Welcome, radiant soul! I'm Cilia
Since 2015, I've helped people deeply connect to their inner worlds.
As I've been on my own journey of healing, growing, and thriving- I've felt a deep responsibility to share what feels like "hacks" to have an ultimately happy life from the inside out.
Today, I do that by coaching ambitious women with a history of toxic relationships who are in that pre-dating again phase after a break up in their 30s.
My Coaching Style
I was a yoga and meditation teacher for 6 years before becoming a coach and I lead my coaching with grounding practices. This means you'll always be invited to drop into your breath and body at the beginning of every session or sometime during the session
I'm certified in the VITA™ method, which is a coaching method that combines scientifically proven transformational tools, like parts work, with mystical practices, like visualization.
From the very beginning of our work together, you're guided to drop as deeply as you can into your body and sensations that are available to you in the moment. This is something we come back to again and again throughout each session. This is the secret sauce to your long-lasting transformation because you're not just talking to me on our sessions, you're FEELING through it.
Because being deeply connected to your body is what I believe to be the key to receiving ANYTHING you want in your life, sometimes a coaching session could be a whole hour of breathing/meditation/ritual instead of being heavily focused on asking coaching questions.
With each client, I am to create a space that's not only safe and healing but that's also exploratory and fun!
My personal story
In dating and friendship, I kept repeating the cycle of getting into toxic relationships with people who didn't see my worth.
This was because I couldn't see my own worth.
I stayed in a toxic, unaligned romantic relationship for way too long... you know one of those situations where you look back and say "what was I thinking?"
Then in my mid-20's, I devoted myself to a daily yoga practice. Little by little, I came home to my body. I could no longer ignore the inner voice telling me that I hated working in the fashion industry and I hated being in the relationship I was in. The Self Expressed Babe inside me could no longer be contained.
I ended that toxic relationship of 6 years, quit my job, and moved back in with my mom. My life was both a mess and also coming together at the same time.
And so continued the journey of learning how to say yes to self love and how to feel deeply worthy of receiving healthy relationships with others. Which ended up leading the way for the work I never intended on doing for other people- the work I do today is something that found me rather than me aspiring as a young girl to do this.
My curious heart went into yoga teacher training just to deepen my own practice but by the end of my training, I felt a deep responsibility to share this precious life skill of connection with others. I started self love coaching after 6 years of teaching yoga.
My work has continued to be led by eventually teaching what's given me the deepest transformations. In 2022, after 3 years of deepening my personal self love work by focusing on sexuality, I signed up for a sex, love, and relationships coaching certification with a focus on female sexuality and life transitions.
Today, I get to be married to my soul mate and have the most supportive female friendships all because I deeply grounded in the self-love and worthiness that helps put the cycle of toxic relationships to bed.
Qualifications:
- Certified VITA™ Sex, Love, and Relationship Coach
- Certified Womb Circle Facilitator
- Certified 200 RYT (yoga and meditation teacher) with 10 years of personal practice experience and 7 years of teaching experience
- Various other certifications like Master EFT practitioner and Forgiveness Life Coaching.. what can I say, I'm a nerd for learning
- 2025: Currently completing a Female Sexuality Coaching Certification to deepen my work - certification expected Feb/March 2025
- In Progress (2025, not completed yet) Life Transitions Coaching Certification
I'd like to honor and thank the teachers, facilitators, and authors who I've learned from. My work stands on your shoulders:
- Radha Krishna Lila, 500-E-RYT
- Benjamin Smielowitz
- Sunder Ashni
- Jennifer Gunsaullus, PHD
- Layla Martin
- Marina Nabaõ
- Cory Scott
- Minke De Vos
- Lucia Capacchione, PHD
- Harville Hendrix, PHD
- Karyl McBride, PHD
- Jasmin Lee Cori, MS, LPC
- Emily Nagowski, PHD
- Anodea Judith, PHD
- Sheri Winston, CNM, RN, BSN, LMT
- Ev’Yan Whitney