People We Love: Arden

I am so fortunate that my reality is shaped by all the hours spent at Greenville Yoga. It gives me a view of the world that is bright and hopeful. Being in this seat also allows me to meet some very cool humans. It was New Year’s 2025 and this beautiful woman with all white hair showed up for our special New Year’s Gathering. She said she found me because we both took Martha Beck’s Wayfinder Coach School and she’d just moved here from San Diego. California AND Martha Beck! I knew I wanted to know more. So we’d walk and talk on Swamp Rabbit trail and eventually I decided to have an intuitive reading from her. (Side note, I don’t love psychics or future telling. I think that can send us in all kinds of sprials the wrong way and keep us from trusting our inner compass.) What Arden does is different. She sees little snippets of visuals and you unpack it like a metaphor for you life. It’s just a different perspective of what the highest version of you wants for you life. She is also one of those rare humans that can see colors around people, similar to aura photography. Who knows? Some of you may be walking around with that gift too shy to share. This led to us collaborating on a 7-class series called Soul School. We had over 20 women and it was a blast! Each of us learning about ourselves, our intuition and each other in a deeper way. In July, Arden will be here for a special offering to learn about your personal Soul Colors.

So, when I was thinking of who to share in this month’s people / business owners we love, Arden was the perfect candidate. I wanted to know more abour her and her life experience that brought her here. Read more below…

How did you first discover your ability to see soul colors and connect with spirit guidance, and what encouraged you to turn these gifts into your life’s work?

I’ve seen the unseen (angels, spirits, colors) for as long as I can remember. As a child, I thought everyone could see the tiny particles of color in the air—little geometric lights that moved, shifted, and were almost playful, like the air itself had a presence. I didn’t think of it as “psychic,” just… normal. In college, I realized it wasn’t normal when I casually mentioned someone’s aura colors to a group of strangers, and the look on their faces said, Okay… maybe keep that to yourself. So I shut it down and did what responsible adults do: went into corporate marketing.

But color never left me. I worked with it constantly; through art, and eventually through founding a personal styling business. I studied under Frank Mahnke, taught color theory to stylists around the world, and built a personal color system based on true color science. Yet underneath all of that, something deeper was trying to get my attention. Then came my two-year dark night of the soul. Marriage ended. Business sold. Identity gone. The only thing I kept was my color system—the one thing I knew was still mine.

It wasn’t until I took a shamanic journeying class out of pure curiosity that everything reopened. That’s when my first spirit guide appeared and introduced herself as something that sounded like “Swat-de.” She taught me how to truly see soul colors, not just “personal colors,” but the deeper colors of someone’s essence. When I tested this with a long-time client, she asked for my guide’s name. I repeated it, embarrassed. And she said, “You mean… Saraswati?” I looked her up later, and there she was: the Hindu goddess of art, intuition, and knowledge. Exactly who had been teaching me.

That moment changed everything. Within a few years the visions became clear, the soul colors sharpened, and I realized this wasn’t a new path, it was the one I’d been quietly walking since childhood. It didn’t happen overnight, but over time the intuitive and color worlds fused. And that’s when I finally understood: this wasn’t a new direction, it was the work my soul had been leading me toward all along.

For those who may be new to this kind of work, how do you describe what soul colors and life-path colors reveal about someone?

Color isn’t just something we see with our eyes… it exists both in the visible and non-visible spectrum. In its purest form, color shows up as light. And when all color rays are combined, they form white light.

From that white light — what many call Source or Divine light — each soul refracts into a unique color ray with its own purpose, vibration, and expression. Thatsoul color never changes. It’s the “why” of who you are: your essence before personality, before conditioning, before life experience.

Life-path colors (what I also call life guidance colors) are different. They enter your field when your soul enters your body and stay with you only for this lifetime. Since your soul color points to your purpose, your life-path color shows how you’re designed to move through this life — how you grow, relate, and navigate challenges.

Together, these two colors offer a remarkably clear picture of someone’s deeper nature: the divine hue they were born from and the way they’re meant to walk their path. When people learn their colors, they often tell me, “I finally understand myself,” because it gives them language for who they truly are, not who they’ve been taught to be.

In what ways do you hope to support the Greenville community through your sessions, classes, or guidance? 

My hope is to offer people a space to feel deeply seen for who they truly are. So many sensitive, intuitive, heart-centered people feel overwhelmed, unseen, or struggle to maintain connection with their inner wisdom. My work is to help people reconnect with that guidance and become more fully themselves.

In my intuitive readings, color mapping work, and the workshops I teach, my purpose is to support people in aligning with their essence so they can step into life with more clarity, confidence, and meaning. Greenville has a quiet undercurrent of people doing deep inner work, and I want to help create more spaces where that kind of growth feels supported. If someone walks away feeling more grounded, more guided, and more fully aligned, then I know I’ve contributed something real.

How do you stay grounded and connected in your daily life, and what practices support your well-being?

Each day has its own energy, but I always start the morning in stillness and quiet. My bed faces east so I can watch the sunrise, which I’ve learned is essential for my happiness and wellbeing… and coffee is right up there with it. Most days I light a candle, read something inspiring, journal a bit, and meditate. Some mornings I’m doing deeper inner work with my guides, and other mornings I’m simply connecting with my doggie angels. I stay in conversation with Spirit throughout the day — it’s just part of how I navigate the world.

Walking is another one of my anchors. I walk everywhere and love exploring nature because it instantly resets me. Since losing my dog Riley, I’ve been spending more time supporting the animal shelter, which helps my heart more than anything else.

And humor — lots of it. I laugh at myself daily, and my brothers’ sarcasm keeps me grounded. I also keep my home minimal because visual chaos is not my friend. And yes, I do yoga two to three times a week. I’m easily the least flexible person in any room, so naturally, my favorite pose is Savasana.