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Intuition training | Embodied Alchemy |  Business & Dream Actualization

Uncover your Goddxx-like potential: rise into your creative power, brave your truth and realise how to create the life you want. 

I’m Maya (or Ella). I am an alchemy and embodiment coach who works specifically with creative entrepreneurs, directors and visionaries at transition points.

I support those who refuse to choose between soul and strategy to combine business tools, boundary-setting, difficult conversation training alongside the deep embodiment and intuitive work that helps you lead from your whole self, not just your head.

Because when you stop choosing between soul and strategy, everything shifts. Your business becomes sustainable. Your leadership becomes authentic. Your life becomes yours again.

I would love to support you to come back HOME to yourself and your intuition.

Through Embodied Alchemy, powerful coaching, and sacred support, I will show you how to release the limitless power within you (and let out your GLOW!). I want you to rediscover who you’ve always been and say a big, bold YES to creating the life you want.

The GLOW framework—Goddxx-like potential, Liberation, Openness, and Wisdom—helps established creatives reconnect to fearless purpose and intuition that transforms your art, relationships, and leadership. Because your most authentic self is your most abundant.

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Do you hear the little whisper inside you that says,

“There’s more to life than fitting in. There’s more to me than this.”

I know that whisper well… It’s the voice that brought me back home to myself after years of saying yes when I meant no, being ‘nice’ instead of real, and feeling like my worth was tied to pleasing others.

Maya Gandaia was born from this same alchemy of mindset transformation. After witnessing its power in my own life—first as a disoriented 12-year-old and later navigating the complex terrain of adulthood—I began to recognise a pattern among the brilliant creative souls I encountered.

For so long, we have been told who to be, how to act, and what to dream.

But what if you could lift that weight?

What if you could step into a life of growth, creativity, and joy? What if you knew how to create the life you want?

You’ve built something beautiful. Your yoga studio, your dance school, your coaching practice, your creative agency. You’ve been doing this for years. You know how to run a business. You understand KPIs, quarterly planning, team management.

But somewhere along the way, you started feeling hollow.

Perhaps you’ve been told that business success means hustle culture, that strategy is masculine, that you need to separate your spiritual practice from your business practice.

I work with creative people, ready to shed old stories, take action and walk a new path: one of your own design. Where the only call you answer to is the one that embraces you in all your power.

Maya Gandaia has emerged as a sanctuary for creative entrepreneurs—a community where intuition is honoured as the ultimate business strategy, where financial abundance flows not despite authentic expression but because of it, and where joy becomes the compass guiding your business success.


Discover your genius waiting to be unveiled…

Feeling stuck between what you should do and what your creative soul actually wants?

Take a 2 minute quiz to find out where old conditioning is blocking your genius and to learn how to trust your intuition over those shouty inner voices.

If you’re feeling the pull toward integration, toward your next chapter, toward a business that feels as good as it looks on paper, let’s talk. You’ve been doing this long enough to know when something resonates. Trust that knowing.

Book a discovery call and we’ll explore whether this work is right for you:

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Scroll on and step into your power. 👇 ↓

“I have been held in love… Encouraged to fly… And acknowledged for my humanity throughout. 

It’s such an honour and pleasure to work with a woman with not only a varied toolbox of resources but also the generosity to share them freely”

BENITA NWULU, GODDXX PATH STUDENT

🌚Awaken your heart’s
sleeping desires

Wakey, Wakey, sweet friend. It’s time to move like the moon and grow. You deserve to create an illuminated life that reflects the dreams waiting in your heart’s whisper. 

Transform from the inside out and discover the power, joy, and purpose that have always been within you.

⭐Your toolbox for
transformation

Even though this path is uniquely yours, you don’t need to lone-wolf this walk. I want you to carry the practices, wisdom, and courage to thrive beyond our work together. 

Through healing and embodied alchemy, you’ll gain tools for life that will continue to change your life.

🌞Find Belonging, rise
together

Like the glorious warmth of a sunrise, you’ll find strength to rise, sparks of connection, freedom to grow, and the joy of unapologetically showing up in the take-me-as-I-am energy you’ve been aching to embody.

Here, in a sacred space of belonging, where you’ll find the courage to create the life you want.

There’s a HOME within you
waiting to be found. Journal to
Joy clears the path there.

Imagine finding the key to access your inner power at the bottom of your tote bag whenever you need reassurance (that’s basically what this is!). The Journal to Joy is a potent book-y portal to:

  • Access your vulnerability
  • Find yourself in questions that spark bold reflection and deep connection.
  • Embrace every inch of you. The shadows, the spark, the JOY.
  • A roadmap for how to create the life you want. 
 


✨“It’s helped me embrace myself wholly, even on
dark days.” – Monique Fourie

Grab some joy
When you stop trying to fix yourself, say NO to what doesn’t serve
you, and a full-bodied %*@K YES to what lights you up, endless
possibilities unfold.

Ready to reveal yours and create the life you want? 👇↓

Unleash Your Creativity in an online coworking community

Big ideas are waiting to be born. The Creativity Circle is a space to honour your spark, take the (sometimes chaotic) creativity inside you, and zoom in on ONE thing you want to bring to being.

