THE STORY OF CARLOS SAUER
My name is Carlos Sauer, I was born in 1959, in Brazil. I am a holistic therapist, teacher, lecturer, and I was adopted in 1993 by an indigenous Cheyenne elder named Nelson Turtle. I introduced North American Native Traditions (Shamanism), including the Tent do Sweat ceremony in Brazil in 1988. I work with native spiritual healing, and come from a long line of healers (4th generation) from Rio de Janeiro, and work with spiritual practices that I learned from my own family, along with what I learned from my father Cheyenne, and from my teachers and indigenous relatives in Brazil and the USA. I live in Rio de Janeiro, and I give workshops in Europe, USA and Brazil.
I started learning about spirituality when I was 12 years old from my family elders including my mother, my aunt and my sister, as well as other family members who were born with spiritual gifts, and had a great knowledge of Spiritualism. My great-grandmother, Maria Adelaide da Fonseca, was a baroness, and she worked with spiritual healing, attending dozens of people a week, more than 150 years ago, embodying the spirit of the doctor, Bezerra de Menezes, treating and helping to heal many cariocas at that time. ! Her mediumship was developed after years of suffering due to a great drought, which happened in Brazil with almost 2 years without rain!! Don Pedro II, started with a project to reforest the Tijuca Forest, Alto da Boa Vista, São Conrado and around Corcovado, etc. My ancestors lost everything, including our lands with coffee and sugar cane plantations, and after the death of her husband (my great-grandfather), she sold what was left of material goods, and started to survive on donations that people gave to her after the care and cures manifested by Bezerra de Menezes and spirituality!!
When I moved from Rio de Janeiro to Big Sur, California in 1982, I was introduced to the Sweat Lodge, a purification ceremony for American Indians from the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Mohawk tribes. In my first Sweat Lodge at age 22, I experienced spontaneous and powerful healing from something I had been dealing with (trauma) for most of my youth. This experience transformed me and opened my heart to the indigenous spiritual path, Redroad, forever. It was then that I decided to dedicate my life to learning how to lead Sweat Tents and support my new relatives and indigenous teachers. I worked very happily as a Fireman for Sweat Tent ceremonies for over 14 years.
In 1993, I was adopted by a traditional Indian and Cheyenne elder from Southern Oklahoma who was a Native American Church Roadman named Nelson Turtle (deceased). We had a “father-son” relationship working together with Sweat Tents and Peyote ceremonies in the US and Brazil. I had the great honor of caring for my Indian father through his struggle with heart disease and diabetes as we traveled together.
During my apprenticeship with Nelson Turtle, he often told me that “by right” I would one day continue his tradition of the Cheyennes, Peyote ceremony, and the Sweat Tent. I have been studying and participating in Sweat Tents for the past 33 years, and Native American Church ceremonies for about 14 years. I received the Cheyenne altar from my father Nelson, along with his Peyote songs, and his tools (drum, rattle, staff, and chief cactus), but I don’t regularly conduct this ceremony. Other pivotal teachers on my journey were Hector Gomez, (Roadman) of the Native American Church of Argentina, and Ursocorvo (Crowbear), a (deceased) Sun Dancer from the Mohawk tribe, Wallace Black Elk, Lakota spiritual leader, and Dennis Banks , spiritual leader and Ojibwa activist.
In 1996, my community at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA, including my family, friends, colleagues, and workshop leaders, began asking me to lead Sweat Tent ceremonies. After I was encouraged by different leaders and blessed by my father, Nelson Turtle, I started leading ceremonies. I lead them in the Southern Cheyenne/Arapaho tradition (Little Boy/Little Girl or Youngman’s Lodge), which I was trained in. I have performed these ceremonies for over 19 years, and thanks to our Creator (Maheo) I have witnessed many healings. I coordinated and led Tenda do Sweat at the Esalen Institute from 1996 to 2003, introduced Tenda in Brazil since 1988, and in Europe since 1999.
I have noticed that Europeans, Americans and Brazilians, as well as many other peoples, are deeply fascinated and interested in the indigenous culture and spirituality of the Americas. That’s why I’ve been leading many workshops on indigenous culture, their sacred songs, Tents of Sweat, shamanic extraction techniques, spiritist practices of disobsession, Roda de Cura, among others. I currently teach workshops in the US, Europe and Brazil.
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My name is Carlos Sauer, I was born in 1959, in Brazil. I am a holistic therapist, teacher, lecturer, and I was adopted in 1993 by an indigenous Cheyenne elder named Nelson Turtle. I introduced North American Native Traditions (Shamanism), including the Sweat Tent ceremony in Brazil in 1988.
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