Spiritual Sedona, Arizona bursting with vibes

Tara Isabella Burton (Guardian, 1/17); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

What will right-samadhi bring?

America’s New Age capital is brimming with tours, classes, and shops offering spiritual healing, but its most uplifting aspect is its dramatic setting amid rust-colored mesas and buttes.

Locals call Sedona, Arizona, a cathedral without walls. It’s not just the landscape – those red cliffs, mesas rearing up against a crisp and empty sky, that inspired Hollywood producers of the 1930s and 40s to shoot Westerns such as Broken Arrow and Stagecoach in the area.

Three million tourists a year come to this town of barely 10,000, nestled among towering rusty sandstone rock formations in the northern Verde Valley.

Many of these visitors are pilgrims, particularly at this time of year [winter], headed to Arizona in search of spiritual renewal. More (COMMENTS)