Join us online every day for one week (or for 1 hour every week for 33 weeks of the year) and pour your heart into creating ONE thing you would LOVE to accomplish.

One (or 33) week(s), one focus, one bold step toward creating the life you want. 

 Let this be your beginning.

Join the Circle

Embodied Alchemy: channel emotions into creative energy

There’s gold within you, waiting to rise: 9-month online course with live coaching

For those who want transformation on their own timeline. This self-paced course combines journaling, movement, shadow work, and practical business tools.

You’ll also get an intense 9 week container with a weekly group coaching call, a private community, and year-long access to evolving content. Perfect if you want deep work without the full 1:2:1 commitment.

Find your gold

The Goddxx Path

There is a path that calls your name, a journey of transformation, abundance, and joy.

For creative entrepreneurs ready to transform how they live and lead.

We blend intuition and action, ancient alchemy and modern business strategy, embodiment practices and quarterly planning. You’ll work with the chakras, the Enneagram, and practical tools to create balance, ignite your creative fire, and build the business and life you actually want.

Walk the Path

Goddxx Glow: Keep your light shining

The journey doesn’t end here. It deepens: Ongoing coaching community

For graduates of The Goddxx Path or Embodied Alchemy who want continued support. Year-round coaching, sacred programmes, and a circle that lifts you higher. This is your financially flexible commitment to keep growing, keep glowing, and keep creating the life you want.

Glow your potential

“The offerings that Maya Gandaia brings to the world  have changed my life!

They are about a deep and lasting transformational journey, with accessible content that
allows you to go as deep and far into your transformation as you’d like. But undoubtedly
you will become a different person!”

DANIELLE BYARS, GODDXX PATH STUDENT

The Alchemist Path: Work closely. Transform deeply. Get 1:1 coaching with me.

Bespoke support & access to monthly Alchemist Path calls

For those who need a focused container. We’ll work together to align your life with what you love, reveal what’s holding you back, and keep you moving forward. This is where growth meets accountability, where kindness meets clarity, where your business becomes a mirror for your transformation.

The Alchemist Path: 1:1 Coaching
for Growth and Transformation

 

Step into a space where growth feels possible, kindness meets accountability, and transformation becomes a choice you’re ready to embrace. The Alchemist Path is my intuitive 1:1 coaching journey, designed to help you align with what you love and build a life that reflects your true potential.

What to expect:

  • Twice-monthly sessions: Purposeful and gentle coaching to explore healing, unlearning, and transformation at your own pace.
  • Spaces for discovery: A safe, supportive environment where mistakes are part of the process, and curiosity is your guide.
  • Laughter and lightness: Coaching that honours the power of joy and keeps the journey playful, even as we dive deep.
  • Practical tools for growth: Intuitive guidance and actionable steps to help you realign with your intuition and create lasting change.

Our work together is more than coaching. It’s a brave partnership rooted in care, courage, and meaningful transformation. You will also be invited to a monthly 1-1.5hr call with the community on the Hermetic Principles

Step onto the Path

“Coaching with Ella has been a refreshing, honest and deeply supportive experience.

 As someone who does a lot of self-development work, I didn’t think I was someone who
would benefit so much from coaching, but it has caused me to go deeper with my
reflection, revealed things to me that I could only grasp with the guidance of a coach and I
now would love to coach further with her to work more into my shadows and to take the
actions required to create the life I truly desire”

AMA ROUGE, 1:1 COACHING CLIENT

Your guide to creating the joyful life you want 

I am Ella (she/her or they/them), though I answer to Maya, too. I’m a coach, a movement specialist, and a guide for those ready to rediscover their most authentic selves, align with your truth and learn how to create the life you want.

For over 20 years, I’ve danced across continents, from the Olympics Opening Ceremony to Sadler’s Wells and The Joyce Theater in New York, creating work that tells the stories I longed to see growing up. 

Along the way, I’ve carried the weight of imposter syndrome, the ache of not belonging, and the quiet voice that whispered: “You are not enough.”

But through decades of study; yoga, trauma release, intuition, and the alchemy of transformation, I came to know a deeper truth: I was always whole, always complete, always more than enough.

Now, I share that wisdom. Whether through my book Journal to JOY, bespoke coaching programs, or movement courses, I help others find their way back to joy, freedom, and limitless potential.

Let me guide you on your journey back to yourself.

Step into my story

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Maya Musings: Joy Awaits

Step into the JOY circle. A community where joy rises, hearts open, and life takes on its brightest hues. Through monthly Love Letters, I’ll send you glimmers of JOY, whispers of wisdom, and news of retreats and offerings crafted to transform.

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Lineage and Acknowledgements

Of Nigerian and white British heritage, I draw from Tantric/Kemetic chakra traditions and Yoruba Orishas through movement, bodywork and intuition training. I acknowledge my privileges and honour the cultures these practices come from, sharing not as an authority but as someone transformed by these teachings. 

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Mexico Retreat

Join us in March 2026 for an epic 6 day experience: Alchemy to JOY

(A journey to the Sacral Chakra of Mother Earth in collaboration with Ira Calixto, Casa Mama Yemi Project and Sota Space)

Joy in Community

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