Gaden Shartse Monks
Tibetan Buddhist teachings, blessings, ceremonies, and traditional sand mandalas—welcoming hundreds in person and thousands online while raising support for the monastery.
Sedona, Arizona
Who We Are
Sedonya Conscious Living Center, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sedona Creative Life Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to making programs that support conscious living, creativity, and well-being accessible to all.
We bring people together through retreats, public programs, cultural gatherings, educational experiences, and collaborative events.
What We Do
The setting, support, and infrastructure for meaningful experiences
We host multi-day retreats, professional trainings, community programs, concerts, ceremonies, private journeys, and weekly practices. We work with retreat leaders, teachers, artists, practitioners, wisdom keepers, and nonprofit organizations to bring their work to both local and visiting communities.
We also produce our own events and create collaborations that may not happen anywhere else—bringing together people and organizations from different fields around a shared purpose.
For the Benefit of All
Access Is Part of Our Mission
We believe meaningful experiences should not be available only to those who can afford a private retreat.
Sedonya fulfills the mission of Sedona Creative Life Center by offering a mix of ticketed, reduced-cost, donation-based, sponsored, livestreamed, and free programming. Through our For the Benefit of All initiative, we work to reduce financial barriers and extend the reach of selected programs.
Accessibility is not separate from our work. It is part of how the work is designed.
Five Years of Gathering
Thousands welcomed, from weekly practices to cultural collaborations
Since opening, Sedonya has welcomed thousands of people through events ranging from intimate weekly practices to major cultural and community collaborations—recovery communities, yoga trainings, women's leadership programs, artists, musicians, healers, educators, and retreat groups from around the country.
Atma Buti® Sound Healing
Benefit concerts co-created to gather community around sound, with proceeds extending far beyond our walls.
Sedona International City of Peace
Peace gatherings raising global awareness through meditation, prayer, and shared mindful practice.
Indigenous Wisdom Keepers & Elders
We work alongside Indigenous peoples and elders—including ceremonies with Uqualla, a day hosted for the Q'ero, and wisdom gatherings held here—to foster understanding and respect, and to offer a gathering space and support for their traditions.
Oneness Weekend, 2026
Created with the Fine Arts Museum of Sedona, Jill Trenholm, and the Tree of Oneness Project—art beyond the gallery, shared through music, storytelling, food, ceremony, and participation.
Festivals & Trainings
Programs connected with the ILLUMINATE Film Festival and Sedona Yoga Festival, alongside recovery communities, yoga trainings, and women's leadership programs.
Alongside these larger moments, Sedonya continues to offer weekly sound, movement, meditation, music, education, and community programs throughout the year.
Our Role
To help good work happen well
That means caring for the spaces, coordinating the details, supporting the people leading the experience, and creating an environment in which participants feel welcomed and considered.
It also means connecting people who might not otherwise meet: established teachers and emerging practitioners, local residents and retreat guests, artists and educators, ancient traditions and contemporary forms of practice.
This is what Sedonya has become—a place where people gather, meaningful work is supported, and more people are given the opportunity to participate.