About Shantell Shakti ~ a brief version
Shantell grew up in the school of hard knocks, yet somehow the little spark inside her never went out and she manages to turn all these disappointments, wounds and traumas into a powerful wheel of transformation.
Shantell feels blessed for her life and the courage and compassion she has developed along the way.
She now walks and talks, lives and breathes the Tantric and Shamanic Path of the Dakini, Medicine Woman, and Dream Weaver.
With the guidance from Existence, Shantell intuitively combines modalities to bring you incredible healing and transformation:
All of these above expressions can be experienced as:
The Art of Love
"There is a Shaman inside all of us; all you need to do is inhabit your body. I am here to assist you with deepening in that."
Shantell feels blessed for her life and the courage and compassion she has developed along the way.
She now walks and talks, lives and breathes the Tantric and Shamanic Path of the Dakini, Medicine Woman, and Dream Weaver.
With the guidance from Existence, Shantell intuitively combines modalities to bring you incredible healing and transformation:
- Polarity Therapy Bodywork, Massage and Sound Healing
- Dakini Yoga, Dance and Embodied Meditation
- Ecstatic Breathwork and Tantric Psychonomy
- Shamanic Ceremony and Healing
- Herbal Plant Medicine for Body, Heart, Spirit and Mind
- Even Weight Loss and Gut Repair Mentoring
All of these above expressions can be experienced as:
The Art of Love
- Private healing sessions and ongoing mentoring
- Weekend Workshops
- Courses Courses and classes
- Support groups and community events
"There is a Shaman inside all of us; all you need to do is inhabit your body. I am here to assist you with deepening in that."
Read on for a more in depth account of Shantell Shakti
Born 1970 in Adelaide, South Australia, Shantell was an introverted, sensitive and artistic child that saw more than a youngster should, with a mother that was a stripper and stepfather a bikie.
Her biological father tried to abort her by punching her mother in belly at 3 months gestation. Hence she never knew him.
In order to survive, Shantell learned how to diminish herself and make sure everyone else was safe and happy, even if it meant being the scapegoat. Well if everyone else is ok, she would be ok, right?
Even though she would often drift off into the void, or realms of fantasy to circumvent the pain that she was too young to comprehended at the time, there was a spark that remained alive inside this little lass.
A few people could see it and offered her kind words and actions of encouragement. This showed her that some people are capable of caring.
At age 10, she was initiated into energy healing. A few weeks later, her mother became a born-again Christian and that kind of thing was seen as satanic. Thus this gift lay dormant for many years. Don’t be misinformed here, there was healing and miracles performed in this church and it was her first in-depth experience of spiritual power; as long as it was in the church and with people of the church then it was holy - right?
Shantell left this church several years later, but it took another several years to unravel from the “guilt” of living in sin and the risk of being damned on judgement day and burning in eternal hell-fire.
It wasn’t until she was 29 that she reunited with this intuitive healing ability through Reiki and Seichim attunement.
In between these years, Shantell became a qualified massage therapist, mother, practiced yoga, meditation and discovered some texts about Tantra. For the first time she was able to see sex as something sacred, spiritual and transcendent. The need for being responsible for sexual interactions was presented in a powerful way of choice and discernment, not fear .... a concept foreign to her upbringing.
At age 31 she begun training in Wholistic Psychonomy with Ruby Johnson at the College of Actualising Human Potential (in Adelaide) of which Breathwork (Re-birthing) was the main healing modality taught. Here, Shantell discovered just how disassociated she was from her body.
For the next 7 years she simultaneously studied, sole-parented, ran her own Massage and Breathwork business, , worked as a bar person and door hostess at night clubs and music events.
But where was she really?
Shantell broke free from all this and moved to Sydney in 2008. While planting her feet in a new city, where she only knew a handful people, the light in her heart called her to nanny and work in childcare. She moved to Sydney for love and even though that relationship was unstable, she knew she had to move, because she felt stuck a rut and stagnant in her hometown. It was time to break-free and grow up.
A growth curve it was ... and continues to be...
In 2009, Shantell began to journey with Dancing The Divine … channeling the ancient priestess temple dancer was the calling card and yet there was so much more unwritten that she was tuning into. She began trusting, healing, embodying and liberating the Feminine within. This journry included a powerful Rites of Passage Ceremony, which Shantell still facilitates today.
