August 2021

This Will be Powerful for You (4 Amazing Questions)

I was noodling around in my computer earlier this week and found a questionnaire I had completed back in 2012. Wow – that seems so far away!

I had gone to a workshop in California that was a business workshop, not a spiritual workshop (oh the days when we could just jump on a plane and easily go to California and sit in a hotel conference room with a thousand other people and think nothing of it). I answered these 4 Questions that turned out to be highly spiritual, incredibly insightful, and tremendously helpful.

I was amazed to discover that everything I said I wanted in my answers had actually happened!

I think if you take 10 minutes to answer these questions, it will be tremendously profound for you.

1. What’s frustrating you the most right now?
Isn’t this a great question? It really gets to the heart of what’s eating you. I know for so many people who come to us, they feel like they’re at the end of their rope, some life situation is driving them crazy, or worse, they feel they are not living their best life or their relationship isn’t giving them all that they want. That’s got to be one of the most frustrating things in the world, to have this feeling that you are capable of living a happy, joyful, wonderful life, but you just don’t have the tools to do it. That’s exactly how I felt before I first came to Sedona.

2. What do you want to have happen this year?
Wow, doesn’t that just zero in on it? I love this question. It makes it so immediate. So what do you want to have happen this year? Wouldn’t it be great to have something really amazing and incredible happen? What would that be for you? You’ve still got 4 months left this year to make it happen, a lot can happen in 4 months.

3. What have you tried in the past that’s worked and what have you tried in the past that hasn’t worked?
This one really hits close to home for me because before I came to Sedona for the first time 21 years ago I had read every book, done so many group retreats, done so many workshops, done therapy, and nothing ever really seemed to help. It wasn’t until I was doing one-on-one private sessions that were focused completely on me with the Masters here in Sedona that I really got to the heart of what I needed.

4. What would it take for you to double your happiness during the next year?
I love this one so much because it takes out the complaining aspect of everything that’s wrong and puts it right into your lap. What would double your happiness during this next year? It’s especially fun to answer this question from the standpoint of really knowing that it can happen!

So what are the answers to these questions for you?

And of course, I loved these questions because they pointed out to me once again why a Sedona Soul Adventures retreat is so important. Because literally, we can help identify the source and blocks that are causing the frustrations and help move you into the space of becoming that person who is living a happy, joyful, abundant purpose-driven life. And the best part is – it works!

Amanda says after her Soul Adventure she is living her true purpose and has clarity for the present and the future

Did you know we were named Best in Sedona for Retreats in 2020 and 2021? And Best Marriage Retreats in the US 5 years in a row? It’s because our retreats work.

Would you like to speak to someone today about doing a retreat?
We’re even open on Sunday, because we’re here for you!
And remember, there’s no cost or obligation and you can do it At-Home or here in Sedona.

Or if you’d prefer, call us at (877) 204-3664 or click here and one of our Soul Guides will call you.

Kelly says after my Soul Adventure “I am love, I am worthy, and I am an amazing woman.”

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Join us for our new “Compassion Cultivation Training” 8-week online class Starting September 14, 2021

Would you like to learn about a way to give yourself a happier, healthier life? Then join us for our new “Compassion Cultivation Training” 8-week online class – starting September 14, 2021.

Compassion is perhaps the most powerful and effective tool you can use to care for yourself and improve your relationships. Compassion Training builds mental habits that, over time, are demonstrated to open the heart and promote personal well-being, resilience, and meaningful connections, even in challenging circumstances.

Existing research shows that mindfulness and compassion training can meaningfully reduce the symptoms of stress and burnout and improve health outcomes.

We all face difficult situations, challenging relationships, and internal thoughts and beliefs that prevent us from experiencing the best life has to offer. When we become more aware, open, and curious about the world and people around us, we learn to use our natural compassion in practical ways to navigate life’s toughest personal challenges and begin to move through life’s ups and downs with greater confidence and ease.

Practicing compassion can alleviate our worries and fears so we can become powerful forces for good – in our relationships, families, workplaces, and communities.

The Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is an 8-week online course developed in 2009 at Stanford University (CCARE — Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education) by experts in contemplative studies, psychology, neuroscience, and adult education. The Compassion Cultivation Training© (CCT™) is backed by scientific research and 10,000+ alumni worldwide.

Throughout the training, we help you lean into challenges, build the courage to take compassionate action, manage your emotions, and develop your resilience to prevent empathy fatigue.

The course includes:

Weekly 2-hour online classes including lecture, discussion, and in-class exercises
Daily meditation practices
Real-world assignments for practicing compassionate thoughts and actions
Each class will be recorded (but live participation is highly recommended for the biggest benefit.

I hope you can join us – you’ll be glad you did.

Komala Rohde is a certified instructor of the Compassion Cultivation Training. She is a certified professional coach (PCC, CPCC, CNTC).

Born in Germany, she began her career as a nurse before receiving her degree in Naturopathic Medicine / Psychology. Komala works internationally as a mentor, coach, and teacher.

