Shahna Sarpi - Life Artist & Embodiment Mentor, Melbourne (2026)

16/06/2026

and I had the most incredible 3 days with these beautiful souls at The Art of Fulfilment over the weekend ❤️

It was a deep dive into a whole new paradigm and way of living. An invitation into choosing fulfilment as a way of life and integrating both spirituality and success, not having to choose one or the other.

A huge theme that permeates this wisdom is moving from fear, to love and truth. Breaking free from what we call ‘head hypnosis’ and all of the ways our unconscious fears, patterns and conditioning create suffering in our lives. Using the models, frameworks and tools to provide a roadmap to setting ourselves more and more free.

It feels like such an honour to be trusted as a guide, teacher and facilitator and never something I take for granted. Massive shout out to these 6 incredible humans for choosing to join us on this journey 🥰

Something that feels true for us is that we’re here for those that are devoted to the path of awakening, of truth and depth. Not the dabblers. Those that know there is a better way and are committed to continuing to live from the heart and choose a spirit led life.

Along with getting to teach the incredible wisdom and guide some super potent activities - one of and I’s favourite things about these events is the divine guidance, magic moments and powerful interventions that spontaneously unfold.

It’s hard to put into words the beautiful connections that are formed, the understanding and embodiment that is gained and the healing that happens in these spaces. It’s truly so special!

We’re already excited to do it all again in August! If you’re ready to step into a life of more fulfilment, freedom and presence, message myself or and we’ll let you know the details 🦋

11/06/2026

‘Why am I doing this?! This is crazy. What have I done?!’

I see my protectors coming up, trying to ‘keep me safe’. Telling me a hundred reasons why this is a terrible idea and I need to stop this RECLAMATION ‘nonsense’.

Shame wants to hide. But it heals in the light.
Sharing things we feel shame around is one of the scariest things we can do.
But it’s also one of the most liberating.

Shame is the densest frequency.
The heaviest emotion.
The most powerful form of fear.

And because it’s so scary to share, we hide it.
Because it’s so scary to feel, we suppress it.

You’d think it would be easier this way.. Never having to go through the discomfort of feeling it or being seen in it. But shame weighs us down. This density and heaviness is exhausting to hold. It sucks our life force energy, dulls our shine and makes us feel unworthy. It causes us to hide parts of ourself. Life becomes a performance.

I talk about suppressed emotions being like an emotional backpack we carry. With all of the unexpressed feelings being added like rocks. Shame being the heaviest rock makes this backpack really damn heavy to carry. But we can take it out. We can hold it, bring it to the light, share it with someone. Even though it feels agonising at times.

If you ever feel unworthy, like you’re not good enough or like you need to be different, I can guarantee you’re holding onto shame. & let me tell you… we don’t need more positive affirmations telling us we’re worthy. We need to address the root of this unworthiness: the toxic shame. The shame that tells us there is something wrong with us. That we’re inherently bad. That we’re broken and need fixing.

RECLAMATION is an experiment in radical self acceptance. In shame slaying. In showing that when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to gain. I’m setting myself free in real time, showing you how good it gets when we stop performing, pretending and proving.

And so even though my protectors are screaming at me to stop, I walk on.
Because even though parts of me are freaking out, I already feel more liberated. I already feel more me. What a gift.

Continued in the comments ⬇️

10/06/2026

Did I fail at my failure post?! 🤣

lovingly called me forward last night inviting me into releasing shame around a specific time that he knows I feel vulnerable sharing

So, let’s try that again. This is the time I failed that feels scariest to admit…

When I left my full time job a few years ago, I had an amazing launch in my business. I made 15k in a couple of weeks and I was on top of the world. I naively thought this would be my new normal.

I had 60k in savings, all the time to work on my biz and a fire in my belly.

But the part of me that feels like I always need to know more, need to be more qualified, need more support or guidance… that part started running the show.

Before I knew it, I was investing 15k in one program, 4k in another and 1.5k in a third.

I’d already spent more than I’d made.

But it didn’t stop there…

2.5k on a couple of workshops.
1k on another event and the 7k upsell mastermind.

Money on multiple trips interstate.
More on plant medicine journeys.
Photoshoots.

