Tools for Your Soul’s Journey

Meditation guide, and teacher at the Kabbalah Center, Alison Serour explains how we can use meditation to access the guidance from our soul. Alison’s free meditations and new course, Rules and Tools for Your Soul’s Journey, are available on Insight Timer.

Transcript

So hi,

Tom Evans here on another Zone Show podcast and I'm delighted today to be speaking with fellow Insight Timer meditation guide and the creator of a new course,

Discovering Kavala,

Rules and Tools for your Soul's Journey.

Hi,

Alison Sororo.

Hi,

Tom.

I'm really delighted to be with you too.

And don't you love the way that Insight Timer connects like-minded souls right across the planet,

Isn't that a fantastic source,

Sort of a byproduct of being on there,

Isn't it?

Yes,

It's a perk that we get to meet each other and our paths can cross in this lifetime.

Actually,

And very recently I actually met in person a guy called Hugh Byrne.

He was over in the States and likewise I reached out to him and it turned out that he was turning up in London the week after so we met in person and did this on a park bench overlooking some ducks in a pond which is just lovely.

And one day that will happen too,

I'm sure.

So before we talk about your course,

I'd love to know how you became a meditation guide.

What was your journey that took you into this Insight Timer community?

Because I know you were a singer and that sort of stuff.

What was your journey into this world as a meditation guide?

And not just meditation but specifically Kabbalistic meditation.

I,

Since I was like,

I was always like loving books about astrology and tarot and past lives and I would read them when I was maybe 12,

13,

14 and I found a lot of peace and solace knowing that there was a whole other universe out there that had a lot of answers to the questions that I was looking for in life.

And I used to see the word Kabbalah.

It didn't matter if it was spelled with a C or a K or a Q or if there was one B but every time I saw this word Kabbalah,

Something inside of me told me that that was my life's path and that was my life's journey.

And I was in a kind of holding pattern just waiting to be able to explore and discover those secrets which at the time I thought were only available for men and that you had to be a certain age to learn them.

And the time came when I was about 20 that I got introduced to the teachings of Kabbalah through the Kabbalah Center and from there I felt very,

Very much in love with the teachings and with the learnings that I was incorporating into my life and especially we would do meditations every new moon.

That's another thing I love.

I'm very much into syncing with the moon.

So I would listen to the meditations on the new moon that my spiritual mentor Karen Berg would lead and I felt very,

Very comfortable in this world of eyes closed and introspective feeling what's going on in my body and what's going on in my heart and what's going on really in my mind and connecting to my soul and began to practice and to teach myself how to meditate.

So it's self-taught and it's been about 20 years now.

Wow.

You're a lecturer.

I've been listening to you for the last week and really enjoyed it.

And you just take people on really delightful journeys and just help people's minds switch off or open up other pathways which you didn't know was there.

So what's great about this then?

So you mentioned Kabbalistic meditation.

Does that differ from meditation meditation?

Because I just found it so accessible.

Well,

What is meditation?

Anyway,

Good question.

What is meditation meditation?

I think now there's just if you look at Inside Timer,

There's just like hundreds of different ways to meditate.

Kabbalistic meditation involves the acknowledgement that we are connected to the voice of our soul inside and that soul can guide us on that journey if we are connected to it.

It's filled the meditations that I do and a lot of them are on the Inside Timer are filled with different interpretations of prayers and blessings that the Kabbalists would do.

There is there's certain consciousness that is embedded into those blessings in the morning,

Which I found a way to to take out of the state of maybe saying a blessing,

But just incorporating it into something that you could have on your mind in the morning as one of your first thoughts.

So what's happening then when someone's listening to one of your meditations,

They're connecting with your consciousness connected to your soul.

That's why they're having such a deep effect.

Yes,

Yes.

And this is something that it's not just my consciousness,

But it's the consciousness of the living,

The lineage of Kabbalists that the work that I'm spreading and that I'm sharing is actually going back to the time of Abraham the Patriarch,

Who wrote the first book on astrology,

The Sephir Yitzi Ra,

And would look out into the universe and see the sun and see the moon and just know that there had to be a greater force out there in the world that that that we could that we could call on and connect to,

Which which we call the light.

The Kabbalists call that the light.

Now,

That's interesting,

Because when I was about seven,

I was raised a Roman Catholic.

But when I was about seven,

I had a Jewish auntie,

She wasn't a real auntie,

But I remember seeing a Hebrew book,

And I was absolutely fascinated by the Hebrew.

I just started copying it out,

Just doing the shapes.

I had no idea what the words were and stuff like that,

But I was just drawn to it.

I think my mother was quite horrified because she was a very stoic Roman Catholic.

Do not do that.

It's like the devil's work or something like that.

Yeah,

Yeah.

I was always a bit of a devil when I was a child,

But it just shows you.

