Category: Ascension

Connecting With Tender Needs Within: A Poem

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by Kasha Rokshana

Sometimes it feels 

As if the void,

A feeling of something

Or someone

Being ‘missing’

Will always be there

For part of me

Who aches to let in love

So completely

That she would feel truly,

Irreversibly,

Complete herself.

I answer her questions

With one of my own,

“What is it you need

From me

Or even from the Divine

In order to truly feel loved

At all times?”

She answers me,

“Kasha, 

I just really need this time with you,

This space from every trial

That we’ve recently experienced.

I really need to feel

Divine collaboration,

Like I’ve done nothing wrong

And our Divine parents

Support us unconditionally,

Want us to truly experience

And become love…

Want us to truly embody

Our own divinity together.”

I respond,

“Ah, love…

I feel your heartache,

Those twinges

And tweaks

You so want answered

By reflections of all that you are,

The power you have,

And the love you have to give.

I feel your humble desire

To be able to open up 

And receive again

And again

And again

While surrendering deeply

To what life,

Love,

The Divine,

Is bringing you to feel into,

To inhabit,

To live into.

I love you

Right where and how you are.

I wouldn’t ever want to change you,

Just hold you,

Honour the bravery you’ve had 

All these years

To keep looking at yourself,

While learning how 

To hold, feel,

And respond to others.

I will never leave you.

Just keep letting me in.”

And together

We cry,

As we’ve done so many times before,

With needy hearts,

With a deep love exchange,

With appreciation

For this landing place we share

Within,

With the Divine,

And with beloved, resonant others.

Bringing love to every challenge,

Learning always to receive love 

Deeper,

Walking hand-in-hand

Towards the next sunrise

Where we will arise again

Anew,

In new completeness

Together.

— This is an example of the type of dialogue I had with a part of me just this morning as I checked in with her… it’s not always this easy to access a part’s needs or desires underneath their ache, angst, and protection at times, yet once they do open up to you and truly feel your heart’s intention to show up for them, be the voice and energy of the loving Divine for them, they really do respond. 

It takes so much consistency though in my experience of it, and sometimes you have to be with them through some very tough and even kicky moments as they begin to let you in. Once they do, they start to transform and truly transmute their pain.

Do get in touch with myself or Jelelle Awen if you’re a woman looking for 1:1 space-holding as you too deepen or even begin your journey of feeling parts of you. If you’re a man and drawn to this work, Raphael Awen is the King you’re looking for. 

There is more info on sessions and FREE intro calls here: soulfullheart.org/sessions

Love,

Kasha 

***

Kasha Rokshana is a Divine Feminine Love Ambassador, SoulFullHeart Women’s Facilitator, soul scribe, and poetess.  Visit https://www.soulfullheart.org for more information about space-holding sessions and free 45-min intro calls, group calls, videos, community, etc. 

A Bigger Purpose For Your Healing: A Poem

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by Kasha Rokshana

The gift of your healing efforts
Is the revelation
Of your own healing gifts.

Those divine energies
That support you
Are also invited
To move through you to others.

What else could our healing be for
Besides nourishing ourselves enough,
Reuniting with our souls enough,
Embodying our divinity and humanity enough,
So that we can truly support others
To find that they too
Are ‘enough’,
And arising together
In purer and purer
Heart frequencies?

Expressing our gifts
In an egoic,
False light,
False God way,
Tells us that ‘enough’ doesn’t exist,
That perpetual suffering is ‘normal’,
That in order to lead
We must be worthy,
We must be infallible,
We must be elevated
By projected perfection
And pictures of
‘Enlightenment’.

In all of this
Parts of us forget
That being humble,
Real,
Transparent,
Desirous of our true selves,
Needy for the Divine,
Hungry for pure love,
And messily striving
For more intimacy
And resonance
With others
Is the truest,
Deepest path
To healing
And
To offering healing
In all ways,
In all relationships,
While living into our capacity
To be that heart that others lean into
As they rediscover
And purify
Their own.

The wounded heart and soul
Within
Is meant to move
To softer, gentler
Landing places
Where love truly reigns
And the suffering you’ve felt
For oh, so long…
Can finally find its way
Back to the bliss
And blessed joy
That your soul remembers,
That your parts ache for,
That your Divine Self
Is anchoring
And wanting everything within
To ask for,
Need,
And let in.

