Personalized
Soul
Journey Retreats
in the
Sedona,
Arizona area
for
1 - 6 people
with
Sandra Cosentino
Develop:
Attention, Intention, Intuition, Courage & Presence
in mystical communion amid red cliff dreamscapes
In
this union with timeless wisdom,
with your soul's fire,
you become your own shaman-healer and
evoke change that can have
profound effects on your life
options:
2-3 day mini version, 4 day intensive, 6-7 day with solo
overnight vision quest
Create
your own personalized retreat any time of the year:
Customized for those who want more integration and self-exploring time
and/or
cannot come on dates of scheduled group Soul Journey and
Earth Medicine Retreat
Vision Quest Retreats
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Choose
to evoke change and movement, to create a new mythology,
as you free limiting patterns and emotional-energetic stuck
places with loving kindness to yourself. Reclaim fragmented
parts of your soul, practice deep communion with shape
shifting and vision quest (solo overnight option). Rebalance
with the Circle of Power/Medicine Wheel Ceremony.
With
each heart-centered moment of awareness, you open doors
that opens more doors to a vastness you only guessed at
before.
I
have created an integrated program that helps you open
the pathways to your own soul's knowing. If this feels
right, if you feel ready, I am here for you. Creator gifted
me with the ability to hold space for people, to reflect
back their soul's gifts in an honoring, insightful, supportive
way. I help you create a safe and sacred space. The high
desert landscape temples of Sedona open your heart, energize
you and reflect light back to you. But your
own intention and heartful willingness to be in loving
communion with all that you are without judgment gives
wings to your journey!
Universal
earth medicine, east-west emotional healing ways, dream
awareness, dream seeding, tracking and reclaiming energies,
releasing that which no longer serves, and meditation
to move energy are some of the tools we use. I intuitively
assist you in reading signs from nature, your body, your
dreams, meditations, visions and the tarot/medicine cards.
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Some
Elements We Work With:
Shamanism for today is based on ancient
principles of ecstatic union with the divine and is the worlds'
oldest form of spiritual practice. Wild nature is a doorway, a
direct pipeline of connection. A shaman is a person practiced in
reading the signs, receiving and transmitting energies, and journeying
in his/her spirit body to obtain information/energies needed for
guidance and healing. This is a natural birthright we all have.
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Bear
is an archetypal ally of the human soul--known as the shaman-healer
in ancient cultures all around the world. People are often
surprised when Bear shows up bringing big energy and even
spontaneous shifts of long-held tensions. |
We
journey amid landscape temples practicing
extra-ordinary knowing-sensing, deep listening, observing the signs,
making relationship with the rocks, plant and animal beings, deepening
our sense of knowing and connection. We also journey in our spirit
body to the drum for guidance, wisdom, renewed balance and to connect
with spirit helpers. Experience deep soul communion in nature with
solo time on your own practicing shape shifting and vision quest.
I assist you in
reading the signs that are coming
to from nature, your body, your dreams, in meditations and visions,
in the tarot/medicine cards. The daily sessions will provide you
with feedback and insights.
We
use a variety of
inner journey experiences to
open your own direct soul connection for guidance and healing.
Learn to do your own soul-retrieval and bring more of you home--allow
more of your soul's light to shine. Practice effective daily meditation
and being more present here and now and chakra
clearing. We
draw on wise practices from Native American and Tibetan shamanism,
tracking techniques for reclaiming leaking energies, contemporary
east-west self-awareness practices such as listening to what our
body is telling us and letting it naturally free up stuck energies, past-life
and metaphysical understandings.
The
Circle of Power Healing Ceremony is
a powerful experience of using intention, prayers, gratitude, spiritual
energies, focus for your new balance. We connect with "spiritual
surgeons", medicine helpers to help us release that which
no longer serves and bring in a new sense of balance and to channel
hands-on healing energies for ourselves and others. My spirit
guides work through me on your behalf to restore energies, parts
of your soul and assist you in your own healing intention.