And when we were having our email interchange,

Because you reached out when I did the interview with Christopher,

Found about the causes.

I said at the end of that,

If you've got a course,

Then just reach out and we'll do an interview and sort of stuff.

And you mentioned that our timelines must have crossed over the past lives as well.

Absolutely.

And now you foretold me in future life as well.

And so the question I wanted to ask then,

So to enjoy your meditations and to enjoy your course,

There's no need to necessarily study Kabbalah or switch religions or anything like that,

The wisdom is pretty ecumenical,

You know,

That word.

Yes.

And that's actually what's so special about Kabbalah,

That although it's grounded and rooted in that ancient wisdom,

It's something that everyone today can naturally access because it's all about empowering ourselves to be here and to be present and to take a look around what's going on in our life and to connect to others and to be strong within ourselves.

And that's really universal,

To not get affected by the external influences,

To try to become less reactive.

This is something that the Kabbalists every day would wake up in the morning and say to the universe,

To the light,

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to have another day that I can do this work of transformational spirituality and work on myself here in this world,

Which is,

You know,

That speaks to everyone.

So no need to convert to Judaism if you want to devil with a bit of Kabbalah.

Yeah.

And at the Kabbalah Center,

We teach everyone and that's something that people will learn when they take this Discovering Kabbalah course that this transcends,

It transcends gender,

It transcends race,

It transcends religion,

It transcends spiritual preference.

It's really universal.

It's really for everyone.

So when you say on the course rules and tools for your soul's journey,

Just share a few of the rules,

Could you?

Well,

You'll be able to see the rules,

There's a course description that goes through them,

The rules and the tools.

This course,

Interestingly enough,

Is the same course that I've been teaching for years,

10 plus years at the Kabbalah Centers and online.

And it's the basic course.

So this is essentially what we call Kabbalah One.

The beauty about Discovering Kabbalah rules and tools for your soul's journey is that I got to teach it to a community that loves to meditate.

So what I've done is been able to incorporate a lot of thoughtful moments and closing your eyes and really taking these rules and these tools,

Which will be,

I don't want to give away the course,

But there'll be some along the lines of that there is a force in this world that is trying to make us struggle and challenge us to win at this game of life.

So there's one rule like that.

And then there'll be a tool to learn how to overcome that Kabbalistic rule about awakening and understanding that this force actually exists.

So probably you've been doing this for 10 years.

I know there's 10 steps in each of the inside time courses and 10 separate ones as well.

So are they linked together?

So is the 10 linked?

Is that significant?

No,

We just got so lucky.

We really just got so lucky that the 10 weeks is the 10 micro sessions.

Well,

It's actually like Maddie and Christopher,

I think we're going back and forth.

Is it going to be 10?

Is it going to be like,

And they chose the perfect science of 10.

I got to meet them in Los Angeles before I began to work on this course.

They came out from Bali and that was a whole other experience of trying to curate and really hone together what Kabbalah and what the Kabbalah Center can share with Insight Timer that's going to be hopefully received in a universal way.

So anyone that isn't on the app,

The app itself is free.

It works on Apple and on Android and download it for free.

There are,

I think,

10,

000 guided meditations on there,

A fantastic app function,

And I think about 2,

000 or more meditation guides on there.

But the recent extension of it is to have courses which are very small,

Less than $5 if you want to one-time listen or $20 if you want to keep doing it forever and ever.

And they do allow people like us then to share some of our other deep wisdom.

Also rather than putting our meditations up as one-offs,

You know,

So I've got a series of 10 meditations up there but they're disparate,

They're all over the place and you wouldn't know what to take them in.

This actually allows us to guide.

But also one of the best features that the guides have come up with there is the ability for a student to ask a question for us to reply in audio.

That's my,

Yeah,

I'm excited about that.

It really deepens and extends the course.

The course becomes a living thing because as people ask questions,

You're adding content to it all the time.

Yeah,

I feel like that's a very,

Very smart feature.

Obviously,

This is the course is out today,

Which is really,

Really exciting.

And you'll experience what I experienced with my course where it starts off really slowly and it seems to get some sort of traction to it.

Will you do a course on Kabbalah 2 and Kabbalah 3?

Oh,

Well,

I'm looking forward to seeing this response.

And I don't know why not,

If it's something that people seem to be interested in.

You know,

Maddie and Christopher had to,

You know,

They wanted this Kabbalah course for a while and I was looking for the best person at the Kabbalah Center to do it.

And it wound up that I did it.

It took me,

It actually took me months.

So this was a process of months and months and months of taking a 10 week course that each course is,

Each class is one hour and bringing it into about 15 minutes.

So when,

You know,

When the time is right,

I'm happy to do number two and number three.

And I'm thinking about what I can do also for a 30 day course.

