Sweating it all out

My experience of a sweat lodge

Photo by Joshua Newton on Unsplash

Yesterday I went to a full day of a sweat lodge, my first experience of such a thing. Saunas are chicken feed compared to the intensity of this experience. It was challenging, to the extent that I asked to be let out part way through the first stage, but went back in for the second and third stages, an allowance being made for us all as first-timers. Normally if you leave, you…