Traditional Sweat Lodge Experience

Anchorage area add-on
Allow 2-3 hours

“Kenny TimberWolf Gardner ladles snow over the hot rocks. First you hear it: like popcorn popping, then a sizzle. It hits your body. Your earlobes singe, and you involuntarily reach to cover them. The places where sweat has plastered your shirt to your torso burn. You start breathing through your teeth, and you swear you feel it through the enamel.

“… Between the heat and the sweat, the pungent odor of cedar and sage, we are experiencing firsthand the connection between our spiritual selves and the natural world.”
— Rev. G. W. Kimura, chaplain/instructor, Alaska Pacific University.

Participate in an authentic Alaska Native experience. Enter the sweat lodge/steam house, and experience Alaska Native spiritual traditions and culture firsthand. Learn about Native spirituality and traditional healing, and create a medicine bag to take on your journey.

Kenny Timberwolf helped build and found Anchorage’s first traditional Native educational sweat lodge center in 2003. Located on a three-acre wooded lot, the site is used for spiritual and educational purposes. Special presentations are available for university and military groups.

Read more about the sweat lodge here:

• “APU students sweat for greater understanding” - A visit to Kenny Timberwolf Gardner’s sweat lodge to learn about Alaska Native spirituality was a high point for students in an Alaska Pacific University class on Religion and Nature, writes religion instructor G.W. Kimura. Anchorage Daily News, February 20, 2005. (Photos on the ADN site.)

• Building an Anchorage steam house. Anchorage Press, October 2003.

Please call or e-mail for rates. Rates do not include driver gratuity.

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Call Kenny Timberwolf:
907-344-WOLF (9653), or 907-301-0560
Or e-mail: t-wolf@alaskatimberwolftours.com

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