Aarona Lea: The Moon Deck Founder on Ritualizing Emotional Health and Being A Conscious Entrepreneur
Aarona Lea is the founder of The Moon Deck, an interactive oracle card set that that serves as a tool to connect to your intuition through the path of self-love and ritual, and shares insights on growth, purpose, transformation, practice, and creativity. I use my Moon Deck almost daily (it’s one of the best oracle decks out there for everyone) and have been virtual friends with Aarona via Instagram for years.
We recently met in person, and in this episode, you get to fall in love with Aarona and learn from her courageous, vulnerable journey of ritualizing emotional health while building a business committed to making money and taking care of people and planet at the same time.
In this episode (it comes in 2 parts – make sure you listen to both), we talk about:
- Navigating the world and business as an emotionally sensitive and intuitive person
- The power of daily rituals for emotional health and ritualizing emotional health
- Healing grief and resentment
- How The Moon Deck business was born by raising $50K on Kickstarter
- Running a conscious business that makes money and takes care of people
- Working smarter not harder
- Advice on maintaining a healthy relationship with your business partners
- Bringing the feminine energy into business
- Her relationship with social media
- Honoring yogic traditions
- External self-care on Instagram vs internal self-care
- The importance of community
- Her lessons in leadership as a creative and intuitive entrepreneur
- How to choose a money mindset that empowers you to know what you’re worth
Resources:
- Myrah Penaloza – kundalini yoga teacher
- Mountain Rose Herbs to add to your coffee
- The Moon Deck on Amazon
- The Moon Deck ritual on Breakfast Criminals IGTV
- Ksenia’s Path of Love retreat review video
- Ruby Warrington of The Numinous on Woke and Wired podcast
Connect with Aarona Lea:
About Aarona Lea:
author & co-creator of The Moon Deck
emotional health advocate, speaker, & author
yoga and ritual wellness teacher
Inspired by 23 years of yoga, 14 years as a yoga teacher and wellness adviser, a BFA in photography, and a love of writing and travel – Aarona is deeply inspired to share her growth and tools with others.
Starting her healing journey as a child, Aarona had a natural pull towards spirit and magic which helped her to feel safe and connected during unstable times. Her curiosity led her on a life-long path of study, practice, and ritual where she explored the shadowy depths of healing trauma, recovered from bulimia and chronic binge/cleanse cycles, and continues to help normalize conversations around emotional health. She’s influenced by several yoga traditions and personal-development roadmaps which have consistently guided her to healing and purpose through the path of self-love. As the author and co-creator of ‘The Moon Deck’, Aarona teaches practices and rituals to help bring balance and perspective to life’s greatest breaths and is on a mission to creatively collaborate with other conscious change-makers.
Aarona offers private and group Intuitive Oracle Readings with The Moon Deck, facilitates empowering workshops and retreats worldwide, teaches yoga classes in LA and NYC, and runs The Moon Deck biz full time. She’s been featured in Mind Body Green, Free People BLDG25 Blog, New York Times, Self Magazine, National Geographic Traveler UK, Teach.Yoga, The Beauty Book, The Weather Channel, Wall Street Journal, Fréttblaðið of Iceland, Times of India, Origin Magazine, the cover of FitYoga, NBC, Elephant Journal, Yoga Journal, AlignYo, Well+Good NYC, and Co-Creator Radio.
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