The taxi dropped me off for the lodge on a seemingly deserted street in Southwest Ranches, a neighborhood northwest of Fort Lauderdale, tucked into Florida’s Everglades. Behind me was empty land, in ...

The Carlsbad author and self-help expert who hosted a deadly retreat at an Arizona resort reportedly urged people to stay inside a sweat lodge despite participants vomiting and passing out. Three ...

The tragic case of a "sweat lodge" constructed by self-help "guru" James Arthur Ray in Sedona, Arizona which took the lives of three people in October of 2009 is again making the news. Ray is being ...

Last week in Sedona Arizona, during a “spiritual warrior” retreat led by New Age, self-help expert James Arthur Ray, two people died in a “sweat lodge ceremony” and more than twenty were sickened.

The typical sweat lodge built in Pima County does not require a building permit, chief building official Yves Khawam said last week. But that is small comfort for some locals worried about operating ...

The warm embrace of this sacred site draws many from across the Dakotas, Minnesota and Canada for spiritual purification. It’s nestled between apartments and an industrial park on the corner of 39th ...

The first olive branch — or, in this case, a bamboo shoot — has been extended to a neighbor of a Bluebird Canyon home who hosts monthly sweat lodges. At a meeting last month, the Design Review Board ...

A Native American sweat lodge located on city property in an industrial area of south Fargo, N.D., is pictured on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. The lodge was shut down by the city in December over concerns ...

A Patagonia woman has sued the organizers of a sweat-lodge ceremony that turned deadly earlier this month near Sedona. Sidney D. Spencer, 59, was among the more than 50 people who found themselves ...