This week, we got an email from a visitor to our site, Sedona.net. Shanna from Louisiana had a fairly common question:
Dear Arizona Travel:
How do you find a vortex?
–Shanna
Baton Rouge, LA
Usually when we get this question, we point visitors to our Sedona vortex map and call it a day. But it got me thinking, “Is following a map really the only way to find a vortex?” I mean, is a Sedona vortex map little more than an L.A. street-hawker’s $5 map to Hollywood Stars’ Homes? Well… maybe! I mean, there’s got to be more to it than that, right?
So to better answer Shanna’s question, I turned to our guest blogger, Gregory Drambour of Sedona Sacred Journeys. As a shamanic healer and guide, Gregory has a real-life how-to guide on finding a vortex… without a map, without a guide. What he reveals will leave you more satisfied than a tourist in front of Sylvester Stallone’s Beverly Hills mansion.
photo credit: iandeth on flickr.com
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Conversations With A Sedona Vortex Guide
How Do You Find Vortexes?
My thinking might be much different than most people around this question in the title, especially here in Sedona. I believe there are vortexes all over the place! I joke with clients and say, “In an hour, I could find a vortex in Central Park in NY.”
When I first came [to Sedona], I didn’t feel the energy that strongly in the four vortexes listed on the maps; maybe because I was used to the intense power in the Northern Plains where I could hear the Old Ones singing. For the first six months in Sedona, I hiked everyday, sometimes twice a day. After a time, I began to feel my heart and spirit being pulled into unknown places. I allowed myself to explore those places and show my heart to them and I began to discover the intensity of energy I was used too. And thus was born the Sedona Vortex Experiences listed on my site, Sedona Sacred Journeys. If you honor nature, it will honor you.
If you come to Sedona and want to explore on your own, I’m all for it! Just drive around and when you feel yourself being pulled gently or something catches your eye–STOP–and get out the car and go explore it! I call this openness and willingness.
Before you enter the desert, you might make a little prayer and an offering of tobacco or even water. “There can never be too much praying and hugging” is my motto! When you get into the high desert or trees, continue to let that feeling guide you no matter how much you think you might be going the wrong way-–”This makes no sense, this doesn’t look right!” Quiet your thoughts, let go of trying to reach for it or trying to figure it out, relax! Suddenly, you might feel an energy surge coming from the ground underneath you or directly at you. That’s a SedonaVortex!
When you find that vortex, whatever you do, don’t try and manage it or do anything with it! [This is a] classic and natural, innocent mistake. Just be there…let go…relax. In the shamanic tradition, [we call this] “gathering personal power.” Don’t forget to thank that power spot before you leave – this is important.
Well, this will give you a good start!
A Ho,
Greg
Arizona Travel 
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