She has been practicing meditation for over 40 years and has practiced and taught various traditions including Mindfulness for Stress Reduction, Vipassana, active meditation techniques and compassion meditation. Komala lives with her husband in Sedona, Arizona for the past 25 years.

Wishing you a week filled with your dreams coming true!

The Biggest Issue Most of Us Face

This is one of the most important videos I’ve every made.

Because this issue, the issue of thinking there is something wrong with you (even if you think it just a little bit) is at the core of any of the problems you might be having. I see this over and over again with all the people we work with.

I hope this helps…

From my experience, this issue is at the heart of everything that is going on with all of us. And if you need help with this, we’re here for you.

Give us a call and we’ll connect with you. Or both of you, for a couple — and believe me, the core issue at the heart of most relationship problems is that both of you are playing out your “I’m not good enough” issues with each other (even if you’re not able to see that yourself).

We’ll find what’s causing the problem and we won’t sugarcoat it – we’ll blast through it with you.

We’ll bring you into the self-love and self-acceptance that will change every part of your life.

Or if you’d prefer, call us at (877) 204-3664 or click here and one of our Soul Guides will call you.

Kelly says after my Soul Adventure “I am love, I am worthy, and I am an amazing woman.”

Did you see our newest reviews on TrustPilot? Click here

We have a 5 star rating (out of 5 stars) on Trustpilot. You can read about the amazing transformations that are happening to individuals and couples here.

Join us for our new “Compassion Cultivation Training” 8-week online class Starting September 14, 2021

Would you like to learn about a way to give yourself a happier, healthier life? Then join us for our new “Compassion Cultivation Training” 8-week online class – starting September 14, 2021.

Existing research shows that mindfulness and compassion training can meaningfully reduce the symptoms of stress and burnout and improve health outcomes.

Practicing compassion can alleviate our worries and fears so we can become powerful forces for good – in our relationships, families, workplaces, and communities.

Throughout the training, we help you lean into challenges, build the courage to take compassionate action, manage your emotions, and develop your resilience to prevent empathy fatigue.

The course includes:

Weekly 2-hour online classes including lecture, discussion, and in-class exercises
Daily meditation practices
Real-world assignments for practicing compassionate thoughts and actions
Each class will be recorded (but live participation is highly recommended for the biggest benefit.

I hope you can join us – you’ll be glad you did.

Komala Rohde is a certified instructor of the Compassion Cultivation Training. She is a certified professional coach (PCC, CPCC, CNTC).

Born in Germany, she began her career as a nurse before receiving her degree in Naturopathic Medicine / Psychology. Komala works internationally as a mentor, coach, and teacher.

Wishing you a week filled with loving yourself!

A Scientifically Proven Way to Give You a Happier, Healthier Life

Would you like to learn about a way to give yourself a happier, healthier life? I want to tell you today about a powerful new way to do that and it’s scientifically proven to work!

It’s called Compassion Cultivation Training.

Existing research shows that mindfulness and compassion training can meaningfully reduce the symptoms of stress, burnout and improve health outcomes.

Practicing compassion can alleviate our worries and fears so we can become powerful forces for good – in our relationships, families, workplaces, and communities.

Throughout the training, we help you lean into challenges, build the courage to take compassionate action, manage your emotions, and develop your resilience to prevent empathy fatigue.

The course includes:

Weekly 2-hour online classes including lecture, discussion, and in-class exercises
Daily meditation practices
Real-world assignments for practicing compassionate thoughts and actions
Each class will be recorded (but live participation is highly recommended for the biggest benefit.

I hope you can join us – you’ll be glad you did.

Lisa says, “I found myself during my absolutely fantastic Soul Adventure. Worth every dime.”

I just love what Lisa says about her Soul Adventure:

It was absolutely fantastic
She found herself
She has a “bag full of tools” that will help her now and in the future
Her Angel Guide was great and designed a Soul Adventure that was uniquely designed just for her
It was worth every dime

How often in our lives do we do something for ourselves that turns out to be absolutely fantastic? Where you can not only find yourself but know that you have tools that will continue to help you now and into the future?

That’s what happens here. Won’t you come and be part of it?

Give us a call. Speak with one of our Angel Guides. They’ll start the process of bringing you from where you are to where you want to be. Call us today at (928) 204-5988 or click here and we’ll call you.

Would you like to speak to someone today about doing a retreat?
We’re even open on Sunday, because we’re here for you!
And remember, there’s no cost or obligation.

Wishing you a week filled with love and compassion!

Dead at 20, Buried at 80

“Dead at 20, Buried at 80”

Have you heard this before? I read it somewhere a number of years ago and it really struck me.

What they’re talking about is that for so many people, at around 20 years old they decide to take a job because they need money and it’s not what they really wanted to do, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

They never thought that they would stay doing the same thing for the rest of their lives and then suddenly they found themselves married. And then the kids came and they needed the health insurance and the security of the job, and it just wasn’t practical to even think about doing something else.

And then suddenly they’re retired and getting social security… and next, they’re DEAD.

