Beyond the Bark: Aliana's Astonishing Path to Spiritual Enlightenment

In this episode we get curious about:

In this enlightening interview, Laurin Wittig welcomes Aliana the Medium, who shares her incredible journey of connecting with spirit guides and animals. Aliana discusses how her work with animals opens doors to deeper spiritual insights for her clients, especially women.

She highlights the importance of curiosity, writing down life questions, and performing weekly readings for oneself. Aliana’s playful spirit shines through as she talks about her newfound joy on TikTok, adding fun voices to her animals’ thoughts. This episode is a delightful blend of wisdom, laughter, and practical tips for spiritual growth.

Topics we covered:

• Aliana's journey as a medium and her work with animals
• How her book came into being
• The significance of curiosity in spiritual practices
• Encouraging women to prepare life questions for readings
• Benefits of performing weekly readings for oneself
• Practical spiritual advice for clarity and growth

=> Where to find Aliana:

Website: Home - Aliana the medium

Book: 22 Letters from Uncle Jack: How One Spirit Helped Me to Reveal My Inner Knowing

Instagram (@alianazivathemedium)

=> Learn more about Laurin Wittig and Heartlight Wellness: Healing the light within you!

Bio: Laurin is trained in a variety of healing modalities, including Reiki, Soul Based Esoteric Healing, and as a Shamanic practitioner, however she primarily harnesses her powerful gifts of intuitively guided healing work, her deep wisdom about the mind/body/spirit energetic connections, and her strong connection to spirit guides, to discover the links between your energetic body and overall wellness, bringing in other modalities as they are useful for the client. 

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Audio Engineer: Sam Wittig

Music: Where the Light Is by Lemon Music Studio

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Interview with Aliana Ziva

So I shifted, you know, and following my dream in the States, you know, working with clients and working more with the animals in a new way. So that is where, you know, everything shifted. And, and it was like only in a couple of months where I would. Meat. All kinds of animals all of the sudden. And some of the horses that I met, you know, after experiencing one great energy clearing from an American teacher, myself is the first horse that I did meet and some other horses that I had met before, they would stop and like, look at me and I would hear the voices and it came like outside of my mind.

Laurin: Hello friends. And welcome back to Curiously Wise. I'm Laurin Wittig, your host. And today I have somebody whose gifts are unique to my experience. We, I've never had anybody on the show who has the same gift that Aliana does today. So let me tell you a little bit about her and then we'll welcome her officially to the show.

She also gives private readings to women in the U S covering all life topics. and connecting them with their spirit guides. She's the author of 22 letters from uncle Jack, a book about her journey with a spirit guide. She finds joy in teaching others about mediumship and animal communication through her own method, the Ziva method.

Her passion is in giving animals a voice and helping people find clarity by listening to them. So welcome to the show, Aliana. I am really excited to have this conversation with you.

Aliana: Hi, Laurin, and I'm happy to be here. Like, it's an honor to sit here with you today. It really is.

Laurin: Oh, I appreciate that. So let's just dive in. My first question, the one that's got my curiosity really activated , is how did you come to be an animal? Medium.

And I could get my lessons there. And then they went out and they got a dog. So this is, you know, where it became a natural thing, but it was, a world that was something that I felt was just my world. You know, it was my, I have my grandmother still in my life. And, but when I was a child, you know, we all lived in the same village and they had dogs, my grandparents as well.

And when it was around Christmas time, my, I remember those stories, you know, my grandmother would share with me, like, you know, the animals, they whisper, you know, around Christmas and you got to let the lights be on because they really speak loudly, like on Christmas night. So, you know, that was, that was like something that was.

And then when I was about to turn 12 years old, I was in a time where I would cry weekly because I wanted that one horse in my own life. So when I was around 12 years old, you know, I got my first horse. And that is actually where, you know, over those years from being 12 to 18 years old, until we had to put her down because he was an old racing horse.

So, you know, I, I grew up also with a great grandmother, you know, and I heard all of these stories, you know, before World War I and II. So, you know, everything that was going on in my world, even communicating with animals, you know, it was something that I kept to myself. Is. I, I didn't want that label being crazy.

And the horses on that trip, you know, they started to speak. So when I came home to Denmark, you know, I created. And my own business when I was 25 and I had a title as a humane physiotherapist and I still wanted when I was at that age, you know, at a title that could still be like that door opening. So I, I took, I spent a year.

Laurin: Yeah, it is amazing how we, we shut things down or we hold them very close when we've heard those stories about ancestors, or we've lived other lifetimes where we were traumatized because of that. I know for me, it was a lot of previous lifetimes that were kind of making me uncomfortable stepping into the healer that I am.

