October 25–30, 2026 · Sedona, Arizona
The Wisdom of SedonaSedona Women’s Retreat
If you took away all the noise, would you know where you want to go next?
Accommodation, transfers and the full programme included
Leksa · creator of 130+ retreats worldwide
I built the four days as a single path
I created this journey in Sedona for people who need more than a beautiful trip: who need space to stop, feel themselves again, and hear what they actually want.
Open
See more clearly
Choose what to create next
The nature of Sedona, bodywork and breathwork, kundalini yoga, hypnomeditation, sound healing, ceremony with a shaman, and places that become part of the path itself.
Sound familiar?
You know how to make decisions. You know how to take care of other people. You know how to keep moving forward even when it’s hard.
But sometimes you catch yourself somewhere else:
I understand all of it. But what I want right now, that’s not so clear any more.
You keep doing what used to work, and it no longer feels the way it did.
You may want change without yet knowing what kind.
And maybe you don’t need one more piece of advice. Maybe you need space where you can finally hear your own.
The place
Sedona
Some places you want to see. Others you want to stop in.
Red rock. Enormous space. Silence. A landscape that physically changes the scale of everything around you.
On this journey Sedona isn’t scenery. It becomes part of the path.
4,350 ftabove sea level
2 hoursfrom Phoenix
Who guides it
Leksa · Amrita Devi Kaur
Behind me are a retreat centre in Bali and thousands of participants.
For over 14 years I’ve been studying and combining practices that work with the body, with attention and with state: kundalini yoga, breathwork and bodywork, hypnosis, meditation, sound healing and other tools. I don’t collect practices for the sake of quantity. I build them into a space where you can stop, feel yourself, and hear what the ordinary pace of life drowns out.
Kundalini yoga teacher
A tradition that works with breath, movement and sound together rather than with postures alone. I teach it adapted to whoever is in the room, so no previous experience is needed.
Sound healer
Working with singing bowls, gongs and voice, where sound is felt in the body as much as it is heard. It asks nothing of you but to lie down and let it reach whatever is holding on.
Hypnotherapist
Guided work in a deeply relaxed state, where attention turns inward and the usual mental noise drops away. You stay awake and in control throughout: hypnosis is focused attention, not sleep.
Art therapist
Letting the hands say what words have not found yet. No skill is involved and nothing is judged; what matters is what surfaces while you are making it.
Bodywork therapist
Hands-on work with the tension the body stores and will not put down on its own. Emotion settles into muscle, and it often lets go through the body before the mind has finished explaining it.
Retreat centre in Bali
I run my own centre there, and it is where most of what I know about holding a group was learned. A retreat is logistics as much as it is practice, and that part is not improvised.
14+ years of practice
Long enough to have dropped a great deal along the way. What is left is the small number of practices that reliably work, and some sense of which one a particular day is asking for.
What you get
What you’ll take with you
Ground under your feet
Learning to quiet the mind and bring yourself back to a resourced state, through nature and through breath.
Old fears and resentments, set down
Releasing the tension you have been carrying, and clearing space for new decisions.
Reserves you had forgotten you had
Learning to feel your own energy and spend it on your life, instead of losing it.
The body lets go
Through kundalini yoga, breathwork, bodywork and the Sweat Lodge.
Your real voice, audible again
And with it, a clearer sense of what you actually want.
Clarity, and the strength for the next step
Without the noise inside, and without anyone else’s expectations.
Who it’s for
Who this journey is for
If you’ve been on retreats before
You know the value of this kind of experience, and you’re ready now to hear yourself more deeply and see where to move next.
If this is your first retreat
No experience with the practices or with retreats is needed. I create a guided space where you can go through this at your own pace.
If you’re on the edge of a decision
When you already sense that something has to change, but can’t yet put your finger on what.
If you need a pause
Not to run away from your life, but to step out of its usual rhythm, hear yourself, and come back to it with a different sense of direction.
Practices
What we’ll be doing
Not just practising.
Every element is built into the journey’s overall architecture rather than standing on its own.
Breathwork
Conscious breathing changes your state faster than any words can: it settles anxiety, dissolves the tension held in the muscles, and brings to the surface whatever has been asking for attention. We work with calming techniques and with more intense ones, always guided, and always with the right to stop at any moment.
