About Shakti
Shakti Andrea Smith, LMT, has been studying Massage since 1992 and has been professionally licensed since 1998. She is also a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist, with training at the Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Swedish Institute in New York City, and The Lotus Palm School of Thai Yoga Massage in Montreal. She has taught Massage and Movement at the Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Shakti has given over ten thousand Massages.
Shakti has been teaching Movement and Meditation since 1990. Her classes and Massage practice are supported by her movement research in the embodied disciplines of Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, Dance Meditations, and Body Mind Centering. She is on the faculty at Movement Research; and in addition has taught at Earthdance, Dance New England, the Boston Living Center, and at Northampton Hospital. She has studied with meditation and dance teachers in Europe, India, across this vast country, and up and down each coast. She is now living, studying, and teaching more locally, in NYC, where she lives with her partner Stewart and her cat Chatty.
Shakti has a B.A. in Transpersonal Psychology with a thesis focus on Expressive Arts Therapy and Authentic Movement. She is trained in Authentic Movement by the Circus of Human Experience in Somerville, MA and in Iyengar Yoga by the Karuna Center in Northampton, MA. She is currently pursuing her Somatic Movement Therapy Certification through Moving on Center/Center for Kinesthetic Education, along with continued Breathwork and Energywork studies.