experiencelifemag.com Print › | Back › Spiritual Exploration: Retreat and Heal, Sedona, Ariz. Retreats also provide time for reflection and personal transformation. By Laurel Kallenbach November 2009 Hypnotherapist and Reiki master Annie B. Lawrence, PhD, runs Retreat and Heal — located near Sedona’s spectacular desert red rocks that are reputed to be healing energy vortexes — with her husband, Jerry, a shamanic healer. “Our retreats are for people who are tired of being stuck in old habits and want to connect with the healing energy within themselves,” says Lawrence. Retreat and Heal takes a specialized spiritual, energy-healing approach to reclaiming physical vitality and inner peace by blending spa services, hypnotherapy and spiritual Sedona vortex tours. At the Lawrence’s small center (maximum four guests at a time), you receive one-on-one personalized spiritual work with healers and coaches. You can also choose from 10 combinations of spiritual treatments and exercises, including one- to seven-day packages such as the Personal Healing Retreat (for releasing habits such as binge eating, smoking and overwork), the Wellness Retreat (daily meditation and guided hikes, plus a blend of body-mind-spirit therapies) and the Couple’s Retreat (for deepening your heart connection and passion). Christa Scalies, 40, of Wilmington, Del., came to Retreat and Heal in 2006 to recover from grief after a friend’s suicide and the end of a long-term love relationship. For four days, she and Lawrence worked together, using Reiki (a Japanese system of energy healing), medicine wheels and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), in which emotional trauma is released by tapping points on the body that correspond to energy fields. Although Scalies was previously unfamiliar with these treatments, Lawrence recommended them as ways to help her move through intense emotion. “I’d never heard of Reiki or EFT before, but I was in the pit of depression, so I kept an open mind,” recalls Scalies. “I had a huge awakening; the experience gave me a new sense of who I am and confidence to build the life I always dreamed of.” Lawrence directed Scalies to write down everything she wished for inside a blank circle drawn on a piece of paper. Outside the circle she wrote what she didn’t want in her life. “Doing this made me realize I spent a lot of time focusing on things I hate, so when I returned home, I started implementing my dreams instead,” she says. That dream fulfillment included founding Giggle On, a Web site that encourages laughter, while working to eliminate the stigma associated with mental illness and suicide.  Retreat and Heal, Sedona, Ariz.: Three-day Inner Peace Retreat ($945) includes accommodations, two healing-energy sessions, one sacred vortex hike/meditation, one card reading, one EFT/hypnotherapy session or life coaching. 928-282-5237; www.retreatandheal.com

Spiritual Exploration: Retreat and Heal, Sedona, Ariz.

Retreats also provide time for reflection and personal transformation.

Hypnotherapist and Reiki master Annie B. Lawrence, PhD, runs Retreat and Heal — located near Sedona’s spectacular desert red rocks that are reputed to be healing energy vortexes — with her husband, Jerry, a shamanic healer. “Our retreats are for people who are tired of being stuck in old habits and want to connect with the healing energy within themselves,” says Lawrence.

Retreat and Heal takes a specialized spiritual, energy-healing approach to reclaiming physical vitality and inner peace by blending spa services, hypnotherapy and spiritual Sedona vortex tours. At the Lawrence’s small center (maximum four guests at a time), you receive one-on-one personalized spiritual work with healers and coaches.

You can also choose from 10 combinations of spiritual treatments and exercises, including one- to seven-day packages such as the Personal Healing Retreat (for releasing habits such as binge eating, smoking and overwork), the Wellness Retreat (daily meditation and guided hikes, plus a blend of body-mind-spirit therapies) and the Couple’s Retreat (for deepening your heart connection and passion).

Christa Scalies, 40, of Wilmington, Del., came to Retreat and Heal in 2006 to recover from grief after a friend’s suicide and the end of a long-term love relationship. For four days, she and Lawrence worked together, using Reiki (a Japanese system of energy healing), medicine wheels and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), in which emotional trauma is released by tapping points on the body that correspond to energy fields. Although Scalies was previously unfamiliar with these treatments, Lawrence recommended them as ways to help her move through intense emotion.

“I’d never heard of Reiki or EFT before, but I was in the pit of depression, so I kept an open mind,” recalls Scalies. “I had a huge awakening; the experience gave me a new sense of who I am and confidence to build the life I always dreamed of.”

Lawrence directed Scalies to write down everything she wished for inside a blank circle drawn on a piece of paper. Outside the circle she wrote what she didn’t want in her life. “Doing this made me realize I spent a lot of time focusing on things I hate, so when I returned home, I started implementing my dreams instead,” she says. That dream fulfillment included founding Giggle On, a Web site that encourages laughter, while working to eliminate the stigma associated with mental illness and suicide. 

Retreat and Heal, Sedona, Ariz.: Three-day Inner Peace Retreat ($945) includes accommodations, two healing-energy sessions, one sacred vortex hike/meditation, one card reading, one EFT/hypnotherapy session or life coaching. 928-282-5237; www.retreatandheal.com

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