Pathways:
Modern Day Mystic - Direct Experience with the Sentient Universe with timeless using archetypal pathways of the soul known as "shamanism" updated for today's world and based on a deep living, attentive relationship to Nature.
Ceremony--Create sacred space, invoke cosmic energies to create positive change
Conscious evolution using powerful insight tools that enhance the shamanic practices including lucid dreaming, tracking and clearing embedded energies/patterns, meditation. We connect with Higher Self and do experiential journeys to your inner sanctuary to restore your original energy matrix. Insights into genetic patterns. Tune in to body wisdom.
Mindfulness--here-now clear-eyed Presence with Self as your point of power |
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Overview:
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 solo time in nature. Rebalance with the Circle of Power/Medicine Wheel Ceremony.
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 daily sessions will provide you with feedback and insights. Your own daily practices with inner tools and nature awareness are a core part of the retreat. To get the most out of it, please clear space for this so you can turn off the cell phone and computer and really be Present with You. |
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The high desert landscape temples of Sedona open your heart, energize you and reflect light back to you. But your own intention and willingness to be in compassionate communion with all that you are without judgment gives wings to your journey!
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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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 are out at dawn, sunset and under the stars building confidence and perception skills.
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, deep observing.
I intuitively assist you in reading signs from nature, your body, your dreams, meditations, visions and the tarot/medicine cards.
| 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. We will do powerful work with transforming destructive cellular memories into the Truth pathways within your nervous system. |
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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 medicine helpers to assist us to 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 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. 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.
1. Being My Own Shaman-Healer Core Program Soul Journey Retreat: 4 - 5 days
exact order will vary; can be adjusted to fit your time frame.
Lodging, meals are NOT included.
I will send you a list of recommended places to stay in a variety of prices ranges (hotels, B&B's, camping).
Time frames for sessions depends on # of participants.
The retreats are always open to add other participants (which lowers the cost and provides opportunties for increased group energies)
(1 or 2 person price does not guarantee a private retreat, but does assure you that it will happen on the dates you want to come to Sedona; I will try to get others to join you if possible.)
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. Adding on a Hopi and Navajo Journey during or after the retreat is a powerful addition and integration of ancient earth wisdom principals.
day 1
Sedona Explorer + Earth & Sky Speak to Us Tour
(4 hours with 3 people, 3.5 hours with 2, 3 hours with 1)
Sedona Sacred Sites/Vortex Tour + Earth and Sky Speak to us in a flowing experience amid Sedona's landscape temples. Practice ways of being in nature as a doorway to open to fresh inspiration: rock divining, vision circle, tree wisdom, thick description, close observation, embracing the elements, messages mirrored to you from nature, noticing patterns. What are signs? Insights into broader Colorado Plateau/ancient cultures regional perspective on sacred lands.
on own during day: practice shapeshifting, medicine walks, deep observation in nature
Soul Journey Session 1, Inner Pathways – Conscious Evolution
(2 hours with 1 or 2 people; 2.5 hours with 3-4 people)
Powerful insight tools to enhance shamanic seeing: practice with lucid dreaming, meditation, tracking-clearing energies, healing destructive cellular memories to rewire nervous system and raise frequency, listening to body wisdom, developing Here-Now Presence as your point of power. Includes chakra clearing and sound healing with gong and Himalayan metals.
I support you with intuitive insights and holding a circle of support for you. I have seen people make profound realizations, free up emotional drains, deepen self-acceptance and resolve; and, thus, let of their soul's radiance to shine. From this centered aware place, you become self-referencing, less looking to outside sources for approval and more trusting of your own wisdom. We use these tools throughout the retreat.
day 2
Mystical Nature Shamanic Journey Seminar in Nature (3 hours)
In a series of spirit journeys to the drum, we connect with medicine animals, wise helpoer spirits, tree wisdom and more. Sandra mentors you and offers intuitive insights.
on own during day: practice sitting in solo circle, water-rebirthing ceremony at a prehistoric sacred spring and pueblo ruins site.
Soul Journey Session #2, Soul Retrieval and Extraction
We begin with a powerful intention to bring in powerful supportive Helper Spirits that are right for you at this time. Within the framework of this energy, we journey to uncover what is key for you to deal with at this time and, with your spirit support, you will experience moving this energetic pattern. We make it real to your mind with a follow up ceremony. We may also do a journey to confront an addiction, challenge or illness and begin a process of shifting that. For this to be affective, you have to be engaged in the process and do follow up. This is not a magic bullet. But you can make an energetic break through.
day 3
Soul Journey Session #3, Soul Retrieval
This work is to reclaim more of your soul’s presence and vital energy that have become separated or weakened in expression in your life through traumas, misperceptions, and various life experiences. 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. Building on the work done in Extraction and Spirit Helper connection, you learn how to track in the Lower World to find what is lost or hidden with a practice journey. Then we track, retrieve and ceremonially integrate part(s) of you that are ready to come home into your life now. This is a profound act of coming home to self--a deeply self-nurturing and freeing experience.
On your own during afternoon: Integrate soul retrieval work, continue nature practices at different sites
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Sunset-Starlight Nature, Solo Sacred Circle. (3 - 3.5) hours deepening shamanic practice with nature at night, Native star stories, stargaze. Introduction to vision quest circle in nature: focus, calming mind, being in communication with the cosmos, safety tips so you feel comfortable being in solo vision circle for an hour. |
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day 4
Circle 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.
On own: Write your new mythology, Create a symbolic spirit mandala
Soul Journey Session 4, Past Life, Mystic Child, Future Self, Current Challenges, Visioning
Re-dreaming ceremony to recast energies from potent events of your life into your new evolution now. Connect with past and future selves that are meaningful to you here and now. Reclaim visionary childhood connections. Deepen skill level with aware dreaming, shifting embedded patterns, soul retrieval, releasing cords, revisioning your destiny as you connect with your greater potential self. Find your power song. Tune in to other topics for guidance.
Closing circle, 1 - 2 hours,
Share New Mythology, Mandala, and Intentions for your return; tarot and symbol card reading option
Cost Per Person
1 person, $1,650
2 people, $1,200 each
3 or more people, $880 each
Lodging, meals are NOT included.
Included: program, transportation for on-land sessions, reference packet, coordination-planning of your personalized program
(*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.)
Let us know if you would like a list of recommended retreat-friendly places to stay
and transportation options from Phoenix to Sedona.

Sedona is a mythological landscape and place of spirit pilgrimage for thousands of years.
2. Mini Versions of Soul Journey Retreat 2-4 days
Core elements for creating new movement and vision in your life are included in these 3 versions below.
Lodging, meals are NOT included.
I will send you a list of recommended places to stay in a variety of prices ranges (hotels, B&B's, camping).
Time frames for sessions depends on # of participants.
The retreats are always open to add other participants (which lowers the cost and provides opportunties for increased group energies)
(1 or 2 person price does not guarantee a private retreat, but does assure you that it 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 Menu
1. Being My Own Shaman-Healer Soul Journey Retreat, 4 - 5 days
Schedule your own or join one of these:
June 4-7, 2012
Insight Retreat: Be Your Own Seer-Visionary--great timing--full moon and the Venus Transit of June 5. Venus Transit article here
June 14-16, 2012
Aligning with Greater Self Shamanic-Seer Skills Development:
(Itinerary on summer solstice page)
2 -3 day Mini-Retreat Options:
2A. Opening to Mystic Seeing and Earth-Spirit Awareness
2B. Core Skills: Be Your Own Shaman
2C. Aligning With Greater Self Shamanic Practice
(please scroll to bottom for details, prices)
2. Sedona Vision Quest Retreat with solo overnight option, 7-8 day retreat
The most in depth retreat--to be meaningful requires advance preparation and full time committment to it during your week here in Sedona.
upcoming date:
September 20-28
Sedona Vision Quest Retreat (with one day trip option to Hopi during this retreat)
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 us,
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 our higher frequency and stretch our wings.
"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

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
"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 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
"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
"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
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