Phillia Kim Downs — Bio

When you meet Phillia, you will immediately feel the meaning of her name rings true to the authentic energy she shines so naturally - Friendship Love. Her compassionate heart is full of genuine, unconditional LOVE here for YOU and holds a sacred space for you to feel safe, to be seen, to be heard, to be acknowledged, to be loved, to feel supported and to be held in this container of pure LOVE. She is here to be a spark of light and a source of encouragement and wisdom for those embarking on or deep on their awakening, healing, transformative journeys. Her mission is to support you to move through the inner healing work with courage and heal the pain within, to encourage you to follow your heart’s calling and to be a catalyst for forward movement in your life. After decades of her own personal healing journey, she is a walking testament to the power of this work as a loving free spirit, full of joyful self-expression, soul purpose and well-being that is guided by the North Star of her heart, her passions and dreams. Phillia is a helpful guide to assist you in finding your way forward to the fullest expression of your beautiful self, to create a life that resonates with your authentic spirit and inner truth and to help transform the pain you carry back into your personal power, freedom and light.

Phillia graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park Honors Program with a B.S. in Cell Molecular Biology and Genetics in 2000. She was a therapist for autistic children, did cancer research and had plans to go to medical school, until her inner artist and entrepreneurial spirit was unleashed in 2004 after a quarter life crisis and deep soul searching. Without any knowledge of fashion and business, she launched her own self-taught clothing and accessories line called pH by Phillia – pHnewyork.com – which was covered by Teen Vogue, Nylon, The NY Times, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, MTV, VH1, among others. She consulted numerous others how to follow their own fashion dreams, as well as teaching workshops at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

By following her heart, her passions and dreams, the scientist in Phillia began to observe and analyze metaphysical and spiritual concepts that appeared to her, such as: the apparent frequency of coincidences that would happen (later to discover in a book a month later about the theory of Synchronicity by Carl Jung; that those constant coincidences were all positive signs that she was on the right path) to observing a moth on the wall of her fashion studio, wondering if that moth had a message for her (later to learning about spirit animals and that a moth represented the beginning of an idea); experiencing kundalini energy unleashing and releasing, only later to have a random book mailed to her a few weeks later that described her exact experiences by another and so much more. As her spiritual journey continued and deepened, it was inspired and experienced from this scientific perspective of constant observations, analysis and theories.

Forced to close the doors on her fashion dream, in 2009 Phillia entered NYC’s competitive real estate industry with determination to sell unique luxury properties and developments, soon afterward selling multimillions of dollars of properties and garnering press in The Real Deal, The NY Times, Broker's Weekly and CurbedNY. Since then her work as a consultant has expanded internationally, introducing her to clientele she was destined to meet for deeper spiritual purpose.

In 2012, Phillia met a real estate developer where she brought a buyer to pursue a property for sale that was in the midst of a bidding war. Taking a bold step, she reached out to the developer and offered her entire commission if her client was able to win the bid. The developer reached out immediately and said in the 15 years of real estate, she never met anyone like her. Stars were aligned as the two were destined to meet as well with a deep soulful connection. Phillia became integral as a co-visionary for the conception and birth of the Awakening Healing Center — an eco-green urban sanctuary for healing and well-being - www.awakeningny.com - where she helped get it off the ground and is where she calls home for her shamanic work in NYC.

At the same time in 2012, Phillia was so moved and inspired to answer the call of Occupy Wall Street, she began pursuing a massive dream of her own called Live Love Collective, www.livelovecollective.com, a global network connecting the most influential members of the world directly to the visionaries, innovators, scientists and entrepreneurs with game changing projects and companies to help heal our planet and help move humanity forward.

Phillia’s transformational healing journey has been her greatest dedicated passion for over twenty five years of deepest inner and outer work, which has taken her on the most cosmic magical journey of her life into dreams come true in love, prosperity, fulfillment, well-being and more. And it began with the journey of going within for self-discovery and following her heart's passions and dreams with the desire to understand the deepest mysteries of her own soul and so the radical personal transformational work began. Her journey has opened her heart and mind to discover a natural invisible energetic world that is mystical, magical and interconnected through observations as the scientist within. 

Phillia's life was forever changed when she discovered shamanism and soul retrievals, which took her on the deepest transformation to uncover and heal the many layers of her unresolved trauma, carried over from her ancestors, her past lives, this life and from the imprints of her upbringing and conditioning. Through the path of shamanic healing, she  transformed pain into power, wounds into wisdom, shadows into light, set herself free to live authentically and create into reality her dearest dreams.

She began as an apprentice to a shaman in Brooklyn in 2007 and then in 2010 was officially initiated through pilgrimage and ceremony with the shamanic high priests into the Q'ero lineage of the Andean medicine people in Peru as a "Paqo" - a medicine woman / healer dedicated to the path of only Light and have been serving her communities ever since. 

Phillia also has had decades of experience with the medicinal healing powers from the plant medicine realm, working with powerful plant spirits of cannabis, san pedro, ayahuasca, iboga, alkalizing super foods, healing herbs and other radical alternative medicines receiving current attention to heal depression and PTSD such as MDMA, ketamine, LSD and more. She is passionate about sharing her alternative knowledge with those who want to improve their lives, health and well-being.

Phillia is also a certified Reiki Master and has studied extensively Love, Sex, Relationship Integration Coaching from The Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality. She is passionate about healing sexual traumas and breaking all taboos around sexual conditioning and shaming that is preventing all from living a fully healthy and sacred sexually expressed life in joy, pleasure and well-being.

Through her own scientific observations and theories based on her life experiences, being the guinea pig of her own life's theories and experiments and through being exposed to the metaphysical sciences and witnessing the many life journeys of those close to her, she realized the importance of spiritual health and how key it is to balancing physical, mental and emotional well-being. Realizing how powerful and authentic this form of 'medicine' Shamanic Healing is, she in on the forefront of society sharing her knowledge and wisdom, in order to help the people she loves and those who cross her path.