This sound healing meditation was from the RESET mindfulness retreat held at Green Gulch Zen Center in Northern California.

Lay down, get comfortable and allow your consciousness to rest into the journey.

Join us for an in-person sound healing with Meredith March 22, 2026 in Petaluma, CA at The Yoga Post (7 pm).

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This episode offers a guided Manifestation Meditation to support you to drop into the frequency of what you're calling in this new year.

This practice invites you to slow down, turn inward, and connect with what you're ready to welcome into your life. Rather than pushing or forcing, this guided process emphasizes presence, embodied feeling, trust and surrender. Simply allow your intentions to be held gently and released.

This is a powerful time for planting seeds beneath the surface. This meditation supports you in staying consistent with your intentions while remaining open to how they may unfold.

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As part of our Winter Meditation Series, this episode explores the foundations of Vipassana meditation, an ancient practice the Buddha used to attain enlightenment.

Vipassana invites us to slow down and observe what's here, just as it is. Sensations, breath, thoughts, and emotions are met with mindfulness and pure witnessing.

In this episode, I first share a brief overview of what Vipassana meditation is and how it's traditionally practiced. Then, you'll be guided through a simple Vipassana meditation you can return to throughout the season.

This practice is ideal if you're seeking more presence, clarity, and calm throughout your days.

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As we continue our Winter Meditation Series, this episode offers a gentle Ho'oponopono meditation. This is an ancient Hawaiian practice of forgiveness, reconciliation, and inner peace.

Winter is a time of turning inward… a season that invites us to soften, to reflect, and to release what no longer needs to be carried. Ho'oponopono reminds us that healing begins within, through simple phrases that restore harmony in the heart and nervous system.

In this meditation, you'll be guided to work with the energy of compassion for yourself, for others, and for the unseen threads that connect us all.

This practice is especially supportive if you're moving through emotional heaviness, seeking closure, or longing for more spaciousness and peace within.

You're invited to return to this meditation whenever you feel called to clear, forgive, and begin again.

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Something you may not know is I share meditations on the app insight timer. Some of my meditations have thousands of plays over there. I just found out my most popular meditation has over 156,000 plays!

I was connecting with one of my listeners over there who asked if I could share these meditations on more platforms so they could be easily accessible.

So we'll be offering a winter series of meditations to support you during this time of turning inwards, slowing down, being with your body and your breath.

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I just came across a recording of a speech I gave at a holiday party several years ago. And it just warmed my heart and I wanted to share it with you all today… Sending love and warmth this Holiday Season…

A few years ago I put on my high heels and red lipstick to go to a fancy holiday party at a beautiful home in Northern California.

However, it wasn't any normal holiday party. It was a Toastmasters party, a public speaking group that I had been a part of that year. Three people were prepared to give a speech that night, and I was one of them. After much practicing in the backfield of my home, I felt ready. I was excited as I put on my jewelry and curled my hair, I reflected back on how much I had grown that year.

I remembered standing terrified, looking out at the audience. At a podium in front of 30 or 40 people, the first time I stood up to speak in front of this group, despite the fear of that first moment, I knew I was ready to grow, ready to face the fear, and over that year I really did. Public speaking has become more and more familiar, and through putting myself on center stage, I learned so much about the craft of captivating an audience.

I realized that there was a girl inside of me that was ready to be seen, to be heard, to really stand up and share her voice. I was encouraged every step of the way by this amazing group of people of all ages and all walks of life. I delivered this speech, which is called The Gifts of Giving, um, at the party that night, and I was on a total high.

I didn't realize at the time that my husband had recorded the whole thing on my phone as a voice memo, so I'm able to share it with you today. I realized this magical story of giving and receiving could be inspiring for you to break free from scarcity and believe in the beauty, magic, and abundance all around you.

So here I am sharing it. It's just eight minutes long. I hope you're able to take some time to tune in. Listen, enjoy.

With Love,

Meredith

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It was an honor to sit down with Dr. Melissa Sophia Joy to connect about the love we share for Mary Magdalene.

Melissa shares of being woken up in the night by a vision of Mary Magdalene and Yeshua, and aligning with her true path as a Priestess of the Rose.

We learn about her story of healing insomnia, eczema, and traumatic memories from past lives through a practice that evolved into what she now teaches: Somatic Awakening.

