Sedona Spirit Yoga & Hiking

Kate was such a wonderful guide. My friend Jackie and I were provided with history of the region, the plants, environment and the vortex energies at Bell Rock and the surrounding vortexes. As we chatted and took pictures of the beautiful scenery, we hiked up to a flat spot on Bell Rock for meditation and a custom yoga session tailored to our abilities. It was a truly relaxing, educational and spiritual experience. It was so much more than what I thought it would be and I learned so much! It was a once-​in-​a-​lifetime experience and I highly recommend it to ANYONE!!!

Girls Trip 2012 landed us in Sedona. Woo hooo!!! We definitely needed some healing (literally inside and out) and yoga and hiking sounded like a hecka awesome idea. I teach group fitness classes such as Zumba and cardio interval classes but yoga is something that I have a hard time getting into. I don’t know… sometimes I find myself falling asleep in some of yoga classes and sometimes I just don’t want to go to smelly hot yoga. Terrible I know. I researched yoga in Sedona and somehow found this website. It mentioned the vortex and what it was and how you could hike and do yoga in the area. Still don’t know if I believe in the vortex but hey… I’m down to try anything once!
Johanna (Maheshvari) Mosca the owner has some impressive yoga honors on her website so this hike/​yoga thing sounded promising. The website itself is kinda confusing to navigate through but I ended up choosing the 3-​hour vortex hike at Bell Rock for the 3 of us. The whole thing started at 7:30am before it got too hot. And boy does Sedona get hotter than I don’t know what in the afternoon! We stayed at the L’Auberge De Sedona so it was not far to the trail. Andrea was our hike leader and she was awesome. She is a seasoned yoga instructor who has been teaching for at least 13 years. The hike to Bell Rock was super gentle (my friends don’t hike often and found this easy) with only a few tricky areas and Andrea gave us a history of Sedona and the vortex. She also talked about plants that were indigenous to the area. We also meditated prior to the hike (and I really don’t meditate) and I found myself loving it. Then the best part, we did yoga on Bell Rock and it was amazing. We did sun salutations… well towards actual SUN! Living in Seattle has deprived me of sun so to me this was friggin’ fantastic. We did Hatha Yoga fit for all levels. Andrea really made me want to do more yoga and I honestly felt like I needed this trip. There were times when I was meditating that I felt «healed».
I can’t wait to take my husband on this hike/​vortex tour. I would definitely recommend this to anyone!