About Shanila

Mystical, magical, ancestral, elemental, booty.

Shanila Sattar, Bangladeshi at the intersection of healing and the arts as a DJ, producer, a live facilitator. A 4th generation sound healer, she weaves breathwork, ancestral and ancient sounds, and a deep connection to the elements. The transmissions are journeys that inspire remembering. 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.

DJ/Live Performance signature offering:

HEARTBEAT is a living, breathing journey into your aliveness.
This offering thrives in a nighttime dome/dance setting.

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

This is where deep inner work meets primal movement. Where nervous system regulation meets liberation. Where breath and body connect.

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.

Your HEARTBEAT

Genres:
TRIBAL FUSION
GLOBAL + ORGANIC HOUSE
WORLD BASS
ORGANIC DOWNTEMPO

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)

Total Recall Festival (California)

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. I’ve facilitated this for 10 years now!

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.