About LIVE YOUR RADIANCE AND ESTHER DE ANGELIS

Esther has been passionately engaged in the fields of human potential and creativity for over 30 years. Teaching disciplines such as yoga and meditation, creative dance and personal development programs such as the keys to confidence, she is powerfully committed to personal transformation and the freedom of self expression. A renaissance woman dedicated to unleashing the brilliance within, she is also a fashion designer/maker, writer and co-authored the companion book to the internationally acclaimed and bestselling Starman Tarot. Reaching 60 and having coached hundreds of women over the years, she is devising her latest Coaching Radiance Program for mid-life women who are eager for change, determined at last, to fully activate their dreams. 

She started her professional life in corporate world in the field of accountancy and business consultancy but a few years in, experienced a powerful breakthrough which led her on the path of the creative arts and personal development. She became a visionary artist and sculptor and expanded her repetoire to become a commercial artist and designer, coding and creating some of the first ever websites in the mid 90's. Deepening her healing practices and training in Rishikesh India she began teaching yoga from her studio in Hampstead London in the early 2000's. Always known and recognised as the 'Dancer' she also initiated her Chakra Dance series of classes and led various workshops on retreat and at festivals. She also trained as a professional Hypnotherapist and holds certificates and diplomas in Life Coaching and Motivational Coaching as well as a Masters in Business NLP.

A dedicated educator Esther has taught many disciplines to both adults and children, specialising working within the field of Special Education Needs in secondary schools in London and Bristol to bring coaching, creativity, movement and craft as healing modalities to pupils facing difficulties. Being a mother of a teenager herself she knows full well what a challenging, pressurised and extraordinary time it is for both teens and their families as they develop and find a meaningful pathway through life. 

Extraordinarily well travelled, Esther at 50 realised her own incredible new pathway and dream to escape the overcast, cold and isolating winters of the UK to go and live in Bali, the Island of the Gods. With her husband and her then young daughter Solaria she lived and worked in Ubud for 3 years, teaching yoga, writing and developing her women centred coaching practise. She also fulfilled a lifelong dream to design and make a collection of Goddess jewelry, crocheted clothes and accessories. 

They all thrived in the sunshine, the lush green environment of coconut palms and rice fields and the exciting, entrepreurial atmosphere of the young expat community. Above all, they received the Spirit of the beautiful Balinese people who are so creative, gracious and playful. Returning to the UK and finding a new home in the dynamic and creative hub of Bristol, Esther missed the uplifting connection and smiles of the Balinese people, so she resumed a fortnightly practise of Free Hugging on Bristol's streets - something she had committed to for over a decade. Then in 2020 'covid' struck and because of 'social distancing', she was forced to stop. 

Sensing an even greater need for positive connection and like the Buddha believing that the shortest distance between two people is a smile, she initiated a weekly practise of taking her Free Smiles sign whilst out on her daily walk with a big smile on her face. Four years later and her practise has intensified so that she can be seen 3 mornings a week dancing and singing with a smile, reknowned for smiling and cheering people up whatever the weather. She has been interviewed and featured on BBC Points West, BBC Bristol Radio and in the Clifton Voice with her feelgood Free Smiles Campaign. 

Aged 59 she launched her Fashion Radiance label in Bristol in November 2022 at the Bristol Fashion Show at the spectacular Mount Without and in March the following year as part of International Women's Month headlined with 14 models of every conceivable age, for the Butterfly Within Charity Fashion Show to raise awareness of the rich diversity of beauty in women. She is an accomplished speaker and loves to support powerful women's causes and is an Advanced Toastmaster.

Now 61 and the dawn of a new age, old age apparently, she is determined to rewrite the script of women and aging, bringing together and catalysing a generation of women who feel excited about the prospect of graduating into their 'wisdom years'.

With 20 years of professionally coaching clients in my private practise and on retreats around the world and an additional 15 years experience teaching groups in the personal growth field, I have discovered that the key to unleashing your personal power and transforming the world around you, is the opinion you hold of yourself. 

I have certificates and diplomas in both Life and Motivational Coaching from Newcastle University (2004), have a Masters in Business NLP (2007) and hold a certificate and diploma in Hypnotherapy (2006). I have trained in Re-evaluation counselling and explored modalities as diverse as Reiki, cranial sacral therapy and breathwork. 

My 20 years experience of drumming, percussion and singing, combined with my 35 year journey of personal growth has helped lay the foundations to facilitate 'medicine journeying' and Shamanic work.

I've also very recently revisited my skills in group facilitation with training through Bristol Women's Voice and now envisage running Women's Circles. I believe that the time has come for women to stand in their beauty, wisdom and power. As we not only navigate the pressures and demands of daily life at home and at work, as partners, parents, sisters, godmothers, aunts, daughters, friends and neighbours women are particularly sensitive to the pain, disconnection and sadness experienced in the world right now. Overwhelmed by the constant demand for care and yet underwhelmed by the lack of vision and purpose our leaders are creating for humanity and the generations to come. AI and all its technological wizadry is not going to solve our problems, humans can. it is time for women to awaken, express and lead with our radiance and wisdom. 

We are all on this incredible journey called life, sharing the ideas, feelings and tremendous skills we have been gifted. However it can take years of undoi‍‍‍ng and unravelling negative familial and cultural conditioning to learn to really value ourselves, especially if you are doing it on your own. In my experience women need and thrive in community, co-creation and partnership. I hope that very shortly I might have the privilege of being a catalyst and co-creator. The most valuable work, the most sacred work you can do in the world... is to honour your own life journey and hold yourself, your talents and gifts in high self-esteem. From that place of purposeful vision and high vibration you can then naturally and gracefully model it within your families and communities. You must believe in yourself and this divine gift of life. Out of this well of inner strength and creative resourcefulness - the feminine principle, can spring a wealth of ideas for a compelling future that nourishes your own soul and the humanity of those we love. 

When we gift ourselves the possibility of connecting with our deepest desires, we give ourselves the opportunity of identifying those gaps between our renewed aspirations and what is actually occuring in life. We begin to create a vision that can inspire and ignite change, that activates the wholeness of who you are as a woman. 

However, instead of imagining your future and identifying the 'action' steps that will take you towards your goals - the traditional masculine approach to realising change, we need to go deeper and create from the inside out. We learn to uncover and recognise the thoughts, the old 'story' and belief patterns, that 'inner glass ceiling' that predictably shoots holes in our dreams.  

Gently then, we build a new story and experience of ourselves, co-creating with the Universe and getting comfortable with not knowing how things are going to unfold - of allowing impulses and insights to emerge from the great womb of life. We show up and with powerful intention, fashion a quality of 'being' that elicits the natural energy and flow of authentic action. Through purpose-ful action we then can realise all the abundance we could ever wish for.

The pathway of manifesting what we really want in life therefore is a path of growth and for that we need a 'support structure' and practices to align ourselves with, so that we can show up for life and grow ourselves on the path. We need the energy, aliveness and power to present ourselves day in day out, whatever the emotional weather. We need to make that shift to a purpose driven, heart-centred, inspired way of living. I am here to help you make that shift, to breakthrough your inner glass ceiling and activate your intuition, receiving the insights and inspired action that will lead you to fulfil your potential, starting right here and now.