Name: Heal Trauma Retreat- SEDONA, ARIZONA
Start: 2024-12-31T15:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-01-01T15:00:00-07:00
Location: 2030 W State Rte 89A suite B6

A Soulful Celebration of Healing from an Indigenous Perspective. Spirituality + Neuroscience = HEALING
About this Event

Heal Trauma Retreat- SEDONA, ARIZONA

A Soulful Healing Celebration with the mother & daughter powerhouse of Trauma Healing; Iya Affo, International Speaker & Trauma Specialist, the daughter of renowned Energy Medicine Healer, and Author, Dr Sharon Caulder.

Bring in the New Year with our first retreat for the upcoming year-long

2025 Soulful Festival of Healing!

Some ancient traditions believe that the coming of a new year gives us access to the divine light that is the origin of creation and brilliance. It is the ideal time to initiate healing.

The most powerful healing happens in spaces that support wellness through community, nature, harmonic vibration, and healing frequencies. Sedona is a renowned destination for spiritual pioneers seeking guidance, peace, and healing. It is known worldwide as the Healing Capital where people come to explore healing vortexes & nature, meditate, enjoy yoga, receive professional psychic guidance and energetic healing. Synthesizing an iconic location and idyllic time of year with embodying a pan-Indigenous ethos while in healing ceremony, can inaugurate a sustainable and powerful expression of healing.

The brain is plastic and the body wants to heal. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Toxic Stress, and Trauma hurt the brain. We are wired for survival. When we feel unsafe, an alarm in the brain sends a distress signal to the rest of the body and we prepare to fight, flee or freeze. Overusing our threat response system causes mental, behavioral, social, economic, and physical dis-ease, potentially decreasing our quality of life and life expectancy. But, WE ARE BUILT FOR RESILIENCE! We can change unwanted behavior and alter painful emotions.

As humans, we are the integration of mind, body, and spirit. True healing comes when we address our humanness in its entirety. Western healing systems typically prioritize the mind for healing symptoms like Depression, Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, Anger, WIthdrawal, Aggression, and various forms of Addiction. Eastern healing systems emphasize the importance of spiritual evolution for sustaining wellness. From our Indigenous perspective, we focus on learning to control our brain chemistry and body physiology through mindfulness, energy medicine, or spiritual practices, and the innate physical practices used by our ancestors for generations. Throughout our time together in the 2025 Soulful Festival for Healing, we will use psychoeducation, expressive arts, contemplative arts, cultural arts, and the Seven Circles of Wellness, supported by Indigenous and energy medicine to integrate all the aspects of our being for sustainable healing.

You are warmly invited to participate in our 2-day intensive Soulful Healing New Year Celebration starting on December 31, 2024-January 1st in Sedona where we will: