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Best Native Ways Outdoor Experiences

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Chief Little Eagle (Pat Gatz)

Smudging, sauna, cold plunge and ceremony, the practices my family has done for generations on Lake Kipawa, and where to actually go do them.

I put these in the order I would walk somebody through them. Start at the top with what costs almost nothing. Work down to the five days if you want the whole thing.

The only way, the right way, the Native Ways!

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Clearing What You Carry

Heat the Native Ways

Cold Water, Honest Mornings

The Full 5-Day Experience

Medicine Wheel Ceremony

Clearing What You Carry

Not everybody is ready for five days. Nobody should have to be. One afternoon around the sacred medicine wheel, the same teachings my elders passed to me. No gear, no experience, nothing to prepare.

Native smudging around the fire off the grid in the beautiful backcountry of Canada. Cleanse your spirit and reconnect back to Mother Nature.

Cedar Sage & Palo Santo Smudging Kit

Heat the Native Ways

Sweat it out, then walk off the dock into the lake. That is the whole practice. People pay thousands for a spa version of what my family has done for generations with a wood fire and cold water. Here is where to go to doSweat it out, then walk off th...

Sauna, hot tub, cold plunging for 5 days with NO WORRIES! Be at peace, tranquility, and one with yourself!

Sauna the Native Ways: Five Days of Heat, Cold and Quiet

This is where the wood-fired sauna sits — Miwapanee Lodge, right on Lake Kipawa. Heat up in the cedar, hear the loons, then walk straight off the dock for the plunge. The full circuit, the Native Ways.

Miwapanee Lodge

Cold Water, Honest Mornings

The Scandinavians built an industry on what we have always done. No shade; they are right about it, but you don't need a membership or a locker room. You need cold water and the nerve to get in it.

This is the true traditional Native Ways. Get back to the basics brothers & sisters!

The Wonders of Scandinavian Spas the Native Ways Disconnect from the Digital World

Our second basecamp — a true Northern Ontario diamond in the rough. Quiet water, family-run, and the lake is right there for the morning cold plunge after the sauna. Nothing wakes you up more honest than that.

Poplar Point Camp

The Full 5-Day Experience

If a taste is not enough, everything above lives inside the five days on Lake Kipawa. Come find out what you are made of.

Everything on this list — smudging, sauna, cold plunging and more — lives inside my 5-day all-inclusive adventure on Lake Kipawa. If you want the full reset instead of a taste, this is it.

All-Inclusive 5-Day Wilderness Adventure with Chief Little Eagle

Medicine Wheel Ceremony

One afternoon around the sacred medicine wheel with me was the same teachings on balance and healing my elders passed down. The easiest first step into the Native Ways, and at $50 there's no excuse to keep putting yourself last!

Join a Sacred Medicine Wheel Ceremony with Chief Little Eagle