ABOUT RETREAT SEDONA

Retreat Sedona has a core team of individuals who direct the day-to-day focus of the company and are on hand at each retreat (depending upon theme and location). Collectively, the wide variety of experience amongst the team members ensures your retreat, whether individual or corporate, exceeds your expectations.

The team

Retreat Sedona is owned and operated by Lori Tierney, who has spent over twenty years in and around the Sedona area studying Native American spiritual practices, local geomancy and sacred sites.

Lori is an artist, writer, and avid student of yoga, Feng Shui practitioner, spiritual counselor, and Reiki master-healer. She conducts one-on-one sessions and workshops for clients on finding balance and uncovering their own inner creativity. It is her belief that there is a painting/story inside of everyone just waiting to be revealed. Lori's own abstract paintings are spontaneous and capture the moment and have been featured in the Sedona Journal of Emergence, on MSNBC and in Los Angeles area galleries. 



Lori studied Feng Shui at the International Feng Shui Research Center, in Boulder, Colorado under Feng Shui Master, Roger Green, of Australia. Her knowledge combines such disciplines as Form and Compass Schools, Chinese Astrology/Four Pillars and Black Hat Sect Feng Shui. As a Reiki Master, Intuitive and Energy worker, Lori's metaphysical experience affords her clients tools and guidance for attaining personal growth and balance. Lori's clients include individuals and corporations in the fields of government, entertainment, high technology and business.

Lori has spent over thirty years in corporate industry leading sales, marketing, branding management, project management, sustainable building practices and interior design. 
A board member of numerous public agency and private non-profit organizations, including five years as Co-Chair of the Sustainability Summit, on behalf of the Los Angeles Business Council, she was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre, in Los Angeles, a non-profit foundation for the arts and serves as an Advisor to the Board of the Joshua Tree Retreat Center. As a writer, Lori has created the story and treatment for a new television series, "Cougar Yoga," and is currently preparing to release a full-length memoir, "Cougar Yoga," in book form.

Lori's original oil paintings range from the figurative to the visionary abstract, as the artist's works defy typecasting via a categorized "signature style". Rather, each image is spontaneously created in the moment, capturing the essence of Spirit. Her images reflect her own desire to uplift the viewer with a visual vibrational frequency that encompasses the sacred geometrical building blocks of the creative source within us all. Lori's "Alien Diva of Roswell", was featured on MSNBC as the official image for the Roswell, New Mexico crash site 25th Anniversary commemorative media event. A poster of the original is available at the historical site and at this web site. Read famed trance channel medium, Robert Shapiro's, excerpt from the Sedona Journal of Emergence on the Alien Diva of Roswell.

Additional credits include Walt Disney Studios- Nawal Productions Scenic Artist, South American Tour of Disney on Parade, CNN's Millennium Moment, The Modern Art Gallery, Los Angeles, International Millennium Exhibit, US Green Building Council and Herman Miller Workplace Resource holiday greeting card. Lori consults for a number of private individuals and corporate clients by referral.

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Betsy Klein's Betsy Klein started her career in corporate marketing where she worked for over fifteen years with major consumer package goods companies. In addition to her corporate work, she channeled her desire to help others into charitable organizations and has received many awards for her efforts. For three years she served as the Marketing Chair on the Board of Directors of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation-Orange County Affiliate. Other contributions include serving with Working Wardrobes and the American Cancer Society. The White House recognized all of Betsy's volunteer efforts when she was awarded the highly esteemed President's Service and Volunteer Award in 2008.

In 2007, Betsy decided she wanted to finally pursue one of her goals of being self employed and left the agency to start her own business with her partner—a commercial advertising photography studio. Additionally she began working as a marketing consultant for Retreat Sedona, which allowed her to finally nurture her spiritual side.

Since then Betsy has been helping people find their spiritual selves through retreats, workshops/events, angel card readings, and crystal healing. Her specialty is helping women with unconditional love—for themselves and others—and healing relationships (friends, lovers, family members, etc.). Her experiences have inspired a novel which she is currently writing which speaks to the importance of having unconditional love for one self first before one can love others unconditionally. Also as a follower and believer in the Law of Attraction, Betsy joined the Global Information Network and lends some credit to her involvement in GIN to helping her create the life of her dreams. Inspired she created TheSmartGal (www.thesmartgal.com and www.thesmartgal.com/blog) to share her experiences and hopes it helps other women pursue their passion as well.

