Kirsty Lucinda Allan

Living in the ‘avant-garden of life’, Kirsty has led a curious career. As an author, psychospiritual coach, and life-long 'disrupter' she is on a mission to upgrade human consciousness through magickal practice.

Born in 1982 in Scotland, Kirsty was raised in East Kilbride, near Glasgow. Attending local schools and ballet classes, she was a quiet studious child, yet secretly she was fascinated by the ‘big questions’, the unconventional, and the outré. Studying ancient mysticism, magick, and comparative religion as soon as she could hold an encyclopaedia, keeping snakes by age ten and practicing hypnosis by 12, she was perhaps always destined to become a ‘maverick’ in her fields.

In the 1990s, Kirsty was a child fashion model and junior ballerina for the Scottish Ballet Company, but her ambitions were curtailed by her developing body shape being deemed ‘unsuitable’ for either career. As an alternative thinker, these rejections laid the foundation for her later adventures challenging body and beauty norms.

As an undergraduate psychology student at the University of Glasgow, Kirsty created Ministry of Burlesque as a project to help her and others overcome Anxiety surrounding body image. In doing so, she became an accidental arts movement leader and is considered one of the pioneers of the modern burlesque renaissance. A ‘student hobby that got out of hand’ she has produced, directed, and written approximately 1000 shows, workshops, and media projects celebrating body and beauty diversity.

In also landing (cat-like) in the world of corsetry, latex, fetish, and alternative fashion, her subversive appeal led to many worldwide magazine covers (including prestigious art publication 125 Magazine), international catwalks, and art gallery exhibitions. With many still commenting on her Peter Pan-like youthfulness today, she says she ‘keeps a special painting in the attic’.

Adding to her remarkable portfolio, Kirsty was also a formal paranormal investigator and became a consultant for mainstream television and leisure groups on matters of hauntings, vampires, and psychic phenomena. By age 23 her first business cards read ‘Pinup, Performer, Paranormal Investigator’.

As a postgraduate, Kirsty has studied at both the University of Edinburgh and the University of Manchester acquiring further certificates in the fields of parapsychology and mental health interventions. She continues her personal study today - specialising in consciousness research, psycho-spirituality, and transpersonal psychology.

Through her unusual career in both avant-garde arts and science, she has developed many unique wellbeing workshops and personal development courses inspired by the beauty and insight in everything she encounters.

Kirsty lives in a probably haunted house in the romantic Lake District, UK with her husband Jon, two children (Victor and Gabriel), two cats, two pythons, and a tarantula. She continues to write, create, and coach others to realise their potential through expansive consciousness.