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SEDONA:
Zentreat and Sacred Journey

Departure: October 5 - 11, 2008

Group is open to 14 participants.
Registration closes September 5, 2008,
or sooner if the group fills before that date.
Book NOW to reserve your place and avoid disappointment.

A Teleseminar about the upcoming
Zentreat and Sacred Journey in Sedona
was held on Thurs, April 25, 2008

To listen to this recording,
dial 1-218-936-1005 and enter Conference ID 91183#.
To increase volume on replay line press # (pound)
and * (star) to decrease volume.
Highlights of the Call: 
1) Mark Pinkham's historical perspective on the vortexes in Sedona
and the powerful magnetic energy of the Red Rock
2) Christophe Poizet, Founder of the International Network of
Social Entrepreneurs from France
and his perspective on the global growth of social entrepreneurism
3) Allan Holender's outline of the up-coming Zentreat (Oct. 5-11) -
"The Ten Year Old Project"--"Creating Your  Life Plan"-- and leaving the Zentreat with the following questions answered:  "What is my
Destiny", "What is My Cause" and "What is My Calling" 
4) Andrea Pinkham talks about the program format
and a special discount!
So call up and listen in!!

Another FREE Teleseminar Call
will be held on Thursday, May 15, 2008
6:00PM, Pacific Daylight Savings Time

See below for details

Featured Speaker:
Allan M. Holender
Founder, CEO
The Centre for Zentrepreneurism
& author of ZENTREPRENEURISM
A 21st Century Guide
to the New World of Business


Your Sedona Zentreat Offers these unique
& cutting-edge sessions with Allan M. Holender:
** Zenning Your Business: The Blended Bottom Line
** Zentrepreneurial Leadership: What does it mean?
** What it takes to be a Zentrepreneur
** Discovering Your True Purpose and Passion:
"The Ten year Old Project"
** Creating Your Life Plan
See the itinerary below for more details


Sedona
Vortex Tour Guides
& Speakers:
Mark Amaru Pinkham
Author and Director,
The Seven Rays of Healing School

Andrea Mikana-Pinkham
Director,
BMSJ's Sacred Journeys

Your Sedona Sacred Journey:  This sacred travel experience to one of the most sacred places on the North American continent will usher you into the living presence of the Divine. By taking time to separate yourself from the everyday concerns of your world and traveling to Sedona, a place full of power and special meaning, your Zentreat and Sacred Journey can be an act of transformation can change your life in many positive ways.

To read what some of our past Sacred Journeys travelers have to say about their experiences in Sedona’s powerful Red Rock Country, click here.

What is a vortex? A vortex is a place where energy goes in and/or out of a system. Examples are earth vortexes, chakras & acupuncture points in our bodies, and galaxies and black holes in the Universe. Scientific experiments have shown that vortex energy moves in a spiraling way (vertere, Latin for spiraling). Earth Vortexes are found in many places around the planet. Sedona has many, and a very large variety of types. When in proximity to these places, you may be affected to varying degrees; some people feel more relaxed and meditative in some spots, or more energized in others.

FREE Teleseminar Call
Thursday, May 15, 2008
6:00PM, Pacific Daylight Savings Time

Teleseminar Hosts/Hostess:
Allan M. Holender Zentreat Facilitator
"The fusion of one’s personal vision with one’s professional mission, grounded in activism and a holistic philosophy,
will hallmark the next 100 years.”- Allan Holender

Mark Amaru Pinkham - Sedona Vortex Tour Guide
Andrea Mikana- Pinkham - Sedona Vortex Tour Guide

To participate in this exciting FREE teleseminar, call 218 936-1100
and follow the instructions.
When prompted to do so, please enter your
Participant Access Code/Pin Number: 91183#

FEATURED SPEAKER:
Allan M. Holender
As a leadership and team building trainer, Allan has developed and delivered programs to colleges, universities, hospitals, and the corporate world.

He has mentored entrepreneurs, CEOs, and senior management from some of North America's top-ranked companies. He is also a popular media personality and commentator in Canada and the United States, having hosted a nationally syndicated business radio show on the Talk America radio network. As a speaker he has addressed thousands across Canada and the United States, and captured a worldwide audience through his web-related media appearances.

Allan gained his knowledge through first-hand experience as a business owner, "serial" entrepreneur, CEO, manager, leadership expert, teacher, writer, and broadcaster. He delivers his life lessons with both passion and humor - helping others to create that all important balance between all the elements of one's life.

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Allan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Montana. He went on to graduate school and shortly thereafter began a long career with the Big Brothers organization. Later he assumed senior administrative positions in advancement with the Universities of British Columbia and Alberta. Allan is a pioneer in the fund development industry, having founded two professional associations.

