Mother. Mystic.
Mentor. Artist.

"Your body is an ocean, rich with hidden treasures. Open your inmost chamber and light its lamp."

— Shiva Rea

Wild Divine Sanctuary is a space held for both depth and expansion, for the light and the shadow — where everything you are becomes part of the work.

I help people feel their own aliveness — through embodied practice, ancient wisdom, and a living relationship with themselves, each other, and nature. I put language to experiences that have never had words. I bring the mystical into the everyday — redefining habits, patterns, and behaviours into a lifestyle that actually feels like you. Awakening your ecstatic life force energy so you can live with new inspiration, creativity, and the deep satisfaction of manifesting a life that is wholly, wildly, unapologetically yours.

"This is the Artistry of Life, and your essence is your art."

Artemis Vandevi
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Shamanic Tantrika · Mystic

I found my way here
through living it.

I was a people-pleasing rebel with a secret life. On the outside I fit in — just enough, just barely — while something underneath was always pulling in a completely different direction. Contradictory, polarising, fragmented. Like two versions of myself that couldn't find a way to coexist. My body always knew a vibe was off before my mind caught up — a whole fuck yes or a whole hell no — and I followed that, even when it looked reckless from the outside. I didn't know I was trusting myself. I just knew I couldn't stay anywhere that felt wrong.

I was confused about who I was — my body, my desires, my needs. I numbed the pain and I chased bliss, two sides of the same coin, both trying to escape the unbearable ordinariness of a life that never quite fit. Substances. Sex. Movement. Anything that made the static stop or the aliveness start. It wasn't self-destruction. It was self-medication for something I didn't yet have words for.

I have lived a lot of lives. High school hangovers in Vancouver. Fine dining, VIP clubs, celebrities. Teaching English in Thailand and Germany. Backpacking through Mexico. Ecuador with a four-year-old. Rehab. And then in the middle of all of it, a divine instruction so clear I couldn't ignore it. That calling led me to yoga, to India, to the body, to the shadow, to rehab again — and then to twenty years of immersion in yoga therapy, Kundalini tantra, addiction recovery, trauma therapy, depth psychology, mysticism and dream work.

Mother · Artist · Muse

Being a mother has been
its own labyrinth.

Being a mother has been its own labyrinth — its own initiation into depths I could never have predicted, its own stripping away of everything I thought I was in order to find out what was actually true.

My daughter and I have been in a chrysalis together through all of it, dying a million deaths between us — and every time we re-emerge, we are more ourselves than we were before.

Artemis and daughter
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Then life blew wide open. A spiritual awakening that came on gradually and then all at once — light pouring in, magic and art and mischief, a sense of finally arriving somewhere real. And then inevitably, the underworld asked for her turn. The density of the human body after the bliss. The diagnosis. The devastation.

The work of putting myself back together was really the work of letting myself be whole. Stopping the war between the parts. The mystic and the one who swears. The healer and the wild one. The devoted mother and the woman who needs to be alone in nature for days. I stopped trying to make those things make sense to anyone else and started trusting that they all belonged.

My energy is enormous and doesn't always know its own edges, and learning to contain it without killing it — to direct it rather than suppress it — has been the real work. That's why I need sanctuary. Nature. Quiet. Practice. Somewhere for the intensity to go. And that's what I support others in doing — how to cultivate, generate and direct this creative life force energy.

Late in life I was diagnosed with AuDHD and bipolar two. Those labels arrived late, as they often do for people like us — and when they did, they didn't shrink my experience, they gave it edges. Finally, a shape for something I had lived my whole life without being able to name. I am genuinely grateful for allopathic medicine and what it has made possible for me. And I hold that alongside something else entirely — the visions, the psychic openings, the shamanic experiences, the moments where the veil went thin and something moved through. In indigenous and ancestral traditions, what Western medicine calls a disorder is often recognised as a different kind of perception. A different relationship with reality. I don't choose between these frameworks. I live in both. And that is the heart of the work I bring.

"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."

— Frida Kahlo

Artemis — I am my own muse

I am an artist and my own muse. What I create moves through me as an expression of my soul, my emotions, and unseen realms that words cannot quite reach.

I am rooted in the feminine and the earth — her cycles, her shadows, her medicine. Ancestral wisdom and indigenous knowing. The Egyptian pantheon. The body of water that makes something in me go quiet so something else can wake up. These are not separate from the work. They are the ground it grows from.

That feeling of being fragmented without knowing why. Of being too much without understanding what that means. Of sensing there is something more but having no language for what it is. That is what I have spent years learning to name — weaving the seen and the unseen, the mundane and the extraordinary — and translating it into something people can actually use to live more freely, more fully, and more like themselves.

This work is for the people who are willing to look at what lives in the shadows — and who want to do that in a way that is creative, alive and soul-stirring, not just endlessly heavy.

Sri Yantra

I invite you to bring all of it here — the sexuality and the spirituality, the shadow and the light, the addiction and the awakening, the maiden, mother, mystic and muse.

Let me help you find your true Soul's expression.

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Tantra is a Lifestyle —
and a yes to all of it.

"That which produces bliss should be used in worship since it ravishes the heart."

— Tantraloka

What if you didn't have to choose between your spirituality and your humanity? Between your desire and your devotion? Between the wild parts of you and the sacred ones? Tantra says you don't. It is one of the oldest living philosophies on earth and its central idea is radical in its simplicity — everything about you belongs.

Wild Divine
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The work came from living it.

Somatic & Body-Based Practices
  • Somatic Trauma Therapy Certification — Embody Lab
  • Yoga Therapy (500hr + advanced studies, India)
  • Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training (500hr)
  • Breathwork Facilitation
  • Nervous System Regulation & Somatic Regulation Work
Psychology, Trauma & Integrative Healing
  • Jungian Depth Psychology — ongoing study
  • Compassionate Inquiry — Gabor Maté
  • Addiction Recovery Yoga Therapy — Sat Dharam Kaur
  • Certified Canadian Coach
  • Certified Neurodiversity Coach
  • Death Doula Studies
  • Clinical & Private Practice (20+ years experience)
Sacred Arts, Wisdom & Ancient Systems
  • Tantra — Tantric Arts School + independent lineage study
  • Ayurveda — foundational studies
  • Shamanic Practices & Plant Medicine Healing
  • Astrology, Gene Keys & Human Design
  • Animist Psychology
  • Dreamwork & Intuition Development
  • AccuDetox (NADA protocol)
Creative, Cultural & Experiential Design
  • Immersive Art Installations
  • Photography & Storytelling
  • Herbal Creation, Ritual Crafting & Botanical Product Design
  • Retreat Design & Immersive Experience Creation
  • Corporate Wellness & Organisational Culture Work
  • Leadership, Burnout Recovery & Workplace Wellbeing Programs
  • Youth & Community Programme Development
  • Group Facilitation (somatic + experiential + therapeutic spaces)
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Words from the Work

What people say when they arrive.

These are the words people find after the work. After something shifts. After they remember what it feels like to be fully alive.

Read the Words