Seven Sacred Sites: Magical Journeys That Will Change Your Life
Serene Conneeley is an Australian author with a fascination for history, travel, ritual and the myth and magic of ancient places and cultures. She has written for magazines about news, travel, health, spirituality, social and environmental issues and entertainment, and has contributed to international books on witchcraft, psychic development and personal transformation, as well as the best-selling history compilation Dateline.  She loves yoga, hiking, reading, rainbows, drinking tea with her friends and celebrating the energy of the moon and the magic of the earth. Her heart blossomed as she climbed mountains, sat in stone circles, walked a pilgrimage, performed rituals with shamans in South America and priestesses in Avalon, wandered through ancient cathedrals and stood in the shadow of the pyramids, and she's also learned the magic of finding true happiness and peace at home.  Serene is a reconnective healing practitioner, and has studied magical and medicinal herbalism, angel therapy, reiki and many other healing modalities, as well as politics and journalism. She is the editor of the preschool magazines Little Friends and Playhouse Disney, and has worked for publications such as Cosmopolitan, Dolly, Woman's Day, The Daily News and The West Australian newspapers, Hot Metal, Spellcraft and Your Destiny.  She is the author of Seven Sacred Sites: Magical Journeys That Will Change Your Life and A Magical Journey: Your Diary of Inspiration, Adventure and Transformation, and creator of the CD Sacred Journey: A Meditation To Connect You To the Magic of the Earth, which includes seven meditations that take you on an inner journey, connecting you with the power of the elements and balancing the masculine and feminine energies of your heart and soul to reawaken the divine spark within you. She is also the co-author, with Lucy Cavendish, of The Book of Faery Magic and The Book of Mermaid Magic. Visit her at www.SereneConneeley.com. The seven sites in Seven Sacred Sites are: Machu Picchu and the Amazon jungle, Peru, South America The sacred Isle of Avalon, Glastonbury, England The monuments of the pharaohs, Ancient Egypt, Africa The healing isles of the Aloha State, Hawaii, USA The magical circle of Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England A pilgrimage along the Camino, northern Spain Uluru and the Red Centre, Australia