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Intuition training | Embodied Alchemy |  Dream Actualization

This is your permission slip to roll up onto your tiptoes, reach up high and tickle the sun’s warm belly with your fingertips because the sky is your only limit here 🌞

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I want to help you see your s*%t. Every bias, belief, and excuse that’s kept you playing small or feeling like a victim of a system that wasn’t built for you. Through my work as an alchemy and embodiment coach, I want to reunite you with your true gifts so you can live your boldest, most aligned life.

Together, we’ll light the way for you to embody your Goddxx-like potential and reconnect with your authentic self. 

In a world designed to keep you in survival mode and monkey mind, holding the frequency of light and joy is the most spiritual and political revolutionary magic.

Because when you become your happiest, healthiest, whole-st self, you don’t just change your life. You shatter limits. You expand possibility. You create ripples. Big, world-shaking ripples that inspire generations to come.

From Chapeltown to Center Stage: My Journey to Joy

Ella or Maya, pronouns she/her or they/them is a Multidisciplinary Artist, Choreographer, Movement Specialist, Accredited Coach, Published Author, Teacher, and the Director of Ella Mesma Company.

At 14, Ella discovered salsa and and then Afro-Brazilian dance forms, even training under a Yoruban priest in Salvador da Bahia aged 22. But, like many, struggled with belonging, self-doubt, and finding her voice. 

Through her early contemporary dance training in Leeds (with one of the founders of Phoenix Dance Theatre), Ella learned to work hard, play hard, and dream big. She now carries that discipline, resilience, and bloody good Yorkshire tea everywhere she goes.

Trained in Afro-Latin, breaking, aerial silks and contemporary dance, Ella has danced across continents, from the Olympics Opening Ceremony 2012, the Joyce Theater in New York City, to the Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba; and then her own large scale commissions and choreographies being featured at Sadler’s Wells and The Place and across the UK.

Ella’s path has always been global, intuitive, and deeply rooted. From Bristol to Brazil, from Leeds to Lagos, Ella gathers tools, builds connections, and maps movement as a language to come back home to the body. 

Over 20+ years, this journey has taken Ella from performer and choreographer to alchemy and embodiment coach, exploring how creativity, intuition, and ancestral wisdom can transform not just our bodies but our lives.

Dance, storytelling, and intuition helped Ella smash through the glass ceilings she built for herself, and as she picked through the shards of glass, she found her true path.

Now, Ella guides others on their journey HOME to themselves. Helping them access their power, overcome limits, and live boldly aligned lives. 👇

Stage your creative comeback

Creativity isn’t always a lightning bolt of inspiration that strikes us on a morning walk (if only it were that easy!). It’s about flow, trust, and showing up for yourself. But what happens when the flow dries up? When ideas get stuck inside your throat… Procrastination is silencing your best ideas. Self-doubt is blocking your brilliance. Outright self-sabotage is stepping out and strangling your potential. 

Through alchemy and embodiment coaching, we’ll choreograph your creative return to yourself, reclaim your voice, and break out of harmful patterns that keep you from making your art. 

Because your ideas deserve to fly free, and your creativity is waiting to retake centre stage. 

That’s where I come in. 

As an Alchemy and Embodiment Coach, I work with creative women and non-binary folk to unblock what’s holding them back, reconnect with their intuition, and turn creative frustration into creative freedom. Whether you’re navigating a relationship, a career shift, or a traumatic past, struggling to trust your vision, or feeling disconnected from your creative fire, we’ll rewrite the rhythm together. So you can tap into your vast creative possibility and step into your Goddxx-like potential.

A dance of intuition, grace, and joy 

Working with me teaches you how to move through life on your terms. My alchemy and embodiment coaching combines the discipline of dance, the ancient wisdom of alchemy, and the healing power of embodiment practices. Everything I deliver is in service of women, non-binary people and anyone who has ever felt the pain of being othered in your creativity.

My calling is creating electric moments where your purpose ignites, and in our spaces together, your creativity knows no bounds.↓

Find your inner voice, move into outer brilliance 

As a multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, movement specialist, accredited coach, published author, and the Director of Ella Mesma Company, I bring my experiences in dance, coaching, and movement practices to deliver a truly holistic, one-of-a-kind approach to creativity. Through alchemy and embodiment coaching, I empower individuals to break free from limiting beliefs, embrace their cultural and social identities, and reconnect with their authentic selves.

