upto / jd to quickly navigate between directories in bash.

.bashrc

# Based on http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14303/bash-cd-up-until-in-certain-folder/14311#14311
# Jump to closest matching parent directory
upto () {
    if [ -z "$1" ]; then
        return
    fi  
    local upto=$@
    cd "${PWD/\/$upto\/*//$upto}"
}
# Auto-completion
_upto() {
    local cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
    local d=${PWD//\//\ }
    COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$d" -- "$cur" ) ) 
}
complete -F _upto upto

# Jump the firs matching subdirectory
jd() {
    if [ -z "$1" ]; then
        echo "Usage: jd [directory]";
        return 1
    else
        local restore_globstar=$(shopt -p globstar)
        shopt -s globstar
        cd **"/$@"
        $restore_globstar
    fi  
}