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ABOUT US

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OUR STORY


Seeking Sacred Journeys was born out of a shared passion for traveling to exotic locations, a thirst for spiritual wisdom, and a reverence for experiencing the ancient, metaphysical practices and mystical traditions of indigenous cultures throughout the world. We believe that connection to the sacred can unlock the mysteries of the universe and facilitate healing, bliss and inspired purpose. When we explore the world outside, we inevitably end up exploring the one inside, and our horizons expand in all directions.

The vision of Seeking Sacred Journeys was a shared dream brought to fruition by Rebecca Baldwin and Sheri Eckert in 2018, before Sheri's time on the physical realm had closed its circle. Her spirit lives in the heart of our mission, and the passion of our purpose.


 WHAT IS A SACRED JOURNEY?

THE THREE PILLARS OF OUR JOURNEYS INCLUDE:


SISTERHOOD

Meet your soul tribe! Women who are connected to you and to each other at the level of soul. Women of all ages, races, religions, shapes, sizes and levels of experience who are seeking the sacred both within and without.

SPIRITUALITY

Immerse yourself in sacred ceremony and ritual…expand and awaken your spiritual essence through a blend of ancient and modern practices. Open your heart and connect deeply with the Source of All That Is.

SACRED SELF

Rekindle the fire within you... remember your magic and your power. It’s time to reclaim your sacred Feminine energy, express your authenticity and experience the truth of who you are - an infinite and eternal soul with limitless potential.


Which wellness experience is right for you?


WHO ARE OUR WOMEN’S SPIRITUAL RETREATS FOR?

Our Retreats Are For You If You Are...

  • An Awakening Woman who wants to connect with a loving, supportive tribe of sisters - and cultivate more joy, flow, spaciousness, resilience and balance.

  • A Conscious Woman yearning to refill your cup with nourishing self-love, deep physical relaxation, powerful mental and emotional restoration and complete body, mind and spirit rejuvenation.

  • A Wise Woman seeking a deeper connection to yourself and the Divine, ready to create miracles and magic in your life through the art of feminine receiving, intuition and desire.

We invite, welcome and honor women of any spiritual background, age, race or level of experience. Our commonality does not lie in our age or race or even our spiritual beliefs - it is a connection from the heart at the level of soul. We honor each woman's life experience and know that every one of us carries unique wisdom and divine feminine essence.


 
Seeking the sacred starts with remembering that you ARE the beloveds. The divine manifestations of all that is holy, that is connected to the wholeness of everything. Sacred journeys are about the reconnection to self and the cosmic powers which flow from and with Source.

When you place yourself in high vibrational surroundings with people who want to explore the enigma of the universe and tap into the mysteries of life, you often find yourself awakening in a deep and profound way to the collective oneness of life force .
— SHERI BESSI-ECKERT, MA,PC
 
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MEET OUR TEAM


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Rebecca Baldwin, Founder & Visionary

As a Transformational Spiritual Coach, Rebecca is honored to help her clients create whole-hearted, soul infused, and more expansive lives. Through her international retreats, personal coaching and group mentoring, Rebecca empowers women (and a few good men) to embrace their authenticity, trust their intuition, reclaim self-love and expand into fullness of being. Her work acts as a catalyst to ignite the remembering of who we are at the level of soul— and deepens our understanding of how our journey on the physical plane facilitates spiritual growth and evolution.

Rebecca incorporates the mystery of the Tarot, connection to Spiritual Guides and knowledge of ancient, metaphysical truths in a journey of self-discovery and awakening to the infinite and eternal nature of the Soul. Through guiding clients to reclaim their Divine sacred essence and connect through oneness with the I AM PRESENCE, they experience miraculous shifts in perception, offering freedom from suffering and experiencing more compassion, grace and joy.

Rebecca is a certified Transformational Coach and has completed over 400 hours of yoga teacher training and graduated from The Southwest Institute of Healing Arts as a Mind/Body Wellness Practitioner. She honed her intuitive gifts through traveling the globe, dwelling in numerous ashrams and spiritual communities and studying with the world renowned medium, Lisa Williams, as well as the spiritual master, Marianne Williamson.

She is also a devoted student of Amrit Desai (Gurudev) and the teachings of "I AM Yoga".

Rebecca is the creator of "The Spiritual Compass with Rebecca Baldwin and loves sharing the esoteric wisdom inherent in all things magical and mystical.

Tricia Dimon, Co-Founder, Certified Breathwork and Past Life Regressions Facilitator

Her journey is a testament to the transformative power of embracing one's true purpose and spirituality. From building a successful multimillion-dollar business over two decades to navigating the challenges of addiction and rediscovering her path, Tricia's story is one of resilience, growth, and profound spiritual awakening. After experiencing a life-altering spiritual revelation many years ago, but not altering her life accordingly is what led her to destructive behaviors. Despite the success of her business, she felt a deep longing for a deeper connection with the universe and her own spiritual essence.

