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Such a Sacred Time in Peru

What a fabulous time we are having on our Peru trip. The weather has been absolutely spectacular. We are below the equator, so it’s technically winter here, but you’d never know it from all the flowers everywhere and the warm temperatures (into the 70’s).

We have a wonderful group, people from all over the world (but mainly from the US), all ages, shapes, sizes and colors. And as usual, we were all in love with each other within 48 hours. That’s one of the things I love so much about our trips.

Machu Picchu has been even more spectacular this year than usual. We’ve had 3 days of just fabulous weather. And because so many people around the world aren’t traveling, there is virtually no one here! So spectacular!

We always go to Machu Picchu on the Solstice and here we are doing ceremony at first light. It’s always otherworldly. Can you see the orb in this photo? Wow! At dinner that night, we had a wonderful discussion about just exactly what orbs are.

And after our sunrise ceremony, a few of us had an adorable encounter for about a ½ hour with this family of llamas. 

They wanted to be with us and we wanted to be with them, it was so cool. 

We’re in the process of putting together our trip for next year. It will be June 17-30, 2022 and we’ll be in Machu Picchu for the Solstice. Click here to get on our waitlist and we’ll give you first notice when we have all the details. 

Another thing that’s been so gratifying for me on this trip is that many of the people on the trip are Sedona Soul Adventures “grads” and they’ve been talking about how their Soul Adventure completely changed their lives.

For many of them, the Soul Adventure was many years ago, so I just love to hear about that and how even after all these years, it’s still such a powerful force in their lives. 

This couple told me their Soul Adventure completely transformed their relationship and I love that so much. They even sent their daughter on a Soul Adventure!

So if you’d like to have your life or your relationship transformed, connect with us and speak with one of our Angel Guides. They’ll connect with you in deep conversation and begin the process of taking you from where you are to where you want to be, by custom designing a retreat for exactly what you need and want.

Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us at (928) 204-5988. And remember, there’s no cost or obligation, you can do the retreat either in Sedona or At Home and we even work on Sunday, we’re here for you.

Sending you lots of love from Peru!

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Daddy Issues/How Forgiving our Fathers Leads to Peace and Happiness

After being a Family Law attorney for 20 years and now doing my work with Sedona Soul Adventures for almost 20 years, I am still continually amazed at how almost everyone I come into contact with still has wounds from the past – and in most situations, it’s from things that happened with their parents.

I was thinking about it this week (since it’s Father’s Day), but especially because one of our couples who were here doing a retreat had a huge breakthrough and it all came down to their relationships with their fathers.

In my own life, I spent many years grappling with my relationship with my own father. My dad was a hardworking man and I know in my head that he loved us, but I never felt that in my heart. He grew up in a large German Catholic family (his parents had 20 children – he was number 19!) and in our stoic household, no one ever said “I love you” and I have no memory of being hugged or held.

Worse, when I was 12 years old, my father started an affair with another woman which lasted until my mother’s death 11 years later. He became an alcoholic, had severe financial problems and almost lost his business and our home. My teenage years were ones of turmoil and trauma.

I couldn’t wait to get out of all that craziness and I got married when I was 19. Of course, the marriage failed because I got married for all the wrong reasons. I got married to get away from my family situation, not because I was in love and capable of having a stable, loving relationship. In fact, having a stable and loving relationship was something that I was completely incapable of having.

I started what would become 15 years of therapy when my first marriage ended and in therapy, I made the mental correlation between my upbringing and my failed marriage. But that never healed the ache in my heart. It wasn’t until I was able (through sessions) to go into compassion for my dad and to finally forgive him that the real healing occurred – and that’s what happened with the couple this past week.

Like me, this couple had done many years of therapy.

Like me, they each mentally understood the correlation between their upbringing and problems in their marriage (but having that understanding wasn’t enough to cause anything to be better).

Like me, they thought they had “dealt with” their daddy issues completely.

In their retreat, their initial session as a couple brought some of these issues to the forefront. They had some resistance to even looking at this because they thought they had “dealt with it” already. But it was obviously still there.