Kundalini yoga
Dynamic sequences of breath, movement and sound that bring the body out of its numbness and give the energy in it somewhere to move. The practice is gentle and adapted to your level: no previous experience is needed, and everything is explained as we go.
Bodywork practices
The body keeps what hasn’t been lived through: old fears, resentments and strain settle into the muscles and into the breath. Gentle hands-on work and directed attention let those holds release, and with them goes the kind of tiredness that sleep doesn’t touch.
Ceremony with a shaman
Darkness, fire-heated stones, steam, breath and the Earth. One of our days holds the Sweat Lodge with M.H. Black Wolf, who carries the traditions of his people in his own history and his own path.
Hypnomeditation
A gentle descent into an altered state of consciousness, where your own voice becomes audible instead of other people’s expectations. Answers often come from there to questions that seem unsolvable in an ordinary state.
Sound healing
Singing bowls, gong and voice work through vibration, bypassing the mind: the body relaxes on its own, with no effort and no control. All you do is lie down and listen. It is the most passive and often the deepest practice of the journey.
Rituals at Sedona’s places of power
Bell Rock, Cathedral Rock, Boynton Canyon, Airport Mesa, Birthing Cave, West Fork. We go to each one for a different reason, and we practise there rather than only look.
Energy practices
Learning to feel your own energy and spend it on your life, instead of losing it. Held in the house and at the sites, as part of the days rather than a separate class.
The frames are from Lexa’s past weeks. Sedona has not happened yet.
The ceremony
Sweat Lodge · a return to the source
Some ancient practices ask nothing of your understanding. You step in, and you let them do their work.
On one of our days in Sedona a Sweat Lodge is waiting: darkness, fire-heated stones, steam, breath and the Earth. A space where everything outside you gradually goes quiet, and what is left is only what is genuinely yours.
It matters to me a great deal who we meet these traditions through. In Sedona we will be joined by M.H. Black Wolf, someone who does not simply know the traditions of his people but carries them in himself, in his own history and his own path.
It was in the hardest stretches of his life that he heard the voice of his ancestors again. That voice returned him to the traditions of his people and set him on the Red Road, the road back to his roots, and home.
The Sweat Lodge is a chance to feel connected again. To the body. To the Earth. To yourself. To the kind of inner strength you sometimes don’t have to go looking for: it is enough to clear away whatever is stopping you feeling it.
And that is the experience I want to live through with you in Sedona.
This is not just a trip to Sedona
You could come to Sedona on your own, see the same rocks, walk the same trails and take hundreds of photographs.
But I didn’t build this journey as a tour of beautiful places.
The route already exists: every location, every practice, every day continues the one before it.
All that’s left is to live it.
Where we go
Places of power
You don’t just visit these places. You live them as points along one inner route.
Bell Rock
Strength and grounding.
Cathedral Rock
Opening the heart.
Boynton Canyon
Balance and inner harmony.
Airport Mesa
Perspective and clarity.
Birthing Cave
The symbol of a new self being born.
West Fork Trail
Gentle integration.
Four days
The programme, day by day
Day 1 Grounding and strength
Bell Rock → Cathedral Rock
First, slow down. Come back into the body. Feel your footing.
Then open space for what has been asking to come out for a long time.
Day 2 Opening
Boynton Canyon → Subway Cave
Balance, silence, inner harmony, and the path continuing.
A day that makes more room to feel yourself, and to feel what is actually happening inside.
Day 3 Clarity
Airport Mesa → Birthing Cave
Rise above your usual vantage point. Look at your life differently.
Feel the possibility of a new self.
Day 4 Integration
West Fork Trail → a circle of gratitude by the water
Not just to have the experience, but to give it a place inside you.
To see what you’re taking back into your life, and what you’re choosing to create next.
And that’s far from everything
We deliberately don’t script the days minute by minute. Each one will hold extra locations, worthwhile stops and small discoveries along the way.
We leave room in this journey for spontaneity, and for the moments that can’t be planned in advance.
Where we stay
Accommodation
We stay in a private estate in West Sedona, with red rock on every side and the Boynton Canyon trailhead five minutes away. The whole property is ours for the journey: a main house, a separate casita and a wellness space, set around a pool, a hot tub and fire pits.