By the end of the 3-month course, for the first time ever in her life, Shantell experienced a sense of contentment within herself … this was life changing. A few months later, Shantell began assisting Omo Iya Omitol (Roxy) in Dancing The Divine and the 'waking up' now comes in thick in a fast. It was through this that Shantell began to realise the intelligence and healing power is inside her and there is nothing to fix. All those years previous, Shantell didn’t trust she was ‘good enough’, so she sought out ways to ‘learn’ what was already innate.
Now Shantell has become practiced at tapping into the vast reservoir of ancient wisdom inside her incarnated vessel and she loves to assist people with doing the same.
Shantell has also completed 9 ‘Template Ceremonies’ in 2013. This has brought about a few ‘spiritual emergencies’ (very intense ego deaths of identity) and she saw the various ways we as the collective has been programmed and conditioned into the paradigm of fear, pain and slavery from a previously intangible source. This has also opened her up further to the potential of humanity in reconnecting to Divinity and returning to the paradigm of Love and Freedom.
It was also in 2013 that Shantell found her voice, shamanic drum and initiation into Sound Healing. Things that she never thought that she would do, because she couldn't really sing, or play musical instruments. But the initiation can through from a dark night of the Soul experience where all of a sudden, Shantell began to tone sounds in a strange, yet recalibrating and liberating way.
She now works with the principle of Sound vibration + Intention = Healing and Manifestation.
In 2015, Shantell again felt The Call to a body of work called Polarity Therapy. A gentle, non-invasive bodywork that brings about a profound and powerful restoration of balance; reducing the stress response and initiating the relaxation response in order for the body to heal itself.
With all of her experiences of Tantric practice and various facilitation skills accumulated in her toolbox, Shantell began a collaboration in 2017 to create a body of work called Togetherness. A monthly event that brought men and women together to connect with their hearts and explore ways of relating with masculine and feminine energy in order to bridge the gap between men and women. Many people reported how healing it was to be in a safe space to explore sexual energy dynamic of men and women, without any expectation for sex. People were able to really meet each other, to see and be seen, to be real and discover things about themselves in ways that they wouldn't ordinarily do in every day life.
These days, Shantell is focused more on private healing appointments, mentoring and private group workshops.
She has also discovered the the ancient art of basket weaving and teaches others this beautiful meditative and creative practice for health and well-being. The basket weaving is used as a Shamanic metaphor for weaving the threads in the invisible realms, with intentions, prayers and blessing for what you want to manifest and create in your life and that of others. Shantell calls this Dream Weaving.
Overall, it can be summarised that Shantell Shakti assists people with transitioning from one state of being to another, after having gone through so many transformations herself.
Please note: whenever Shantell talks about healing, she comes from the view that Healing is a process of Liberation of Programs and for the Awakening of our True Nature.
Her biological father tried to abort her by punching her mother in belly at 3 months gestation. Hence she never knew him.
In order to survive, Shantell learned how to diminish herself and make sure everyone else was safe and happy, even if it meant being the scapegoat. Well if everyone else is ok, she would be ok, right?
Even though she would often drift off into the void, or realms of fantasy to circumvent the pain that she was too young to comprehended at the time, there was a spark that remained alive inside this little lass.
A few people could see it and offered her kind words and actions of encouragement. This showed her that some people are capable of caring.
At age 10, she was initiated into energy healing. A few weeks later, her mother became a born-again Christian and that kind of thing was seen as satanic. Thus this gift lay dormant for many years. Don’t be misinformed here, there was healing and miracles performed in this church and it was her first in-depth experience of spiritual power; as long as it was in the church and with people of the church then it was holy - right?
Shantell left this church several years later, but it took another several years to unravel from the “guilt” of living in sin and the risk of being damned on judgement day and burning in eternal hell-fire.
It wasn’t until she was 29 that she reunited with this intuitive healing ability through Reiki and Seichim attunement.
In between these years, Shantell became a qualified massage therapist, mother, practiced yoga, meditation and discovered some texts about Tantra. For the first time she was able to see sex as something sacred, spiritual and transcendent. The need for being responsible for sexual interactions was presented in a powerful way of choice and discernment, not fear .... a concept foreign to her upbringing.
