What People Are Saying
Carmen is a brilliant, warm, loving, authentic, hilarious, and deeply inspiring human. She weaves together the magic of a deep hug and the fullness of presence to create spaces of immeasurable welcome and acceptance, where the deepest and most profound intimate truths and inspired creativity can thrive.
Whether the matter at hand is of love and the heart, finance & business, or family and friendships, with clarity and grace, Carmen navigates the shifting territory of boundaries, consent, love, attachment, dreams, and intimacy with grace and ease.
She provides an attuned and present place to share and offers sound reflections and insights to help ground and release tension, and to open and accept the wisdom, healing, and deeper understanding that a clear awareness of the body brings to every moment.
Carmen brings her full heart to every situation, and whether through sharing a song, insight, laughter, tears, or dreams, she brightens the days and plants seeds for a better tomorrow.”
—TM - President/CEO, InflectionPoint Design + Development Group
“Working with Carmen has been a transformative experience. Her integration of the Wheel of Consent with spiritual practices has helped me access a deep sense of inner knowing and self sovereignty. Through our work, I’ve become more present and attuned to my desires. I am also learning to include my ancestors in my process of discovering and embodying what I want.
Our coaching sessions have evolved overtime as our relationship has deepened, and I really appreciate the divinatory perspective Carmen brings to our container, with choice and consent at the forefront of every channeled insight. I've received deep medicine from Carmen's invitations to visit my altar and sacred places in nature as a way of including my ancestors in my consent and desire work.
Carmen holds space with wisdom, care, humility and clarity. I feel witnessed, encouraged and challenged into new territories of consent with myself. I’m so grateful for this container of emergence! “
- Seana, psychotherapist
“Carmen has an incredible, giving spirit, an infectious laugh, and deep wisdom she doesn’t hesitate to share with others. She has a vast amount of experience with various healing modalities and always seems to know the answer to any question I’ve asked her. She’s an incredible person to have in your corner, and I’m blessed to have met her at a time when her energy was greatly needed.”
— Sara O., CEO
“Carmen, your willingness to share your vulnerability with us makes me feel honored to have met and know you. The content was engaging and enlightening. Your presentation even with the disruptions was given artfully and with grace.
William Arthur Ward once said “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” I was inspired by how you taught and what you taught.”
—Diana G
“Carmen is magic. She brings authenticity, strength, beauty, and dimension to the work. She faces difficulty directly and brings witness to the complexities of the deepest heartbreaks of these times, and through such transforms us. She aids the world in metabolizing grief, composting it, and making fertile ground upon which to sow seeds of our futures. Then, as if a beam of sunshine betwixt the branches, her gorgeous voice lifts and coaxes the next phase of growth in an amazing gift of song, both beautiful and haunting. Carmen is steady and listens to her instincts; she shows up for what is present and moves with the moment. I have grown to truly trust and rely upon her.”
— Joanna La Torre, MSW, LCSW, Center for Babaylan Studies
“There are so many people that speak with confidence. People that speak with presence, gravitas, volume, power, or any other mode of speaking that can command attention or work to pull it to the speaker. You, from the moment that you begin, through to the very last moment, speak with truth.
Your words resonate with it, your voice literally sings with it, and it calls to it not just attention or appreciation, but a foundational connection to the things that are true. I have heard speakers that roused me, and I felt them in my mind.
I felt your words in my bones, in places that are connected to the very heart of things, and that recognize something that is true. You shift paradigms and worlds and affirm those that already feel it and see it at the same time. It is magnificent and real and masterful. Thank you for being that gift in this.”
—Zeuben
“Carmen Leilani: Human dynamo of cosmic mind and earthly bosom of heart—walked with me through fires of doubt, crawled in the mud, leapt off the cliff, danced on pure H2O—dared me to get grounded in the chaos.
If you feel yourself approaching a genuine breakdown/breakthrough kind of creative edge in a project which would fulfill your purpose and mean something to the world—actually shifting our ways of knowing, doing, being on collective and intimate scales—it would be wise to court this boisterous bundle of intelligent starstuff into your orbit.
She has bent gravity for me, and even brightened my abyss.”
— Marco V Morelli, PolyPoet / CoCreator, Cosmos Co-op / MetaEditor, Metapsychosis: Journal of Consciousness, Literature, and Art