2k on a certification. 4k on another.

Not to mention general spending and my mortgage.

All the while I was trying to work on my business and get some money coming in doing what I loved.

My main freelance role had dried up.

I’d tried to launch my program again, but this time got no one.
Tried a few more times, still no interest.

I spent a while rebranding it, made it cheaper, tried again. Had one sign up.

It didn’t help that I was burnt out from pushing so hard in my previous career, trying to work a full-time job, run two businesses and keep up with two podcasts.

I was in a shut down state, a depression and struggled to do much of anything really.

Let alone keep up with all the programs I’d signed up for and give my business the time and care it needed to support me.

I reached a point where I was down to my final few thousand in my savings. I needed to do something before it ran out.

I got a casual job as a receptionist to cover some of my expenses.
I’d failed in being able to provide for myself in biz.

I told people I did it to change things up, for some variety. But really I couldn’t make ends meet. I was so ashamed.

Continued in the comments ⬇️

09/06/2026

I am a failure.

On one level I know failure is subjective. A stepping stone to success. A redirection. Something that only exists if you give up or don’t even try. I know a million optimistic outlooks for failure.

But the truth is, many times I’ve failed or perceived myself as a failure, I’ve internalised it.

I made it mean that I was bad.
That there was something wrong with me.
That I wasn’t worthy of love.

I’ve placed so much pressure on myself to ‘succeed’.
To prove that I’m worthy. To prove that I’m enough.

But what if I just admitted it…

I’m a failure.

I’ve failed subjects in uni
I’ve failed multiple business ventures
I’ve failed launches within my current business
I’ve failed numerous relationships
I’ve failed certain friendships and connections
I’ve failed to see things all the way through
I’ve failed to keep my word to myself

I’ve failed countless times.

But really the content of when and how I ‘failed’ doesn’t matter.

What matters is what I made it mean about me.
What matters is the love I withheld from myself in these times.
What matters is the pressure I feel to avoid failure.
What matters is the fear I’ve held of what others will think.
What matters is the shame I’ve felt when I’ve ‘failed’.

More than all of this, what matters most is RECLAIMING this part of me.

I am a failure and I love myself.
I am a failure and I’m worthy of love.

I am a failure and that is just one part of me.

Because I am a failure AND I am a success.
I am both and neither part is better or worse.

Both parts make the whole.
I can’t actually have one without the other.
I am a whole woman. I contain multitudes.

The part of me that is a failure deserves as much love as the part of me that is a success.

So today, I am reclaiming the part of me that is a failure.

For so long I was afraid, telling myself that I couldn’t be seen as a failure because people wouldn’t find me valuable. That they wouldn’t want to work with me. That it would make me an imposter.

But really, it’s impossible not to fail sometimes in life. & now I know it doesn’t actually mean anything about me or my character. It doesn’t make me any less worthy or loveable.

Continued in the comments ⬇️

08/06/2026

This may be the scariest post I’ve ever written.

Because it signifies the beginning of something that may be the most powerful thing I’ve ever done. A declaration that its happening. That I’m really about to do this…

It will change my life. I have no doubt about it. I don’t know exactly what that looks like just yet, but I know the power of what I’m about to do. I teach it. I’ve experienced it. I’ve seen it, time and time again. But I’m about to take it to another level.

2 years ago, I sat in a workshop (The Art of Fulfilment by ).

I’d just had a breakdown.

I was feeling like a massive failure.
& I didn’t want to admit it.
To myself, or others.

I didn’t want others to see me as a failure.
‘What would it mean about me if they knew?!’ I thought to myself.
Desperate to hide, to keep it all together.
To put on a mask, deny any truth to the idea.

But fearing what they thought was actually just a cover up.
It wasn’t really about what anyone else thought about me.
It’s was what I thought about me.

‘Absolutely unacceptable.
No. Impossible. It can’t be true.
Not even an option.’

Then it hit me…
‘I need to do a post on instagram with the word FAILURE written in big letters over a photo of me.’

Sorry, what?!

It’s like I could hear the voice of my higher self:
You’re so afraid of being a failure. Or being perceived as one.
Its caging you. You’re living under a mountain of shame.
There is a part of you that FEELS like a failure. There is a part of you that IS a failure.
You need to reclaim it. It will set you free.

