a very enriching and powerful experience that has touched many people in very deep ways. Our ceremony facilitators will skilfully guide us on each step of the Sweat Lodge journey.

Ceremony and Etiquette:

Please try to arrive on time – if you can’t make the 6 pm start time please let Grant know so we can welcome you when you arrive. You are welcome to come earlier to settle in. This will allow us time to make introductions and offer preparatory teachings before beginning the retreat.

Ceremonial medicines:

Tobacco is one of the traditional plant medicines used in the purification sweat lodge. Tobacco is the plant medicine traditionally offered to the Elder running the ceremony. It is used by the Elder as an offering to the Creator and the Spirit Helpers asking for healing and protection for themselves and those attending the ceremony. Tobacco holds a spiritual energy and is known by some Native Elders as “The Grandmother who brings ‘the honouring to the ceremony’”. It is customary to gift a pouch of tobacco to the Lodge Elder as an honouring for hosting the ceremony. If coming as a group one pouch is acceptable, handed to the Elder before the ceremony on behalf of those attending. This will be taken care of by Grant on behalf of the group.


Things to know:

· This event is alcohol and drug free. Please refrain from drugs or alcohol at least 48hrs before and after the retreat.

· What to wear into the lodge. Our teachings are from traditional ways. Men wear shorts or sarong; a t-shirt is optional; please refrain from nudity.

· Please bring your own bedding (we supply bottom sheet, pillow with pillowcase.)

· Please bring a towel for a shower after the lodge.

· Please bring shared snacks for the time you are here.

· Please bring a white sage smudge stick as your personal offering to the sweat lodge. You can find these online or at spiritual bookstores.

Financial contribution:

Pay what you can from $395:00 - $595 per person (All-inclusive of tuition, accommodation, meals, and wood and resources for ceremonies.)

Please contact Grant directly for registration payment details.

Please note that at times retreat registration may change slightly due to price changes in food, tobacco, fuel, accommodation etc. These events will always be fairly priced to help people attend, observing the guideline of "right livelihood" in service to the LGBTQ community. These events are created in the spirit of service, in alignment with the values of Traditional Tantra.  

If you wish to attend, but the registration fee at this time is an issue for you, you are most welcome to contact Grant directly to discuss options and possibilities.

If you wish to sponsor someone, you are most welcome to do so. Please contact Grant to discuss this.

To register, and for any further information, please email Grant:

Email: newconsciouspathways@gmail.com
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/huntly/tantra-sweat-lodge-retreat-sweat-lodge-retreat-for-men-who-love-men-the-ceremony-of-togetherness/200029132685006
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness, meditation, lgbt-pride
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 2

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Huntly
- **state**: WK
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: Waingaro Rd, Ngaruawahia, New Zealand
- **lat**: -37.685
- **long**: 175.11707
- **full address**: Waingaro Rd, Ngaruawahia, New Zealand, 427 Waingaro Rd, Ngaruawahia 3793, New Zealand, Huntly

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Tantra Sweat Lodge Retreat Sweat Lodge Retreat for Men Who Love Men: The Ceremony of Togetherness being held?
  - **A:** Tantra Sweat Lodge Retreat Sweat Lodge Retreat for Men Who Love Men: The Ceremony of Togetherness takes place on Fri, 07 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 am to Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 03:00 am at Waingaro Rd, Ngaruawahia, New Zealand, 427 Waingaro Rd, Ngaruawahia 3793, New Zealand, Huntly.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Tantra Sweat Lodge Retreat Sweat Lodge Retreat for Men Who Love Men: The Ceremony of Togetherness?
  - **A:** Tantra Sweat Lodge Retreat Sweat Lodge Retreat for Men Who Love Men: The Ceremony of Togetherness is organized by Conscious Pathways.

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