How to Activate Your True Self Through Soul Travel – Soul Initiation Series

In this Soul teaching on Soul Travel as an Initiation you will learn:

• What is Soul travel?
• What is the difference between Soul travel and vacationing
• How Soul travel can help you open dormant Soul gifts
• How foreign soil can initiate us on a Soul level
• And more…

Life is our Ascension or Mystery School, and our Soul is our initiator! The Soul Initiations series is a collection of Soul Teachings on the various Soul Initiations we can be led through in our current incarnation. To be initiated by our Soul means to cross a threshold, going from one state of being to another. These initiations serve to bring us to the next evolution of our Soul journey and the embodiment of the truth of who we truly are on a Soul level.

Often these initiations require a period of time in the unknown. They bring a sense of uncertainty as we go into uncharted territory. A period where we instinctively feel that we cannot go back to the way things were, but we also don’t know yet how things will be in the new reality we are birthing. Like Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, we venture into a no man’s land (the initiatory realm) to journey back into the world forever changed by our experiences. As we cross the threshold, it is clear that things will never be the same again. We are asked to walk blindfolded into a whole new world and a whole new way of being, trusting the path our Soul has put us on.

Soul initiations come in different areas of our lives and in different moments within our Soul journey. The various teachings in this Soul Initiation series offer you the Soul’s perspective on these initiations and how, going through them as messy and as painful as it can feel, serves your personal growth and spiritual evolution. In the end, these are processes happening for you, meant to bring you to the next level in your Soul journey and help you strip away all that is not the truth of who you are. They are an invitation to let go of all your ego’s misunderstandings, false beliefs, and false self-identifications to bring you face-to-face with your true self. Each Soul initiation helping you reclaim yet another piece of your wholeness.

What is Soul travel?

Even before the movie ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ people have traveled the world in an attempt to find themselves. The physical journey often becomes a metaphor for the spiritual journey a person becomes hurled into when they step out into the unknown.

This is perhaps because it puts people on their own hero’s journey where they step out of their ordinary world, face the initiation that the journey entails, and then return transformed.

There are many reasons why a person embarks on Soul travel, either consciously or unconsciously, by following the pull of their Soul to a certain destination. Reasons such as:

To Seek Meaning and Purpose

Visiting different cultures, traditions, and spiritual practices can help you find answers to existential questions or gain new perspectives on life, happiness, and fulfillment. Traveling can also put our own lives and challenges in perspective when we get to see how privileged we are.

To Heal and Transform

Many people travel to certain places (often spiritually significant or tranquil) to engage in self-reflection, heal past wounds, or embark on a personal transformation. This could be through retreats, meditation, or simply being in environments that encourage introspection.

To Challenge Yourself and Step Out of Your Comfort Zone

Traveling to unfamiliar places forces you to confront fears, embrace uncertainty, and grow as a person. These experiences may help uncover your hidden strengths or bring awareness to areas of life that you decide you want to change.

Traveling often puts you face-to-face with your deepest fears and insecurities. It can trigger claustrophobia, fear of flying, fear of dying, agoraphobia, fear of heights, fear of germs, and so on. It can bring up a lot, fears and habits that you may have under control at home, but that you no longer feel in control of on the road.

To Connect with Nature and the Divine

Some may journey to sacred sites, natural wonders, or locations with rich cultural significance to tap into a sense of interconnectedness, spirituality, and awe. There are plenty of sacred sites, famous and lesser-known, activation spots, Earth chakras, ley lines, pyramids (not only in Egypt), and etheric retreats to choose from.

What is the difference between vacation and Soul travel?

When it comes to Soul travel, we are, of course, talking about when travel becomes more than the mundane experience it can be in the ordinary 3D world. Instead, Soul travel unlocks an extra spiritual dimension within oneself, where it’s no longer just about trying local food and seeing interesting tourist sites. Although there’s nothing wrong with these aspects of travel, Soul travel is so much more as it becomes a journey of self-discovery, releasing who you thought you were and allowing a deeper embodiment of your true self.

While Soul travel may look the same as vacationing and share certain commonalities, they are vastly different. The difference between Soul travel and vacationing lies in the intent, purpose, and depth of the experience. While both involve traveling to new places, they serve different purposes in the context of personal growth and self-discovery.

