Sedona Spiritual
Retreat with soul retrieval, emotional healing and development
of presence and courage. Shamanic journey in nature, sound
healing with drum and Himalyan instruments, Hopi and Navajo
Indian lands journey option, medicine wheel healing ceremony
for new balance, sacred sites, vortex tour, connecting with
inner vision, lucid dream awareness skills, mini-vision quest,
tarot/medicine card insights, past-life, future self. Native
American ceremony for New Year's Eve. Wisdom traditions from:
Nature, Dreamtime soul work, Native American, Himalyan shamanism;
East-West self-awareness practices and metaphyical understandings.
Crossing
Worlds Journeys & Retreats
Inspiring,
Insightful, Personal Experiences of Sedona,
Arizona, the Ancient Southwest & your inner
vision.
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the
original
SOUL
JOURNEY RETREAT
Dec.
29, 2009 - Jan. 1, 20010
Sedona, Arizona
with
optional Hopi and Navajo Journey
Jan. 2 - 3, 20010
to share blessings of the year with traditional peoples in their homelands
For
Development of
ATTENTION, INTENTION, INTUITION, COURAGE AND PRESENCE
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VORTEX
TOUR
SOUL-RETRIEVAL
EMOTIONAL HEALING
WORK WITH THE ENERGIES OF NATURE
OPENING TO VISION
CEREMONIAL CIRCLES
FREEING INNATE BODY WISDOM
SHAMANIC JOURNEY
READING THE SIGNS
NATIVE MEDICINE PRINCIPLES
LUCID DREAM SKILLS
NEW YEAR'S EVE FIRE CEREMONY with Native American spiritual
emissary
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The
Turning of the Ages is now--
we are each being called
to be more than we know we are;
to become our own shaman-healer.
Come
home to yourself, your soul's fire
in Powerful Landscape Temples
of Vibrant Rock and Sun
--for
options available including mini-retreat, New Year's Eve and
Medicine
Wheel ceremonies only, Hopi and Navajo journey, please scroll down--

In
this union with timeless wisdom,
you evoke change that can have profound effects on your life.
So what might happen in your life if you began
really listening to the voice of your soul that is whispered
on the wind, radiating from the stars, reflected to you in
inner responses to people in your life, expressed in body language
such as gut tightening or heart opening, or in the dream of
the eagle pecking on your head calling you to go fly and get
the bigger picture of who you really are and of your vast potent-reality?
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 practice. Rebalance with Medicine Wheel Ceremony
and shamanic healing. As we work through our resistances, a
new alchemy emerges. More vital essence, courage and vision
is expressed in you.
You
experience connection to your heart, to each other. You see
reflected back to you, your own beauty. You gain real compassion
for yourself as we gently share our pain and joys. We directly
learn of the cycle of life, death and renewal. In the releasing,
more of our soul essence comes to live in our body. You
can be a luminous mirror to others right here and now in
your everyday life. And in every moment act in integrity
with the best that you are at this moment and with great
loving kindness know that you can make even better choices
next time. With each heart-centered moment of awareness,
you open doors that opens more doors to a vastness you only
guessed at before.
We
develop lucid dream skills as a source of soul knowledge
and energetic rebalancing. Universal
earth medicine, east-west emotional healing ways, dream awareness,
tracking-reclaiming energies, releasing that which no longer
serves, meditation are also tools we use.
These
group retreats offer an intense setting for personal shifts.
Available energies are magnified within the shared focus. You
have opportunities for learning from each other's experiences,
for integrating the experiences with your dreams, meditation
insights and feelings that come up over the course of the 4
days. We
encourage you to develop awareness practices to carry back
into the rest of your life. Resource booklet, reading list
included.


Sandra and
retreat group at Cathedral Rock vortex site


This
is the Hopi Soyal Kachina who comes at Winter Solstice
to open the ceremonial season of the year.

