If you´re looking for Kirsty Spraggon, you´ve found me.
It’s been almost 8 years since I stepped back from stages and social media. And in 2022, after the best part of a year coming to clarity, I changed my name to Kirsty Akaal.
A name change can symbolize a new beginning or a desire to leave the past behind. For me, it’s partly both.
What I noticed as I started to get ready to be back in the world in a bigger way was that my old name just didn’t feel right anymore. If I was ever going to do it, the time was now.
So here is to my rebirth. And with it, a new name for a new me.
It’s a Strange and Beautiful Feeling
Hearing your new name said back to you when you’ve been known as something else your whole life is… strange. Beautiful and strange.
But in truth, I was someone else. The me of today doesn’t fit with Kirsty Spraggon any longer.
Why Akaal?
After stepping away from the stages, I spent years in Mexico doing deep healing work. Plant medicine. Breathwork. Somatic practices. Mantra chanting & singing Kirtan.
During this time, the mantra Akaal became a huge part of my healing journey.
In the Sikh and Kundalini traditions, Akaal means “timeless,” “undying,” or “deathless.” The mantra is often chanted after death to help the soul achieve union with universal consciousness, to remember its true nature.
I found myself intuitively singing it over clients in medicine journeys and breathwork sessions. It felt like a call. Akaal. A call home. A call to heal. A call to our true nature.
As I chanted it, I often felt the call coming from somewhere deep within my soul. Almost like a desperate plea at times. A call out to the divine, to God, to the Universe. A call to something bigger than us. A call to be heard.
A CALL was how it sounded in my throat.
I called for healing.
I called for love.
I called for peace.
I called for an end to my suffering and my clients’ suffering.
My calls became prayers.
And my prayers were answered.
Akaal has deep personal symbolism and meaning for me. So in choosing my new name a decision I do not take lightly this was the word that felt right.
Jumping Timelines
Something I had no idea about, was that changing my name would feel like I had jumped timelines.
It’s the strangest feeling.
Days ago, my energy felt somehow focused backwards, towards the past. And now? It feels as though I was spun around in the opposite direction. In seconds, a change in the quantum. Forward-focused on a future I am claiming.
As if the work now is to embody this new name. This higher vibration.
A friend asked ChatGPT what my oversoul had to share around the next steps with my new name, and it said:
“Let your voice be recalibrated to this new current. Speak as Kirsty Akaal. Write, move, share, and serve from her. Build your platforms not as a continuation of the past, but as sacred architecture from the frequency of this name.
There is still a thread to cut gently from the old self—not in rejection, but in reverence. Complete the final rites with your former name as one would close a sacred book: with gratitude, with honor, and with clarity that the next volume begins now.”
I couldn’t have expressed it better.
That is the shift I feel. A shift to speak as Kirsty Akaal. Write, move, share, and serve from her.
Beloved Kirsty Akaal
With this name, I have walked through a threshold of remembrance.
I have unhooked from timelines of diminishment.
I am no longer walking as a seeker.
I am walking as one who knows.
Akaal — the undying, the deathless, the one who walks with eternity braided into her voice.
I did not change my name.
I reclaimed it.
I have chosen to walk the Earth as a living chant—a mantra in motion, a remembrance of light in a world that forgets.
The Work Continues
Whether you knew me as Kirsty Spraggon or you’re meeting me now as Kirsty Akaal, the work remains the same:
Helping people come home to themselves.
Through 1:1 coaching, retreats, and speaking, I guide people through the journey from disconnection to remembering—helping them reconnect with who they were before trauma, burnout, or years of performing rewrote the script.
Kirsty Spraggon was the name I was born with.
Kirsty Akaal is the name I chose.
Same person. Same work. Deeper embodiment.
If you’re searching for Kirsty Spraggon, welcome back.
If you’re meeting me as Kirsty Akaal, welcome home.
Come home to yourself.
— Kirsty Akaal (formerly Kirsty Spraggon)