Sorry to be so depressing, but this turns out to be true for so many people. Their lives literally get buried by age 20 – meaning they’re not doing what excites them or makes them happy, they’re doing work for a paycheck and suddenly find themselves buried under the weight and responsibility of being an adult – and then they’re stuck for the rest of their lives.

They never give themselves permission to Stop and ask, “Is this what I really want to be doing with my precious life?”

This past year has had many difficulties but there’s been one thing that’s come out of it that we’ve seen that is very dramatic and wonderful. More and more people are asking themselves this question for the first time in their lives.

This past year has made many of us realize:

Life is short
I don’t know how long I have
Everything can be over in an instant
I want to live a happy life
What would it take to live a happy life?

For most people, evaluating their lives like that leads to making some new, big decisions about their work and their relationships.

A lot of people don’t want to go back to the same old grind.

They want to feel like their life has purpose. And for many of us, that means doing work that is meaningful and really feeds our souls.

They want to live their life purpose or they want to find their life purpose and start living it.

I really relate to this because in my own life, I had so many fits and starts, and I also fell into the trap. I ended up being a divorce attorney for 20 years. Pretty much hating it the whole time.

I loved the part where I felt like I was helping my clients, but that only felt like about 10% of it. The rest was arguing with the other attorneys and the judges and trying to help people who were in a very unhappy part of their life.

Hating what you’re doing 90% of the time really sucks.

Even worse, I was on my spiritual path and reading lots of books about living a life of joy and happiness and I believed that somehow that was possible. I read books like “Do What You Love And The Money Will Follow,” but I could never make that work for me.

Everything changed for me when I came to Sedona for the first time in 1999. I was at one of the lowest points in my life and every part of my life was a mess. In one session my Higher Self came to me in a vision and said, “You either leave your law practice now, or you’re going to die like your mother did.” I was exactly the age my mother was when she got sick with cancer and died 5 years later. I could see that I was on the same trajectory as she had been – I was unhappy, frustrated and I felt totally stuck.

That started the journey that led to founding Sedona Soul Adventures three years later.

So I spent 20 years of my life doing work I hated. I’ve spent 19 years doing work I love. I can tell you, doing work you love makes all the difference. Especially because it affects every other part of your life – relationships, abundance, and just overall quality of life.

Every day I get to see people transform their lives and relationships. Just this past week a couple who came to us on the brink of divorce, left us happy and in love.

We always ask people to write a before and after at the end and the husband said, “Before my Soul Adventure I was angry, resentful, not trusting and blaming my wife. I was blaming her for my issues and waiting for her to fix them instead of fixing myself. After my Soul Adventure, I am grateful, feeling joy, feeling free, understanding my wife better and myself better, forgiving myself and peaceful.”

And his wife realized how she was blaming him and not feeling supported by him. By the end, she told us, “I value myself and realize I’m worth a lot. I really feel the support from my husband.” Wow!

I spent 20 years divorcing people, now I’ve spent 19 years helping them stay together – it’s so much better!

Have you been re-examining your life over the past year? Have you yearned to live your life purpose? Or do you ache to find your life purpose?

I ached for years to find my life purpose and start living it. It finally happened when I came to Sedona.

If you want to find and start living your life purpose, give us a call, we can help. Speak with one of our Angel Guides and we’ll start the process of custom designing a Sedona Soul Adventures retreat for you. We’ll uncover what’s holding you back from your dreams and help you blast through that and into a life of purpose and meaning.

Don’t wait! The clock is ticking on your precious life.

Or if you’d prefer, call us at (928) 204-5988 or click here and one of our Retreat Guides will call you.

Would you like to speak to someone today about doing a retreat?
We’re even open on Sunday, because we’re here for you!
And remember, there’s no cost or obligation.

Register now for our 10-week “Opening To Your Intuition” Masterclass, starting August 14 – enroll now, space is limited

I’m so excited to announce another “Opening To Your Intuition,” a 10-week personal and professional development training program created and taught by one of our fabulous Practitioners, Komala Rohde.

Komala is an internationally known teacher of intuitive work and meditation and we are so excited to offer this fantastic program to you.

The 10-week class starts Saturday, August 14. We will meet on Zoom each Saturday from 9:00-11:00 am Pacific time. Each class will be recorded, so if there are any classes you can’t attend, you’ll always have the recording.

Would you like to:

Learn how to reliably connect with your Intuition?
Receive the answers to questions through your Intuition?
Have tools to continue to deepen your connection with your Intuition on an ongoing basis?
Utilize your Intuition to enhance your personal and professional life?

The program includes extensive instruction, practical tools, mindfulness techniques, meditation practices and exercises that will enhance your understanding and application of Intuition in your personal life and professional expression.

You’ll walk away from the program with a solid understanding of what Intuition is. You will be in deeper connection with your own Intuition and you will have tools to continue to practice your intuitive skills.

If you’ve always wanted to explore your intuitive abilities, this is the perfect opportunity!

Wishing you a week filled with joy and excitement!

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This Will be Powerful for You (4 Amazing Questions)

The Biggest Issue Most of Us Face

A Scientifically Proven Way to Give You a Happier, Healthier Life

Dead at 20, Buried at 80