Kelsey Aicher
Clairvoyance
In my adolescence, I began seeing apparations. Those visitations decreased in frequency as I moved into adulthood, but my interest in spiritual crafts grew. I was drawn toward the art of Tarot and started reading book after book on the subject. I am wholly self-taught learning through books as well as listening to, watching, and talking with experts in the field.
When I was twenty-six and going through a divorce, I started seeing images around people. I questioned if I was developing synethesia or some type of psychosis. Certain images became more persistant, relentless until I finally gave into them and approached a stranger to ask him if he was doing okay because I continued to see a cave collapsing around him while he struggled against being crushed. I thought if I shared the visions I saw with the people they surrounded, I would be free of their hauntings. I was not so lucky.
Driven crazy by seeing visions that would not go away, I sought out help elsewhere. I met the amazing Kawena Charlot at the School of Intuitive Living in Portland, Oregon. She took me under her wing and became my spiritual mentor. My initial intention was to take one energy healing course to settle my chaotic psychic energy, but putting my energy to good use felt wonderfully healing for myself. I continued courses at the School, learning Energy Healing I, Energy Healing II, Female Energy Healing, and Intuitive Meditation. After completing the basic courses, I joined a year-long clairvoyant apprenticeship program under Kawena, learning how to read auras, past lives, roses, and relationships, and how to clear spiritual contracts. The apprenticeship included classroom studies as well as supervised practice with clients.
Coaching
I often refer to myself as the “accidental coach.” By that, I mean that I did not set out to pursue a career in teaching or coaching of any kind. At age 13, I became an volunteer assistant coach for the local Special Olympics volleyball team. Two years later, I was the assistant coach of the SO gymnastics team which only had two athletes. As such, I ended up becoming the personal coach for one of the athletes. Working with her one-on-one was my introduction to the effectiveness of personalized coaching. Several years later, I was hired as the head coach of the SO swimming team where I worked with half a dozen athletes with different physical needs and vastly different goals. It was in this role where I experienced one of the most rewarding moments of my life when a 7-year-old boy with cerebral palsy with whom I had been working with swam by himself for the first time. I will never forget the smile on his face when he looked back at me standing five feet away from him in the pool, realizing he had kicked his way over on his own.
My passion for coaching was fully realized about five years later after I had been working for a bit as a recreational aerial and tumbling coach in Portland, Oregon. I started teaching private lessons on trapeze and reminded myself how much I love working one-on-one with people to accomplish their goals. I loved getting to know my students in their lessons, getting to know who they were outside of my class. As anyone who has had an athletic coach or mentor before, you know that your coach is more than just the person imbuing esoteric knowledge in you; they are a confidant. Their contribution in the classroom-slash-studio-slash-gym carries over into other aspects of your life. The confidence a quality coach can help you find after nailing your first pullover on trapeze encourages self-confidence in your career, your relationships, your other hobbies, etc. I love it. I want nothing more than to help other people discover how inherently amazing they are.
In 2020, I took my coaching career further and enrolled in graduate school to pursue a Master of Science in Sport and Performance Psychology. Unfortunately, after a year of dedicated work and a 4.0 GPA, I fell ill with a severe case of SIBO that left me in pain, losing weight, and unable to fully function. I had to drop out of graduate school to pay for medical bills and did not finish my degree. Still, I learned so much about positive psychology and working with individuals to maximize peak performance. I have applied this knowledge to my own training and teaching in the circus arts. After teaching aerial and acrobatics for eleven years, I am looking to expand what I can offer to people outside of the training studio to further enhance their lives and wellbeing.