Sacred Space

We’ll be gathering at the charming Briar Patch Inn located along beautiful Oak Creek in Sedona which vibrates at a high frequency. Healthy breakfasts of fresh home-baked breads and muffins, crunchy granola, yogurt, fresh fruits and juices, eggs in the shell, coffee and herbal teas can be enjoyed by the fireside in the lodge, or on a tray at your cottage, or best of all, creekside. Briar Patch is a nourishing and intimate place to treat yourself to a much needed rest and rejuvenation. Healthy food, morning stretches, walking to powerful vortexes, sacred ceremonies, and self-nurturing will be our focus. Our days will be filled with opportunities for deep physical, emotional, mental and spiritual healing.

Celebration & Ceremony

Our time together will include: sharing in circle, walking the land, exploring sacred sites, stretching our bodies and minds through activities such as movement class and guided visualizations. You’ll participate in pipe, fire and Beltane celebration ceremonies. Each person will receive a bodywork treatment from Joumana, voted the best massage therapist in Sedona – and have their astrology chart interpreted by Rosine Fievet, who’s been charting and assisting folks in discovering their soul’s purpose for over 3 decades!

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Transformation & Healing

The intent of our retreat is to purify, release and dissolve old repressed emotions, played-out dramas, old story-lines and agendas, self-sabotaging and limiting habitual life patterns, and to identify the seeds we are currently fertilizing in our lives. Then with deep awareness born of self-love we can choose to plant new seeds of true joy, forgiveness, compassion, health and integrity. By recreating and re-birthing ourselves, we can step into the next chapter of our lives, for our personal and planetary awakening. If you’re called to attend our transformational retreat we would be most honored to hold sacred space with you.

“The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.” ~ Carol P. Christ

Want to Join Us?

Questions? Give us a ring at 727-421-0849 or email us – we can’t wait to hear from you!

• Learn Shamanistic techniques that you can employ for your own healing and for others?
• Facilitate your connection to the non-ordinary reality and spirit world?
• Practice the techniques of Power Animal and Soul Retrieval for the purpose of energetic reintegration?
• Re-connect to the ancient Shamanistic ways in celebration of 2012?
• Merge with the sacred ruins of Chichen Itza & the messages in the stones?

If your answer is YES! then you owe it to yourself to join author and Shaman Ernesto Ortiz for this powerful retreat to Chichen Itza, Mexico! The Shamanic Journey is an ancient but eternally relevant way to contact the timeless reality that exists parallel to and just out of sight of the world we so mistakenly call “reality.” It is in our everyday “reality” that we experience the reflection of who we believe we are, of our deepest beliefs, our “dream” – but it is in the non-manifest world of the spirit that the hidden causal interactions are formed. Hidden that is, until we begin to open the doors and “see” with expanded vision, with the eyes of a Shaman.

Through Shamanism we can tap into a vast fund of ancient timeless knowledge which can be utilized anywhere, under any conditions. We can heal the effects of past traumas, and practice living in an inner state of balance and harmony while dealing with the challenges and vicissitudes of life. Shamanism helps us develop the best in ourselves no matter what comes our way, and affects the quality of our interpersonal relationships and how we relate to our mother earth.

Because Shamanism is a worldview based on the belief that everything in the universe is connected and interdependent – it encourages a deep respect for the natural world and its ecosystem. And in today’s world – what could be more relevant?

Highlights of Your Adventure:

• Explore the sacred site and mythology of Chichen Itza
• Learn how to prepare your healing bundle
• Understand our relationship to the universe through the medicine wheel
• Deepen your experience of The Shamanic Journey
• Practice Soul Retrieval techniques
• Learn Power Animal Retrieval for self-integration
• Expand your knowledge of Shamanic extractions for illness
• Awaken your divine self through Shamanic dance and song
• Explore your shadow self for deeper healing
• Optional Ayahuasca Plant Medicine Ceremony
• Imparting spiritual energy and power
• Practice entering an ASC (altered state of consciousness) for sacred information and Shamanic ecstasy.

Hotel Oka’an Retreat Center

We’ll be staying at the Hotel Oka’an Retreat Center located in the jungle of Chichen Itza near the pyramids nestled in the midst of the mystical energy that supports transformation and initiation. (Take a moment to watch the video on the right –>) It is designed to channel this powerful light energy for your benefit while providing you with a holistic experience to your mind, your spirit and your body.

“The evolution from human to divine consciousness involves healing duality
and its legacy of karma and disease at the cellular and atomic levels.”
~Sol Luckman

Want to Join Us?

Questions? Give us a ring at 727-421-0849 or email us – we can’t wait to hear from you!

Mysticism & Power

We’ll reconnect with the Mother Goddess worshiped from around 9000 BC to 2000 BC and explore early Christian Mysticism in the steps of St. Paul and St. John. From there we’ll deepen our understanding of the Sufi tradition and the mystical heritage of the Whirling Dervishes. Watching these dancers enter spiritual bliss is an amazing experience. In addition we’ll visit an *Alevite Moslem Temple where a man and woman perform a ritual round dance in the name of God, and also experience Turkish Music Therapy through a Bakshi Dance. (Central Asian shamans “Bakshi,” used music and dance to cure patients.) It will be possible for us to speak to these dancers and learn about their powerful traditions! *(Alevism, a liberal sect of Islam, has distinct differences to the practices of Turkey’s Sunni majority. The Alevi house of worship is called a cemevi, while Sunnis worship in a mosque.)

Ancient Ruins

Some of the other wonderful sacred sites we will be visiting are the famous Blue Mosque and Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, and the ancient cities of Konya and Pamukkale. By boat we’ll explore some of the lesser known sites of Kaunos, Loryma and Knidos.

Our land journey is to be announded and the Gulet extension along the Turquoise Coast is to be announced.

Sailing into the Past

In addition to a wonderful exploration by land, we’ll also explore the quiet coves and isolated ruins along the Turquoise coast by gulet – our private sailing boat. Here we will relax and slow our pace and connect with the energy of this beautiful land. We will look forward to morning strolls amongst the ruins of past civilizations while back on board the crew prepares our lunch. The table, under the shade of an awning, is laden with Turkish specialties; tempting vegetable dishes, colorful salads and freshly caught fish. The bread, baked in a stone oven, arrives by row boat from a village ashore. Then while we rest in the sun, our boat will set sail for our next harbor.

Want to Join Us?

Questions? Give us a ring at 727-421-0849 – we can’t wait to hear from you!

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.”
~ Moorish proverb