About Shentara
Ceremonial Arts & Daoist Medicine
Our Ministry
Shentara is a living lineage devoted to sharing the Spiritual Arts of Daoist, Buddhist and Shamanic Medicine
for the Benefit of All Beings.
As a nonprofit ministry we unite ancient principles into modern practices of embodied learning, mindful movement and ceremonial healing. Our work weaves together Qigong, Meridian Technologies, Sound and Voice Alchemy, Shamanic Medicine and Ceremonial Traditions from across the world.
We honor Dao as Dharma upon the Path of the Golden Dragon. Our Way of Sacred Service is rooted in the cultivation of Compassion, Wisdom and Self-Mastery in harmony with the flow of Life, Nature and Spirit.
We Envision
Humanity in harmony with the sacred living world, where all people are empowered with ways of wellness rooted in the Unity of Body, Mind and Spirit.
Our Mission
Create Sacred Space to empower your path of vibrant health, activate your innate potential and elevate your experience in Body, Mind and Soul.
We Believe
The incredible benefits of Meridian Technologies should be accessible to everyone. These ancient sciences of health and vitality are at the Heart of Shentara, and we are dedicated to making them available to all who seek them.
Our Approach
Spirit-Centered Technologies of
Dao Dharma Medicine.
The practices of Shentara work synergistically to strengthen, cleanse and balance the meridian system, treating Body, Mind and Spirit as One.
These rituals of movement, myofascial work, meditation and sound healing are a bridge between the physical and energy bodies, allowing us to release tension, build vitality and activate the innate healing intelligence within.
Meridian Technologies
The State of our Channel System directly reflects and affects the Health and Wellbeing of our Body and Mind.
In Daoist understanding, the meridian channels are expressions of a Living Spiritual Intelligence and pathways of communication between organs, tissues, emotions and Spirit. This living system is not merely a symbolic map, but a literal, liquid crystal semiconductor network woven through fascia, fluids, breath and bone.
These ancient sciences of Qi and Consciousness are at the Heart of Shentara. The applied principles and practices of Meridian Technologies clear stuck energy and emotions from the cells and structures of our body, aligning us with the health, vitality and wholeness of our True Nature.
Daoist Meridian Therapeutics
Ancestral Medicine meets the Living Intelligence
of the Body.
Daoist Meridian Therapeutics (DMT) is a ceremonial healing art rooted in the ancient spiritual traditions of Daoist, Buddhist and Shamanic Medicine. Each ceremony may include healing touch, energy medicine, myofascial work, moxibustion, meditation and sound healing with intuitive guidance through channeled song.
Accessing the myofascial meridian matrix, nervous system and bio-electromagnetic fields, this modality awakens the body's natural healing wisdom, aligns the lifeforce energy and restores balance in body, mind and soul. This creates space for stress, pain and trauma to resolve, leaving you feeling rejuvenated, balanced and aligned in the wholeness of your being.
We offer DMT Ceremonies to both groups and individuals. People often describe these journeys as a cleansing and renewal of the soul; a return to peace, clarity and connection.
Qigong
Body, Breath and Spirit in Union.
Qigong is meditative medicine in motion, ancient practices of embodied Wisdom which guide us into a relaxed, focused flow state.
As a core Meridian Technology, Qigong works directly with the conductive crystalline network of the body, cultivating and circulating Qi through the channels to restore balance, build vitality and align the entire Being.
With clear intention, centered movement and connected breath, we explore the alchemy of Yin and Yang to clear blockages and activate the innate healing intelligence within.
These potent practices create a space of deep relaxation and revitalization where the nervous system unwinds, the mind grows clear and the Spirit is grounded in embodied presence.
Sound & Voice Alchemy
Frequency is a Powerful Meridian Technology.
Sacred tones, instruments and the focused human voice resonate directly in the crystalline tissues of the body, accessing and activating the same meridian points and pathways as Daoist Meridian Therapeutics and Qigong. Together these modalities speak the same language, working in harmony to clear, balance and restore.
