Mai Ka is currently based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota.

Mai Ka is a Creative Visionary, Intuitive Healer, Keynote Speaker, and Multi-Disciplinary Artist who operates as a Vessel of Connections—specializing in capturing the essence of creation to transform raw life experiences into profound visual narratives, tangible resilience, and visionary purpose.

Mai Ka’s Creative & Healing Ecosystem operates through 5 intentional Pillars of Impact:

• Behind Your Shadow, LLC: Integrating Trauma-Informed Coaching, Transformative Arts, and Holistic Healing for deep emotional breakthroughs.

• Keynote Speaking & Thought Leadership: Delivering an active catalog of over 50 Signature Talks focused on inner resilience, alignment, and self-worth.

• Lenses & Perspectives: A humanitarian non-profit initiative dedicated to sheltering, empowering, and mentoring orphans, homeless individuals, and their animal companions.

• Visual Storytelling & Creative Direction: Curating striking visuals and conceptual narratives across diverse mediums, backed by over 20 years of experience.

• MAI KA’S Collection: A curated sanctuary of premium wearable art serving as a physical touchstone for the self-discovery journey.

In short, Mai Ka is a first responder for the soul.

Mai Ka’s qualifications are a strategic fusion of professional discipline, specialized holistic mastery, and lived authority. This unique blend anchors the high-impact results of BEHIND YOUR SHADOW, LLC and all her integrated ventures, ensuring that every client engagement is tailored to the modalities and frameworks that work best for who they are.

While coaching and spiritual healing operate outside traditional state licensing, Mai Ka leads with rigorous foundational credentials alongside deep experiential mastery.

Embodied Mastery & Personal Integration (The Sovereign Foundation)

Mai Ka’s ultimate qualification is her embodied philosophy. Following 16 years of mental health struggles, she dedicated two years to intensive self-reconnection and a rigorous, four-year self-directed journey of deep, intentional unlearning. By deconstructing societal conditioning and reclaiming her autonomous voice, she developed the foundational lens of wisdom she shares today. She does not coach from theory; she leads from a crucible of profound psychological synthesis, shadow work, and a fluid spiritual integration that serves each client as they get to know themselves.

Professional & Strategic Authority

These credentials support the structured excellence of BYS programs, Keynote Speaking frameworks, and Leadership Development:

• Master Life Coach & Professional Life Coach

• Trauma-Informed Coach: Essential for the Trauma-Informed Protocol integrated across all individual programs and corporate training.

• Specialized Certifications: Happiness Coaching, Purpose Coaching, and Goal & Success Coaching

Specialized Energetic Mastery & Spiritual Lineage

These specialized credentials ensure the powerful energetic integration in programs like the 2-Week Elite Accelerator and all Creative Direction work:

• Spiritual Healer: Ordained Shaman within the Hmong Community, bringing deep ancestral wisdom and holistic integration to modern resolution.

  Note: Mai Ka’s journey has always defied traditional molds. Recognizing early on that her gifts were meant to operate beyond conventional templates, she has evolved her ancestral foundation into a modern, integrated healing framework. Today, she works with her team not as an on-demand practitioner but as an integrated holistic healer at Behind Your Shadow, LLC.

• Certified Sound Healer: Utilizing Singing Bowls for somatic alignment.

• Reiki Master

Real-World & Foundational Expertise (The Critical Edge)

Mai Ka’s unique background provides an unparalleled capacity to handle complex trauma and execute transformative, systemic change for individuals and communities:

• First Responder Foundations: Former EMT experience providing critical, real-world clinical insight into high-stakes environments, crisis response, and root-level trauma.

• Creative Direction: Mai Ka brings over two decades of total creative experience—spanning her years as an active participant exploring diverse mediums and her extensive time in creative direction. She utilizes this deep expertise for transformative art, visual storytelling, and integrating creative expression into the healing process.

Mai Ka does not live by any religion. She was born into shamanic roots and was later introduced to Buddhism and Christianity before beginning her spiritual awakening. That journey ultimately led to her being ordained as a spiritual healer. She firmly believes that everyone has a unique spiritual walk of life that exists entirely outside of human-made constructs.

Mai Ka does not live by a rigid religious doctrine; she lives by her own spiritual truth. She believes that all religions share the same foundational root of love and kindness, and that is what she chooses to practice.

In simplicity: Mai Ka does not have a religion.

• If you ask her if she practices Shamanism, she will say yes, out of respect for her roots.

• If you ask her if she practices Buddhism, she will say yes, out of respect for their practices.

• If you ask her if she believes in Christianity, she will say yes, out of respect for the core concepts they teach.

But if you ask Mai Ka what she ultimately believes in, she will tell you: “I am me.”

For a deeper dive into understanding how she views the intersection of religion, lifestyle templates, and true spirituality, you can read her personal blog here.

No, there is not.

Mai Ka work with anyone from anywhere, any background and any level of experiences that is open to working with her team and her.

Mai Ka doesn’t discriminate against location, race, beliefs, perspectives, principles, or experiences. All she asked is that the individuals or groups she is working with is honest, openminded, trustworthy, respectful, and responsible towards themselves, her team and her, and the work they will do together.

Mai Ka believes we all can learn and grow with one another regardless of our differences and is committed to using her gift to help those who are ready to receive help and are open to working with her team and her.

Mai Ka work with anyone who is ready to receive help and are open to working with her team and her.

• Animals

• Individuals

• Families

• Communities & Organizations

NOTE: Parental or guardian consent is strictly required for all sessions involving minors or animal companions.