And I have a lot of a lot of interest,

Like we had spoken about before about the chakras and putting them together with the 10 dimensions and the tree of life.

So I'm looking forward to also putting a hopefully getting to put a course out there like that.

So how much of this process is like pulling yourself up with your bootstraps?

So for you to do a course like this,

You must be allowing your soul to come through and really connect and guide you.

Yes.

And I'm and I'm just and the word I use is kind of like flabbergasted at the at the way that this has just come through and developed.

And it it took it took quite a turn for the positive when most of the time I did this,

I was like pregnant with my now daughter who was born recently.

And yes,

Thank you.

So I felt I just felt there were a lot of things that were birthed with her.

And this this really being one of them.

And I felt a lot of support and a lot of guidance from from the sages of Kabbalah,

From from history and from my my personal spiritual mentor,

Karen,

Even even the music that we use as a part of the background music of the of the class,

Which is you are the light of my soul.

I am the light of my soul.

I am beautiful,

Bountiful and bliss.

And that even was was even even that brought me to to new dimensions and a new connection.

So I'm so excited to see where this course goes.

And I really I hope that I hope that people that are taking the course with me are really able to take the wisdom into their lives and make it practical and make it useful and reach out and I'm happy to mentor and to guide just the way that Kabbalah and learning the wisdom of Kabbalah dramatically,

Dramatically changed my life and my family's life.

And I'm just not I'm not the same person I was before I was 20.

And I had so many answers about what's going on in the universe now.

And the the wisdom of Kabbalah gifted me with that path.

And you already have your youngest student because your daughter was excited when you asked my daughter.

But she taught me she was kind of absorbing the wisdom,

But also giving the wisdom as well.

So you've born.

Yes,

She's been born a wise woman already.

Yes,

Yes.

And two weeks before she was born.

And I had also been feeling this inside of me.

But I I worked with a wonderful music producer and we we put together a bunch of chants and music also.

So I'm looking forward looking forward to putting that on the app as well as a whole new dimension and direction to look forward to.

And you know,

You're asking about future courses.

I hope that they have that music in them as well as the background music.

So where is Kabbalah in the 21st century then?

So I know that Buddhism reinvents itself every so often.

Does Kabbalah go through that sort of same re-engineering every so often in review?

Well,

The Kabbalah that that that I'm talking about and Kabbalah that the Kabbalah Center teaches is coming from the you know,

To use the word fight is is harsh,

But it was really a struggle and a challenge to to get to a place that Kabbalah is a word that people even know the way that in the 70s.

Most people know it through I think Madonna and stuff like that.

She was like a famous advocate,

Wasn't she?

Yeah,

But even that was but even then she was seen as slightly fronkers,

Wasn't she?

Which is a real shame because obviously that that is a disservice to her and to the whole spirit of Kabbalah as well.

So in in and likewise,

Like,

You know,

In the 70s,

People didn't really know what yoga was.

And now it's I mean,

I'm in Los Angeles,

But you know,

I do travel and you do see a yoga center in many towns,

Many small towns.

And in Los Angeles,

You see two in every corner.

But this,

You know,

This is this is 50 years later.

So Kabbalah has been becoming more of a of a word that's known and and and that knowing is probably since the 80s.

When the the founders of the Kabbalah Center,

The Robin Caron,

They they really had to not not care so much about what everyone else in the world thought about them in order to bring this amazing universal wisdom to to people like us that can benefit from learning these rules and these tools of a map of the universe.

There is a guidebook.

There is a there is a handbook,

Like just the same way that you buy your you know,

You buy your television or you buy your car and it comes with instructions.

That's that's how Kabbalah looks at our life here and our journey here is an instruction manual is the Kabbalah.

And it's and it's the teaching of how to receive not just fulfillment,

But lasting fulfillment,

How to receive lasting fulfillment that you know,

It's not just going to it's it's not just going to dissipate after that,

You know,

That blast of excitement of,

You know,

I had a baby or I got this new job or,

You know,

Or even on the flip side,

This is something really awful happened to me.

You know,

This I had this loss or my job got taken from me.

So these these things that they happen to us and they happen to all of us to really learn how to to have lasting light and to see that it's coming to us from the universe.

And so in some respects,

Then there is a revolution in terms of Kabbalah because it's now coming out to an app that's automatically connected to like five billion people.

It's just great.

Yes,

This is this is like so beyond me.

It really is.

It's it's just you know,

I have to bite my my lip every time I think about it because I really feel that to to be able to be a voice to spread this wisdom in the world is just such an honor.

So let people know where they can find you,

Allison,

And find the find the course.

Yes.

Where's the best place on the Internet?

And for the Insight Timer course.

Yeah.

OK.

The Insight Timer course called Discovering Kabbalah Rules and Tools for Your Soul's Journey will be under the courses section Insight Timer,

And it's going to be featured there.

