Spiritual Retreat for Women in Sedona, Arizona: soul journey in landscapes of natural power and beauty, being your own wise woman-healer, ceremony celebrating rites of passage, self-acceptance, Presence with all that you are, vision quest, listening to the voice of Nature and your Soul, intuition, pilgrimage, explore, creating a new mythology, insights.

Heart's Fire:

Nature, Soul and Vision Retreat for Women

Do you feel some larger purpose calling you like a deep longing?
Is this your time to heed the call of your wild heart?

Together we read the signs, practice deep awareness. We let the wind blow through us--the breath of divine clearing the old, re-inspiring from Source.

We will explore ancient ways of listening to nature and our own body and letting the wisdom of our senses and heart guide us into connection with our personal vision and inspiration. Simply being alive and fully present in the moment opens a direct connection to all of Creation which shamans call a state of ecstatic union. If you can feel this even for a moment, it will change your life forever.

In this safe and sacred space, deeply listen, respect your inner voice and speak from your heart. Free emotions held in your body. Explore your feminine essence and own more of your natural power and creative expression.

 

This is your time to enjoy being with you, to get to know the you that is the source of your fire. Modern society is full of distractions, busyness, taking care of others, watching life on TV, noise, intellectual stimulation. Moving fast, living in our head, we seem to have lost touch with direct knowing of the heart, of trusting our own instincts.

Subtle signs come to us constantly. From nature, in our dreams, in the words of friends and co-workers. Do we slow down enough to listen? If I slow down I will have to be with me. That's too frightening. So we keep dancing on the edge of an unlived inner life that calls to us. Fear of the unknown speaking in a voice that says stay safe, keep within our comfort zone. For we know to heed the call of our wild heart or that big dream will take us around a bend where there is no return. To a place of experiencing more of who we are.

Learn how to work with intention and the power of the circle in ceremony to create positive movement in your life and a transition back home.

Create a special medicine piece to represent your new mythology.

Nurture yourself with a Sea Salt Glow treatment in the privacy of your room--we provide you with the salts annointed with essential oils. Your circulation will be greatly enhanced and your skin exfoliated to silky softness by this treatment. We will have a special introduction to essential oils, the healing essence of the plant kingdom. Learn how they can help elevate your spiritual vibration and enhance physical and emotional health.

Retreat Activities for Sedona Retreats

Day 1 8 am - 4 pm Nature, Soul and Vision experience out on the land in places of natural beauty and power. Pay attention to signs that come your way, journey to the drum to connect with spirit helpers and inner healing and vision. Allow the bigger picture of you walking your destiny line to emerge. A flowing, joyful day. Rest and dinner break. Sunset, 3 - 4 hours Circle of Power Medicine Wheel Teaching and Healing Ceremony. Introduction to essential oils and the medicine qualities of the plant kingdom. Salt-glow treatment on own in room. Day 2 9 am - 1 or 2 Soul Journey session; becoming your own healer: Dreams as source of guidance and healing, emotional release, chakra clearing and sound healing, deepening inner awareness skills and spirit helper connection. 12-7 pm Your integration and practice time on your own: Practice nature communion skills and mini vision quest on own. Write your new mythology and create your spirit mandala. Option to visit an essential oil supplier. Optional massage-energy work or in-room spa treatment. Relaxing time visiting galleries. 7:00 - 9:30 pm Rite of passage, sharing your new mythology, celebration, drum circle. Tarot-medicine card readings.   Schedule subject to change.

 

Options: Massage, energy work, spa treatments in your room Hopi Mesas Journey with Sandra Cosentino and Hopi friends following the retreat. For a more in depth experience, you may want to consider the 6-day Soul Journey and Vision Quest Retreat.

 

Details:

Facilitator: Sandra Cosentino works with earth energy, intuition, shamanic journey, ceremony and years of experience facilitating circles of people from many cultures and lands. "Wild nature has always been my healer, my best friend. I am from an Arizona pioneer family and all my life I have explored and gone to nature for sustenance. Mystical knowing came to me by direct communication from Nature and in dreamtime teachings and led me to explore. Shamans and medicine people and metaphysical wise people deepened this knowing. For 20 years I have faciliated circles practicing intertribal ceremonial ways of the medicine wheel and working with spiritual energies of earth, intention and group focus. My Navajo and Hopi spiritual friends have taken me into their homes and lives and showed by example the power of prayer and reverence and of a living relation to earth, opening more ancient channels of knowing. Peruvian and Himalayan shamans have opened their ways to me to share with all. But always for me first hand experiencing is my path to understanding. I extend these relationships with Nature and ancient ways to you encouraging your own inner awareness and vision to emerge and for you to activate change in your life through your intention and attention. We use ceremony to make the intention real and grounded in the physical body. The Directional Beings and elemental forces of nature are real and respond to our heartfelt prayers creating a powerful circle of support as you enter into your inner journey to the beat of the drum or the whoosh of wind--these beings flow through me and guide the pathways of our shamanic journey. " Along with other Sedona wise women/healers.

cost for 2 day Sedona retreat: $480 each with 2 people $450 each with 3 or more people $850 for 1 person (does not guarantee a private retreat, but does guanatee that will happen on the dates you want to come to Sedona. I will try to get others to join you if possible so the price goes down.) includes personalized, integrated program; tours; instruction and materials for salt glow, transportation while in Sedona for retreat activities. You will need your own vehicle or will have to arrange taxi service for the free time activities to go out on the land. registration: l. please send deposit of $125 to hold your space ($75 is refundable or transferable with 35 days notice) to address below. Balance is due 35 days prior to retreat start. 2. Please include name, address, phone and email address and tell me something about your goals for this time for yourself. 3 . Tell me where you will be staying. where to stay: Lodging is not included. We will recommend retreat friendly places to stay in a range of prices. what to bring: comfortable clothing suitable for indoor and outdoor activities, tennis shoes, layers of clothing for wide range of temperatures, water bottles, snacks, journal. Will advise you of transportation options from Phoenix airport to Sedona.

updated Aug. 24, 2004