Our Facilities

A sweat lodge, or a stone people’s lodge, can be an intensely rewarding experience. By entering the mother’s womb (the lodge), we seek purification and a deeper spiritual awareness through prayer.

Generally speaking the experience is to deepen spiritual awareness. The steam, heat, and darkness help intensify and hold our prayers and add to our personal introspection.

The lodge leader (pourer), with help from the fire tender, hold an energetic space of safety and security while setting the intent of the lodge. The medicine of the lodge leader and of each participant helps to enrich the lessons of the lodge.

The Sound Peace Center provides a sacred space for singing, chanting, meditating, teaching, and other forms of celebrating the abundance of the Earth, the grace of the Creator, and the unity of all people.

The Chamber was inspired by the vision of Joseph Rael, "Beautiful Painted Arrow," a spiritual teacher from the Picuris Pueblo Native tradition. The Chamber attracts people from near and far to come and sing their song of peace.

In the early 1980's, Joseph Rael ~ Beautiful Painted Arrow, Visionary and Mystic, began traveling around the world sharing his Vision of Sound Peace Chambers and his insights about the healing power of Ceremony. Through his travels, Joseph was struck by the fact that people all over the world were seeking a direct experience of the Spiritual realms.

To assist people in this endeavor, he began leading sacred, non-traditional Dances that Spirit brought to him in Visions. Based on his early training, he knew that these Dances would provide the special conditions needed to promote the direct experience of Spirit. 

For 15 years he traveled the world leading three sacred Dances which came to him in Visions: the Sun-Moon Dance, Drum Dance, and Long Dance.