So. It's, it's interesting to me that you came to the States and that's where things really began to open up for you. Where were you when, when you, you were when those horses started talking to you, what state were you in?

Aliana: I was in, I was in in a range close to Bakersfield in California

Laurin: Okay. Yeah. I was going to guess out West. Yeah. Yeah.

But for me, it was like that oneness of coming home, you know, this was not like, you know, snapping with both of the thing, both of my fingers. And then all of a sudden I could hear the animals, but, but that trip became very, you know, Defining in, in me actually following a path where I did break free of something that I had been told my entire life because, you know, being a humane physiotherapist, you know, that was like never my dream, but it was still so imprinted within my mind and, and then all of a sudden coming back.

Like I want to, I want this to be my living. So the horse for many years, you know, before I really followed my natural calling in life, like I, you know, like the life that I'm living today being 40 years old soon. So it's like, you know, there's, there's been a great shift, but it was still like those horses.

You know, on that trip, you know, they gave me a gift that I could really bring with me home. Yeah,

That's not some animal. That's not currently living.

And, you know, animals, they always pick up on that. I know it was my reality for many years, like always doing these body scans of the horse, like, that is where I really used my own eyes. My clear vision being a medium, you know, seeing their health, seeing their bodies, you know, I could see illness, I could see imbalances like I would see arthritis if there was arthritis in a horse.

Laurin: Yeah.

So I shifted, you know, and following my dream in the States, you know, working with clients and working more with the animals in a new way. So that is where, you know, everything shifted. And, and it was like only in a couple of months where I would. Meat. All kinds of animals all of the sudden. And some of the horses that I met, you know, after experiencing one great energy clearing from an American teacher, myself is the [00:13:00] first horse that I did meet and some other horses that I had met before, they would stop and like, look at me and I would hear the voices and it came like outside of my mind.

And. So many of those horses that I knew they said now you can hear us like now you can hear us So it it became audio, you know And and I hear their voices and I always so when I do Communicate with a living animal then I hear their stories first

Laurin: mm-Hmm.

Aliana: and then when there's like a silence There may be like questions from, you know, they're the human that's in their life and the animal respond will respond to that, but there will be many times, you know, the animal doesn't know themselves what they need.

You gotta go see this vet and there's these herbs, there's this nature medicine. So it's, I would use the word like holistic, but you know, that is where I really use my, you know, my medium shit. Because sometimes it's also grief that the animal is dealing with, especially horses. You know, they see like the spirit of the mom, you know, that's my experience, you know, with my own horses.

So it's, so it's like energy's all around. So it's not only communicating with the animal, but it's communicating with all that love that is around the animal.

So so, okay. So can you give us like a story about, I mean, is there something that stands out of an animal that you, that, that maybe surprised you or you were able to really help maybe the relationship between them and their humans?

And as soon as I entered that stable, you know, the horse didn't want anything to do with me, like, didn't want to engage in a conversation with me, didn't want me to put my hands on her, like everything. All that she wanted to talk about was. Me looking in the direction of the woman, you know, the host or owner here, saying that you gotta look at her.

Like, I'm here to help you because like, you've been showing some signs on one of your legs and there's something with your diet, you know, that they want clarity on. Like, are they providing you with the right feed? And you know, there was so many questions, but, but that day, you know, I ended up saying that your horse says that you've got to stop now.

And you really got to stop now. Otherwise in one week, you will. You will end up in the hospital. So, you know, sometimes when, when messages like this comes through, this is just to show us how much they pay attention to, you know, and, and this woman actually did end up in the hospital one week later, later, because it's, you know, it's, it's.

And then we, you know, then we are. On the right path and we got everything got going on and we had this checked out. So, you know, I was also in a world where you always had to be that bigger voice all the time because it is also a sport. And, but that woman actually ended up in the hospital and that was a message one week prior to that, where her whole said, you got to stop because, you know, all of her stress, that energy.

were put on the horse, but it was a strong horse, but that's why, you know, that day, it didn't want me to touch it because it was too much, because we had to deal with her first.

Laurin: Yeah. Wow.

Aliana: So, you know, when, when they show up with that strength, like, I know who you are. I know you can hear me. I know you can help me.

Laurin: yeah, it's, it's some. The culture that at least in the United States of animals is that it's almost like they are things we own. Well, it's not almost that, you know, we own own them

Aliana: Yeah.

Laurin: and and that, you know, we are, we are the all knowing all seeing we are the ones in charge. I have a dog, I told you earlier that she turns four tomorrow and it's the first puppy I've had since I was a kid and I didn't have much responsibility for the puppies we had as when I was a kid, but I've been, I've been the one, her primary person.