Allan is the author of Zentrepreneurism: A 21st Century Guide to the New World of Business, the revolutionary new book that has people talking. It has been called by many "North America's wake up call" or "The Inconvenient Truth about American Business"!

Not every generation is privileged to see the start of a future. We are - and in Zentrepreneurism, Allan Holender has acted as its revelator, its prophet, if you will. We are used to thinking of prophets as heralds of a far-off future. But prophets simply crystallize what is ready to be born. The world of social and natural capitalism, the world of full-life living, the world of service coupled with entrepreneurial behavior that this book and movement represents has been building for the past thirty years. With this revelation, the business world - and our personal lives - are destined to change.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:  Allan Holender has looked unflinchingly at the dark and self-destructive aspects of our business culture that most commentators ignore or deny. Zentrepeneurism, the profound but practical philosophy that he dramatically outlines in this book builds upon capitalism's most powerful assets while infusing it with a higher purpose. It is more than a new business model. It is an inspiring new value system for business leaders, a guidepost for the 21st Century.”
Robert L. FitzPatrick, Business analyst and author, False Profits

"Allan Holender reveals the valueless and destructive tendencies of contemporary business while remaining passionately and optimistically committed to the possibility of a better future."
Joel Bakan, author, The Corporation

"With Zen you learn that arrows reach their mark because they belong there, the archer only assists. Zentrepeneurism is an ethos - already in use - who’s time has come, and Allan Holender is the messenger. Allan has emerged from the fires of greed-based capitalism ahead of his time, showing the way business will be in the future. That said, the future is now."
Yves Farges, Founder, CEO Qualifirst Group 

"This book is a passionate, profound invitation to stop thinking about business and life as it should be and to start experiencing it as it could be."
Stuart Avery Gold author, Ping A Frog in Search of a New Pond

“Allan Holender is quite the guy: open seeker, Yiddish jokester, empathetic listener, articulate ethicist—keen and sincere to raise consciousness in the corporate world. To manifest his vision, he has midwifed Zentrepreneurship – to spark and serve a need to develop ethics and spirituality within the mundane and sometimes dirty world of business. He cites many examples of leaders who have incorporated varying measures of ethics and spirit into their entrepreneurial organizations. Zen philosophy and practice evolved many centuries ago. Contemplative in nature and sudden in awakening, Zen has come to mean for many in the West a serene state of awareness, where the great is perceived and realized in the small; where peace comes from within; where wisdom is without words—defying description, when the darkness of ignorance is dispelled by enlightenment.
Whether Buddhist, Christian, Jew, Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, agnostic, Eastern or Western, anyone can enjoy a “Zen” moment at any time by attuning one’s consciousness to a higher level, by shifting gear, by becoming still and deeply aware. The beauty of meditation practice is that it often spills over into one’s mundane life – even into one’s business enterprise, if thus called upon, enhancing, enriching, inspiring, and affecting the environment for the better. Zentrepreneurship is an excellent and often humorous guide for those wishing to blend entrepreneurship with their higher aspirations, and what better man than Allan Holender to accomplish this! Read the book, and take something of value from it.”
Arran Stephens, founder and CEO of Nature’s Path – North America’s largest organic breakfast foods company

Allan's highly acclaimed speaking presentations on "Creating Passion, Purpose and Profits with Integrity" have gained national attention. His website has become a forum for the world-wide growth of the Zentrepreneurism movement.

For more information about Allan and the Centre for Zentrepreneurism, click here.

To order Zentrepreneurism: A 21st Century Guide to the New World of Business, click here.

SEDONA VORTEX TOUR GUIDES
Mark Amaru Pinkham and Andrea Mikana-Pinkham are Sedona residents who know the Red Rock Country intimately, and will be able to introduce you to the sacred vortex sites that Sedona is famous for, as well as some out of the way places that most tourists never see!

Mark is a popular spiritual teacher, researcher, and author of four ground-breaking books detailing the history, practices and current revival of the Goddess Tradition: The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom, Conversations with the Goddess, The Truth Behind the Christ Myth, and Guardians of the Holy Grail: The Knights Templar, John the Baptist and the Water of Life. 

Mark is the Founder and North American Grand Prior of The International Order of Gnostic Templars, a division of the Scottish Knight Templars dedicated to the revival of Gnostic Wisdom and the teachings of the Goddess Tradition from the Templar tradition. He is also the Founder and Director of its associated school, The Seven Rays of Healing School. In conjunction with Body Mind Spirit Journeys, Mark leads Sacred Journeys to England, India & Sri Lanka, Scotland, Tibet & Nepal, and Sedona. He is a trained Andean Shamanic Practitioner, as well as a Yoga & Meditation instructor, Acupuncturist, & Western and Vedic (Hindu) Astrologer.