That being said, do not be surprised if your planned vacation becomes Soul travel because the Soul loves using our travels as a way to initiate us deeper into the truth of who we are.

Let’s look at some of those differences:

Difference in purpose and intent

The primary purpose of Soul travel is self-exploration, healing, and spiritual growth. It’s a journey taken to connect deeply with your inner self, to gain insight, and to explore your Soul’s needs, desires, and purpose. People often seek Soul travel for transformation, and it may involve traveling to places of spiritual significance, engaging in practices like meditation, or retreating for reflection. It’s a deeply personal journey aimed at growth, healing, and understanding.

Vacationing is usually more about relaxation, enjoyment, and escape. It’s a way to temporarily disconnect from the stresses of daily life and enjoy leisure activities, whether that’s visiting a beach, exploring a city, or spending time with loved ones. The focus is typically on fun, relaxation, recreation, and taking a break from routine, rather than deep introspection or spiritual development.

Difference in experience and depth

But there is also a difference in experience and depth. In Soul travel, the journey is often transformational and can be intense. You might engage in activities that are introspective or spiritually enriching, such as visiting sacred sites, going on silent retreats, doing energy healing, or spending time in nature to connect with your true self.

The idea is that this journey will shift your consciousness, help you process emotions, and open up new layers of understanding. It’s about confronting your inner self, breaking through barriers, and emerging from the experience with a new perspective on life.

Vacationing, in contrast, is usually less about self-discovery and more about enjoyment. While vacations can certainly be enriching and may lead to personal insights through experiences, they generally don’t have the same level of depth or spiritual exploration. The focus is more on leisure activities, sightseeing, or relaxing in the sun or with a good book rather than seeking transformation or emotional healing.

Difference in reason for picking a destination

In Soul travel, the destination may be chosen for its spiritual or emotional significance, such as a place that has personal meaning or historical importance in the context of one’s journey. You might travel to a location known for its energy, sacredness, or connection to ancient wisdom or your ancestors, and the journey itself is often intended to open up your heart, mind, and spirit. The connection with the place is deep, reflective, and often tied to personal growth.

Vacation destinations are typically chosen for enjoyment, comfort, and convenience. Popular vacation spots might be chosen for their beaches, resorts, or cultural attractions, and the trip’s focus is usually on entertainment, relaxation, and exploration in a more light-hearted way. While vacationing can still lead to emotional insights or foster moments of reflection, it is generally not designed with personal transformation in mind.

Difference in approach to time

The timeline for your Soul travel may not be fixed, and it can involve a sense of slowness, introspection, and taking the time needed for personal exploration. Soul travelers might spend extended periods in a place, allowing themselves to fully engage with their surroundings, reflect, meditate, or even engage in healing practices. It’s more about the quality of the experience rather than how much can be accomplished in a short time. During our travels, we did little sightseeing because that was simply not why we were there.

Vacationing typically has a more structured timeline, often lasting a week or two. The pace tends to be faster, with an emphasis on visiting multiple places, trying new activities, or simply relaxing without delving too deeply into self-exploration. The goal is often to disconnect from daily life temporarily, with less focus on personal transformation or emotional depth.

Difference in emotional impact

Soul travel can be an emotionally intense experience, as it may push you to confront personal fears, emotional blockages, or unresolved issues. It may be a cathartic and even challenging journey, as it aims to bring about lasting change or growth. It’s common for people to experience emotional healing, breakthroughs, or significant shifts in their worldview during Soul travel.

This is often not understood by outsiders looking in, who just think that you are on a permanent vacation. They have no clue how challenging your journey can be; they just see you posting pics of perhaps exotic places, thinking you are just out there having a ball. And of course, you relax, have fun, and do touristy stuff too, but you often need extra time and space to deal with what the journey brings up internally because it simply is so much more than just a vacation.

How foreign soil/land can activate and influence you

Being on foreign soil can have a great impact on you, whether you want it or not. This is because every country and even place has its own unique vibration frequency that activates and influences ours. This is why some places can feel completely off and others like home.

Last year, I went to both Madrid and Barcelona. I found the energy in Madrid extremely heavy, while as soon as I got off the train in Barcelona, it felt like home. The energy in Barcelona just mixed so well with mine, and although it was the first time ever being there in this lifetime, it just all felt super familiar, and I had a great time exploring the city on a short business trip.