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"Creator
gifted me with the ability to hold space for people,
to see and reflect back their soul's gifts in an honoring,
supportive way. I resonate with the energies of this
land and the Holy Ones who are her spiritual overseers.
We create a powerful, yet safe and sacred space
for you to connect with these energies, with your own
Light. But your own willingness to be in loving communion
with all that you are without judgment gives wings
to your journey!
Each
of us has the innate ability to obtain guidance direct
from Source for our own healing and vision. Sometimes
we just need someone to reflect back our light, to
give us new tools, to nudge us, give us a new insight
when we are up against a stuck place, to encourage
and support and support us to go through the doorway
of our deepest fears.
I
can journey into the spirit world and find fragmented
parts of your soul and negotiate with them to come
back to you--but it is far more empowering and effective
for you to do this for yourself.
I
have created an integrated program that helps you open
the pathways to your own soul's knowing based on years
of experience with shamanism and east-west practices
for meditation, emotional release, stalking where you
are leaking out your energy, becoming more alive and
Present right here and now. We also work with
the power of prayer, intention and ceremony to
create positive change."
Sandra
Cosentino
Core
elements of the Retreat:
Vortex
Tour
Explore Sedona's special sites and learn access points for
your free time nature communion practice.
Mystical
Nature Shamanic Journey
Let nature speak to you as we pay attention to signs, symbols
and helper spirits. We practice deep listening both in the
tangible world and as you journey inward to the drum beat
as shamans do. Learn how to do soul flight/shamanic journey,
connect with medicine helpers that are the living soul of
nature for healing, guidance, new vision. 1 1/2 days days
of Nature-Soul-Vision experiential seminar out in Sedona's
landscape temples including starlight experience with a mini
vision quest.
See mystical
and revisioning for
more info
Soul
Journey Session 1:
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 that have an alchemical effect on our
body. 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 hours.
Soul
Journey Session #2:
Soul Retrieval and Extraction experiental seminar; you become
your own shaman in a safe and nurturing space in a 4 step
process that includes doing extraction work. This is a profound
act of self-compassion. Plus we will processing-integrating
all that is moving from session 1 and the nature work practices,
moving through resistances that arise in a kind and self-loving
way.
Soul
Journey Session 3:
Completing Soul Retrieval work: redreaming ceremony and past
life journey
We
will have daily practice in dream work, meditation, listening
to your own body to strengthen using these tools as an
effective practice for you to take back home.
Primordial
Sound Journey with symphonic gong, drums and
other instruments--a powerful experience of sound vibration
as you journey through primal worlds of creation with
focused intention. The gong vibrates every cell of your
body.
Circle of Power-Medicine Wheel Teachings and
Healing Ceremony
Working powerfully with intention and prayer, we invoke cosmic
and earth energies to create positive change in your life.
This is a shamanic healing/rebalancing using drums, sound
healing instruments, hands-on energy and soulful cross-cultural
ways for working with the power of the circle. See wheel for
more info.
Seeing-Being
More. Being our own prophet, creating our own
new story with insights from Tarot-Medicine Cards, Inner
Journeys to the Temple of Remembering and into the future, past-life
and metaphysical understandings. Find
your own spirit song, free your creative voice. Re-Dreaming
Ceremony drawing powerful energies from the past into
future intention.
Special
New Year's Eve Program: opening
vision, wisdom and dream time knowledge
--Native
Wisdom Medicine circle with teachings, blessings
and fire ceremony with Uqualla, a
universal medicine person, able to speak of spirit
to all peoples. An orator and a seer, he carries
a deep connection to the ancestral presence, knowledge
and teachings of his people. His chants and prayers
touch a deep chord inside us of ancient knowing.
He is from the Havasupai tribe. Free
your spirit with Native dance movements, participatory
drumming.
--Power
Circle-drum journey for vision and power
with Sandra
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We
have a full 4-day schedule with day and evening experiences:
Preliminary itinerary is
posted here to give you a sense of the flow of the
retreat.
Sandra
Cosentino will intuitively assist you in reading signs
from nature, your body, your dreams, meditations, visions
and the tarot/medicine cards.
Sandra has
a lifetime of experience of listening to and exploring
wild nature plus more than 2 decades of experience with
shamanic practices and ceremony. Her wisdom is based on
direct knowing and years of involvement with Native American
and metaphysical wise people and east-west emotional and
shamanic healing practices. Her warmth, honoring approach,
mystical understandings and intuitive insights create a
bridge and encouragement for people to hear and trust the
voice of their own soul. She has been creating circles/retreats
for over 20 years bringing together people from around
the world with Native and universal wisdom people of the
Southwest.

