Native American Tribes did not use the word Shaman to refer to their healers. The word “Shaman” actually comes from Siberia. Presently, what Neo-Shamanism shares with traditional Shamanism and Native American cultures is an emphasis on living in harmony with Nature. Furthermore, seeing everything as vibration is the proper way to embrace the energetics of ceremony and prayer. Similarly, it is about letting go of logical thinking so that you are guided by intuition.
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The Essence of Shamanic Retreats
To enhance your journey, we tailor our Shamanic Retreats to address your core issues. It’s a heart-centered walk upon the Earth and while we guide you every step of the way, you must carry your own burden. Basically, our job is to guide you to your own wisdom.
Spirituality is about healing your fears and discovering your life purpose. As a result, you will be able to see your true self and create a deeper connection with your Divine. This is part of the new path you find at our Shamanic Retreats.
Tools Utilized for Shamanic Retreats
What’s more, important tools are utilized during our shamanic retreats. These include working with animal totems, cord-cutting, earthing, and soul-retrieval. One of the premises of this path is that of expansion and connection by tuning into your guides. Subsequently, that’s why our shamanic retreats are guided by those that “walk the talk” and assist you in going deeper.
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During our shamanic retreats, we teach you that Neo-Shamanism reveals a multidimensional spirit living in a physical body. The relevance of your spirituality depends on connecting you to your spiritual source right now. Would you be willing to surrender who you think you are to embrace your true Divine nature? In the modern world, will you take responsibility for that Divinity? If so, you’ve reached the right place.
Soul-Retrieval During Shamanic Retreats
Shamanic retreats teach grounding and earthing to help one reconnect with nature and the earth. We dive deep into the messages from your totems. What guidance will your animal totems reveal? As such, that’s where our coaches assist you. Before moving forward, cord-cutting and soul-retrieval may be required. Using these two modalities, blockages and attachments are cleared and restructured.
One Step at a Time
As a first step, your coach explores areas where you are no longer connected to your soul. We tend to lose our sense of wholeness after being wounded. During our shamanic retreats, practitioners help determine if something is missing. Overall, you probably feel lost, disconnected, and alone. Our soul-retrieval is designed to bring soul fragments back into alignment. Mending the fragmented self is paramount to healing. You’ll experience more positive flow and energy in the body. Suicidal tendencies, unhealed grief, and PTSD are all signs that soul-retrieval is necessary. Likewise, many traumas cause the loss of self. To name a few:
- car accidents
- war
- death of someone
- divorce
- over-worked depletion
- natural disasters
- helplessness
- hopelessness
- narcissistic relationships
Shamanic Retreats Cord-Cutting
Following your soul-retrieval, we suggest a cord-cutting session for your shamanic retreat. Cord-cutting is the process of identifying the negative “energetics” of the soul. We have an energy exchange with all individuals we have ever interacted with. Initially, these energy attachments are positive. Indeed, we get elated to have such an energetic exchange. However, as life moves forward, some of these energetic connections may become toxic. Yet, we continue to engage with these relationships…sometimes to the detriment of ourselves. Soul-retrieval is about regaining energy and becoming stronger and whole. This results in more energy and peace of mind.
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Taking Responsibility
Both classical Shamanism and Neo-Shamanism are really more about your responsibilities to the Earth and to yourself than they are about acquiring supernatural powers of healing or intuition. It’s about focusing on your own life purpose and knowing who you are. Selecting our shamanic retreats in Sedona, Arizona is the perfect place to do just that. If the Universe has any special powers it wishes to bestow, your willingness to surrender the ego is required in advance. Attachment to the ego blocks us from connecting with Spirit.
The ego wants to protect us, however, typically it does so with the use of fear. It is constantly chiming in with all the “shoulds” and “should nots” of modern-day living. Thus, the ego is never fully happy. It always has to prove something, protect something, or deny something. In contrast, the higher self is always in the flow focusing on allowing. Thus, we learn to take responsibility but allow flow at the same time. Life becomes easier and more harmony is found.
Venture Out on The Red Rocks of Sedona
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Shamanic Retreats teach deep connection to your guides without artificial aids. These techniques are time-tested and proven to work, but only if you’re ready to face your fears. This is not an experience for tourists. Shamanic Retreats are about going deeper within yourself and looking at the blockages, walls, and deceptions you have fallen prey to. Furthermore, our guides take you out on the Red Rocks where the healing power of Mother Earth helps you transform and overcome these blockages.