In 2018, I had a similar experience when I landed in Pisa and then took a month to drive down slowly through Assisi, San Gimiano, Firenze (Florence), to Zagorollo and eventually Rome. The further I got away from Pisa, the better I felt and the more I enjoyed the trip.

I am usually a very upbeat and well-regulated person, but as soon as I landed in Pisa and went to our first Airbnb in Terrarossa, I started feeling depressed and even suicidal. The Airbnb host was also a total nightmare, which is why we left earlier, because the Airbnb was a side building to her home. I thought to myself; ‘If this is what a month in Italy is going to feel like I am not sure I want to be here…’ As soon as we left that area all the heaviness and gloom was gone.

Why is it that some trips or destinations are so much more challenging than others?

It’s because of not only the vibrational frequencies of the places we visit, but also our karmic ties with the land, the people we meet, and the past life or ancestral trauma that gets triggered, I remember that after a retreat I hosted in Jaipur (Rajasthan), India, another healer and I became very nervous about leaving the country.

This was my second time in India, and I had just flown in from Delhi with no drama, and here I was terrified something would go wrong and I wouldn’t be able to leave the country. The other healer had the same. It turns out that in another lifetime we had been mother and child, trying to flee the country but unable to escape.

Coming back to this place, lifetimes (read centuries) later, that unresolved trauma from not being able to escape became triggered, so that it could be released now. Although there was a moment of panic at customs when our papers didn’t seem to be in order, things were quickly resolved and we were on our plane to Dubai before we knew it.

How Soul travel can help you open your Soul gifts

In 2015, I was unexpectedly invited to an Indian wedding by people whom I had recognized as my Soul family. A year prior, I had met a guy online who, like me, had read the Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda. We hit it off immediately and became really good friends. He later introduced me to his best friend, whom I fell deeply in love with, and before I knew it, I was knee-deep into my own Twin Flame journey.

At the end of 2015, I got on a plane for a three-week trip to India, of which I spent one week in a remote village near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. It was that week of being with my Soul family, sleeping in the arms of my beloved, and being together with my friend’s mother, cousins, aunts, and nani (grandma) that unlocked a deep Soul gift inside of me.

I left Amsterdam that fall a Muggle with no apparent magic of my own, I came back able to bring people into their Soul records and help them heal deep childhood, ancestral, past life, and Soul path wounding that they have been carrying for eons and eons.

To say that my life changed forever due to this trip is an understatement; my life would never be the same again after it, in more than one way. It completely changed who I thought I was and set me on a path to uncover my true self and help others follow in my footsteps in breaking the cycle that are keeping them stuck in lives they don’t want to be living.

My life has never been the same since, not only in a spiritual sense but also on a 3D level where I broke vows of poverty, generational patterns of scarcity, and became the first woman to earn multiple six figures in my family lineage.

How Soul travel can help you heal past life trauma and karma

It was while traveling full-time that I hit my first six-figure year ever. Travelling full-time was really interesting because it led me on a journey of healing past life trauma and karma in ways I would never have expected. While it seemed that our list of destinations was random, it brought me to the exact people and places I needed to release age-old wounding that no longer served me.

I traveled together with my mother and my teenage son, who was being homeschooled for close to two years before we finally settled in Ibiza, where we lived for five plus years till recently. We started in the United Kingdom, then flew to Italy. I drove us from Pisa down to Rome over the course of a month, where we boarded a flight to Cairo, Egypt. From Egypt, we went to Ibiza, then India, and later Dubai before we went back to Ibiza for the winter.

Everywhere we went was either to resolve past life trauma or karma, although I hadn’t planned it as such. In England, after a short hike to Bride’s Mound, I came home exhausted, nearly having to crawl to my bed after taking a shower. Bride’s Mound is believed to be one of the seven sacred isles of Avalon, and forms a gateway between worlds. It was also most likely a monastic cemetery. Coming off of that land, it felt like all my energy was zapped out of me. Such exhaustion often happens when our Soul reallocates all our energy towards our spiritual process.

In Egypt, I was brought to work on restoring a past life connection back to love when I was forced to make right in this lifetime, a wrong from an Egyptian lifetime millennia ago. This issue was so close to my heart that it was the main theme for months as I was on my way to the people involved in that past life, initially not even knowing this was going to be part of my journey.

