• Explore your inner self using sacred sound and trance dance?
• Bring yourself to centeredness using meditation, learn to quiet your thoughts and embrace the mind of enlightenment?
• Transform, heal and experience deep change utilizing Shamanic practices?
• Integrate and ground your spiritual experience into your every day life?
• Paint your Dance, utilizing your feet as paint brushes to create a masterpiece of your expression? Allow your inner child to come out and play!
• Celebrate life! and dance to the upcoming energetic shift of December 21st, 2012?

If your answer is YES! then you owe it to yourself to join author and Shaman Ernesto Ortiz for this powerful retreat to Mar de Jade in Chacala, Mexico! The energy of 2012 is upon us, the time is short and we must prepare for the vibrational alignment that is already taking place. We have seen huge natural challenges and changes, within ourselves and in our mother earth. Are you vibrationally, mentally and emotional ready to ride this wave? Are you a Lightworker whose mission is to uplift the energy and help people on this planet?

This is a highly experiential workshop that will open the doors to new possibilities as you connect with your Shamanic Self through Trance Dance to integrate your spiritual experiences. In this retreat we will explore the magical self, the mystical self, the wild self, the sensual self. We will use highly evocative music, sounds and drumming to induce trance like states and explore the inner potential of Trance. If you love to enjoy life, if you like to celebrate freedom, if you are passionate about the world we live in and want or does contribute to a better world, this retreat is for you!

Highlights Of Your Adventure:

• Trance Dance - Enter the inner aspects of the self and explore the body, mind spirit connection.
• Soul Retrieval - Journey to find and bring back lost pieces of the soul.
• Paint Your Dance – A new concept created by Ernesto, come and use the floor as a canvas allow your dance, inspiration, imagination and co-creativity with others bring out the child in you and you Paint Your Dance!!
• Power Animal Retrieval - Connect with the spirits of the forest and journey for your power animal.
• Holotropic ~ Integrative Breathwork - Allow the music to get deep within and mixed with your breath loosen up material that is sitting in your subconscious that needs to be released and is holding you back.
• Tantric Shamanism – Powerful exercises that will help you deeply connect with the self and others. Breath, sound, movement, mantras, safe touch and more.
• Shamanic Drumming
• 7 nights at the lovely Mar De Jade Retreat Center
• Optional plant medicine ceremony!
• All delicious home cooked healthy meals included!
• Access to fabulous spa services!

Honor your body at Mar de Jade!

Overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Mar de Jade with its graceful contours and Mediterranean style serves as a gathering place for spiritual events. The spacious layout of the property offers a sense of privacy as it blends with the natural surroundings of Chacala, Mexico complete with luscious mango and papaya trees, hammocks beneath palm trees, and the beautiful beach.

Delicious and nutritious meals are served three times a day, usually buffet style, in the breezy open-air dinning pavilion overlooking the ocean. In their daily preparations they use fresh local products: fish, sea-food, chicken, cheese – and abundant fruits and vegetables: lettuce, arugula, beans, figs, hibiscus, papaya, mango, bananas, and pineapples. The majority of vegetables and fruits come from their own Organic Farm. They make their own yogurt, granola, tofu, hummus, breads and baked goods, pastries, desserts, peanut-butter, and marmalade’s.

Mar de Jade’s kitchen staff is happy to accommodate special dietary restrictions such as allergies, vegans or vegetarians, gluten-free, dairy-free, etc. All of their raw foods are carefully disinfected and washed with purified water. Purified water is also provided for drinking. All food served at Mar de Jade is prepared with great care, attention and love.

To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. Sweat is an ancient and universal form of self healing, whether done in the gym, the sauna, or the sweat lodge. I do it on the dance floor. The more you dance, the more you sweat. The more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you come to ecstasy.
~ Gabrielle Roth

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• Develop your ability to Dream Lucidly through Dream Yoga?
• Learn how to use the Maya calendar as a daily oracle?
• Practice yoga asanas in sacred settings?
• Explore the mystical Toltec ruins of Teotihuacan and Tula?
• Participate in shamanic ceremonies?

If so, please join us for 7 days of empowerment at La Casa de Suenos (the House of Dreams) at Teotihuacan, Mexico for a magical experience! Each day Skanda Yoga teachers Ken von Roenn III (ERYT 500) and Lina Vallejo will guide you through the Mayan Oracle and its physical and spiritual embodiment in yoga asana. There will also be classes and meditations on Dream Yoga ( and Lucid Dreaming) with emphasis on techniques from the Toltec esoteric tradition. Each class will empower your spiritual path with wisdom and inspiration.

Skanda Yoga is the integration of many spiritual traditions. It is the co-creation of Ken and Lina after years of exploration that led to the manifestation of a system that enhances the experience of synchronicity and magic. They are excited to lead a transformative and empowering retreat in Teotihuacan, Mexico. It is the perfect setting to enhance the spiritual path while exploring the Toltec mythology.

Watch Ken & Sheri’s free videoclass:
“Synchronicity, Dreaming & Empowerment!”

