September 10 - 14, 2022
Are you a yoga teacher, energy healer, coach, artist or therapist?
Are you ready to make a greater impact with your gifts?
Do you feel insecure and doubt yourself? Join Yulia Azriel for a Women’s Retreat where you are going to shed limitations and fully realize the radiance that you are.
Standing in the middle of the Chartres Labyrinth in sacred ceremony in Sedona, you feel the aliveness and vibrancy of the earth with its bright red rocks all around you and the freedom and openness of the magnificent sky above you.
Feeling your heart open with wonder and aliveness of your soul ready to express your radiance. You feel the soft, grounding energy of this vortex along with the soul-tribe of women looking at you with unconditional acceptance, love and support.
You open your heart and set an intention. You are in the receptive state of being and are feeling grounded and stable in the knowing of who you are and why you are put here on the Earth. Quiet, calm and clear energy pulses through your body affirming you that your whole life has prepared you for this moment to stand up and shine your light.
This is a profound and life-changing moment. You have the most liberating feeling that your life will never quite be the same…
✨ Can you imagine how relieved and happy you’d feel if you didn’t worry about other people accepting you following your heart as an intuitive healer?
💖 On this retreat, through guided meditations, rituals on energy vortexes and the support of the heart-centered women, you will deeply listen to your intuition and soul’s calling to bring forth your gifts.
✨ How fantastic would it be if you let go of having to choose between a stable career and following your heart?
💖 On this retreat, through powerful ceremonies in nature, you will be guided to say YES to stepping fully into the abundance of receiving from the Universe in return of you expressing your gifts as a healer.
✨ Wouldn’t it feel great to drop the fear of embarrassing, disappointing or worrying your loved ones and other people by living your true calling?
💖 On this journey, you will be guided through powerful breath-work and ancestral healing rituals to release core beliefs and energetic patterns that tether you to your family’s paradigm so you can be free and unique expression of your soul.
✨ Can you imagine how elated you’d feel if you no longer feared settling and not fulfilling your greatest potential as a healer?
💖 On this retreat, you will feel the safety and sacredness of our sisterhood with rituals and ceremonies in nature to feel fully seen, appreciated and accepted in answering your calling to express your gifts as a healer.
✨ Can you imagine what it would feel like if your self-esteem didn’t derail you from following your heart and fulfilling your dreams?
💖 Amazing, empowered and free! On this retreat, you will be guided through therapeutic breath techniques, gentle yoga and rituals to connect with the part of you the is at peace with yourself exactly as you are.
Sedona is a place like no other where the Earth feels particularly alive with energy, vibrancy and vortexes. When you come on this retreat, you will be one of many healers and seekers who come here for reconnection to their inner wisdom and spiritual strength.
I will be guiding you to connect with these swirling centers of energy that will magnify your healing powers through purification of any blocked or stuck energy and activation of your soul’s purpose and expression.
What a better place to step more fully into trusting your gifts than at the magical Heart Vortex?
The days will start with a Sun Rising Meditation to open yourself up to the unconditional universal LOVE that is your birthright. On this sacred land miracles happen every day, so get ready to experience profound shifts in your way of being and living.
Looking up through the skylight at the dark night sky full of stars and quiet beauty, you are filled with deep gratitude and peace after a day of communion with nature and your heart and soul.
It’s wonderful to feel the pulse of life with each cell of your body and a satisfying feeling that you have arrived.
This Heart Center provides a perfect combination of being in communion with nature while receiving all the modern conveniences, such as comfortable beds, private bathrooms, air conditioning and heating.
You will have plenty of leisurely moments to integrate the internal shifts – whether you want to sip a cup of tea on the terrace with breathtaking views, journal in the Crystal Hall – our gorgeous group facility building, or have a stroll through the gardens or meditate by one of the sacred sites.
Within this perfect sanctuary to unplug, you’ll let your heart take you from site to site as you uncover the magic in every step and on every path you take – whether it is a meditative moment at the Vortex Circles or contemplation at the Angel Sites or Water Wheel, walk across a Foot Bridge or refreshing moments by the Oak Creek – you will continue to receive inspirations and recharge your soul with wonder and magic.
These beautiful grounds will soothe your soul as you remember what it’s like to actually slow down and enjoy life.
You will also receive tangible and down-to-earth coaching from Yulia on how to step out on the path of an empowered and confident healer balanced in the masculine and feminine aspects of you.
You’ll know how to transmute the past into the source of nourishment for your dreams and healing for the planet.
You will anchor into how to confidently share your story with those who your transformation will bring hope and inspiration.
