About me
Hi everyone, I'm Ilaria Vigo and I am a Travel Coach
Born into a family of travelers, teachers, and inventors, I was imbued with a deep curiosity and passion for exploration from an early age.
My great-great-grandfather exemplified this spirit as he roamed across Europe, seeking out exotic ingredients and spices to enhance the confectionaries he crafted in his small factory in Genoa’s old town. This spirit of adventure was passed down to my parents, who never stopped traveling and instilled this love for discovery in my sister and me from a very young age.
At 11, I embarked on a life-changing journey through northern India. We spent nights in diverse accommodations: a house-boat in Kashmir, a mud hotel in Leh, a pilgrim tent in Amarnath, and a unique hotel with stone beds and painted sheets in Delhi. From visiting temples and playing with local children destined to become monks, to witnessing holy men treat my sister’s altitude sickness, and embracing the vastness of the Himalayas—these experiences profoundly shaped who I am today.
After completing a 4-year Master’s course in Gestalt Coaching, I merged my love for travel with my coaching skills to create Lilaland©.
The Lilaland© method allows you to experience “a journey within a journey,” where you travel with your coach to new places, meet new people, and unlock your potential to achieve personal goals.
One of the strangest things I’ve done?
Attended a Kava ceremony in Fiji as the only woman admitted to the ritual.
A few year ago, a deep crisis, a latent depression that led me to question once again the meaning of life. I asked myself “ What does happiness really mean to me?”
The answer was: Traveling!
This realization kicked off a movement of creation of a reality allowing me to make my dream true: be a full-time traveler and give new meaning not only to my own life but also to the life of those people I would meet through my trips.
I learnt about Gestalt in 2013 and since then it has inspired me to create what you are seeing now as LiLaland but this is another story that you can discover on the webpage dedicated to Travel Coaching.
Remember...
life can be a pleasant, unexpected journey.
What is LiLaLand?
When you traveling in Travel Coaching, the sum of experiences creates a panorama much larger than simple addition.
1+1 does not make two but rather 3, or perhaps 4, 5, 6….
The reason is because the experience is focused on changing perception rather than reality.
LiLaLand was born from a combination of two words Lila + Land that combined create a project capable of accommodating a new vision of travel and its potential.
Thus Lila from Sanskrit “game of life” and Land from English “Earth” combined can be translated into a journey of discovery of the world and oneself through play.
“Playing is serious business.”
Through play we can from an early age explore ourselves, our likes and dislikes, our limitations and at the same time discover what our relational skills and coping skills are in life.
LiLaland therefore invites us to keep playing and do so especially by using travel as a playground.
The places we go to become the space where we can be inspired or get in touch with parts of us that “play” hide-and-seek.
The tools that are provided during the trip are like the rules of a game in which to experiment.
The presence of the travel coach accompanies the players to enhance what they are experiencing so as to extrapolate new potentials.
Thanks to these three aspects, the feeling that accompanies the end of the trip is precisely that of having experienced a great adventure with fun and lightness.
Curriculum
After completing my training at the Gestalt Coaching Academy with Gabriele Baroni, the LilaLand project was born. Here is what I have specialized in over the years:
- Master Talent Coaching (4 years)
- Operator Family Constellations with Imaginal approach
- Degree in cosmetology technician with specialization in London in Aromatherapy
- Course in Bach Flowers
- Course in Australian Floritherapy with Ian White
- Applied Morphopsychology course
- Certified practitioner of Bars® and Body Process Access Consciousness™
- Specializing in guided meditations
- Passionate about Native Americans and their philosophy of life
- Passionate about Stand up Comedy and curious social traveler
The trips I took
- Playing with Child Monks in the Temples of Ladakh at age 11.
- Exploring the Egyptian Pyramids at age 13
- First solo Initiatic Journey (Genoa-Trieste trip) at age 13
- Working in a Fish and Chips in London
- Discovering gold nuggets in British Columbia
- Best salmon sandwich of my life in Alaska
- Attending the KavaKava ceremony in Fiji
- Swimming with dolphins in Australia
- Going to Mass with the King of Tonga
- Descending with the Kaiak of the creek in Eastern Canada
- Touring national parks in the American West with my 9-year-old grandson.
- Participating in the training of Sumo wrestlers in Japan.... But only as an observer!
- Cuba from the perspective of a Cuban
- Attending a birth in Brazil
- Dancing with the Scots on New Year's Eve in the streets , and shouting HOGMANAY
- Solo trip to Ireland
- Many more have been my travels….
Now let me ask you a question:
What was the vacation you remember most fondly?
What secret ingredient did it have?
Probably one of the answers is:
I felt perfectly comfortable! Right?
My dream in the drawer
LiLaLand was born from the desire to be able to create a travel mode that can accompany people to explore their uniqueness using the world as a playground.
There is always a way to be happy
Starting with this phrase, I want to reveal my dream in the drawer, that of accompanying people to reclaim their happiness.
In travel coaching, one of the first things you learn from traveling is to value your uniqueness through the ways. Each of us has our own unique way to be happy. There is no prefabricated way to duplicate, and that is what makes our life journey truly unique.
I dream that all people who will travel in Travel Coaching can rediscover their magic, re-activate their eyes of wonder, and re-build their inner compass.
With these three pieces, life becomes a unique journey in which every unexpected event becomes a new adventure to be experienced.
Are you ready to be happy?
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