In Jane’s Emotional Clearing session (they’ve asked that we change their names for privacy) that she did on her own, she cleared out the energy that her father had wanted a boy and that she was always competing for his love with her younger brother. Her energy had become hyper-masculine and it was showing up not only in her relationship with her husband, but in her work and in her relationships with her friends.

For her husband Ted, in his initial clearing session that he did individually, he cleared out the energy that he was unloveable, that his father didn’t love him, that he was never good enough. He said he felt like he cleared tons of pain away that was just lifted up and out.

And then the big breakthrough happened. In their breath sessions (which they each did separately), it was absolutely amazing that both their fathers (both of whom are deceased) came into their sessions. They each said they felt the presence of their dads, but it was different for each one of them.

For Jane, she literally saw her father. He came to her and spoke to her. He told her that he truly loved her, he showed her images of times when she was growing up that he felt especially close to her. She said she truly felt his love. He told her he was proud of her.

For Ted, it was even more profound. He felt his father’s presence, although he didn’t actually “see” him. He said he felt like his father had somehow connected with him on a cellular level and he felt “almost overwhelmed” by all the love he felt from his father. He said he cried and cried, but they were really tears of joy and of deeply letting go.

They both felt the healing in an instant. Knowing and feeling that they were truly loved by their fathers, healed everything. In an instant, they both felt that the issues between them had been healed.

In their next couples session, they saw how their issues had sprung from their feelings of not being lovable. Now that this was healed, they were able to revel in their newfound love for each other.

Like Jane and Ted, I also had a huge breakthrough with my father during a breath session. In my 15 years of therapy, I had been able to analyze his problems and my problems and I had come to a place of understanding him. But in this breath session, his energy came into my presence and I was able to really see him for the first time.

I saw that he truly loved both my mother and Mary. He was in love with 2 different women and had absolutely no idea how to deal with it. So he dealt with it by self medicating with alcohol. He was in so much pain and so much confusion. I truly felt how much he loved all of us (my mother, my brothers and my sister), but he was in so much pain he could barely function. My heart was full of compassion for him.

Luckily, this happened while he was still alive. I was able to finally have the close relationship I wanted to have with him my entire life. My dad passed away in 2004 and I was with him during the final 2 weeks of his life. One morning in the hospital, a few days before he passed, I was sitting next to him while he was sleeping. He woke up and said to me, “I couldn’t love you anymore than I do.” I’m weeping as I write those words, but they are tears of deeply feeling the love I have for him.

Forgiving my father and coming into love and compassion for him was part of a huge transformation in my life.

Jane and Ted felt like this experience saved their marriage.

For so many others who come to us, healing these wounds moves them into a peace and happiness they’ve never known before.

Almost all of us are grappling with some form of the question of, “Do I truly deserve to be loved?” It shows up in a lot of different ways:

• Sometimes our love relationships don’t work.
• Sometimes it shows up in dissatisfaction in our work.
• Sometimes we do too much for everyone else and don’t take care of ourselves.
• Sometimes it feels like we’re never good enough or we’ll never be happy.

How is it showing up for you?

Do you have any doubt that you are completely 100% lovable and deserving to be loved?

If you’re not at 100%, it’s affecting your life in some way. And if it’s affecting your life in some way, you need to do something about it. Contact us. Connect with one of our Angel Guides and let them design a retreat that can bring you into 100%.

Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us at (928) 204-5988. And remember, there’s no cost or obligation, you can do the retreat either in Sedona or At Home and we even work on Sunday, we’re here for you.

Vicki says “negative feelings I had bottled up for almost half a century” are healed and “it was worth every penny”

“All the practitioners were very professional. I originally thought the price was very high, but after I completed the retreat, I felt that it was worth every penny. Some of the negative feelings I had bottled up for almost half a century had been driven me to the wall. After I went through the healing from all the healers, I was able to know the causes of my problems, they have been healed and I learned skills of how to deal with them. Now two of my girlfriends have also done retreats. Thank you!”

Vicki C., Los Angeles, CA

Wishing you a week filled with loving and appreciating your dad!

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The #1 Way to Have Peace in Your Life

For most people, having peace in their lives seems like an impossible dream. Most people are stressed out and burned out, especially after this crazy year. Ironically, even though they’re doing too much, they don’t feel like they’re accomplishing anything.