Dreams
are a direct and potent source of guidance and healing. We work
with dream seeding, sensing the energy/essence of the dream, lucid
dreaming, spontaneous healing and soul retrieval.
You become more and more the creator of a new dream not controlled
by the mass dream of the greater culture or your own past traumas.
Yoga
is highly recommended and an elective option. There are 2 studios
in Sedona which offer a daily schedule of classes (kundalini,
flow, hatha) for $15 per 1 or 1 1/2 hour class. Information
provided in your registration info packet.
My
prayer for you is to take these tools and direct experiences
back
to your daily life and that your radiance will inspire others!
This
image represents my understandng that we are the Bird Tribes
who have returned to be part of co-creating this Turning of the
Ages.
We come together to help each other remember the high frequency
and to stretch our wings.
"Sandra, when
my soul called me to come out and do the full retreat with
you, it was such a blessing. I came full of fear and anxiety,
missing and longing for a piece of me that had been lost.
Through your guidance I pulled out a giant cork that had
been stopping up a well inside me for many years. I found
a self-acceptance and self-validation. I know I will never
be the same again. Anyone who has felt that longing of emptiness
should take the full retreat with you. The training leading
up the the vision quest is indispensable. The vision quest
itself is like a favorite topping on a favorite dessert.
This is truly a journey of the self. I anyone is feeling
that call, they should definitely come here. Thank you so
much!"
Neal Lieberman, Birthing Tiger, Aug., 2004
Soul
Journey Group Retreats
Twice
a year we offer special group intensives which are concentrated,
focused experiences of Nature, Soul and Vision and include
Native wisdom keeper(s)
Soul
Journey Retreat
in Sedona, New Year's weekend
Earth Medicine Vision Quest Retreat
in Canyon de Chelly, summer solstice
week
..the only one held on Native lands,
a great privilege and unique
chance to absorb ancient wisdom by direct osmosis
assisted by Hopi
and Navajo wisdom keepers!
Personalized
Retreats
For
those who come here at other times of the year, have more time
to spend, want more integration time, we
are now offering personalized self-discovery retreats. Each retreat
is uniquely
created for you, the time of year and according to intuitive inspiration.
Packages 1 , 2 and 3 are described below--plus with all of them,
there is an option to go to Hopi Indian lands.
I
try to link up at least 2 to 4 people for each retreat to keep
your costs lower and also to have shared energies for your journey.
It always works out that the right people end up sharing these
experiences. I definitely know I am not in charge of the roster!
Each of our soul helpers are busy making these connections for
us before we ever come together! More
about facilitator/teacher, Sandra Cosentino.
Being My Own Shaman-Healer
"Once you start to awaken, no one can ever claim you again for
the old patterns. Now you realise how precious your time here is.
You are no longer willing to squander your essence on undertakings
that do not nourish your true self; your patience grows thin with
tired talk and dead language. You see through the rosters of expectation
which promise you safety and the confirmation of your outer identity.
Now you are impatient for growth, willing to put yourself in the way of change.
You want your work to become an expression of your gift. You want your relationship
to voyage beyond the pallid frontiers to where the danger of transformation dwells.
You want your God to be wild and to call you to where your destiny awaits."
John
O'Donohue
Soul
Journey Retreat Package I:
4 days
Retreat
Elements
exact order will vary; can be compressed into less
or more time depending on your time frame.
Each morning you will have dream, meditation and writing
practices on your own flowing from the skills we practice in
the retreat. Each afternoon you will have nature practices
and communion time on your own. These begin instilling skills
to take back into your life and are the essence of you becoming
your own seer and healer. Each day we will share dreams,
signs that come to you--I will be giving you feedback. I
recommend you give yourself a day after our retreat to shop,
have fun, integrate before returning to your busy home-work
world.
day
1
Nature,
Soul and Vision,
7 - 8 hours
Re-Visioning
Your Destiny in a flowing all day experience amid Sedona's landscape temples
and"vortex" sites with water ceremony at a prehistoric
site and broader Colorado Plateau/ancient cultures regional
perspective on sacred lands. Reading the signs, opening
to the supportive energies of nature, connecting with powerful
spirit helpers, shamanic journey skills, walking quest experience.
