SACRED HOOPS - TEACHING TOOL PRESENTATION
Sat, Sep 30
|Tory Hill
“Reconnecting to Nature Through Spiritual Teachings and Sacred Geometry of the Sweat Lodge”
Time & Location
Sep 30, 2023, 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. EDT
Tory Hill, 18378 ON-118, Tory Hill, ON K0L 2Y0, Canada
About the event
Frog Hollow Integrated Art Experience is hosting Martin Millen, First Nation Traditional Healer and Lodge Conductor. Artists Shawn Arscott, Darlene Dove from Earthdance Studio and Biljana Banchotova(Webb) from Whirling Wisdom Studio in collaboration with Martin Millen created four 5’ x 5’ acrylic floor paintings on canvas: “The Earth World”, “The Human World”, The Spirit World”, and “The Sky World”. These paintings, otherwise known as “sacred hoops”, are as a teaching tool to share Ojibway oral knowledge of the four races coming together at the sacred fire. Each of the four races were given two gifts each. As humanity has reached a crossroad, we are asked to bring these eight gifts together to create One Great Nation. The gift of the Red Nation is to carry the Earth and Spirit knowledge. It is through the Sweat Lodge that the Red Standing People communicate this understanding. Martin will utilize these paintings to…