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.

Articles, Blogs, and Blurb Websites

Across the vast universe of the internet are thousands of sites dedicated to indexing and linking weblogs and personal pages. From short blurbs to lengthy indexes, these sites display an incredible variety of quantity as well as quality. The well-known www.Technorati.com and many similar websites serve as search engines for the millions of blogs within the web. Other sites, like www.blurbosphere.com and www.blurbosphere.net, play their role as directories that list categories similar to search engines and host huge lists of websites that carry blogs and articles worth discovering. Still others provide a place for website owners to list a short description of their website ala DMOZ. One human-edited site that falls into this category is www.visitalink.com, relatively new to the scene and building steadily.

Real Estate - Local and Around The Globe

The real estate market in Sedona is unique for a number of reasons - the limited amount of private land available (the city is surrounded by National Forest lands on all sides), a strong market of wealthy retirees interested in Sedona, the steady growth of second home owners (even third, fourth,..) and of course Sedona's natural setting itself as a magnet to buyers. Other beautiful locations around the globe have their own specific criteria affecting market prices and some mimic Sedona and vice versa. Aspen, Santa Fe, Santa Barbara, Vancouver, Calgary, certain island resort towns, and many others have natural beauty combined with particular local elements that set them apart from other geographical and metropolitan areas. Calgary, Canada has developed into a natural setting destination that reflects the increased interest in the Western Lifestyle - open space, nature, and freedom. A new acquaintance of mine owns and operates a Calgary real estate blog and directory at www.calgaryrealestatedirect.com and has numerous links to land, homes, and properties in Canada's Old West region. For one of Europe's premier vacation and party destinations, take a look at Ibiza's resort destination real estate at www.ibizapropertysearch.com. Ibiza has been one of the Mediterranean island spots for enjoying life in the sun and surf for many years and continues to rule for those who like the social scene as well.