day
2
Soul
Journey Session 1, Inner Pathways:
Principles
of Presence and dream awareness; practice with meditation,
tracking your energies, allowing your own body wisdom to
release embedded heavy emotions, chakra clearing and raising
your cellular vibration (capacity to hold light) supported
by Spirit Helpers, intuitive insights and ancient sound
healing instruments. People have had profound realizations
and emotional releases during these sessions that have
allowed more of their soul's radiance to shine. 2 - 2 1/2
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Making
relationship with nature, shape shifting practice on your
own in wild nature--I
will suggest powerful settings for you
Mystical
Nature Soul Journey at sunset and in starlight,
3 hours deepening shamanic practice with nature
at night, Native star stories, mini vision quest
experience, Recapitulation-Redreaming Ceremony. |
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day
3
Soul
Journey Session #2, Soul Retrieval:
Soul Retrieval Experiental Seminar; you become your own shaman in a safe and
nurturing space in a poignant session of calling back and integrating a part
of your own soul that has become energetically separated from you. 2 - 2 1/2
hours
Plus
processing-integrating all that is moving from session
1 and the nature work practices, moving through resistances
that arise. This second session
strengthens using these tools as an effective practice
for you to take back home.
On
your own during afternoon:
Integrate soul retrieval work
Find
your spirit song
Mini-vision quest experience on in powerful setting
yoga (optional)
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of Power Teaching and Healing Ceremony,
evening, 2 1/2 to 4 hours (depending on how many
people). Learn ancient principles of working with
ceremony; receive a vibrational healing from earth
and cosmos and drumming; shamanic rebalancing work
by Sandra as guided by spirit. An uplifting experience
for creating positive movement in your life as you
align with your soul energy and the cosmos. |
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day
4
Soul
Journey Session #3, Past and Future Self:
Continuing Soul Retrieval process. Deepening cognitive dreaming, past and future
self, feedback, 2 hours
On
own:
Write your new mythology
Create a symbolic spirit mandala
Closing
circle in afternoon or evening, 2 hours,
Share New Mythology and
Intentions for your return; tarot and symbol card reading |
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Cost
Per Person
Part
I only, Days 1-4
1 person, $1,280;*
2 people, $860 each
3
or more people, $750 each
If you have less time or need to reduce the
budget, we can eliminate the evening mystical nature session
or the Circle of Power Ceremony.
Yoga
sessions are $15 per class (not included) but I
will provide you the schedule for the two excellent yoga
studios we have here in Sedona. Classes are available every
day. Some of the types offered: flow, kundalini and
hatha yoga. Your retreat schedule times can be adjusted
to accommodate the yoga classes.
(*does
not guarantee a private retreat, but does guarantee that
will happen on the dates you want to come to Sedona.
I will try to get others to join you if possible.)
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Retreat
Package 2:
6 -7 day Sedona
Vision Quest Retreat
Includes
Package 1 plus more soul deepening work with an overnight
solo communion in nature. Having the full 6-7 days plus giving
yourself a day to integrate afterward provides enough time
to more fully embrace your shift into a new level of soul
expression. The vision quest focus engages your intention
and energies at a deeper level. You want really create a
space of separation from your daily life to commit to this.
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option
Hopi
Indian Lands Journey to
connect with this ancient land pregnant with thousands of
years of prayers--for some this can be a real enhancement
to the retreat experience.
 
Hopi
Mesas Journey is $186 plus tax; tax is discounted for retreat
participants. 4 person minimum for this trip--we will adjust
the timing of the trip to seasonal activities going on
at Hopi and when I can schedule the other people.
It
is also possible to do a solo trip to Hopi with pre-trip
seminar with Sandra
and driving up on your own and meeting
up with Hopi guide.
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Retreat
Package 3: Mini Versions
2-3 days
For all 3 versions:
Core
elements for creating new movement and vision in your life are included
in these 3 versions below.
