ABOUT ALEXA DE CASTILHO
A JOURNEY BACK TO WHOLENESS, A LIFE LIVED IN FULL EXPRESSION.
I have always lived between two worlds.
There was the vast and luminous inner world, a realm of knowing, intuition, guides and unseen forces, a landscape rich with colour and wisdom. A place where truth was felt rather than taught.
And then there was the outer world, where I often felt disconnected, paralysed by shyness, misunderstood, and unable to express what I instinctively knew. I could sense the emotions, thoughts, and tensions of those around me, yet I didn’t yet have the tools to navigate the depth of my sensitivity. I now recognise this as clairsentience, the ability to feel beyond what is spoken. But as a child, it left me feeling fragmented, caught between a wise, powerful inner guide and a vulnerable child longing to belong.
This is the work we do together.
We hold dualities within us, the bold and the uncertain, the driven and the doubting, the visionary and the wounded. We lead businesses, families, and communities, and yet, we still hold parts of ourselves that feel unseen. True leadership begins when we integrate these parts when we stop living in an internal civil war and begin to embody all that we are.
THE ART & SCIENCE OF EMBODIED LEADERSHIP
The path to self-leadership, sovereignty, and authenticity has taken me across disciplines, spanning the unseen realms of energy, intuition, and healing, and the scientific, structured world of trauma-informed methodologies, psychology, somatics and nervous system regulation.
My journey has been one of uncovering, integrating, and mastering the language of both worlds.
I trained in Compassionate Inquiry with Dr. Gabor Maté, learning the deep psychology of trauma, how our childhood wounds shape our leadership, and how to break free from inherited patterns.
I studied Polyvagal Theory with Dr. Stephen Porges, gaining an intricate understanding of the nervous system and its role in safety, leadership, and embodied power.
I explored somatic intelligence, breathwork, and emotional release work, because transformation doesn’t happen in the mind alone, it happens when we allow the body to process and release what it has carried for too long.
I have been immersed in the art of alchemy, ritual, and sacred creation, channelling generational healing into heirloom jewellery, allowing personal transformation to be expressed through physical form.
My professional path has woven through design, restoration, and craftsmanship, teaching me that whether we are working with people, spaces, or objects, the essence is the same: to see the beauty in what is fragmented and guide it back to wholeness.
WHAT I KNOW TO BE TRUE
This work is not about fixing you, you are not broken. You do not need to be smaller, softer, less emotional, less intuitive, or more like someone else’s version of leadership. You are here to lead as yourself with all your depth, your intensity, your knowing. And yet, we cannot lead from a place of survival.
If we are making decisions from wounds, we will lead from scarcity.
If we are disconnected from our bodies, we will always be at war with ourselves.
If we are ruled by past trauma, we will continue patterns that no longer serve us.
But when we heal, when we release, when we integrate - We become our most powerful selves - We lead from clarity and confidence - We embody our wholeness. This is the essence of embodied leadership.
WHY THIS WORK MATTERS
We do not heal in isolation. We heal in relationship to ourselves, to our lineage, to the world.
When you live in alignment with your truth, when you embody your full spectrum of power, intuition, and intelligence, you don’t just transform your own life.
You change the lives of everyone around you.
For the CEO who leads a team, but still feels the weight of self-doubt, this work will bring you into unshakable self-trust.
For the entrepreneur who knows she is meant for more, but fears stepping fully into her power, this work will dismantle the old fears and open the path for expansion.
For the mother who is holding generations of emotional labour, this work will break cycles, bring healing, and create new legacies.
This is more than personal growth. This is a reclamation of power, a return to sovereignty, a homecoming to the self.
WHAT’S NEXT
If you are feeling the call to step into your full leadership, to stop performing and start being, to release what no longer serves you and expand into your next chapter I invite you to begin this journey with me.
Work with me 1:1 → Explore the Embodied Leadership Mentorship
Visit the clubhouse → An exploration of self, healing, and collective wisdom
Discover The Atelier → Heirloom pieces infused with ancestral healing & transformation
