Author: Sedona Best

Spiritual Sedona Guide: Your First Woo-Curious Trip to the Red Rocks This spiritual Sedona guide is for the curious but not converted. You have seen the Instagram posts. The red rocks glowing at sunset. The woman meditating on a cliff edge. The crystals, the sage, the aura photos. Something about it pulled at you, and now you are actually going to Sedona. But here is the thing nobody tells you: you do not have to be spiritual, believe in vortexes, or own a single crystal to have a genuinely transformative experience here. This guide is for the person who is…

Sedona Vortex Tours: Are They Worth It? Sedona vortex tours are one of the biggest decisions every visitor faces: should I book a guided vortex tour, or should I just go to the sites myself? The vortexes are on public land. The trailheads are well-marked. Parking is available. Why pay $150 to $400 for a guide? The answer — like most things in Sedona — is more nuanced than it appears. We have been watching the vortex tour industry evolve since the early 1990s, and we can tell you that for some visitors, a guided tour is the difference between…

Full Moon Sedona: Ceremonies, Gatherings and Where to Watch A full moon Sedona experience is unlike anywhere else on Earth. But a full moon rising over Sedona’s red rocks is a different animal entirely. The sandstone formations catch the moonlight and glow silver and copper simultaneously, the desert air is so clear that you can see every crater on the lunar surface, and something about the combination of vortex energy and lunar energy makes the whole town hum. Full moon Sedona tourism is a real phenomenon, and if you can plan your trip around the lunar calendar, you should. Here…

Sedona Native American History: The Sacred Roots of the Red Rocks Sedona native american history stretches back thousands of years — long before anyone called these formations vortexes, the red rocks were sacred. The spiritual identity that draws millions of visitors to this valley every year did not begin with the New Age movement of the 1980s. It began thousands of years ago with the Indigenous peoples who lived here, prayed here, built their homes into these cliff faces, and understood this landscape as alive with power. Understanding Sedona native american history is not just respectful — it is essential.…

Sedona New Age Shops: The Insider Guide to Metaphysical Shopping Sedona new age shops are a world unto themselves — and a world you need to experience. Walk into any of the town’s New Age shops and you will find things you did not know existed, things you cannot explain, and things that will somehow end up in your suitcase despite your best intentions. This guide goes beyond crystals. While our Crystal Shops Guide covers the stone-specific shopping experience, this piece is about everything else: the tarot decks, the singing bowls, the incense, the books, the handmade ritual tools, and…

Chakra Balancing Sedona: What It Is and Why Everyone’s Doing It Here Chakra balancing Sedona style is one of the most popular healing experiences in town. Here is a sentence you will hear in Sedona that you will almost certainly never hear in your hometown: “My heart chakra blew wide open at Cathedral Rock.” And the person saying it will not be joking. Chakra work has always been part of Sedona’s spiritual fabric, but in recent years it has gone from niche practice to mainstream wellness activity. Whether you are a devoted yoga practitioner or someone who just learned the…

Energy Healing Sedona: Your No-BS Local Guide Sedona has been a magnet for healers since long before the New Age movement put the town on the spiritual map. The Yavapai-Apache and Sinagua people used this land for ceremonies and healing for centuries before anybody coined the word “vortex.” Today, you cannot throw a piece of rose quartz in Sedona without hitting an energy healer — and the sheer variety of modalities available here would make your head spin. This guide is for anyone who has ever looked at a Sedona wellness menu and thought, “I do not know what any…

Sound Bath Sedona: What to Expect and Where to Go If you had told us in 1992 that “lie on the floor while someone plays singing bowls at you” would become one of the most in-demand wellness experiences in America, we would have laughed. But here we are in 2026, and sound baths have gone fully mainstream — and Sedona is arguably the best place in the country to experience one. The combination of red rock acoustics, vortex energy (if that is your thing), and world-class practitioners creates something that is hard to replicate in a yoga studio back home.…

Sedona Psychic Readings: The Honest Local’s Guide Psychic readings Sedona visitors seek out are unlike anything else in the country. Let us get one thing out of the way: Sedona has more psychics per square mile than probably anywhere in the United States, and they are not all created equal. Some are genuinely gifted practitioners who have honed their craft over decades — and the best psychic readings Sedona has to offer come from these people. Some are recent transplants riding the Sedona brand. And some are, well, let us just say they read from a fairly generic script. After…