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Please
scroll down below to see cost, registration, Mini-retreat
and Hopi-Navajo post retreat options.
DETAILS
Soul
Journey Retreat
Retreats
arranged on other dates for groups of 4 or more.
Cost:
$780 each with 4 or 5 participants (does
not include lodging)
discounted to $750 each with more than 6 participants
Please send $225 deposit to hold space
payable to Sandra Cosentino.
Refundable or transferable less a $100 office fee with
35 days notice.
Balance due 30 days prior to retreat.
Includes
integrated, personalized intensive program, personal sharing
time, Sedona area journeys and nature work, special programs
listed in itineraries, and transportation for retreat activities,
meals listed in itineraries, reference booklet, reading
list. Preliminary itineraries have beginning and ending
times for the retreat--plan on the full 4 days.
Lodging
is not included but we will recommend retreat friendly
places in Sedona to stay including the Crossing Worlds
guest room with private garden entrance and comfortable,
nearby good standard lodging (which range from $55 - $105).
Upscale resorts and B&B's also available.
Will advise you of transportation options from Phoenix or
Flagstaff, Arizona airport to Sedona.
Massage and energy work options also available.
to
register:
Please
give us the following information with your registration
and I will send you details on preparation, what to bring,
lodging and airport options:
- your
name, address, home phone and email
- where
you will be staying in Sedona
- are
you driving? do you want to arrange a car pool with others
from Phoenix to Sedona?
- what
is your intention for yourself for this retreat
OPTION:
A great way to deepen and integrate after the intensity
of the retreat:
Hopi
and Navajo Indian Lands Journey
Jan.
2-3, 2010
with special blessings of season
Hopi
Indian Lands Journey (detailed description and
photos) which includes special circle, home and village
visits, Hopi dinner, and sharing with these reverent, warm-hearted
People.
and Canyon
de Chelly with jeep tour into this beautiful canyon,
ancient sacred place of spiritual connection and a Navajo
fire blessing ceremony. See prehistoric cliff dwellings
of the Hopi ancestors, personal vision quest time and
fire blessing ceremony to help us connect the Holy Ones
who inhabit this mythological place. See description
and photos which are included on the Hopi page.
$575
each with minimum of 4 people, prices goes down to $525
with 6 people (please send a $125 deposit to confirm your
reservation for this portion--may be small gas surcharge).Refundable
or transferable less a $100 office fee with 35 days notice.
Balance due 30 days prior to retreat.
includes
transportation, guides, program, Navajo jeep tour and fire
blessing ceremony, reference booklet, Hopi dinner and overnight
lodging at inn on Indian lands (double occupancy). Navajo
sweat lodge may be available in the Canyon (not included,
please ask for details)
Special
arrangements can be made to do a one-day Hopi trip if
you cannot do the 2-day trip. Ask for details.
Mini-
Retreat
for
those who prefer a less intensive/lower budget
option
Day
1
Nature, Soul and Vision,
8 hrs
which includes the
Sedona Sacred and Mystical Nature Journeys helping
you tune into the energies and signs coming to you
from nature and connect with spirit helpers. A joyful,
flowing day in many places of natural power and beauty
in the Sedona area including "vortex sites.
Day 2 and 3
Explore canyons on your
own, practice "shape shifting" and
a mini "vision quest" experience
on your own
Day 4
Medicine Wheel Teaching and Healing Ceremony
cost:
$300
Options
you can add to the mini-retreat:
1.
New Year's Eve Celebration/Ceremony with
Native American guest, $80
2.
Hopi Mesas Journey, 11
hours, $210 + tax
3. Hopi and Canyon de Chelly Journey,
2 days including Navajo fire blessing and jeep
tour into canyon, overnight at inn on Navajo lands,
Hopi village and home visits, blessing circle,
dinner and reference packet.
$595 (+ small gas surcharge if gas
over $3.40/gal.)

group
with Navajo guest presenter from New Year's weekend
retreat 2001
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Highly
supportive, high quality optional experiences:
Massage-energy
work is highly recommended for its relaxing,
integrative
support--reservations recommended.
Details of Massage
Options
words of past participants:
"I
am back at work with new energy. Being in Sedona helped me
to connect to the earth and to who I am, even more . I have
been doing more of connecting to people and talking to my patients
then ever before. Thank you for your presence, for the shamanic
journeys, and showing us around. I loved the new year's ceremony."
Dr. Iwona Szpiech, M.S., D.C., San Diego,
CA, 2005
I "I enjoyed meeting
all of you and know that the work I did there will benefit
me for the rest of my life. People have remarked that my energy
has changed and that I am more open around my chest. " Phil
G, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 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
Pertinent
Wisdom:
“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.
"Being-energy
is soft and yielding and yet infinitely more
powerful than mind. The mind runs our civilization,
whereas Being is in charge of all life on our
planet and beyond."
"A
group of people coming together in a state
of presence generates a collective energy field
of great intensity. It not only raises the
degree of presence of each member of the group
but also helps to free the collective human
consciousness from its current state of mind
dominance."
Eckhart
Tolle,
The Power of Now
The
magnetism of the earth in places like Sedona
becomes embedded in your DNA...the
sun, the earth and the power of hearts joined within
the circle increases the ability of your DNA to hold
more spin, this implosion allows your heart waves to
multiply, move outward and has the power to create
stars...this is the evolution of consciousness.
concepts
from Grail Science of the Loving Heart, Sacred
Geometry by physicist Dan Winter
Healing
Dreams are soul force, truth medicine. Such
dreams disturb us because of their utter refusal
to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves.
They often require us to live our questions
rather than furnish instant answers. But even
a purely exhilerating dream stirs a different
sort of unease--That we may harbor an unrealized
greatness, a potential that, if we dared fulfill
it, would bring an end to ordinary life. In
the end, the task of an examined life--the
task Healing Dreams set vividly before us--is
ours alone to reject or embrace; which way
we choose makes all the difference in the world."
from Healing Dreams by Marc Ian
Barasch
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updated
May 24, 2008
Crossing
Worlds Journeys and Retreats
P O Box 3288
Sedona, AZ 86340
1-800-350-2693
for intial info calls
Office: 928-282-0846
eMail: journeys@crossingworlds.com
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