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Meet Bird Mejia of Art of Balance in Chandler

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Bird Mejia.

So, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story.
When I was young, I heard Seal’s song Crazy, “In a world full of people, only some want to fly – isn’t that crazy?!” I knew then that I wanted to be one of those people who fly. So I worked very hard towards it. I earned an MFA in Creative Writing and an MLS in Youth Librarianship. I published my first book and taught online classes to women around the country. I created and presented my Wild Woman at My Door – Reconnecting to Authentic workshop to groups of women seeking empowerment.

Yet, the truth was that I was not happy. I wasn’t flying. Most of my life, I didn’t feel joy. I was very serious. I had a hard time laughing. I was often angry. I was often melancholy. I decided I wanted joy instead. So I sought it. I began a long self-healing journey to become joyful. I read all I could on self-healing. I took all the online courses I could get my hands on. I began practicing Naam Yoga, a self-healing yoga derived from the Yoga of Immortality, which incorporates sound meditation, breath work, mantras and mudras (yoga hand postures). I went through a year-long journey to become certified as a Naam Yoga teacher. I became a Harmonyum Healing practitioner (Harmonyum Healing is energetic work on the spinal cord that helps heal the body of pain that most of us carry with us throughout life). As I transformed myself, my relationships transformed. Some of the people I most loved in my life excited my life, and I learned to only send them love.

I learned to laugh, I transformed my anger into peace and positive energy, I learned how to spot my melancholy on the onset and transform it into something useful: calm and a quiet inner joy. I became joyful from the inside out.

I also healed my broken heart. Like many of you, my heart has been broken many times. From my childhood. From my family. From almost every man I have ever loved. From my closest friends. From the people who I have loved most in life. So I transformed that, too. I transformed my broken heart into a titanium heart. Today it is very strong! Nothing can ever stop it from loving.

So NOW I am finally flying! There is no better feeling to me than this. So metaphorically, I now teach others how to fly. In a world full of people, I am flying.

So I am finally flying.

So I am finally flying.

So I am finally flying. There is no better feeling in the world than this. Because when I fly, I can teach others how to fly, too.

We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
My journey has been hard. At times, it’s been heart-wrenching. I have a lot of pain. I think most of us do. You can’t be human and escape this reality. I now see the hard times as my greatest teachers. I now see those who have hurt me most as my greatest teachers. They all taught me to go inward and transform myself. They taught me strength. They taught me how to become the love of my life. They taught me how to heal my childhood wounds, truly forgive others and love them unconditionally, fill myself with love and light, and find my true power. I learned how to free myself from the shackles that had been holding me back since I was a child. I transformed the pain to a calm, inner joy that stays with me always, even when life gets hard. Because sometimes life just gets hard. We get slammed when we least expect it. Yet, when you learn how to elevate your vibration, you can finally fly over the chaos and the pain. That is when you are free.

We’d love to hear more about your business.
My company is Art of Balance, LLC. I named it this because I feel it’s important to balance body/mind/spirit. They are all connected. Science is beginning to discover this is true. Illness begins in the body as a warning that there is dis-ease someplace in the mind or spirit. I incorporate a number of things in my business. I am an intuitive self-healing coach, and I offer one-on-one coaching to assist others in healing their emotions and their lifelong heart wounds. I do Harmonyum Healing sessions, which is gentle, powerful work on the spinal cord that provides self-healing from the body of pain that we all carry. I teach Naam Yoga classes and free flow and Latin cardio classes. I also have a free online Facebook Group, Become Your Own Hero, as a place for women to support each other in becoming our best selves.

However, my signature program is my online course, Heal Your Heart, which launches on June 13. Heal Your Heart is a 7-week online program to help both women and men heal their broken hearts. The heart is the center of the body’s vital life force. It is the fuel for our life energy, and it’s important to the immune system, organs, circulation of bodily fluids, and sexuality. Some spiritual practitioners believe all diseases originate in issues of the heart. It is also the place where we feel joy and feel a true connection to others and to our true selves. When your heart is healed and strong, you can see it in the eyes. It creates vibrant, joyful human beings.

Unfortunately, many people barricade their hearts after they’ve been hurt. I understand this. It hurts when your heart is broken. Yet, if we can allow the light and love to come into all the broken cracks of a shattered heart, this is when we learn how to truly love. The benefits of healing your heart go on and on. It transforms your life. I have put together all the modalities and teachings that have helped me to strengthen my heart to teach others how to do the same.

What were you like growing up?
I was a shy child. I was raised in Minnesota, and we were the only Latina family in the community. I was ashamed of my Mexican ancestry. I thought I would have been more valuable if I had been born blonde and blue eyes. It is what society and the media at that time were telling me. The oldest of five children, a lot of responsibility was placed on me – and I accepted it. I tried my best to be perfect, earning straight as all through graduate school. Trying to be perfect carries a lot of weight, and I remember getting severe headaches as a child. I was very serious and often was more comfortable with adults. I loved to read and spend time outside. I also loved children, so I relished caring for my younger siblings, often taking them and their friends to afternoons at the park. I loved to dance. My innermost desire was to be a dancer when I grew up, but I was afraid to pursue it. I was never popular in school. High school was painful and lonely for me. I used to think about killing myself when I was a teenager. College was the turning point for me, when I came out of my shell and began blossoming.

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