There is nothing like the supportive circle of heart-centered women who will reflect back to you the freedom that you have within you to speak and share your gifts.
You will be witnessed in your course to break old vows and paradigms that no longer serve the higher version of YOU and to create new empowered believes that reflect the authentic you who knows how to enjoy and be nourished in your life while empowering others on their healing journey.
Be prepared for your mouth to water in anticipation of each and every nutrient-dense and energy infusing meal.
You’ll feel the skill and love poured into each bite as you eat this high vibrational vegetarian and vegan cuisine served buffet style in Angel Cafeteria.
All your senses will be delighted by the homey atmosphere combined with the exquisite new friendships and healthy and vibrant meals to nourish your body and elevate your spirit by the dishes such as carrot ginger soup, coconut vegetable curry with a satisfying blend of mango salsa, cucumber raita, brightness of cilantro and crunchy almonds. There are even healthy and beautiful deserts prepared for your surprise!
Dedicated chefs prepare each meal from scratch with organic ingredients in a professionally equipped kitchen.
Can’t eat this or that? Vegan, vegetarian, gluten or dairy free? No problem – we’re happy to accommodate any of your food preferences – you will have a chance to fill a meal questionnaire prior to your arrival.
You will feel the high vibration of the food and the loving energy it was prepared with. You will leave the retreat inspired to continue treating yourself as a Goddess when you return home.
You know in the center of your being that you landed on a sacred land and are exactly where you need to be in this moment. You can slow down and reconnect with what truly matters to you.
Ahhhh… you have arrived and all the worries and hassles of your busy life are left behind. You can feel the comfort and the nurturance of this sacred land, its delicious food prepared with pure love and anticipation in your heart of the magic ahead of you.
We gather for our opening circle to give our bodies and minds this time to arrive and ground as we relax with gentle yoga and Yoga Nidra. As you sit in a circle with other beautiful women in the candle-lit Crystal Hall, you open your pure hearts to receive the intention for your time in Sedona.
Synchronicities are starting to happen as you see each woman here reflecting the truth that you already know in your heart. This beautiful circle of sisters is here to support and see the pure light and goodness in you. You feel this deep trust and readiness in your bones of saying “I am ready to awaken my divine gifts to share with others”.
Today our sacred sisterhood will call in the intention of self-love and activation of the trust in our feminine body’s wisdom. We will start the day with basking in the glorious and luminous rays of rising sun to receive activation of the vibrant life force energy, to open intuition and to connect with your True Self.
With this awakening, lifetime of hurts, trauma, past mistakes, wounds and disappointments will begin melting away in the presence of the sacred sisterhood circle and unconditional love.
We continue with relaxing our bodies and minds with a special Women’s Temple pleasure body activation ritual followed by Goddess lunch to awaken your senses and the permission to experience pleasure.
In the afternoon, we connect more fully with the Divine Energy flow of your creativity, inspiration, and empowerment while getting clarity of manifestation of your intuitive gifts through drawing your Earth Mandala directly on one of the energy vortexes. Over the course of these 5 days, your mandala will support you at a deep level to trust your gifts.
Now it’s time to align our body, mind and spirit with that channel to divine feminine and masculine energies and your 4 birthrights: Freedom, Purpose, Abundance and Pleasure.
In order to access this divine flow of energy to express your gifts with the world, we got to release the blocks – fear of being judged, fear of being seen, fear of failure or success, and the vows to be perfect and invisible.
It’s time to make an energetic imprint and sync your soul with your life so you have access to your own inner wisdom and guidance at any time!
We allow the water element to help us shed the old skin and release the old outdated patterns with the cleansing ritual in the Oak Creak, so you can step fully into the powerful presence as a healer.
After this deep inner alchemy, you’ll have plenty of time to integrate the experiences and journal about your insights. You can now feel the palpable shift and the vision of your empowered purpose.
Just imagine being free of your past, of fears, insecurities and shame, of traumatic experiences, and now you have the freedom to simply be happy and in love with life for no reason. Ahhhhhh!
Today you’ll drop into your newfound mastery of intent – discovering how you can /connect to your unique life force and direct it to express yourself confidently and creatively, stepping fully into your power and divine purpose.
We’ll go on a sacred walk through the Chartres Labyrinth, which is a metaphor for your life’s path. As you walk, you will see your old limiting beliefs and obstacles falling away as you start to feel lighter in your body and mind and clearer about your heart’s calling. You will be leaving behind all that stands in the way of you shining your bright light that the world needs more than ever.