Aliana: Yeah.

Laurin: you know, and and we, we had another dog before that, but she was six years old when we got her. So I wasn't in that formative stage of the puppyhood with her.

And it's and it's reassuring to me what you're telling me that they are experiencing, because I, I know that I can feel her energy and I, I know she can feel my energy and I know that because sometimes if I'm not feeling well, she'll come up and cuddle up with me, which is not necessarily the normal thing.

But it's it's just so interesting to me because intellectually, I know they have a great wisdom, but you are, you're sharing the experience of, of that great wisdom coming forth in a, in a very obvious way.

Laurin: That's what everybody who gets to know her. Says she's such a sweetheart. That's the word they use. And she is she's she's a real a real lover. So, yeah, so I just I love when I learn things that from other people that reinforce sort of my what my intuition is and and that's what that story about that horse and that person just did for me.

So I do appreciate that. I have. A group of deer does all of them. 3 of them. 2 of them are the babies of 1. I call, I call the older 1 mama and they spend a lot of time in our backyard outside the fence that my dog has access to and I talk to them all the time and I call them gorgeous. I say, hey, gorgeous and if I don't say gorgeous, they don't look at me.

But if I say, hey, gorgeous, they turn around and they go. You know, and I get this kind of like, what,

Aliana: It's, they're,

Aliana: special beings, those dear.

Laurin: Oh, they are. They are. And and we built our house on an old deer trail. So they've always been back and forth through our yard since before it was our yard and and we've made sure to make it a sort of a sanctuary for them because there's hunting allowed.

Around our neighborhood, and so I make a point, I go out and say, it's safe here. You know, you can, you can hang out in our yard as much as you like. This is a safe place. And and darn, if they don't do that, it's, it's like, they're at least feeling the intention. If not understanding the words.

They survived, you know, I felt you know, I felt that warm warm love and also a gratitude that they actually sent to me when, when I kept, you know, the electricity off on the fence.

Aliana: Yeah, well, Uncle Jack, he was actually a well, you know, he was a well known author when he was alive. But, you know, he always wanted me to call him Uncle Jack, you know, because we, We, and when I say we, my family and I here, my husband and my daughter Sophia, you know, it's like, You over the years, those, you know, that will, you know, [00:26:00] left footprints for others to follow when they were here, you know, great authors, like singers, actors, actresses, speakers, you know, motivational people, you know, they all show up here in spirit, you know, so it's often been like that subway, you know, with inspirational spirits that showed up here.

But back in. In 18, you know, I. I had an author that showed up here and, you know, he did say his actual name, but he said I want you to call me Uncle Jack because I want you to consider me being, you know, that uncle that you will go to where you can get answers to every question,

Laurin: Mm.

Aliana: every question.

Laurin: Nice.

Aliana: Okay, I can get answers to every question.

So it was every time I would speak to him with my loud voice, you know, he would respond to me. So it. It became a conversation that took place like I would speak with my husband. And this was the first time ever in my life where I would have a spirit. Only my grandfather has been so clear, like, all the time.

So it it became these conversations, but it wasn't until 2020 where I was going through Some, some healing about, you know, a time I've in 19, you know, I'd healed myself from a tumor in my chest and, and in, in a 19 and in 2020, I was still releasing a lot of stress. I was releasing everything that I saw in my own physical health because my, you know, way of seeing as a medium had opened up to me seeing my own health, my own body.

And, and he was like, you know, he was my therapist. He was my uncle. He was my friend. Like he was my everything. And then we rented this cabin in Denmark. And in one evening when my husband and I, we sat and we looked over the ocean, then I said, uncle Jack says that I got to receive one daily letter from him for 22 days.

And the intention of this is for me to feel who I am, you know, without any doubt. And after these 22 days, then my life will never be the same. So here I was writing a daily letter to myself without knowing, you know, that this was something that I was meant to share with others. So, so, you know, I did this for myself and I did, I did have clients, you know, in my life.

And, and, and I was really thriving, you know, with everything that I was following, but it was like, he had me stop and say, Hey, you got to use your own gifts on you first, but with everything, you know, like with everything. So he was, he was helping me to shift. My entire mindset, so I could be in this place of always listening, because I have a quick mind, and my mind is very quick when it comes to myself, where I can, this is my voice, this is the voice of spirit, and this [00:31:00] is, these are my mind, this is my mind, this is my body, so it's like, you know, I can even hear like the voice of my liver, if I pay attention to it, so it's, You know, being the healer I was for many years where it was a natural thing.