In Dubai, a galactic lifetime that had ended traumatically came up in relation to a friend who wanted to explore becoming lifepartners. I had known him for years, but it wasn’t until we were up close and personal, exploring a deeper bond of intimacy together, that this past life trauma that he was connected to was triggered.

The whole trip was a shedding of layers of gunk and sludge ready to be released that would allow me to take my healing to the next level; the Soul path level.

This is the basis of the work I came here to teach in this lifetime.

How foreign soil can initiate you

Little did I know back then that I was being stripped of everything that stood in the way of my next Soul initiation, reclaiming the Divine Feminine within myself. It was like everything that was covering my core wounds was moved out. In that period of my life, I was doing five or more healing sessions a week. I was deep diving into my psyche to get to the root cause of my own internal psychological programming and subconscious patterns.

In 2017, when the Indian man that I deeply loved married someone else despite reciprocating my feelings, I asked my Soul what I wanted to create now that the dream that I had held in my heart for the past three years had gone up in smoke. I got the answer to move to Ibiza, an island in Spain I had actually never been to. So, two months later I was on a plane to check it out, and six months after my first visit, I was making the kind of money I needed to be able to live there. Housing prices in Ibiza are akin to big city prices, they are the highest in all of Spain.

At the beginning of 2018, I held my first retreat in Ibiza, and after I came back, I got the intuitive hit to travel first before immigrating completely. Instead, we decided to spend the winters on the island just to see if we would like living there. Looking back, I can now see that this was a preparation for what was to come when we committed to living in Ibiza full-time.

One of the issues that had become crystal clear in the relationship with the man in India whom I loved was that he was much more in his feminine (the Collapsed Inner Masculine state) and I was much more in my masculine (the Rigid Inner Feminine state). We had a reversed relationship dynamic that I understand now would have made our life together a living hell, instead of the fairytale love story that I had wanted it to be. It was also why he wasn’t ‘man enough’ to stand up to his family and demand to command his own destiny.

These archetypes, which I discuss in the Healing the Masculine & Feminine series, dictate many of our personality traits as they keep us stuck in outdated coping mechanisms that we created to protect and defend ourselves because of the early childhood and Soul path trauma we experienced.

Within less than a year of moving to Ibiza, I fell down a stone staircase on the way to the beach and broke my left foot. This started a healing journey that would absolutely bring me to my knees, bringing me to my deepest childhood and Soul path (our Soul’s childhood) wounds where we created our defense, protection, and survival mechanisms that, although very functional at that time, now prevent us from being who we truly are.

I came to understand that my embodying the Rigid Inner Feminine was how the incest and sexual abuse I experienced as a child had changed me. It was who I had become to be able to protect myself, when the people that were meant to protect me didn’t.

I was also shown how my past life and Soul path wounds had predisposed me to becoming the expression of the Rigid Inner Feminine in this lifetime and the patriarchal wounding and conditioning that had locked it in place during my unique Soul journey.

This all culminated in the most difficult year in my life in 2024, where I struggled with a raging UTI that would not go away. The deeper emotional healing I did during my time in Ibiza allowed me to reclaim the Divine Feminine within myself. You see the problem with the Rigid Inner Feminine is that she cannot embody her femininity, because she has had to become the pseudo-masculine to be able to protect herself.

I have now come to see that the whole purpose of my being in Ibiza, a place I was pulled to go to even though I had never been there before, was to reclaim the Divine Feminine within me.

As soon as that process was completed, Ibiza was done with me and made it abundantly clear that it was time to leave the island. I was literally left no other decision but to leave, and within two weeks of making that decision, I found my current home and have been in an incredible state of flow ever since. Everything I have needed or wanted has manifested in the most miraculous ways.

The Divine Feminine initiation in Ibiza also unlocked my creativity, increased psychic abilities (inner knowing), flow, and my ability to receive. These were all parts of myself I was unable to access before, because my survival, defense, and protection mechanisms were getting in the way.

Why Soul travel can’t replace working with a healer or a therapist

Reading this, you might be tempted to think that from now on traveling can do all your healing for you, but that is, of course, not what this Soul teaching is about. Like astrology or solar flares and the Schumann Resonance, travel and being on foreign land can trigger our subconscious wounds, but it’s still up to us to make them conscious.