And we'd love to have you join and explore together and and to learn from you through your questions to I'm addressing anyone who's listening right now.

Please share share them with me.

This Insight Timer has been quite a journey,

As Tom probably knows what it's like to post your meditations in your courses and put them out there.

A lot of the learning that that we go through that we we do,

In fact,

Get from our from the students and and it's it's quite a journey.

I teach a class every week.

That's a guided meditation class.

It's the it's called Awaken.

And it's it's also on my bio on Insight Timer.

So anyone can participate any time it's live,

It's online.

And if the time zone doesn't work for you,

You can get a recording of it.

Fantastic.

If you're listening to the podcast,

That's Alison,

A-L-I-S-O-N,

S-E-R-O-U-R.

Pretty easy for us to find in Google as well.

You can follow us on Facebook.

Some of the YouTube meditations that sort of as well.

So I highly recommend you tap into Alison's course and also Free Meditations.

But also,

Alison,

You did offer that you'll share a live meditation with us,

Which is something we love to do on the show.

And so we don't want to give any rules or tools away because I want people to say the course.

But maybe just a little sample of that.

That's so all the way.

Yes.

So you want to get comfortable wherever you're seated or lying down and uncross your arms and your legs and take a moment out of your busy day to take a breath,

Breathing in and breathing out.

And get grounded in your body and yourself so you can connect to the voice of your soul.

Imagine that you have an anchor that's in the area of your heart and your chest and that anchor drops down into the ground,

Grounding you.

And as you breathe in,

You breathe in and you feel the lights.

You breathe in the lights and it comes up your body.

When it gets to the top of your head,

You hold your breath for the count of three and you release and breathe out.

Get centered with yourself.

This meditation will guide you to know and get a glimpse of who you are and who you can guide here in this world.

We all have support of angels and teachers around us.

We have the support of our soul.

We have the support of loved ones.

They lift us up and imagine yourself now bringing,

Whether you know them or you don't know them,

Anyone that you feel is there to guide you,

Bringing them into your life right now,

Inviting them in,

Inviting them to be a part of you on this journey,

To help you connect to your soul,

To support you to be guided on your journey throughout the day.

And once you feel that connection,

It might be a warmth around your body or it might be a feeling of fullness,

A feeling of knowing that you are not alone.

Ask your guides to speak to you and they could speak to you with words,

They could speak to you with thoughts,

They could speak to you with images,

With feelings,

With knowings,

However it is that they come to you.

Listen and open yourself up to the wondrous connection that you have with the light with your soul inside of you.

And listen and hear.

Let yourself bring that wisdom from inside of you as you make your way back into the connection with your body.

Once again feeling your breath slowly become aware of your breathing.

You can feel yourself coming back to your body consciousness,

Wiggling your feet,

Your toes,

And your fingers,

Moving your shoulders a bit and slowly opening your eyes.

And then if you'd like you can try to jot down,

Write down if there's anything,

Any message that you heard that you want to keep in mind for yourself.

Thank you so much for sharing that Alison and I'm sure lots of people got many connections through that meditation.

And obviously what happens after these meditations is people get them for many minutes,

Hours and days afterwards too,

So thanks for that.

So thanks for sharing your wisdom Alison and that lovely meditation and wishing you every success for your new course Rules and Tools for your Soul's Journey.

And I hope you'll be coming back on The Zone Show when your next courses are out too,

So do keep in touch.

If anyone wants to get hold of Alison I can highly recommend her meditations,

Get in hold of the course and also you can find her on the internet and find out about her wonderful work at the Kabbalah Census.

Thanks again.

Thank you so much Tom,

Good luck with your course too.

I've been Tom Evans and thanks for listening to The Zone Show.

And for loads of books and resources to help you get in The Zone come over to my website www.

Tomevans.

Co,

That's dot c-o.

Bye for now.

Reviews

Very insightful

Thank you ❤️🙏thought provoking! Calming meditation with Allison!!

Informative, engaging and inspirational Podcast! Thank you!

Thanks Tom, did a Kabbala meditation this week with the light travelling from my toes to my head and back down again. Interesting visualisation. Will be checking out Alison. Have a great day. 🙏

Thank you for this interview🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻There is this world of infinite possibilities and so many choices just on Insight Timer...That's why an introductory interview is very helpful.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thanks for that, I will look into this ...

Wonderful introduction to this course; thank-you!

Thank you , this was interesting. Loved the meditation at the end too.🙏🏻

Thank you! 💕 That was fascinating and informative. I respect and honor you for doing these podcasts. 💫 I wish you could do podcasts with all the teachers who offer courses 😉 as I always learn SO much and want to take their course, so thank you!! ✨🧚🏼‍♀️

I would have missed Alissa’s course without this interview. Thank you. Her meditation at the end was perfect for my day today 😊

Enlightening!!!!