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About
Janine
“Je me souviens”…
French-Canadian moto
meaning
“ I remember”…
I
remember where I come from…
I
remember the history of my
ancestors…
I
remember all the wounds of humanity…
I
remember Who I Am…
The Light of
God
I
remember an early April morning
in 1989 sitting in the Findhorn Meditation room with
Eileen Caddy, one of the 3 founders of this exceptional spiritual
community in Scotland and a personal friend for already 4
years…Only the two of us…It is the last day of a “Psyche and
Soul” conference…
A gift from a friend of
both of us and the culmination of a
4-year intensive study
with a special woman seer in Montreal…One question is in my
mind:
"What is my direction,
my work?”
Huge white letters
appeared in the blue sky of my mind’s eye
WORLD PEACE
I held my breath for a
long time…
Eileen moved behind me…
we went out
quietly…
That same night, I was
blessed with another clear vision involving the energies of the North
and the South, the West and the East coming together in the
center, creating an amazing spark in the heart…
I felt the Oneness…I was
the Oneness…
And a voice said:
“The first chakra is as
divine as the seventh…
I AM the 4 faces of God…
I AM the 4 winds coming
from the 4 faces of God.”
I woke up…
All through the years,
these words have sustained my work…dedicating it to help myself and others
to
remember
this
state of Oneness…TURYA…
So…a few months after
this experience I started setting up
Earth Day 1990 Canada in
Victoria, B.C. but the Universe
had other plans for me…At
the end of 1989, spirit pulled me
to Costa Rica where I
still reside. Early on I started teaching Kripalu Yoga,
sharing all my knowledge in the holistic field
and networking locally
and internationally…
I knew from the beginning that part of my work
was to
hold a space…I did and
still do…
I
remember wanting to be an
astronaut and explore outer space at 14…even managing to enter a national contest
called “The Young Astronauts”
and being one of the 7
finalists…Quite a feat for a young
French-Canadian teen
emerging from the last village on the
map up in the northwest
of the province…but a 16-year old
won the prize…a trip to
Cape Canaveral…
I
remember my first long journey
away from home at 16…going across Canada and up to the
Beaufort Sea, with
twelve other youngsters…my first cultural shock…I got so
enthralled with
discovering our Earth and its inhabitants
that some years
later, tour operating business
became my
profession for 25 years…
I remember
my
first quantum leap in consciousness, at 18, while reading my
first yoga book
“Jnana
Yoga”
by Swami Vivekananda…I got hooked for life
to spiritual books…but
I
also remember
devouring my first
Carlos Castaneda book
at 22, waiting
eagerly for each new publication…hoping
that a Don Juan
would show up in my life…while I kept
roaming different
parts of the world…My passion for mysticism and magic got
intertwined and
could never be
separated…
I
remember
meeting my first
“teacher” at 32…in my own city…and starting my first deep
emotional and spiritual incursion …getting intensely absorbed
by the inner world…
with myriads of
blissful moments interspersed by some dark nights of the Soul
along the way…
I
remember stumbling into my first
spontaneous dip into
some cellular memory work at
39…becoming fascinated with the Soul Surrender work I initiated then and have
been practicing for the last 16 years with amazing
results…From wanting to be an astronaut and explore outer
space…
I ended up exploring inner
space…so…
Could I call myself a
SOULNAUT?
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