In
between our sessions you will have nature communion practices such as a mini-vision
quest and daily journaling, dream work, meditation to do to process and activate
our work together, drawing a symbolic mandala, write a new mythology.
Mini
Retreat A
day 1
Nature,
Soul and Vision, 5-6 hours
We begin out on the land:
combines Vortex tour and Mystical Nature Shamanic Journey
Soul
Journey Session 1:
Inner
Pathways, 2
- 2 1/2 hours.
day 2
Soul
Journey Session 2:
Soul Retrieval Experiental Seminar,
2 - 2 1/2
hours.
Circle
of Power/ Medicine
Wheel Teaching and Healing Ceremony,
2 1/2 to 4 hours (depending on how many people)
Closing:
Sharing your new mythology and preparing for the journey
home.
Cost
Per Person:
2-3
day mini-version as outlined above
1 person, $860
2 people, $560 each
3-6 people, $495 each
1
person price does not guarantee a private retreat, but
does guarantee that will happen on the dates you want
to come to Sedona. I will try to get others to join you
if possible to lower the cost. |
Mini
Retreat B
Same
core
elements as Version A, but delete vortex tour
day 1
Mystical
Nature Shamanic Journey, 3-4
hours
Soul
Journey Session 1:
Inner
Pathways, 2 - 2 1/2 hours.
day 2
Soul
Journey Session 2:
Soul Retrieval Experiental Seminar, 2 - 2 1/2 hours.
Circle
of Power/ Medicine Wheel Teaching and Healing Ceremony,
2 1/2 to 4 hours (depending on how many people)
Closing:
Sharing your new mythology and preparing for the journey
home.
Cost
Per Person:
2-3
day mini-version as outlined above
1 person, $680
2 people, $480 each
3-6 people, $420 each
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Mini Retreat C
for more
personal processing emphasis, delete Circle of Power Ceremony,
delete vortex tour, include Soul Journey session 3:
day
1
Mystical Nature Shamanic Journey, 3-4
hours
Soul
Journey Session 1:
Inner
Pathways, 2 - 2 1/2 hours.
day 2
Soul
Journey Session 2:
Soul Retrieval Experiental Seminar, 2 - 2 1/2 hours.
Day 2 or 3
Soul Journey Session 3:
Continue lucid dream work, integrating or completing Soul
Retrieval process, Past and Future Journeys, Re-dreaming
Ceremony, Primordial Sound Journey.
Closing: Sharing your new mythology and preparing for the
journey home.
Cost
Per Person:
2-3
day mini-version as outlined above
1
person, $680
2 people, $480 each
3-6 people, $420 each
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Words from Soul Journey
participants:
"I’m
back in my crazy NY world but with these beautiful mystic
feelings from Sedona. I feel Just like a man in “The
4 Agreements” that woke up from his dream and realized
he is made of lights…and people have noticed that he
had changed but how…
Only difference between me and the man is that he had to name himself
to remember the dream but, for me as long as I see the Butterflies, Sun, Moon,
feel the wind…I know I’m dreaming with awareness and these feelings
in my heart will light up my way. It was one of the most naturally powerful spiritual
journeys I ever took!!" Helen Yu, March, 2008
"I have
had such an incredible journey. Thank you for the work you
have done with me and for sharing your authenticity, impeccible
sense of timing, honesty, trust and integrity. It has been
an honor to work with a person of your knowledge and caliber." Marian,
Hawaii, 2007
"Our minds are clearer
then they have been in a year, and our inspiration has such
a boost. We have been seeing things that we used to take
for granted. Our trip was such a blessing, and we feel
like two new people since we have been home. . .We have
been opened to a world that we have felt and believed was
there, but we were just not able to "actualize" it.
We thank-you for guiding us through a wonderful experience." Brian
and Tonya Glonek, Ohio., Aug., 2006 -- Brian's poem about
his experience:
Lost
Bear Cub
With a Soul of Kindness
Came to the South
To Cure his Blindness.