In the center of the labyrinth, we will anchor our new dreams for ourselves and the world, then commit to taking action when we return home from the place of confidence and knowing of our Divine Purpose.
In our last morning ritual, we will anchor in the ultimate knowing and believe of who we are as intuitive healers and light workers. We will have our last Women’s Temple ritual where we will receive the blessings from the sisters on this journey who will give you a sacred spiritual name reflecting and reminding you of your gifts that are at your natural core.
As we part, we’ll pack our deepened connection to our intuition and healing abilities and leave feeling confident in our ability to create healing shifts in every aspect of our life and sacred work.
Through this transformational journey, you’ll take your new level of consciousness, broadened perspective and ability to shift your thoughts and emotions when you are back at home and marvel at the major positive change in your home life, relationships, your purpose, aliveness, health and finances.
✨💜✨ Relax deeply to feel in your bones that your gifts are powered by Spirit and Divinely guided by the Source within you.
✨💜✨Solidify your inner knowing and recognize how powerful your gifts are so you passionately pursue what’s in your heart and soul.
✨💜✨Allow the past to be the past and dissolve those subtle sticky patterns (perfectionism, forcing, controlling, doing too much, doubting, you name it!) so you can courageously meet each new moment with freedom and freshness.
✨💜✨Speak up and hold your own no matter who or what surrounds you – from life’s challenges to tricky relationships.
✨💜✨ Know the next right action to take in your life and career so that you can create a bigger impact in healing the world.
✨💜✨ Trust in your unique ability to facilitate healing to others from a place of feeling whole and complete within yourself.
✨ You secretly (or not so publicly) know you might be a shaman or healer
✨ You know you are a woman of power who has a bigger message and calling to share
✨ You deeply care about helping more people and making the world a better place
✨ You are open to all spiritual traditions and believe in honoring Mother Earth and Universal energy
✨ You are ready to synchronize your life with the vibration of your soul!
✨ You’re willing to get out of the comfort zone and be vulnerable within a sacred circle of sisterhood
✨ You’re both excited and nervous about this trip!
✨ You aren’t willing to take a leap of faith and prefer staying safe
✨ You don’t want to do your own inner work and overcome your own limiting beliefs
✨ You are attached to blaming outside circumstances and people for your unhappiness or lack of success
✨ You enjoy making excuses, being negative or defensive
✨ Adventure, personal growth and major breakthroughs bore you
✨ You aren’t willing to laugh, cry, hug – and get a little dusty dirty
✨ You are not interested in supporting other women and see their beauty and celebrate their growth and success
✨ 5 days of deep nourishment, transformational embodied practices such as daily inspiring sun rising mediation, Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Women’s Temple practices, transformational breath-work, rituals, ceremonies and teachings supporting you in stepping into your full radiance & service + lots of deep conversations all week!
✨ Labyrinth walk, angel sites, Chakra activation ceremonies on energy vortexes on this sacred land
✨ Hospitality-filled accommodations at the gracious Heart Center in Sedona – double or triple occupancy for four nights
✨ All delicious, authentic, home-made organic meals. Teas available all day
✨ Access to all props for yoga and meditation (bolsters, mats, blankets) in our beautiful Chrystal Hall
After failing my qualifying exams, I was devastated. This led to finding a place that brought me peace and a feeling of coming home – yoga and meditation practice.
Already having a taste of the liberating feeling I experienced with yoga, I blindly followed my heart to embark on a yoga teacher’s training with the world-renowned yoga master Yogi Amrit Desai at the Amrit Yoga Institute in Florida. The spiritual rabbit hole I fell into lead to life-changing heart-opening experiences and awakening of powerful energy that I never knew was inside of me.
It was an accelerated journey of healing of my childhood wounds and for the first time in my life learning to trust my heart and my healing gifts that had been hiding behind doubts, insecurities and self-judgement.
After opening Gentle Heart Yoga and Wellness in 2014, I have been dedicating my life to supporting other people in developing trust in the healing wisdom of their body and breath and uncovering the place within them that is pure happiness, bliss, and wholeness.
It is my passion to help people reconnect to sacred heart and align with their soul’s true purpose. In the processes I guide my clients and students through, they learn how to accept themselves and to be liberated from insecurities and judgments and have a direct embodied experience of Divine Love.
I lead Women’s Yoga Circles and teach workshops and trainings, including a professional certification of Yoga Nidra (sleep-based meditation technique) aimed at helping people reconnect with the Source of unconditional peace and Love available to us all.
If your heart longs to break free of limitations that keep you small, I invite you to come to the magical Sedona with me!
