Caterina Valente - Soul Alchemy

Caterina Valente - Soul Alchemy Integrated Energy Healing & Soul Mentoring

26/04/2026

Peace is built in the small, daily decisions you make.

Every time you entertain negativity, hold onto something that drains you, or chase what doesn’t align, you’re choosing chaos, even if it feels familiar.

When you pause instead of react, let go or protect your energy instead of giving it away freely... you’re choosing peace over chaos.

The impact of your choices shape your life. Your environment, your mindset. Your relationships then either evolve with you, or fall away. And slowly, your life starts to reflect the standards you set.

Peace isn’t passive. It’s discipline and awareness.
It’s deciding, over and over again, what deserves access to you and what doesn’t.

Our life is shaped by what we choose.

21/04/2026

Peace is a disciplined state of being where your nervous system, thoughts and actions are not hijacked by internal or external chaos.

Peace is coherence.

When your internal signals stop contradicting each other, you stop leaking energy. Most people are fragmented, wanting one thing, acting on another, fearing a third. That fragmentation is where manipulation, burnout, and conflict take root.

Peace, then, is power.

Sovereignty over self. The ability to choose your response instead of being driven by impulse, conditioning, or fear. That’s what makes it “high value”, because everything else depends on it. Clarity, strategy, relationships, even creativity all degrade when you’re internally unstable.

This doesn’t mean you never confront anything. Real peace makes confrontation cleaner. You’re not reacting to defend your ego, you respond to resolve what appears.

Peace is also alignment with truth. Lies create tension. Suppression creates pressure. Distortion creates instability.

When you’re honest, with yourself first, you remove those distortions. The result isn’t always comfortable, but it is stable.

Peace is built through
~ Regulating your body
~ Self awareness - so your thoughts don't self-sabotage
~ Acting in ways that don’t create internal contradiction

Your energy is sacred territory.
Protect it at all costs

Lately I’ve been reflecting on how often depth becomes unconsciously tied to heaviness, especially on a spiritual path, ...
15/03/2026

Lately I’ve been reflecting on how often depth becomes unconsciously tied to heaviness, especially on a spiritual path, and especially within feminine identity. I’ve been moving through a quieter kind of transformation: loosening the inherited belief that meaning must always be carried solemnly, that devotion must feel dense and inner depth requires weight.

What is emerging instead feels softer but no less profound: a feminine intelligence that can hold symbolism, grief, beauty and mystery without becoming burdened by them.

Ready for a new season of lightness 🕊️ 🌹

📷 Love Valley, Cappadocia
Waking at dawn: a magical moment in the sky during a sacred journey we guided through Turkey

In the surreal landscape of Love Valley (Aşıklar Vadisi) and nearby Göreme, the terrain feels like a meeting point of creation, erosion, silence, and spirit. Famed for its unique ph***ic rock formations ~ symbolically, a field of creative force rising upward.

Formed from ancient volcanic ash sculpted by wind and time, the valley’s towering “fairy chimneys” evoke powerful symbols of fertility, ascent, and life-force, echoing a much older Anatolian relationship with the land. Long before the Christian cave churches appeared, central Cappadocia lay within cultures shaped by the Achaemenid Persian Empire - traditions in which mountains, caves, springs, and unusual rock formations were treated as threshold places where the sacred surfaced through the earth itself.

Beneath the region lies an occult geometry of valleys, caves, and hidden cities, a symbolic axis between underworld, earth, and sky. Even the famous sunrise balloon flights above Göreme seem to unintentionally reenact this ancient rhythm: after the symbolic descent underground, the human perspective rises at first light, ascending into the dawn. Across many spiritual traditions, sunrise marks revelation, renewal, and the witnessing of the soul’s elevation. Drifting upward above Cappadocia’s erect pillars and valleys, we participated in an ancient cycle of descent, rebirth, and ascent.

On Freedom ~ Freedom is an internal state, it is a practice. An ongoing choice to release your grip, to trust the curren...
28/01/2026

On Freedom ~

Freedom is an internal state, it is a practice. An ongoing choice to release your grip, to trust the currents, to stay open even when the winds are uncertain. And in that openness, you realise that life itself is generous, the world is larger, wilder, and more alive than any cage you could imagine.

Today Hindus celebrate Makata Sankrānti, marking the sun's northward turn and the "end of Winter" in the Vedic calendar,...
14/01/2026

Today Hindus celebrate Makata Sankrānti, marking the sun's northward turn and the "end of Winter" in the Vedic calendar, one of the most important solar markers in the Vedic system, reflecting the end of a declining solar force and a cosmic energy shift.

Related to the Sun’s movement, in terms of cosmic orientation and energy direction, it marks the end of Dakshinayana (the Sun’s southward journey) and the beginning of Uttarayana (the Sun’s northward journey).

In Vedic cosmology, Uttarayana is considered the return of light, vitality, and upward-moving energy, which symbolically means winter is over.

The Vedic calendar is solar-sidereal, not seasonal, based on the actual position of the Sun relative to fixed stars, rather than the equinoxes used in Western tropical astrology.

In terms of its traditional symbolic and spiritual meaning, this shift represents movement from inertia (tamas) to clarity and growth (sattva).

A favorable time for Spiritual practice, Initiation, Service and Discipline. A period when spiritual effort is said to bear greater fruit.

Many traditions say: "What is begun in Uttarayana moves upward.”

