Sedona: Embodied Wisdom
A retreat to ground, practice, and nurture the body's innate healing capacity.
Your body holds wisdom. Create the space to listen.
Surrounded by Sedona's red rocks, we'll slow down and explore the body's innate healing capacity through movement, mindfulness, nature, and intentional connection.
We'll share housing, prepare shared meals, hike, rest, and practice listening inward.
And we'll do it together.
The Journey
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Settle into the body, the land, and the present moment.
Sedona invites us to slow down.
Its red-rock landscape, expansive views, and connection with nature create space to settle into our bodies and become present with ourselves, the place, and one another.
We'll hike, move intentionally, breathe deeply, and allow the rhythms of our days to soften. Our shared home becomes part of this grounding, offering a place to gather, rest, prepare meals, and simply be together.
Ground through Sedona, nature, slowing down, shared space, and movement.
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Experience what it feels like to live in a healing state.
Our bodies have an innate capacity for healing. Through practice, we can learn to create and nurture the conditions that support it.
Throughout our time together, we'll explore somatic awareness, yoga and movement, a healing salt cave, mindfulness, rest, and reflection. Each practice becomes an opportunity to become curious about what your body is communicating and how it feels to respond with awareness.
What happens when we respond to fatigue with rest?
To tension with curiosity?
To movement with awareness?
To intuition with attention?
Practice listening to your body when you are free from normal distractions, so you can return home more attuned.
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Explore the healing power of connection.
Togetherness weaves through our time in Sedona.
We'll cook and eat together, hike together, share intentional practices, gather in conversation, and create space for both individual experience and collective care.
We'll experience a private salt-room practice, explore collective intention, and leave spacious time for rest or an independently chosen healing experience in Sedona.
Connection becomes part of the practice: connection with the body, the land, ourselves, and one another.
Nurture through togetherness, shared meals, collective intention, personal healing time, and community.
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Our days will balance guided experiences, shared time, and spaciousness.
There will be time to rest.
Time to notice.
Time for conversations to unfold naturally.
Time to independently explore a healing modality that calls to you.
Time to sit among the red rocks and simply be.
Creating space allows us to listen more deeply to what is happening within.
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We'll share a beautiful Sedona home selected specifically for our group.
We'll plan and share healthy meals together. Morning coffee, preparing dinner after a hike, and conversations around the table become part of our experience.
Shared living gives connection space to unfold naturally through the everyday rhythms of being together.
Some will arrive with friends. Others will come on their own. Over the course of our time together, we'll create a small community rooted in presence, openness, and shared experience.
What You’ll Receive
This retreat is thoughtfully designed to create space for your body to settle, listen, and experience the practices that support its natural capacity for healing.
You'll receive a balance of embodied practices, nature immersion, meaningful connection, personal space, and shared experiences.
Kayla will guide yoga, movement, somatic awareness, and practices for listening to the body. Tanya will guide the retreat arc, group coherence, reflection, collective intention, and our connection with Sedona as place.
Throughout the experience, you'll have space to explore what supports you personally while being held within the connection of a small group.
Our journey begins before Sedona and continues after we return home.
Our Time in Sedona
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ARRIVE & GROUND
We'll gather at the Phoenix airport and travel together through the changing Arizona landscape toward Sedona.
After settling into our shared retreat home, we'll begin creating our space together. We'll plan and shop for our shared meals, gather for an opening practice, and set intentions for the days ahead.
Tonight, we'll celebrate our arrival with a welcome dinner in Sedona.
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BODY & PLACE
We'll begin the morning with gentle movement and embodied awareness, then share breakfast together.
We'll head into Sedona's red-rock landscape for hiking, nature immersion, and mindful practices to deepen our connection to our body and the land.
Later, we'll return home for spacious time to rest, reflect, prepare dinner together, and connect.
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LISTEN WITHIN
Our exploration of embodied wisdom continues.
Part of the day will remain intentionally open, giving you space to rest, journal, explore Sedona, or independently schedule a healing or wellness experience that speaks to you.
We'll return to our shared home and gather again through food, reflection, conversation, and collective intention.
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NURTURE & INTEGRATE
We'll begin slowly with movement and reflection before heading out on a scenic hike, followed by a private salt-room experience guided by Kayla.
Our final full day creates space to notice what has emerged, what our bodies are communicating, and what we want to nurture as we return to our daily lives.
Tonight, we'll go to a restaurant for a celebratory final dinner together.
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CARRY IT HOME
Our final morning turns toward integration.
After breakfast, we'll gather to reflect on what we've experienced and identify the practices, awareness, and connections we want to carry forward.
Then, we'll travel together to Phoenix for our journeys home.
This is a tentative itinerary. Specific hikes, experiences, and timing may shift based on weather, group needs, and the natural unfolding of our time together.
Ground. Practice. Nurture.
Listen to the wisdom already within you.
Five days among Sedona's red rocks.
Movement. Nature. Rest. Shared meals. Intentional practice. Meaningful connection.
An invitation to experience what it feels like to nurture your body's innate healing capacity and carry that awareness home with you.
