A bout Shanila

Shanila Sattar, Bangladeshi at the intersection of healing and the arts as a live ritual facilitator, music producer, author, and researcher. A 4th generation sound healer, she weaves breathwork, ancestral and 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 reminds you that the world is your playground.

currently on The Altar Tour with my HEARTBEAT experience (13 stops)

breathwork | dance | sound immersion

My signature offerings

⏾ HEARTBEAT:
Breathwork & Sound Immersion

HEARTBEAT is an invitation to re-imagine what healing feels like when breath, movement, and sound immerse. This experience is a love letter to self.

a fusion of breathwork + dance
and immersive live ritual experience curated to bring you back into rhythm within yourself
This offering thrives in a nighttime dome/dance setting, low lights, raw

Breathe into a fusion of grounded breath activation, somatic release, tribal-driven beats (often my originals!), and a sound immersion that feels like a ceremony to bring you back into rhythm within yourself. This is your invitation to come home to your pulse: raw, alive, and fully expressed. Your HEARTBEAT.

⏾Ecstatic TWERK DJ Set

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

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Selected Mixes

Unreleased Original Music

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)

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, women’s shelters, 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.