Here is what I can promise. After 5 days in Sedona, you will feel:
💫 Rejuvenated, centered, grounded, connected to your heart and soul
💫 Inspired to follow your heart and share your gifts with the world
💫 Free from the past hurts and drama that held your energy stuck
💫 Confident in your unique gifts that the world needs
💫 Trusting in your connection to Spirit and the healer within YOU!
💫 Uplifted from heart-centered ceremonies and rituals and ready to share your renewed energy with the world
💫 Return home feeling relaxed, refreshed and inspired to take your life to the next level
If all this makes your heart sing, then you are in the right place and need to be at this retreat!
We will be an intimate group of maximum twenty three women. This is intentional for me to be able to spend maximum amount of intimate time with you as well as to allow for our group to really get to know one another and to work together.
A $500 deposit is required at time of registration to hold your place. Deposit is non-refundable. In case of a cancellation before July 10, 2022, the deposit can be applied for another retreat or repurposed for another service with Gentle Heart Yoga and Wellness within 1 year. Any cancellation made between July 11 and August 10, 2022 will result in a loss of 50% of the retreat price. Any cancellation made between August 11, 2022 and the trip departure will result in a total loss of funds.
We reserve the right to cancel the trip if it is not meeting the trip minimum (if we do so your deposit is refunded in full). Trip cancelation insurance is always recommended whenever making travel plans. You can use our suggested Travel Guard insurance online and choose from several policy options.
Final payment due: September 10, 2021. Last minute registrations may be accepted (provided space is still available) and they must be paid in full upon registration with no refund for cancellation.
You will be sharing a room with 1 or 2 other women. If you would like to choose who you will stay with, please indicate it in your registration form and we will put the two of you in one room.
Don’t know anyone – no problem, so many women will be looking for a roommate and we love that! You can start making connections and meet amazing healer-women in our private group created just for women who attend this retreat. Simply post in “Trust Your Gifts: Retreat in Sedona for Healers” Facebook Group and we bet you’ll get LOTS of women wanting to share a room with you.
Absolutely! Angel Valley kitchen are happy to meet your needs, including but not limited to: vegetarian, Kosher, pescatarian, gluten-free, dairy-free and more! You will receive a questionary ahead of time where you will be able to indicate your dietary needs.
Sedona is in the dessert where it can get cold at night and very hot during the day. In November, the average low temperature is 41 F during the night and the average high temperature is 68 F during the day. Without a doubt, one of the best times to visit these beautiful Red Rocks is during October and November. During the fall, the weather in Sedona is mild and enjoyable.
At the Angel Valley, the beautiful Oak Creak runs through the property where you will be able to see beautiful colors of deciduous trees accentuating the beauty of red rocks and the flowing pure water of the creek. The most magical location for taking pictures with your beautiful self during sunset to reflect your inner and outer beauty.
We recommend you bring:
⦁ Sunglasses
⦁ Layers of casual clothing – dresses/skirts, shorts and t-shirts, light-weight long sleeve layers
⦁ Bathing suit
⦁ Yoga/workout clothes
⦁ White outfit for a ceremony and our group picture
⦁ Sunscreen
⦁ Hiking shoes and sandals
⦁ Your Journal
⦁ Flashlight
We’ll be sending out a more detailed “Don’t Forget Me List” a month before your departure.
We deeply believe in caring for Mother Earth and that each of us has the responsibility to consciously live in harmony with the planet, as best we can. This includes looking at how we eat, heat our homes, vacation, commute and travel. That’s why we support holistically looking at climate change and where we can reduce our CO2 emissions. Credible research shows, for example, that cows cause more CO2 “emissions” than cars or plane travel.
We recommend that you use a carbon footprint calculator to see your personal impact and reduce your emissions as you can. You can also participate in offsetting your carbon footprint by donating to or getting involved with environmental organizations you trust or well-recognized organizations that list certified and verified carbon offsetting projects. Every little act we take can make a difference and we appreciate your concern and awareness.
For us, we know the benefits of converging with life-minded folks in person, on occasion, who want to make a difference in the world, create online businesses and give back is priceless!
Here are three companies that you can refer to for offsetting your carbon units:
The planet is calling for our powerful presence and healing gifts to be seen and heard now. This requires looking at fear, doubts and insecurities in the eye and dismantling them one by one with support and loving care. After all, your gifts is what creates change in the world.
If you’ve been giving, giving, giving to others, but no one’s been giving to you, then this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for to step outside your everyday routine and dive deep into your inner well of wisdom so you can return home replenished and ready to make a difference.
