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We are all so excited to share our passions with you during the Sedona Plant-Based Cooking & Self Care Retreats in 2020.

Retreat dates: February 7-10, 2020; June 12-15, 2020; September 18-21, 2020

•  Melanie Albert, Retreat Host, Plant-Based Culinary
• Muzique Broadnax, Massage Therapy
• Gary Henderickson, Feng Shui
• June Rettinger de Arballo, Ceremony and Hand Readings
• Daniel Posney, Kiva Ceremony and Ceremonial Vortex Hike
• Patricia Fonseca, Ayurvedic Yoga Hike

Melanie Albert, Retreat Host and Plant-Based Farm-to-Table Cooking Guide

Melanie Albert, Farm-to-Table Plant-Based Intuitive Cooking Expert, author, and speaker, Melanie is Founder and CEO of Experience Nutrition Group, LLC, in Phoenix, Arizona, and award-winning cookbook author of “A New View of Healthy Eating.” She regularly contributes recipe articles to “Natural Awakenings” and appears on The List tv show.

Melanie’s passion is local Arizona food. She loves intuitively creating and guiding others to enjoy healthy eating and prepare simple beautiful farm-to-table plant-based meals with our local Arizona farmers’ produce.

A leader in wellness, nutrition, and whole foods cooking for over 15 years, Melanie is a 2007 graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, worked in marketing with Weil Lifestyle/Andrew Weil, MD for 9 years, and has completed 610 hours of plant-based culinary training. Through hundreds of cooking classes, events, corporate wellness, team building, media, and retreats Melanie has taught thousands of people — former NFL players, MDs, holistic practitioners, business professionals, kids, and media — simple ways to cook delicious meals with plant-based food from our local Arizona farmers.

Muzique Broadnax, Therapeutic Massage

Muzique Broadnax, Certified Massage Therapist, Founder of Balenchino Massage in Arizona and Minnesota, is a charismatic and passionate deep tissue specialist with an abundance of formal and hands on experience and training. Who loves to heal, rejuvenate and motivate her customers! Working with intention to delve into muscle tension and create deep releases and detoxification in your body. Muzique was implanted in Phoenix by way of Minnesota since June 2019 that has been practicing the art of massage for over 12 years.

In her spare time she is an avid yogi and loves to travel the world. Open communication within her business directly applying the wants and needs of her customer into her business practices in turn creating meaningful and lasting relationships with her loyal customer.

During the retreat, you’ll receive one 1-hour therapeutic massage with Muzique, right in the comfort of our retreat house.

Gary Henderickson, Feng Shui

Founder & CEO of Feng Shui Design International, in Sedona, Arizona, Gary has over 42 years of study and practice with Feng Shui, architecture, interior design and community design as his professional background. He has developed an integral approach to feng shui, drawing from 12 different techniques of feng shui. He designs community developments, homes, offices, healing retreat centers, and industrial complexes. He lectures, teaches and consults throughout the United States and overseas to developers, city planning departments, architects, interior designers, design institutions, corporations, individuals, and homeowners.

Gary’s Feng Shui readings focus on how this ancient science can help you to increase your effectiveness and efficiency in your work and increase your income, discover your lucky direction, find which partners would be most compatible with you, enjoy more harmony in your relations with family, friends and business associates, and improve your sleep.

During the retreat, you will receive a private 30-minute Feng Shui Reading with Gary.

June Rettinger de Arballo, Ceremony and Hand Readings

June Rettinger de Arballo, Ceremony at 2019 Sedona Retreat

Melanie & June enjoying our Retreat House

June Rettinger de Arballo and her organization, Meaningful Thing, in Sedona, Arizona, has been specializing in the Spiritual Journey since 1979,  focusing on Personal, Home & Land Clearings, Readings, Workshops, Healing Energy Work, and Medium to Deep Tissue Massage.

June is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico and follows her spiritual practice from her mother’s heritage of Apache and Mexican.  She comes from a family of seers and uses her gifts as a psychic/medium and offers readings, clearings, ceremonies and blessings as well as group experiences.

June has also been a massage therapist since 1979 specializing in medium to deep tissue massage and cupping.  Over many years she has worked closely with Indigenous Elders from around the world including the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers to bring their messages to our communities.  Her private practice is in a historic stone house located in the heart of Sedona, Arizona.

 During our retreats, June offers unique hand readings and special spiritual blessings — ceremony preformed asking (God/Creator/Universal energies/Spirits/Angels/Ancestors/Spiritual Guides) for good things and protection to come to an individual or a venture.

Daniel Posney, Kiva Ceremony and Ceremonial Vortex Hike

Daniel Posney, Founder of Shamystic in Sedona, Arizona, Daniel provides life transformation, energetic and shamanic healing, intuitive guidance, initiation into higher consciousness, and soul activation.

Introduced to native traditions and ceremonies while on childhood trips to Africa, Europe and later to Tahiti and Hawaii, Daniel discovered his Soul connection with shamanism and mystic wisdom. After several traumatizing life events, Daniel initiated a spiritual awakening and transformation. Living for 3 years in a 200-sq ft cabin on a 4000-acre Self-Realization ashram (spiritual community), Daniel continued his self-discovery and native experiences, which led to release of all possessions and a 2000-mile bicycle journey.

For over 10 years, Daniel is a recognized practitioner, healer, guide, and teacher who offers practical tools to create and attract more of what you want in your life, significantly reduce physical pain, discover new perspectives and experience more clarity about your life.

During our retreats Daniel guides us in a memorable kiva ceremony on the retreat house property, along with a ceremonial Sedona Vortex hike.

Patricia Fonseca, Ayurvedic Yoga Hike

Co-founder of Back to Earth Sedona Tours, Patricia Fonseca grew up in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York, and moved to Sedona in 2001. While her original career was that of attorney and legal author, she found new balance and purpose in her life through working with mentors in meditation, yoga, and the ancient Ayurvedic traditions.

Gradually, her new understanding led her to transition her own life to teaching meditation, yoga, fitness and Ayurvedic lifestyle at the world renowned Mi Amo Spa at Enchantment Resort. She is also a Reiki master with 7 years of hiking and nature guide experience. Patricia brings an innate compassion to every consult she leads, and her enthusiasm is contagious. Her own experiences in the high-stress world of law make her an ideal guide for anyone who has become worn by business stress, and for those seeking to incorporate more balance and meaning into their busy lives.

During our retreats, Patricia leads meaningful, unique Ayurvedic yoga with hiking in the magical Sedona vortex.

I’ll continue to post additional blogs, photos, experiences, and recipes from our September 2019 Sedona Plant-Based Cooking & Self Care Retreat. Meanwhile, please reach out to me if you’re interested in one of our 2020 retreats or a custom retreat for your organization or group of friends in 2020. – Melanie Albert

If you’re ready to reserve your spot for one of the 2020 Retreats, click here for the $500 initial deposit.