Beloved,
This is your birthright…
To heal and let heal,
To love yourself
So you can truly love others,
And to expand
Your consciousness
As you wake up
And shake off
The sleepy lullaby
Of the Matrix world…
Remembering
And rediscovering
Everything that is truly amazing
About life,
About love,
And above all…
About you
And all that lives within.

***

Kasha Rokshana is a Divine Feminine Love Ambassador, SoulFullHeart Women’s Facilitator, soul scribe, and poetess.  Visit https://www.soulfullheart.org for more information about space-holding sessions and free 45-min intro calls, group calls, videos, community, etc. 

From The Magdalene Lineage Rose Garden: A Poem

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by Kasha Rokshana

I come to you
From a long line of roses.

Ones that have grown
In gardens sacred,
Often protected,
Mostly hidden until ready
For the revealing of their beauty
In a world invited to behold them.

It rings through my heart and soul,
A calling to service unmistakable.

An invite to fill up
In order to overflow
From all of this love I have within
And have drawn to me
In relationship with others.

Relationships in my life
Have been earned
Through phases of sometimes
Very painful awakenings
And dawning awarenesses
That have inspired choices,
Actions,
Deeply felt processes
Of letting go
To let in the dreams
That really DO want to come true.

I come from a long line
Of exquisite, unique, beautiful souls
All willing to feel what needs to be felt,
Deconstruct
And dissolve the Matrix cords
The False Light influences
And to be real about the layers
Of this journey within and without.

I come from a space
Of rekindled purity,
Of desire for love,
Of experiences vast and profound
In all aspects of what it means
To live as a Sacred Human
In this phase of our Ascension.

You too, beloved soul
Are invited to this space,
To remember this lineage,
To recall this sacred heart purpose
Of no longer being alone
Yet perpetually letting in
What it is truly like
To be in resonance inside
And with others
Fully feeling
Deeply healing
Vastly expanding with immense support
Into those wings waiting to unfold
From that back of yours…
The very same
That has born the burden
Of so much that doesn’t belong to you.

And so,
If you desire,
Join me in this sacred,
Alive,
Fragrant garden
Created to be shared
And intended to be
Loved as much as it also loves.

With so much love,
Kasha

***

Kasha Rokshana is a Divine Feminine Love Ambassador, SoulFullHeart Women’s Facilitator, soul scribe, and poetess.  Visit https://www.soulfullheart.org for more information about space-holding sessions and free 45-min intro calls, group calls, videos, community, etc. 

As True Courage Lives In You: A Poem

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by Kasha Rokshana

Encouragement
Is allowing courage
To live in you.

A journey of embodying
What it means
To live from the heart.

Truly living heart-fully
Means the filled-up heart within
Speaks its truth,
Holds steady its overflow,
Makes space
For filling up again
From that infinite source
Above, beyond,
Around,
Within you.

To become encouraging
Your own courage must be ripened,
Sharpened by the edges
Of sometimes challenging choices,
Darker-feeling phases
And still finding the light
That shines always upon you
Through the tunnels
Of the unknown.

If what you always
Return to
Is your filling-up heart space
Then you, beloved,
Are feeling the Great Beloved,
That Divine Love always reaching,
Always offering bridges,
Always loving you deeply
Just where you are.

Yes… just where you are.

In that exact place,
In that sense of lostness,
In that longing to be found,
In that yearning for love.

Perhaps the greatest courage
You will ever feel
Is the courage to be met
By this love always wanting you,
Always offering to carry you,
Always creating a resting place
For you
For your soul
For your parts
For everything that has ever
And will ever
Live inside of that vast being
That makes you both ‘you’
And somehow ‘One’ with ‘All’.

Receiving takes far more courage
Than resistance
For once this love has been tasted,
Nothing else compares,
Nothing else inspires,
And nothing else
Could possibly satiate
Every longing that has ever lived
Inside of every cell
That lives in your ‘self’.

So choose your courage,
Stay in your light
As you bridge to your shadow,
Love yourself in every moment
With support from that
Which will always,
In all ways,
Support YOU
As the brave arising One
Who continues to be challenged
To choose your soul bigness,
Your expression as Love embodied,
And your incredible courage
To be here now.

Love,
Kasha and the Divine

***

Kasha Rokshana is a Divine Feminine Love Ambassador, SoulFullHeart Women’s Facilitator, soul scribe, and poetess.  Visit https://www.soulfullheart.org for more information about space-holding sessions and free 45-min intro calls, group calls, videos, community, etc. 

Solstice Energies: Lean Into Your Sovereign King/Queen Choices

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by Kasha Rokshana

Energy Update: With the Summer Solstice taking place tomorrow, we’re being energized by codes that invite us into some powerful choice points. These choices feel to me like the invocation of our inner Kings and Queens – aspects of us who aren’t necessarily trauma-based as other parts of us are and have been at times, yet who need activation, growth, and responding to nonetheless. It’s our growing connection with these aspects that helps us find clarity and open-hearted compassion, drawing and deepening soulmate romance/soul family relationships, our ability to relate to life as more than something  ‘black or white’, and our very sacred ‘yes’ and ‘no’ which opens up the portal for our next life/awakening/ascension phases. 

It’s all about moving into our sovereignty and power with love for ourselves which can overflow to others in profound, truly life-and-heart-changing ways.

Yesterday was the first day of our Solstice gathering here in our community, and it was a catalytic day. As the gathering began and Raphael, Jelelle, and Raianna played the sound bowls while we all closed our eyes, a gallant white Lion with a golden sun on his third eye came to me and the part of me that I’m mostly working with right now. 

He said, “I am Solstice”.

I wasn’t the only one to see and feel a lion in our circle yesterday, either. Which seems to mean that he and his majestic lioness counterpart are available to anyone who needs them and asks for their support as we all move into and through this sacred passage of deeper awakening and empowerment. They invite us to feel our way through with sobriety, feeling through all possibilities at hand, while trusting the bigger picture and the Divine love holding us all at all times. 

This is helpful if you’re feeling a choice where you may need to let go of something precious to you or part of you, or choose to let it in deeper and what that could mean. This could be about letting go into a romantic, soulmate bond where the love coming in is rumbling your world as you’ve known it and even your consciousness as you’ve related to it, and either letting that in deeper or not feeling quite ready to yet. It could be about letting yourself immerse in an experience of soul family and seeing what the love flow there pushes up for you to explore within yourself and with others. It could be about recognizing what truly makes you and parts of you happy in your life circumstances as you know them now, or what your dreams and awakening desires tell you could be so much better, more nourishing, and more supportive overall of your ongoing journey of healing and discovery of who you truly are.

I feel how much this activation of Kings and Queens is deep and needed for our inner worlds yet also for our contribution to the co-creation of the outer world. Awakening in and of itself is not enough if the choice points aren’t met and the embodiment of our Divine Self isn’t sought after. It takes our Kings and Queens and the feeling through of their hesitations and concerns about these choices we’re invited to make as well as what they would love to create and embody in all areas of life by making these choices, in order to move through each one. The only way out is through… so diving into each one, feeling what they all bring up to feel, is the ticket to the new. 

Leaning into the unknown/Limbo can only really happen for so long before your genuine empowerment asks you to make some sort of choice which your parts can lean into, clearing away any suffering while stuck in the ‘in-between’ or in a place of trying to hold your life as you’ve known it in some sort of stasis while it’s meant to move into a new phase. Even if your connection with your King or Queen is in its bud form at this time, the invitation to take the space needed with the intention of choosing something, even for just this next phase of your life, is calling to you and it’s through these choices that your sovereign King/Queen grows and finds their genuine place in your heart and in your life, neither of which will ever be the same.

If you feel you’d like support to feel your King or Queen inside of you and their personal activations and invitations at this time, we have a men’s group call and a women’s group call coming up this weekend, June 24 and 25. The men’s call on Saturday will be focused on feeling and healing the inner King, while the women’s call on Sunday will be its counterpart in feeling and healing the inner Queen. These are the last calls of our Sacred Union group call series and you don’t need to have come to any of the others in order to jump in if you feel called! Here is more info: soulfullheart.org/sacredunionseries

Lots of love to you as you feel what’s moving for you during this sacred Solstice time.