There is room to be together and room to be alone: an upstairs lounge with windows onto the rocks, a kitchen and dining space that seats the whole group, a sauna and cold plunge, and private balconies for the quiet hours.
7 bedroomsacross the main house and a private casita
Pool & saunawith a hot tub, cold plunge and fire pits
5 minutesto the Boynton Canyon trailhead
Room options
Private en-suite
King bed and your own bathroom
Connected en-suite
Queen bed, bathroom shared with one other room
Shared bathroom
King bed, bathroom shared with one other room
Proof
How it has been
The films are from Mount Shasta in September 2026, Lexa’s own week, the one before this. Sedona itself has not happened yet.
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Her weeks so far
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October 25–30, 2026 · Sedona, Arizona
Sedona is behind us. The next retreat — Miami, Florida, April 2027.
Getting there
- Fly into
- Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX), the airport the transfer runs from.
- From the airport
- About two hours by road from Phoenix. The transfer is in the price: you are met and driven.
- The altitude
- Sedona sits at 4,350 feet. Drink more water than you think you need on the first day.
- The season
- Late October: warm days, cold evenings, the light that photographs the rock red.
QUESTIONS frequently asked
October 25–30, 2026 · Sedona, Arizona
Dates and place
October 25 to 30, 2026, in Sedona, Arizona. Five nights, and four full days of the practice programme between the day you arrive and the day you leave.
What is in the price
Accommodation and meals, the whole practice programme, the ceremonies and the work at the Sedona sites. Flights to Arizona stay on your side.
Where you sleep
In the house: seven bedrooms of three kinds — three with their own bathroom, two connected through one door, two sharing a bathroom with the room next to them. The price is the same whichever one you get.
How much it costs
$2,600 per participant. That covers the house, the transfers, breakfasts and dinners and every practice of the week. The flight to Arizona is the only thing you add.
Deposit and cancellation
A $500 deposit holds your place and is not refunded. The remaining $2,100 is paid once you are in the house, and until then nothing else of yours is tied up: change your mind before the week and the deposit is all you lose. Once the week has started there are no refunds.
The sweat lodge and your health
Some practices have contraindications, and we go through them with you before booking. The Sweat Lodge in particular involves prolonged heat and steam: it is not suitable during pregnancy, or with heart, circulatory or blood-pressure conditions, epilepsy or claustrophobia, and you are free to leave the lodge at any point. If you have any health considerations or doubts about taking part, write to us and we will go through it individually. The rest of the programme stays open to you either way.
Coming on your own
Most women arrive alone. The group is small by design, and the first evening is built around meeting each other slowly.
What is a Sedona vortex, and do I have to believe in it?
A vortex is what people here call a handful of spots around Sedona — Bell Rock, Cathedral Rock, Boynton Canyon, Airport Mesa — where visitors have long reported feeling something shift. There is no instrument that measures it, and no belief is required of you. We walk to those places early, practise there, and you keep your own opinion about what happened.
Do I need to rent a car?
No. You are met at Phoenix Sky Harbor and driven — the transfer is in the price — and every drive during the week is arranged. Sedona sits about two hours from the airport.
What language is the retreat in?
Russian and English. Lexa and Milena both work in either.
Which meals are included?
Breakfasts and dinners are laid on at the house, with the whole group at one long table. Lunch on the trail days stays flexible — tell us about allergies and what you do not eat when you write, and it is arranged in advance.
Is it emotionally hard?
It can be. You can step out of any practice at any moment, and Lexa and Milena are in the house all five nights.
Do I have to share anything in the circle?
No. Nobody has to speak. Sitting through a circle in silence is a full way to be in it, and no one will ask you why.
Can I leave in the middle of the week?
Yes, at any point and without explaining yourself, and we will help with the road back. The money follows the terms: the deposit and the payments already made are not returned.
What if a night goes badly?
You knock. Lexa and Milena sleep in the same house, and nobody expects you to wait until breakfast.
What happens after I get home?
The three meditations in Lexa’s voice on this site stay free, and they are the same ones used during the week. Lexa and Milena stay in touch after the week.
Who is with the group
Lexa leads the practices; this is her week. Milena Chernomorets of Retreat Curator travels with the group and is in the house all five nights: the house, the road and everything in the price are hers to hold.
Experience with practice
None is needed. Every practice is led as an invitation, and you choose your own depth at each step.