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Gateway Cottage Wellness Center Opening Day Number One Best Rated Massage Sedona Arizona

Welcome to Your Gateway to Wellness

At Gateway Cottage Wellness Center, we are devoted to holistically empowering our clients to discover and achieve their optimum wellness potential, by offering services to improve mind, body, and spirit. Our exceptional healing practitioners provide a multitude of healing services in a beautiful, safe, and nurturing environment. We offer the most diverse selection of services in the entirety of Sedona, Arizona. Some of our most popular services include Massage Therapy and Intuitive Psychic Readings. Our practice is built on mutual respect, integrity and love for the higher good of all. Here, we combine the power of healing energy and our practitioners’ expertise with your intention to bring wellness into your life, and to inspire miracles.

Gregg and Ali Ponder Founders of Gateway Cottage Wellness Center Sedona Arizona Sessions Available Today

The Gateway Cottage Wellness Team includes many talented and highly trained professionals, who provide an array of services and therapies including Massage Therapy, Reiki & Energy Healing, Astrology, Intuitive & Psychic Readings, Akashic Record Readings, Sound & Breathwork Healing, Hypnotherapy, Medical Intuitive Readings, Spiritual Life Coaching, Chakra Balancing & Meditation, Past Life Regressions & Healing, and much more! For our long-distance wellness lovers wanting a taste of Sedona, Arizona; select from our services that are available via Phone, Zoom, Skype, GoogleDuo, and Facetime.

BakeR Gendron, an influential figure at our wellness center, plays a vital role in guiding our day-to-day operations and activities. With expertise in Shamanic Reiki sessions and Spiritual Life Coaching, BakeR empowers individuals to discover their fullest potential in various aspects of their lives, including careers, families, and personal growth. Her own transformative journey of healing from childhood trauma and abuse has cultivated her compassionate nature, enabling her to deeply understand and connect with others. Following her studies with shamans in Peru and encountering her spirit guide, Mamacita, BakeR made the decision to relocate to Sedona, where she now focuses exclusively on facilitating healing for others. Drawing from her extensive life experiences, BakeR combines her intuitive abilities with her clients' intentions to initiate profound healing and guide them towards success, happiness, and overall well-being.

After retiring in December 2022, BakeR now provides personal sessions to individual clients. As she transitioned, she entrusted the facility to Ben Howell, a remarkable source of inspiration for Gateway.

Benjamin is a Sedona Transplant who moved to Arizona in 2020. He brings with him a significant love for Bodywork and love for his family. Ben is a father of two beautiful little girls Scarlett and Avalon and a husband to his better half Brianna. He brings a new sense of love, kindness and family to Gateway and helps promote positivity throughout everything he does. His therapeutic touch addresses all problem areas during a massage. Prior to moving to Sedona, Ben owned a massage and wellness business in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he would administer medical massages and treatments to professional athletes, car accident victims, recovery massage and more. With incredible knowledge of human anatomy paired with his love for spiritual, energetic and emotional wellness. Ben is a perfect match for Gateway Cottage Wellness Center.

Sedona’s Rustic Elegance - The History of Our Building

Our Past and Present. Stay with us to enjoy our Future.

Jordan Sales Building City of Sedona Landmark Number 5 Historical Building Sedona Arizona

The Story of Gateway Cottage Wellness Center

The story begins with Sedona's early pioneers, the Jordan families. They were well known for their community involvement and for growing fruits & vegetables that were sold to markets in Phoenix, Flagstaff, Jerome, Clarkdale, Prescott, and even nation-wide. The Walter and Ruth Jordan homestead, just north of uptown Sedona, is now the site of the Sedona Heritage Museum.

George (Walter's brother) and Helen Jordan had their orchards, fruit processing barn, and sales building on the edge of uptown Sedona, just before Oak Creek Canyon. When they retired in 1958, they sold their orchards, fruit processing barn, and retail sales building. A portion of their orchards became the now defunct Hawkeye RV park. Their former fruit-processing barn is now the location of the Art Barn at the Sedona Art Center. And their Jordan Sales Building, Sedona Local Landmark #5, built with Sedona Red Rock circa 1938, has had many owners over the years.

Leather Goods Sedona Arizona Now Gateway Cottage Wellness Center Home to Massage and Intuitive Readings Psychic

In 2014, this former Jordan Sales Building was purchased by the founders of Gateway Cottage Wellness Center, Gregg & Ali Ponder of Sedona. Their intention is to preserve this important part of Sedona's rich history and to offer to the community many of the therapy services that have benefited Ali in her on-going recovery from a near-fatal car collision in 1994.

After nearly 2 years in renovations, Gateway Cottage Wellness Center opened in February 2016. The exterior is historically preserved while the interior is a combination of Jordan-era ambiance and modern upgrades.

Every visitor's wellness journey begins the moment they enter the Wellness Center. Many comment on the beauty of the interior and how good it feels. These "good vibes" are due to a combination of the mineral and crystal energy, low EMF, 10 air-purifiers operating in the Center, and by the loving commitment and high intentions of the founders and all who work there.

Gateway Cottage Wellness Center 2023 Sedona Arizona Massage Reiki Psychic Hypnotherapy

The upstairs of Gateway Cottage Wellness Center provides front-desk services and a charming retail area. The copper-faced reception counter is highlighted by a custom-made 15-foot topper of Alligator Juniper that was rescued from the 2006 Brins Mesa Fire near Sedona. The custom circular & multi-tiered shelving units are hand-made with Alligator Juniper from Mingus Mountain near Jerome. A refurbished bread rack, now display shelving, is from the mining days of Clarkdale & Jerome. The antique jewelry case is unique with an unusual curved-glass side at one end. The new wood flooring was selected to look as if George & Helen walked on it themselves. Even the upstairs restroom has the original red rock wall that was restored by a local artist.

The downstairs, which was previously the Jordan's refrigerated fruit-storage area, has been converted into a waiting area and 5 therapy rooms with original art, and a fully handicap-accessible restroom. The two floors are connected via new stairs with a custom railing or by elevator.

Outside Gateway Cottage's back door is the upper terrace. Strolling down the paved ramp, brings one to the meditation terrace complete with a calming water-feature created with a century-old local grinding stone. The lovely landscaping includes ornamental pear trees in honor of the Jordan's orchards. The parking lot is surrounded by a combination of a privacy wall and a hand-fabricated steel fence & gate crafted to appear to be from a by-gone era. The intention from day one of renovations was that everything about the Wellness Center would exude the quality of rustic elegance.

We encourage you to visit Gateway Cottage Wellness Center in person at 470 N. Hwy 89A in uptown Sedona. Our speciality at Gateway Cottage Wellness Center is creating transformative, life-changing experiences.