Sacred Ascension Journeys: Walking the Path of Renewal
Editor’s note — In our Conscious Journeys series, we explore travel as a pathway to inner transformation, not just escape. In this personal essay, global humanitarian, award-winning actress, and energy medicine facilitator Miss Sayé shares how Sacred Ascension Journeys turns movement across borders into living ceremony, and why travel itself can become a sacred teacher, a mirror, and a medicine.
As a global humanitarian, award-winning actress, and energy medicine facilitator who has guided thousands across more than ninety-five countries, I have come to understand something essential: healing is not only found in clinics or ceremonies, but in the way we journey through the world.
Travel itself can be a sacred teacher, a mirror, and a medicine.
Healing is not only found in clinics or ceremonies, but in the way we journey through the world.
I was not born into silence. I was born into a world of noise, of conflict, of rushing feet and restless minds.
My earliest memories are of sirens and the trembling ground of the Iran–Iraq war. In first grade, while other children sat at school desks, I learned to read and write from a single hour of television programming each day—because bombs shook the walls too fiercely for classrooms to remain open.
And yet, even then, even in the midst of rubble and fear, I felt a current running through me. A song beneath the chaos.
A reminder that there is something more enduring than destruction. That song became my compass, carrying me far beyond borders, into both the brightest and darkest places of this world.
A Journey Through Contrasts
Life gave me contrasts so stark that sometimes I wondered if I was living several lives at once. I have lived in palaces and I have walked through ruins.
I have stepped off private jets into the arms of luxury, and moments later, leapt on horseback to play polo in the world’s most prestigious arenas—the sport of kings and queens.
I have shared meals with presidents, sat in circles with villagers, and stood on stages as an actress, weaving human stories for the world to see.
Years ago, Sir Richard Branson crowned me Woman of the World, with words I shall never forget: “From a knight to a queen.” It was more than an honour. It was a reflection, reminding me that the true crown rests not upon the head, but within the heart.
I have seen it all—the glitter, the grief, the victories, the wounds. And I came to understand that none of these outer forms are the destination.
They are merely passages. What endures is how we carry ourselves through them—with grace, with compassion, with love.
The Birth of Sacred Ascension Journeys
From all these experiences arose a vision. As I travelled, I began to weave the threads together: the chants of Himalayan monks, the desert prayers whispered by women around firelight, the laughter of children in jungles, and the ancestral medicines that pulse through every culture.
I recognised something profound—travel could be far more than escape. It could be pilgrimage. It could be a path of renewal. It could be a living ceremony.
And so Sacred Ascension Journeys came into being. Not as retreats in the usual sense, but as sanctuaries where the soul can remember itself.
What We Do on These Journeys
In Costa Rica, Mongolia, Bali, and beyond, we gather. The land itself becomes the teacher. We move through forests, dance by waterfalls, bathe in ice-cold rivers, and stand beneath stars that remind us of our place in the cosmos.
We breathe. We chant. We fall into silence. We immerse in the medicine of nature and community. Each ritual, each practice, is an invitation to release what weighs us down and rise into who we truly are.
I have seen tears become liberation, laughter become medicine, and strangers become kin. A woman who had carried decades of grief let her tears pour into the ocean and felt her body lighten for the first time.
A man who had forgotten joy rediscovered it in the firelit dance. These moments are not fleeting—they are gateways.
The Living Offering of Energy Medicine
Underlying all of this is a current that has lived within me since childhood. I call it energy medicine—yet it is not something I studied or acquired, but a living stream that continues to expand within me.
As I turned inward, listening to the still voice of the eternal, that current grew larger than myself. Today, it allows me to hold and facilitate vast groups across the world, transmitting something that words alone cannot carry.
Energy medicine is my reminder that healing is not linear. It is a rhythm, a pulse, a resonance that flows through all of us. When I stand before a circle, I feel the field open and rise, not from me but through me.
In that moment, community itself becomes the healer, nature becomes the teacher, and remembrance becomes inevitable.
Travel as a Sacred Path
For me, travel has always been more than movement. It is medicine. Each border crossed, each culture embraced, is an initiation into deeper compassion.
The mountains, rivers, and deserts are not scenery—they are living beings, guiding us back to ourselves.
When we travel consciously, we do not consume places; we are consumed by their wisdom. We arrive not as tourists, but as pilgrims. We leave not just with memories, but with transformation.
A Queen’s Offering
From the war-torn streets of my childhood to the glittering arenas of kings, from private jets to humble circles of healing, I have walked many paths. Each one has prepared me to stand now—not as an actress, not as a humanitarian alone, not even as a facilitator—but as a woman who has seen, felt, endured, and risen.
Sacred Ascension Journeys are the culmination of this path. They are my offering to the world. An invitation to return—to the heart, to the breath, to the eternal truth that we are not separate, but whole.
Closing Reflection
We live in an age of information, but I have come to see that information without embodiment is hollow. Truth is not held in libraries of words; it is revealed in presence, in frequency, in how we show up to life.
The frequency I carry is beyond method or tradition. It does not depend on garments, rituals, or prayers. It is the field of truth itself—the silent force that awakens remembrance and calls us back to wholeness.
This is my offering to the world: not a technique to be followed, but a presence to be felt. A frequency that meets each soul where they are, and invites them to rise into the fullness of their own light.
With infinite love from my heart
Miss Sayé
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Miss Sayé Yabandeh is an award-winning actress, global humanitarian, and internationally recognised facilitator of energy medicine. Crowned Woman of the World by Sir Richard Branson, she has travelled to over ninety-five countries, guiding thousands through her Sacred Ascension Journeys—immersive gatherings that blend ancient wisdom, modern healing, and the transformative power of conscious travel.