And in that moment I realised, I was denying so many parts of myself.
The scared parts, the disempowered parts, the dark parts.

It was easy to love the empowered parts.

If I felt I was successful, it was easy to share and celebrate that.
But failure.. nope, not happening. Got to change that, can’t let that be true.

And I saw how much of my life this permeated…

Confident: yes. Awkward, afraid, insecure: no.
Happy: yes. Sad, depressed, down: no.
Kind: yes. Mean, bitchy, judgemental: no.

I could go on… but you see the theme right?

I WAS DENYING SO MUCH OF MYSELF.
& it was really f***ing exhausting.

Continued in comments ⬇️

06/06/2026

The past 5 weeks on and I’s plate has looked a lot like this…

We’ve been doing our annual parasite cleanse 🪱 and consuming a whole lot of greens and veg. It’s safe to say our gut and liver would be loving us right now!

There’s something pretty incredible about not eating a single refined/processed food for so long. About cooking every meal from home and placing so much attention on what we put into our body.

We live a life of holistic health generally. Prioritising a real food way of eating, hydration, movement, sleep, low-tox home etc, but these annual resets bring about additional benefits from the extra effort required. And it’s so worth it!

💚 Health is so FOUNDATIONAL to a fulfilled life. To a life that feels as good as it looks. It’s a key ingredient to feeling fully alive, radiant and free - which is what I’m so passionate about showing up here and guiding you towards as I walk the same path.

While I’m very excited to bring my daily cacao back into the mix (so close now), I’m feeling a lot of gratitude and pride towards the discipline and devotion have had towards our health on this cleanse.

It feels nice to have put my nutritionist and recipe developer hats back on for a while to maximise this experience for us. 👩🏻‍🍳 Even though I don’t work in these worlds anymore, they’re still such huge parts of who I am and the way I choose to live my life.

I’d love to hear - What are some health wins you’re proud of recently or healthy habits you’re implementing?

14/05/2026

💣 Life isn’t always going to be ‘good’…

It’s going to be hard, messy, beautiful, chaotic, ugly, fun, bad, challenging, blissful, painful, easeful, stressful… and so on!

Needing life to FEEL good all the time is causing you suffering.

Needing life to LOOK good on the outside is stealing your happiness.

THINKING that life needs to be good all the time is actually what’s ruining your life 🤯

Let me explain…

In my post yesterday, I shared how an extraordinary life is all about the internal, how it feels. But one thing I want to make clear is that life isn’t always going to feel good. It’s certainly not always going to feel extraordinary. And it’s not meant to!

Life is full of ups and downs.Polarities. Pleasure and pain. Love and fear ⚖️

Without one we can’t fully appreciate the other. And one doesn’t exist without the other. It’s a spectrum.

Trying to avoid the ‘bad’ is a losing battle ❗️

What makes life good, or better yet extraordinary, is being able to embrace both sides of the spectrum.

To embody what it means to be human and feel it all.

💫 To LIVE what’s right in front of you in that moment… not get sucked into your head and all the ways you think it ‘should’ be instead.

It’s possible to find fulfilment in the pleasure and in the pain. In the highs and the lows.

How do we do this?

✋ Stop resisting!

Meet the moment. Be there for whatever is. Whether is feels good or not. Whether it looks good or not. Be with it.

The suffering is in the resistance.

When we stop resisting we find fulfilment. We find bliss ✨

I love the quote by Joseph Campbell, ‘bliss is any feeling fully felt’.

Let go of life always needing to look or feel good. I promise it will change your life. It changed mine.

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If you’re ready to learn more about this way of life, I invite you to join and I at our upcoming workshop The Art of Fulfillment! DM me or comment ‘Interested’ for more info ❤️

21/01/2026

Over the weekend I attended a 2-day Meisner Workshop run by

WOW! What an incredible experience. I am so deeply grateful for all that I gained, the parts of myself I got to embrace, and the deeper levels of authenticity I was able to lean into.

Honestly, I didn’t quite know what I was walking into… I did know it was an acting tool, which made me nervous! I also knew that it would be out of my comfort zone and guessed that it would force me to meet and embody more of my shadow parts.

