Stephanie Sheng

About Stephanie Sheng

Hello beauties,

My name is Steph Sheng (she/her). I was born in the US with Chinese roots, currently living between Berlin and Mexico. I support others on their path as a trauma-informed integration specialist and facilitator (+ forever student) of Nondual Tantra-based yoga, movement, and meditation.

TLDR: I care deeply about harm reduction and accessibility to support, for all those exploring consciousness and/or on this journey of coming back home to their whole, soulful, authentic and fully expressed Selves. As a complement to 1:1 support, I also facilitate integration circles both in person (in Berlin, with the psychedelic womxn’s group, Psychedelic Agora) and online (femme circles with the Asian Psychedelic Collective).

I dedicate my life to this path out of curiosity, awe, and reverence for the sacred divine in all things, as well as an excitement to see more beautiful beings, coming back into alignment with their authentic Selves and purpose, and back into connection with their bodies, others, nature, and beyond. I’m inspired by the potential that lies in more people, living, creating, and sharing from this place. It is also important for me that we strive for the utmost integrity in how we walk this path, keeping in mind the core principle of reciprocity and the inextricable link between self and collective healing.

I look forward to connecting with you if this resonates and aligns.

With love and care,

Steph

 

Unabridged: My journey began with my father, who had cancer for ten years before he passed away when I was 20. Growing up alongside his death and grief process led me down a spiritual path at an early age and instilled in me a lens of curiosity, awe, and gratitude for life (and death). He was the first to invite me to befriend silence, stillness, and reflection. He showed how to see the beautiful divine in all things. And ultimately, he taught me what it is to trust and surrender because that’s all there is to do in the end.

Inspired by him, my mission in life became to cherish it, as much as I could remember to. And continuing his process while unfolding my own, I searched to understand life, its meaning, death, consciousness, belonging, home, and everything in between and beyond. This led me to many teachers and learnings, which have turned my life into an endless process of integration and an exciting journey back home to my wise, wild, soulful, authentically expressed Self. It is precisely this homecoming journey that I have such reverence for and that fuels my passion to accompany and support others in the same.

My dive into psychedelics, beyond college experiments, began when I volunteered at my first conference (Horizons NY) in 2012. In just a few days, my view of the world of psychedelics burst wide open. I became enthralled — attending and learning everything I could and getting involved in the communities any way I could (volunteering at the conference every year, in harm reduction peer support with Zendo at Afrikaburn, 2015, and with Fireside Project, 2021-3). During this time, travels to Mexico and Colombia also sparked learning about and from indigenous communities and cultures, which established important fundamental principles in me — of nature connection, integrity, reciprocity, and reverence — when engaging with these medicines and practices.

Alongside, I began diverting away from a career in brand strategy, becoming more fascinated by people than companies. This brought me to train in ontological life coaching, to support people in making shifts toward cherishing more of life and what is possible. A certain profoundness and spirituality were still missing for me in the coaching, though, which I found through expanding upon my decade-long yoga practice. I began down a more dedicated and profound path of study and practice, specifically in Nondual Tantra-based Hatha yoga, self-enquiry meditation, philosophy, and somatic movement practices. On this path, I began to uncover many answers and foundational elements, complementary to and supportive of my experiences with entheogens — I learned the importance of having this more sustainable and sustained spiritual path for integrating psychedelic experiences. As well, the somatic and intuitive movement practices and dance brought me into a newfound relationship with my body, greater authentic expression, and fully being here and now.

Most recently, my desire to expand my capacity to understand and work with trauma brought me to learn from Dr. Gabor Maté and his Compassionate Inquiry therapeutic approach, which includes a more holistic and somatic approach to trauma and healing. Though the intention was to train and expand my skillset, my personal experience of CI brought a newfound depth to my own healing and homecoming to wholeness, authenticity, and the wisdom of my body.  Everything in my approach and what I offer in support of others comes from my own deep resonance and personal experience with it. If any of this speaks to you, I look forward to connecting and walking with you on your journey back home.

With love,

Steph

Stephanie Sheng's approach to integration

I view integration as the process in which we work with the truths, insights, and/or parts of ourselves that we connect to during experiences of expanded states of consciousness, and incorporate them into our daily lives in a way that benefits ourselves, others, and beyond. In simpler terms, I see it as a life-long process of learning from our profound experiences and growing from them, back into more wholeness, connection, and authenticity.

My approach to integration combines Compassionate Inquiry, the somatic- and trauma-informed therapeutic approach from Dr. Gabor Maté, with ontological life coaching, Nondual Tantra-based Hatha yoga, meditation, philosophy, and somatic movement practices, and infused with endless learnings and inspiration from the great teacher that is mother nature.

How this translates into integration support is, I offer a reflective, nonjudgmental space in which together, we can more safely explore limiting narratives and parts of ourselves, and bring awareness to unconscious beliefs rooted in past traumas, which are still dictating our present. I offer a listening and compassionate presence, bringing the awareness always back to the present felt experience and wisdom of the body, to create a safer space in which individuals can fully feel and release strong or painful emotions to bring about healing. With my own, grounded spiritual path, I offer an understanding from which to draw context and support the range of an individual’s experience of the realms of this Great Mystery. I offer insightful and reflective coaching, accompaniment in designing personal practices, rituals, and plans, and accountability in creating more lasting shifts rooted in your profound experiences and moving you toward greater alignment and authenticity.

