Grand Canyon and Sacred Peaks:
ancient connecting places between humans and spirit.
~ a personalized journey ~

We circle the San Franciso Peaks - the highest point in Arizona - enroute to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. For Hopi, Navajo, Havasupai,Zuni, Apache and other tribes, these are holy places associated with emergence, dieties, ancestors, life giving moisture and ceremony. Merging of mythic meanings and your receptiveness to power of place can heighten your experience.

The views come to life as you hear of Native people's relation to this wonder of creation and the colorful American history. Learn of the geological Grand Staircase which reveals one-third of the earth's evolution and the natural history of this region.

	Customized Options: night time, meteor shower, full moon, dawn and sunset journeys available (special night trips: Dec. 13 or 14 for meteor showers) discussion of ways to connect with sacred lands for creativity and inspiration; contemplation time ceremony for new beginnings and blessings   Walk through the historical district including the Hopi House modeled after prehistoric Hopi pueblo. Feel what is is like to be below the rim as you walk a ways down on legendary mule trails down a ways into the Canyon. We'll see a corner of the Navajo Reservation and a historical trading post, see quaking aspens on the shoulder of the San Francisco Peaks. Meet local Navajo artists on their Reservation at a tribal canyon overlook park, stop at an historical trading post.
	Details This customized van journey led by Sandra Cosentino, who is native to Arizona. She shares her informed passion, depth of knowledge and decades of experience with the places, energies and Peoples of the region. Day trip to South Rim, Navajo lands and San Francisco Peaks loop beginning from Sedona, 10 hours: $180 plus tax per person based on 4 person minimum in roomy six passenger van. In the event, there are less than 4 people, I will still do the trip as follows: $225* each with 3 people; $280* each with 2, 9 hours Extend the trip to 12 hours to include prehistoric ruin and crater field or to have more time for nature connections. $220* per person (4 person min.) * plus tax Lunch or breakfast options (not included): historic hotel on the South Rim or bring picnic to eat a a rim overlook
Historic mural showing the origin of the Hopi Snake Ceremony by Hopi artist Fred Kabotie.	Self-Drive Seminar to make your private trip a richer experience is available when there are less than 4 people: 1 1/2 hour seminar with Sandra in Sedona with historical, geological, Native American perspectives of these sacred places, route map, information sheet, my Cd with Native music and stories to play enroute to make this a richer experience than just going on your own. Suggestions for personal connection and ceremony and best timing. $90 total for 1 or 2 people.   The Mystical Nature Shamanic Journey seminar in Sedona is also recommended for those with a deeper interest in connecting with the energies of nature.   You might enjoy reading my article: Fire on the Sacred Mountain, Solstice Sign For All People

NASA image looking into eastern gateway and Inner Basin of the caldera of the San Francisco Peaks
which is surrounded by a crater-strewn volcanic field that last erupted 1064 AD.
It is located southeast of the Grand Canyon. Our journey takes all the way around the mountain.

Words by Zane Grey in Call of the Canyon in 1924 still speak to us today:

"And at last Carley realized that sun and light and stars and noon and night and shade, all working in incesssantly and mutably over shapes and lines and angles and surfaces too numerous and too great for the sight of man to hold, made an ever-changing spectacle of supreme beauty and coloful grandeur.....The superficialities of the world shrunk to their proper significance. stronger than the recorded deeds of saints, stronger than the eloquence of the gifted uplifters of men, stronger than any words every written, was the grand, brooding, sculptured aspect of nature."

"But just to breathe that untainted air, just to see once the boundless open of colored sand and rock--to realize what the freedom of eagles meant would not that have helped anyone? And with the thought there came to Carley's quickened and struggling mind a conception of freedom. She had not yet watched eagles, but she now gazed out into their domain. What then must be the effect of such environment on people whom it encompassed? The idea stunned Carley. Would such people grow in proportion to the nature with which they were in conflict? Hereditary influence could not be comparable to such environment in the shaping of character."

 

Canyonlands Spectacular Journey Itineraries: 2 Days --North and South Rims of the Grand Canyon, Prehistoric Cliff Dwelling, Navajo lands, Vermillion Cliffs, Dinsaur footprints 3 Days --South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley and Canyon de Chelly, Navajo lands & culture

 

Crossing Worlds Journeys and Retreats
P O Box 3288
Sedona, AZ 86340

1-800-350-2693 for initial info call only
Office:  928-282-0846
eMail: journeys@crossingworlds.com

 

last update August 17, 2010