When I was young, I used to LOVE performing. I loved attention and being in the spotlight. I remember that one of my highlights of primary school was being one of the lead characters in a school play. Another was being school captain and getting to speak at school assembly regularly!

My sun sign is a Leo 🦁 so it made sense that I wanted to shine and be seen…

But as I got older, I became more shy. I got more socially anxious, quiet and started to shrink. I didn’t take opportunities to be in the spotlight, in fact I HATED public speaking or being the focus of attention in a room full of people in high school and uni.

A lot has changed since then and I’ve stepped back into my star archetype in different ways. I now love facilitating, speaking and teaching. I’m yet to re-embrace the part of me that loves to perform though.

This weekend felt like a beautiful step of reclaiming lost parts of myself. Of remembering the power and magnetism of true authenticity and realness. I loved learning Meisner and now I want to do more!

It feels like such a beautiful addition to Authentic Relating, which and I have been diving deep into

All this time in authentic spaces has really made me see how much more of this is needed. I don’t know how I went so much of my life with surface level convos, lack of self awareness and wearing masks rather than being myself and allowing myself to be deeply met and seen!

So grateful for the incredible group of humans I got to share this with!! The authenticity, vulnerability and intimacy we shared over this time was next level 🙌🏻

12/01/2026

More time in nature, less time on screens.
Something I’m committed to living by this year 🌿

Last year, I went 313 without watching any TV (no shows or movies) and I plan on doing something similar this year.

But more than that, I’m focusing in on reducing social media usage, particularly ditching mindless scrolling!

This year I’ll be shifting to much more intentional use of social media, which mostly just includes posting on my accounts and interacting with those of you here ❤️

In the last few months of 2025, I installed some social media blocking apps and drastically reduced my usage…

I actually went 59 days of less that 10 minutes on Instagram, with weeks at a time where I didn’t even open the app!

In one way this was great, in another way it meant I was a whole lot less active on here and I do love to share 😅 and I’ve been absolutely shocking at replying on here as a result (sorry guys).

So this year I’ll be finding more of a balance. Sharing more and engaging often, but consuming less.

And while this alone feels like a beautiful intention, I’m shifting some of the time I would have spent on a screen to being outdoors.

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been waking up and going for a sunrise walk and it is absolutely divine. Would recommend!

What are your intentions around screen time and social media this year? Let me know in the comments and please feel free to join me on mine!

I also plan on reading a lot more this year, so if you have any epic recommendations on topics of healing, spirituality, psychology, etc. send them my way 📚

P.S. How special is this tree!!

06/01/2026

Fun start to the year crafting our visions for 2026 on 1/1 🤎

7.5 hours later and pictured here was the almost finished product! I made a few final touches to it the next morning and now it’s happily sitting on the wall in our kitchen so I can look at it while I nourish my body at mealtimes each day.

To me, a vision board is like a compass, guiding me in the direction that I want to go 🧭 It’s less about ‘what’ I want and more about how I desire to feel.

I use it to remind myself of the habits and traits required for me to create the life that I desire to live and become the version of myself that can hold it.

While vision boards can be heavily focused on the light, I like to have it there as a North Star. A way to remind myself of who I am and who I am becoming, so that regardless of whether I’m going through ‘good’ times or ‘bad’, I develop the devotion and discipline to stand strong within myself.

Some of my intended themes of 2026 are:
- MIRACLES (meeting every moment with love)*
- FULFILMENT (prioritising all that this means to me)
- FOUNDATIONS (nailing foundational habits)
- PURPOSE (building our legacy )
- AUTHENTICITY (embracing and sharing what’s real)

*I’m continuing my daily studies of A Course In Miracles this year and intend for the wisdom from this text to be something I come back to again and again.

Some other themes include: meeting the moment, following the aliveness and LIBERATION through the same kind of alchemy and healing work I take my clients through.

So glad we decided to attend the final event of ’s first chapter! 2026 will not be the same without my favourite community centre, which has brought me immense gifts over its 5 years (including my beloved ). Felt very special to be at the first event all those years ago and the least event just a few days ago.

Sending you blessings and love as we enter 2026 ✨

Shahna Sarpi - Life Artist & Embodiment Mentor

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