Shanti O'Connor

No matter what service Shanti provides, she comes with deep presence, intuitive knowing, an open heart and an open mind.  Her approach is straight forward, honest, and loving. It is clear she teaches from her own lived wisdom. She will only ask of you what she herself has lived, does, has done, or has experienced.  There is no fluff, just raw, open, and honest.

Shanti O'Connor is a nationally certified counselor, a licensed teacher, hypnotherapist, a Transformational Energy Medicine Practitioner, a TRE teacher, a Yoga Teacher, Pranic Healer and Reiki Master. In 2017 she started the non-profit Bend Birth Connection. In 2018 she opened the wellness center, The Hive, located in downtown Bend. In the fall of 2018 she became a radio show host for KPOV’s talk show Curiosity Lab. In 2019 she graduated from Yoga Lab’s 200 RYT yoga teacher training.

Shanti started teaching and coaching basketball in 2001. In 2009, she received her Master of Science in Counseling from OSU-Cascades. She began her therapeutic career in counseling by running girls groups, grief groups, teaching yoga to children, and facilitating mindfulness groups for teen parents. In 2011, she started the Mama Nurture Circle and Pregnancy Circle. In 2012, she received a certification in Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique and has been conducting past life hypnotherapy sessions since. She has specialized training in postpartum depression, trauma, energy healing, Pranic Healing, TRE, Reiki, breathwork, vinyasa yoga and yoga for children.

Currently, Shanti runs various women's groups (including the Mama Nurture Circle), she teaches meditation classes, energy healing classes, and spiritual classes. She has a private healing practice where she blends talk therapy, hypnotherapy, and energy healing into a uniquely powerful healing session.