Shanti Gold Cousens MA

Shanti Gold Cousens is the co-director of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia Arizona where she teaches Kali-Ray® Tri-Yoga, aromatherapy, and other classes in the Center’s spiritual retreat programs.

 

Shanti Gold Cousens has dedicated her life to love, service and devotion. She was initially trained as a community nurse in her native land of New Zealand. She has earned her B.A. and Masters Degree in Vegan and Live-Food Nutrition from the University of Integrated Science. She offers a variety of workshops at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona, as the Director of TriYoga®. The depth of her experience in the spiritual and healing arts, along with her compassionate presence, inspires and illuminates the lives of all those she serves.

 

One of Shanti’s first live-food mentors was Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Founder/Director of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, who would become her husband eleven years later. After many years of study she has been ordained as an Essene Priestess in the Essene Order of Light, and she is currently assisting Gabriel specifically in the preparation and training of priestesses.

 

Shanti became a vegetarian at age 16 and she began her study of yoga at the age of nineteen. Five years into her practice of yoga, at the age of twenty four, she met Kali Ray®, with whom she would spend the next 16 years living, learning, training, meditating and teaching. In 1986 she became among the first of the trained Kali Ray TriYoga teachers and taught as a Senior Teacher at the Kali Ray TriYoga® headquarters in Santa Cruz, California for 16 years.

 

Shanti quickly found the harmony between the practice of TriYoga® and a vegan, live-food diet. As a teacher, she expanded her classes to include living foods education and hosted living foods gatherings a t the Kali Ray TriYoga®Center. With great generosity, she offers her love through preparing delicious live-food delicacies to nourish body and soul.

 

Shanti’s passion for healing, spiritual illumination and a holistic way of life lead her to the art, science and spirit of aromatherapy. For seven years she studied and worked under Elizabeth Van Buren, Director of the College of Botanical Healing Arts in California. She completed extensive studies of botany, chemistry, blending therapeutic oils and individualizing the healing approach for each client. During this time she was employed by Elizabeth Van Buren blending customized oils and as an independent aromatherapy healing practitioner. She continues to share this time-honored healing art as an aromatherapist at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center.

 

Shanti and Gabriels partnership embodies the Divine Flow inherent in the Culture of Life and Liberation lifestyle. They inspire those around them to manifest sacred partnership, right livelihood, holistic living and Divine Union. She co-teaches the Sacred Relationship Course at the Tree of Life with Gabriel, and also co-participates in the spiritual questions and answers are port of the evening programs at the Tree of Life. The essence of her work is to bring the healing power of the Shakhinah energy (Sacred Feminine) into the planet for the healing of the world.