About Shakti
Shakti brings over twenty years experience working with the Body, to your healing sessions in Massage, Energy Healing, Thai Yoga, and Movement
Shakti Andrea Smith, LMT--Licensed and Nationally certified for nearly 15 years:
Massage: Shakti has been studying Massage and Energy Healing since 1990 and has been professionally licensed in Massage for nearly 15 years. She is also a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist, with training at the Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Swedish Institute in New York City, and The Lotus Palm School of Thai Yoga Massage in Montreal. She is a member New York's Yoga Teacher Alliance. She has taught Massage and Movement at the Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts for CEU credits; and has given over ten thousand Sessions.
Movement: Shakti has been teaching Movement and Meditation since 1990. Her classes and Massage practice are supported by her movement research in the embodied disciplines of Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, Dance Meditations, and Body Mind Centering. She is on the faculty at Movement Research; and in addition has taught at Earthdance, Dance New England, the Boston Living Center, Shambhala Yoga and Dance, and at Northampton Hospital. She has studied with meditation and dance teachers in Europe, India, across this vast country, and up and down each coast. She is now living, studying, and teaching more locally, in NYC, where she lives with her partner Stewart and her cat Chatty.
Additional Training: Shakti has a B.A. in Transpersonal Psychology with a thesis focus on Expressive Arts Therapy and Authentic Movement. She is trained in Authentic Movement by the Circus of Human Experience in Somerville, MA, Iyengar Yoga by the Karuna Center in Northampton, MA, and in Holistic Health Counseling by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She is currently pursuing her Somatic Movement Therapy and Education Certification through Moving on Center/Center for Kinesthetic Education, along with continued Breathwork and Reiki/Energywork and Sound, Color, and Vibrational Healing studies.
MASSAGE AND MOVEMENT with Shakti Andrea Smith, in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn