Tours of prehistoric cliff dwellings, pueblos, rock art, sacred sites, Hopi, Navajo and other Indian cultures of the Southwest USA: and spectacular landscapes of the Colorado Plateau in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah: by van with jeep, hiking, horseback, rafting, boating options. Rare opportunities to participate in cultural and earth-medicine retreats on Hopi and Navajo lands. Ecotours with local foods, circles of celebration, natural history and ways people relate to the land and that the land influences people.

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Inspiring, Insightful, Personal Experiences of Sedona, Arizona, the Ancient Southwest & your inner vision.

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Vision Quest Retreat:
Canyon de Chelly, Hopi
Native American
Culture Journeys


 

Ancient Cultures, Sacred Sites and
Spectacular Landscapes, Ecotours

In Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah

The Colorado Plateau, the second largest plateau in the world, is a place of mysterious beauty. The land is alive with Creation stories exposed in the sinuous canyons which are rugged mountains upside down.   Absorb the unearthly luminous qualities of light on rock and vast plateau lands and of brilliant stars at night.

This is a dreamscape sculpted by elemental forces. Radiant with sun, quickened by lightning, resonant with many millennia of human prayer honoring this sacred earth. The wind that shapes the wondrous formations gives voice to the indwelling spirit that Navajos call Nilchi'i, the inner spirit of humans, the mountains, the stars and all of creation.

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This Southwest region has the largest concentration of national monuments, parks and spectacular canyon and mesa landscapes anywhere. This is the mythological landscape of living cultures with roots in another time. With one of the clearest atmospheres in the world, we take time to star and moon gaze and to breathe in the stunning sunset and sunrise colors!

Here imagination is stimulated. Who are we? Why are we here now? Pondering, sensing the mysteries of those who came before, we walk among the remote and exquisitely beautiful remains of stone cliff dwellings, pueblo villages and gaze upon other-worldly images left carved and painted on canyon walls. And, in fact, these ancient peoples are still here. Hopi, Navajo, Zuni and other Native Peoples warmly welcome you as they share their stories, lives, ways, reverence, earth-spirit ways and arts in homes and villages, around the campfire, and in special backcountry places.We come together in a warm circle of friends from many nations telling our stories.

Legends & earth wisdom woven with historic color, nature, geology, archaeology & real people interactions!

1 - 8 Day Journeys and Retreats into the heart of
the Peoples and the Places.


To see more about the destinations please use our menu at the bottom.
Special Journeys can be arranged for your group at other dates.

 

2008 dates for Colorado Plateau Journeys


June 14-21
Earth Medicine Vision Quest Retreat
, Hopi and Navajo and Canyon de Chelly

July 2-7
Hopi, Navajo, Zuni and Chaco Canyon Culture Explorer Journey

Sept. 28-30
Vermilion Cliffs, Marble Canyon, Colorado River float trip through Glen Canyon
Journey with art instruction by an award winning artist
Nature awareness, free your creative self in a remote area north of the Grand Canyon in the Arizona-Utah borderlands with special:
~~slot canyon hike and Lake Powell vistas
~~Comradeship -- campfire circles with Hopi and Navajo people

October 6 - 10
Ancient Cultures of the Southwest Explorer
Hopi Mesas - Navajo - Acoma and Zuni Pueblos -
Chaco Canyon and Canyon de Chelly prehistoric sites

Jan 2-3, 2009
Hopi and Navajo and Canyon de Chelly journey with Navajo fire ceremony

 

Southwest regional flavors of the land:
foods, cultures and circles of celebration...

