We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Aly Cardinalli. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Aly below.
Aly, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. How did you come up with the idea for your business?
I founded BearBridge Academy of Witchcraft and Psychic Development with a powerful vision in mind. Recognizing the cultural erasure and stigma surrounding practices such as witchcraft and psychic abilities, I aim to provide a platform that not only normalizes spirituality but also creates a safe and inclusive space for witches and psychics to gather, grow, and learn.
One of the primary motivations behind starting the academy was to fight against the erasure of these practices. For centuries, the spiritual and mystical aspects of human existence have often been dismissed, marginalized, or even demonized.
Furthermore, BearBridge Academy sought to help normalize the spiritual. By offering educational programs and courses, I aim to demonstrate that witchcraft and psychic abilities are valid and legitimate practices. By providing a comprehensive curriculum and promoting understanding, the academy positions these abilities as natural parts of the human experience.
A key aspect of BearBridge Academy’s mission is the creation of a space and sense of belonging for witches and psychics. Often, individuals with these abilities may feel isolated or misunderstood in mainstream society. By fostering a supportive community and offering resources, the academy aims to cultivate a sense of belonging, where individuals can connect with like-minded people who share similar beliefs and experiences.
Finally, BearBridge Academy is dedicated to helping psychics understand that they are normal people with unique abilities. Many psychics struggle with the societal perception that their gifts are abnormal or strange. The academy provides a safe and nurturing environment where psychics can explore and develop their abilities, gaining a deeper understanding of themselves and their individual gifts. I have created a space I wish I had had, a home for witches and psychics.
Aly, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
For over 20 years, I have been developing and growing a connection to spirit, and I am grateful to be a bridge between worlds for so many of you. But it is also part of my mission to teach you how to do this too! I often tell my clients that no one is closer to spirit than you. Your connection was always there, and will always remain, just in a different form. I am happy to share the tools and practices that I have learned from spirit to help you continue that connection and build authentic faith.
For the past two decades, I have served as an ambassador between the spirit world and our day-to-day world—relaying wisdom and insight from the divine, guides, and those who have passed on to people seeking answers in the here and now. I am a medium and practicing witchdoctor, as well as an instructor in the health and safety of other sensitives. I get to use my knowledge and application of “dark arts” to teach those who practice the craft to be responsible and faithful, connecting to the spirit current and those that reside there.
Aly has also been a seer of spirits and ghosts, while hiding these gifts from the public. Recently, and with the support of his family, he decided to disrobe his fear of judgment and has been helping other sensitives and those who need his gift ever since. Aly enjoys healing others’ trauma through soul retrieval, introducing clients to their spirit guides, and coaching sensitives into a reality that accepts them while they manage their spirituality with the every day world. Aly is clairsentient, meaning that he quite literally experiences the physical body, thoughts, feelings, and memories of other people and the deceased. He feels their aches, their health, their sadness, their joys, and much more. This unique gift allows spirit to move Aly towards answers as a vessel to speak to his clients. Aly is also clairvoyant, claircognizant, and clairtangent, making him the perfect lie detector.
I just want to help people.
For too long people of an ostracized faith, or people of folk religions and rituals, feel isolated, lost, and in need of support and guidance.
I’m so happy you have a community. I’m seeing more and more access to groups and communities for those who believe in more than one deity, or for those who want to thank their land, can meet and connect. But within every community there needs to be teachers.
But I want to teach. I want to help guide and counsel. I want that feeling of loneliness for the sensitives and those faithful to the mystical land to flow away. I’ve always been a teacher of the performing arts, and the culture that goes with it. What I’ve collected, and kept to myself, is the culture and arts that stem from dancing and singing: the old faith. People call this the ‘occult,’ because its hidden knowledge, but I don’t believe in the devil, personally. I do believe in evil, and I believe in good. I believe in balance. And I believe in giving to my community by reminding them of their humanity. This includes faith.
