Meet Michele

Hi, I’m Michele, founder of Sedona Meditation Experiences.

I’ve been exploring meditation for most of my life. It started when I was a freshman at a Catholic high school in Indiana in the 1980s. An Indian man in our community offered a meditation workshop at my school, and I was immediately intrigued. I was fascinated by the Beatles and their journey to India to learn meditation, so naturally, I wanted to know what this was all about.

Over the years, I explored different practices and tried—with varying degrees of success—to teach myself more “formal” meditation. I was interested in it, but I often felt like I was trying to figure out how to do it correctly.

Then I came to Sedona in 1997.

Something changed here. Meditation stopped feeling like something I was trying to do and started feeling completely natural. I would sit outside in the beautiful desert, get quiet, tune into the landscape and simply meditate.

And that’s essentially what I help people do now.

You don’t have to be an experienced meditator to work with me.

My job is to offer some context, teach and guide when it’s useful, and create enough space for you to settle in and pay attention—to the landscape, to yourself, and perhaps to something a little harder to name.

I often tell people, “You’re in the right place.” Because everyone is new in some way. Maybe meditation is new to you. Maybe meditating outdoors is new. Maybe you’ve practiced for twenty years but have never meditated in Sedona or had someone else hold the space for your practice.

I pay attention to who’s in front of me. Some people want instruction. Some want to explore a new practice. Some want to understand Sedona and its vortex energy. And sometimes an experienced meditator simply needs me to stop talking and let them meditate.

There isn’t one right way to experience any of this.

I absolutely believe there’s something special about this place.

I’ve lived in Sedona for more than twenty years, and I still feel it. There’s an ease here in dropping into stillness, peace and connection. Is that because of Sedona’s vortexes? The extraordinary landscape? Something spiritual?

I don’t know. And I don’t really need to know.

I love the old Celtic idea of a thin place—a place where the veil between the everyday world and the spiritual world seems a little thinner. That description has always resonated with me.

I won’t tell you what you’re supposed to feel in Sedona. There’s no secret checklist of vortex sensations and no test you have to pass to “get it.” You might experience the energy physically or emotionally. You might find yourself unusually quiet. You might become completely absorbed in the red rocks, the wind in the trees or the sound of a raven overhead.

Sedona invites our intuition to come out to play.

What that means for you is yours to discover.

At the beginning of an experience, I often ask: What do you hope to walk away with today?

My hope is that whatever intention you bring gets a chance to take root.

But I have a hope of my own, too.

I hope you leave feeling a little more connected—to yourself, to the natural world and to the wildness of that world within you. I hope you experience some peace, interconnection and wonder. I hope spending quiet time in this extraordinary landscape makes you care about the natural world a little more.

And perhaps, in some small way, I hope you wake up to your own spiritual nature.

Not because I told you what it is. Because you experienced something for yourself.

I’m a certified Meditation and Mindfulness Instructor through the McLean Meditation Institute and a certified Ancestral Healing Practitioner through Ancestral Medicine.

My formal meditation training gave me something especially valuable: language for experiences I had already been exploring for years. It helped me learn how to explain abstract concepts, make meditation accessible, and guide people with very different levels of experience.

But technique is never the point for me. Meditation is a way of becoming quiet enough to notice.

And after all these years, that simple act of paying attention—outdoors, in this remarkable place—is still at the heart of what I do.

Come curious. I’ll meet you there.

Host Your Experience: Create Signature Experiences that Attract Clients without the Salesy Hustle

After years of creating and facilitating experiences in Sedona, I wrote Host Your Experience to help others turn what they know and love into meaningful experiences of their own.

The philosophy behind the book is the same one that shapes Sedona Meditation Experiences: create the conditions, pay attention to the people in front of you, and make room for something meaningful to happen.