Andrea is the Director of Sacred Journeys for Body Mind Spirit Journeys. She is the North American Grand Prioress of The International Order of Gnostic Templars. Andrea leads Sacred Journeys to Egypt, England, Greece, Ireland, France, Peru, Scotland and Peru. She has received extensive shamanic training from various shamen in Peru and North America, and is adept at leading rituals to connect with the Earth, as well as one's inner Spirit. She has been a Reiki practitioner since 1988 and the Reiki Grand Master of the One World Reiki System since 1991. Andrea is an Intuitive Channel. From her years of study in Peru with the Inca Elders she is a Mesa Carrier and Practitioner in the Inca Spiritual Tradition.   

For more information about Mark and Andrea and their work, click here.
 

HIGHLIGHTS - ZENTREAT with Allan Holender

• Zenning Your Business: The Blended Bottom Line

• Zentrepreneurial Leadership: What does it mean?

• What it takes to be a Zentrepreneur

• Discovering Your True Purpose and Passion: "The Ten year Old Project"

• Creating Your Life Plan

HIGHLIGHTS - SACRED JOURNEY

• Share this experience with other like minded people

• Locally escorted by Sedona Residents Mark Amaru Pinkham
  and Andrea Mikana-Pinkham

• Visits to Airport Mesa Vortex, Bell Rock Vortex, Cathedral Rock Vortex and Red Rock Crossing on Oak Creek - four of Sedona's most important vortex sites

• Shamanic rituals and group or private meditation time at the
  vortex sites

• Optional Full Day Excursion to the spectacular Grand Canyon

• Option to book a Jeep Tour, massage, energy work session
  psychic reading, or tarot reading

• Option to visit Sedona's numerous metaphysical shops,
  art galleries, tourist shops, famous Tlaquepague Mexican
  Shopping Village, and more

At Your Retreat Accommodations you will enjoy breathtaking panoramic views of Sedona's main attraction, the majestic Red Rocks. There is no room in the hotel without a view of the world's most acclaimed natural wonders. There is an outdoor heated pool, spa and exercise room. Free concierge service is available to help you book your optional activities. A deluxe continental breakfast is provided daily. Included with your room is a 27-inch television with HBO and in-room movies, as well as free high-speed internet access. The hotel is located in the middle of town, near some of the best restaurants, world class shopping, excellent art galleries, and metaphysical stores. Take time to relax and enjoy a spectacular sunset from the promenade decks at the end of your inspirational and fun-filled days in Sedona!

ZENTREAT & SACRED JOURNEY ITINERARY
(B = Breakfast; L = Lunch; D = Dinner)

Day 1. Sunday, October 5. To Sedona - Welcome Dinner (D)

NOTE: This is a Land Only package. You will need to make your own travel arrangements to Sedona. Options:
1. Fly from your home city to Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, AZ. Please schedule your airline reservations to arrive by 1:00PM in order to meet our 2:00PM shuttle departure. Depart Sky Harbor Airport and transfer north to the beautiful and breathtaking Red Rock Country of Sedona. 
2. Drive on your own to Sedona (credit given off tour package pricing for not using the airport shuttle).

Arrive in Sedona and check into your luxurious hotel in the heart of town. Open the curtains, walk out onto the communal balcony outside your room and gaze at the majestic scene before you. All rooms have a view of the awesome Red Rocks!

Evening "Welcome to Sedona Dinner" and Group Meeting and with your Tour Host and Speaker Allan Holender and your Sedona Vortex Guides & Speakers Andrea and Mark Pinkham.  
                                    Sedona Photo Credit: Judy Nelson www. JudysArtAdventures.com

Day 2. Monday, October 6. Zentreat and Airport Mesa Vortex (B)
Enjoy a delicious breakfast at the hotel. Then your Zentreat with Allan begins!

Zentreat Session # 1: ZENNING YOUR BUSINESS (The Blended Bottom Line): This session delivers six steps to infuse your corporate culture with trust, compassion and purpose. It features transparency in relationships to shareholders, to employees, and to the general public. Transparency is the hallmark of an enterprise that has integrity. Firms that present truthful information, operate openly, and stand behind their word make their risks more manageable.

According to Allan, "People are expecting more from the companies they're doing business with and more from the companies they're buying from".

Zentrepreneurial Leadership: What does it mean?

