Katherine Lash – Founder & Architect of Transformation™
Katherine Lash, B.S.Ed., PhB, Magna Cum Laude
As the founder of SpiritQuest Sedona Retreats, Katherine Lash provides deeply transformative coaching and life-changing experiences amidst the stunning red rocks of Sedona, Arizona. Drawing on over 45 years as a local native, Katherine delivers a boutique level of personalized service and attention, with services highly tailored to meet the unique needs and preferences of each individual.
Specializing in small-group and individual relationship dynamics, she teaches transformative life skills and guides people and organizations through critical transitions. Her studies in various yoga traditions, comparative religions, and metaphysical systems form the foundation of her work.
She is blessed to collaborate with an amazing community of master coaches, teachers, and guides. Using her intuitive skills and an unwavering dedication to quality, Katherine has hand-picked these elite transformation facilitators to ensure every guest receives world-class support. Together, they create custom-crafted journeys designed specifically for personal growth and evolution.
Katherine Lash – Founder & Architect of Transformation™
Katherine Lash, B.S.Ed., PhB, Magna Cum Laude
As the founder of SpiritQuest Sedona Retreats, Katherine Lash provides deeply transformative coaching and life-changing experiences amidst the stunning red rocks of Sedona, Arizona. Drawing on over 45 years as a local native, Katherine delivers a boutique level of personalized service and attention, with services highly tailored to meet the unique needs and preferences of each individual.
Specializing in small-group and individual relationship dynamics, she teaches transformative life skills and guides people and organizations through critical transitions. Her studies in various yoga traditions, comparative religions, and metaphysical systems form the foundation of her work.
She is blessed to collaborate with an amazing community of master coaches, teachers, and guides. Using her intuitive skills and an unwavering dedication to quality, Katherine has hand-picked these elite transformation facilitators to ensure every guest receives world-class support. Together, they create custom-crafted journeys designed specifically for personal growth and evolution.
As an invited member of the Forbes Business Council, Katherine regularly shares her industry insights; you can find her latest contributions in their official publications. Katherine graduated magna cum laude from Northern Arizona University with degrees in Education and Philosophy. Her work is highly influenced by Bert Hellinger, Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Buber, and Virginia Satir. After 15 years as a secondary educator, she transitioned into holistic instruction, integrating her training in Gottman Couples Coaching and Compassionate Communication to help thousands of clients re-frame their past and transform toward a brighter future. Her expertise in Family Constellation work and her background in the arts allow her to use creative expression and intuitive guidance to restore balance and peace for families and individuals alike.
During her time living in Bali, Indonesia, she traveled extensively through Tibet, Nepal, India, China, Japan, Thailand, and Sri Lanka, gaining profound insights into the intersection of cultural diversity and spiritual practice.
Her journey continued in Hawaii, where she spent two years immersing herself in the study of Ayurvedic medicine and various Eastern healing modalities while earning her professional license in aesthetics. Upon returning to her native Arizona, Katherine participated in over 100 sweat lodge ceremonies, a transformative experience that deepened her ability to release personal pain and empowered her to guide others in doing the same.
Katherine Lash, Architect of Transformation™, guiding a soul-centered journey in the Sedona red rocks.
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This is a tale of my journey from despair and low self-esteem to empowerment of the soul. My story leads the reader to various countries in Asia to Hawaii and back again to my beloved Sedona, AZ. Along the way I discover numerous insights and tools for spiritual growth and fulfillment.
By working through the dark night of the soul, I gained the jewels that allowed me to grow my business SpiritQuest Sedona Retreats and help others along the way. These tools include helping clients find purpose, develop self-esteem, let go of the past, embrace self-love, forgive others, sharpen communication, develop trust and much more.
Transformation Coach, Troy DeSmet – HVPM I & II, B.A., NLP Certified
Dare to live a virtuous life full of contemplation and acts of faith. Troy has devoted his life to right action, transformation, supporting others, and encouraging them to be their best. Along with life experiences that include being a dad to 3 grown adults, selling his organic foods company after a 30-year career, healing from a near-death experience (Aortic Dissection), and accomplishing 10 dreams in 10 years, Troy incorporates the wisdom from scars with tools and techniques gained over 30 years of personal growth and development to assist others in living their best lives.
Troy is a Transformative Coach providing life skills and understanding for spiritual awakening. He is an intuitive and wounded healer. Healing and development experiences have brought him through life experiences of Existential Nihilism/Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul, breaking free from Narcissistic/Manipulative Abuse, the embodiment of Psycho-Spiritual Integration, and emergency open-heart surgery and associated emotional/mental trauma.
Troy is a master guide who facilitates land journeys through the amazing red rocks of Sedona, AZ. His ventures include Cathedral Rock, Sugarloaf Mountain, Boynton Canyon, and Doe Mountain.
Troy’s transformation philosophy: when clients learn how amazing and powerful they are, when they learn to love themselves once again when they know that THEY are the ones who can heal themselves, then they will join those of us on the planet who are here to raise the vibration of consciousness. Troy lives with the love of his life, Katherine, at the Sedona Sanctuary in Oak Creek Canyon and provides Personal Spiritual and Healing Retreats with SpiritQuest Sedona Retreats.
SpiritQuest Transformation Office Staff
Manager Jessica R. Lash – CLC
Jessica Lash — Certified Transformation Life Coach & Office Manager, your first point of contact for personal growth.
