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Do you ever feel like you’re stuck or in a rut, stagnant and confused? You want to move and you know you should, but for some reason you can’t. You may hear yourself saying statements like, “I don’t know what to do. I’m in a rut.” We all struggle with this sometimes, and if you’re struggling right now, I invite you to try this New Year Kundalini Yoga Meditation for a Fresh Start for your life. This guided meditation is designed to bring you Liberation!

Liberation by definition means: the act of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release. Freedom from limits on thought or behavior. Sometimes our imprisonment is self imposed. We get so caught up in our story that we do not realize we can walk out of it and create a new story. But how? This dynamic Kundalini Meditation can help move you off the hamster wheel into a Fresh Start. It can help push through mental and energy blocks and bring renewal and rejuvenation to your life.

 

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

New Year Kundalini Yoga Meditation

Never assume that you’re stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.

You have the power to move forward no matter what obstacles block your path. The power is within you. You just need to shift your vibration. It’s like changing lanes on a highway or getting off the dead end onto a new pathway.  This meditation is designed to energetically put you on the right path. Try it for 9 minutes, everyday for 40 days and break through your blocks! Shift your energy and rise your awesomeness!

“For every beautiful thing, you have to pass through a valley of hardship. There is no liberation without labor. There is no freedom which is free. To create in you the power to create the intelligence which will give you power to be effective in your own living and give you satisfaction in your own joy, you have to work for it, you have to earn it.” Yogi Bhajan

So will you join us in a fresh start to your New Year? Only  9 minutes a day. We’d love to hear from you.Let us know how it works for you. Share your story here on the blog so we can all help each other on our Soul Journey.

 

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I’ll be sharing spiritual tools and tips here on Shine Your Light as I journey across the globe to the core of the soul. So sign up for the newsletter on the bottom of this page. I’d love to have you virtually travel with me on the Soul Journey.  And connect with me on Youtube, Facebook and Instagram

I share tools, tips and stories about my travels. And of course, more meditation techniques and free videos.

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If you would like go deep in your transformation… join me on two retreats in 2019.

ENERGY DETOX – LEARN THE ART OF ENERGY MEDICINE TO HEAL YOUR BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT in THAILAND 

Shift and Shape Your Reality to Create YOUR Greatest Vision of Life

APRIL 25-MAY 2019

https://jewelsbertrand.com/retreat-thailand/

 

EXPLORE YOUR SPIRIT in SANTORINI, GREECE

Spirit Voyage Kundalini Awakening and Akashic Records Retrieval 

OCTOBER 14 – 20, 2019

https://jewelsbertrand.com/santorini-retreat/

 

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Namaste from Greek Isle of Santorini, Greece! I write this blog today, in a friend’s tiny cave like home in the quaint village of Akrotiri on the island of Santorini, Greece. I chose to journey here to to visit my mother and family. My mother was one of 9 children born and raised in this sacred land. She is the only one in her family who moved her life to America. Growing up in America as a 1st generation Greek, I could always sense the essence of my ancestral heritage. I tried to fit into American culture and managed to do so quite well, but I somehow felt different. It’s like I could hear the divine, feminine lineage of my ancient Greek sisters and grandmothers calling to me. As a child, I soaked up the stories of Greek mythology and by the time I could walk, I was able to “feel” as an empath, channel healing energy and see what others could not. Most of the the time I kept these feelings to myself. I didn’t want to appear different. Just growing up as a half Greek in America was weird enough to some. If you have ever watched the movie, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, you will understand what I mean. Sadly, as young child I fought the messages that my Greek ancestors were trying to send to me. Messages that I could tap into their energies. But as I grew older, I began to ask my mother questions about her life and what she knew about her mother’s life. I started to meditate on the divine sisterhood and the powerful Greek Goddess Warriors of Light such as Athena, the Goddess of WisdomAphrodite the Goddess of Love and Beauty and Artemis, the Huntress Goddess. Yoga and my spiritual studies have opened my view of the world of energy. As I meditated with my ancestors and with the Goddesses of Greece, I was able to heal and grow.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”2927″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1504293863339{margin-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Our ancestors are a source of inspiration, knowledge and protection as well as a source of trouble, chaos and patterns of pain in our lives.  Most of us have no idea how strong the hidden influence of our ancestors is on our lives. You see, some of our pains don’t even come from us. It’s in our DNA. And also in your DNA are your special gifts.

Think of your ancestral lineage as a frequency. Your DNA is like a receiver. The ancestors are broadcasting into this frequency. Just like a radio receiver, you need a clear channel so you don’t receive static. This is where you can send healing. Clear the pathway and receive their sacred gifts, skills and love.

My culture is Greek. Whether or not yours is, you ancestors come from somewhere.  Jewish or Native American, Eastern or wherever… we all have a history.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1504293704503{margin-top: 90px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”2923″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]Jewels Bertrand Invocating the Greek Goddess of Divine Feminine on a Soul Journey in Oia, Santorini Greece[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″ text_align=”text-left” css=”.vc_custom_1504293940278{margin-top: 100px !important;}”][vc_column_text]The Greeks are and were deeply intelligent and spiritual beings, they paved the path of medicine, mathematics, language, art, poetry, democracy, architecture and so much more.  But yet for thousands of years they have been fighting to survive. And today they are fighting again for survival in the infamous Greek Crisis. I think even to my mother who fought faithfully, heroically and valiantly, bringing healing to my father who was dying from the incurable disease of ALS. For 13 years she kept him alive with her love, knowledge and healings. Today I celebrate her and all of the Goddesses. And in this sacred land, I set my intentions to clear the energies of their pain. To detangle their roots and to embrace their gifts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”2929″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1504290396583{margin-top: 50px !important;}”][vc_column_text]As I walk the narrow pathways of this beautiful, volcanic island where my sisters and the Goddesses have walked before me, I embrace their spiritual traditions, I dance their sacred dances and I send them healing love.  And I invite you, wherever in the world you are to call into your ancestry.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”2922″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Take time to keep your ancestral connection alive, strong and clear. Because it’s through our ancestors we can connect to the highest spiritual knowledge and higher consciousness.

