Danae Shanti Thrive opens in Una Vida

Danae Shanti, author of the book, Wise Inside: 7 Easy Steps to Access Your Intuition and Live with Confidence, recently relocated her business, Danae Shanti Thrive, to Una Vida, the new meditation/community center in Cottonwood Square shopping center. Shanti will offer workshops and classes and, beginning in November, she will be the part-time manager when the owner Kristin Dura is away.

"The universe put us together," Shanti said. "Kristin was putting it out to the universe for someone to be able to hold the space for her and manage it when she's traveling. I was working a lot and I kept being told by my intuition that I needed to work in Niwot. But how? Kristin and I were on the same wavelength and got magnetized to each other. That's how we met, and we've just totally fallen head over heels in love with each other as collaborators."

Shanti moved to Boulder from New Hampshire in 1995, where she first launched Danae Shanti Thrive. Now that she has relocated to Niwot, she will have an office in Una Vida one day a week. As part-time manager, her duties will include cleaning the energy, making sure the space is well-kept, serving as point person for the other trainers, and watering the plants. "It's really loving and caring for the space and being the point person for everyone else," she said.

Her business, Danae Shanti Thrive, offers workshops and training to individuals, couples, family systems, small business groups and corporations. Danae teaches the art of listening to and following the guidance from a person's natural Intuition and Divine Intelligence to live their best lives and to break through difficult life challenges. "There's a lot of spiritual coaching and intuition involved," Shanti said.

As a little girl, Shanti wanted to find a way to use her singing skills to help orphans. Her dream came true when she was selected to be part of the Global Harmony Band. The group toured Japan, the continental United States, and Hawaii. raising money to build the Orphanage of Dreams for the street children of Burma and Cambodia. "A year later," Shanti said, "We all met in Japan. All 14 orphans, the whole Global Harmony Band. Fifty Americans and all the people who were on tour all year long, coming to hear us. We had this massive 10-day, 1000-person-attended peace event to celebrate the building of The Orphanage of Dreams. It was mind blowing."

She has had a challenging path as a woman. "Just as every other woman I've known," Shanti said. Born in Brooklyn, she grew up on Long Island. In 1987 she had an awakening that changed her life. She gave up her position as an Executive Director of a Chamber of Commerce to become a Spiritual Midwife and Intuitive. "I'm very healthy, grounded, and integrated now," Shanti said. "But it took 61 years of learning. And anyone can do it."

Participants in her workshops learn how to open the conversation within, for themselves, to deeply trust their own guidance or intuition, and how to open up to others. Danae is the Matrix Guide, who leads with the seven easy steps of The Hero Formula, which participants follow. A focus participant brings to the Matrix a challenge they are working on. Attendees volunteer to role play aspects of this person's challenge. The goal is to make it easier for the focus participant to see the visible challenge energies. "It's powerful," said Sarah Cioni, the owner and lead designer at Belle Terre Floral. "We all have something we need to tell someone."

The money Shanti raises through her work funds her non-profit foundation, Singing Children Home. "You have a child who's compromised, be that PTSD, family abuse, terminal illness, challenging disease, compromised in some way. And they are losing their confidence and not part of the regular children's healthy, normal playing world. They start to believe they are their disease or their pain or whatever and they start to go away."

The foundation will pair these children with musicians who will help that child find their inner hero through the Seven Steps. The child will write their own story song and come up with a melody, and the Foundation will record the song in a professional studio, virtually. "The musician's job is to be a guide, not take over, not influence, just support and guide the child's creative genius to come to life," Shanti explained. "Because what happens biologically and physiologically is that the child is accessing their genius, which is life-giving, and creative expression brings a lot of vitality to the nervous system. They are helping themselves to heal. Their whole heart and soul are healing and, hopefully, their bodies too. We're joining with them in creative genius to offer them a boost in their life and to get them to know they're not their disease. They're not their pain and suffering. They're just not and here is a direct dose of what it feels like to be your own hero."

When she tells the story that explains how the foundation originated, Shanti speaks with passion. "A 12-year-old girl, African American, fighting for her life with a rare form of cancer dies one month before her 13th birthday. Her name was Amanda Peebles. I got to be with her for three months because her family called me in because they were desperate to help her, and I do spiritual things. We bonded incredibly. And then she died a month before her 13th birthday.

"Then she started coming to me and talking with me. A lot. After a couple of months of taking dictation and writing down whatever Amanda is telling me, it finally dawned on me that it looked like it all went together and it might be a program; and I'm in the shower and I say to Amanda, 'Amanda, is this a program? Did you hand me a program?' And she says, 'Well yeah.' She was always very sassy. And I said, 'What is it called?' I clearly heard her say 'Singing Children Home.' Because she was a singer. She loved to sing. I cried my heart out when I realized what she handed me, and she told me the name. I hit the bottom of that shower and I just lay there crying. And I've been carrying it for 12 years. Waiting for the right time."

Shanti hopes to recruit volunteers for the foundation. "I need a board of directors, I need musicians," she said. She needs help with social media, a producer to book her on podcasts, blogs and Internet radio shows, and cable TV programs. "We can find the kids, but that's next. First, we have to get our systems in place. I need an interactive website where the kid and the musician can log into the portal and have privacy. All that. It's going to take a good year to launch, but with enough people rowing the boat we could do it faster."

To learn more about Danae Shanti Thrive and the Singing Children Home Foundation, contact Danae Shanti by text at 720-346-2383, or by email at [email protected].