Winter Solstice, the peak of the dark in the cycle of the year, has always been understood by humankind as one of the two most powerful turning points of the year. This year, millions of people around the world will be making spirit connections and holding a powerful space to usher in a new era of Peace and spiritual awareness.
This is a potent time to connect with nature and ceremony and the power of our own focused intention to create a new vibrational frequency and positive movement.
Winter Solstice at Hopi is the sacred time of quiet to release the old year, and set forth positive intentions to begin the new year. This is a deep time when prayer offerings are made and taken to sacred sites for the positive renewal of life. The bowl of stars sparkle above the big open horizon -- Orion and Pleiades dominate overhead. Hopi people have a deep understanding of working with the power of prayer and positive intention. For those that choose a quiet and deep Solstice experience and to be in the energy of Hopi we offer a special Dec. 21-22 Hopi Indian Lands Solstice Spirit Journey.
Dec. 20 - 21- Hopi Indian Lands Solstice Spirit Journey
This is one of the most sacred times of year at Hopi. We will go quietly to villages and homes to be in tune with this prayerful time of year. We will have a special Winter Solstice Circles with a traditional peoples. Hopi feast dinner and breakfast in homes.Will include in depth introduction to this traditional Native culture. See program to right.
$550* (per person based on 4 - 6 people + hotel (Good quality on reservation inn cost will be about $95 per double room --will let you know if there is a room mate opportunity) includes van transportation, cross-cultural guide and Native American guides, entry fees, program, 2 Hopi meals. Deposit of $200 to reserve space with full payment 60 days in advance. Deposit is refundable less a $50 office fee with 60 days notice. Paymenets non-refundable with less than 60 days notice.
Should the trip have to be canceled due to a winter storm, you will receive full refund.
Day 2 Healing Circle with a Medicine Man is by donation.
Not included: Meals not listed on your own.
I reserve your Hopi hotel, but it is paid directly by you.
*plus fuel surcharge when gas is more than $3.70 a gallon |
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Dec. 19, in Sedona, in preparation, we offer the Mystical Nature Shamanic Journey and the Circle of Power Healing Ceremony to take you into your own deep space of connection with helper spirits and your greater soul self. This will deepen your Hopi experience.
Dec. 22, in Sedona, we offer the Nature, Soul and Vision experience with a Vortex Tour and Mystical Nature Shamanic Journey combined journey during the day. Then in the evening, the Circle of Power Ceremony
Circle of Power Drum Healing Ceremony:
Learn universal principles of ceremony, and participate in creating a sacred circle for renewal and balance. Experience drumming, being a vessel to flow energy, receiving energies and shamanic insights with Sandra. This is not a Hopi ceremony, but an honoring one for all peoples not copying any tribal tradition.
Reaching far back into human consciousness is a knowing of the importance of aligning with patterns of organization found in our greater universe. Ceremony is used to create balance and instigate positive change. Ceremonies remind us that we are part of a wave of energy in flow with all of creation and not merely a separate particle as our thinking mind perceives. We can use ceremony to emerge new phenomena.
Ceremony makes our shifts real to our mind. It opens a new sense of connection between you and the powers of the universe and gives you experience working with your helping spirits. A sense of inner harmony is generated as we open our heart and become one with the universe.
I use universal, time-honored ways as a framework. I have learned the power of focusing many days or weeks in advance as helper energies are evoked. I listen to my guidance and intuition and use years of experience to bring these universal ways into a living, contemporary form for all people. A kind of surrender takes place as you become a fluid vessel for waves of energy to flow through. |
prehistoric solstice marker petroglyph from Chaco Canyon
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Program Led by:
Sandra Cosentino 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 and leading ceremonies for over 25 years bringing together people from around the world with Native and universal wisdom people of the Southwest. Sandra has deep respect for Native cultural traditions and does not copy tribal ways. Rather she encourages respect for tribal privacy and learning authentic cultural values from indigenous peoples. Sandra is dedicated to each of us empowering ourself with our authentic expression of spirit.
At Hopi we will be in special circles with traditional healers and others who participate in Hopi traditional life. Our main host for Solstice Eve and the predawn Solstice circles is a powerful traditional healer who is a role model of powerful focus on and positive believe in your intention. He will share wisdom, songs, prayers and create for us a powerful space to usher in our new time.
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Program:
Dec. 19: SEDONA
10 am - 1 pm
Mystical Nature Shamanic Journey
Shamanic Journey workshop to connect with helper spirits and insights for your Solstice intentions. 2:30 - 6 pm
Circle of Power Teaching and Healing Ceremony
Dec. 21- 22, 2012: HOPI
Solstice Spirit Journey
Dec. 20
9 am
Leave for Hopi with in depth cultural introduction enroute.
11:30 - 3 pm
Visit village, see special rock art site, traditional food feast in a home
afternoon time to check into hotel, relax, light dinner on own
5:30 - 7:30 pm
Circle with Hopi Healer creating group energy of connection, deepening our own inner intentions. He will share traditional perspective on working with spiritual energies, prayer and healing (He will not be sharing private practices that are part of Hopi initiation.)
Dec. 21
4 - 6:00 am
4:11 am-- Sacred Meditation Circle connecting with the energies of Solstice led by Hopi Healer
6:30 - 9 am
Traditional Hopi blue corn pancake breakfast in a home and creating your own medicine piece with Hopi artists
9:30 - 10:30
back to hotel for break before check out
Mid-day: Experience more of Hopi and conclude with a special Healing Circle with a Traditional Healer.
6 pm: back in Sedona
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Dec. 22: SEDONA
10 am - 4 pm
Nature, Soul and Vision: Vortex Tour plus Mystical Nature Shamanic Journey
$180 + tax pp with 3 or more, 6 hours (with 2 people: $240 + tax, 5.5 hours)
6 - 9 pm
Circle of Power Healing Ceremony |
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