October 2 – 8, 2004
7 Days / 6 nights

Discover - Learn - Explore
Expand your horizons with a learning vacation!

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Choose Optional Sweat Lodge which is designed to represent the womb of Mother Earth, a place to go for purification and rebirth. Unwind by the pool and relax in the Jacuzzi while gazing at the red rocks and blue sky. Learn all about Native American healing traditions including medicinal qualities of plants, how they were gathered and used for healing. Go Shopping at special outposts and Tlaquepaque and shop for beautiful jewelry and art.

Itinerary

Oct. 2 - Day 1 - Arrival Phoenix
Arrive Sky Harbor Airport and take shuttle to your hotel. Relax, then enjoy the Welcome Dinner and Opening Ceremony.
Meal Included: Welcome Dinner

Oct. 3 - Day 2 - Sedona - Sightseeing
Board your private coach bound for Sedona, stopping at breathtaking scenic points and overlooks on the way. Have a lovely lunch in Sedona. Check into the lovely Orchards Inn, adjacent to L’Auberge de Sedona resort. Visit the famous Chapel of the Holy Cross, perched high within the red rocks overlooking Bell Rock. Travel to Airport Mesa and capture the spectacular red rock views of Sedona.
Meal Included: Lunch
Dinner: On own

Oct. 4 - Day 3 - Sedona - Fun and Learning
This morning you will gather together and make your very own Medicine Bag. Then, go out to a beautiful park by the Oak Creek River and enjoy a picnic lunch. Join the plant walk with our experts and identify medicinal
plants. You’ll learn special plant-gathering ceremonies and how plants are prepared and directed for healing. Afternoon free.
Meal Included: Lunch
Dinner: On own

Oct. 5 - Day 4 - Sedona - Ceremony and Relaxation
In the morning, you’ll gather for a traditional Medicine Wheel Ceremony, which can be a powerful, transformational experience. The Medicine Wheel Ceremony involves the four directions, the medicine animals, ancestors and spirit guides. The Medicine Wheel speaks to all of the cycles of life and may reveal important messages—especially how one can better understand the forward-progress on the physical, spiritual and emotional plane. With help from this sacred hoop, one may overcome challenges. Grow and move on the wheel of life.
Lunch: On own
Afternoon free for relaxation and fun.
Evening: Choose to participate in an optional Sweat Lodge in the sacred ancient tradition of the Lakota People.
The Sweat Lodge was designed to represent the womb of the Mother Earth, a place to go to pray for purification and rebirth. (You will be well advised as to what is involved in the optional Sweat Lodge, and even if you only wish to come and sit by the fire and pray, you will be just as much a part of the ceremony as those in the Sweat Lodge.) Important: Women: Bring a long casual dress that you don’t mind sitting on the ground in. Men: Bring bathing suit or shorts.

Oct. 6 - Day 5 - Hopi Mesas - Experience and Discovery
You’ll be transported through time as you visit the Hopi Mesas. You’ll journey past the Painted Desert and the Historic Cameron Trading Post. Hopi Elders will greet you and you will receive a personal invitation into the homes of the Hopi People for a special ceremony and lunch. You’ll learn about the ancient culture of the Hopi People.
Return to Sedona.
Meal Included: Lunch
Dinner: On own

Oct. 7 - Day 6 - Sedona
Enjoy a morning of leisure, then tour around Sedona. As you bid farewell to this magical place at the Farewell Dinner and Closing Ceremony, you’re bound to be enriched by the new special relationship you’ve found with yourself, and others.
Meal Included: Farewell Dinner
Lunch: On own

Oct. 8 - Day 7 - Sedona - Phoenix
Phoenix Book your return flight after 12:30 PM.
Morning departure for the Phoenix airport. Board your flight bound for your home city.

Schedule Subject to Change.

Only $1599.00 per person
Land only. Price based on sharing a TWB/DWB.
Single room supplement: $499.00

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Call: 1-800-874-1996 with any questions.

INCLUDED:
HOTEL: 6 nights hotel accommodation, based on shared DWB basis.
Phoenix: Hilton Airport Hotel
Sedona: Orchards Inn with unlimited access to the beautiful L’Auberge de Sedona
Porterage. Hotel taxes and service charges.
ALL TRANSPORTATION AS PER ITINERARY.
MEALS: Three lunches and two dinners.
FEES, ETC: All entrance fees and materials included with exception of Sweat Lodge.
ADDITIONAL: Traditionally, the Sweat Lodge is a community offering. Donations of all kinds, financial, wood, herbs for ceremony, water, will be accepted to keep the lodge running. It is also custom to feast after ceremony, so a dish of food would gladly be accepted as well. Gifts to the members of the Hopi village. Money—for meals not included, and SHOPPING! Note: Tips will be collected for guides, drivers.