Sacred Pipe Ceremony

For probably thousands of years, Indigenous peoples have shared ceremonies involving smoking of some kind. The Pipe Ceremony is found throughout the Americas in slightly different versions. It is a prayer ceremony. Tobacco and other herbs such as red willow bark (but never any mind altering drugs) are used as a way to send our prayers to our Creator and the Spirits. The smoke is not inhaled. A very special healing energy is created during the Ceremony, and when we touch or smoke the Pipe, we join all those thousands who have smoked this pipe before and those who will smoke it in the future. As with all of our ceremonies, there is no fee or charge, although donations to help offset travel expenses are gratefully appreciated. Any extra goes to support Kalpulli Koakalko in Mexico.  We invite you to join this gentle and powerful ceremony.

Bert Gunn is a Ceremony leader,  clinical social worker and handyman ,living in Chaplin, CT in the USA. He assisted, traveled with, organized for, and interpreted for Tlakaelel, the Tolteka-Mexica Elder from Teotihuacan, Mexico for 22 years until his passage to the other side in July of 2012. Bert is currently writing a book on the passage of Tlakaelel from this world five years ago as well as a book on his travels on the “red road”.  Bert is a board member of the World Council Wisdom Gatherings, and the Church of the Earth, and has been the Male Dance Chief for the Dance to Heal the Earth, envisioned by Grandmother Robin Youngblood for 3 years now. Bert has been trained and authorized by Tlakaelel and other Elders to conduct various traditional ceremonies and teachings. Among other ceremonies, has been assisting in and conducting the Four Colors Ceremony for 25 years around the world, as well as the annual Tonal Mitotianilitzli (Celebration of the Sun) dance ceremony in Mexico  and conducts the Temazkal sweat ceremony. He is also available for individual consultation/ healing sessions when asked, with no fee ever asked. “I try to offer a down to earth re-connection to our selves and our spiritual connection to the universe through sharing, ceremony, and seeing ourselves as an integral part of the cosmos. We are  integrally connected with all of creation, and when we realize this, we then feel more of the great healing element of love, which is truly the basis of most spiritual teachings. This universal love is the greatest healing element in our universe. My work is more universal than tied to one specific tradition, tho I primarily practice the ceremonies and indigenous traditions of the Americas. “