We are in a period of time where colonial reality is crumbling & collapsing. The spirit of healing, liberation and revolution is rising. We will continue to see this more prominently over the next decades.
In this period of massive societal transformation, there is an equally massive call for the Writer as Energy Healer to Return to their sacred village role and take center stage.
If we look at who the Storyteller was in its ancient village roots – the Storyteller was always revered and understood as an Altar Carrier.
Here, the Story itself becomes the Altar – a protective portal, cosmic gateway, an agent of grounding & cleansing, and a great friend devoted to hold a major transition process in the Storyteller’s life.
By committing to tell this story, the Storyteller also commits to go through this personal transformation – one that is a fractal of a larger global transformation coursing through the veins of the planet – that is also a deeper Ancestral transformation flowing through the rivers of your lineage and coming into fruition at the exact moment in time, longitude and latitude.
In our ancient village memories, the Storyteller was revered, protected and resourced by their village. The village turned to the Storyteller and the Story itself as medicine, council, guidance and leadership. We turned to the Writer as Energy Healer.
We turned to the Storyteller especially when we knew the village as a whole was going through a major change.
We knew that when the Storyteller allows a personal change to move through their life, whatever their Story turns out to be, its medicine will help the village as a whole become more of itself.
The village knew that whether we were going through change in a state of thriving or catastrophe, injustice or balance, in a season of abundance or lack…our only job is to rise to the occasion and become more of ourselves.
The role the Storyteller plays in this setting is pivotal. When you create stories with Ancestors, the Spirit World, and deeply re-membered Earth honouring technologies, you are creating essential medicine for the planet, specifically called for the moment in time it arises.
I’m here to support storytellers in their process, especially as someone who deeply understands the craft and life experiences that accompany creating with your Ancestors. Check out the following resources for more:
OPEN CLASSROOM
In this class, I share some fundamentals of creating your story as an altar, and how to approach unlocking the energy healing embedded in your project and process.
PERSONALIZED SUPPORT
You can book a 90-minute private consultation or mini-workshop where we sit in divination with your writing / storytelling project, unpack its ancestral medicine, and map out your process on an altar. An example of our time together:
OPENING: welcome, spiritual grounding and opening divination. I start by offering a simple grounding exercise for us to land into our ancestral listening and re-membering. Then I sit in divination and tune into the spirit, energy and essence of your story. Here we see a foundational picture of your story as an altar, the specific type of change it is meant to usher you through, and the gift it is meant to give your village.
WORKSHOP / CONSULTATION: I bring in one of my core practices such as The Storyteller’s Astro-Cartography, Divinatory Dramaturgy, the Storyteller’s Breathwork, or anything you’re interested in from my Spiritual & Creative Luxury Spa menu (see below.)
For example: Astro-Cartography is the study of Planetary & Celestial Ley Lines that run through the planet. When we add the Storyteller to this mix, we study:
• mythological, primordial stories that run through the land you’re on, expressed by the rocks, trees, water, animals, creatures and natural elements
• the Indigenous commitments of/to the land you’re on
• the cosmic/celestial Ancestors and guiding star systems illuminated through your project
From this study – poems, parables and prophecies will emerge as codes for us to unlock, riddles to play with, and promises of freedom that each story carries.
The workshop / consultation phase is dynamic, interactive and specific to the best support you need in the moment. We may be guided toward a past life release, multiverse research study, or simple conversation where you can ask me any questions you have about your writing/creation process.
CLOSING: We end by honing in on a few core takeaways and pieces of guidance emerging from our session. These can be daily practices, messages from Ancestors, or a map of your Story as an Altar.
The Storyteller’s BreathWork
“The Storyteller’s Breathwork” is another practise I can bring into our session.
In this practise, there are six different types of breathing exercises associated with different parts of the Storytelling process, specific to the Ancestor healing journey.
When we incorporate this breathwork into our process, we train our bodies to receive, hold and express the entirety of the story we are committed to tell.
It helps to create a protective shell the entire process of creation, including all the ways we will change, shed and grow while becoming the version of ourselves capable of telling this story.
BREATH ONE: “THE TRUE NAME”
this breath anchors you to your guiding north star, and your birth right in the core of the earth. it holds your entire process & journey of creation. it brings you back home no matter where you are in your process. this breath is associated with the name / title of your story, and will help you find the destined name/title of your book, play, or piece of art.
BREATH TWO: “THE ROCKSTAR’S BREATH”
this breath helps you communicate across worlds, veils and dimensions. it helps you listen to the deeper ancestral-soul led voice that wants to speak, and send your voice to the exact place in the universe your medicine is needed. this breath is associated with “starting:” the courage, conviction, confidence, and inspiration that makes you want to tell this story in the first place. it’s about who your story wants to be, and what you want from life by telling it.
BREATH THREE: “THE EVER-UNFOLDING OCEAN’S BREATH”
this breath is associated with the structure and quantum archi-texture of your story. it helps you feel the way your ancestors and star lineages want to dance & move through you and your story. it helps you land in more of your ancestral re-membering. this becomes expressed in the form and structure of your story – the shape of your altar, and how time, space, dimension function accordingly.
BREATH FOUR: “A DRAGON’S FRIENDSHIP”
this breath helps you strengthen your core, your endurance, and your will. this is associated with the willingness to receive your story in your body, and in your life – the willingness to lose, to unravel, to let go of everything that must fall away in order for this story to live. this gives you the strength to become bigger, and to hold the losses and gains associated with this story. ultimately, this breath brings you closer to the best friendship you’ll ever know, by choosing to keep telling this story, even when it is difficult, painful or impossible.
BREATH FIVE: “THE RIGHT TO RETURN”
this breath is associated both with stillness (repetition) and movement (breakthrough). it helps us move through blocks, extend past our comfort zone, as well as circle back to repeating themes, repair and mending. this breath takes you into the home stretch & helps you “land” major cycles, including landing your ending. on a social/political level, this breath is associated with the promise of LANDBACK and the contribution your story offers our larger planetary and ancestral prayers.
BREATH SIX: “THE CONDUCTOR’S BOW”
this breath is about celebration, gratitude and receiving your flowers. it helps you integrate, find closure and your most cherished completion rituals. it helps you receive the gifts you must receive from your village for offering this story to the world. It helps you fully receive your own medicine – who you became because you told this story, and how your story changes the world, because of who you became.
We can include “The Storyteller’s Breathwork” in your private session. Or subscribe to our youtube channel – it might show up on our Open Classroom!
BROWSE OUR SPA MENU
You can find our most delightful specialty services and practices on our Creative and Spiritual Luxury Spa menu. We can touch on any of these services during an initial 90-minute session.
Luxury Spa and Day Retreats – Otherworldly Giants by Shaunga Tagore
BOOK YOUR PRIVATE SESSION
VISIT THE LINK ABOVE FOR FULL DETAILS ON A PRIVATE 90-MINUTE SESSION. WE CAN’T WAIT TO SUPPORT YOU AND YOUR ROCKSTAR PROJECT!
WE’D LOVE TO COME TO YOU!
We’re taking our show on the road. If you’d like to host us for a class, workshop, artist retreat or field trip, please send a note of interest to mercury@shaungatagore.com
You can download the PDF below for a full list of our services & rates.
This document also serves as a primer for how to think about organizing our Artist Fees for a movement of more spiritual, artistic and financial sovereignty.
I’m Shaunga. Queer. Bengali. Multi-Gendered. Not Your Average Weirdo. Learn more about me: