Travel Programs with Phil Cousineau

05/01/2026

Say, hey, Grecophiles and Intrepid Pilgrims, we have a few spots open on our 50-oarred trireme (figuratively speaking) if you'd like to join us on our "Wisdom of the Odyssey" travel program to Greece this Fall. We'll be following in the footsteps of Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, and Homer himself. Since Christopher Nolan's epic Odyssey film releases July 17 (and my book on June 30), we will be primed for a great adventure. A veritable odyssey. Please contact Helen Tomei at Sacred Earth Journeys for more information.

04/04/2026

I’m delighted to announce that I will be leading my next travel program to Greece, The Wisdom of The Odyssey: A Journey to Greece - Life Lessons from Homer's Epic, Sept 30 - Oct 12, 2026. We will travel across the wine-dark sea and the mythic landscape of the Peloponnese, to the world immortalized by Homer. Join us!

Inspired by my forthcoming book, The Wisdom of the Odyssey, and Christopher Nolan's epic blockbuster movie version of The Odyssey coming out in July 2026, we will reflect on Homer's themes of enchantment and disenchantment, the struggle between humanity and the gods, the search for the soul, the longing for home, healing from trauma, and the redemptive power of love as Penelope holds off the Suitors until Odysseus' long-awaited return.

We will visit the legendary sites of Homer's greatest heroes, Odysseus and Penelope. Together we will explore why this mesmerizing story has shaped our history, philosophy, art, and imagination for over three thousand years.

Our journey will take us to sites like the Theater of Dionysus, birthplace of Western drama; the awe-inspiring National Archaeological Museum of Athens; Ancient Corinth with its Temple of Apollo, home of King Sisyphus, reputed father of Odysseus; the famed Corinth Canal; the citadel of Mycenae, the kingdom of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; the Menelaion near Sparta; Nestor's Palace in Pylos; Ancient Olympia; the mythic island of Ithaka and the ancient site of The School of Homer; Delphi; and Eleusis, the sacred site of the Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone. Each day will be enriched by soulful discussions, special guests, and meaningful conversations every day with Phil (who has been studying and writing about The Odyssey for over four decades) that aim to bring Homer's immortal world vividly to life.

To learn more about this small group travel program to Greece, including the full description and itinerary vist Sacred Earth Journeys online or please contact Helen at [email protected] or (toll free) 1-877-874-7922.

06/15/2024

The sheer beauty of the nightly "Son et Lumiere," Sound and Light shows in Chartres, France, reflect not only the medieval quest for beauty but also the prodigious efforts of spiritual seekers who have ventured there over the last thousand years. Join them and join me, cosmologist Brian Swimme, and the leading force in the global labyrinth movement, Lauren Artress, for a series of inspirational talks, exercises, and practices to evoke the marvelous overlap of spirituality, science, and art in Chartres from Sept 16 - 20. For more information see: https://www.veriditas.org/event-5476736

10/17/2022

Join me next May in Greece!

09/15/2022

Join us next May 2023 when we walk in the footsteps of Odysseus and Penelope on our mythic pilgrimage around Homer's Greece!

Did we mention that we recently released our new journey to Greece with Phil Cousineau?

We released it to our email list at the end of last month and it is live on our website for you to sign up now. Join author-filmmaker-mythologist Phil Cousineau on a journey to ancient Greece to visit many of the legendary sites associated with two of Homer's greatest heroes, Odysseus and Penelope, and explore why this mesmerizing story has influenced our history, psychology, philosophy, art, drama, poetry, and even our movies, for the last three thousand years.

Register here: https://www.sacredearthjourneys.ca/current-tours/in-the-footsteps-of-homer's-odyssey-with-mythologist-phil-cousineau

02/15/2022

I’m so delighted that our sweet journey to Italy (April 3 - 13) is finally going ahead! There are two spots open if you can join us…

THE PLAN: We’ll relish the elusive ingredients that make for la dolce vita, the sweet life. We will visit great art masterpieces, brilliant architecture, the Venice archipelago, Northern Italian hilltop villages, and the medieval cities of Rome, Assisi, Florence, Verona, and Parma. Our travels will be framed by daily conversations of “The Great Beauty” that is at the heart of Italian culture in its myths, art, literature, fashion, and food.

Sacred sites tours of Italy with author & filmmaker Phil Cousineau to learn about the art, culture and mythology of Rome, Florence, Venice, Assisi & more.

10/23/2021

You’re invited to join me on Tuesday, Oct 26, at 6PM CT / 7PM ET / 4PM PT for a FREE online event on “The Art of Pilgrimage” hosted by Barbara's Bookstores.
The Art of Pilgrimage has just been released in a 3rd (almost 25th Anniversary!) edition —perfect timing, as we see travel opening up again, and (according to Nat Geo) more people now than ever before are planning special journeys, or pilgrimages.
I’m proud that it’s still in print, and has become a beloved book to so many for both sacred and secular travel, offering a template for garnering more meaning and purpose, love, and beauty of our journeys.
So please join me on Tuesday to talk travel! Sign up is easy and you can join from ANYWHERE. You’ll also be supporting Barbara’s, my favorite indie bookstore in Chicagoland! Click the link:

Sacred travel guide. First published in 1998 and updated with a new preface by the author, The Art of Pilgrimage is a sacred travel guide full of inspiration for the spiritual traveler.