Highlights of your adventure…

• Deepen your yoga and lucid dreaming practices in a mystical setting.
• Increase your strength & flexibility
• Explore the sacred sites of Teotihuacan and Tula with our local guides
• Clean, energize & detox the body through yoga & vegetarian food.
• Participate in a cave ceremony with shaman
• Relax & rejuvenate: emotionally, physically and spiritually
• Connect with a great group of inspiring people!
• Spiritually expand in a Temazcal (healing sweat lodge) ceremony
• Watch a traditional Aztec Dance of power

The Magic of The Dreaming House

Behind a gated wall in the village of San Sebastian Xolopan, adjacent to the ancient city of Teotihuacan, lies the Casa de los Sueños. Within its spacious compound are a dozen rooms decorated with the art of Mexico’s past, both recent and distant. Meals in the spacious and gracious dining hall are miraculous in themselves, country Mexican food prepared with skill and love. The traditional kitchen is staffed by family members, led by your hostess, Veronica Contla Galicia. Two meals (breakfast and early supper) with set menus and bottled water (for rooms and day excursions) are included as well as a light evening snack.

“If we cannot carry our practice into sleep, if we lose ourselves each night,
what chance do we have to be aware when death comes?”
~Tenzin Wangyal Rinoche

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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!

• 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

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

• An amazing place in nature to unwind, relax and commune with your sisters?
• Delicious home-cooked meals straight from the sea?
• Time to explore the issues that are creating sticking points in your life?
• The opportunity to swim in the company of sea lions, manta rays and dolphins?

If so, join author Sheri Rosenthal and 10 other women in this remote natural reserve in the magical Sea of Cortez - uninhabited by other humans and free from the distractions of our daily lives.

If you’re a woman in the process of making changes in her life (who isn’t?), who wants to deeply explore the issues surrounding your circumstances, this is a journey you can’t afford to miss.

With sand between our toes and in our hair, we’ll create a new and empowering dream that will lead us to complete freedom of our hearts, minds and bodies.

Exploring our Sisterhood

Our time together will evolve as Spirit moves us…

We’ll enjoy beautiful ceremony and ritual, dance, and prayer, chanting and meditation
with our sisters to create the energy for transformation both inside and out.

There will be time for snorkeling, playing, sea kayaking, journaling,
swimming, laughing, hiking and a fire ceremony.

Sea Lions, manta rays and pods of dolphins will keep us
company in these crystal clear turquoise waters!

Scuba diving, water skiing, and deep sea fishing
are also available for any Goddesses so interested.

It’s our intent that every woman who participates in this journey returns home with clarity, peace of mind, confidence, self-esteem and inner joy. It’s our wish that you find your serenity and centered-ness so when you return home you can make changes with happiness, confidence and inner strength. If you are ready to change your life, we’re waiting for you.

Listen to Sheri’s free teleclass:
“Is It Possible to Have Fear & Still Live Boldly?”

The Magic of Baja Camp

Our camp is situated on one of the most beautiful bays’ approximately two hours by boat from the La Paz marina. The abundance of fish and shell fish in the Sea of Cortez allows us to bring to the dinner table a veritable seafood feast every night. You can swim among groups of seals in the warm and transparent water. The camp provides kayaks which allow you to linger in wonderful solitude within the clear and deep inlets where the only sound you hear is the splashing of boat paddles.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
~Margaret Mead

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

• Connect with the ancient wisdom in the stones at Teotihuacan?
• Access your Akashic Records for the purpose of illuminating growth, healing, and guidance?
• Learn to open to receiving information in ways that you have not experienced before?
• Transcend the subconscious programming and robotic responses that we carry within the self?
• Practice setting yourself in the mode of pure and unconditional service to others?

Personal and professional transformation begins during this Intensive with author and Shaman Ernesto Ortiz at one of the most celebrated sacred sites in the world: Teotihuacán, home of the majestic Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, culminating in a lasting commitment to a better life and world.

Our Akashic Records training program is designed to engage the serious spiritual seeker, the one who knows he/she has a greater mission in life. The one who knows that by sharing this oral tradition they will live his/her life dedicated to making a difference.This training is all about YOU, your growth, your process, your personal healing and inspiration. The end result – a brighter and lighter you!!

Highlights Of Your Retreat:

• Ten nights at the magical Dreaming House
• Delicious homemade, authentic Mexican family style meals
• Akashic Records Intensive training: levels I,II, and III
• Connect with the energy of Quetzalcoatl the Feathered Serpent, bringer of light and transformation
• Experience a journey of purification and redemption traveling up the Avenue of the Dead

**The Sacred Prayer that enables us to access the Akashic Records was received in Teotihuacan
making this trip significantly special, as this is the first time that Ernesto
is teaching his Akashic Records Intensive here.

The Dreaming House

This magical city is located approximately one hour northeast of Mexico City. We stay at the The Dreaming House, behind a gated wall in the village of San Sebastian Xolopan, adjacent to the ancient city of Teotihuacán. Within its spacious compound are a dozen rooms decorated with the art of Mexico’s past, both recent and distant. The rooms have modern conveniences, but no modern annoyances. It’s a magical place for a magical time.

“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.”
~ don Miguel Ruiz

Want to Join Us?

Questions? Give us a ring at 727-421-0849 or 866-866-5566 – we can’t wait to hear from you! This is a profound and heartfelt trip – meant to connect you with your inner divine consciousness. Our intention is for you to become the highest expression of Spirit and light that you can be!

• 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!

• Let go of the old paradigms in your life that no longer serve you?
• Integrate the underworld of your psyche, middle kingdom of your life, and upper world of your divine consciousness?
• Celebrate the birth of a new world vision for 2012?
• Experience the powerful Mayan sacred sites of Palenque & Tonina?
• Connect with your instinctual Shamanic energies & totem animal spirit guides?

If so – join Toltec Shamans Fu-Ding Cheng and Linda Jacobson for a powerful spiritual journey to Chiapas, Mexico in the heart of the Mayan lands. Our journey is structured on the shamanic vision of the world of the Upper, Middle and Lower Kingdoms. Participants will have the opportunity to experience directly the power, healing and wisdom of each of these three worlds through specific Mayan sacred sites. Through ceremony, rituals, and shamanic exercises, these sites become portals allowing us to enter and tap into their power, for the purpose of healing, transformation, and self-empowerment.

This is especially timely with the advent of 2012, a most auspicious year of the Mayan calendar, and a time of major transformation not only for each of us personally, but also for society and the entire planet. We’ll feed our souls through the play of shamanic energy, the beauty of the architecture and symbology of the Mayan culture, and through the sublime beauty of nature as seen in the turquoise pools of Aqua Azul and the wild and lush jungles around us.

Highlights Of Your Adventure:

• Wonderful spiritual teachings, ceremonies, visualizations & meditations with Linda & Fu-Ding
• This power journey is structured on the shamanic vision of the world: The Lower, Middle and Upper Kingdoms
• Experience the energy at the Shamanic Church of San Juan Chamula (for the Middle Kingdom of Earth)
• Explore the Pyramid of Tonina and its powerful underworld mythology (for the Lower Kingdom)
• Swim in Aqua Azul’s cascading pools of brilliant turquoise (for the Upper Kingdom)
• Through ceremony, birth the new consciousness of 2012 at the sacred site of Palenque (for the integration of all three Kingdoms)
• 2 nights in the charming colonial town of San Cristobal de Casas
• 3 nights at the Hotel Nututun on the river in Palenque

San Juan Chamula

One of the special highlights of this week will be a visit to San Juan Chamula. This town is home to an amazing church which the people took back from the clergy and converted to a place of traditional shamanism and prayer. The energy here is very powerful and we will participate in a prayer circle for healing, compassion and unconditional love for the time leading up to 2012.

“Many believe that the dawning Age of Light or Age of Consciousness defines itself in relation to our capacity for unconditional love, our ability to transcend enemy patterning and victim consciousness while adopting unity consciousness that sees divinity in all things. From this standpoint, it might be said humans are evolving into a ‘biologically conscious’ species capable of holding and sharing the full light of unconditional love.”
~ Sol Luckman

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Questions? Give us a ring at 727-421-0849 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

Want to Join Us?

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

• Chill-out on a pristine powder-soft beach with a fruit smoothy in hand?
• Deepen your yoga practice and get serious about your mind-body-spirit connection?
• Become more aware, conscious, centered and peaceful?
• Explore the ancient Mayan ruins and connect to the energy of Tulum and Coba?

If so – join us for 7 days at the Shambala Petit Hotel in Tulum centering ourselves and deepening our yoga practice. Each day yoga teacher Jhon T (owner of Atmananda Yoga Sequence in NYC) will guide us into the sacred vinyasa practice – opening ourselves to the power of transformation, quieting our minds, and opening our hearts. By the time we go home we will be refreshed in our bodies and our souls ready to make positive changes in our lives. If you would like to learn more about Jhon T, I invite you to watch the video on the right. –>

Highlights Of Your Adventure:

• Cultivate a more authentic connection with your physical body ♥
• Go deep into your yoga practice and challenge yourself beyond what you feel is possible
• Explore the the beautiful Mayan Riviera with it’s soft and sultry beaches
• Energize yourself with healthy food, clear sunshine and air
• Re-frame the way you deal with your reality to become more grounded
• Heal your physical body through healthy stretching and body movements
• Delve into your awareness practice and gain more insight into how you create your life
• Visit the beautiful sacred ruins of Tulum and Coba in your free time

Integrating his experiences from around South America and his enlightenment through his work with Guru Baba and Dr. Guevas, JhonT gained the wisdom to understand the concepts of destiny, freedom and inner peace and how they are attained to reach self-bliss. Sharing his deep wisdom and passion of yoga and spirituality along the turquoise waters of the Caribbean Ocean – this is the perfect respite from our urban stresses and hectic lives.

“The word Atma means self, and the word Ananda means bliss. No one has the power to give you bliss, only you can elevate yourself to total self-bliss.” – JhonT

Investment:

$1995.00 USD per person double occupancy for early registration! All meals, all spiritual teachings and yoga classes: morning meditation and asana practice with Jhon T are included. Your flights to the Cancun International Airport are not-included.

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• 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.