Most people are worried about something that gnaws at them all the time. What is that for you? Do you worry about your job, your kids, your health, your spouse, your relationship, your money situation? Do you worry about the pandemic? Do you worry about other people liking you or loving you? Do you worry about your future? Do you worry about how your life is going to end up?

What’s your general state of mind during a typical day? Are you happy and excited? Or are you upset and frustrated? How do you react to things when something happens? Do you take it in stride or go into worry and upset?

Most people live in a general state of worry, upset or (even worse) hopelessness. It’s not hard to understand why that happens with everything that is going on in the world and in our day to day lives.

But the interesting thing is, it’s not all that stuff on the outside that is causing your sense of peace or lack of it. It’s how you’re reacting to all the stuff that’s happening…

And how you’re reacting to it is based on how you’re thinking and feeling about it…

And the way you’re thinking and feeling about it is probably rooted in something that happened to you a long time ago, in your formative years.

We had a woman who came for a Soul Adventure retreat awhile ago who first contacted us saying that she wanted to come to heal her pain around her marriage ending. Her husband had left her and she was (of course) brokenhearted.

When she spoke with her Angel Guide, he knew this had deep roots. He designed her Soul Adventure in such a way to bring those out. During her time here, she discovered things around her relationship with her mother that had left her feeling unloved and unworthy of love. She saw how she had (unconsciously) created an unhappy relationship to bring this up for healing.

Once she had that awareness, everything shifted. She did forgiveness work around her relationship with her mother and she said she felt the energy of that situation completely heal. The next sessions brought her into a sense of loving herself on all the levels — physically (loving her body), mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

At the end of her retreat she said, “I had no idea all of this was impacting every area of my life in all of these ways. I feel like a huge weight has come off my shoulders. I feel light and free for the first time in my life”.

Last year we had a couple who first contacted us saying that there were no problems in their relationship, they simply wanted to become closer on a spiritual level. But when their Angel Guide spoke with each of them separately, she felt some undercurrents of resentment and fear.

With a Couples Retreat, we always design the retreat to include sessions for the couple together, but also individual sessions for each person to heal issues that the individual might be bringing to the relationship and that’s how their retreat was designed.

During the first session, the cracks in their relationship came out and in their individual sessions, they both got real eye openers. The wife’s father left her mother when she was a young child and the messages she got was “men leave” and “I must have done something wrong that daddy left.” Her father had been very emotionally abusive and she realized that she sometimes felt “bullied” by her husband. Not in a harsh and abusive way, but in subtle ways that were controlling.

She was amazed when she discovered another link: her husband is very attractive and her father was very attractive. Even though they have been married for over 20 years and he has always been faithful, she realized that she had always been afraid of losing him and put up with the subtle bullying because she was afraid that he would leave her like her father had.

In her subsequent sessions, this place of fear (that had been with her since childhood) was healed. She was completely blown away.

In his sessions, the husband disclosed for the first time that he had been bullied as a child. He saw how this was affecting not only his relationship, but every area of his life. In his individual sessions, the shame from this was healed and he said he felt all the anger just flowing out of his body and his heart.

Needless to say, they were both shocked to discover how this “bullying” issue (which they had never defined as an issue) had been impacting their relationship. And you can imagine how wonderful their final couples sessions were…

Both of them came together healed and more in love than ever. Her fear was gone, his shame and anger were gone, and they had a new and deep appreciation for each other that hadn’t been there for a long time. Plus, they received tools that they took home to help them continue to communicate and connect more deeply.

As both of these stories illustrate, if you want to have peace in your life, you have to get at the things that are causing you to not have peace. You might know what those issues are, you might not. Most often, people who come to us to do a retreat discover that the thing that is causing their pain, their anxiety and all their problems is actually something different from what they thought it was.

So here is my bold statement – The #1 way that I know to have peace in your life or your relationship is to do a Sedona Soul Adventures retreat. We will find the blocks and move them out. We’ll move you back into a sense of connection and peace that you didn’t think was possible.

