Merging Both Worlds
Coaching | Mentoring | Healing
I believe that the Ultimate is at the merging point of all outer & inner realities, where nothing & everything kisses. And that humanity will only survive and strive when the politicians take up shamanic drumming, the artists learn budgeting, the business leaders heal childhood traumas, and the angel channelers accept the 3D world too.
On my way there, through all the philosophies, business realities, spiritual practices, scientific discoveries, healing modalities, creative expressions… I leave no stone unturned, and I serve those on a similar path as a coach, a mentor, a healer.
I have spent most of my professional life as a tax consultant in the corporate world, while simultaneously deeply exploring spirituality, holistic health, and the arts. I chose to be in both worlds, or maybe in many worlds at once, and I help others do that too – merge it all in one comprehensive, fulfilling, exquisite Life.
Lovingly,
My coaching style encompasses multiple modalities and is tailored to each person, using tools from business, mindfulness, and embodiment practices. Online sessions take place via weekly 1 hour video calls in packages of 9 consecutive weeks. It’s a good time span to check, explore, and establish a new kind of balance in your life.
In person sessions are usually of longer duration but less frequent, depending on coachee’s current priorities. Workshops about holistic lifestyle topics and group retreats are taking place from time to time, information can be found HERE.
To test if you need this, call an imaginary board meeting with yourself: your mind, heart, body, and soul should each have a 25% vote. If for some reason your mind seems to act as if it has a proxy, your heart does not feel listened to, your body tends to fail tasks assigned to it, and your spiritual side stayed home, some balancing and merging work is in order. Just imagine what could be if all 100% of you were on board!
I love working with people who are ready to take action and try tools and practices they haven’t considered before. I have been in challenging situations, found a graceful way to regain balance, and I will show you how to do the same. Spiritual tools can be beneficial to drive business growth. And vice versa.
The following 3 descriptions are good indicators that we would be a fit:
You’ve tried mindfulness, yoga or meditation, but the benefits don’t seem to stick, and after a while, everything is back to where it was. It feels like you’re missing an important piece of the puzzle and as a result your life is skewed in one direction.
It feels like you have to choose between business or private fulfillment, caring for others or developing yourself, working in the corporate world or having a spiritual life, but you want it all! Due to your current time and workload limits, it doesn’t seem possible.
Some kind of disbalance in your life has resulted in a health issue or has led you down dark roads, and parallel to treatment, you wish to explore underlying reasons to make sure this does not repeat or carry over to your family or business.
I am located in Latvia, the North-East part of Europe, and in order to practice what I teach and serve the balance of my life, my regular online sessions are offered on weekday evenings for European time zones or mornings for the U.S. In person sessions and workshops may take place on weekends, considering numerous rhythms and cycles.
Attention: working with me requires doing, changing, and feeling. I am prepared to give it all that I am, and I expect the same commitment from you. If you can guarantee me that, I can guarantee you results.
This is not classical therapy. This is not a substitute for qualified medical advice. This is connecting with all your known and unknown resources and reaching for the stars.
“The world needs Dreamers and the world needs Doers, but above all the world needs dreamers who do.”
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
What People Are Saying
Working with Aija is effortless, yet highly productive and progress-driven. Once the aim of the session is determined – it’s a structured, motivational discussion to get to the roots of the issue at hand. It’s very aspiring also as the feeling Aija creates makes you certain that you are capable of much more!
Aija’s coaching approach is very honest, genuine, and amazingly resourceful as she can provide you with the right tools for any life area as far as you are willing to develop and invest in yourself. Aija has helped me by providing a different perspective on the challenges faced in my career and private life, more often than not, assisting to connect them back together. Her thoughtful, testing questions and exercises have guided me in rediscovering my inner balance, building confidence, and staying true to myself.
From the first moment I met Aija, I knew – she is the woman who will coach me through my needs and will improve my life. She listens carefully and provides a safe environment to air and then like a mirror reflects back to show me the things I never noticed or realized about myself, my life or a situation. She has answers for every situation and tools to deal with it. Thank you for challenging me and pushing me forward to better my life. Practical results are really impressive. I have learnt so much and keep practicing. Her confidence in me enabled me to turn my life around and I feel like a different person, who knows how to make my life better with the power within me. Thank you – is a small word for you!
The path takes me to Aija at moments when I have stopped and do not know where to go next. Then in the Space created by Aija, I can feel myself and become aware of things that I don’t know how to notice or don’t dare to notice. It is a chance to open up in a safe environment, look deeper and step by step, move forward with awareness. I am always amazed at how much Aija can feel what is happening to me and about her ability to give me exactly what is needed at the moment. Even when I seemed to be in a black maelstrom, she helped me to see the blue edge of the sky where to go to. It is worth addressing Aija at the moment when you yourself are 110% ready to really do something and focus on the most important – your Soul path.
In our discussions I realized that hurting feelings can only be resolved through acceptance. It aided me with my childhood issues and let me proceed with life with a feeling of freedom.
I have been working with Aija for almost ten years. I can say that she is very tactful, reserved, and professional. I have consulted in financial matters, personal development, and also in difficult life situations. The vast array of tools offered in each situation is surprising. Aija is fully focused on the client and she supports and helps to understand what lies behind a particular issue to find the real cause and to work with it. I know I can rely, trust, and get the best that I am capable of receiving at that moment, and with each passing time, the volume and depth only increases. These sessions have helped me to improve the quality of my life, so I can heartily recommend working with Aija.
Working with Aija… means working with all you have, no skimping, as it is for your own benefit. She radiates tranquility and explains things you don’t understand, or any mistakes in the tasks you have undertaken. She is accepting in the moments when you have ‘fallen’ again or shattered in pain. She provides peace – after talking with her there is conviction and strength to deal with everything. She sees and feels what has to be changed and notices the real change. Holistic approach is so little used and so very necessary to be… to just Be.