At age 31 she begun training in Wholistic Psychonomy with Ruby Johnson at the College of Actualising Human Potential (in Adelaide) of which Breathwork (Re-birthing) was the main healing modality taught. Here, Shantell discovered just how disassociated she was from her body.
For the next 7 years she simultaneously studied, sole-parented, ran her own Massage and Breathwork business, , worked as a bar person and door hostess at night clubs and music events.
But where was she really?
Shantell broke free from all this and moved to Sydney in 2008. While planting her feet in a new city, where she only knew a handful people, the light in her heart called her to nanny and work in childcare. She moved to Sydney for love and even though that relationship was unstable, she knew she had to move, because she felt stuck a rut and stagnant in her hometown. It was time to break-free and grow up.
A growth curve it was ... and continues to be...
In 2009, Shantell began to journey with Dancing The Divine … channeling the ancient priestess temple dancer was the calling card and yet there was so much more unwritten that she was tuning into. She began trusting, healing, embodying and liberating the Feminine within. This journry included a powerful Rites of Passage Ceremony, which Shantell still facilitates today.
By the end of the 3-month course, for the first time ever in her life, Shantell experienced a sense of contentment within herself … this was life changing. A few months later, Shantell began assisting Omo Iya Omitol (Roxy) in Dancing The Divine and the 'waking up' now comes in thick in a fast. It was through this that Shantell began to realise the intelligence and healing power is inside her and there is nothing to fix. All those years previous, Shantell didn’t trust she was ‘good enough’, so she sought out ways to ‘learn’ what was already innate.
Now Shantell has become practiced at tapping into the vast reservoir of ancient wisdom inside her incarnated vessel and she loves to assist people with doing the same.
Shantell has also completed 9 ‘Template Ceremonies’ in 2013. This has brought about a few ‘spiritual emergencies’ (very intense ego deaths of identity) and she saw the various ways we as the collective has been programmed and conditioned into the paradigm of fear, pain and slavery from a previously intangible source. This has also opened her up further to the potential of humanity in reconnecting to Divinity and returning to the paradigm of Love and Freedom.
It was also in 2013 that Shantell found her voice, shamanic drum and initiation into Sound Healing. Things that she never thought that she would do, because she couldn't really sing, or play musical instruments. But the initiation can through from a dark night of the Soul experience where all of a sudden, Shantell began to tone sounds in a strange, yet recalibrating and liberating way.
She now works with the principle of Sound vibration + Intention = Healing and Manifestation.
In 2015, Shantell again felt The Call to a body of work called Polarity Therapy. A gentle, non-invasive bodywork that brings about a profound and powerful restoration of balance; reducing the stress response and initiating the relaxation response in order for the body to heal itself.
With all of her experiences of Tantric practice and various facilitation skills accumulated in her toolbox, Shantell began a collaboration in 2017 to create a body of work called Togetherness. A monthly event that brought men and women together to connect with their hearts and explore ways of relating with masculine and feminine energy in order to bridge the gap between men and women. Many people reported how healing it was to be in a safe space to explore sexual energy dynamic of men and women, without any expectation for sex. People were able to really meet each other, to see and be seen, to be real and discover things about themselves in ways that they wouldn't ordinarily do in every day life.
These days, Shantell is focused more on private healing appointments, mentoring and private group workshops.
She has also discovered the the ancient art of basket weaving and teaches others this beautiful meditative and creative practice for health and well-being. The basket weaving is used as a Shamanic metaphor for weaving the threads in the invisible realms, with intentions, prayers and blessing for what you want to manifest and create in your life and that of others. Shantell calls this Dream Weaving.
Overall, it can be summarised that Shantell Shakti assists people with transitioning from one state of being to another, after having gone through so many transformations herself.
Please note: whenever Shantell talks about healing, she comes from the view that Healing is a process of Liberation of Programs and for the Awakening of our True Nature.
So much seems to be changing as I keep journeying inward, downward, outward and upward to who I really am, who I always was and will be, therefore nothing is changing, I am simply returning home.
Shantell Shakti
Shantell Shakti