About
About Ksandra
Shamanic Reiki practitioner, intuitive life coach, and ceremony facilitator in St. Louis and online
My path into this work
It began with listening
My path didn't begin with a clear title or plan. It began with listening: to my body, to my inner experience, and to a quiet pull toward something deeper and more honest.
Like many people drawn to this work, my early years were shaped by curiosity, sensitivity, and a longing to understand myself beyond surface-level answers. Since 2008, lived experience, study, and self-inquiry have led me to the practices that help me feel most connected, grounded, and at home in myself.
For a long time, I believed growth would come through effort, intensity, and striving. Life had other lessons in store.
The turning point
Real insight rarely comes from pushing. It comes from feeling safe enough to listen.
In 2020, my life came apart in a matter of months. My twelve-year marriage and the business we'd built together ended, I lost my home, and I left New York, moving back to San Diego and then to St. Louis at the end of 2021. About a year in, the full weight of it hit. There were days I couldn't get out of bed, eat, or go ten minutes without crying.
I had a life coach, a therapist, and my family, and all of it helped. But what finally shifted things wasn't pushing harder. It was slowing down, letting myself feel what I'd been holding, and learning how much the nervous system, consent, and pacing matter.
That season also showed me how much of the real work happens between sessions, in the ordinary days when no one is holding space for you. It changed how I support the people I work with.
What I believe
Your emotions aren't the problem
Many of us learned that some emotions are good and others are bad, and that a dysregulated nervous system means something is wrong with us. That season taught me to see it differently.
A spectrum, not a hierarchy
Every emotion carries information, even the ones we were taught to push away.
Dysregulation carries wisdom
It often points to a boundary, a hard conversation, or a change that's asking to be made.
Capacity and repair
The goal isn't to never feel activated. It's growing your capacity to feel, and your ability to come back to yourself and repair.
I want to acknowledge how beautifully you hold space. Your grounded presence, your hospitality, and even the way you nourish others through your cooking all contribute to a deeply supportive environment. You're a gifted facilitator.
How I work today
Your own inner compass, remembered
I believe each of us carries our own inner guidance: a wisdom and a compass that's always there, even when it's hard to hear. My role isn't to lead you toward a set outcome. It's to help you build a deep relationship with yourself and remember how to trust that guidance.
Many of the people I work with have already done a lot of healing: therapy, books, retreats, or years on a spiritual path. They understand their patterns, but still feel stuck in survival mode or disconnected from themselves. Others are in the middle of a big life transition or a spiritual awakening. Some come for a single session, some for ceremony, and some for a three-month mentorship when a season of change needs steadier support.
Through shamanic Reiki and energy healing, intuitive life coaching, and ceremony, I weave together the practices below. In my energy work, I connect deeply with earth and etheric elements and with ancestral energy.
Since 2008, what I care about most has stayed the same: meeting each person with presence, integrity, and respect for their own timing.
In clients' words
It's only a handful of people I suggest to others when it comes to being held and supported spiritually. Ksandra is always one of them. I feel safe directing anyone to her, knowing they will be supported with integrity.
Ksandra is a beautiful, wise, and skillful practitioner.
Ksandra is wonderful to work with and truly gifted.
Where I work
In person and online
I see clients in person at my offices in Clayton and Ellisville (West County), at pop-up events around St. Louis, and on Zoom with people wherever they live. In-home sessions are available by request.
How online sessions work →