“Yes, to everything.” With just those three words, Alexcia Panay begins this interview while kindly and directly agreeing to create a poem to accompany it. She asks to be given five to 10 words because she wants to do it the same way she works: emptying her mind and opening her channel of connection with the source that, as she explains, “we’re all connected to and that gives us the creativity we have forgotten about.”
In her tea and poetry sessions, meetings, ceremonies and events, Alexcia sits in front of her typewriter and, with a natural demeanor that evokes that of a priestess, receives people’s words and weaves them into spontaneous poetry, creating a guide for attendees to find “their true voice, essence and creativity.”
A car accident was the turning point that sparked a transformative change in Alexcia’s life. “I was really involved with plant medicine, spending a lot of time in California working with ayahuasca, San Pedro and other psychedelics because my family suffered a lot from pharmaceutical addiction. I was looking for healing alternatives and thought that would be my path in general. But then the accident happened, and it really changed the course of my life,” Alexcia explains. “I became more creative and started living more consciously, and in a more connected way.”
While her car was flipping over, Alexcia heard the echo of a question inside: Am I dying? In that same moment, the answer came to her: No, surrender. “So I relaxed my body and wasn’t hurt, aside from a concussion. It was almost a miracle. And I believe writing poetry is my way of returning to that state of surrender.”
Born in the United States, of Greek descent, and raised between Atlanta and California, Alexcia was living in New York in 2020 when she decided to move to Ibiza – an island she already knew well from a decade of visits. “Since moving to Ibiza I’ve expanded so much,” the young poet says. “I’ve done bigger performances, worked with groups, and encouraged people to find their inner voice and channel.”
Alexcia works to create spaces of connection and creativity through intimate tea and poetry circles, creative consultations, custom gatherings, ceremonies and events where she offers live performances – immersive experiences of art, poetry and channeled words.
Ibiza calls
for Nativ Magazine
by Alexcia Panay
i don’t come to take –
i come to listen.
to the fig trees, the women who stayed,
the red soil that remembers.
culture here
is not something to wear
but something to kneel for.
this island is a teacher
not a trend.
she feeds you figs
then strips your stories
bare.
music, food, health, love –
they’re not categories.
they’re ceremonies.
and the people
the true people –
they move slow.
they know.
summer here is an initiation.
so is winter.
and if you really want to know what ibiza is,
ask the wind.
ask formentera’s silence.
ask yourself,
who are you
when nothing needs performing?
nativ knows.
this is more than paradise –
this is presence.
