Testimonials
Working with Ailya through her healing and tapping sessions has been a deeply transformative experience. She brings her full, undivided presence into each session, meeting you with genuine curiosity, deep listening, and a holistic understanding of who you are.
Through a thoughtful combination of conversation, affirmations, and tapping, Ailya helped guide me out of looping thoughts and into a state of calm and clarity. I could feel the shifts in real time— and the effects often lasted for days afterward. She also offered gentle guidance on how to continue the work on my own, which helped extend and deepen the impact of each session.
What stands out most about Ailya is her compassion and her intuitive ability to sense the deeper roots of imbalance. Some of the pain I carried in my body was actually stuck emotion — and through our work together, even physical discomfort would begin to dissolve. The healing I experienced was not just emotional, but physical and energetic as well. If you're seeking clarity within yourself, or a more peaceful and connected relationship with your thoughts and body, I wholeheartedly recommend working with her.
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- Shabana, Virginia
Ailya is one of the kindest, purest, intelligent, and spiritual people I’ve ever met. She provided me with the comfort and liberty to speak my mind and encouraged me to heal from past dilemmas that had been impacting my mental, physical, and spiritual faculties. Ailya introduced me to many spiritually calming techniques and thought processes that helped me process and overcome the challenges in my life. Before meeting Ailya, I lacked spiritual awareness, and my Islamic conviction was waning. After meeting Ailya, I've developed a deeper spiritual understanding of the divine, which I apply to many areas of my life, allowing me to adopt an optimistic disposition toward the situations I encounter. While elevating my spiritual awareness, Ailya taught me with beautiful Islamic knowledge, which has helped me remain steadfast in my beliefs and strengthen my Islamic conviction. Ailya helped me approach Islam from a point of healing and individualistic trust in the divine to protect me from harmful situations and thoughts. Overall, I have grown tremendously through the time I’ve spent in Ailya’s warm and welcoming presence, and she is truly a precious and beautiful person.
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- YT, Minnesota
As a new Muslim, I quickly felt a deep trust with Ailya. She could empathize with my perspective and contexts, and I never felt judged. I always looked forward to meeting with Ailya, and her calming and warm presence would leave me feeling so much lighter and joyful. Ailya is an incredibly gifted guide and sounding board, and I highly recommend her!
- Melissa, Minnesota
When I was facing a stressful and uncertain time last year, Ailya was there for me throughout the entirety of it. She was optimistic and supportive, advising me during each step of the process. What would have been a worrisome time was made far more easy because Ailya was there for me. I am so grateful to have had her there. She is truly so trustworthy and understanding. ​
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- Zaara, Minnesota
Even though it feels like I’ve known her all my life, I’ve only had the honor of knowing Ailya Vajid for two years and working closely with her for one year while she served as Carleton’s Muslim Chaplain. In that short time, she has left an undeniable mark on my life and the broader Muslim community on campus. Through her compassion, wisdom, and steadfast presence, Ailya transformed what it meant to be Muslim at Carleton in two years. She didn’t just support us, she nurtured us, created space for our questions, held space for our healing, and honored the full range of our experiences as young Muslims navigating a complex world.
Ailya approached her work with such care, intentionality, and grace. Despite our small Muslim community's diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, and practices, she made us feel wholly seen and welcomed. Never once did I feel I had to shrink or adjust who I was to access faith, knowledge, or belonging. Through deep one-on-one conversations, halaqahs, or quiet moments of du'a, her spiritual guidance was always intellectually rich and emotionally grounded.
Personally, Ailya has helped me through some of my life's most challenging family moments. From the beginning, she has been someone I could count on for heartfelt advice, prayers, and her deeply healing presence. Alhamdulillah, I am so grateful to have had her as a chaplain and a life-long confidant, mentor, and friend. Her presence is truly a mercy, and I know that anyone who works with her in the future will enter something sacred, sincere, and deeply nourishing.
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Y, Minnesota
Ailya walked with me through one of the most vulnerable periods of my life. I had just moved away from home, I was struggling to make sense of my identity, and I was beginning to experience abuse from someone I thought was a friend. After that friendship ended, I developed extreme PTSD — one symptom of which was losing my ability to read. Ailya showed me immense compassion through that period. She never judged me, and instead showed me ways to connect with God and spirituality that I had never encountered before. When I was upset about not being able to read Quran, she told me to go into nature, as nature was the first Quran. When I struggled to get up to pray, she told me to do dhikr and let it lead me back. When I was overwhelmed or in impossibly long and dark emotional tunnels, Ailya would guide me toward light through Muraqabah (Islamic meditation). With Ailya’s support, I developed a relationship to God that was deep, comprehensive, creative, and personal. She fundamentally and permanently changed my relationship to both faith and healing for the better. It is because of her that I am the confident and God-loving adult I am today. She changed the trajectory of my life, and seemed to do it with ease.
As a persona, Ailya is astonishingly humble. Her knowledge is vast, yet she is always learning and excited to learn from those around her. She is completely non-judgmental and pure hearted. Her spirit radiates with light and compassion. Ailya, as immensely spiritual as she is, is still incredibly grounded. She knows what she believes in and knows the boundaries of it. She has a clarity that makes people around her feel safe. And she has a smile that warms up a room.
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- Mahanoor, Virginia
Ailya helped alleviate physical pain in my body with breathwork and identifying the deeper emotional roots of my discomfort. By opening up the blocked energetic pathways, my pain dissolved and my body felt lighter and more at ease.
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- FN, Minnesota