The reason I can connect the dots between my travels and my spiritual evolution in this lifetime is because I continuously worked with healers and therapists to assist me in making conscious what I was experiencing. Without that extra layer of understanding, I wouldn’t have been able to make the connections, and this would have drawn out the healing process. It’s simply not a question of either/or; it’s a question of and/and, which is the new paradigm in 5D.

Travel inevitably brings up situations or experiences, as well as accidents and illnesses that are meant to help us heal our unresolved past.

I was only meant to be in Dubai for two weeks before we were scheduled to fly to Bali, Indonesia. The flights were already booked, as was our first Airbnb. We had to cancel everything, because out of nowhere I developed a massive ear infection and was unable to fly. We had to extend our stay in Dubai for weeks, and it was after my ear infection was treated that the galactic past life trauma came up in a session with a healer.

According to Messages from the Body by Michael Lincoln, ear problems are subconsciously caused by: ‘….They are firmly fixed in their belief in their utter separateness and their “deservingness” of rejection by God because of their “negativity” and “disobedience.” They are in a self-rejecting and self-isolating, in an “alone and alien” pattern. They are separately alone, alien, and alienated in what feels like an unsupportive environment. This pattern got started in a family in which they could do no right and yet which looked to them to be the answer to all their problems.’

In that galactic lifetime, we were creating ‘God’s children’ by creating a hybrid alien and human race. When that experiment went horribly wrong, I was blamed for the failure of this ambitious but foolish project, even though it had cost me my life, dying a horrendous death.

To me past life experiences don’t have to always be historically true, they can also just be metaphorical. The above description of ear problems as well as the past life story describe the collapse of the inner masculine (who collapses through self-blame). The Collapsed Inner Masculine causes the Rigid Inner Feminine archetype as she feels that without the inner masculine’s provision and protection she is left to fend for her own.

It directly ties into my core wound on a Soul Path level, which was the outcast wound where I interpreted my split from Source as being my fault. I fell short, which was why I was cast out. This is another survival strategy of the Collapsed Inner Masculine and Rigid Inner Feminine to take the blame, to regain a false sense of control by becoming the ‘fixer’ of self and others to feel in control (read safe) despite feeling cut off from God’s (the Divine’s) love, provision, and protection.

Without working with healers, my earache would have just been an ear ache or, as many people wanted to tell me, ‘not wanting to hear something’, when in fact, it went way deeper than that. My tumble down the stairs, which happened a second time two years later, would just be freak accidents. My broken foot, just bad luck or the curse of being a perimenopausal woman, and so on….

All of these situations and experiences would have kept their deeper meaning hidden, and although they would still have happened as part of my healing process – that process would have taken much, much longer because I wouldn’t have understood the deep emotions that I had to face that I had been hiding from myself not only since my early childhood but for eons and eons in my Soul journey.

Because of what was coming up in my sessions with healers and therapists during these past seven years, which I have spent almost exclusively on foreign soil, I knew where my emotions were coming from. Without this insight into my own process, perhaps like many women, I would have run from doctor to doctor to find a solution and been fobbed off with remarks of it being the change or perhaps even worse psychosomatic i.e. ‘…We don’t know what is wrong with you and we have no solution. Take some anti-depressants, you’ll feel better.’

Instead, I was able to make conscious what was brewing subconsciously and use it to break lifelong and longer-standing survival patterns that were not only keeping me small but also stuck living a life that was a far cry from the life I actually wanted to be living.

A life I couldn’t create because the very patterns that had kept me safe throughout it all were incompatible with the life I wanted to live. They had to be dismantled first, to be able to step into this next evolution of myself that opened up to me when I did the hard work of facing my inner shadows.

I pray this Soul teaching inspires you to do your own Soul travel and explore the healing it opens up for you. You don’t actually need to go to sacred sites or visit the world’s chakras in order to activate your healing or accelerate your Soul embodiment process. Also with Soul travel, it’s not about the destination – it’s the actual journey that initiates us into a deeper unraveling of who we truly are.

If you would like some support in this process, you can book a Soulology or Soul Embodiment® Therapy session to look at the deeper patterns playing out in your life and address them on a Soul Path level.

I would love to hear from you in the comment section below, how Soul travel has transformed you. If you have had any big A-ha moments reading this, please also share them below.

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