Love,

Kasha 

***

Kasha Rokshana is a Divine Feminine Love Ambassador, SoulFullHeart Women’s Facilitator, soul scribe, and poetess.  Visit https://www.soulfullheart.org for more information about space-holding sessions and free 45-min intro calls, group calls, videos, community, etc.

Karmic Field Vs. Metasoul Field: Right Configuration For Quantum Soul Healing (video) | Checking In W/Jelelle Awen

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In this Checking in W/Jelelle Awen video today, I share about inspirational downloads and clarities that have come through esp in recent sessions……the ‘right’ configuration in soul healing in which you are anchored into the higher dimensional Metasoul field (as i’ve been guided to call it) with a higher D Gatekeeper to bridge there. I then describe the difference between the Metasoul field and what is quantumly possible in terms of ease, flow and efficiency compared to the Lower 4D Karmic field that can be murky, churny and sticky in false light energies.

I also share about the right configuration in the relationship that parts of you have to your process and life and with each other. This is explored through the 1:1 sessions that we offer and also being in community with us in the physical and online.

This lifetime offers an immense opportunity for expotential healing and growth, to complete karmic cycles of suffering and pain since we’ve been in the Matrix incarnation dimension. I’m excited for these downloads and clarities that are coming through inspired by and in collaboration with anyone who enters the SoulFullHeart field with us.

Information about free intros and 1:1 sessions over zoom or here in central, Portugal with me for women or with Kasha and for men with Raphael at http://www.soulfullheart.org/sessions

You can watch these videos on my FB and IG feeds https://www.instagram.com/jelelle_awen/ and here on our SoulFullHeart Experience You Tube Channel.

Donations are very welcome to support our offerings and can be offered at https://www.soulfullheart.org/shop or https://www.paypal.me/soulfullheart

For more information about the SoulFullHeart quantum healing process, my latest book Free To Be 5D, videos, our SFH portal community on FB and events, visit https://www.soulfullheart.org.

Thank you for taking this sharing into your heart,

love,

Jelelle Awen

Energetic Pressure Cooker Of Love

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By Jelelle Awen

In this energetic pressure cooker turned UP to its highest ‘LOVE’ setting, your heart bakes on the aches that have been previously suppressed. Simmering now, you are BEcoming what is POSSIBLE when love is the waters you are swimming in. BEing more in the now, with others who resonate and marinate along WITH you in love’s juices.

UP come the fears. UP come the doubts. UP come the distrust. UP come the resistances held by the protective parts, the guarding parts, that have just wanted to keep life safe for you. You invite these parts of you to put down their weapons, their self judgements, their reticence. You ask them to confess to that which has before been left unsaid and so release the burdens of their concerns to YOU. You pass the tissues to collect the tears that can finally be released.

You become the role of confessor to your own heart and soul, with deep compassion and genuine curiosity in response to ALL you hear and feel.

In this letting go of previous pain and traumatic story through feeling it with ALL parts of you, your emotional body becomes CURRENT. It can vibrate in the frequencies of the NOW rather than from the past. It can vibrate heart health and soul integration rather than from from ‘long ago’ wounded and ‘didn’t heal properly’ frequencies. It can become more still in natural rhythm with the Universe’s heart beat, tuning more and more to the galactic HUM.

THIS is what all that reading about spirituality was for. This is what all those hours of meditation sets the stage for. This is what the yoga classes were for. This is what all the letting go of the old life and boundary setting has been for.

ALL of it has been supporting the Soul Self to arise.

To become BIG enough to hold all this undigested REAL reality. To become your own parent, your own BEloved, your own angel, your own spirit guide, your own God and Goddess. Your own Divine Source that can hold the space for ALL aspects of you, from your roots to your wings, from Inner Child to Ancient Inner Divine Muse and so BE whatever you are most needing in every moment.

In this energetic pressure cooker turned up to its highest ‘LOVE’ setting, it is finally becoming safe enough to go where it was once deemed off limits, to go where it once felt impossible.