You know, it was like, I had to use all of those gifts on myself before anyone else.

It is important and, and I don't know how I figured it out, but I did, I didn't have 22 letters that I was instructed to write, but I spent the first probably three or four years of my journey having communication with my guides through on the computer.

Laurin: You know, I would type a question and they would give me the answers and it was so clear it was different. And I guess that's what trained me to understand that the voices that I receive I hear because I sometimes I hear them like their actual voices and most of the time they're in my head, but I can tell it's not me.

Aliana: it

Laurin: you get the voice of your guide right there on the paper. If you read it back to yourself, you can tell it's not you, you know, it's not the way you would have chosen the words, or it's not knowledge that you had. And I think for me, that was really important because now I just received so much information and it comes from so many different sources because I'm working with clients or, you know, or I'm walking next to a tree and it's got a message for me.

So that's really something I try to encourage people to do, but there's so many people resistant to writing. Yeah. Mm

Aliana: it's also, you know, that's why, you know, in my book, I, I do share like my own experience from each letter that I wrote. And I, you know, talk about my life at that time. And then I also said, you know, when. When I receive these letters, then I also said to him, but then you gotta provide me with some tools, so it's so simple, because I said to him, I want some tools where I don't have to feel like I have to look it up in a book.

So, you know, it's like, like you, you see like the, all the dimensions of my mind. So it's, It's so simple when we have a tool that we can pick up where we don't have to remember the tool, but where we feel that connection to a tool where it's as easy as picking it up as a fork, you know, that is like, that's how I want, you know, like natural medium should to be like, so people can, can sit.

Laurin: Right.

Aliana: that, that those conversations, they take place there and, and, and know that you don't have to have a spiritual practice in the morning that has to last for 40 minutes, like, no, you can do it while you do other natural things in, in a new day.

Laurin: Yeah. Yeah. So, do you have an example of one of those tools that he gave you.

Aliana: Yeah, I will say the one I use, and here we're kind of back to the animals, because he said the one that will always help you to shift the way that you feel. So no matter how you feel, So, you know, I can be, you know, in that state where I feel, you know, I'm, I'm not really frustrated, but I can feel that there's something annoying me.

Laurin: Mm

Aliana: So he said to, he said to me, so let's say now I'm the hopeful green panda.

He said, and I can sit here and be your hopeful green panda. And you know, as soon as he showed up, my mind was like, like, really? You're, but your spirit, you're not a. You're not a hopeful green panda, so, you know, it's like, and my mind, you know, often when he said things like this, you know, my mind went like, you

Laurin: Yeah.

Aliana: always stopped and it kind of shifted into this sense of humor.

Because when there's a natural stop, then your entire energy will shift into that one emotion that you naturally chose. So it was like, you know, that became like one of my, and I still use it today. Today, I don't use all the tools anymore that I use back. But this is like my. Go to, you know, and, you know, I have a 10 year old, so it's very simple to tell her choose the emotion, choose the color, be the animal, you know, so, so you can shift it like this because I feel that, and now we are here, you [00:38:00] know, with, with your podcast and being curious, you know, because when we are shifting these energies and we connect to our True nature, and that is what I felt that every time I would say I'm a, let's say a silly purple cheetah, and I would say that repeatedly, I'm a purple, you know, I'm a silly purple cheetah, I'm a, I'm a silly purple cheetah, you know, it would shift, it would shift immediately, and it, and it really is still one of my greatest tool that, that he gave to me.

Laurin: It's awesome. Anything that makes me laugh is good. You know,

Aliana: yeah,

Laurin: it's laughter is such a high vibration and it, it's like it breaks apart all those, those irritations, those frustrations, those fears, whatever. It just totally shifts your energy. Like this, you know, in a moment. I love that. That's absolutely awesome.

Aliana: because it can also be like a great, you know, you know, I would experience it and sometimes if I sat with some people where I could really pick up on a low vibration, you know, sometimes, and when people would say something, you know, I've sitting in, in a gathering. Where, now I cannot recall what, you know, emotion, or color, or animal, but where I would say out loud, you know, I am, and then it, and you know, it will have people stop at the table and like, what?

Like, what came from, what came from her? So it can really be, you know, also like, A great shift that can take place if you are sitting around the table and that low vibration of judging others or whatever it is that, you know, can, can show up in a gathering.

Aliana: Yeah, it

Laurin: just have to remember to use it. But I, that is brilliant. Thank you. Uncle Jack

Aliana: yeah Yeah,

Laurin: All right, so we are kind of getting to the end of our time here.