Will you join me in invocation the divine ancestors? Have you worked on healing your family lineage? Or perhaps you have channeled into sacred skills acquired from your ancestors. I for one know that I acquired the gifts of energy healing through my blessed lineage.  We’d love to hear from you. Please share your story here on the blog so we can all help each other on our Soul Journey.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Are We Connected?”][vc_column_text]I’ll be sharing spiritual tools and tips here on Shine Your Light as I journey across the globe to the core of the soul. Sign up on my Youtube Channel,  Instagram or website if you want to virtually travel with me on a Soul Journey.   And share with someone who you feel might resonate with.[/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=”Retreat With Me”][vc_column_text]If you would like to travel with me on a magical, tropical island in Thailand, I’ll be hosting my next Sacred Healing and Meditation Retreat on January 29, 2018. All the details can be found at http://jewelsbertrand.com/retreat/

And stay tuned for the Santorini Yoga and Adventure Retreat in Spring of 2018. We will be doing yoga in secret, incredible view spots on the cliffside, taking eco e-bike tours through the winding  streets in the traditional Greek villages, hiking and meditating along the volcanic paths with views of the classical white washed buildings with blue domed rooftops, learning to cook delicious Greek style vegetarian meals and so much more.   Send me a message if you wish to be on the early bird mailing list for this retreat of a lifetime. Jewelsbertrand [at] gmail.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_images_carousel images=”2927,2926,2929,2925,2924,2923,2922″ img_size=”large” slides_per_view=”3″ autoplay=”yes” wrap=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Namaste from the doorway of  Greek Island of Naxos. Today is an incredible day in our cosmic history. It’s the day of the Total Solar Eclipse. It’s been dubbed the Great American Solar Eclipse because it will be visible across the continental US. The last time a total eclipse was visible across the US was in 1918, 101 years ago!

Eclipses are known for showing the shadows in our life and where we need to make changes. It may be no coincidence that the eclipse’s pathway is directly over America. Politically and socially America facing one of its darkest periods in history. There is so much anger and chaos. But remember, chaos precedes transformation.

Just look back to the story of the Phoenix rising from the ashes. In ancient Greek mythology, the phoenix is a mythical bird that lives up to 100 years. Associated with the sun and the sun God Apollo, the phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. When it feels its life is ending, it retreats into its nest and then sets it afire, burning it to flames, reducing itself and its nest to ashes. From the pile of ashes, a new Phoenix arises, renewed and reborn!

And being reborn is exactly what we can do in this energetic vortex of the eclipse. What looks like darkness and chaos may be the collective dying from the old self so the new self can be born.

This is the time to close old doors, end old chapters and old stories and start the NEW. This eclipse is like a still moment, a ripple in time. And with 5 planets also in retrograde, its a time to stop. Make a choice and step forward into a whole NEW place. A new Earth and a New You. You can not fight shadow with shadow and darkness can not live in the light. That’s where you have an opportunity to Shine Your Light… not only on you, but on the Earth and the collective of the all being on earth. ALL beings! That’s what this Leo Eclipse is call you for. To be the courageous regal one. This eclipse will give you the opportunity to courageously rise as a light-worker and to discover your life purpose, your destiny, your unique creative self-expression that brings fulfillment to not only your life but to the collective of all beings.

It’s time to rise! The doorway is open. Which side will you choose? You may be feeling unsettled, like you are riding a surfboard of a wild wave and being knocked into the depths of the dark murky waters. Get back up, find your balance and ride through it. Step into your power. Harness this incredible eclipse energy and let the momentum take you straight to your destiny.

If may feel uncomfortable. But transformation is a mutation so you can rebirth. Stay strong. Ground down. Meditate. Embrace the shadow, recognise it, but detach from the dark and purify. Let go of pain and blame. Practice compassion. Join us in a meditation of light described in the video below.

A Healing meditation for THE EARTH and ALL BEINGS on EARTH during the *** SOLAR ECLIPSE *** in Leo 2017. This is a chance for us to all come together and Step into The Doorway of a New Earth.

“Everything’s dying to be reborn

Infant day is the early morn

It’s dark as night when the day shall end

And Into the light you’ll be born again

#Guru Singh

You can practice this meditation anytime and anywhere. Not just during the eclipse. Will you join us in the light? Share this so we can all rise to a place of healing and love. The more who practice loving compassionate meditation, the more love and compassion we will have for all.Scientific studies have confirmed positive effects of mass meditations on human society, so each of you that will participate in this meditation can actually help bringing the Many of you are on the same journey. Tell us how you Shine Your Light in the comments below. As always, be kind and let the light shine through your words and vibration.

 

Have a blessed day.

Jewels Bertrand

PS:

I’ll be sharing spiritual tools and tips here on Shine Your Light as I journey across the globe to the core of the soul. Sign up on the Youtube Channel or website if you want to virtually travel with me on a Soul Journey.   And share with someone who you feel might resonate with.

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If you would like to travel with me on a magical, tropical island in Thailand, I’ll be hosting my next Sacred Healing and Meditation Retreat on January 29, 2018. All the details can be found at http://jewelsbertrand.com/retreat/

Sacred Soul Journey Retreat Jewels Bertrand

Sacred Soul Journey Retreat Jewels Bertrand

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