In this process of great self enlovenment, you discover that you have no limits yet ARE Infinite Possibilities of Infinite Love in human form returning and remembering what you have always been!!

~

Love,

Jelelle

From my book Bliss Mess: Wonders and Challenges Of Ascension

Links to purchase ebook, PDF and print versions at soulfullheartwayoflife.com/books

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Connect with me in a bridging session, a form of love’s pressure cooker that creates a bridge to ALL these aspects of self and soul that need your love and attention. I have some slots open for Intro calls and Sessions available this week and next for women! 1:1 sessions for 90 minutes are for a negotiable donation. More info here: Soulfullheart.org/sessions

3D Body Detox & Light Body Upgrade Guided Meditation Livestream Recording (video) | Raphael & Jelelle Awen

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This one is over an hour and we could have kept going! In this livestream recorded on June 15th, Raphael and I share about the 3D Body Detox and Light Body upgrade process. We talk about how the 3D body often holds deep toxicities and densities in the cellular memory, in the DNA, in the organs…leading to ongoing blocks, pain, suffering, inflammation, disease, injuries, and aging. Also how we are impacted by ongoing toxicities in the air, in our food, in the water, through living in the 3D Matrix, receiving the V shots, and more.

We share about the detox processes such as fasting, urotherapy, grounding/earthing, yoga, clean plant-based eating, connecting/feeling our bodies/wombs/haras directly, etc. that we engage in to support, cleanse, and energize our 3D bodies to upgrade to light bodies holding the ongoing Ascension process.

A brief guided meditation provides a bridge to your light body and to access/download/let in ascension codes in your field, along with us playing our heart and root chakra crystal bowls to active your light body.

Thank you for everyone who came live and left comments, loved your sharings and your contributions!

This livestream was broadcast into the private SoulFullHeart Portal Group on FB. You can join the private SoulFullHeart portal group to join us live every Wednesday (usually) at 5:00pm WEST/(Portugal timezone)/12 pm EDT and read the comments we were responding to here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sfhportal

For more information about the SoulFullHeart quantum healing process, my latest book Free To Be 5D, videos, our SFH portal community on FB and events, visit https://www.soulfullheart.org.

For more information about a free intro call to find out more about 1:1 sessions with SoulFullHeart Facilitators, visit http://www.soulfullheart.org/sessions

Energy Update: Full Moon Lunar Eclipse 5/5 Gateway Energies Offering Revelation & 5D Codes

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Energy Update: Full Moon Lunar Eclipse 5/5 Gateway energies are coming in strong as we prepare for this transformative eclipse on Friday! As always, lunar eclipses offer a space for revelation of whatever needs to be seen/realized inside and out. Sudden and abrupt changes/insights/clarities/shifts often occur during eclipse passages as well with inception or seeding on the solar eclipse and completion happening on the ‘book end’ of the lunar eclipse.

This lunar eclipse is particularly powerful as it occurring during the 5/5 gateway…..offering a direct bridge to experience and connect to fifth dimensional consciousness states more easily and fluidly. 5/5 is also a portal of transformation and change, amplifying the qualities of eclipses. 5D New Lemuria/New Earth dimensional upgrades offer remembrance frequencies of Unity, Soul family and soul mate/counterpart reunion, integrated and harmonious living, conscious relationships, soul purpose fulfillment, inner peace, joy and Divine connection.

You may be experience a sense of being in the void and the emptiness during phases/stages of this eclipse passage as well. Holding space for the void/clearing and the feelings that come up is a sacred part of the process…especially if you are in a process of letting go of previous identities, relationships, etc. recently catalyzed by these eclipses. Coming out of that void, wanting to fill it in, are the 5D consciousness energies.

This eclipse and 5/5 gateway is a time for intense emotional healing/shadow work, especially to connect to those parts/soul aspects who are being activated by it. There is particularly a lifting of the veil on other lifetimes, which are happening in the quantum field of NOW and not ‘past lives’. You may be experiencing an intensifying bleed through of these lifetimes in conscious states, dream time, and draw to immerse/research them.