Shamanic Retreats for Earth & Soul Connection
What makes our Shamanic Retreats so powerful is that it’s all about you! This retreat with SpiritQuest Sedona Retreats is a birthing process for a deeper knowledge of self. In a place of rejuvenation, you will learn to connect with your guides, ask questions, and gain awareness. Using this process, we can reach deeper states of consciousness. These insights help you connect with your life purpose. You receive one-on-one attention from powerful practitioners who have previously traveled a similar path as you. An environment of nurturing and safety awaits you. With a customized Shamanic Retreat, you shift energy and let go of the past. Also see our shamanic group retreats.
The sample Shamanic Retreats itineraries below can be customized to suit your specific requirements, ranging from 2 to 14 days. Indeed, these are just a few of the possibilities. Our goals are to construct a unique Shamanic Retreat that addresses your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects. With our expert team of spiritual healers, you can expect 4-6 hours of private interaction. Self-discovery and personal growth result from this intensive experience. By all means, as an alternative, check out our Shamanic Group Retreats.
NOTE: We custom design your retreat so the price is dependent on your particular program. Please call us or schedule a consultation using the consultation link. We will create a proposal with prices and email it to you.
Sample Itineraries for Private Shamanic Retreats
2-Day Sedona Shamanic Retreats
Arrive in Sedona, Arizona
Firstly, check into your accommodations, relax and unwind. This is a good time to reflect on your goals for the retreat. Also, is important that you get a good night’s sleep so that you are ready to begin in the morning!
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Soul Recovery – 90 min.
Now it’s time to re-integrate that part of you that was lost a long time ago. It is a basic principle in many cultures that parts or all of the soul can cross the veil in order to communicate with Spirit Guides. Soul pieces are parts of the Soul that were once part of the whole but became fragmented. Among the fragmented parts are memory and emotion. This soul piece breaks off so that your psyche can continue to function intact. As such, it leaves the body in order to protect the whole. However, some areas of your life can become numb or “shut down” as a price for this protection. In a Soul Recovery session, the lost part is retrieved and returned to you so that you can become whole again.
Medicine Wheel Teachings – 90 min. (Outside)
A Medicine Wheel is a physical creation of stones on the ground with pointer stones in each direction (north, south, east, west). It helps with our “Vision,” to see exactly where we are and which areas we need to develop to realize our full potential. Chiefly, your guide will help you discover where you are in your life and which areas need to shift.
Intensive Breathwork – 2 hrs.
You will experience psychic depths and spiritual understanding by triggering experiences of non-ordinary consciousness. Through awareness, you can uncover lost experiences from birth, and archetypal and cosmic phenomena, helping you transcend the constraints of your ordinary ways of thinking.
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Cord Cutting – 90 min.
This session requires that you open your heart and forgive. When you forgive, you become free. You are energetically connected to every person who’s ever been significant in your life. Often those cords become painful and create negative energy. The Hawaiian technique of Ho O Pono Pono allows you to gently sever those cords, sending the energy back to them. Then, if appropriate, (if you choose to continue a relationship with that person) the cords will reform on a fresh and (with your proper intention) more positive basis. In order to be healthy, your relationship must empower both of you. The power of forgiveness and letting go will make you feel complete and whole.
Shamanic Wisdom Journey – 2 hrs. (Land Journey)
This session takes place outside in the red rocks. You have begun the process of evolving to a higher state of consciousness, and it’s a very strong beginning, but it’s an ongoing process. A giveaway is something you do every morning – not once. The purpose of Neo-Shamanism is to connect with nature, view ourselves as spiritual beings born of the earth, and use this wisdom to create balance, health, and success in all our relationships. The oldest way for humans to connect with Creation is through traditional Shamanism. A Neo-Shamanic Journey must bring knowledge to the present and provide a path to the future in order to have meaning. Additionally, this session discusses manifesting and healing through dreams.
Sound Frequency Bath – 90 min.
During this session, the practitioner gently invites stuck energy to move or vibrate again or overstimulated energy to explore stillness. Every part of our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual being resonates with a different frequency. Ultimately, this is the experience of health, vitality, and consciousness. Sonic entrainment will bring you into perfect alignment with the universe.