In this episode we discussed:

• How Mary Magdalene came to Melissa originally

• What is Somatic Awakening, the mystical healing spiritual modality Melissa received from Mary Magdalene and how it works

• What is a Rose Priestess and the Lineage of the Rose

• How Melissa opened to her intuitive wisdom and channeling abilities

• Our experiences on our France-Magdalene pilgrimages

• Moving through priestess wounds of persecution to shine our light and find our voice

Stay in Touch with Melissa:

• Join Melissa for The Truth and Life of Yeshua on Dec. 13th, 10 AM PT:

  https://portaltoascension.org/event/the-truth-life-of-yeshua/

• Teaching website: https://sophiahealingacademy.com/

• Practice website: https://somatic-awakening.com/

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/melissa.sophiajoy.108/

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drmelissasophiajoy/

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Dr. Melissa Sophia Joy, ND, is the founder of Somatic Awakening®, an internationally known spiritual teacher, author, oracle, and Naturopathic Doctor specializing in Mind-Body-Spirit healing.

She is also the Founding Director of Sophia Healing Academy, a mystery school devoted to transformative healing and spiritual awakening. A Divine Feminine Wisdom Keeper, Starseed, and multidimensional channel, Dr. Joy receives guidance from higher realms to facilitate profound shifts and conscious evolution.

As a guardian of Somatic Awakening® an ancient healing and spiritual path based in the Magdalene-Christos-Sophia lineage, she merges the Law of Love and the Law of One with somatic healing, higher consciousness, and direct connection with the Divine, leading individuals into profound healing, awakening, and embodiment of their divine essence.

Enrollment is now open for our Year-long Priestess Initiation Program: The Way of the Priestess Beginning this October. Learn more here: http://meredithrom.com/priestess

Sometimes the most unexpected challenges become doorways to new understandings. For me, my introduction to German New Medicine began with a simple prayer for guidance around a health challenge. Not long after, I found myself listening to a podcast with Melissa Sell, which sparked a deep curiosity. I typed "German New Medicine" into the search bar, and through that path, I eventually discovered the work of Natasha Nazerali.

Over the past year, I've been slowly learning and integrating this system into how I see health, healing, and the wisdom of the body. It has opened up a whole new lens on what symptoms mean, why they arise, and how intimately they are connected to our challenges and life experiences.

I knew I wanted to bring this conversation to my community because Natasha's perspective on biological femininity feels like it touches the very root of so many women's health challenges. Her work not only brings clarity to confusing and painful symptoms but also helps us reconnect to the essence of being a woman in a way that is both biological and spiritual.

In this episode we discussed:

• The basics and foundations of German New Medicine

• The definition of conflict shocks and the healing phase

• Breast cancer through the lens of German New Medicine: separation conflicts and nest-worry conflicts

• The reason behind clogged ducts when nursing

• Why we sneeze, get colds and runny noses

• Stories from our lives where GNM was so helpful

• The essence of biological femininity: What is a woman's natural state, and what conflicts lead to reproductive health challenges

• The conflicts behind female health symptoms such as painful periods, menstrual cycle imbalances, hormones, relationships, perimenopause, fertility, and female health

• Natasha's (sometimes controversial!) beliefs on biological femininity

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

• Biological Woman Course with Melissa Sell and Natasha Nazerali

• German New Medicine Stories Podcast with Freya Kellet

Stay in Touch with Natasha:

• Visit her website www.natashanazerali.com

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Natasha Nazerali is a practitioner and educator who guides individuals to awaken their true power through spiritual and biological connections. Inspired by her holistic upbringing and the teachings of Dr.Hamer's 5 biological Laws, Natasha is dedicated to helping others achieve total sovereignty and freedom over their mind, body, and spirit. Through her work in family systems and biological relating, Natasha has realized the beauty in the harmonization of our unique ancestral lineage. As a spiritual seeker and student of life Natasha emphasizes the role of consciousness through her trainings at The College of Psychic Studies in the UK, and her incorporation of ancient practices.

For this week's episode, I sat down with Dakota Chanel, a water priestess and ceremonialist, while she was in Southern France researching the book she is writing on the Cathar region and Mary Magdalene.

I've been following Dakota's work since we first met in Kauai, and have been learning so much from her, even just from her little shares on instagram about Yeshua, Mary Magdalene, and the sacred churches, caves and springs that exist in the Languedoc region of France.

I visited a few sacred sites related to Mary Magdalene in Southern France last April, and Dakota affirmed an intuitive feeling I had in one of the basilicas I visited, thought to hold the bones of Mary Magdalene.

She also shares such a powerful story of her first awakening to Mary Magdalene (and remembering her sacred voice), during ceremony on Magdalene's feast day with her mentor in Ashland, Oregon.

In this episode we discussed:

• Water, its power and memory

• Mermaids and mer-maidens - where did this name come from? We explore the etimology of the word mer, which means "sea" in French and "love" in ancient Egyptian

• How Dakota was awakened to her connection with Mary Magdalene (this story is so powerful)

• Where are Mary Magdalene's bones and my experience inside the Basilica in Saint Maximin la Aainte Baume and the difference between the crypt here and another crypt in Northern France at Vézelay

• Who were the three Mary's that arrived on a boat in Southern France?

• Who were Yeshua and Mary's children?

• The essence of Mary Magdalene's ministry

• The Albigensian Crusade that killed hundreds of thousands of Cathars in France

• Why this happened, and what were they after?

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

• The Gospel of Philip

• The Gospel of the Beloved Companion

Stay in Touch with Dakota:

• Visit her website www.dakotachanel.com

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Dakota Chanel is an ordained water priestess and ceremonialist with over a decade of experience. She specializes in water priestess arts, Magdalene mysteries, and sanctified sexuality. Dakota is the founder of Mermaids of the Magdalene Mysterium and the Water Priestess Mystery School. For the past eight years, she has been leading transformative retreats worldwide, focusing on water and Divine Mother teachings. Her highest joy is guiding Magdalene and Cathar focused pilgrimages to the south of France.

Dakota sees water as the elemental divine mother of us all and it is her greatest joy to support women to align with this deep, unwavering love. She has supported thousands of women in over 20 countries to remember the sacredness of water and their bodies.

Announcement: Enrollment is open for our Year-long Priestess Initiation Program: The Way of the Priestess Beginning this October: https://www.meredithrom.com/priestess

What a joy it was to sit down with Shehera Barnes to share about our journeys to Egypt with each other and learn more about her connection with the Goddess Isis.

Shehera grew up in Iran during a revolution, was connected to the divine from a young age, watching her grandmother pray and read the Qur'an to her.

She climbed the ladder of the fashion world but eventually left it all to devote herself fully to a path of healing and remembrance as a Priestess.

When Shehera learned about a Persian leader who destroyed many sacred artifacts and temples in Egypt, she knew she needed to bring souls back there to honor the Goddess, the temples and heal on behalf of her Persian ancestors.

Shehera is leading a group to Egypt this November 2 - 12 with a special ceremony on 11/11. She has a few spaces left! Join Shehera in Egypt and Use code MEREDITH111 to receive $111 off

In this episode we discussed:

• Her connection to the divine from a young age growing up in a revolution in Iran

• Her rise to the top in the fashion world, and why she let it all go for the Priestess path

• Her connection to Isis and a beautiful story of being initiated into her love after the death of her father

• Her divine mission to bring souls to Egypt and restore the remembrance of the sacred feminine to heal on behalf of her ancestors

• Sound healing and crystal tones alchemy bowls

• Remembering past lives in Egypt

• Helping women heal and rise

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Sheherazad Barnes is a devoted spiritual guide, healer, and priestess of the sacred rose lineage of Isis, Mother Mary, and Mary Magdalene. As the author of the Awakening the Goddess Within oracle cards, she channels the wisdom of these divine feminine archetypes to guide women on a profound journey of remembrance helping them reclaim their sacred power, intuition, and sovereignty. Through her work, she bridges the mystical with the practical, offering powerful transmissions, rituals, and sacred teachings that illuminate the path of the modern priestess.

With a lifetime dedicated to service, prayer, and devotion, Shehera has cultivated a deep connection to the goddess and the ancient mysteries. Her teachings blend channeled activations, sound healing, goddess archetypes, alchemical practices, and ancient Egyptian wisdom, all designed to heal the feminine nervous system, activate spiritual gifts, and restore harmony between the cosmic and earthly realms. Drawing from initiatory lineages, she creates transformational spaces for women to heal generational wounds, embody their highest soul expression, and step into their divine mission with clarity and power. Shehera's work is a sanctuary for those who feel the sacred call to awaken, heal, and rise. Through immersive retreats, mentorship programs, and sacred ceremonies, she provides a space for deep healing and quantum expansion. Whether through her oracle deck, teachings, or guided transmissions, she invites women to reconnect with their inner temple, embrace the path of divine remembrance, and step into their full radiance.