Attending a post-pandemic retreat with Rebecca Baldwin and Seeking Sacred Journeys served as a catalyst for igniting her spiritual journey, and to receiving the messages of the universe.

Using Breathwork and Past Life Regressions as her modalities, and by becoming a certified facilitator under the guidance of renowned mentors Anthony Abbagnano, and Amy Rachelle of Alchemy of Breath, and Dolores Canon’s Qhht method, she uses her unique blend of conscious connected breathwork, spiritual channeling, and intuitive guidance, to help individuals worldwide connect with their true selves, gain clarity, and transform their lives. Breathwork and Hypnosis aid individuals in healing past traumas, and embracing their innate potential. Tricia's commitment to her own growth and authenticity shines through in her work, as she travels the globe facilitating breathwork on retreats and offering online sessions to individuals seeking their own transformation and spiritual connection.

Outside of her work, Tricia finds joy in her role “Moo" to her beloved grandchildren and time with her family. Her journey is a testament to the power of embracing one's true calling and living life with purpose, passion, and spiritual awareness.

Angela McKinney

, Retreat Leader & Trauma Informed

Practitioner

For the past twenty years, Angela McKinney has been transforming people's lives, including her own, as a practitioner, educator, and somatic guide. Angela is an addiction recovery expert and speaker on habits, decision-making, and continuous growth. Her 3-Step mind-body system, The Untangle Method, combines research in the neurobiology of trauma with a creative approach to improving the quality of our lives.

Angela has engineered this method by posing and researching such questions: How can our fragility become reshaped into resources of resilience? How can we become safe enough to engage our lives from a place of authenticity and help our bodies, minds, and spirits receive successes (both large and small)? How can we negotiate the space between the part of us that is terrified of change and the part of us that is hungry for change to build an integrated, whole system?

Untangle & Thrive is led by Angela McKinney, and her core commitment to herself and to you is to become the change you wish to seek from the world; happy, healthy, and thriving. In addition to being a certified coach and registered financial advisor, Angela received her clinical psychology degree from Antioch University and hopes to begin a Ph.D. in Integrative Therapy in 2022.

Her book, Untangle: How to Create Big Possibilities Through Small Changes, guides readers through this process with accessible, sensitive lessons and candid stories. To read the preface, click here. Through her podcasts, international retreats, recovery programs, online courses, and work with private clients, Angela’s expertise and personal experience support others to realize their best life.

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Chelsea Brooks, Yoga & Adventure Journey Leader

Chelsea has been practicing yoga for over two decades and is a certified, advanced Yoga Nidra facilitator. In 2017, she acted on a desire to deepen her practice and made the commitment to temporarily move to Amorgos Greece for an intensive 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training. Through that training and those that came after, she experienced the extraordinary physical, mental, and emotional impacts of practicing yoga both on and off the mat.

Chelsea continues her professional training with certificates in Trauma Informed Yoga, I AM Yoga Nidra, Aqua Kriya Yoga, and Myofascial Release Yoga.  Through these methods, she is dedicated to helping others connect with a personal yoga practice that balances the physical with the mental and helps them release and heal the symptoms of PTSD, addiction, stress, and depression. Enabling her to work with veterans and first responders to support their personal growth and healing. Whether Chelsea is teaching a beginner, a vigorous Vinyasa flow, Self-awakening Yoga, Myofascial Release, or Yoga Nidra class, students can expect to explore their strengths, work on a personal focus, and learn to find their own balance on and off the mat.

The practice of Yoga Nidra has become her love and passion. For those who may not have experienced it, Yoga Nidra is a sleep based meditation technique that allows you to increase the healing potential of the body and access the bliss body where your internal programing and invisible impressions are held.  Through Nidra everyone can experience a profound relaxation response that enables balance and restoration of the parasympathetic nervous system which works at the root to prevent excess stress from coming back.  It is proven to reduce the symptoms of PTSD, addiction, stress, depression and anxiety and insomnia.  

Chelsea leads our Yoga & Adventure Wellness Journys and is available for private instruction, group classes, lectures, and trauma counseling.

Liisa Hamalainen, Yoga & Pilates Teacher

Liisa is a Stott Pilates Instructor, an Ayurveda Lifestyle Advisor, Breathwork facilitator and is RYT certified to teach Dynamic yoga (which creatively blends the principles of Ashtanga and lyengar with meditation and breath.)

As a former professional Ballerina, Liisa spent a lifetime around movement and physicality. She discovered that Pilates was a great tool to help her body get stronger when injured but also an amazing method to create a strong mind-body connection. The transition from Ballet to Pilates was a natural one for her and after becoming certified as a Stott Pilates instructor, she created a thriving Pilates practice.

