Healing and creativity are my two abiding loves. They have sustained and nourished me over my life and represent my core purpose. I’ve practiced in both fields for many years. For a long time, I believed that my twin passions would remain separate, but in 2004, I envisioned an accessible, reputable online teaching platform. The outcome? Big Shakti – a place where people can gain ongoing access to authentic wisdom and tools for healing.
As co-founder of Big Shakti, I co-author our learning tools with Dr. Swami Shankardev and direct our creative output. I enjoy connecting with our students and subscribers and am proud to always offer superb care.
I studied and worked with dreams and the psyche for over a decade. Following the masters’ Carl Jung, Robert Johnson, and James Hillman. Dreams and imagination are a path to wholeness. They retrieve long-buried feelings, the sacred, and dispossessed parts of us, and provide a potent path to healing and self-insight. Read more about my Healing and Dreamwork Sessions.
I met my principal teacher, Professor Lun Wong, in Melbourne, Australia, in 1982. A wonderfully wise and compassionate healer and teacher, he inspired me to study martial arts, Dao meditation, and Traditional Chinese therapies. I studied with him for over a decade and this training formed a powerful ethical and spiritual foundation that has governed my life.
I have also written and directed several award-winning films that have screened in art galleries, film festivals, cinemas, and television networks around the world, including Australia, the United States and Europe. From 1993 to 2004 I played an integral role in the development of an ethical Australian advertising company as marketing and creative director. I supported the company’s growth from small beginnings to multi-million dollar status.
Dao, Tai Chi, Traditional Chinese Therapies Certificates (Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Melbourne Australia) 1986
Diploma of Design (Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne) 1982
Graduate Certificate Multi-Platform Content AFTRS (Australian Film Television and Radio School) 2010
Australian Writers Guild Member (Since 1993)
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My absolute trust in Big Shakti’s team derives from all the benefits I’ve enjoyed since I started practicing their beautiful methods. What I like most is that they provide knowledge and experience in a structured way, with care, love, and, yes, empathy. It is like having a trusted friend that helps you when needed.
I have never been disappointed with your products. You are thoughtful, very, very kind and extremely knowledgeable. I refer clients (patients), family and friends to Big Shakti all the time. Thank you for your amazing and very needed work.
As a Yoga devotee for 35 years I am convinced, more than ever, that embodying Big Shakti’s Teachings is one of the most essential and far reaching processes a Yogi can embark upon. I am determined to continue the practices in the long-term. I remain in your debt for this doorway into deeper, profound levels of Self.
The classes provided a unique, deep dive into esoteric Eastern and Western philosophies with accompanying practices for self-actualization.
The structured teaching on the workings of the mind gave me the tools to move beyond my personal limitations.
Highly recommended.
It’s an absolute pleasure to learn from experts who know their subject deeply and profoundly.
Even after studying yoga and meditation for over two decades, there is still so much more to discover with Big Shakti.
Very grateful for the teaching.
Excellent study to help build one’s yogic spiritual practices.
These classes are a great opportunity for both beginners and advanced students to really understand and experience the value of yoga-tantra and deepen meditation and ritual experience. They provide great inspiration for yoga teachers feeling a bit stuck in their creativity and purpose for teaching.
Big Shakti’s teachings communicate and flow with clarity and wisdom, and so often build bridges of insight into my life and inner world. Through the study of their education programs, deeper layers of understanding and joy have come into being in my life. This knowledge helps bring to life and living, the spirit of yoga and tantra.
I believe what you are presenting is a very fascinating science that deserves full attention. I hope your courses are propagated and available to many people from many walks of life, and that they receive the noteworthy response they absolutely deserve!
Big Shakti’s study programs provide a path to enlightenment and a practical yet highly spiritual means of attaining a more aware state wherever you are in your own development. Both Swami Shankardev and Jayne support your growth and learning in a safe, loving environment where questions are seen as part of the learning. The structure of the theory has given me the basis on which to build. It has helped me to understand so much about my life and the lives of those around me. I feel supported and held.
Dr. Swami Shankardev is both a dynamic Yogi and a brilliant intellectual who embodies a mix of health practitioner and psychotherapist, as well as a sense of humor, which is common only to stand-up artists and team coaches all blended into one; quite an authentic and modern Yogi indeed.
He gave a meticulous, yet informal speech and conveyed a unique sense of what the Yogic lifestyle is really all about with so much energy, enthusiasm, impeccable serenity, and laser-like attention. He dared people to give meditation a chance, at least a try! That was long ago and I have since practiced many of Big Shakti’s meditations and believe they are the most authentic meditations available today and are perfect for aspiring yoga practitioners.
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