About Shanila

Mystical, magical, ancestral, elemental, and booty.

Shanila Sattar, Bangladeshi at the intersection of healing and the arts. A 4th generation sound healer, she weaves breathwork, ancestral ancient sounds, and a deep connection to the elements. Whether under open skies or within sacred spaces, Shanila channels the mystical wisdom of nature, weaves through sonic worlds, and celebrates the mischief of life.

1. MyDJ/Live Performance signature offering:

HEARTBEAT is an invitation to re-imagine what healing feels like when breath, movement, and sound immerse.

This offering thrives in a nighttime dome/dance setting.

a fusion of breathwork + dance
and immersive live DJ experience curated to bring you back into rhythm within yourself

Expect grounded breath activation, somatic release, tribal-driven beats, and a sound immersion that feels like ceremony.
This is your invitation to come home to your pulse: raw, alive, and fully expressed.

Genres:

Your HEARTBEAT

Genres:
TRIBAL FUSION
GLOBAL + ORGANIC GROOVE
WORLD BEATS
ORGANIC DOWNTEMPO
Move your body, booty, and heart!

2. My Breathwork + Sound Immersion offering:

This offering thrives in a daytime workshop setting.
This offering combines the power of breathwork, set to intentional beats to help you tap into your body’s wisdom and connect with your inner flow. Through flow breathwork and guided movement, release tension, explore deeper states of consciousness, and activate your creative energy.

RECENTLY SHARED: 2025

Same Same But Different Festival (California)

Surrender Collective Ecstatic Dance (California, Texas, New York)

Babestock Music Festival (Austin, Texas)

Desert Oasis Mastermind (Texas)

Astronox (Texas)

Disclosure (California)

Pecan Street Festival (Texas)

Sonic Sunlit Festival (Austin, TX)

SoulFlow Breathwork Series: Guided Breathwork and Downtempo (Austin, TX)

The Drop-In - Long Center (Austin, TX)

Sonic Summit Showcase (Austin, TX)

Sonic Summit Featured Artist (Austin, TX)

BabeATX Dry January Social (Austin, TX)

In the Open SXSW Showcase (Austin, TX)

Selected Mixes

Unreleased original music

Notable contributions in the healing arts

One of the first in S.California to receive grant funding from the state of California to bring holistic healing arts into clinical populations: established programming for recovery centers, veterans legions, and low income schools.

Best-selling author of Breathe - a breathwork book, and one of the first mainstream wellness books by a South Asian author.

Host of The Playground, a globally ranked top 2% rated podcast.

Founder of Flow Breathwork Facilitator Certification School rooted in wisdom traditions, movement + decolonization with over 1500+ students.