Makaya’s vision is to support as many individuals as possible in stepping into their expression of authenticity and embodiment for who they are in essence.
Purpose Coaching helps you slow down and reconnect with your inner map — your deep knowing. It teaches you to listen for, observe, feel and understand the intricate dynamics shaping your life.
Through expanded awareness and intentional action, you learn to shift and reorient your energy toward your true desires, in harmony with your core values.
Coaching is offered on Zoom, over the phone or in-person.
Hey!
I’m Jess
✺ I am a Purpose Coach and I guides creatives, leaders, and highly sensitive individuals into grounded emotional freedom, confidence, trust, and authentic purpose through transforming low self-worth, self-doubt, fear, and emotional turbulence.
My Story
I know low self-worth, self-doubt, fear and emotional repression well… almost too well. I was led into this work in coaching years ago because of the ending of a chapter in my life. A chapter filled with deep sadness, long bouts of depression, shame, self-loathing, feeling very lost and unloved, and life void of meaning.
What started as glimpses, moments of experience where I’d have these feelings as a child grew into daily… hourly experiences— especially as I became more awake, sensitive and open. I found myself in my late 20’s wishing for a different life.
I would love to be able to say here… “And then… something suddenly happened…” Haha
But the truth is that very little Happened suddenly— and a Lot happened over a long span of time.
I found many coaches, practitioners, teachers who, with Immense compassion, would guide me back to the truth:
That it wasn’t my fault I felt so low— these experiences and perceptions were conditioned into me and can easily be unconditioned step by step, with patience. Joy + peace are coming.
That as long as I don’t take responsibility for everything I experience, I won’t find the freedom I’m looking for. Over time this understanding became my saving grace because I realized that as I took responsibility, my life lightened up as I did the hard things, and I began to feel on purpose and in harmony with myself.
And… when I am So Done with the suffering…I will choose different. And I don’t need to wait for it to get to peak intensity. It’s not the heaviness or pain that makes me rise, it’s actually in awareness of that heaviness where I know Where To Create More Light. And it’s Only then— when I’ve decided to say no to the heaviness and resistance to learning and get up and do something terrifying and new that my life naturally lightens up and I end up pretty great, actually. :)
I now feel a lightness in my body I’d never even felt… as a teenager! I feel grateful to be Jess Asch. I am the most confident within than I’ve ever been. The immense shame I’d once had no longer lives here. I get to enjoy the experience of being me. From a deep desire to be of service and in my purpose, I enrolled and studied Integrative Coaching at the Institute for Integrative Intelligence and now have my own business helping others transmute the same patterns of unworthiness I’d once gone through. I am on purpose and love helping my clients step into their next form of purpose— it is an honor and blessin!
The meaning of Makaya
The word Makaya is found in many places around the world, including the Hebrew language as well as the ‘Tanakh’ Hebrew Bible with the prophet Micaiah, and dispersed throughout many countries. However, its origins come from the language of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona.
The first time I heard this name I was 11 years old in my middle school front office. One of the moms signing her child in to school said her daughter’s name loudly, “Makaya”, and my whole body shivered like I’d remembered something. I asked her what she’d just said and if she could spell it for me and I wrote it down, adding it to my ‘Baby Names’ list. Ironically at the time, I knew I didn’t want children.
So when I was praying for the perfect name for my coaching business, I was guided to check that list that I still had. The same feeling rushed over me as it had decades ago when my eyes caught it.
The word is often given as a name to boys who have a warrior spirit. Makaya’s exact translation “One Who Hunts Eagles” describes one’s deep connection to Nature, their adventurous and resilient spirit, and their nobility and aim 🏹 for the sky: to attain a high level of self-power and realization. In the culture of the Hopi people, eagles are a revered animal associated with strength, courage and spirituality.
