If you ask anyone who has had a transformative spiritual experience – the kind that gifts a person clarity and perspective beyond the realm of the physical – where exactly they happened to have this ...

A 38-year-old New York woman who died after sitting in a sauna-like sweat lodge at a scenic Arizona resort was an avid surfer and hiker who was "in top shape," took self-improvement seriously and had ...

Beat the heat? More like embrace it. Mother-daughter duo Samantha and Sandy Albano opened Purify, an “urban sweat lodge,” in Burns Court earlier this month to give clients the opportunity to sweat—and ...

FLAGSTAFF — A woman who took part in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony tells The Associated Press that the spiritual guru who led the event pushed participants too far in what was supposed to be a ...

A sauna-like sweat lodge at an Arizona resort was meant to provide spiritual cleansing for the 64 people crowded inside. Today, the resort was a crime scene as investigators tried to piece together ...

Reporting from Los Angeles and Denver — Self-help guru James Arthur Ray was arrested Wednesday and charged with three counts of manslaughter in connection with an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony that ...

A ceremonial sauna for Native Americans could be coming to Benner state prison. Inmates Marvin Banks and Dale Arnold settled a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday with the state Department of ...

PHOENIX — A sauna-like sweat lodge at an Arizona resort meant to provide spiritual cleansing became a crime scene Friday after two people died and others became ill during a two-hour session inside ...

Dee Alams’ business is the Seattle outpost of a trend: urban sweat lodges, where one perspires to boost the body’s detoxification, and maybe shed some water weight to boot. Her original City Sweats ...

Hundreds of Native American tribes are getting money from lawsuit settlements with opioid companies. Some are investing the new funds in... A tribe in Maine is using opioid settlement funds on a sweat ...