Depart Sedona
You will depart Sedona with a new perspective and sense of being. You are now the creator of each new day and you will take home tools from your journey to help you gain a sense of empowerment and a deeper understanding of love.
4-Day Sedona Shamanic Retreats
Arrive in Sedona, Arizona
Firstly, check into your accommodations, relax and unwind. This is a good time to reflect on your goals for the retreat. Also, is important that you get a good night’s sleep so that you are ready to begin in the morning!
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Orientation/Intention Setting 9:30
Begin your journey with a session of intention setting, sacred oil blend, welcome packet, and orientation for your retreat. You will be invited to identify which intentions you have for beginning your life anew. Get centered, get comfortable: use this session as a great start to launch your Quest for Spirit!
Releasing Ceremony – 2 hrs. (Outside)
Your retreat will begin when your SpiritQuest guide takes you out for a special releasing ceremony. During this session, you will set your intention and identify blockages that have been holding you back. When you release these, you can begin to move forward and reconnect with yourself once again.
Breaking Old Belief Patterns – 1.5 hrs.
In this session, you will learn how belief systems are the “instructions” you have in your subconscious mind which determine all aspects of your life, similar to the way computer software determines what a computer will do. Many of these beliefs were formed early in childhood and have not been updated to a healthy adult viewpoint, which causes us to place limitations on ourselves which have no basis in reality. By looking at the patterns in your life on a soul level and the tracks you have left behind, you learn to recognize your unconscious belief systems and how they actually affect your life. Once the belief is found, it can be released, and it loses its power over your life!
Sound Frequency Bath – 90 min.
You’ll experience truly amazing sensations as the practitioner gently invites stuck energy to move or vibrate again… or over-stimulated energy to explore stillness in this session in our Retreat Center Sound Healing room. The different parts of our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual beings resonate with different frequencies of vibration. This is the experience of not only health and vitality, but an expansion, consciousness, and eventually transcendence. The Sonic entrainment that you will experience will send you into perfect alignment with the universe.
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Drum Ceremony – 2.5 hrs. (Land Journey)
Awaken your ancestral memories through drumming and ceremony. This session takes place on the Red Rocks of Sedona, where you will feel grounded and connected to the Earth! Listen to the powerful vibration of the drum as it replicates the heartbeat of Mother Earth and carries your prayer into the Spirit world. With conscious breath, you will connect with your primal self, establish your roots, and be at one with the Earth.
Cord Cutting – 1.5 hrs.
This session requires that you open your heart and forgive. When you forgive, you become free. You are energetically connected to every person who’s ever been significant in your life. Often those cords become painful and create negative energy. This session relates to the Hawaiian technique of Ho O Pono Pono, you can gently sever those cords, sending the person’s energy back to them and taking yours back into yourself. Then, if appropriate (if you choose to continue a relationship with that person), the cords will reform on a fresh and (with your proper intention) more positive basis. Your relationship with another person must be empowering to both of you for it to be healthy. Through the power of letting go and forgiving you can go on with your life feeling whole and complete.
Intensive Breathwork – 1.5 hrs.
This is a safe and effective way to trigger experiences of non-ordinary consciousness that open you to psychic depths and spiritual understanding. Lost memories from your personal history, experiences from your birth, and archetypal and cosmic phenomena can become available to you through awareness, helping you transcend the constraints of your ordinary thoughts and habits.
Shamanic Wisdom Journey – 2.5 hrs. (Land Journey)
This session takes place outside in the red rocks. You have begun the process of evolving to a higher state of consciousness, and it’s a very strong beginning, but it’s also a process that has no end. The giveaway isn’t something you do just once — it’s something you do again every morning. Neo-Shamanism is about being connected with nature, understanding that we are spiritual beings born of the Earth, and then using this wisdom to create balance, health, and success in all of our relationships. Traditional Shamanism is the oldest way in which the human race has sought connection with Creation. In order to have any meaning, your Neo-Shamanic Journey must bring this understanding forward into the present and provide you with a path to the future. This session also deals with using dreams and the subconscious to manifest and heal.
Soul Recovery – 1.5 hrs.
