• Celebrate the unfolding energies and step with awareness into the new consciousness of 2012
• Live more deeply rooted from your sacred center and authentic self
• Begin the New Year committed to a life free of fear and lived boldly with love
• Rebuild your dream like the “thrice-built” pyramids of Uxmal, creating a more authentic life
• Experience the most powerful and artistic Mayan ruins in the Yucatan: Labna, Sayil, Kabah & Oxkintok

If so, join inspirational speaker and author Sheri Rosenthal and New Thought teacher Frankie Timmers for a very special journey to the Mayan Heartland to embrace the new consciousness of 2012 and delve into the source of our sacred center. Uxmal was a university of sacred spirituality and cosmic harmony whose information is stored in the stones ready for us to access and embody. Through powerful ceremonies and spiritual practices we will connect with universal wisdom and truth residing within – beautifully reflected in the design and purpose of these ruins.

Uxmal means “thrice built,” reflecting the underworld, middle world, and upper worlds of the human cosmology. The underworld represents the shadow aspects of ourselves that we have rejected and must retrieve, accept and honor in ourselves to be whole. The middle world embodies our day to day human lives lived from the perspective of the ego mind. And the upper world is Infinite Divine Consciousness as it manifests in and through us.

Becoming fully aware of the integral oneness of your three worlds will allow you to live boldly from your sacred center. THIS is the space where the Divine flows unobstructed by the illusion of the ego and its limiting perspectives – where you are free to live fully in the light of your integrity and unconditional love. THIS is living from your Sacred Center!

Highlights of Your Adventure:

• Travel home with your passion renewed – committed to creating a love-based life for yourself
• Illuminate your underworld, transform your middle world, and experience communion with your upper world
• Become prepared to take positive action in your life with clarity and acceptance
• Learn powerful ways to move beyond the old fear-based societal paradigms
• Be in the company of like-minded people during this shift of cosmic energies
• Marvel at the most beautiful frescoes and architectural designs in the Yucatan peninsular
• Participate in powerful ceremonies and spiritual practices to live your sacred center!
• Seven nights at the Hacienda Uxmal – located steps from the pyramids!
• Create balance between the sky-earth, sun-moon, and masculine-feminine energies within you
• Swim in the crystal clear sacred waters of Yucatan’s cenotes (sinkholes).
• All meals, ceremonies, entrance fees, transport, tours and excursions on our itinerary are included!

Hacienda Uxmal

We’ll be staying at the Hacienda Uxmal is just a two-minute walk from the sacred ruins in the mist of the energy of this magnificent site in the Puuc Hills. Wonderful spa services are available to relax, be pampered and rejuvenated. Enjoy regional cooking and a wonderful terrace bar where you can relax under the stars in the magnificent shadow of the ruins.

“When we are attuned, really present in the moment, in this extraordinary intersection between different levels of reality, between this physical world and the inner worlds, then we can be used. Then we can help to unlock these power centers in the Earth that are needed to change global consciousness.”
~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

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Questions? Give us a ring at 727-421-0849, 866-866-5566 or email us – we can’t wait to hear from you!

• Deeply explore the art of prayer beads and altar making?
• Gain concrete methods for having more peace and centeredness in your life?
• Set your intent for 2012 and participate in a special full moon 11.11.11 ceremony?
• Indulge yourself in deluxe spa treatments & come home rested & rejuvenated?
• Create sacred space in your home where you can connect with infinite consciousness?

If so – join author Sheri Rosenthal and master beader Kathy Benson on this powerful spiritual retreat exploring the art of prayer beads and altar making. So many of us are looking to ground ourselves spiritually in this mechanized world – to remind ourselves that we are spiritual beings in a world of duality. Prayer beads and personal altars are two powerful ways of committing to ourselves to our spiritual growth and divine expression. Personal altars transform our homes into sacred space where we can rejuvenate and nourish ourselves. Prayer beads allow us to take our “altar on the road” so to speak – reminding us that the divine is everywhere we are.

For thousands of years humans have been beading for both adornment and spiritual purposes. Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and Christians have been using prayer beads to ground themselves in their devotion to Spirit – approximately 2/3 of our world prays using beads. In the African and American Indian cultures, beads are an important part of of their creative expression and their complex patterns and designs are firm evidence of Spirit expressing through them.

