Today we’d like to introduce you to Shakti Eskina.
Shakti, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I thought getting into yoga, that I would find the truth and be happily ever after. My struggle would dissolve and I’d be forever enlightened. I thought getting into a massage that I’d make great money doing what I love. My struggles would dissolve and I’d be forever happy. I thought finding a partner, I’d finally be loved.
In my journey, I found myself seeking half-truths. Reaching for happiness, meditating upward, leaving/escaping anger and grief. I stayed at it long enough to realize, half-truths aren’t the whole story. And if I want to live a full life, it was time to fully embrace being human. The happiness and sadness, my mind and body, my heart and soul, my anger and creativity, loving myself and being loved.
My bodywork began with me teaching power vinyasa. When that wasn’t fulfilling I moved onto Iyengar and learned to teach yoga for back-care, scoliosis, herniations and fusions. I continued guiding people through their bodies with my words via yoga and meditation.
I yearned to learn more, never feeling like I was enough. I felt massage school would offer me the depth of anatomy that I was looking for. I went to massage school to improve my yoga. I came out of massage school a different person. I remembered the language of the body; I could now speak with people’s bodies without using words.
In the beginning, I could hear and feel people’s aches. As I kept listening with my hands, I started to hear people’s emotional pain. I realized our bodies are talking with us!
Directing us, helping us heal, showing us where and when to slow down. I started listening to my own body, my pains and injuries. I realized the only way I could open space for others is if I could open space for myself.
For all my emotions, all my fear, all my shame, all my pain. Welcoming all of me and my humanness. In welcoming all of me, I started to see how powerful this space of unconditional love is. My life was changing, I was changing and I had to share it.
As I met new parts of myself, I found myself called to new projects, and new people to co-create with. I began working with Reverend Tracy Rich in creating short and long-term courses in self-welcoming and celebration. I was also divinely called to study Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy.
I began to integrate unconditional love and radical acceptance into bodywork, yoga, Arvigo, and ceremonies and rituals. I realized connecting with another human is sacred, powerful and is filled with wisdom for all parties involved.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
I have felt emotionally, physically, and divinely supported the whole way and it still is a painful, joyful, grief-full and vulnerable journey. Choosing to follow my heart when I spent 17 years in an education system that told me to follow my mind is hard.
Choosing to share my truth, my beliefs, my wisdom is still frightening. Believing in myself; that I am worthy, that I have something to share and offer this world is radical and uncomfortable.
Welcoming the whole journey, not just the pleasant parts has been a struggle and a surrender.
So, as you know, we’re impressed with ThruBody Therapy – tell our readers more, for example what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
In ThruBody Therapy on an individual level, I offer Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy, Intuitive Bodywork, and Somatic Soul Coaching. On a group level, I co-facilitate workshops, courses, rituals, yin yoga and somatic yoga.
My work is rooted in the trust of the earth, the human experience, divine timing, and the support of the seen and the unseen. My work is rooted in unconditional love and self-discovery. I practice intuitive massage that integrates myofascial release, shiatsu, energy work and meditation.
Arvigo Maya Abdominal Therapy is an external abdominal massage that facilitates and supports organs finding their optimal position in the body. It is a powerful massage that helps people connect to their power of creation in this world. It is extremely helpful for people who experience uterus and digestive problems.
Currently, I am also very excited about my work with Reverend Tracy Rich. With great success in our 10-month Soul Journey program, we are creating a curriculum to offer in 2019 in both Boston and NYC.
Our work invites everyone to:
-Learn to hear yourself,
-Learn to hold yourself,
-Learn to trust yourself,
-Learn to love yourself,
-First and always.
I am very proud that Every Tuesday I offer bodywork and Arvigo Maya Abdominal Therapy on a sliding scale.
I teach at Akasha Yoga in Roslindale:
-Somatic Yoga Tuesday 8-9am
-Thursday Yin and meditation 8-9am
-Thursday Yoga 9:30-10 45 am
So, what’s next? Any big plans?
I am so excited about Welcome Soul, my project with Reverend Rich. I envision a 7-year program; one year honoring and witnessing the development of each chakra.
I am also excited about where Arvigo Therapy is going to guide me. Intimately connecting with people’s sacrum and bellies has been heart opening. I know this is my path.
I am expanding my Somatic group work into individual bodywork coaching sessions. I want to work with humans committed to seeing themselves, all their nooks and crannies in gentleness and love.
I will also be co-facilitating Voice of your Womb workshops with Maire Clement, a teacher of transformational voice.
Contact Info:
- Address: 20 Belgrade Ave, Boston MA 02131
- Website: Www.ThruBodyTherapy.com
- Email: thrubodytherapy@gmail.com
- Instagram: @shaktihealing
- Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=796932070488079&ref=content_filter
Image Credit:
Autumn Skye Morrison
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