Inipi Ceremony

The Inipi Ceremony celebrates the cycles of life.  As one of the oldest traditional method of healing, most cultures globally used sweating as a way of purification, inner connection, and place of prayer or contemplation.  The Inipi – from the Lakota Sioux Native Americans – is a word that means sweat lodge or purification lodge.  The Finns from the North of Europe use the Sauna, the Romans and Greeks used hot bath houses, and the list continues around the world.  Monkeys even use hot springs in the mountains of Japan to heal, contemplate, and sweat!

Manex Ibar was given water pouring rights from a lineage that comes from Fire Lame Deer to Jaky Baily, as well as from a woman water pourer from Oneinda “spider mama”.  After powerful synchronistic dreams with his cousin “Flo” while in the Sacred Valley of Peru, both of them came to design a new sweat lodge, perhaps more Celtic of origin.  The design uses similar principles, but creates 5 gates and a pentagram above as the main structure, while 2 opposing spirals going up to the top.  The pentagram is an old known pagan symbol used by Celts, as well as the spiral, creating a dynamic and magical configuration that holds sacred geometry together with ritual, invocation of spirits, and sacred chants from around the world to unify into a powerful ceremony.

Every month, during the full moon and new moon, Manex Ibar holds private Inipi’s.  To join, please contact him personally and he will let you know of the location – currently in the Pyrenees of France.