Traveling Through with David Prior · Thursday, August 27, 2026
JJ Martin describes her transformative trips to Egypt, involving private access to ancient temples at dawn, as a 'rebirthing process'. She also highlights Bali's nurturing energy, likening it to the 'softest arms of the mother Goddess,' and stresses the importance of finding local practitioners connected to the land's traditions.
“So a friend found another friend who was leading these trips. She was trained as a high priestess. I went on this trip the first year was twenty twenty one, and I got so into it. I became like a voracious student. And we go there in a really extraordinary way, which is with private access to the temples, which temples a lot of them, there's like twelve total, and each of them are accessed at either four or five am, and sometimes you're driving two hours to get to them, So sometimes you're waking up at three o'clock in the morning in order to start. It's worth it, No, I have to say, it's it's extraordinary because you're going in there with such reverence.”
“So what's just remarkable about Bali is that when you take a step off the plane and you close your eyes and you open your senses to what's there, you will come into contact with the largest, widest, softest arms of the mother Goddess on planet Earth. Bali is pure mother, radiating, pure soft nurturing. People feel so good there.”
“What I've figured is, or what I've learned, is that the key to this is finding your way in, and you need to find your way in with local and people who are doing things in a very humble way and in a way that's very connected to the traditions of the land, and that's probably what you were saying also about Australia.”