YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE YOU ARE…

…Courageous and Brave. Strong and Powerful. Beautiful and Wise.

YOU ARE A WOMAN…

…and you are meant to live a life you truly love.

“I am here to support you. To show you your uniqueness and specialness. To guide your healing work. To help you become more self-aware and see your truest self. ”

I’m Shauna Lay

And I live a truly remarkable life. I have thriving relationships, a business that rocks my world, two nourishing homes, and the ability to travel with my beautiful family.
But most of all, I am slow and steady, present and connected. I am aware of the parts of me that are messy and I see the challenges that life brings my way. I like to say, I am much more interested in being in my life than DO-ing my life.
But it hasn’t always been this way (and by the way, it still isn’t always this way).

There was a time when I was sad.

I wasn’t depressed, I wasn’t angry (well maybe a little), I was sad.

And sadness, for me, looked like not being present in my life, not feeling enthusiastic, not paying attention. And it looked like boredom.

I just did what I did with a smile on my face. I would walk into situations, lift my chest, and put a smile on my face because that looked like confidence but I struggled. I struggled to find depth and meaning in my life.

My mind would always take me somewhere else. That somewhere else was always trying to please another. I liked myself but it didn’t stop me from conforming to what I thought others would like. I felt different but wanted to fit in. Don’t we all?

I hoped for a different future.

I secretly wanted a thriving business, a beautiful home, to travel the world, to wear beautiful sexy clothes but I was afraid of what others would think of me.

I wanted to create. I wanted to write and teach and study and draw and make things. I wanted to do what I wanted, when I wanted and how I wanted.

I discovered Yoga in 1998.

It wasn’t until I discovered yoga in 1998 that things really began to change, but slowly. I began to wake up to my life. I began to remember things, actually enjoy small moments. Again it was slow. It became my awareness practice and it became my creative practice.

In 2006 I discovered the work of Eckhart Tolle and spent many years embodying his practices. I began meditating anywhere and everywhere and really embodying presence.

I began to use my life as my experiment. My experiences and relationships as my teachers. My challenges as my opportunities for growth.

I hired mentors, therapists, coaches.

I hired mentor after mentor to help me catapult the process of self-awareness.

And I discovered myself, a woman that is full of love and support and guidance and true happiness. And I embraced life, everything about it.

There is still challenge, no doubt, there always will be. But I fully trust the process that lies in front of me and I know that within each challenge there is opportunity for growth.

I see now that acceptance and introspection is my work and it is the work that will continue to allow me to expand and grow and deepen my capacity to love.

“My work in the world is to teach the importance of true acceptance and connection to the self and to others. To show that true happiness and thriving in your business and life begins with acceptance of what already is and then it’s about acute and steady introspection of the self. It’s about honoring your life, with all of its colors and communicating who you are through your words, thoughts and actions.”

EP8A3042+%281%29.jpg — Awareness is key.

This is where I come in. I have a gift of laying everything out on the table, all your thoughts (beliefs and stories) and sifting through them to find the ones that need your attention. The ones that will bring more awareness to YOU so that you can see yourself in your ultimate truth.
I am a mirror for you. I reflect to you what I see in you. I am your support system.
In this way, you can make the changes that aren’t working for you. If you cannot see them, how can you change them?
And then you will BE and LOVE your truth.
I’M HERE to support you while being me. To show you your uniqueness and specialness while living mine. To heal you while healing myself. To be me while you be you.

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PS: The Human Things

I love soft clothes, flowy clothes, I love really nice fabric. And I love jeans.

I don’t have a lot of rules in my home and when I try to make them my kids look at me like I am crazy.

I move stuff around my house all the time, my husband goes crazy trying to find things.

My right hamstring is tighter than my left, my left hip is tighter than my right, my right quadricep is stronger than my left…I could go on but I don’t want to bore you.

I LOVE to sleep, probably more than anything else. When people say, sleep is over-rated, I totally disagree.

I love math and problem solving. It makes me buzz.

I have a Mechanical Engineering degree and over a 2000 hours of yoga training. I am a certified massage therapist and a life coach.

My husband is an avid kiteboarder, an amazing skier, and a successful business owner and I admire him for all of that.

I drink a smoothie or make homemade juice almost every morning.

I see the opportunity in everything. Even in paying taxes. To a fault.

Yoga is my practice but you probably already knew that.

I am known for making the best pancakes on the planet.

I love anything spiritual, asking why we are here is probably my favorite thing to think about. Maybe because it is impossible to really know.

I am super committed, which means I almost always do what I say I am going to do. Which means I say NO a lot.

