Pipe ceremony

the reality of being a pipe carrier.
yourself before it isblessed, but for it to be a to do a pipe for them you are obligated to pipe and call yourself a pipe carrier.
do so. Those asking for or attending a pipe and put a little of you into the bowl, for ceremony are also obligated to give a gift in return - even if it only a little tobacco or a Offering smoke is a very good way of making prayers, if you do not personally have a sacred pipe. There is no reason why you cannot use a given here, but instead of a sacred pipe, you can use a small bowl to burn herbs in. There will not, of course, be the sacred marriage of male and female as you have in a pipe bowl and stem, but performing a ceremony such as this is an Begin by finding a suitable bowl. It needs to be able to resist heat, and needs to be big enough for you to hold comfortably, remembering that parts of it may get too hot to touch as the herbs burn.
Suitable containers include large sea shells, as well as stone, metal or ceramic containers. Now you can begin to perform the ceremony as if the bowl was a pipe. Take a small quantity of burning herbs and offer them to the powers as outlined in the directions for the pipe ceremony given on this page. As each amount of burning herbs are prayed with they can be put into the bowl.
Now the herbs can be lit and the smoke fanned with a large feather as you offer the smoke to the Creator, Grandmother Earth, the Powers of the Four Winds and any other powers, (“who love Once your prayers are said, remember to thank the powers whose help you asked and announce the end of the ceremony by stating that it is be given to the land to say thank you.
prayers do not rattle aroundyour head. When you have We normally associate tobacco with the pipe, and if you wish to use tobacco that is fine, but if you do, choose a high quality pure tobacco such as a ‘twist’ of dried leaves. These tobacco twists are simply a bundle of leaves rolled into a sausage, twisted into a U shape and left to dry or cured in smoke (often from hickory wood). They are pure tobacco and some are even grown organically and sometimes ceremonially. If this is impossible for you find a good quality regular pipe tobacco.
Avoid cigarette tobacco sold for rollups.
Kinni kinnick is a word that is applied to lots of Native American smoking mixes. Often these are made up from herbs listed on this page. Sometimes it has tobacco added to it and sometimes it is sold without tobacco. Red willow bark is also often called Kinni kinnick, this is the bark from the The Lakota word for this herb is Canasa. Normally it is also found in most Kinni kinnick mixes as are Bearberry leaves. Red Willow bark can be smoked by itself, and traditionally it is a very sacred plant to the Lakota and other nations, harvested in sacred ways at certain times of the year.
Deers tongue leaf (Trilisa ordoratissima) mixtures, as it tastes like tobacco.
the pipe is done in a specificway. The bowl always towards the sky, then moredown towards the ground, together with a pipe bag and quillworked pipe tamper. The Y shaped acts as a pipe rest to support thestem when the pipe is placed on an

Source: http://www.3worlds.co.uk/Articles/Pipe-Ceremony.pdf