Meditation Saved My Life: From Shadows to Sunlight

By Priestess Shoshana
Founder of Temple de la Luna & Spiritual Teachers Voodoo

I was not supposed to succeed

Coming from an alcoholic family, chaos was the norm. Anxiety and depression shadowed me. Sleep was a stranger, and my nervous system was on fire with the tremors of trauma. No one would have looked at me as a child and seen the woman I would become — a teacher, a healer, a performer, a guide on the world stage.

But Spirit had other plans.

And meditation…
Meditation was the doorway.

It began quietly — a whisper in the dark, a flicker of light when everything inside felt broken. I didn’t come to meditation to become enlightened. I came to survive. I came because I was drowning in insomnia, in panic, in relentless emotional pain that medicine couldn’t touch.

What I discovered was something far greater than calm.
I discovered that meditation rewires the mind.

In its depth, meditation links the pleasure centers of the brain with the subconscious mind — the place where our true wounds and programming live. And when those two worlds meet, healing becomes not only possible — it becomes inevitable.

Through breath, stillness, and spiritual vision, I found myself.

I began to hear a new voice within — soft at first, then clearer with each day.
A voice that did not criticize, did not condemn —
But encouraged. Guided. Loved.

This inner voice became a coaching system, a compass made from intuition and emotional intelligence. And it changed my entire trajectory.

From instability and fear, I rose to obtain two degrees in natural medicine.
From silence and insecurity, I took to the stage, first in my community, then as a leading psychic and spiritual teacher worldwide.
I’ve helped thousands now — not just with readings and rituals, but by helping others face their ghosts, their fears, their hidden pain — and find the light on the other side.

This is what meditation can do.
It isn’t just for monks in robes or mystics in temples.
It’s for people like you and me — those who have known suffering.

Meditation gave me my life back.
It taught me how to listen — not just to the spirits, but to myself.
It built a bridge between my pain and my power.

And now, I teach others to build that same bridge.

Because within every person is a healer, a psychic, a divine force of intuition and wisdom just waiting to awaken. Meditation is one of the most sacred keys to unlocking that truth.

If you’re ready to start or deepen your meditation practice, I invite you to explore our Meditation Course through Spiritual Teachers Voodoo —
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But meditation didn’t just calm my nerves or quiet my thoughts.
It became the map that led me to my teachers — across cultures, oceans, and timelines.

In silence, I was guided — sometimes by dream, sometimes by vision — to the feet of powerful initiates, shamans, priestesses, and mystics who recognized something ancient within me. My soul was remembering. And meditation was the thread tying this remembrance together.

It was through these meditations that I first felt the soft pull of the Lwa — the spirits of Vodou who govern the sacred mysteries of the universe. Before I even knew their names, they began to speak through sensation, through emotion, through the elements.

I learned to enter trance through breath and body stillness. I taught myself to hold space in long ceremonies, to allow the spirit to mount without fear.
And when the ritual fires burned for hours,
when the drums shook the walls and the people cried out —
I was there, held in deep meditative trance, allowing the healing power of Kuzan, Ayizan, La Siren, Agwe, Erzulie Dantor, and Ogou to flow through me.

Meditation was how I learned to listen to the invisible.
It was how I withstood the heat of the isles, when the sun pressed down and the humidity drenched my skin, without becoming unbalanced.
It was how I stayed warm in the storms, when the rains came fast and fierce, and the winds howled like mourning spirits.
It was how I communed with the gods of the ocean, kneeling in the surf, salt and prayer blending as one —
Calling to La Siren,
Singing for Agwe,
Honoring the rolling depths that cradle both life and death.

There, I learned that meditation is not just an internal practice — it is a spiritual technology that aligns the body with the earth, the mind with the wind, and the soul with the stars.

When I meditate, I do not do so alone.
I sit with the Ancestors.
I rise with the sun.
I breathe with the sea.
And I listen — to the voices of the Lwa, the beating heart of the drums, and the great spirit that birthed us all.

Whether you’re battling insomnia or searching for spiritual clarity, your healing can begin right here, right now. You are not alone — and you are more powerful than you know.

Let meditation lift you —
From chaos to calm.
From shadow to sunlight.
From survival to sacred elevation.

With you on this journey,
Priestess Shoshana
Temple de la Luna | Spiritual Teachers Voodoo