Travel Blogs and Online Travel Journal Websites

As more travelers discover Sedona and other equally incredible locations around the globe, the need to keep in touch with family and friends, as well as to keep a journal of the travels, becomes a valuable necessity. TravelPod is the original internet website for travel blogs, online travelogues, travel journals, and travel diaries. Since the web's early years, 1997 to be exact, TravelPod has continued to host thousands of travelers' journeys, thoughts, travel maps, photos, and recommendations. If you want to share your travel memories of Sedona or other places in the world, head to their outstanding website: TravelPod - Free travel blogs, travel journals, travelogues and travel diaries - Map your travels with an unlimited free travel blog while you travel! Stay in touch while you travel, find travel photos, travel blogs and meet like-minded travelers.

Spiritual Information and Metaphysics

Sedona has beckoned many creative souls. Starting in the late 1950’s, a steady influx of artists, photographers, and metaphysical seekers have chosen Sedona as their home. Entranced by the powerful beauty of the red rock landscape and the subtle energies that pervade the area, travelers from all points of the globe have migrated to this unique environment and added to its population of conscious and aware residents.

Healers, clairvoyants, clairaudients, Toltecs, Castanedists, dream analyzers, psychics, Tarot card readers, energy healers, counselors and therapists from many disciplines, astrologers, spiritual awakening specialists, past life regression workers, shamans, Vedic teachers, Advaita Vedantists, sacred geometry, hypnotherapists, New Age devotees, aura readers and cleansers, Egyptologists, Aquarian Age practitioners, walk-ins, Ascension Alchemy, and UFO contactees live, explore, and work in Sedona. Add to this mix the incredible array of body-oriented therapists, laymen, and medical doctors specializing in fields like physical rehabilitation, flexibility, martial arts, fitness, general health, regeneration, beauty, life extension, and alternative medical treatment. Top it all off with continuing religious traditions and the multiple factions of Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, Taoism, Muslim/Sufi, Christianity, Shinto, Talmud, Chabad, Mormonism, and Quaker. What more can one say: Sedona has serious metaphysical, spiritual, and religious energy permeating every inch of its sandstone setting. Sedona means shift.

Around the world there are many Sedona connections heralding back to this Sedona congregation. People with a similar love of seeking, searching, and living maintain friendships and affiliations with their Sedona counterparts.

The internet has engendered a number of special Sedona connections. Spiritual information web directories like www.spiritfind.net (one of the oldest internet-based spiritual directories established in 1999) and www.spiritualnetwork.com have included listings for a number of local Sedona metaphysical services and lightworkers.

The Body Mind Spirit Directory www.bodymindspiritdirectory.org covers the globe with its listing of spiritual-related links. Their directory is organized by continents and countries with the United States separated into individual states. With over 22,000 listings, their directory offers an incredible starting place for searches focused upon spirit and soul.

Enigmatic and comprehensive, Godserver, Alternative Health and Spiritual Directory, has over 2,300,150 spiritual and alternative health web pages that cover virtually any topic within these immense fields. Their website search engine quickly recovers a wide spectrum of articles and links to pertinent websites for most topics.

Specialized search engines like Ezilon - Europe International Web Directory and Search Engine at http://uk.ezilon.com and their North American search directory, http://search.ezilon.com, index Sedona businesses and contacts related to spiritual and metaphysical fields. Based in the UK, their search engine delivers a nice blend of general and specific info in these fields.

Individuals in related fields of metaphysical studies and occupations are also aware of Sedona’s powerful draw to visitors, students, and teachers. Well -known psychic Averi Torres, of Malibu, California, considers Sedona an incredible energy. Her amazing intuitive readings have earned her the sincere thanks and recognition from dozens of celebrities, movie stars, and local businessmen and women. Her website, www.averi.com, captures the essence of her talent and energy and presents examples of her psychic, meditational, and dream analysis facilitation work.

