The rock formations shine in coral shades, flamingo pink, bronze, purple and burgundy depending on the time of day. The vivid colors of "red rock country" are due to iron content in the sandstone and limestone.
The first nomadic Indians felt a spiritual connection with these picks, especially with the Boynton Canyon, a sacred place to the Navajo, Apache Yavapai and Hopi.
Located between the parched south of Arizona and the mountains surrounding Flagstaff, Sedona has always attracted people who are turning to spirituality. Who does not feel admiration and fear in emerging from a spring blizzard, from the National 89A, to find 1.8 billion years of erosion?
At the end of Oak Creek Canyon, a panorama of red hills, sheer cliffs and peaks opens like a diorama revealing the earth’s past - which recalls how the forces of nature are powerful, so powerful that some say places like Bell Rock, Cathedral Rock and Airport Mesa channel and amplify the energy coming from inside the Earth. The Indians saw in these places the gates of the spiritual world.
New Agers have coined the term "Vortex" to design these energy locations deemed to facilitate prayer, meditation and healing.