Contact us to speak to an Angel Guide about doing a retreat. It’s amazing how many people say that after one phone call with their Angel Guide they already feel better. Your Angel Guide will speak with you (or both of you if it’s a couples retreat) on a deep level. Then they’ll custom design a retreat that will bring you into the life or relationship you’re craving.

There’s no cost or obligation and you can do the retreat here in Sedona or At Home. We are so happy that our At Home retreats are just as powerful as those in Sedona.

Click here and one of our Angel Guides will call you. Or if you’d prefer, call us (928) 204-5988.

Rose says “before my Soul Adventure I was a mess” after my Soul Adventure, I feel “peace…and I’m so happy I did it”

You are so welcome, Rose! I’m so happy you went from being a mess to finding peace! That’s what this is all about!!

If you’d like to finally find some peace, please call us. Speak with an Angel Guide and they’ll start the process of figuring out the blocks that are holding you back from the peace you crave in your life and your relationship. There’s no cost or obligation to speak with them and it might be the first step towards turning everything around! And remember, you can do your retreat either in Sedona or from the comfort of your own home.

Can you believe it? We just announced the Egypt trip last week and only 5 spots are left!
I’m so excited about the energy for this trip!

The trip is just so extraordinary. It’s such a beautiful combination of all the places you absolutely have to go to, combined with the spiritual aspects of connecting with Egypt’s powerful energy.

I am so incredibly excited that the new Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is finally opening in October, just in time for our trip!

We’ve been watching it being built over the past 10 years and it is absolutely massive! It will house all the treasures of King Tut, the huge Solar Boat, and hundreds and hundreds of statues, sarcophogi (decorated caskets), obelisks, stelas, sculpture, jewelry and other treasures that the public has never seen before.

We go to all the must-see places:

• The Great Pyramid (where we’ll have 2 hours of private time for ceremony just for our group)
• The Sphinx
• Karnak
• Luxor
• Abu Simbel

But we’ll also be going to places the average tourist doesn’t always see:

• Isis Temple at Philae
• Temple of Abydos
• Hathor Temple at Dendera
• Horus Temple at Edfu
• The Osirion

And this year we have special tickets to see:

• The Tomb of King Tut in the Valley of the Kings
• The Tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings
• The Tomb of Queen Nefertari in the Valley of the Queens!

To see the actual tomb and the mummy of King Tutankamun is so amazing. We will also see the treasures of his tomb in the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The Tomb of King Seti I is absolutely spectacular and Queen Nefertari’s tomb (she was the favorite wife of Ramses II) has been called “The Sistine Chapel of Egypt.” Very few people are allowed to see these tombs, so this is a very special part of our trip this year.

Plus, we’ll be doing ceremonies and meditations, and discussing the alternative theories of who built the Pyramids, who built the Sphinx (and when) and why are there carvings of a helicopter, a tank and a submarine in the walls of the Temple of Abydos?

Having two hours of private time just for our group inside the Great Pyramid for meditation and ceremonies is beyond belief!

Plus, we just have fun. Here we are dressing up like Egyptians for Galabaya Night.

I love this photo, it so demonstrates what happens on this trip – having breakfast at the fabulous 5 star Mena House right next to the Pyramids, three people who didn’t know each other before this trip connecting and having an amazing time, about to start another incredible day of exploration, wonder and awe.

And to go on a journey like this with other like-minded travelers – it’s just the icing on the cake. Don’t be concerned if you don’t have a companion to travel with – our groups are typically in love with each other within 48 hours, making friends that last a lifetime.

For information on the Day to Day Itinerary – Click Here

For all the details on Pricing – Click Here

If you have any questions about our trip, send me an email at [email protected].

Or feel free to give me a call. Here’s how:

• Cell: 1-928-301-2896
• Office toll-free: 1-877-204-3664 (US and Canada)
• Outside the US and Canada: 001 928-204-5988

Or Click here and I’ll call you – I love talking about Egypt!

If you already know you want to go, Click here to place your Risk Free Deposit. What is a Risk Free Deposit? Your deposit is 100% refundable for any reason, no questions asked, through November 1, 2021.

Wishing you a week filled with peace!

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Announcing our most spectacular Egypt trip yet! Feb. 14-27, 2022 – it will sell out!