Sedona Spirit Yoga, Healings & Vortex Journeys
For more than thirty years, our Sedona Spirit Yoga Vortex Journey team has been welcoming guests to experience yoga amid red rock vortexes, enjoy a nurturing break from everyday life, and access greater peace within. Your leader, Johanna Mosca, is a longtime, expert Sedona guide, who is deeply connected with the sacred land and vortex energy. She has earned over 1,400 hours of Yoga, Meditation, and Shamanic Medicine Certifications in her quest for learning and teaching. Johanna’s Sedona Spirit Yoga & Vortex Journeys has won the Best-of-Sedona Award for seven consecutive years, from 2019 to 2025.
Johanna Maheshvari gives her 100% best from a loving, healing heart space. She tunes into your energy and your requests to make your Sedona journey perfect for you and tailors your vortex experience to your pace. Johanna’s team offers gentle, in-depth Yoga and meditation instruction indoors and outdoors. Her Yoga at Sacred Sites journeys offer short, gentle nature walks to nearby sites with awesome views, the best-known sacred places for meditation and prayer. While the photo above shows gals celebrating a bridal party adventure in Sedona, know that we very much welcome and appreciate our Yoga-Men and co-ed parties of 4 or more.
Johanna Maheshvari offers each guests in-depth Yoga instruction, Yoga Nidra Relaxation, Shamanic Chakra Energy Clearing Illuminations, and life coaching. She is also available to help you achieve greater peace and clarity of mind in a very freeing PSYCH-K® session. Call Johanna at 928-282-9900 if you would like to set up a custom vortex journey or retreat for your group.
PLEASE NOTE:
We offer GENTLE, in-depth Yoga & Meditation and vortex nature walks & moderate hikes.
We do NOT offer high-intensity power Yoga or buns-of-steel aerobic hiking.
About Sedona Spirit Yoga, Healing & Vortex Journeys
Sedona Spirit Yoga Vortex Journeys has received glowing endorsements from past guests who tell us that their Sedona yoga experience with us was “life-altering.” For our vortex journeys, it’s not just about hiking trails, as our hikes are gentle nature walks intended to slow you down so you can “smell the roses” and feel the energy. Our focus is not mastering Yoga Poses either, though we enjoy stretching in a variety of Yoga modalities with proper alignment.
Our commitment is to help you open up to access the vortex energy of the area and use it for your personal spiritual growth, healing and peace of mind. To learn more about Sedona’s vortex energy, visit Johanna’s “What is a Vortex?” Our focus is on nurturing and self-care. Johanna specializes in PSYCH-K® Belief Shift, Shamanic Medicine Chakra Clearing, and Yoga Nidra Meditation to help you transform any limiting beliefs in your subconscious mind or energy blocks in your body and emotional field. Johanna and her expert, longtime assistant hike leader, Roxanne Wessel, guide you to look into what you would like to release and bring forth and helps you center yourself in the present moment.
Johanna Maheshvari at Rachel’s Knoll
Sedona Spirit Yoga & Vortex Journeys has attracted highly acclaimed international publicity from many authors who have attended our spiritual retreats. Johanna has been the proud recipient of the Best of Sedona Award for Yoga Instruction for seven consecutive years, from 2019 to 2025. Please do take a look at the International Publicity and endorsements we have received for our spiritual retreats and Yoga led at Sedona’s sacred vortex sites. Our intention is to have all of our guests “Relax, Release, Receive and Renew” as you engage with spiritual Sedona and the peace of Yoga and meditation. Join us for a nurturing, heart-opening experience.
Johanna leads vortex journeys, with or without Yoga, and retreats with colleagues, who are veteran yoga teacher tour guides. We are committed to guide you in the most outstanding and memorable Sedona vortex experience! Our free-lance tour leaders are longtime Sedona residents, avid hikers, knowledgeable Sedona guides, plant experts, and certified Yoga instructors–exploring their own spiritual journeys.
Johanna Maheshvari is a longtime practitioner of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy and has been leading Yoga Nidra relaxation sessions for groups and individuals since 2015. In August, 2017, Maheshvari earned her final Level III Certification in Richard Miller’s Yoga Nidra relaxation technique to relieve stress and PTSD. (Click here for more About Johanna.) In 2019, Johanna became certified by Alberto Villoldo’s Four Winds Academy in Shamanic Energy Medicine, whereupon she began doing private sessions in Shamanic Energy Clearing to remove any blocks to well-being and healing. And since 2023, Johanna has been a PSYCH-K® Facilitator, helping partners transform limiting beliefs. On our sacred site tours, our guides offer a unique Clearing Meditation, designed by Johanna, to have our guests let go of the past, access greater inner stillness, set intentions for the future, get in touch with the vortex energy, open up to life’s messages, and enjoy loving the present moment. We invite you to join us for a heart-opening, soul-expanding sacred experience.
Sedona Spirit Yoga’s Retreat Hike Leader–Roxanne
Johanna has been equally blessed to have Roxanne Wessel share her exuberant energy to guide our guests on red rock Yoga journeys. Roxanne has been affiliated with Sedona Spirit Yoga for over 15 years, working freelance to lead occasional retreat hikes and vortex journeys with continued success.
