About Me & grief...

Arla Markael is a mirror of remembrance, guiding others through grief and life-transitions, a tone weaver, and spiritual teacher devoted to helping people return to wholeness through compassion, embodied presence, and inner sovereignty. Her work gently supports individuals navigating loss, identity shifts, spiritual awakening, and profound change—offering a steady presence where healing unfolds through being deeply met, rather than "fixed".

Arla’s path has been shaped by lived experience. Raised in a highly religious and traumatic environment, she began asking questions about love, authority, and what it truly means to live in alignment with the heart. Her journey out of fundamentalism and spiritual control became a long initiation into reclaiming inner authority—learning to trust the wisdom of the body, the voice of the soul, and the felt sense of unconditional love. This lived understanding allows her to meet others with deep empathy as they navigate grief, disillusionment, and spiritual reorientation.

With a background in education, wellness leadership, and holistic health, Arla brings a grounded, integrative approach to spiritual and emotional healing. She has spent many years leading a wellness spa and massage school, where she supported clients through pain relief, nervous system regulation, and embodied care. These threads deeply inform her current focus on grief and life-transition coaching.

At the heart of Arla’s work is presence—the practice of “being with” rather than rushing toward solutions. She understands grief as more than the loss of a loved one; it can also be the loss of faith, direction, safety, health, or a former sense of self. Drawing from somatic awareness, Circle of Security principles, and spiritual reflection, she helps clients feel safe enough to soften, feel, and reconnect with themselves at their own pace.  Her work is not about fixing—it is about breathing with what is, until it softens into coherence 

A defining element of Arla’s work is her relationship with voice as medicine. Through toning, light language, and intuitive vocal expression, she facilitates gentle yet profound shifts that bypass the analytical mind and speak directly to the body and soul. Her tone weaving is not performance—it is remembrance. A reawakening of ancient ways of healing through sound, resonance, and frequency, especially for those whose voices were once silenced.

Arla’s spiritual journey has included transformative travel to sacred sites such as Egypt, where experiences of voice, harmony, and collective resonance affirmed her role as a bridge between worlds—ancient and modern, mystical and practical, grief and grace. These experiences continue to inform her teaching, writing, and collaborative podcast conversations exploring divine feminine wisdom, sovereignty, and embodied awakening.

Above all, Arla holds a simple, steady intention: to help others remember they are not broken, late, or alone. Her work invites people home to themselves—where grief is honored, love is trusted, and healing unfolds through love and compassion.  Her work is a spiral of remembrance—where grief becomes grace, and the voice becomes the bridge home