Anya Lily

From being a little girl, I always knew there was something more. I guess you could say I was different... although, aren't we all if we've somehow ended up here?

I was actually quite lucky. I didn't grow up with suppressive or restrictive parents when it came to spirituality and keeping an open mind. Both of my parents were open to these kinds of conversations; they just hadn't been exposed to much of the knowledge, information, or understanding of the processes involved.

Even as a child, I remember looking at myself in the mirror and thinking, Surely this can't be it. There has to be so much more. It often felt as though my soul was looking back at me. Thinking back now, I suppose it was.

I saw spirit often as a child. I could feel energy, and I picked up on lower frequencies long before I had any understanding of what they were or why I could sense them. I just knew they were there.

I also had what I used to call "future dreams" — premonitions of people I hadn't met yet, places I hadn't been, and situations I wouldn't experience until years later. Environments I would eventually walk into as an adult would somehow overlap with memories from my childhood dreams, leaving me with an overwhelming sense of, I've been here before.

As a child, I truly believed anything was possible... until I slam-dunked straight into adolescence.

Alongside this awareness, which I assumed everyone experienced, I was deeply connected to music and sharing my voice. I went to singing lessons, dance classes, and stage school, and I loved expressing myself through music in every way I could. Even though I sometimes struggled in certain environments, music always felt like home. It became a place where I could process my emotions, express what I couldn't always put into words, and connect with something far greater than myself.

Looking back now, I can see that spirituality and music were never separate paths. They were always intertwined, guiding me, teaching me, and quietly leading me back to who I truly was.

Alongside my music, I also paint and create visual representations of what I see in the spiritual and energetic realms. This creative process allows me to channel my multidimensional experiences into tangible art. You can explore these pieces in my digital art album.

Between the ages of 13 and 19, my journey took a challenging turn. I experienced severe physical stomach issues alongside struggles with my mental health. During this time, I became deeply immersed in the Western medical system, at one point taking up to 26 tablets a day. Despite this, something within me always knew that this path alone wasn’t aligned with my truth.

At 18, I went to university to study Criminology, balancing my degree alongside hospital visits and working as a home carer. It was during this period — standing between two very different worlds — that something began to shift. Toward the end of my degree, I followed an intuitive nudge and enrolled in a tarot course. That decision changed everything.

After graduating, I stepped away from the expected path and chose instead to become a tarot reader — a choice that was met with confusion by many around me, but felt undeniably right within myself.

From there, I entered one of the most transformative periods of my life — a healing journey that required me to strip everything back. It wasn't just about healing my physical body; it was about unlearning everything I thought I knew. I began detoxifying my body, releasing what no longer served me, and realigning my mind, body, and soul. I immersed myself in spirituality, energy work, yoga, wild swimming, and the deeper philosophical questions of existence. As I healed, my awareness expanded, and so did my connection to something far greater than myself.

What followed was a rapid expansion of my abilities. My work evolved from tarot reading into mediumship, psychic development, energy healing, and channeling. I found myself working across multidimensional layers, exploring past lives, energetic clearing, entity removal, grid work, and deep energetic healing.

For many years, I travelled around the UK offering one-to-one readings and hosting psychic evenings within local communities. It was a beautiful chapter of my life and one that taught me so much about people, healing, and the unseen world.

Alongside this, my awareness of the wider world was also expanding. From around the age of 16, I had always questioned what I was told. I found myself disappearing down endless rabbit holes, challenging belief systems, questioning the narratives I'd grown up with, and searching for what genuinely resonated as truth. Curiosity became one of my greatest teachers.

Then lockdown arrived, right at the peak of my career as a reader, when almost all of my work was based around face-to-face sessions and live events. Overnight, everything changed.

Looking back now, I can see that this wasn't an ending — it was an invitation.

With the world shutting down, I was gently pushed towards something I had avoided for years: finding my voice publicly. I stepped into the online space for the very first time, sharing my thoughts, creating content, and connecting with a growing community of people who were asking many of the same questions I had been exploring for years.

I also found myself attending peaceful protests and becoming part of conversations that extended beyond spirituality as I had previously understood it. It became less about spiritual practices and more about authenticity, sovereignty, discernment, and having the courage to think for myself.

For the first time in my life, I stopped trying to fit in. I began speaking from my own lived experience, even when it felt uncomfortable, and that changed everything. It wasn't just the beginning of an online presence — it was the beginning of truly finding my voice.

In 2022, everything changed.

I'd been following Mark Attwood online for some time when he invited me onto his show. Overnight, the interview reached far more people than I could ever have imagined. Suddenly, I found myself stepping into a world I had always felt drawn towards, while also facing the very thing I'd spent years fearing—the judgement that comes with being truly seen.

From there, Mark invited me to speak at one of his events in Manchester, held at the beautiful The Monastery Manchester. He was also one of the first people to encourage me to combine my spiritual work with my music into one offering. Until then, I'd always viewed them as two separate parts of myself.

Standing on that stage in front of around 500 people, sharing my voice through both words and song, is a memory that will stay with me forever. Looking back, I realise that was the moment I stopped hiding parts of myself and allowed everything I'd spent years developing to come together as one.

Not long afterwards, I was invited to facilitate at a retreat in the Sahara Desert, hosted by Mark in Morocco. That experience became one of the biggest turning points of my life.

The desert has a way of stripping everything back. It gave me the space to reconnect with myself on a much deeper level, and it was there that I truly stepped into my power as a facilitator. During those few days, I delivered my first live workshop to more than 50 people, offered dozens of intuitive readings, and discovered that holding transformational spaces was where I felt most alive. Many of the workshops I teach today were conceived during that trip.

The desert also gifted me one of the most profound spiritual experiences of my life. During my time there, I connected deeply with the soul of the child who would later become my daughter. This happened before I had children, long before I knew what my family would look like. Her presence felt so real, so loving, and so familiar that I never questioned it—I simply knew our souls had met.

Just two months after returning home from Morocco, I discovered I was pregnant with my son. His arrival completely transformed my life. Then, just seven months after his birth, I became pregnant again. The moment I learned I was expecting my second child, I immediately recognised the soul I had met beneath the vast skies of the Sahara years earlier. When my daughter was finally born, it didn't feel like meeting her for the first time; it felt like welcoming home a soul I had already encountered. To this day, that experience remains one of the deepest and most meaningful moments of my spiritual journey.

The retreat also introduced me to people who would become lifelong friends and soul family. One of those people was Honey C Golden. From the moment we met, I felt as though we'd shared many lifetimes together. Honey has become one of my dearest friends, and through her I met so many more incredible souls who continue to be part of my journey today. She later joined me as one of the facilitators at the New Earth Gathering in 2024, helping to create one of the most profound events I've ever had the privilege of hosting.

These experiences all confirmed something I had already been feeling deep within since I could remember, I was here to help people remember who they are beneath the noise. I am here to create transformational experiences where people could reconnect with themselves, remember who they truly are, heal in community & harness their own inner power.

That realisation became the foundation of Spiritual Soul Centre Events.

Since then, I've had the privilege of creating and facilitating transformational experiences including Transformation to True Self, Mind, Body & Soul Retreat, The New Earth Gathering, and Reprogram & Reparent. Every event has been born from lived experience, years of study, and a deep calling to hold spaces where people feel safe to heal, grow, awaken, and come home to themselves.

This journey is still unfolding, and I'd love to invite you to be part of the next chapter. If something within my story has resonated with you, perhaps it's because your own journey is calling too. Our next retreat, Serenity & Surrender, takes place in September 2026, and it would be an honour to welcome you into our community.