🖼️ Images

1. "Winterowd", Tom Kirby (Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe)

2. "A Girl Worshipping the Rising Sun" (Surya Puja) 1810, attributed to Chokha (Indian, active c.1799-1824)

3. Detail of "The Sun", Joseph W Spoor, 1874

Making the Unconscious Conscious 🌹When you allow yourself to feel ~ You understand your triggersYou react less and respo...
14/11/2025

Making the Unconscious Conscious

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When you allow yourself to feel ~

You understand your triggers

You react less and respond more

You see your boundaries more clearly

You stop repeating old patterns.

This is how emotional maturity develops.

📷 Unfinished Symphony

~ Photos from my 20s, 30s, 40s .. I see a beauty now I didn't recognise at the time, I felt broken inside. In my 30s I started my inner journey and created a new story ❤️

11.11 Guided Meditation Ceremony MEDITATION & CONSCIOUSNESS Between Worlds ~ Monthly Gatherings Within the Chaos: A Retu...
11/11/2025

11.11 Guided Meditation Ceremony
MEDITATION & CONSCIOUSNESS
Between Worlds ~ Monthly Gatherings
Within the Chaos: A Return to Stillness

Theme & shared Intention: Manifesting.. Aligned Trust
(Creating a new story, with a different ending)

Tuesday 11 November
Quinta da Faianca
Almoçageme
Colares ~ Sintra

TIME ADJUSTMENT
5.30pm Arrival
6-7.30pm Meditation & Exploration

1 hour guided meditation & talk/sharing with Caterina accompanied by sharing Ragas on the Tanpura

Advanced registration only: PM to confirm your place
€20 (Concessions €15)

Next full BETWEEN WORLDS event in Jan/ Feb featuring live music with global sounds... More details soon , join the WhatsApp link in the Bio to stay in touch with future events

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BETWEEN WORLDS ~ an eclectic Soul Alchemy series featuring wisdom teachings, ceremony, meditation and Ethnomusicology - showcasing unique musicians infusing global sounds and inspiring unity through a celebration of multiculturalism and shared experience.

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Samhain Reflections at the Lake of Love and Ashley Chase forest ~ Dorset Samhain marks the ancient Celtic New Year, the ...
02/11/2025

Samhain Reflections at the Lake of Love and Ashley Chase forest ~ Dorset

Samhain marks the ancient Celtic New Year, the midpoint between autumn equinox and winter solstice, when the veil between the worlds was believed to be at its thinnest. It was a time to honour ancestors, release what had passed, and prepare for the dark half of the year.

Here in Littlebredy, the landscape carries that liminal feeling naturally. The River Bride, whose name likely comes from the Celtic root briga or brida, meaning “gushing stream”, rises at this lake. The entire Valley takes its name from this source. Some link the name to the Celtic goddess Brigid, keeper of the hearth and inspiration, who bridges life and death, light and shadow.

Standing by the water’s edge, you can feel that sense of threshold: the stillness of the lake mirroring both sky and soul, many ashes have been scattered there. It’s easy to see why this place has been called the Lake of Love, symbolising connection, remembrance, and the flow between worlds.

As Samhain turns the year’s wheel, endings and beginnings meet in still water.

A time to listen and reflect, honouring the continuity between the living, the land, and those who came before us

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📷 Lake of Love, Littlebredy and Celtic pagan altar, Ashley Chase forest ~ Dorset

The light and peaceful energy was magical 🤌🏽

My crappy phone camera doesn't do it justice 🤍

Creating a new story...with a different ending.We all have parts of ourselves we’d rather hide. The “devil” isn’t some o...
02/11/2025

Creating a new story...with a different ending.

We all have parts of ourselves we’d rather hide. The “devil” isn’t some outside force. It’s the side of us we’ve learned to hide, deny, or condemn.

Walking side by side with it means we stop pretending and running from the uncomfortable truth of who we are. We start taking responsibility for our shadow, not letting it run the show, but not banishing it either.

That "devil" inside isn't trying to destroy you, it's showing you your power, truth and boundaries. When you deny it, it owns you. When you face it, it frees you.

Walking side by side requires courage, awareness, integration...which leads to Wholeness.

That's where freedom begins.

When you can walk beside your “devil,” you’re no longer controlled by it.

And something shifts in the collective.

Because most of what plays out in the world - conflict, polarisation, blame, comes from people projecting their unowned darkness onto others. When we can’t face our own shadow, we need someone else to carry it for us. So we create enemies, villains, “bad guys.”

But when individuals begin to integrate what they’ve rejected, their anger, shame, greed, fear.. that projection loses power. Compassion grows and accountability becomes possible.

We stop needing to punish others for the parts of ourselves we won’t acknowledge.

Collective healing doesn’t start with more light, but with more honesty.

When enough of us can do this without shame the world softens.

The new story begins inside us first.

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

C.G. Jung

The hero steps beyond the threshold, enters the underworld (liminality), dies to the old self, and returns bearing the e...
21/10/2025

The hero steps beyond the threshold, enters the underworld (liminality), dies to the old self, and returns bearing the elixir ~ not just changed, but as a bridge between worlds.

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BETWEEN WORLDS
Friday 24 October
5.30 arrival, 6-9pm
Quinta da Faianca
Colares, Sintra

More info in previous posts 🤍
Registration link , spaces limited.
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