What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, Zentrepreneurs are to social change. They are the driven, creative individuals, who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up, and remake the world for the better. Social entrepreneurship is the process of recognizing and relentlessly pursuing opportunities to create social value. Zentrepreneurs are innovative, resourceful, and results oriented. They draw upon the best thinking in both the business and nonprofit worlds to develop strategies that maximize their social impact.

These entrepreneurial leaders operate in all kinds of organizations: large and small; new and old; religious and secular; nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid. These organizations comprise the "social sector.

Zentrepreneurism focuses more broadly on innovative, resourceful, and opportunity-oriented responses to social issues, problems, and challenges. We see social entrepreneurship not as a specific tool, method or type of program, but rather as an approach to creating social value that embraces the fundamental principles of entrepreneurship.

This session explains what it takes to be a Zentrepreneur. A look at some of the new heroes of social entrepreneurship, and the growing movement of "green" (and organic) consumers who want to know whether company's products, its manufacturing methods, and its policies respect the integrity of the environment and the people on the planet. Social entrepreneurship is really about applying practical, innovative and sustainable approaches that benefit society in general. The companies that succeed on this path will be on the cutting edge of the new 21st century frontier of doing business.

By the end of the week you will know your true destiny, cause and calling. At which time your identity as a social sector leader will emerge.

Lunch break at noon. Lunch on your own. Sedona offers numerous restaurants with a variety of natural, ethnic and/or continental cuisine. There are some restaurants within walking distance of the hotel or you can book the hotel shuttle to take you to a restaurant and come back to pick you up.

In the afternoon we depart to Airport Mesa Vortex, with magnificent views of the Sedona area. Bring your camera! AND…prepare yourself for a potent time, as this power spot lies at the apex of a triangle uniting three of the four main vortexes. In other words - it's really "charged!" Mark Pinkham will share information about the geological and esoteric history of Sedona. Then he and Andrea will lead an Opening Ceremony to help you begin to connect with the powerful Red Rock energies of Sedona!

Return to the hotel. Free time for rest and integration; don't forget those luscious sunset views from the hotel balcony! Dinner on your own with the group at a local restaurant to celebrate Allan's Birthday!
                                   Airport Mesa Photo Credit: Irv Lefberg www. iflphotogallery.com

Day 3. Tuesday, October 7. Zentreat & Bell Rock Vortex (B)
Awake a bit early today to take in the sunrise from the communal balcony outside your room. Enjoy another great breakfast in the hotel breakfast area. Your second Zentreat day with Allan begins afterwards.

Zentreat Session # 2: DISCOVERING YOUR TRUE PURPOSE AND PASSION: "The Ten Year Old Project"
Theorists have said that whatever we loved to do when we were ten years old, was what we would wind up doing at some point in our life. This would become our true passion and our greatest enjoyment. Until that time, we were just doing our "jobs". What did you love to do when you were ten years old?

This session is about the endless opportunities to leave your footprint, helping you identify the three most important questions in your life:
1) What is your Destiny? 2) What is your Cause? 3) What is your Calling?

You will leave this inspiring session with a clearer understanding of your purpose and your passion.

Lunch break at noon. Lunch on your own.

This afternoon we visit Bell Rock, the great sentinel and beacon of Sedona's principal vortexes. We'll take an easy walk on the formation a short way and enjoy the incredible views! Here, where the upward flowing energies assist to send out prayers and affirmations, Andrea and Mark will lead a Meditation and Ceremony for World Peace.

Return to the hotel. Take time to integrate. Dinner on your own.
                                          Bell Rock Photo Credit: Irv Lefberg www. iflphotogallery.com

Day 4. Wednesday, October 8. Zentreat & Cathedral Rock Vortex (B)
Awake a bit early today to take in the sunrise from the communal balcony outside your room. Enjoy another great breakfast in the hotel breakfast area. Your third Zentreat day with Allan begins afterwards.

Zentreat Session #3: CREATING YOUR LIFE PLAN
After interviewing hundreds of successful Zentrepreneurs, Allan has discovered one surprising note that appears time after time: business success alone does not bring them personal happiness. This is certainly contrary to popular notions about capitalistic dreams, contrary to what most media suggests, contrary to what most CEO's, business owners and high achievers think when starting out.

In this highly interactive session Allan will guide you through ways of assessing your life, about those "aha" moments, and recall past introspective experiences.

Each participant will explore the notion of balance and do a personal assessment of their life, bearing in mind that it's not how you start, it's where you finish.

During the session, participants will explore many forms of introspection using the group's experience as a departure point. The session will involve the undertaking of several small group and individual exercises that will deepen the exploration and surface elements for reflection and introspection. Participants will leave the session with a much clearer picture of themselves and what they are all about.