So I just want to think about what we want to talk about next. I know that you do a lot of readings for women, particularly for women in the U. S. So what can can you describe that? So, for example, if I wanted to come have a session with you, what would that look like?

So, you know, naturally often I do meet women, you know, with their pets or animals first, and, and they are very curious, let's use your word here, curious of, What can also reveal when it comes to their own life, when they really acknowledge that unconditional love in a pet, but also, you know, in the form of spirit.

So I do help women with all of their life themes. And, and I always encourage women when it's a one hour reading that they show up with three to five, you know, life themes that they want clarity on and, you know, And write down all of their questions before, like really empty their minds and show up because, you know, some women will also just show up and say, Hey, I, I just wanted to reveal to me.

So, so a beautiful golden path is now revealing to them where it has to be very simple. So, you know, ultimately it will be what to do over the next three weeks to get. A new role, or sometimes it will be, you know, what can I do to have multiple income streams? You know, what can I do to balance, you know, my mind in a better way?

Like, you know, that is something that I'm, it's sacred to me that I still get to sit with all the women and do something that is like in my natural, you know, Lifestyle, you know, having full clarity of everything in my life because I'm always curious, so you know, I do weekly readings of myself like, and I always have my, you know, health and, you know, and no, I have my health first and then I have my joy and, you know, my life with my animals, you know, everything that is like filling up my cup, you know, I always make sure to do, you know, Readings and have that full clarity, but, but it's a great way to know that, you know, it's like setting, it can be like feeling, you know, you set the intention of the week, [00:44:00] but when I sit with these women, you know, they, they, if they come to me for the first time, I do have many women, you know, that return all the time, but when they come the first time, often they don't, Really know what to expect.

So that is why I'm always incurred encouraging them like write those questions down And also if there's something that you do want to know and you don't have any questions that okay Well, you know because we are in a time now where we are being asked by the collective to to have like When it comes to, let's say finances that we do go out and create a life where it's multiple, you know, income stream.

Women right now that feel that they have a voice in the world and, you know, they have to be somewhere with this voice, you know, they, they come my way these days.

Laurin: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's a question I've been talking about that with a friend this morning of, you know, we're here for, for a reason. And how do we, how do we step into that or how do we manage, you know, how, what does that look for us like for us kind of thing. That question is coming up a lot in my clients and my friends and my, my kids, you know is, and it's, I think it is, Indicative of a shift that's going on right now that, you know, it's no longer just the I'm broken and I need help putting myself back together again.

Right. So and, and so, yeah, so I, I feel like we're shifting into like, what's next. And and that's where it, I love this idea of doing a weekly reading for yourself. I don't know why I never thought about doing that because I do readings for other people just mostly on the fly, but I was like, wait, I can do that for myself.

Can't I? I used to do that when I wrote every day,

Aliana: It's the best meal of the week, you know, that is like doing the

Laurin: am totally going to start doing

So, you know, I love that, that level of energy clearing. That is what I feel when I do like the, like really sit down and make sure I have a couple of hours doing these readings on myself because my spirit guides, they will always say, no, you got it. You gotta receive clarity on these three things first, and then we know that you also want to connect more with your mind and know, okay, my health is all well, and I gotta bring in this new supplement now in my life for the next three months, you know.

Laurin: You know, it's like, I can do all this cool stuff for other people, but wait, I could do that for myself too, couldn't I? And I, I, sometimes I'm good at things like occasionally I'll just get an urge to draw some cards, you know, some Oracle cards and that's always, always for me. I do that for me more than anybody else. And, you know, but I, but I have all these other ways of communicating and I'm not. Using them to their greatest advantage.

So thank you for that. This is where we're, we're like mining other people's experience to improve our own, right? It's a, one of the great benefits of being a host. All right. Well, can you let the listeners know where they can find you? Mm

And I add some funny voices to what they actually say. So it's like, you know, there's, it's just something that I felt like was a calling here over spring to jump on TikTok. So, but there'll be a direct link there for Instagram and I, and I do take, you know. People can reach out to me on DMS as well. So it's like, you know, I will always respond to people there as well.

Aliana: Well, I hear from uncle Jack, you can simply, you can simply read a letter number seven and that's all you need. Yeah.

Laurin: Very good. Thank you for that. Okay. All right. Well, I think. We've come to the end of our time. I have gleaned some great things from you. This has really been fun talking to you. And I hope that the listeners have had as much fun with this conversation as I have, but also have picked up some good tips on how to take better care of ourselves and how to, how to connect with animals and, and spirit and all kinds of things.

So I really want to thank you for being here with me today. It's been a delight to connect with you. And and I hope that the listeners have a great day too. And as always, I invite you to stay curious.