My passion for this work lies in honouring and bringing the sacred (back) into the everyday, and accompanying people in their processes of integration — supporting them in (re)membering and (re)connecting with their whole, soulful, authentic Selves, so that from this place, they can dance through this life, expressing, creating and bringing forth the gifts they have to share.

Depending on where you are in the process, sessions together may cover:

• Preparation: logistically, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually; cultivating the conditions and foundation to land upon return
• Post-experience Landing: immediate support for grounding oneself and nervous system regulation upon landing
• Post-experience Exploration and Reflection:
  • Sense- and meaning-making of the experience
  • Reviewing and safely exploring the experience and what came up — insights, parts of ourselves, traumas, learnings, joys, confusions, challenges
  • Clarifying and identifying themes or parts of ourselves to work with, stay connected to, and incorporate into (daily) life
• Compassionate Inquiry and Parts Work:
  • Applying a trauma-informed therapeutic approach to work through specific narratives, traumas, or parts of ourselves that came up
  • Compassionately witnessing and safely holding painful or challenging material or emotions to support the healing process
• Compassionate Implementation:
  • Identifying and declaring shifts to make in alignment with what was experienced
  • Exploring and establishing supportive exercises, practices, rituals
  • Support in designing plans and accountability in shifts and projects
  • Revisiting and reevaluating shifts and projects, incorporating new insights and learnings gained over time

In working together, we may draw upon the following*:

• Meditations
• Yoga Asanas or Pranayama
• Somatic or intuitive movement practices
• Nature-based practices
• Creative expression activities
• Resources, inspirations, and teachings to support what the individual is working to integrate (ex. practices, poems, quotes, teachers)

Lastly, a few principles that guide my approach to this work:

• We each have a wise guide and healer within. We are all creative, resourceful, intuitive beings with the capacity to hold our whole selves and be in connection with all. I am here to offer a safe space and support for people to reconnect and listen to their inner guide and wise voice within.
• We are not broken or need to be fixed. We are simply in the process of remembering our true, divine nature, and of becoming aware of and embracing (with love and compassion) the different parts of ourselves – bringing them (back) in with compassion, to come back to our whole, soulful Selves. I am here to always remind you of that divine essence that you are, and to compassionately witness and hold the parts that surface while supporting people in weaving them (back) into the whole.
• We have the potential and innate wisdom to cultivate our own practices, rituals, and ceremonies – that make sense for who we are, where we are and where we come from. These support us in marking and remembering what is important and sacred, while cultivating a stronger connection with that Great Divine Mystery. Instead of culturally appropriating, how can we learn from and honor ancestral cultures and traditions and practices, without taking them and thinking that’s the only way we can live those values and establish those connections for ourselves? Every one of us has the potential for remembering and (re)connection, within us, and through us. I am here to encourage and support people in designing and cultivating their own practices, rituals, and ceremonies, that apply and resonate deeply with who that unique individual is and the context they come from and live in.
• In engaging in these healing processes, we have the possibility, or rather the responsibility, to commit to sacred reciprocity. Every gift, learning, and healing experienced and received brings an opportunity to ask ourselves how we can share or give back. Also, how can we begin giving before we even receive? In particular, in work with sacred plant and fungi medicines, how do we give back to support those cultures, communities, and environments, from which they come? In other healing, how do we not only pursue individual healing and benefit, but keep in mind ways that this may spread beyond to the collective – people, plants, animals, Mother Earth, and beyond? I am here to infuse this sacred principle of reciprocity into all the work that we do.

Credentials

• Compassionate Inquiry year-long training with Dr. Gabor Maté (2023-4)
• Nondual Tantra Hatha Yoga + Meditation 500 hrs teacher training at Hridaya School (2019)
• ICF-accredited Ontological Life Coaching year-long training program (2014-5)

Trainings

• Nondual Tantra Somatic and Embodied Yoga + Movement teacher training with Satu of Authentic Flow (2023)
• Integration Essentials Reading and Study Group by Fluence (2022)
• Fireside Project Peer-support Harm Reduction Hotline volunteering + training (2021)
• Integration Therapists Consultation Group by The Integration Circle, Deanna Rogers, and Kyle Buller (2020)
• Meditation Retreat Integration course with Hridaya School (2020)
• Indigeny Today Short Course at Schumacher College with Colin Campbell, Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe), and David Luke (2018)
• Plant Communications course at Damanhur (2017)
• Zendo Project Peer-support Harm Reduction volunteering + training (2015)

Stephanie Sheng's offerings

• 100 €/ 90 minutes (recommended length for first post-experience integration session)
• 250 €/ 3 package sessions (1-90 minute session and 2-60 minute follow-up sessions, or one prior as prep session)
• 325 €/ 4 package session (same as above but with added 60-minute prep session)

*Please reach out for details on available sliding scale