Roxanne discovered Yoga almost 30 years ago and has been teaching a variety of classes to all ages in the community. Her certifications include: 200hr hatha yoga, multi Zumba® formats, Pilates, ACE Personal Trainer, Silver Sneakers and more. She enjoys the continuing education that comes with being in the health and fitness industry.
Roxanne is a YOUTHing advocate, incorporating her Young Living Essential Oils’ rejuvenating Raindrop Technique and soothing ‘oil change’ sessions, Lifewave Stem Cell technologies, and good outdoor living.
Roxanne says: “I love to experience the playful richness of life. I invite you to join me as we do just that~ Let’s rock hop through this amazing landscape, get relaxed, inspired and take it out into the world. On your hike, you will discover the trailside plants and edibles, explore the vortex energy, and maybe even hug a rock as she helps you access the sweet and playful magic of Sedona’s vortexes.” For many years, our guests have expressed great appreciation for Roxanne’s exhilarating vortex Yoga journeys and the loving energy she shares.
Sedona Spirit Yoga’s Retreat Caterer, Riverann
Joining our team to nurture our bodies will be Riverann. She specializes in catering events for empowering workshops in the Sedona area. You’ll delight in healthy, fresh, flavorful, and well-balanced meals designed to support your body on the journey. Menus are thoughtful, considering the season, and what’s most satisfying at any given time of the year and Riverann makes sure to honor everyone’s dietary restrictions.
Riverann is also the Host & Producer of the spiritual podcast “Heart Sense.” It has attracted listeners in 50 countries and 400 cities worldwide. Episodes are designed to connect people to their inner wisdom for strengthening and opening the heart. At approximately 30 minutes, they fit into almost any schedule. Listen to Heart Sense on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music or a dozen other podcast platforms. And come enjoy Riverann’s heartfelt cooking at one of our upcoming Sedona Spirit Yoga full moon empowerment retreats–Nov. 6-9, 2025 or Jan. 1-4, 2026.
Retreat Guests Doing Triple Standing Stick on a Vortex Plateau
Sedona YogaLife Retreats and Yoga at Sacred Sites have received international acclaim for over 20 years. Featured three times in the Yoga Journal, the latest in 2011, twice in Shape Magazine, also recommended in Hooked on the Outdoors, Your Health, Living Fit, New Age, the Valley Guide and the travel section of the NY Daily News. Johanna’s tours have been enjoyed and praised by authors of a variety of international magazines including Elle, Spur, Frau, Frontline, plus an article with a centerfold of Johanna meditating on Bell Rock in NEO Magazine. We hosted authors who attended our retreats and wrote first-hand articles for Arizona Highways, Essence, Alternative Medicine and Awareness Magazines. Our retreats were listed #1 in Sunset Magazine’s article “Ten Inspirational Retreats,” filmed for MTV, Channel 3: Good Morning, Arizona, and featured on Al Roker’s Good Morning America, July 2013, and other TV shows. Click here to read more about our international publicity YogaLife Retreats to see photos of 20+ years of retreats, to learn more about retreat leader, Johanna Maheshvari Mosca, PhD, and view her Cultivate Contentment book interview with Fox TV on YouTube.
AYA Featured Teacher–August through December 2011: Johanna Maheshvari Mosca, Ph.D., was honored by being chosen the Featured Teacher by the Arizona Yoga Association for its fall online newsletter. Learn more about the AYA and see Johanna’s photo, bio and offerings.
Also, Johanna and her team are proud to announce that Sedona Spirit Yoga, Healings & Vortex Journeys has been the recipient of the Best-of-Sedona Award for Yoga Instruction for seven years in a row–2019 through 2025.
Popular Travel Concerns for Retreats
Flights? Please fly into Phoenix International Airport (PHX). While you could fly into Flagstaff, which is closer, there is a long delay waiting for two planes and extra cost, so it is not advisable.
Car Rental? Sedona is an easy 2-hour drive from the Phoenix Airport. It’s helpful to rent a car so you can enjoy driving about town at your own convenience, but not necessary. Airport Shuttle of Phoenix (480-710-3441) offers a 10% round trip discount if you book online (use promo code ONLINE) at airportshuttleofphoenix.com.
Meals? Most of our retreats are Activities Only to give guests the chance to enjoy their favorite style of dining.
Restaurants? For a list of recommended restaurants, please Google the area, “Sedona,” plus the word “Restaurants.” This is a link to restaurants near the Creative Life Center: http://www.sedonamonthly.com/restaurants/sr-179-south-of-the-y/.
Drinking? Our YogaLife Retreat is about expanding consciousness and inner clarity. To feel the vortex energy and the depth of Yoga and Meditation as a sacred experience, it is best to not consume any alcohol and drugs during your retreat. If you choose to enjoy a drink at the end of the program day, which usually ends around 6 pm (or 9 pm after full moon ceremonies), as adults, you have the option to choose to have refreshments after program hours or at the final celebration on the last evening. We hope you will join us for a deeply moving experience of inner peace.