Shentara draws upon the myriad lineages of sound healing which have existed since time immemorial. Calling upon the power of the human voice and a vast array of healing instruments including singing bowls, chimes, bells, gongs, flutes, rattles and drums, we help realign disrupted frequencies in the body, move stagnant energy and create profound shifts in consciousness.
The resonance of mantras, sutras, incantations, icaros, prayers and sacred songs has carried across cultures, continents and centuries. Our ceremonies use the power of these transmissions to channel intuitive guidance, invoke the healing presence of spiritual allies and help us relax deeper into states of consciousness where healing happens.
The Art and Science of Ceremony
Ceremony is a Vessel through which this Medicine moves.
The Technologies of Shentara harness the power of ritual and focused intention to align ourselves in physical and spiritual space. These conscious containers create a field of deep safety, sovereign consent and sacred trust, allowing healing to be held and unfold in deeper ways than technique alone.
At the Heart of Shentara's ceremonial work is the invocation of the Divine Feminine, calling in benevolent energies to assist in healing and transformation. Through the powerful healing presence of Tara, Durga and Guan Yin, we draw upon the Wisdom and Compassion of the living Goddess in her many forms.
We honor and call in the Six Directions along with associated Archangels, and the Sephirot of the Qabalistic Tree of Life.
Rooted in ancient traditions and embodied spiritual practice, Shentara provides a living bridge between Spirit and Body, ancient wisdom and modern ways, ceremony and daily life.
The Story of
Shentara
Upon a Path of profound learning, vast exploration and spiritual initiation, Shentara revealed itself as a living lineage of ceremonial healing.
Within a pyramid temple upon the shores of Lake Atitlan, sitting deep in meditation, a vision arrived. After more than a decade of devoted practice and study...
The name was given.
a mysterious cloaked figure appeared from the Swirling Mists and spoke:
"Shentara is the name of your practice. You will know what it is when it arrives."
The following years of world travel brought further cultivation, education and ceremony across many lands and lineages. Through meditations and profound visionary states, teachings emerged.
The repeated presence and instruction of ancient Daoist Masters in lucid dreams;
Connections, initiations and transmissions from powerful Spirits of Nature…
Allowing a deeper weaving to happen beneath the surface, like an unfolding mycelial matrix of magic.
With deeper study, it became clear that the name Shentara unites two sacred words:
神 Shén
Spirit in Chinese, representing Consciousness and vitality.
तारा Tārā
Female Buddha of Compassion, the Swift Savioress.
Together they carry a single transmission:
" The Spirit of Healing Compassion in action "
Following graduation from Acupuncture college in 2018, Sean T Fox found himself at the Tao Garden retreat center in Northern Thailand, studying the ancient shamanic animal forms of Huà Tuó (華佗) with Master Tevia Feng of the White Tiger Qigong school. One day, in the midst of giving an acupuncture session, something huge began to shift into place.
A whispered voice arrived with a clear instruction: sing the Durge Smrita Harasi, mantra to the Great Mother Durga.
The feeling of voice resonating in the bones, fascia, needles and energy field was unmistakable. The vibrations were entering the body and resonating in the bio-crystalline structures, filling the entire space with sound. The recipient experienced profound shifts in consciousness and immediate healing results.
A few days later the same person had experienced such profound healing that they came back for another session and the voice returned, this time with the whispered instruction: Channel a song.
Here was the turning point.
Sean had spent years channeling songs across the world with Nature Spirits as a personal spiritual practice, singing with trees, caves, oceans, animals, canyons and more. Never before had a healing transmission of song been received for a particular person. Breathing into that vulnerable space, with no idea what would come through..
Song flowed forth in the brilliant clarity of magical chant.
In that moment, with a nearly overwhelming wave of Gratitude...
Everything clicked:
this
is
Shentara
Two decades of learning, practice and initiation in Daoist Medicine, Qigong, Mystery School, Psychology, Sound Healing, Shamanic Arts, Ceremony.. All of it precisely woven together, through lineages and lifetimes into the living tapestry of Medicine that is Shentara.
