The Self-Renewal Retreat is an opportunity for you to get more deeply in touch with your inner self and listen to your own wisdom. The retreat will introduce you to techniques for emotional clearing, centering, and meditation. It will heighten your sense of oneness and love through Kripalu Yoga--gentle Hatha Yoga of self-acceptance, and one-on-one Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy (PRYT). Johanna, has extensive training as a yoga instructor and PRYT yoga therapist, and Level I training as a Sedona Method emotional release facilitator. Her commitment is to enhance your personal growth and guide you to a heart-opening transformation that will further you along your chosen path.

Relax all tension
                           Release the Past
                                              Receive Nurturing
                                                                    Renew your Self

• Take a time-out for a few days of fun
• Enjoy yoga and being close to the ocean
• Stretch your body, mind & soul with a nurturing coach
• Let go with the Sedona Method emotional release technique
• Learn to still your mind in meditation
• Release tension with relaxing yoga therapy and essential oils
• Take home a personalized yoga practice tailored to your body
• Enhance your aliveness and discover what's calling you next
• Experience a heart-opening transformation! 

Flights and Meals:

Flights are into San Diego Airport or Carlsbad Airport. You will be welcomed at the airport and taken immediately to your lodging in Oceanside, CA, unless you choose to visit the ocean or the meditation gardens first.  No need to rent a car! Transportation to all activities is provided.

Upon receipt of your registration payment, we will discuss possible retreat plans. When you arrive, we will follow your plan, letting it flow naturally as we focus on each moment.  All meals are provided with organic vegetables and no dairy. You will have a choice of a totally vegetarian diet or a diet with some fish and chicken. I look forward to welcoming you and sharing a heart-opening journey.

Namaste, Maheshvari

ESSENCE
January 2001
Sojourns for the Soul
Essence Magazine sent Author Akissi Britton to attend a 3-Day Sedona Spirit Yoga & Hiking Retreat following a stressful time in her life. For their Lifestyle and Travel Section, she was to participate in and write about the retreat experience firsthand.

In her article Akissi wrote—“After settling in, Johanna led my two fellow participants and me in a guided meditation. As I inhaled and exhaled deeply, visualizing my breath entering and leaving my body, I imagined the defensive barriers I’d erected for survival slowly crumbling.  In the stillness that our meditation encouraged, I began once again to hear my inner voice whisper that everything would be okay.” 

Akissi went on to describe the positive impact of the vortex yoga hikes, a healing didgeridoo concert and a Native American sweat lodge. She ended her article saying—“It wasn’t until later that I realized how carefully planned the retreat had been. Each activity took me further and further, as if to say, “Now you’re ready for a little more.”  And I am ready—ready for a new year of love and healing.”

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VALLEY GUIDE
Summer 2005
Soothe Your Soul
Northern Arizona Single-Day Getaways to Rejuvenate the Spirit
Author Amy Abrams was happy to spend a day with us doing research for her article. She wrote about how she benefited from a psychic reading and three-hour vortex yoga hike with our Sedona Spirit Yoga & Hiking team. About her yoga hike, she commented that she was “impressed with the heightened vitality from postures at this exquisite vortex site…and the beauty and power of this sacred spot.”

Amy’s long Sedona adventure ended with a late yoga therapy appointment with Johanna,  about which she wrote—“Johanna Mosca was eager to facilitate my spiritual growth with a one-on-one session in Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy—a combination of classical yoga and mind-body psychology that promotes a powerful release of tension from emotional issues held within the body.  With Mosca assisting me through yoga postures and guided breathing with the aid of specifically chosen aromatherapy oils, I release old, deeply stored body memories.  This is a profound process providing valuable insights and dramatic release of tensions form a difficult period in my life. I am so tired following the session that it is not until the next morning that I realize how light, peaceful, and free I feel. Now weeks later, I am enjoying the positive results of clearing deeply rooted negative emotion.”

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February 2003
SPUR Magazine wrote about a vortex yoga hike with Sedona Spirit Yoga & Hiking led by Johanna.  They displayed photos of Johanna leading yoga and meditation at Bell Rock vortex. 

The author wrote about how relaxing and pleasurable the experience was and the beauty and magnificence of the vortex site.

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SHAPE Magazine
July 1998
Head Trips
Writing about a dozen “Holidays for Body and Soul,” author Katy Koontz included Sedona Spirit Yoga & Hiking as one of the spiritual vacations that “have a more lasting impact than your typical see-all-the-sights or lie-on-the-beach getaway that leaves you will little more than some souvenirs and a tan.”

Recommending our retreats, she wrote—“Adventure with Sedona Spirit Yoga includes American Indian spirituality rituals (sweat lodges, medicine wheels, etc.), plus daily hike to power vortexes in Arizona’s red rock country.”

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