Share About Sedona Retreat Experience
One of the aspects that I needed to experience with this mostly online community and its founders was an in person visceral exchange so that I felt grounded and connected to the human qualities of us all here in this group. This experience that I needed was fullfilled by my attendance at the latest Sedona retreat and some of it went like this: And so I arrived in Sedona at long last, after the name has been a resonating echo in the back of my minds eye for years. I drove down into the deep Sedona red rock canyon from the north. I am a mountain woman so I went straight to the Bell Rock TH (TrailHead) after driving a "car hot" 8hrs to respectfully perceive if the hype was real and to look at the physical kiosk forest service map to give me an expansive feel for the lands trail system. It was dusk. I found the hype to be more than real as I looked at the beauty upon beauty before me from the Bell Rock TH. In this moment, I remembered what it was like to be a "gaper" and proceeded on to my exploration for a campsite. On the kiosk map, I had found a road on the outskirts of all the popular spots and drove out of town on that road and then onto a dirt road then onto a 4x4 off road to my TH camp spot. I fell asleep with my hatch open before I set up my suv extension tent. I woke up in the middle of the night with a ringing in my ear to what was unexpected wild bugs flying around my head. I put my headlamp on and set up the back end extension of my mostly metal tent in about 3 minutes. I looked up, took a deep breath, and felt a new sensation of the sun's energy still emanating from the land and rocks where I was in the middle of a starlit Sedona night sky. Back to bed. I curled up and was awake and on trail by 530am. I was trail running free in Sedona on red rocky dirt with cathedral spires all around. Happy. I then jumped in the creek. Somewhere in there was mediation/prayer. I then would show up at the retreat mostly fasted, ready to respectfully give and receive. This would be my routine for the next three days.