About

She became her own witness.

Keynote speaker, teacher, creator of the Nirmāṇa Arc™, and founder and clinical formulator of Indiefog Naturals®.

The story.

She was fourteen when a decision about her life was made without her, and nobody asked her anything. Quiet for days and alone in the bedroom, she wrote four words about what that made her.I’m not good enough.She believed them for twenty-seven years.

Illness came at twenty-six, and again at thirty-nine. Celiac, then Hashimoto’s, then MCAS. Every appointment where her labs looked fine sent her straight back to that bedroom at fourteen, and she relived the trauma over and over again.

Then she found the label sitting underneath the first one.I cost too much to be worth it.Naming it is what let her stop, and what allowed her to take up space.

She learned how to become a witness for herself, and that is what saved her. Now she teaches about identity, labels, trauma, the nervous system, and the ecosystem of the body, and she gives that map to others so they can become their own witness and their own authority.

Nirmāṇa Arc™Certified Detoxification SpecialistFounder & clinical formulatorRooted & Well™Living with chronic illness

The framework

The Nirmāṇa Arc™

Four dimensions: Identity, Nervous System, Mind, and Biology. There is no curriculum. People arrive at different points, so the Arc works as a map, and where you start depends on where you already are.

Everything here lives alongside your doctors, your medicine, and your treatment. Never instead of them. Nothing here claims to alter the course of any disease, and no outcome is promised to anyone. Some resolve. Some learn to go quiet. Both are whole.

Kikki Avila standing among bamboo

The skincare

Indiefog Naturals®

A small-batch skincare line Kikki formulates and makes by hand in San Diego. Fragrance-free, essential-oil-free, and plant-powered, made for the most sensitive skin. She spent more than five years formulating before it launched.

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Work together

Bring Kikki to your room.

Keynotes, workshops, retreats, podcasts, and panels, for health-facing and business-facing rooms.

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The room I built

Rooted & Well™

A room for people who already get it. Come as the whole person, however many names you have been given, and find somewhere that somebody moves toward you. This is where people get witnessed, and where they learn to become their own witness.

You were always worth the room you take up. So take it.

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