healing ceremony
Curative sacred gathering
A healing ceremony is a ritual practice intended to restore physical, emotional, or spiritual well-being.
Found across many cultures and traditions, healing ceremonies may involve prayer, chanting, herbs, or symbolic acts performed by a healer or shaman: The tribe conducted a healing ceremony for the sick child.
The term appears in both traditional indigenous contexts and contemporary wellness practices.
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- shamanIndigenous spiritual healer
- medicine manTraditional indigenous healer
- sacredWorthy of reverence
- sacred spaceArea reserved for worship
smudging · incense · chanting · drums · prayer · cleansing · sage · blessing · laying on hands · ancestors · spirits · spirit guide · medicine · sweat lodge · vision quest · purification · invocation · altar
- ritualsritual, rite, sacrament, blessing, prayer
- folk medicinefolk medicine, herbalism, herbal remedies, herbal medicine, herbalist
- native spiritualitymedicine man, native rituals, vision quest, sweat lodge, medicine men
- Navajohogan, hogans, Navajo weaving, turquoise jewelry, Monument Valley
- shamanismshamans, shaman, spirit guide, medicine man, medicine woman
- tribal healingmedicine man, medicine woman, curandero, herbalist, bush doctor
healing ceremonycurse
Invoked harm through words
hex · jinx · malediction · dark ritual · black magic
healing ceremonyfuneral
Service honoring the dead
death rite · execution · sacrifice · human sacrifice · ritual killing
healing, ceremony, heal, heals, healed, healer, healers, health, healthy