Check out my credentials

  • Published Author of Journal To JOY , a book which has helped hundreds of people transform their lives
  • Director of Ella Mesma Company (A Dance & Circus Theatre Company) that has created over £300,00 of investment into the work, employed over 66 artists and £360,00 turnover
  • Certified TRE (Trauma Release Exercise)
  • Facilitator on a journey with Myofascial release & Rolfing
  • 550hr Certified Yoga Teacher (Karam Kriya, Embodied Dancer, Yoga Body)
  • MA in Dance (LCDS/Kent University),
  • Certified Wheel of Consent practitioner (Betty Martin)
  • 5 times Accredited Coach (Natural Success, ILM Level 3, Relational Dynamics & Mind Matrix)
  • Holistic Pelvic Care practitioner (Certified by Tami Kent of Wild Feminine)
  • Sekhem Level 1, Usui Reiki Master (Natural Healer)
  • Mental Health Awareness Training, LGBTQIA+ Awareness Training, Trauma Informed Training (Curious Arts, MHFA England, The Centre For Healing)

 

A transformation that lasts a lifetime

One of my most recent clients has created a 4-day work week, moved to Egypt, then India, and now spends her days off travelling and enjoying life while being paid the same salary as before. And this is just 1 example of our transformative work together in action.  


Other clients have launched businesses, rebuilt relationships, and found the courage to pursue lives aligned with their deepest desires. The impact of what we do rarely stays neatly within our alchemy and embodiment coaching sessions. Instead, it spills out into every part of your life, giving you clarity and confidence to navigate life joyfully and purposefully.

Joy is calling, but will you take your first step towards it? 

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“Ella is a wonderful, true and helpful soul who helps you connect with your heart and all your chakras. 

She has many tools in her box and can gently help you find kindness and balance for yourself, nature, the universe and relationships along with anything other issues that are troubling you.”

DIANA PINEIRO, GODDXX PATH STUDENT

Bold values, big dreams and a whole lot of soul (go into this)

🌈Imagination as liberation

Creativity isn’t just about making. It’s about unlearning limits and dreaming bigger.

 I create spaces where you can push beyond who you’ve been told you should be and reconnect with your wildest visions. Moving you toward a life that feels as expansive as a sunlit horizon.

✨Intuition in motion

Your body knows before your mind catches up. 

Coaching with me is about listening deeply to your body, instincts, and truth. Through reflection and intuitive guidance, we’ll rewrite old patterns so you can fully trust yourself and open your life to joy.

🦋Transformation through action

Change doesn’t come from waiting. It comes from choosing. 

Together, we turn insights into action, dreams into steps, and blocks into breakthroughs. Whether rewriting old beliefs, stepping into your creative power, or launching something new, we move forward with courage, curiosity and community.

𖣂Honouring roots & legacy

The work we do isn’t just personal. It’s collective. 

Guided by the wisdom of those who came before us, we honour the cultural, spiritual, and creative lineages that shape our journey. With integrity at the heart of everything we do, your transformation remains true to you, while its ripples are felt far beyond you.

“I am so grateful for your energy & wisdom & I am so grateful for following my intuition to join your course in the first place—it is just so beautiful.”

STELLA MCGOWAN

Honouring roots and acknowledging stories

I am deeply grateful for the practices and traditions that inform my work, from the dance forms rooted in the African diaspora to the ancient wisdom that guides my coaching. I acknowledge the painful history of colonialism and enslaved peoples that contributed to the creation of these diasporic dances and the resilience embedded in these cultural legacies.

I commit to honouring and respecting these traditions through movement, storytelling, or intuitive coaching. I always strive to celebrate these legacies, create spaces for transformation, and invite others to reconnect with their own truths.

 

I am dedicated to learning, growing, and striving for authenticity in everything I do, ensuring that the power of these practices is honoured and upheld with care, reverence, and integrity.

Roots in Nigeria (and Yorkshire!)

Of Nigerian and white British heritage, I am inspired by my roots’ joy, power, and heart and how that energy has guided my journey back to myself.

I honour the courage of those who came before me. Their strength has shaped my being and life choices and given me wings to fly high and live out big dreams.

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