However, through working with her clients, and from her own journey to healing, Liisa understood the need to gain additional tools to access and heal the mind and the spirit in addition to the body. She was called to study Yoga, Ayurveda, and Breathwork techniques and to share these healing practices with others. She was amazed at what she saw in herself and in her clients as she began teaching and practicing an Ayurvedic lifestyle, yoga, on and off the mat, and Breathwork techniques. These techniques calm the mind and nervous system, heal digestion, bring the body into sync with the natural rhythms of nature, release trapped emotions and trauma, and deepen connection and alignment with Self and the flow of life. Her goal is to forward these powerful tools, knowledge, and practices to others.

Of her teaching, Liisa says, “I love to inspire, motivate and help other people to become the most authentic, pure, and the best version of themselves. My teaching addresses the root cause of dis-balance and dis-harmony within, by working equally on all the layers of self; physical, mental, and spiritual… I believe that only then we can truly transform and heal.”

In her own words, Liisa says, “Participating on retreats was very important on my own healing journey. They allowed me to disconnect from distractions and create a pure, trusting, and loving connection with myself. Most importantly, it helped me find a safe space and supportive community where I could peel off all the layers and masks and get the tools to access the deep healing states. From all the retreats I participated, I always gained incredible practices for healing, deep insights about myself, had amazing eye-opening experiences, and connected to a loving and supportive community.”

 

Anja We, Facilitator, Mentor and Wisdom-Sharer

Anja’s mission work as a spiritual mentor, shaman and highly empathic and intuitive soul, has led her to hold space in a variety of forms for hundreds of clients from all over the world. Her approach is deeply transformative, mystical and balanced in her grounded, joyful, and innocent nature. As a multidimensional medium and embodiment of Love, she bridges the realms of the earthly, with the realms of the divine, through her purity of heart.

Over a decade ago Anjas spiritual awakening and journey of self-development started and she faced her own shadows from ancestral distortions, trauma and past-life patterns which needed release and healing before embarking on her path of helping others to find their way back to truth of who they are.

Traveling, spiritual retreats and community gatherings have been one of the main catalysts for Anja’s growth. While traveling all over the world she studied with spiritual mentors, health practitioners and coaches and enhanced her learning through organic soul remembrance through connecting to the land, animals and the whole cosmos.

Working with spiritual mentor, A. Oeklkers, Anja embarked on a deep initiation into a shamanism and energy work becoming a Healer of the New Age. She continued to deepen her space holding work as a former healing tattoo artist, a teacher, healer and mentor for clients in 1:1 and group settings, holding womens circles with channeled transmissions, meditations, breathwork, and embodiment practices through both off and online events.

Anja believes that “embedded in all of us lies a divine spark of Creation connecting us with the All. We can CREATE anything. ((Or is it everything?)) We can BE anything. We can lift the veils, magnetize abundance and shift our whole reality beyond everything we have been conditioned to believe. But we have to be ready to be our own masters and surrounded -heart to heart- by a group of likeminded tribe of lovers, seekers and well educated mentors, who are holding dedicated space to help you do the same. This is the path that will allow you to rise out of your shadows and into your full potential in no time.”

She further states, “Love your failures, love your successes. Be in childlike wonder of every aspect of life. Honor every emotion and love it back into wholeness. Dream wild and colorful, beautiful Soul! EVERYTHING is possible. I’m gladly here, helping you remember and having fun while doing so.”

Natacha Correa, Marketing and Operations Manager

Originally from Argentina, Natacha has 20+ years of experience specializing in international business ‎and marketing. She has experience working in the United States, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, and ‎Israel in the areas of digital marketing, system administration, social media, product marketing (for ‎both B2B and B2C), SEO, marketing automation, email marketing, and operations. Natacha graduated ‎from Florida International University with a BA in International Business and Marketing. ‎

Her passion for traveling took her to all corners of the world where she immersed herself in diverse ‎cultures, exquisite cuisines, embraced the local traditions, and learned the languages. She is now living ‎in Antwerp, Belgium, learning Dutch, enjoying delicious chocolate, and aiding Seeking Sacred Journeys ‎in their mission to reach and uncover more places in this beautiful world.

 

Sheri Eckert, Co-Founder,

Seeking Sacred Journeys was first envisioned by Sheri Eckert as a means to fulfill her lifelong love of helping others to heal and expand their awareness of their innate Divinity and infinite potential. When she was with us in physical form, she acted as an inspiration and guiding light for many. She dedicated her life to service as a Professional Counselor, Public Speaker, and the Chief Petitioner of Oregon’s historic and globally acknowledged 2020 PSI Ballot Initiative.

She spread love and light through her writing on a New Way of Thinking and Dear Human and served as the Executive Director of Innerwork Portland where she offered Psycho-Spiritual Counseling in private and group practice. We miss and love her greatly….but know that wherever in the cosmos her travels have taken her, she is dancing with the stars and continuing to shine brightly.