Now it’s time to re-integrate that part of you that was lost a long time ago. A basic principle found in many cultures is that part or all of the soul can leave the body to cross the veil for the purpose of contacting Spirit Guides. “Soul Pieces” are parts of the Soul that were once part of the whole but became fragmented due to trauma or emotional upheaval. The fragmented part holds the memory of the event and its full emotional impact of it. This soul piece breaks off so that your psyche can continue to function intact. In this instance, it leaves the body in order to protect the whole. The price for this protection however often manifests as being “shut down” or “numb” in some area of your life. In a Soul Recovery session, the lost part is retrieved and returned to you so that you can become whole again.
Dreamweaver Journey – 90 min.
This experiential session expands self-awareness and insight through Active Imagination, guided meditation, and the wisdom of images. Exploring dreams and life situations, listen deeply to image voices as they come alive offering insights and transformation. Hear the wisdom of ancestral callings, animal visitation instinctual power, and the musings of the soul. Images carry inner knowing, innate sensibility, and potency to open to the depths of your own experience. Participate in life more fully rooted in the ground of your being. From this ground, you will experience the support to grow your creative wings and expand your vision to encompass wholeness.
Four Elements – 3 hrs. (Land Journey)
This tour helps to bring balance, healing, and strength into your life by honoring the Four Elements: Fire, Earth, Water, and Air. This tour includes four essential components of spiritual healing based on Shamanic-type healing modalities. You will experience the Medicine Wheel, that enables you to gather surrounding energies into a focal point and commune with Spirit, Self, Nature, and the Four Elements —Creation! It helps you visualize where you are and the areas you need to develop in order to realize your full life purpose and potential. Next, you will experience Drumming & Meditation on the sacred land of Sedona. This primal experience helps you release and let go. It also can stimulate non-ordinary consciousness and thus, new insights. After this, your guide will help you create new intentions, and end with a gratitude ceremony. This will be a life-changing ceremony, unlike any other, you have experienced.
Medicine Wheel Teachings – 1.5 hrs. (Outside)
A Medicine Wheel is a physical creation of stones on the ground with pointer stones in each direction (north, south, east, west). It helps with our “Vision,” to see exactly where we are and which areas we need to develop to realize our full potential. Your guide will help you discover where you are in your life and which areas need to shift.
Retreat Integration & Ending – 1.5 hrs.
This may be the end of your retreat, but it’s just the beginning of the changes you came here to make. Now you will bring closure to your quest and pull in the loose ends. You have discovered how to use your own inner power to create a more joyous, abundant, and healthy life… the life you truly desire. You will feel a circle of wholeness and renewal of Spirit. At this point, you are revived and ready for new beginnings.
Depart Sedona
You will depart Sedona with a new perspective and sense of being. You are now the creator of each new day and you will take home tools from your journey to help you gain a sense of empowerment and a deeper understanding of love.
6-Day Sedona Shamanic Retreats
Arrive in Sedona, Arizona
Firstly, check into your accommodations, relax and unwind. This is a good time to reflect on your goals for the retreat. Also, is important that you get a good night’s sleep so that you are ready to begin in the morning!
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Orientation/Intention Setting 9:30
Begin your journey with a session of intention setting, sacred oil blend, welcome packet, and orientation for your retreat. You will be invited to identify which intentions you have for beginning your life anew. Get centered, get comfortable: use this session as a great start to launch your Quest for Spirit!
Releasing Ceremony – 2 hrs. (Outside)
Your retreat will begin when your SpiritQuest guide takes you out for a special releasing ceremony. During this session, you will set your intention and identify blockages that have been holding you back. When you release these, you can begin to move forward and reconnect with yourself once again.
Breaking Old Belief Patterns – 1.5 hrs.
In this session, you will learn how belief systems are the “instructions” you have in your subconscious mind which determine all aspects of your life, similar to the way computer software determines what a computer will do. Many of these beliefs were formed early in childhood and have not been updated to a healthy adult viewpoint, which causes us to place limitations on ourselves which have no basis in reality. By looking at the patterns in your life on a soul level and the tracks you have left behind, you learn to recognize your unconscious belief systems and how they actually affect your life. Once the belief is found, it can be released, and it loses its power over your life!
Sound Frequency Bath – 90 min.
You’ll experience truly amazing sensations as the practitioner gently invites stuck energy to move or vibrate again… or over-stimulated energy to explore stillness in this session in our Retreat Center Sound Healing room. The different parts of our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual beings resonate with different frequencies of vibration. This is the experience of not only health and vitality, but expansion, consciousness, and eventually transcendence. The Sonic entrainment that you will experience will send you into perfect alignment with the universe.