This work may cause some to increase efforts in business and some to search out meaning in other areas of life. The work will enhance the reflective practice for some and start the journey for others. Each participant will leave with a "Life's Plan", secure in the knowledge that in the process they have also completed a meaningful step towards increasing his or her "Return on Life". And, as is always the case in Allan's workshops, everyone will have fun!

Lunch break at noon. Lunch on your own.

After lunch we visit Cathedral Rock, one of Sedona's most famous vortex sites,   representing beauty and spirituality for people worldwide. We take an easy walk to magnificent vista points.
At a nearby medicine wheel, Andrea and Mark will facilitate a traditional Four Directions Ceremony to harness the energies that abound here, to soothe and balance our body, mind and spirit!
                              Cathedral  Rock Photo Credit: Irv Lefberg www. iflphotogallery.com

Return to the hotel. Dinner on your own and free time to meet with others in the group for lively interchange of ideas from your Zentreat and to share your experiences at the vortex.

Day 5. Thursday, October 9. Red Rock Crossing at Oak Creek & Free Time in Sedona (B)
After breakfast we head out to Red Rock Crossing for a easy walk along Oak Creek. Take in its soothing and calming energies, as well as the incredible views of Cathedral Rock.

At Buddha Beach, you can use the beach rocks in an active meditation to build a small stupa and focus your intent for clarity on an issue in your life. You'll also have private time for individual meditation.

Return to the hotel for another lunch on your own. Then you have an entire afternoon free to explore Sedona on your own! Take a Jeep Tour, enjoy a massage, energy work session, psychic reading, past life regression, or tarot reading. For a bit of Retail Therapy, visit the local metaphysical bookstores or crystal shops. What goodies are awaiting you to take home for yourself or others? Or take in incredible paintings and sculptures at some of the finest art galleries in the Southwest. Dinner on your own.

Day 6. Friday, October 10. Optional Full Day Excursion to the Grand Canyon (includes lunch) OR Free Day in Sedona; Farewell Dinner (B/D)

Take the optional full day excursion to the Grand Canyon, considered by the ancient Hopi people of the area to be the great womb of Mother Earth.

Designated a National Monument in 1908, a National Park in 1919 and a World Heritage Site in 1979, it is one of the most spectacular examples of erosion anywhere in the world, and is unmatched in the incomparable vistas it offers. Enjoy your boxed lunch, then take the park service bus along the breathtaking canyon rims. Walk in beauty and peace! Who knows?? Maybe you'll be blessed by a visit from one of the giant Condors that swoop over the canyon rim! Return to the hotel early evening in time for our farewell dinner.

OR, you have a free day in Sedona for more exploration and enjoyment on your own. (Lunch on your own.) Ifyou'd like to rent a car for a day, there are several points of interest nearby to explore. The old mining town of Jerome in the hills above nearby Clarkdale, known as "America's Most Vertical City" and "Largest Ghost Town in America" is a current day mecca for artists and ghost hunters. West Fork State Park on 89A towards Flagstaff has many beautiful hiking trails that wind through the canyons and along Oak Creek. Montezuma's Well located close to the nearby small town of Rimrock. The Well is a natural limestone sinkhole through which some 1,400,000 gallons of water flow each day. The Well's outflow has been used for irrigation since the 8th century. Part of a prehistoric canal is preserved at the picnic ground, and portions of the original Hohokam canal are still in use today. In 1968, Montezuma Well was the subject of the first ever underwater archaeological survey to take place in a National Park, lead by archaeologist George R Fischer.

We gather this evening for our Farewell Dinner, a time to enjoy a meal of delicious Southwest cuisine, share with each other our visions, hopes and dreams that we will be taking home from mystical and magical Sedona.

Day 7. Saturday, October 10. Depart Sedona (B)

After breakfast, depart on the shuttle for Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix to connect with your afternoon flight home. We recommend that you do not book your flight to depart before 1:00PM.  Or, depart on your own.

NOTE: This itinerary subject to change due to conditions beyond our control.

TOUR PRICES:
** SAVE! You will receive a 5% discount if ALL payments are made by check or money order.
Prices in red below reflect this discount.
 

TOUR REGISTRATION

Group is open to 14 participants.

Registration closes September 5, 2008,
or sooner if the group fills before that date.
Book NOW to reserve your place and avoid disappointment.

To print out a flyer and registration form for the
Zentreat & Sacred Journey to SEDONA,
please click here

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If you have questions, or need help registering,
please call Andrea Mikana-Pinkham,
Director - Sacred Journeys Division, Body Mind Spirit Journeys
800 231-9811 or 928 284-2384
Or, email info@BodyMindSpiritJourneys.com

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Travel with us on more than one tour in a year
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