Built in the
In-Between
The best retreats aren't only built in the room. They're built in the tea before the first session, the meal after the last one, the five minutes nobody scheduled that everyone remembers.
People Who Know How to
Add To a Gathering
Sedonya works with a small circle of Sedona practitioners, ceremonialists, movement guides, and our preferred caterer — people who've spent years learning how to walk into someone else's gathering and add to it, never take it over.
Everything below is optional. That's kind of the point.
Leave the Highway
at the Gate
There's a version of your group that's still on the highway, still checking their phone, still half in the meeting they left behind. Give them twenty minutes — a gong, a cup of tea, a slow walk on the land — and watch that version leave the room.
Hosts tell us the same thing almost every time: the group has never settled that fast. Something about the sound of the gong at the very start — it seems to take the room from scattered to still in a single note.
- Opening Gong Ceremony
- Sunrise Qigong
- Cacao Ceremony
- Kava Ceremony
What the Body
Already Knows
Talking is efficient. It's also limited. The body knows things the group hasn't said out loud yet — and drumming, breath, and movement are usually faster at getting there than another conversation would be.
- Tribal Movements with Uqualla
- Ecstatic Dance Breathwork Journey
- Breathwork Journey
- Women's Drumming Circle
- Kriya Yoga
- Goddess Yoga
- Yin Yoga
- Hula Hoop Flow
Stop Performing.
Start Being
Some hours in a retreat should be loud. Others should be almost silent. A sound bath, a guided meditation, a slow circle — these are the hours where a group finally stops performing and starts actually being together.
People cry during the gong work more often than you'd expect. Nobody's ever surprised by that once it happens — it just seems to be what the sound does.
- Sound Healing Journey
- Group Sound Experience
- Gong Journey
- Cocooning Ceremony
- Council Circle
- What We Carry: Witnessed Grief Circle
Honestly,
It's the Food
Ask anyone what they remember from a retreat, and half the answers happen at the table. Guests ask about it before they ask about anything else on the schedule — and hosts book us again as much for the kitchen as for anything that happens in the room.
Meals here are woven into what the retreat actually needs, day by day — heartier and more grounding on the hard mornings, lighter and brighter when the group needs to feel less full and more awake. Our preferred caterer builds each plate around that rhythm, plant-forward and unfussy, so the table does exactly what a table's supposed to do.
- Organic, Plant-Forward Lunch
- Organic, Plant-Forward Dinner
- Daily Beverage Bar
The Room
Just Works
A mixer that's already balanced. A mic that never cuts out mid-sentence. A projector that was tested an hour before anyone walked in. Nobody in the room notices any of it — which is exactly the point.
- AV & Technology Support, Weekend Retreat$400 flat
- AV & Technology Support, Full Week$500 flat
Make People
Feel It Turning
Every retreat has a hinge — the point where something opens, or closes, or changes shape. Placed at the right hour, a ceremony doesn't decorate that hinge. It makes people feel it turning.
- Fire Ceremony with Uqualla
- Sunrise Ceremony with Uqualla on the Land
- Indigenous Tea Ceremony with Uqualla
- Ceremonial Dinner with Uqualla
A Circle That Knows
This Land
Everything on this page comes from people who've spent years learning this land and each other — not vendors brought in for a day, but a circle that already knows how to move around your retreat instead of through it.
What Would Make
a Difference?
Some hosts build this in from day one. Others add it once the schedule's already taking shape — both work fine. We look at your group size, what you're actually gathering people for, and how your days are already moving, then make a few honest suggestions. Not a menu. A short list, built for your retreat specifically.
Some hosts add one moment — an opening, a close. Others build the whole arc. There's no version that's more "correct" than the other.
Tell us what you're building, where you want the group to end up, and what you want them to take home. We'll help you find the few things that actually move that needle.