Malina Horbury
Founder of Awaken Your Essence™
Six-figure corporate role. Travelling the world for work.
Five-star hotels, business-class flights, Michelin-starred restaurants.
A beautiful home in London. A happy marriage. A full calendar.
I had built everything I once promised myself I would.
Growing up in a working-class town in the North of England, watching a life that felt small and already written for me, I made a quiet, fierce decision:
This will not be my life. And it wasn’t. By every external measure, I had made it.
And yet… in the quieter moments, something didn’t quite land.
Not dramatic. Life was stable and good.
Just a subtle, persistent sense that something was… missing.
A feeling that no matter what I achieved, there was still another layer I couldn’t reach. I told myself it was the next thing.
The next promotion. The next milestone. The next vacation. The next version of the life I was building. But nothing ever quite touched it. That quiet nudge never left.
You may know that feeling.
A life that looked perfect from the outside.
“Freedom begins when you come home to yourself.”
-Malina Horbury
That nudge led me somewhere I never expected.
Twelve years ago, I found myself spending three weeks in the Amazon jungle, working with a master plant medicine that began to unravel everything I thought was true about who I was and what my life was about. At the time, I didn’t fully understand what had been set in motion. I just knew something had shifted irreversibly.
And then, two years later, came the moment that changed everything.
A chronic illness that brought me to the edge of my life. A moment where I genuinely believed I might die. And in many ways, I did. Not physically.
But the identity I had spent decades building, the successful one, the strong one, the one who figured everything out…she didn’t survive.
Everything I relied on fell away. I couldn’t function. I felt stripped of everything I thought I was. I felt useless. But what followed wasn’t the end.
Over the ten years since, that experience has unfolded into something I could never have accessed any other way.
Not just healing. A complete reorientation of how I live, how I see the world, and how I work.
What emerged from that collapse wasn’t emptiness. It was something no level of success had ever given me.
Clarity. Freedom. Peace.
And a truth about who I actually am, beneath everything I had been building, performing, and maintaining.
Where it all began to shift
I walked through all of this so that I could understand, from the inside, exactly what real transformation requires. What needs to be released. What needs to emerge. And how to move through that process without your life falling apart in the process.
You don't need to experience the chaos I did. That's precisely the point.
Over the last 14 years, this work has been shaped through deep training and lived experience.
Not only in what I’ve studied and learnt, but in what I’ve moved through, dismantled, and rebuilt within myself.
It is this that allows the work to be precise. Grounded. And free from the unnecessary chaos so often associated with transformation.
My role is not to guide you through a breakdown.
It's to help you discover who you actually are beneath everything you've been carrying, without unnecessary disruption to the life you've built.
The depth behind this work
The combination I bring here cannot be assembled from training alone.
At the core is a rare perceptive capacity. The ability to channel your higher consciousness directly, accessing what is shaping your experience beneath ego, conditioning, and conscious awareness. Clients consistently describe this as being seen at a level they have never experienced before. Not through ordinary intuition. Through something that reaches the deeper layers of consciousness, where most approaches simply cannot go.
Behind that sits a background that bridges the corporate and the energetic, the analytical and the spiritual, the scientific and the deeply human. Most practitioners live entirely in one of those worlds. This work holds all of them simultaneously, which means wherever you are, however you think and operate, this work can meet you there and take you all the way through.
That bridge is not something that can be learned. It is the product of a particular life, a particular mind and over fifteen years of sustained practice and deep training.
It is precisely why this work produces results that other approaches have not.
What makes this work rare
Perhaps you're successful and still feel the quiet knowing that something needs to change.
Perhaps you've tried other approaches and found that none of them quite reached the root.
Perhaps you're in the middle of something that feels bigger than any framework you've been given for it.
This isn't about starting over. The answers aren't outside you. This work helps you access what was always already within.
This is where remembrance becomes embodiment.
When identity transforms, life realigns.
A quiet recognition.
“Working with Malina has been a beautiful experience. I went in not knowing what to expect and was amazed by how safe, supported, and comfortable she made me feel. The growth and positive shifts I’ve experienced have been incredible, leaving me feeling more connected to myself. Learning Reiki with her and continuing both in-person and virtual sessions over the years has brought so much peace and light into my life. Malina is a truly gifted healer.”
– Natalie
Senior Corporate Executive, Los Angeles
“When success stops delivering fulfillment, it’s time for a deeper kind of alignment.”
-Malina Horbury