I’m so happy to share with you a new episode of Out of the Clouds with guest Aicha McKenzie.
Aicha has had many titles - or ‘many lives’, as she puts it - throughout her career: gymnast, dancer, choreographer, founder, CEO and now certified breath coach. I had the pleasure to meet her when she worked as a choreographer for a special project with Dita Von Teese that would appear at Christian Louboutin’s 20th anniversary retrospective at the London Design Museum, and have admired her ever since.
In this interview, Aicha and I discuss her diverse career and how one move led to the other, movement being indeed the thread between them all. This naturally leads us to discuss her interest in breath - which she describes as “the whole story: balance, reset, energise, activate, transform, heal, exhale” - and how she became a certified coach. Aicha shares her wisdom through BreatheByAMCK. And that her mission is to encourage all of us to take 10 minutes from every day to focus on our breath for more clarity and control in our lives. She reminds me too that to be in balance, we have to allow ourselves to wobble, and to consider not just moving forward, but forward and up!