Patrice Shakti Bacal

I offer my devotion to the Sacred Feminine, recognizing the inherent power within woman, the earth, and sisterhood. Inspiring women in my own community and across the world, I do my best to ‘walk my talk,’ courageously expressing myself and manifesting the greatest Vision I have for my life…step by step. Knowing that my life and my Vision has value in relation to the collective, gives me a sense of purpose and motivation to continue.

My path has taken many twists and turns before really landing in Boulder, Colorado to find my soul-mate and life partner, become a mother, and birth my Vision into the world. Everywhere I went in life, I learned many great lessons…As a gypsy traveler in Hawaii and the Bahamas, I discovered my deep and intimate love for the mother earth and learned about how she feeds my soul when my mind is quiet and my eyes are open to her. As a pre-school teacher in Oregon, I utilized and developed my love for ritual, storytelling, and singing, and allowed my own love for the children to heal my broken heart. As a jewelry designer for a successful company in the West Village of Manhattan, I learned by working closely with the owners, just how much devotion is required to be a business owner, and had the privilege of working with very potent stones and crystals, creating opulent beauty daily. I eventually realized that even the ‘dream job’ wasn’t really for me. I had a sense that I needed to create something from within myself that was more meaningful than adornment. As a health food store clerk, near the Long Island, NY small town I grew up in, I was humbled to realize that sometimes all it takes is a smile and a friendly conversation to lift up someone else’s spirit. And often in those days, it was mine that needed the lifting. As an ashram dweller all around the world, including India, I lived steeped in a wildly devotional love affair with the Great Mother of all Things. I ritually bathed her, prepared prasad for her in the moonlight, recited her mantras, sang to her for hours, and, more. Though this was a wonderfully fulfilling lifestyle, I eventually realized that in order to really honor Her, I needed to leave the safety of that place to discover my own path of divine motherhood, beginning with mothering myself.

I am blessed to have had so many powerful teachers throughout my young adult life to guide me toward myself. I gratefully received extensive training in the South Indian Classical Dance, Bharata Natyam for many years, and also have been trained in Mayan Healing and Uterine massage, Shamanic Journeying, Shamanic Bodywork, Ritual, Plant Spirit Medicine, Doula Care, and more.

An internationally certified Yoga Instructor, Approved Uterine Massage Practitioner, facilitator of women’s groups and rituals for over 15 years, home-birth mother to one wild girl, and dancer for over 30 years; I live to create the time and space for myself and others to dwell in the essence of Being.

I love dancing with my 3 year old exuberant daughter, laughing with my husband until midnight, walking in nature alone and quiet in the sunshine and snow, and creating meaningful rituals with my family and community in our under-earthen sacred dwelling, the KIVA. I am grateful for the abundance that I have been blessed with, to live with my loving husband and amazing daughter in this beautiful community of Boulder, CO.