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Drum Ceremony – 2.5 hrs. (Land Journey)
Awaken your ancestral memories through drumming and ceremony. This session takes place on the Red Rocks of Sedona, where you will feel grounded and connected to the Earth! Listen to the powerful vibration of the drum as it replicates the heartbeat of Mother Earth and carries your prayer into the Spirit world. With conscious breath, you will connect with your primal self, establish your roots, and be at one with the Earth.
Cord Cutting – 1.5 hrs.
This session requires that you open your heart and forgive. When you forgive, you become free. You are energetically connected to every person who’s ever been significant in your life. Often those cords become painful and create negative energy. This session relates to the Hawaiian technique of Ho O Pono Pono, you can gently sever those cords, sending the person’s energy back to them and taking yours back into yourself. Then, if appropriate (if you choose to continue a relationship with that person), the cords will reform on a fresh and (with your proper intention) more positive basis. Your relationship with another person must be empowering to both of you for it to be healthy. Through the power of letting go and forgiving you can go on with your life feeling whole and complete.
Intensive Breathwork – 1.5 hrs.
This is a safe and effective way to trigger experiences of non-ordinary consciousness that open you to psychic depths and spiritual understanding. Lost memories from your personal history, experiences from your birth, and archetypal and cosmic phenomena can become available to you through awareness, helping you transcend the constraints of your ordinary thoughts and habits.
Shamanic Wisdom Journey – 2.5 hrs. (Land Journey)
Traditional Shamanism is the oldest way in which humanity has sought connection with Creation. It is about being connected with nature and using Earth Wisdom to create balance, health, and success in all relationships. During this dynamic session, you will connect with animal wisdom and the ancient native legend of Kokopelli. Learn to speak your Truth, embrace empathy, and achieve a clear vision, and direction for your life. Through Shamanic drumming and rattling, you will embark on a journey into your primal self. Develop your inner Shaman by looking to the wisdom of a power animal, who embodies the knowledge of the ancient ones. This Neo-Shamanic journey will create new meaning in the present and provide you with a path to the future.
Soul Recovery – 90 min.
“Soul Pieces” are aspects of yourself that became fragmented due to trauma or emotional upheaval. When the psyche perceives an event as too overwhelming and the “Chitta” takes over, it seeks to protect you by separating a part of itself from your main energy system. The fragmented part then holds the full emotional impact of the event so that your psyche can continue to function intact. The price for this protection however is often a loss of spirit, which manifests as being ‘shut down’ or ‘lost’ in some area of your life. In a Soul Recovery session, the lost part is retrieved and returned to you so that you can become whole again.
Meet Your Guides & Inner Wisdom – 90 min.
This session is an exploration of connection and the importance of creative visualization when it comes to accessing higher states of consciousness. During this session, you’ll draw from Angels, Power Animals, Archangels, and Indigenous Earth Warriors (using cards). You will create a grid enumerating the qualities, attributes, and insights that these guides can foster. These qualities may include protection, guidance, inspiration, clarity, and decision-making. There is nothing more powerful than learning to be truly present and learning to listen and trust your inner wisdom.
Stress Reduction Tools – 90 min.
Are you ready to become the master of your life? This retreat session will teach you a powerful set of techniques to break through old patterns and belief systems, alleviate stress and stay centered. The session includes tools that you can incorporate into your daily life to break through anxiety and depressive states of mind. Once you have gained the tools you need to avoid the damaging patterns of the mind, you will feel renewed and more alive!
Four Elements – 3 hrs. (Land Journey)
This session brings balance, healing, and strength to one’s self and connection to all life. Honor and celebrate the cleansing power of Earth, Fire, Wind, and Air. Explore the elements in depth through meditation, nature immersion, letting go, breathwork, and creating new intentions in your life. First, you will visit a Medicine Wheel, to help with your “vision” to see exactly where you are and in which areas you need to develop in order to realize your life purpose. This session involves an altar of gratitude, as well as a drumming activation to prepare for an astounding release. This unique and life-changing session will accelerate your spiritual growth and take you to the next level of consciousness. This is a deluxe immersion into the concept of the Elements. Learn to restructure, renew, and embrace your creative power.