My grandmother taught me the old faith, quietly, for several years when my dad and stepmother dropped us off at her house when they both had to work. Her blend was with Christianity, which mine wasn’t. She still guides me today, at times. Telling me that it’s ok to share our ways, to teach more people, to open up the doors of a beautiful world of our faith and to encourage others to believe and heal as well.
Along my path of signing and dancing, and directing, I’ve hidden the part of spirit that connected so deeply with me. The part where I just know about my students, what an audience needs in that moment, and the whispers of the dead backstage and in the comfort of my own home. With the support of my family, I’m able to take off the costumes of being in show business, and show my real skin to the world around me. Offering me a life where I can help people. And this life has been overwhelmingly welcoming.
There is no need to feel lost or without someone to help guide, anymore. No need to hide. We can be secret without being shamed or afraid. My job is to teach and counsel, reminding us of the culture, history, and paths we are all to build around us.
Just think of me as the schoolhouse teacher of the occult for all ages and levels, managing the education as best as I can for those who want it.
I am able to teach to people all over the world, now, because of the pandemic.
This is a time to self-heal. To spiritually rediscover and actualize yourself. And to have access to spiritual teachers who are there to help you, not take advantage of the broken.
And with that, I ask for this in return: Some of us are different. We are sensitive in ways we can hardly explain. I wish I had had the help to understand the clair-sensitive world around me, but I was lost and alone in this discovery.
We all want to be understood. We all need spiritual healing. We all need to be told “it’s going to be ok.”
BIO: Aly Cardinalli is an accomplished witchdoctor, performing arts specialist, psychic, and master educator with over twenty years of experience in his fields. He has dedicated his life to promoting traditional practices and spreading knowledge about culture.
Born a dark medium and oversensitive psychic into a family of traditional healers, Aly grew up surrounded by spirits and natural remedies that were used to cure both physical and spiritual ailments. He learned from his family the art of healing, witchcraft, and spirituality, gradually developing a deep passion for indigenous and creolized practices.
As a young man, Aly decided to pursue a career in the performing arts. He studied music, dance, and theatrical arts, and quickly made a name for himself as a talented performer, exceptional choreographer (as an expert in over eighteen styles of dance), and an award winning director. His unique knowledge of the arts and culture, along with his exceptional stage presence, made him an instant hit with audiences across the globe.
Despite his success in the performing arts, Aly never forgot his roots. He continued to practice traditional healing techniques. Aly has also developed an innovative training and classification system for psychics, mediums, and sensitives. Because of his genius and prodigy youth, his knowledge and aptitude in the inclusive disciplines of culture, healing, spirituality, mysticism, and storytelling is unmatched.
Over the years, Aly has gained immense popularity as a master educator in his fields. He continues to conduct numerous workshops and training sessions for healthcare professionals, spiritual healers, psychics, performers, and other practitioners. Aly has been the dean of education for a performing arts school, the headmaster at a witchcraft and psychic development school, and the education director for a healing arts institute.
Thanks to his dedication and hard work, Aly Cardinalli is now widely recognized as a commodity to cultural education. His talent, passion, and expertise have inspired countless people to embrace rich and vibrant culture and to seek healing through the power of music, dance, and other forms of artistic & ancient cultural expression.
We’d love to hear the story of how you turned a side-hustle into a something much bigger.
I always worked secretly as a witchdoctor. During the pandemic, I was forced into teaching the old ways for witches, shamans, and psychic development with the shut down of the performing arts. My family had always wanted me to do this work, but I was scared of social ridicule. Now, I couldn’t be happier.
How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?
Word of mouth. From the first day, we started with 8 students. By offering free community resources, we grew over two years to 800 student world wide. When the work is good, people find you.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.bearbridgeacademy.com
- Instagram: @bearbridgeacademy
- Facebook: facebook.com/bearbridgeacademy
- Youtube: www.youtube.com/alycardinalli