Preparing for your first pilgrimage starts when you set the intention to journey. As a holistic practice, it involves preparing your mind, body, and spirit for what’s coming. While each pilgrim and pilgrimage is different, I will share some tips to help you make...
I travel often and take others on spiritual journeys. Every tour is rejuvenating. Every experience provides growth. Every one helps me to feel both more grounded and connected with everything else. There is always a theme. Usually, I decide ahead of time and set that...
I’m not surprised when I go to a spiritual destination and fall in love. I wrote about it in Peru and also in Cornwall. There is something heart opening about Nature and places steeped in prayer that it’s challenging to not blossom there. And yet, it did...
I had been facilitating spiritual tours a while before I asked myself, “What makes a sacred site juicy to all people all the time?” Answer- ley lines and vortices. It’s still a hypothesis I am testing out, but I really think that is the key to a spiritual destination...
I think lots of people are drawn to non-mainstream spiritual paths because they feel it gives them a purpose. Spirituality won’t give you a purpose. You have to look within and find that for yourself. It can, however, give you a path to go about...
Are you worried about breaking up over spiritual beliefs? When you come out as “spiritual,” some relationships may end. Many spiritual paths say that theirs is the one and only way. Their history is “kill or convert” so they don’t tolerate or try to...
The last few years of spiritual travel have been very different from when I started. In the beginning, Americans had a reputation of not having passports and not being travelers. Not only is that not true of Americans now, it seems as though the whole world has been...
I recently went to the Holy Island and wanted to walk the Pilgrim’s Way from the Holy Island. Everything I could find online was about walking the Pilgrim’s Path from the mainland to the island. As I have just completed this walk, I will share all my tips...
Tak-a-ta, tak-a-ta, tak-a-ta. The wind battered flag tapped out a rhythm into the air, inviting me to dance. Yes, I’d play. I’d seen this scene so many times, but never like this. And I needed something to put the smile back into my heart and the warmth into this...
I went to Peru and fell in love. No, not with a person, but with life… and perhaps myself a bit. It happened so gradually that I didn’t even know it was happening until I got back home. Peru makes you slow down. You can’t hurry because of the altitude. There is not...