Medicine Wheel Teachings – 90 min. (Outside)
A Medicine Wheel is a physical creation of stones on the ground with pointer stones in each direction (north, south, east, west). It helps with our “Vision,” to see exactly where we are and which areas we need to develop to realize our full potential. Your guide will help you discover where you are in your life and which areas need to shift.
Stopping Cycles of Self-Sabotage – 90 min.
This session is about the tricky and cunning effects and dynamics of self-sabotage. This is a very complex and obscure topic. Many times, it is easier to point out where and when a person has hurt us and identify the consequences of this hurt. But when it comes to how we may be hurting ourselves; this is another story entirely. Whether you are conscious of it or not, self-sabotage can be very destructive and stunt your growth in many ways. Your practitioner will help to identify the parts of you that wish to harm “the self” and heal that wound so that you may become whole and complete. This session will help you to better understand triggers and to stop the vicious cycles of self-detriment. You deserve to be respected loved and cherished, especially by your own self.
Way of the Peaceful Warrior – 2.5 hrs. (Land Journey)
It’s time to explore the laws of proper relationships, which necessarily involve reciprocity and mutual respect to be healthy. These laws apply to everyone, whether we’re conscious of them or not. You’ll learn how to create harmony and balance in your life by cultivating gentleness and gratitude in combination with a willingness to sacrifice oneself for the greater good — which is the essence of what it means to be a warrior. Another component of this session is learning how to establish your “armor.” This is an energetic shield of light that will protect you and be of assistance will altruism.
Third Eye Expansion Treatment – 90 min.
Expand your awareness and open your intuition with the stimulation of the third eye chakra point. The third eye is opened using warm oil that flows onto the scalp, after which the crown chakra will be wrapped in warm towels as the oils hydrate the hair. You will then experience a head and scalp massage. For the body, essential oils are used to stimulate stagnant areas. The body receives a lovely treatment to balance the whole system. Note: Hair will be oily afterward.
The clarity to Face the Crossroads –90 min.
Are you at a transitional place in your life? This session will help you find clarity on which way to go and how to manifest a healthy future. Make your life meaningful and relevant as you reclaim neglected strengths. Create concrete guidelines for increasing opportunities. Bring passion and excitement into the present moment. As you move forward, view yourself as the curious explorer rather than the powerless victim. Gain the skills to manifest a positive and beautiful future!
Chakra Activation – 2.5 hrs. (Land Journey)
The Chakras are energetic centers in the subtle body. Many times, when a person feels disconnected, uninspired, or stuck, this could mean that they are out of alignment. This powerful and dynamic land journey merges the magic of a chakra clearing and the medicine of the Sedona land. Learn about each chakra center, identify blockages, and clear through chanting or mudras. Work with a chakra altar and experience and intention of balance through guided meditation.
Retreat Integration & Ending – 90 min.
This may be the end of your retreat, but it’s just the beginning of the changes you came here to make. Now you will bring closure to your quest and pull in the loose ends. You have discovered how to use your own inner power to create a more joyous, abundant, and healthy life… the life you truly desire. You will feel a circle of wholeness and renewal of Spirit, revived and ready for new beginnings.
Depart Sedona
You will depart Sedona with a new perspective and sense of being. You are now the creator of each new day and you will take home tools from your journey to help you gain a sense of empowerment and a deeper understanding of love.
Diving Deep Into Your Heart
How can you allow yourself to feel safer when opening your heart to others? How can you be more present with your heart when you are in your own company. Do you know that even just sitting in nature facilitates your heart gently opening and connecting with all the beauty around you? At SpiritQuest Shamanic Retreats, we find that cord-cutting and soul retrievals help our clients let go of what’s old and get back to their confident, loving selves. With the assistance of your totem animals, our coaches and your guides take you back to your tribal roots. We investigate your animal totems and we use the 5 elements to bring you to a centered place.
“I learned that I’m not very comfortable, nor do I know a whole lot about myself. I learned that I need to work on that and learn to love myself. There are a lot of inner workings that seem to be the answer. This helps with challenging situations and my life is changed based on my doing the work. It will be better and more fulfilling by doing so. The retreat was more than I expected! I liked how each individual made me feel special and important. The only thing that will make this better is if I continue to reach out to this support system. Thank you for this experience!”