Highlights of Your Adventure:

• Explore the art of prayer beads and altar making
• No experience is necessary, only an open heart and mind
• This trip is about the “spiritual” use of altars and prayer beads
• Learn positive ways to create time & space in your life for deeper contemplation & inner meditation
• Using ceremony and ritual, bless your beads on the altars at the sacred sites of Kohunlich, Dzbanche, Chacchoben & Oxtankah
• Create beautiful objects filled with your deepest intent and love
• Participate in a special full moon 11.11.11 ceremony to set our intent for 2012!
• Six nights at the restful Akal•ki Holistic Spa
• Daily yoga classes!
• Lounge in the stunningly crystal clear waters of Lake Bacalar
• We’ll be supplying beads & tools along with any special ones you choose to bring

Akal•ki Holistic Spa

We’ll be staying at the Akal•ki Holistic Spa where you’ll experience the pristine quietude and sweet energy of the southern Yucatan. At Akal•Ki (take a moment to watch the video on the right –>), we’ll enjoy cabins at the edge of Lake Bacalar – a crystal clear sand bottom lake. It’s just a short walk out your door to the lake for a swim! Have a healing massage, or treat yourself to the deluxe spa treatments knowing you’ll be coming home rested and rejuvenated.

“All night she spent in bidding of her bedes
And all the day in doing good and godly deeds.”
~Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen

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

• Have a culturally authentic Day of the Dead experience?
• Create from the heart, and your deepest desires, rather than from the mind?
• Take your life to the next level and infuse your dream with joy, creativity and audaciousness?
• Create your own altar to those you love (or even an old version of yourself, a relationship that has ended, or to someone you would like to forgive)?
• Explore Monte Albán, one of ancient México’s most impressive ceremonial centers?

If so – join author Sheri Rosenthal for the heart-centered holiday of Day of the Dead and learn how to enjoy life fully, cultivate your joy and vitality, and explore your manifestation as a true “Artist of the Spirit.” Indeed, becoming a supreme artist of the spirit involves creating living our hearts desires without fear of judgment or limiting thoughts. And although folks often say they are afraid of death, perhaps the real truth is that the biggest fear humans possess is the fear of living life boldly and audaciously – free of what others think of us!

On this amazing week long journey, we’ll celebrate one of the most beloved Mexican holidays – in Mexico’s most beautiful culinary and artisan center. Here we’ll be connecting with the feeling of joy deep in our souls and to using that feeling to stir the flow of creative juices within us! By the end of this spiritual journey you’ll feel inspired to leap forward in life and take action to do those things you have been putting on the back-burner of life for years.

Highlights Of This Amazing Adventure:

• Explore Oaxaca, one of Mexico’s shining colonial jewels & a culinary and artistic center
• Celebrate one of the most beloved Mexican holidays: El Día de los Muertos!
• Build your own altar - a profound, deeply moving experience.
• Help a local family prepare their grave in the Xoxocotlan graveyard
• Watch families build private altars honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed
• Experience the San Miguel Cemetery as 10,000 candles are lit for the holiday
• Fun, food, and sacred ceremony are the order of the day on this journey!
• Visit the amazing “Day of the Dead Tianguis” at the Abastos Market
• Meditate with the Tule tree, “El Arbol del Tule” said to be the world’s largest tree
• Have lunch at at the home of a family of candle makers in Teotitlan del Valle
• Explore the Santo Domingo Church — one of the great monastery-church compounds of Mexico since the 16th century
• Visit the XVI century convent of Cuilapan de Guerrero & wood carving village of San Martin Tilcajete
• See the making of the famed black pottery of the village of San Bartolo Coyotepec
• Be in ceremony at the beautiful sacred ruins of Yagul or Mitla
• Group lunch at the fabulous restaurant Casa Oaxaca Café, in Colonia Reforma
• Eight nights at the charming Hotel Casa Vertiz

El Día de los Muertos

Oaxaca buzzes with energy as family and friends gather together to pray for and remember those beloved friends and family members who have passed away. For the Mexicans this is a time of great celebration and joy.

According to Travel + Leisure magazine, Oaxaca is one of the TOP TEN “world’s best cities,” and NUMBER ONE in Mexico/Central and the South American region, based on “sights, culture/arts, restaurants/food, people, shopping, value.” We know you’ll agree!

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
~ Henry Miller

Want to Join Us?

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

**Thanks to Luz Castilla for the photographs of the wonderful food, textiles, weaver and grave in the above slideshow.