Shaunga Tagore: Creator & Artistic Director

SHAUNGA TAGORE (she / her / they / we) is a queer, multi-gendered storyteller, altar carrier, and furrever cat mama. She is an everlasting student and teacher of the Life and Times of Ancestor University.

Shaunga is a practising Energetic Surgeon (a specialized form of energy healer), a Multiverse Historian, and a practitioner of Ancestor Theatre: with specializations in Erotic Theatre + Celestial Theatre + Abolitionist Theatre.

Shaunga’s blood ancestry is Bengali, mixed with several other cultures circling the Arabian Sea and SWANA landscape. Shaunga is especially dedicated to repairing, embracing and illuminating relationship with her beloved Star Lineages including the Pleiades, Sirius and Lyra star systems.

Shaunga is Showrunner of the Ancestors Writers Room, the home of our signature energy healing technology called, open heart surgery storytelling. She is the “founder” of OTHERWORLDLY GIANTS (and the small things) – a true epic tale of Lineage & Soul Retrieval.

OTHERWORLDLY GIANTS is a living, evolving altar in and of itself, and a garden we are dedicated to nurture, raise, and eventually set free:

IN THE CENTER: we are a storytelling school + research center
IN THE WEST: we are an ancestor’s writers room + production company
IN THE NORTH: we are a divination channel + apothecary
IN THE SOUTH: we are a village artist grant generator + publishing house
IN THE EAST: we are a “teaching clinic” of lost and found cosmic + ancestral medicine

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SHAUNGA’S SPECIALTY PRACTICES INCLUDE:

CROWN

THE QUANTUM BIRTH CHART: a one-of-a-kind practise of decolonizing astrology

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LUNGS

THE REVOLUTIONARY HEART: animal communication + animal companion medicine, specifically for humans dedicated to global solidarity and liberation

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ARMS

STORIES AS ALTARS: creating & studying stories as sites of ancestral (r)evolution + working with fictional characters as our ancestors, allies and accomplices

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FEET

WORKING FOR THE PLANET: freeing ourselves from capitalist/colonial industries, and weaving our art, writing, research and daily living with the emergence of earth-honouring, ancestor-honouring economies

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WHOLE BODY

SPIRITUAL DIAGNOSIS: high quality spiritual diagnosis for any personal, collective or planetary concern

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BONES

CLOSE THE BONES TOUR: our traveling one-person-burlesque show of magical reality tv for the revolution. this show is a personal and planetary sacral chakra ceremony designed to attune and re-balance our audience to the timeline where we end domestic violence, rape culture and the military industrial complex in our lifetime.

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Shaunga’s Specialty Areas of Ancestral Healing, Lived Experience, Research & Storytelling in Development Include:

◎ the intersections of spiritual healing, sexual healing, erotic storytelling & healing from religious trauma

◎ ancestor healing approaches to healing intimacy (including queer, poly, kink, asexuality, disability), and thriving village approaches to repairing social/collective trauma, conflict & injustice in collective liberation work

◎ transforming legacies of trans suicide into trans alivelihood

◎ lessons from animal companion loss for grievers of all kinds

◎ repairing our relationship with the end of life journey, death, transition, and the spirit world

◎ multiverse history lessons as context and direction for our current moment

For a full description of Shaunga’s current services, browse our creative and spiritual luxury spa menu:

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Luxury Spa and Day Retreats – Otherworldly Giants by Shaunga Tagore

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BIG GRATITUDE

A deep bow of gratitude to the land of TKARONTO.

OTHERWORLDLY GIANTS and the small things was birthed in collaboration with this land, and with great reverence to the Dish With One Spoon Wampum medicine that flows through everything and everyone who lives here. Much love and recognition to the caretakers of this land, and the various nations who have been/are stewards here, including: The Haudensaunee, Wendat, Anishnaabe, Petun, and Mississaugas of the Credit River.

Shaunga also sends her gratitude and recognition to the Metis, Cree, Lakota, Dakota, Nakota & Dene (stewards of land where she grew up aka rural Manitoba/Winnipeg) and to the Adivasi, Dalit, Indigenous and Tribal communities of Bengal and India, the land where many of Shaunga’s family and Ancestors are from.

Shaunga is honoured to have begun her artistic career at age five, when she read a poem for the first time on a local theatre stage in small town Manitoba. After moving to the big city in 2005 (Toronto/Tkaronto), Shaunga spent many years working as a writer, editor, arts educator, oral historian, astrologer, and producer of burlesque & theatre exclusively in queer, trans, and racialized-centered communities.

After experiencing a wild and official awakening to the ‘otherworldly’ (ie, ancestors started shaking her bed at night – literally), Shaunga began her official training as a spiritual practitioner in 2015, continually seeking mentorship and nurturance for spiritual gifts that she’s had since she was a child.

Shaunga is privileged to have worked predominantly in Black, Afro-Indigenous, and People of Colour centered spiritual communities, and with spiritual teachers devoted to the depths of solidarity and liberation work across cultures, species, and for the planet herself. Shaunga continually resources herself with ongoing learning & apprenticeship with beloved human and non-human teachers, peers, elders, and devoted friends.

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A VIPP SPACE

A VERY IMPORTANT PLANETARY PROJECT

values ✰ interests ✰ principles ✰ priorities

OTHERWORLDLY GIANTS
is a Survivor & Trans Led Company,
that prioritizes the leadership,
wealth & well-being of racialized artists & healers.
We hold Intergenerational
and Inter-Species Collaboration as Beloved.
We work in Solidarity with Black, Indigenous,
Dalit/Adivasi, Queer, Trans, Disabled
and Sx Worker Feminism.
We prioritize the thriving of the
Global South and our
More-Than-Human Relatives.
We Honour the Promise
of a Free P🍉lestine,
and we co-create in Solidarity with
our anti-zionist Jewish friends.
We Live in Devotion
to the Unseen, the Great Mystery,
to our Cosmic, Soul & Star Lineages.
This is not a place for
Anti-Mysticism.
But rather, a World
…and a Home,
to fall in love with our Humanity
and the Universe,
again and again.

WE WELCOME ALL READERS & COLLABORATORS TO DISCERN YOUR RESONANCE WITH OUR VALUES, INTERESTS, PRINCIPLES & PRIORITIES AS YOU CONSIDER OUR WORK.

WE RECOGNIZE WE ARE ALL IN DIFFERENT PLACES OF (R)EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT, PERSONALLY, SPIRITUALLY AND POLITICALLY. WE WELCOME A SPACE OF (UN)LEARNING AND SINCERE EXCHANGE. HOWEVER, WITHOUT RESONANCE TO OUR VIPP COMMITMENTS, SINCERE COLLABORATION IS LIMITED OR IMPOSSIBLE.

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ESTEEMED EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

“THE SMALL THINGS”

ON THIS PHOTO: a soft purple sparkly background. Rahel tries to relax on a pillow sitting on Shaunga’s clothing unit, but Estha has crawled onto her, using her as his pillow.
THEME: “what you gotta put up with when you know someone really well.“

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