Four Elements Retreat

The Four Elements Retreat is a weekend spiritual retreat held in the sacred landscape of Sedona, Arizona on the grounds of the Alma De Sedona Bed and Breakfast.
The Four Elements retreat is loosely based around the teachings of the medicine wheel and each of the elements (Earth, Air, Fire and Water) contained within. These teachings share with us a pathway of knowledge and healing where all life is interconnected and whole. To bring these sacred teachings into our lives leads us back to our center - our true home within and among all life.

The Four Elements retreat has been designed with the realization that we have lost touch with nature and thus, our spiritual connection, as we have become ensnared by the trappings of the material world where fast paced schedules, technology and stress have distracted us and left us feeling empty inside.

The Four Elements retreat will help you to go within to discover your passions, strengths, personal power, balance and spiritual connection while helping you to free yourself from limiting self- patterns. In this way you can unlock your creativity and live your heart's desires the way Spirit has intended. You can bring your unique gift to the world.

To help you to connect to and understand the healing energies of the elements, we humbly offer a series of tools and exercises that we, ourselves, have found to profoundly effect the way we engage life. Tools such as meditation, visualization, breathing, sacred ceremony and others will be introduced to help you restore your sacred self. It is the intent of Inner Journeys that the exercises are simple, yet powerful enough to be taken home and applied so that one may walk a spiritual path each and everyday.

Retreat participants will get to directly experience the spiritual energy of Sedona, a sacred travel destination for millions of people each year, as many exercises are taught out on the land to maximize direct contact with the natural elements. This majestic red rock landscape, considered to be sacred ground by Native Americans, leaves many with a peace of mind they search their whole lives for.



Some of the more poignant lessons of the retreat include:

• Going Within - entering the Medicine Wheel is a metaphor for going within ourselves. The Four Elements retreat includes tools to help you to go within to discover your passions, power, strengths and inner voice. The Medicine Wheel teaches us that we have an open line of communication to inner guidance and spiritual wisdom.
• Know Thyself - the four elements teach about the elements of being human - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Bringing all of these together leads to wholeness and healing. You learn to become responsible for yourself - to adapt and respond to life from your authentic power.
• Balance - providing a framework and understanding for the need of balance in life - rational, left brain vs. intuitive, right brain / spiritual vs. physical / creation vs. destruction, etc.
• Community - as balance is achieved and you know yourself, you are ready to be part of a community in right relationship to the world around you - making decisions based on higher vibrations and doing what's best for the whole.
• Connection to nature - our lives are interwoven with nature and, when the cycles of nature are introduced, it helps people connect the dots to the cycles and rhythms they honor in their own life.

What To Expect

This is a rough outline of what to expect for your Four Elements Retreat. Although we would like to keep it exact, sometimes Mother Nature has other plans. If any changes need to be made due to external circumstances allow us to do the freaking out for you (believe me - we will). But seriously, any changes made will not alter the content or integrity of your retreat.

Please note the free time for lunch on Saturday - roughly 4 hours. It is to allow you time to explore Sedona on your own if you wish.

Thursday: Air Element

• Introduction & hand out journals (1-2pm)
• Medicine wheel ceremony
• Breathing exercises to connect to breath and the elements
• Short break
• Intro to shamanic journeying with journey to air element

Friday: Fire element

• Breakfast at Alma De Sedona (8-9am)
• Shamanic journey to fire element with group share
• Fire ceremony on the land
•  Lunch on your own (1:00 -
   3:00)
• Spirit painting with meditation
• Vision board creation -
   explore your inner visionn

Saturday: Water element

• Breakfast at Alma De Sedona (8-9am)
• Shamanic journey to water element with group share
• Vision walk on the land by the water
• Lunch & free-time (11:30am -
   3:30pm)
• Water ceremony
  
  

Sunday: Earth element

• Breakfast at Alma De Sedona (8 -
   9am)
• Silent walk on the land
• Ceremony
• Short break
• Grounding exercise with drumming
• Closing ceremony in the Medicine Wheel (1-2)
  

Dates and Prices

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