Dr. Sheri Rosenthal is a Toltec teacher, apprentice of Don Miguel Ruiz, author, and sacred places retreat facilitator. She offers Sedona workshops in conjunction with other masterful teachers such as Susyn Reeve, Shanti, and Brandt Morgan. Her website, www.journeysofthespirit.com , has comprehensive information about her workshops, intensives, and instructors/facilitators. She has also created another outstanding website dedicated to forgiveness and healing, www.WithForgiveness.com . Join her and hundreds of friends in a healing journey that will change the world in many, many ways.

Alternative Medical Therapies and Healing

Sedona has become a destination for healing the body, mind, and soul. Talented bodyworkers, alternative medical practitioners, herbal healers, and an interesting array of physical healing therapists offering a wide variety of healing techniques and treatments serve the community. Visitors to Sedona come for more than the beautiful environment and stunning vistas. Many arrive with the clear intention of healing and changing their lives. Quite a few become new residents simply because they discover that this is “the place” that they have been looking for and want to spend time redesigning their lives.

Across the internet world there are dedicated websites that work to serve the specialized fields of healing and health improvement. Gems4Friends is just such a website that focuses on alternative health and healing topics. Visit their site at
http://www.gems4friends.com and discover ways to improve your health through affirmations, crystal healing, goal setting techniques, aromatherapy, feng shui, health tips, herbs, massage and more.

My favorite source for the highest purity, human-grade nutritional supplements is a small family-owned and operated company in Oracle, Arizona, Health Products Distributors, Inc. (HPDI). For nearly 20 years, the primary inspiration for Dr. Hank Liers and family has been absolute top quality and it shows in every product they offer. The design, formulation, and manufacture of their Nutraceuticals, Probiotics, and vitamin blends are impeccable and are used by serious health professionals as well as the most demanding individual consumers. Visit their website at www.IntegratedHealth.com. Take a look a their Magnesium Oil products, Chia seed products and information, and Hank & Brian's Vitamin E plus Essential Fatty Acids blend as a few examples of their passionate focus on healthy products that work. HPDI's products demonstrate not only considerable thought in their design but also exceptional results for their intended use. Dr. Lier and family consider the whole picture of human health, a holistic view, and include clinical studies and strong basic research when determining what products they will design and sell. Shop, compare, and become an HPDI believer!

When I speak about health facts and insisting on unbiased information, total transparency, and full disclosure in food products, additives, nutritional ingredients, FDA information, and supplements, the person who most comes to mind is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. Adams is a busy entrepreneur of the highest calibre who devotes his life and business profits for the public's education in health matters. His prime motivation is to assist humans, to serve humans, in learning how to heal themselves. He has no commercial sponsors or companies paying him for endorsements. www.NaturalNews.com is Mike's primary website and gateway. Mike's websites are a treasure trove of nutritional information and healing health guidance. Here are his project's primary websites:

www.HealthRanger.org - Mike's personal home base where he explains his history, inspiration, and motivation.
www.TruthPublishing.com - Where the truth gets published! Make sure to check Mike's book on sources for healthy products, Secret Sources.
www.HealingFoodReference.com - Master website for everything you want to know or research concerning healing foods.
www.NutrientReference.com - Lists the medicinal properties of all known nutrients, including vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals.
www.SupplementReference.com - Explores the health benefits of popular supplements that don't qualify as foods or herbs. Example: glucosamine, amino acids, propolis, etc.
www.HerbReference.com - Details the medicinal use of herbs, including Western herbs, Chinese herbs and culinary herbs.

Art and Design

Worldwide artists are aware of Sedona’s serious concentration of creative talent. Throughout the global art community there are artists concerned primarily with the expression of metaphysical spirit and soul in their art. Perhaps they are what you might call the Sedona Sympatico. Artist Julio Mateo has a deep connection to the spirit and creates art with the metaphysical in heart and mind. Visit his astounding website at www.mateo.com for a prolific look at his inspired talent: METAPHYSICAL PAINTINGS by Julio Mateo: Abstract painting, drawing and printmaking galleries with over 200 large-scale oil paintings based on Sacred Geometry's connections to nature and art, and art's spiritual relationship to cosmic creation. Guest Artists Galleries, the Artist's Interview on Art and Metaphysics, and an Arts, Humanities and Spirituality Categorized Links Directory.