Beyond the story, there is a field. I'll meet you there.
For those who sense there is more to life, this is the training ground. Through shamanic journeying, energy healing, and deep states of meditation, you learn to reach the calm, clear, and radiant ground of consciousness, and to live from it.
The Work
Finding your way home.
Ara Khin works with people carrying more than they let on, leaders under pressure, those moving through illness or loss, seekers who have always sensed there was more. This work reaches deeper than coaching or therapy, into the body and the subconscious where your patterns are actually held. We begin by establishing a profound sense of safety and attunement, so you can go further than you could alone. From there we work at the pace of your own system, with what is ready to release and what is ready to become. Each session is co-created and entirely yours.
Depending on what you need and what you are ready for, the work can move through deep meditative stillness, somatic attunement, energy healing, channeling, guided trance, and full shamanic journey. What emerges is a sense of peace, clarity, freedom, joy, and grounded presence, so you can bring your full potential into your daily life.
The Name
CitiShakti
Sanskrit for the union of consciousness and energy, the radiant ground beneath all of creation. You may have already touched it, in a moment of awe, of stillness, when you felt held by something far larger. This work is about returning to that ground on purpose, and learning to live from it.
What Changes
What becomes possible.
Your nervous system settles
The low-grade vigilance running underneath everything can be reached and reorganized. You come home to yourself.
You decide from clarity
Not from pressure or old patterning, but from a quieter, steadier, more trustworthy signal.
Deep states become your ground
Stillness and bright clarity stop being rare moments and become a baseline you return to.
In a Session
The mind grows quiet and the body releases what it has carried, through breath, tears, or a long exhale held for years. For some, the work opens further, the rising energy the traditions call kundalini, insight that arrives as if through you, moments when the boundary between you and everything else dissolves.
None of it is forced. Every session meets only what your system is ready for. Both the quiet and the vast are whole.
The Guide
A tuning fork holds its coherence, and what is resonant begins to answer.
Ara came to this work the way most genuine guides do, through necessity. Born in Myanmar into a lineage of seers and healers, she carried a rare sensitivity that she spent years trying to metabolize through the intellect, with degrees from Harvard and Berkeley, graduate teaching, and fieldwork in humanitarian conflict zones. The training held. The sensitivity did not stop.
What brought her fully to this work was illness, a life-threatening autoimmune condition that the best conventional medicine could not resolve, which left her in daily pain and depleted at the root. She healed it anyway, across twenty years of sustained practice: study with Tibetan lamas and Buddhist monks, training in Amazonian and West African shamanic lineages, work with Tantric and Vedanta teachers, and deep immersion in somatic modalities including Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, and Internal Family Systems. In traditions across cultures, this path of illness, descent, and return is recognized as the ground of real healing capacity. One cannot guide another through country one has not crossed.
In deep states her own system holds a steadiness that yours, then, remembers how to find. She works with a small number of people, because presence of this kind asks for everything and cannot be scaled. Her gift is to perceive the energetic field with unusual precision, to locate what is held there, and to accompany you through the full arc of return. Working at the meeting place of somatic attunement, contemplative depth, and energetic perception, she meets people who are ready to go deeper, with a guide who can genuinely meet them where they are.
Offerings
Ways to work together.
Somatic Energy Healing
Therapy and energy healing woven together. Through somatic attunement, Ara helps you release the patterns your body has been holding, so your nervous system can genuinely rewire rather than simply cope. Ninety minutes, entirely responsive to you.
Guided Shamanic Journey
A two-hour journey into deep trance states through breath, sound, and drumming, no substances of any kind. Doorways open: the Akashic field, ancestors and guides, and channeled insight. You remain present and held throughout.
Transformative Coaching
For those who have had energetic openings and carry gifts ready to explore. Sustained one-on-one work on grounding, releasing fear, and unblocking your power, in alignment with a genuine sense of purpose.
How a Session Feels
"After working with Ara, something shifted so profoundly that words can barely describe it. She helped me release energy I had been holding onto my entire life, and for the first time, I feel a sense of peace and calm within myself. I'm now working on a dream project I had been putting off for a long time."
Kirsten S."I've never experienced a meditation like that before. I started caught up in the day and all the work I had to do. But when the drums started, I went really deep, right away, and reached this expanded, open state where I got visuals and colors. I left feeling very calm, with all these great ideas for my business. I'm usually exhausted by Friday afternoons, but that day I had so much energy and creativity."
Jake K."Ara has a true gift. My session revealed I was in the hands of an incredibly powerful healer, and I felt the effects for a long time after. She helped me move density out of my body and open to a frequency that allowed more light to move in. I am very grateful to work with her."
Nikki D."I'd never gotten energy work before and was so surprised I saw visions. It was like taking LSD or Ayahuasca, but I was completely sober. I saw myself from the future embracing myself right now, and cried tears of relief and forgiveness."
Julia W.Is This For You
This is for you if…
- You are intellectually rigorous and spiritually serious, and don't fit neatly into one category.
- You have had experiences, in meditation or ceremony, your ordinary life hasn't caught up to.
- You lead well on the outside, and sense something underneath that hasn't been touched.
- You are at a turning point, and want to meet it with depth, not only strategy.
Stay in the Field
A letter from the field.
An occasional letter from Ara with free guided meditations, writings on the deep states, community events, and first word of retreats and offerings. Unhurried and warm.
Your email is held with care and never shared.
Begin
The first step is a conversation.
Unhurried, in confidence, and without pressure.
