my journey…

My given name is Samantha. Music has always been my first language.

As a little girl, I found my voice in chorus. Learning how harmony feels in the body, how sound can weave through a room and stitch hearts together. Something ancient awakened in me there… a primal knowing of the healing power of singing in community.

In high school drama club I discovered storytelling, the alchemy of stepping into another skin and letting emotion move freely. My confidence bloomed in 2007 when I was cast as Rizzo in Grease my senior year. I felt alive. Just months later, my father was killed in a motorcycle accident, leaving a silence in my life that no applause could fill. Grief carved a hollow space in my heart…but over time, that space became sacred. It became the place I sing from. Every note I offer carries him.

In my twenties, I found community theater and sang in multiple cover bands. This taught me how to hold a stage, how to move with rhythm, how to let my voice fill a room. Line dancing brought joy and connection through movement. And yet… something in me was still seeking.

The bars grew loud, the nights grew late, and I felt the whisper of a deeper calling. I longed for sound and spaces where voices gathered in peace and prayer instead of over clinking glasses. I craved a higher vibration. A deeper meaning.

That seeking led me to a yoga class…. I followed the path that started to unfold before me.

In 2017, everything shifted.

Completing my 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training cracked something open inside me. Layers I didn’t know existed began to rise to the surface. I followed that awakening to Rishikesh, India, where I immersed myself in a month-long Kundalini 200-hour training.

It was there that I understood: voice is not performance… it is prayer.

Movement is not exercise … it is remembrance.

In 2018, I mentored with a sound healer from Ecuador and began weaving together movement and sound into immersive workshops. My soundscape expanded with many instruments, but my voice has always remained my most sacred instrument.

In 2021, during my first five-day unplugged immersion in nature, I wrote and recorded my debut album, Simple + Profound -an empowerment album born from shadow work. It is a love letter to the tender places, a reminder that you are not alone, and above all: just remember to breathe.

That album inspired BODY SOUL FLOW - a gathering that weaves yoga, dance, original music, and kirtan into a living ceremony.

In 2024, I released Heart Song, recorded live in nature to capture the purity of presence. The following summer, I hosted my first Heart Song concert in collaboration with 11 Hudson Valley artists: a celebration of community, artistry, and collective vibration. You can find these albums on all major platforms for music by searching “ Sama Shakti- Simple & Profound” or “ Sama Shakti - Heart Song.”

Since 2022, I have been hosting women’s retreats. Sacred spaces where women gather to remember who they are. There is a unique medicine that emerges when women sit in circle. We see ourselves reflected in one another’s beauty, strength, grief, and power. We remember we are a tribe. I am co-founder of Awakening Wellness Women’s Retreats- traveling to the Puerto Rican island, Vieques for self discovery and transformation.

My offerings have continued to expand from Movement + Sound immersions like Unleash Your Inner Goddess and Song Medicine + Ecstatic Dance, Kundalini & Gong to private sound sessions for personalized shamanic healing sessions. I also have a 1:1 Sacred Sound Journey trainings for those called to learn the art of healing through vibration. I’m passionate about corporate wellness experiences and founded Digital Detox Retreats (born from my own need to unplug, to return to earth, to create without distraction.)

I feel most aligned with my bare feet on the ground, sun on my skin, surrounded by forest or ocean air. Nature is my church. Earth is my teacher.

In a world increasingly intertwined with artificial intelligence and digital noise, I believe we must gather to raise our voices in prayer and peace. Deep healing happens when we sing together. When we breathe together. When we remember…

We are not machines.

We are living instruments.