I will be offering some "ecotours" in coming months featuring local foods, cultures, songs, stories and circles of sharing to extend this joy to you and to support local food producers. These will feature foods with thousands of years of history with the Hopi people who are masters of the heirloom corn still grown today by dry farming, foods brought to the "New World" by the Spanish, local high desert vineyards/wineries, Navajo traditional foods and Churro sheep, new Santa Fe style Southwest cooking, Chimayo chilis, Taos Pueblo foods and more. Also here in Sedona are leading edge practitioners of organic raw food cuisine including amazing nutritious-delicious raw chocolate we will introduce you to for your good health and taste bud awakening (plus the local Sedona tradition of drum circles under the full moon). In winter or early spring we will explore some Sonoran desert foods and ecosystems in Southern Arizona.

see related article: Agave Roasting: Apache and Puebloan Tradition


A Tonto Apache grinding wild lemonade berries on metate at a Verde Valley, Arizona gathering

 

Journey Index
tours arranged for 4 or more people

In Arizona:

Hopi Mesas Journey
plus enroute Navajo culture & Painted Desert

Canyon de Chelly
Cliff Dwellings, Rock Art & Navajo Culture

Monument Valley

Grand Canyon

Ancient Cultures Explorer 2 Arizona, 4 days:
Sedona, Hopi, Canyon de Chelly, Navajo culture, Window Rock

In Arizona and New Mexico:

Hopi, Navajo, Zuni, and Chaco Canyon 6-day experiential seminar/retreats (held annually the week of 4th of July)

Ancient Cultures Explorer, 5 days, Arizona and western New Mexico:
Hopi, Zuni, Acoma Pueblo, Chaco Canyon and Canyon de Chelly, Navajo culture

Tri-Cultural Mosaic: Peoples, Cultures, Arts, Tastes and Spectacular Landscapes of north-central New Mexico--6 days--Santa Fe, Taos, Chimayo, Bandelier, Los Alamos, Jemez Pueblo, Ojo Caliente Hot Springs, Sangre de Cristo Mountains

 

 

 

"The people and places that Sandra introduced me to were so vibrant that they sustain me in an on-going way. I have been on at least four trips with Sandra over the last 7 years. They have all been extraordinary. She is a remarkable guide, subtle, yet every trip has been a physical and internal adventure."
J. Telles, California, 2001

"I HIGHLY recommend Crossing Worlds to any traveler within Sandra Cosentino's range. We feel EXTREMELY grateful to have found her!!!! Sandra took care of every detail of our trip from wheelchair rental to hotel accommodations. Every thing was absolutely perfect during our 9 day adventure during which my 80 year old parents and myself (I'm in my 40s) did everything you can think of - from a 4 hour jeep tour of Canyon De Chelly to playing Bingo on the Hopi rez until 11:30 at night! (The Bingo probably won't be a common request - but it was ours and she made it happen!)

We met some lovely people through her and felt both excited and relaxed during our trip. Being Native myself I can tell you that traveling with Sandra will allow you to meet real people from the area - who happen to be Indian - and if you are not familiar with Indian culture(s) you will have a real view into a different world from the "dominant" one most of us live our daily lives within. Words can not convey all of our experiences - I wish the same positive energy and force that all three of us gained for our lives to all travelers who are fortunate enough to have found Sandra and Crossing Worlds."
Roberta A Duhaime, DVM, Mohawk heritage, Oct. 2003

"While it may sound a bit corny to say that our trip with you changed our lives, it certainly has had an impact in so many ways.  In some way I feel liberated from the idea of putting people into categories, seeing people in a particular light. The Hopis especially have broadened our horizons in these respects.  What wonderfully warm, friendly folks they are! They have so little materially but their hearts are bigger than most!  Their way of life, while so different from ours, professes love of family and community and their link to the earth and what she gives to us each day is so refreshing, so real.  We take so much for granted on this planet and when witnessing the way in which the natives revere the tiniest grains of corn, their sustenance, we are brought back to a realisation that in many ways we get our priorities wrong.  They are truly beautiful souls."
Virginia Foley, Toronto, Canada, Jan., 2006

Special Native American experiences arranged
with most of these  tours when available.

Hopi Ceremonial Cycle,
information and photos.

updated May 25, 2008

Crossing Worlds Journeys and Retreats
P O Box 3288

Sedona, AZ 86340

1-800-350-2693 for quick info calls
Office:  928-203-0024
eMail:
journeys@crossingworlds.com