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Blessingway (Hozhooji)
The core Navajo healing ceremony — restoring beauty, harmony, and balance (hozho).
📅 April 1 – 2 days
✦ Why It Matters
The Blessingway (Hozhooji) is the most important Navajo ceremony, restoring hozho — beauty, balance, and harmony — to a person who has fallen out of it through illness or difficult transitions. All Navajo ceremonies derive from the Blessingway tradition.
✦ How It Is Observed
Two-night ceremony by a hataalii (singer/healer), sweat bath purification, all-night singing of Blessingway songs, pollen blessing, corn pollen road of pollen ceremony, dawn prayer.
✦ Sacred Text
“Hozho nahasdlii — beauty is restored. May I walk in beauty. Beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty above me, beauty below me, beauty all around me.”
— Navajo Beautyway ↗