We had the good fortune of connecting with Layla Deen and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Layla, is your business focused on helping the community? If so, how?
I AM a light-worker which is a term many of us in the spiritual conscious community use which essentially means we have a purpose on this Earth to spread and show love and light in the purest Divine expression. I am a holistic plant based chef and eating and preparing food from the Earth as a form of medicine is one of my passions. My sharing of my passion and love for the whole foods, plant-based lifestyle helps the World to realize that dis-ease can be prevented when you eat nutrient-dense medicine foods of the Divine. Real food is food that provides vitality and life to you and that is what I am here to teach and share.

I am also an intuitive spiritual mentor helping people to find themselves, true inner peace, love, happiness, and abundance within, to find and live their soul’s purpose, to become healthy mind, body and spirit, holistically. I host a monthly community support group called SiStar Goddess Gathering which is actually for both men and women. I provide holistic plant based food and nourishment for the attendees, we have community discussion about different topics to enhance your spirituality, and we participate in different spiritual activities to enhance your connection with the one Divine creator and all of creation. Everyone is welcome no matter what our egoic identities are, as long as you are open minded to self-love, evolvement, and expansion!

I am an avid yogi, constantly evolving and learning all facets of yoga with kundalini yoga being one of my passionate practices and offerings to others. I also teach Goddess Abun-Dance class which helps women and men activate themselves and heal through symbolic, intuitive, and rhythmic movements and become more of their highest version! I am a mother figure of the World and a proud starseed, waking up humanity (those meant to awaken) to realize we are the real stars and we are all so loved and so worthy!

I have an inspirational podcast called “Let Go My Ego” which can be found on apple, anchor, or spotify. I also host yearly retreats to help others experience the World and engage in more deeper connection with spirit on their life journey. Also to simply have fun, celebrate, and honor ourselves and all of life! I AM so grateful to be doing this work and to serve community authentically, genuine, and lovingly!

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
If you look at the word “heart” there are two words you can extract, which is (HEAR)t and he(ART)! Once I started hearing and listening to my inner voice and creating art from that inner voice my life and the blessings started changing enormously.

I am so proud of my natural ability to always choose love over and over and over again until the end of time and the beginning of time. I am such a loving person and I realized from a very young child that something is very abnormal about this World and that there seems to be a void of love and dominance of ego creating fear, imbalance, dysfunction and all forms of suffering.

I got to where I am today through experience, and my soul’s inner calling. I chose to follow my heart and no longer my mind. That’s when the miracles started happening and they continue to happen daily!

Of course it’s not easy. We live on planet Earth lol A world of duality and separatism hierarchy fear control and ego domination. But once I realized that we truly create our reality and we don’t have to be subjugated or controlled or think that suffering is the fate of humanity or rights of passage to experience all the beauty and love that life has to offer, then I became more free. And I am working on my freedom everyday by loving myself and life more and more and to see and experience those with like-mindsets and all of life. It’s all about your level of consciousness which determines the dimensional reality we will experience. Those who don’t understand are thinking with an analytical mind and I can not blame them. This is something you have to experience for yourself and let your heart be your guide.

I want the world to know that I Am me and you are you! And that’s what makes us all so BE-autiful! Just be yourself, drop the programming, the mask, the subconscious, the trauma and the fears. It wont be easy, yet its doable. I am on this life journey with you. And I am here to help with my Divine wisdom as well as receive help myself! None of us know as much as we ‘think” we do lol Lets keep learning and growing!

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
We would go to a delicious plant based restaurant because eating is part of my love language lol If they were visiting out from out of town we would most likely go hiking up camelback mountain, spend time in nature meditating, eating fruit and nutritious goodies and smoothies, do some yoga, relax, talk and laugh and we would most certainly DANCE! Dancing is so healing and is a form of meditation and Divination for me. We may go visit Sedona or Flagstaff or the Grand Canyon or any beautiful nature preserve that Arizona offers. We would also discuss ways we can further enhance ourselves and humanity in our own unique way! We may go check out some fun events that resonate. This is my idea of an ideal retreat! So much fun and feels good to your soul!

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I would like to shout out my Mother and my Father for birthing me, all of my human interactions for teaching me more about myself and where to heal and who I am internally. Thank you to Kseniya owner of Abundant Space in Scottsdale for being an inspiration in my life and a genuine friend and leader in the community and for always exuding and being exemplary in living in your heart space. I resonate with her deeply and am grateful for her presence and light in this World

I would also like to shout out Madinah from @madinahslivingfarmacy for being such a deep intimate soul SiStar connection and inspiring me to take better care of my health from the inside out and to put myself first from a place of self love so I can truly show up for others healthily in the way that my heart desires.

I would like to shout out my son Cairo who is my best friend for being a precious sweet angel in my life and for teaching me to be a better mother and for teaching me what life is really about…..and that is to simply have fun, be happy, and be in the moment! Don’t take it too seriously, yet be serious about your happiness! Thank you my sweet pea for teaching me to do what you want to do and to get out of the matrix (the false illusory World) even more deeply.

Thank you Divine creator for this experience and for your unconditional love. I could never repay you for what you have done for me, but I know our very existence is all that you require! Thank you for the endless opportunities to better myself and the lives of others. I am infinitely great-full!

Website: https://www.godisagoddess.net/

Instagram: chosengoddess

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGw8O-TvrsBjhw4Yi-J8B0w

Other: https://linktr.ee/letgomyego

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