Certified Transformation Life Coach Jessica Lash has devoted her life to validating, seeing, and hearing other humans on their healing paths. After going through her dark night, she had a deep and profound Spiritual Awakening. Nothing was ever the same after that point. She devoted her whole life to Spirituality and healing. Her past experiences gave her a wealth of empathy, understanding, and a deepening of her heart. She learned to never judge anyone, and she has deep faith in each and every person she connects with. Jessica obtained her license for Life Coaching at Southwest Healing Arts in Phoenix, where she also studied Ayurvedic Medicine, Yoga, and Holistic Health. After working with SpiritQuest for over 10 years, doing bodywork and healing, she decided to pour her heart into the office, as the Office Manager. She has since studied Business Management, Human Resources, and Communications. She merges her life experience, spirituality, and heart-centered living with her love for Business Administration to lead others to the Path of Transformation. She has a unique gift that allows her to deeply connect with the people she consults on the phone and create a custom retreat for them. Most of all, and more importantly, she lives with integrity, and deep humility and sees each of her clients as being their very own most impactful practitioner.
SpiritQuest Retreat Coordinators
Kirti Wright Zhu – CHT (Certified Hypnotherapist)
Assistant Manager, Kirti is a valuable transformation staff member of SpiritQuest Sedona Retreats. She began her journey in October of 2020, upon moving to Sedona, AZ. She has worked in hospitality as a Front Desk Agent and Reservations Coordinator for over a decade, from her hometown in Alaska to the Bay Area of California. Kirti transitioned from that world back in 2015, to live at the Mount Madonna Center in Watsonville, CA, where she practiced Karma Yoga and offered her skills to her community for 5 years. Kirti thrives when helping her clients re-connect with their true, authentic soul expression. She is our Assistant Manager, as well as Retreat Coordinator and Practitioner, enjoying the abundant opportunities to be a dynamic member of the SpiritQuest Team! Kirti has tremendous skill in listening and patiently holding space for SpiritQuest clients. Kirti’s gifted ability to “read” people and hear people allows her to design retreat programs that are highly effective for clients.
Lauren Riffle
Retreat Coordinator, Lauren, is a Native of the Central Coast of California. Lauren first traveled to the Red Rocks of Sedona nearly a decade ago. With a comprehensive personal & professional background in yoga, energy work, massage therapy & trauma-informed care she is passionate about the myriad paths to well-being. She embraces the idea of staying. Staying with a feeling, staying in confrontation, and staying when things get uncomfortable. Her yin yoga practice embodies this concept, and the evidence of its benefits is easily spotted in Lauren’s resiliency, great attitude, and heart-centered commitment to what she lives and believes in. She is continually inspired by the transformation of the Human Spirit and our profound ability to create healthy, empowered, impactful lives through the ever-changing, and often challenging seasons life presents. Lauren recognizes her position at SpiritQuest as a sacred call to touch and impact people’s lives & holds great reverence for the beauty & history of Sedona.
Tanelle Kinney
Retreat Coordinator, Tanelle, is a heart-centered healer dedicated to transformation and supporting others in reclaiming their sovereignty and inner wholeness. With over 17 years of experience, she weaves sound healing, energetic bodywork, intuitive movement, coaching, and astrology into a holistic, compassionate approach. Her work opens pathways for releasing blockages, restoring harmony, and reconnecting to the body’s innate wisdom. Through channeled messages and intuitive guidance, she offers clarity and encouragement for soul growth. Rooted in extensive training and global study, her mission is to hold a safe, loving space where clients remember their inherent power, embody their truth, and align with their highest potential.
SpiritQuest Webmaster & Support Staff
Rayonna Lash – B.A. History, LMT
Senior web developer at SpiritQuest Sedona Retreats, Rayonna specializes in front-end development. She has a background in graphic design and is responsible for the look and feel of the website as well as more technical aspects such as web speed and optimization. She has a B.A. in History and Graphic Design, her passions include studio art, writing, and the great outdoors. Rayonna assists with aesthetics and marketing. Her keen eye and sense of design lend themselves to creating brochures, ad layouts, and photography.
The Sedona Retreat Experience
Combining Eastern, Western, and Sacred Earth modalities, the SpiritQuest Sedona Retreat Experience will take clients to a place of wholeness through a very specifically designed program. Our retreats are built of a synergistic series of sessions based on a paradigm developed by owner, Katherine Lash. The retreat will not consist of random sessions thrown together, rather we will carefully consider which session should occur first and so on allowing one session to build upon another. We will then gather a team of specialists and form the core group, these are practitioners who will work with clients throughout the retreat. Our most popular experiences include our Private Spiritual Retreats, Personalized Healing Retreats, and our signature Private Couples Retreats. In addition, clients love the Private Shamanic Retreats, Personalized Women’s Retreats, and the Private Wellness Retreat.
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We consider ALL of Sedona part of the retreat experience and because our retreats go DEEP. If a client needs to cry or have a big release, he/she will have the space and freedom to do so…privately. This is NOT a spa experience or a vacation hang-out. A SpiritQuest Sedona Retreat is a life-changing experience of authentic self-growth and healing. It is a spiritual awakening. Our guests are never the same!
Meet the Transformation Master Coaches of SpiritQuest