The following months brought continual refinement and deeper understanding of this emerging art. As various recipients of Shentara found great benefit from Daoist Meridian Therapeutics Ceremonies, they sponsored Sean to attend further White Tiger Qigong trainings, which quickly facilitated a move to Thailand.
A family of practice and cultivation had formed. The gates of Destiny were opening in miraculous ways.
One year later, while finishing studies in the five animal Qigong forms, a fellow student along the White Tiger journey of learning came to Sean T Fox with a folded slip of paper. Seemingly out of nowhere, she said that the Eight Immortals, invoked everywhere at the Tao Gardens, had begun visiting her and her son. Knocking on doors, footsteps on the stairs, playing little tricks, whispering messages..
She informed Sean that there was one particular Immortal who had been working with him throughout the past year, and the name was written on this piece of paper.
That Daoist Immortal was Lán Cǎi Hé (藍采和). Known as the singer, healer, shaman, transgender one-shoed walker between worlds, carrying a basket of flowers, healing herbs and a song for all who need it.
In a sudden flash of synchronicity the identity of the mysterious being with whispered instructions was revealed. The lineage had been present all along, weaving beneath the surface..
There is much more to tell of this tale, and in right time and place it shall be shared.
Who We Are
The practice of Shentara has been received and refined over more than twenty years by Sean T. Fox, who founded Shentara Wellness in 2018. A student and teacher of Life devoted to personal and planetary health, Sean has cultivated a broad understanding of wellness that weaves across centuries, continents and cultures. As a Daoist Medicine Minister, Qigong and Yoga Teacher, Ceremonialist, Sound Healer and Musician, this all weaves together into an open-hearted passion for being in service and sharing these gifts.
Sean was initiated into the Mastery of Shentara in 2019 and has since served as its lineage steward, lead teacher and Minister of Daoist Meridian Therapeutics ceremonies. His formal studies include a BA in Psychology from California State University and a Diploma of Acupuncture from Pacific Rim College in Victoria, BC. He is an Initiate of the Moon and Sun at Las Pyramides del Ka Mystery School, alongside many years of study with a wide variety of human and Spirit teachers.
The Living Lineage
We give thanks to all the Teachers and Masters who have carried these practices throughout the ages, so that we may benefit for the Benefit of All.
Shentara Master Council
孫思邈 Sūn Sīmiǎo - Immortal Physician and Medicine Sage
舒文平 Shū Wénpíng - Daoist Mountain Hermit
老子 Lǎozǐ - Immortal Master and Keeper of the Way
藍采和 Lán Cǎihé - Daoist Immortal Singer and Healer
Padmasambhava - Guru Rinpoche, the Lotus Born Legend
Lama Dorje - Tibetan Master of Compassion
Pele - Volcanic Goddess of Creation and Transformation
Constantine Darling - Qigong, Kung Fu and Dance Dragon
Living Teachers and Traditions
A wide constellation of living human teachers have helped filled in the practical foundations of this work. The many spectacular instructors at both Pacific Rim College and Oshio College in Victoria, BC bestowed the basics of Daoist Medicine through a TCM lens. Additional study with Dr. Jason Robertson of Dr. Wang Ju Yi's lineage of Applied Channel Theory deepened a hands-on understanding of the meridian system.
The Qigong lineages of White Tiger, Shaolin Buddhist, Dong Han Eastern Scholars and Lotus Neigong have provided much of the foundation for the forms practiced and taught within Shentara. Great gratitude to Master Tevia Feng of White Tiger Qigong, whose embodied transmission of the shamanic animal forms of Huà Tuó 華佗 at the Tao Garden Qigong Center in Northern Thailand helped to catalyze the full revelation of what Shentara is.
Special Thanks to Chaty Secaira, founder, teacher and guardian of Las Pirámides del Ka Mystery School in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala for her dedication to the Spiritual Arts, the transmission of ShaluHa-Ka and devotion to the realization of Unity and Peace on the Planet.