Retreat Sedona’s Native American tour guide, Larry Sprague, has been leading sacred tours in Sedona for over twenty years. Larry is a shaman and medicine wheel facilitator trained in Native teachings by tribal elders from Lakota and Cherokee tribes. Larry has personally studied with the Hopi and other indigenous people in Sedona and Northern Arizona. Larry spent the last nine years as the tour guide with Earth Wisdom Tours in Sedona and was featured in the New York Times as well as Arizona Highways and Sunset Magazine. He is the premiere tour guide in Sedona! His tours are enlightening, informative and personally transformational.

Larry can be contacted by phone at 928-300-6221 or email at LarrySprague@yahoo.com

Andres Salcedo is an accomplished yoga teacher and leader of Kirtan and his teaching style promotes equanimity traveling through the principles of yoga as a therapy, embracing students to trust their own experience with sensitivity and intimacy as they find the perfect yoga, the one that is right for each one of them as unique human beings.

Andres has been featured in numerous yoga magazines and has been see on different TV networks around the world. His training includes over a decade of power yoga with Bryan Kest (founder of Power Yoga), Bhakti (yoga of the heart), with Govindas, Jai Uttal and Krihna Das, Hatha yoga with Mark Whitwell and Vipasna Meditation with S.A. Goenka. His ecstatic Kirtan and retreats have facilitated the opening of thousands of hearts around the planet.

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Jim White believes that nothing is impossible! Springing from a small town in Iowa, Jim completed B.A. and M.Ed. degrees to build the foundation for pursuing professional career opportunities that took him from the U.S. to Europe to Australia. Ultimately settling in downtown Los Angeles, Jim has been a pioneering resident on the forefront of the loft development scene.

Jim seeks only to view the potential in people and places, and has a committed long-time record in community involvement and philanthropic development in L.A.'s burgeoning city center. Jim co-created and is a principal in downtown L.A.'s premier real estate, travel and lifestyle company called Ultimate Life Living. The company name really is a metaphor for Jim's greater vision for our world and his belief that every person deserves to live an "ultimate life." In those efforts, Jim directs funding support from his various enterprises towards the nonprofit downtown Los Angeles organization Beyond Shelter, whose mission is to develop systemic approaches to combat poverty and homelessness among families with children.

Jim is a multi-tasker on many levels. He holds the position of Vice President of Human Resources at Paramount Pictures and recently authored a book called THE WORLD IS A SAFE PLACE. As a facilitator and guest lecturer on the Retreat Sedona team Jim challenges all people everywhere to join him in making a difference in our world!

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Bryan Peterson has always believed in blazing a trail towards the farthest star in the expectation that he’ll at least get halfway to it! Having grown up on a Southern Minnesota farm, right after high school Bryan followed his dreams of seeing big cities, visiting faraway places and meeting culturally diverse people.

His college studies in Communications and Liberal Arts took him from Minneapolis to Phoenix to Heidelberg, Germany, and even to Jerusalem, Israel. Bryan’s professional career pursuits have been equally wide-ranging and determinedly concentrated in the arts. Ultimately settling in Los Angeles for 25 years, for 20 of them Bryan worked as a high-level corporate writer, and also followed his passion of producing theatre and numerous music events. He is a principal in Our Story Productions—a company that provides unique television programming for over 1,000,000 households in communities in the Upper Midwest—and serves as Managing Editor of the entertaining bimonthly magazine, The Road to OUR STORY.

Bryan’s home-base is now in Princeville, Kauai, where he manages the onsite operations and programs for Retreat Sedona’s location on Kauai’s magnificent North Shore. Bryan edited the recently released book Anahola: Kauai’s Mystic Hawaiian Village and is currently co-authoring the second in a trilogy of metaphysical books called THE MIDDLE OF FOREVER. Bryan creates dreams and is ever grateful to live the reality of them on a daily basis!