I study my thoughts all of the time, sometimes it’s too much.

“I love to KISS and to HUG and to TOUCH.
I love to LOVE.”

The other day I was expressing myself to my big man. I live with three boys, so expressing myself is something I do often. It often comes across with lots of emotional and a flair of frustration. They usually take it very personal and often don’t understand why I am so emotional. But the thing is, I hold a lot of feminine energy inside of me and I am very in touch with my emotions as I have been working on understanding my emotional body for over 17 years. The other day I was expressing myself because I felt hurt, and I received the same sort of response from my man, which was the look of “you are over-reacting”. And I stood there and said I get to have my experience in the way I want to and feel to have it. I get to be emotional and you have to allow me to be. Because this is what is going to change the dynamics between men and women. When men begin to understand the feminine power of emotion. And then they can understand it within themselves. When we can hold each other in it, things will change! We have ALL been suppressed in this way and we are all learning how not to be. Our society has valued knowledge over sensitivity/intuition/energy for a long time and we are changing that narrative. We are beginning to value the feminine ways and that is exciting and also messy because it isn’t what we are used to. This round is for sure going to be my favorite because…..MEN are joining!!! What I know about 2022, is that it is a year of transformation for ALL OF US! The momentum to change is right here, right now. Now is the time. We begin Sept 13th, 2022! With love and devotion to your well-being, happiness and partnership, Shauna Lay (your guide for this experience)

Cosmology and Autumn Healing Journey 2022!

We will be diving into the soul of your relationship in Sacred Communication for Partners. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

For the past many years I have been devoted to my closest relationships. It has always been important to me to do my spiritual work in relationship. In my 20’s I would often dream about living in a cabin by myself off-grid or living in an ashram and meditating all day. But I didn’t choose that. I chose to have a modern day life, with modern day amenities, and a modern day family. I realized very quickly that my greatest spiritual teachers were my family of boys and particularly my partner, my husband. I knew that communication was going to be very important to the process. I never really thought that I would be teaching it. But over time I would have friends and family and clients ask me if I could read over their email or letter and give advice. I would have people call and ask how to say this thing that they wanted to say to this person they wanted to say it to. Over time my group program became about communication and I changed the name to Sacred Communication, which became a method all on it’s own and is now a huge part of my work. And now this!!!! I am announcing a aspect of the program that I have never done before (in a formal group setting). Today I am launching Sacred Communication for Partners!!! I am excited and happy to welcome in the men. For now, the program is for committed partnerships which include two persons, one who identifies as a man and one who identifies as a woman. In the future I will open it up to same gender partnerships and other kinds of committed relationships. In this program we will dive into the practices of Sacred Communication to develop more depth and intimacy and connection with our partners.

When I turned 40 I was thrilled. I’d been looking forward to it since I was in my 20’s. My mom always said it was her favorite birthday and 40’s were her favorite decade. So I thought it would be the same for me. I thought I would finally find the ultimate happiness or something…or all the wisdom would come flooding in. Not so much. Nothing felt different cause of course it didn’t. What’s the difference between 39 and 40, nothing. And then Covid happened and those were some really difficult years, as we all know. They were some of the hardest years of my life. But this birthday, this 45th birthday, something feels different. I feel different. For me, it might be my 45th birthday that was my favorite. The time that marked a significant change in my happiness. The time where I truly learnt about myself and my connection to the earth and all living beings. Where I understood that every choice I made, had an affect on the whole. Where I understood my dharma and the divinity that lives within me. Where I was celebrated for being alive. Where I really felt the true miracle of life. Where I knew that suffering was part of the human experience. Where I left my addictions behind. Where I devoted myself to my practices. Where I became the woman I was here to become. Where my family and our relationships became truly solid. Where I realized that we are all on our own journey doing it in our own way. Where the journey became the way.

Dear dad, today I would have called you on your birthday and my boys would have sang to their grandpa Ken. Unfortunately they didn't get a chance to meet you. But I tell them about you. I tell them that you used to drive by on your garbage truck and take us for a ride. I tell them that you taught me to wink with both eyes. I tell them that you were a total jokester. I tell them that my feet are exactly like yours and the reason I like French wine is because of you! I tell them that you taught me how to massage and you used to let me walk on your back and do your hair in whatever style I wanted. I tell them that you loved to play with money (maybe too much) and you were an entrepreneur. And that I’m sure I have that risky side of me because of you. I tell them that I love you and that they would have loved you too! I feel like they know you even though they have never met you. And for that I am grateful! "See you later alligator"!

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