These Metasoul brothers/sisters of yours from other lifetime incarnations are waiting for conscious connection with you to offer both soul gift exchanges and karmic healing opportunities…to truly complete and resolve lifetimes of patterns and cycles. The upgrades in consciousness in this resolution process can be quite significant and are some of the reason that we signed up to be here during this Ascension lifetime.

Now is a time to move into deeper embodiment of 5D consciousness on all levels!

It is a powerful time during this eclipse passage to go within and also to join together in soul family community for intentional healing space and recoding/bridging!

Join Raphael and I for a 5/5 Portal Lunar Eclipse Update & Guided Meditation Livestream into our SoulFullHeart private FB group on Friday, May 5th at 5:00pm UK/Portugal – 12pm EDT with more info to join us at https://www.facebook.com/events/269160688788620 and you can join our group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sfhportal

And, we will be offering a powerful karmic healing activation/upgrade sacred union transmission to connection with your Metasoul during a group meditation call over zoom on Sunday, May 7th at the same time as above. Info to join us by donation and receive the recording at https://www.facebook.com/events/589925029555352

I am also available for a free intro about transformative 1:1 sessions with me for women…..more info at soulfullheart.org/sessions.

Love,

Jelelle Awen

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4:4 Portal, Full Moon & Easter Passage Energy Update

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By Jelelle Awen

4:4 Energy Update: It is the 4:4 portal today and there is really something so affirming of the bigger picture and yet also grounding into the NOW about 4 energies…as represented by the four seasons and four elements (well, and the fifth of spirit). Four codes can be about following Divine guidance, your intuition/soul wisdom, and then making progress/choices toward that, resolving practical and relationship matters with loving negotiation inside and out.

I also felt there was an invitation with these 4:4 energies to be direct with care, transparent with yourself and others to deepen the sense of trust in your higher heart intuition and Divine guidance as well. Being direct with care is possible as you heal from trauma responses/reactions/projections/triggers that lead to hiding your truth, being indirect, manipulation, passive aggression, keeping secrets, lying, etc. Feeling parts of yourself and soul aspects to heal these grounds allows for transparency inside and out.

4:4 is also about recognizing the patterns and cycles in your life and in your awakening journey…the beginnings, the harvest, the fall/death, and the spring arising again. These energies of transformation are being strongly activated right now…and an invitation to surrender to the cycles of change that lead to profound transmutation at all levels of being. To be in the flow more and more…

4:4 is a recognition of your current home on all levels…in the physical, within your body, in your heart space, connected to your soul, with the Divine, in your relationships. And feeling how you and parts of you feel about the current state of these homes…safe? Restless? Frustrated? Unhealthy? Time for change? Goodness and rest? Groundedness? Uneasiness?

This is also the Easter passage, offering codes of crucifixion/necessary death/letting go that allows for resurrection with Divine forgiveness and trust….as the Magdalenes seeded into the collective consciousness during that lifetime. There is the template there in the soul family monad around how to BE with inevitable change in a way that allows for the deepest personal growth in alignment with the Divine.

And, all of this is amplified by the full pink moon energies….on the leading edge of experience lunar frequencies allow space for feeling, for being, and for digesting. The moon matrix is also amplified during full moons and has been 3D home, so you may feel your body vessel/home going through adjustments too, transformation, unplugging, detox and letting go, esp your womb space or hara for men.

This is a passage to honor whichever phase you may be in right in this moment……WHILE seeing/feeling the bigger picture of your life/purpose/service grounded in the home of your heart and soul.

Much love to you on this 4:4, full moon, and Easter Passage,

Jelelle Awen

There is an illumination being offered of inner sacred unions too, the dynamic between your inner masculine and inner feminine energies….and if they are polarized, in union, in conscious negotiation or playing out unconscious dynamics from parental templating, Matrix conditioning, soul karma and more. This is a key element of deepening the sense of home within. Raphael and I will be exploring inner sacred union with sharings and a guided meditation in our group call on Easter Sunday, April 9th, more info to join by donation at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1224787391742244/ or soulfullheart.org/events

And, Raphael and I wilI be sharing more of our sacred union story tomorrow (part two!) during a livestream into our SoulFullHeart Portal FB group…our story which is filled with life shifts, death/rebirth, and openings too, more info at: https://www.facebook.com/events/142833035175497

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