His First day on the Land
Popped his Eyes Open
To the Glory Around
And the Power Behind It.
He trekked on the land
His Mate by his Side
The pictures came out
And he knew he wasn’t blind. |
As He dove inside himself
With His Helper at his Side
His Vision became more clear
As he remembered his younger times.Now He Feels Stronger
Vision clear as can be
Always with his eyes open
There Is Always More to See
Learning will Never Stop
He yearns to keep growing inside
Never forgetting the Little Bear
That fuels His Inner Child. |
"Sandra, I would like
to THANK you again very much for an amazing day of journeying
within...I had so many very special "unbelievable" encounters
with the Universe during this time in Arizona, both on
metaphysical level when you took us through the journeys
and in this physical reality...Universe is so generous
with us and so "chatty." If
one wants to communicate with the nature, one only needs
to keep their heart open." Julia, New
Zealand, July, 2006
"My
experience with CrossingWorlds with Sandra Cosentino can
be
summed up in 3 words: powerful, provoking, and profound. I came
in
a deep state of confusion and fear—and left with a sense
of peace and
understanding, coupled with the tools to continue the journey
when I
got home. Not only did I experience Sedona in a way I never could
have as a tourist, I was able to interact with nature as a catalyst
to the
spiritual journey. I learned that resistance is part of that
journey—but
that the journey is worth it. I can't say it was easy, or that
I was always
comfortable, but the rewards are quite remarkable. Sandra brings
insight,
understanding and incredible spiritual knowledge to the experience,
while giving me an opportunity to learn more about myself and
how I can
move forward into life with confidence and direction. A memorable
experience—one that I highly recommend." Irene, St. Louis.
Missouri, April, 2006
"Thank
you from my heart for helping me spread my wings to fly
high as eagle to bring forth my fire to the world and to
myself. I thank my lucky stars for their guiding me here--to
you, our group and the Hopis--my life is much blessed." Little
Cloud, Scottsdale, AZ, July, 2005 "It
is very hard to tell you what influence you have had on me.
There was been a real sense of healing from you and Sedona. You
are truly a healer, and since this path is new to me, I can
only trust feelings, not having too much experience. You
have a real gift, and your presence has been felt very deeply." Dot
R., California"When
I returned home I thought all would go back to the way it
was but it did not. Something had changed especially in regard
to me moving through my fears. The experience I had with
you was very challenging, you pushed me though boundaries
and supported me but not in the way I was accustomed to.
The experience of Sedona was very powerful and I want to
thank you for being a very powerful facilitator." Linda,
Melbourne, Austrailia
"My
life has been altered with the tools you've shared. Thank
you for sharing your spirit and love--it has made all the
difference." Sandy, Calgary, Canada |
 Guests
from Wisconsin experiencing oneness with the Juniper tree and each
other in Nature, Soul and Vision outing!
“Each
of us is put here in this time and this place to
personally decide the future of humankind. Did
you think the Creator would create unnecessary
people in a time of such terrible danger? My Grandmother
once told me to understand that every person can
have a good heart, a heart big enough to change
the world! She said the Great spirit wouldn’t
give us something we couldn’t handle! Know
that you yourself are essential to this World.
Believe that! Understand both the blessing and
the burden of that. You yourself are desperately
needed to save the soul of this world. Did you
think you were put here for something less?“
from White Buffalo Teachings by
Chief Arvol Looking Horse
by Chief Arvol Looking Horse.
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Supportive
Options:
Massage
and
spa treatments, energy work, chakra clearing, myofacial
release, holistic pedicure or manicure
Details of Massage Options
Let us know if you would like a list of recommended retreat-friendly
places to stay
including the Crossing Worlds guest room with its own private
garden entrance.
and transportation options from Phoenix to Sedona.
pertinent
articles:
--Heart's
Fire: A Shamanic Journey to
Sedona and the Colorado Plateau
--Nature,
Soul & Vision article
--The
Power of Sound to Heal, to Create New Life
--The
Call of the Desert article
--Healing
Dreams,
excerpts to stimulate
dream awareness!
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