Feel called to slow down and reconnect with your body
Want to practice listening inward and responding to your body's wisdom
Are curious about the relationship between awareness, rest, connection, and healing
Feel restored by nature and want to experience it intentionally
Crave meaningful connection and authentic time with others
Are open to somatic awareness, yoga, mindfulness, reflection, and intuitive practices
Appreciate a balance of guided experiences and spacious personal time
Want practices and awareness you can carry into everyday life
Sense a quiet inner yes reading these words
No previous experience with yoga, somatic practices, or meditation is needed. Come with curiosity and an openness to the experience.
This experience is for you if you…
What’s Included & Pricing
Everything you need for a supported, meaningful journey before, during, and after Sedona.
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Dates
February 11-15, 2027
5 days/4 nights in Sedona, AZ
What’s Included
Four nights in our shared Sedona retreat home
Shared-room accommodations
Transportation between Phoenix and Sedona
Ground transportation throughout the retreat
Welcome dinner
Final celebration dinner
Groceries and shared meals at our retreat home
Yoga, movement, and embodied practices facilitated by Kayla
Somatic awareness and mindfulness experiences
Group hikes and nature immersion
Private group salt-room experience
Collective intention and reflection practices
Pre-departure group gathering in Fargo-Moorhead
Post-retreat integration gathering in Fargo-Moorhead
Group coordination and on-site facilitation
What’s Not Included
Airfare to Phoenix
Travel insurance
Individually selected healing or wellness experiences
Personal purchases and expenses
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Standard Shared Room Rate: $2,250 until November 1, 2026
Deposit: $500 (non-refundable)
Private Room Upgrade: +$600 (limited availability)
Payment
Early registration rate of $2,250 available until Nov. 1
Regular rate of $2,450 after Nov. 1 until the final registration deadline of Dec. 1
Structured monthly plan is available.
Full program balance is due by January 1 to prepare for our February departure.
A minimum of 5 participants is required to operate the retreat.
Spaces are limited to 12 people to preserve the intimacy of our group experience.
Your deposit secures your place.
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Arrival & Departure
We'll arrive and depart through Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX).
Our group will gather at the Phoenix airport before traveling to Sedona together. We'll provide suggested arrival and departure times to registered participants to coordinate group transportation.
Airfare
Airfare is not included. You'll receive flight recommendations and timing guidance to support your planning.
Ground Transportation
Transportation between Phoenix and Sedona and for scheduled retreat activities is included.
Travel Insurance
Travel insurance is strongly encouraged.
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Shared Retreat Home
We'll select our Sedona home based on the size of our final group, so we can choose a space that supports shared living, movement, rest, and connection.
Expect comfortable accommodations, inviting communal spaces, a kitchen where we'll prepare meals together, and room to gather for our practices and conversations.
Room Types
Shared rooms are included.
You do not need to know someone before you come. Room assignments will be thoughtfully coordinated among retreat participants.
Private room upgrade: +$600
Private rooms are limited and available based on the configuration of our final retreat home.
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This retreat is intentional, spacious, and embodied.
Our time in Sedona will include hiking on natural desert terrain with rocks, uneven surfaces, and elevation changes. We'll move at a pace that creates time to notice the landscape, connect with our bodies, and experience the journey together.
Yoga and movement practices will be adaptable and centered on awareness.
Participants should feel comfortable walking on uneven natural terrain.
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Our Journey Begins Together
We'll gather in Fargo-Moorhead before departure to meet one another, begin exploring the themes of the Embodied Wisdom retreat, set intentions for our time together, and prepare for the journey.
This early gathering begins building the connection and group coherence we'll carry with us to Sedona.
By the time we arrive, we'll already feel familiar with the people sharing the experience.
Carry It Home
The retreat ends. The practice continues.
Our time in Sedona gives us space to experience and practice another way of being. Returning home invites us to carry that awareness into the rhythms of everyday life.
What helped you feel grounded?
What changed when you listened to your body?
What supported rest, connection, or a sense of well-being?
What practices do you want to carry forward?
After returning home, we'll gather again to reconnect and reflect on what has continued to unfold. Together, we'll explore how the awareness and practices you experienced in Sedona can continue to nurture your everyday life.
If you feel the pull, reserve your space
by Nov 1, 2026.
Early registration rate until Nov. 1. Final deadline is Dec. 1.
Limited to 12 to preserve intimacy and integrity.
This journey is held by experienced facilitators who guide the embodied practices and group experience.
Tanya
Retreat designer and facilitator rooted in experiential journeys and meaning-rich travel. Tanya guides the journey's arc with depth, grounding, and intentionality, weaving cultural context and embodied practices throughout the path. Learn more about Tanya.
Your Facilitators
Kayla
As an integrative nurse at Sanford, Kayla brings an approach to wellness rooted in the relationship between body awareness, movement, mindfulness, and healing.
Throughout the retreat, she will guide somatic and mindful practices that invite you to become curious about what your body is communicating.
Her approach encourages us to practice listening to the body, explore the conditions that support its innate capacity for healing, and experience what it feels like to nurture those conditions in daily life.