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― Marianne Williamson
If what you have read resonates with you, I would be happy to hear from you!
For me the best days for intro calls are Wednesdays – evenings for European time zones and mornings for U.S. Please drop me a note to check if we could schedule one next week to get acquainted and see if we are a good fit for some exciting work.
“Your days are your life in miniature, expand yourself today.”
Interview With Aija
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
I remember the Cinderella story and how little girls were supposed to want to be princesses. But I have always thought that the cool one to be was the Fairy godmother! The ability to create beautiful things, be there for someone in a difficult moment, help people reach their goals and dreams?
I think I am well on track. And I have no curfew!
How did you choose to walk those very different paths of a business consultant from the corporate world and one of a spiritual healer?
I don’t think it was much of a choice. One of my closest friends once put it very bluntly: if I would have had only my corporate world, I would have cut my wrists; if I had only my spiritual life, I would have gone mad.
How did it start?
My tax expert life started to conquer a fear. During high school, I was working as a bookkeeper, and I was terrified of the Tax Authority. So, I got a job as a tax inspector there and saw the other side of compliance, law interpretation, and still basic humanity. Then I proceeded to be a consultant at Big4 for 18 years.
My spiritual life kinda kicked off when I was 16 and read my first non-mainstream book. History is a set of biased diaries? Religious books were not printed in heaven? Economy is not based on supply and demand? Yea, my teenage worldview crumbled and I started exploring.
Why is balancing and merging so important for you?
All truths are true. Everything is correct at some point and in some circumstances. I have gone through a vast number of spiritual practices, healing modalities, and philosophies, and in their essence, it’s all the same. I gain immense joy from finding the balance point between seemingly contradicting things.
Being completely content with your life as is and simultaneously reaching for the stars. Reading articles about how quantum physics is struggling to find common ground with Newtonian physics, and then reflecting that this sounds so much like Aristotle or medieval alchemist texts. The balancing of feminine and masculine explored in Tantric, Daoist, or Hermetic practices, which must then be transposed to real relationships.
It’s fascinating, the zero point, the infinite potential that exists where both polarities kiss.
What do you find frustrating in how the spiritual side looks at the corporate world?
Not to make a generalization, but I have noticed comments like “come, learn this modality and finally leave your 9 to 5” or “phew, we escaped the corporate world.” You discovered a new world of Divine light, and it said money is evil? If you have enough light to heal the world, shouldn’t it include the corporate world? Please bring your Spirit to work. Big companies exist for good reasons and need our love too.
What is disbalanced about how the corporate world looks at the spiritual one?
The corporate world seems to have issues with all things that can’t be counted, evaluated, or scientifically proven. It seeks security of numbers and reliability of flow-charts. As soon as we find out how to put bliss in Excel, we might do better. HR is making some good head start here.
It takes a lot of strength to be okay with the unknown.
What are the cornerstones of your life, your practice?
In the spiritual corner, there is breathwork, movement, embodiment, and in the other, there is structure, regime, and knowledge. This Bermudian triangle is completed by love.
I tend to love deeply: I love nature and this country, I love people – specifically and generally, I love my quirky family, I love cats, dogs, and horses, I love myself. Love is not an emotion, it’s energy, choice, and being of service. It’s a shame that in English and Latvian languages there is only one word for love; the ancient Greeks had five different words for it.
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing.
Love is knowing I am everything.
In between the two my life moves.
– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
How do you approach new things, new projects?
I think Picasso put it perfectly, “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” I do learn the rules, quite thoroughly. Then I know how to best dance with them. I embody what I have learned, and if it works, I pass it on.
You know, how they say that there are two sure things in life – death and taxes. Well, as a tax consultant and a past life therapist, I would… smile.
What are your goals?
To create an orgasmic chocolate desert. To dance perfectly. To keep myself in as clear body, mind and heart as I can, so I am able to be a clear channel of the Divine. To know everything. To touch as many people, lives and realities as I can. To learn to walk on water (it’s been said to take faith only as big as a mustard seed). To be an example that balanced life is possible.
I find the meaning of my life in service to others. The summits are not that difficult to climb, it’s never a crowded road to the top. But when the thrill of achievement wears off, you find that it’s only windy up there. So, the real question is, how many can you bring up with you.
What are you most afraid of?
Normal, average life. And not being able to get out of it.
– I fear neither death nor pain.
– What do you fear, my lady?
– A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire.
© J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.
What do you do for fun?
I would like to say everything, but I know what you mean. And that would not be quite true. There are rainy days too, the “why the f***” days, the “you can all go to…” days. Probably to tease my peace.
Creative crafts are fun and come easily to me, a good portion of my clothes and interior items I have made myself. I am a good cook, a decent calligrapher, and crap at playing piano.
Most things I do I do in service to others, but ballroom dancing is mine, that’s what I learn and practice out of pure, undiluted enjoyment and only for myself. That’s my Bindu, my Agape.
If you were arrested with no explanation, what would your friends and family assume you had done?
They would probably go for “had sex in public.”
If your life were a song, what would the title be?
“My way” as performed by Frank Sinatra. I absolutely love this song.
Although I should probably choose something more ‘alternative’… I recently found out that in ancient Aramaic my name – pronounced as AYA – means something that has no beginning and no end. That sounds neat and perfectly balanced. If you happen to know good songs about that, please send me a note.
How would you define yourself in three words?
Creator, Provocateur, Healer.
― Rumi
Do you have any questions, or would like know more about the topics of spirituality, Life balance, and holistic health?
I would love to be in touch with you, hear your stories, and spend some time in that perfect Space together.
