Dasha Barsukova
Founder · SHKODA Mystery School
About Dasha
She never came here
to live an ordinary life.
At 16, Dasha knew she wanted to transform the world. Not someday. Not theoretically. Not in the “maybe once I'm qualified enough” kind of way.
She felt it in her bones.
She studied psychology — fascinated by the mind, behaviour, trauma, identity, and the invisible patterns that shape a human life. But even then, something was missing. The mind was powerful, yes. But it was not the whole mystery.
There was the body. The nervous system. The soul. The unseen. The field. The intelligence beneath language. The strange and undeniable magic of life.
From skeptic to psychic
She did not begin as someone who believed everything.
In fact, for a long time, she thought most spiritual people were probably full of shit. She went to Reiki sessions and felt nothing. She questioned everything. She side-eyed the mystical. She did not want to be naive, delusional, or easily impressed.
And then life opened a door she could not close.
Through Tantra, shamanism, Taoist practices, breathwork, embodiment, deep inner work, and training with an alchemist — something in her cracked open.
Her intuition became undeniable. Her crown opened. Her psychic gifts came online. Magic stopped being a concept and became a lived reality.
Not fluffy magic. Not bypassing. Not “just think positive and manifest it.”
Real magic. The kind that rearranges your life. The kind that speaks through the body. The kind that shows up as synchronicity, knowing, timing, money, love, opportunity, and the quiet inner click of: this is the way.
Built through intuition
She has never had a full-time job.
Instead, she built a six-figure online business by following intuition, trusting her body, taking the leap before the proof arrived, and choosing freedom again and again.
She has travelled to more than 56 countries. Led circles, workshops, rituals, transformational spaces, and immersive experiences around the world. Worked with healers, changemakers, thought leaders, creatives, founders, and visionaries. Spoken at festivals, retreats, and intimate rooms.
Her life has become a devotional experiment in what happens when you stop forcing yourself into the template — and start letting your reality organize around your soul.
A couple of hours a day. A couple of days a week. A couple of weeks a month. A couple of months a year.
Not as a fantasy. As a body-led, intuition-led, nervous-system-held way of creating.
The craft behind the magic
Her work is not just mystical.
It is deeply grounded.
She blends psychology, Internal Family Systems, somatic trauma work, breathwork, nervous system regulation, Tantra, Taoist practices, emotional alchemy, psychic channeling, embodiment, money work, consent, and magic.
Her genius is in seeing what is actually happening underneath the surface.
She does not just give people insight. She helps the entire system reorganize — mind, body, energy, identity, nervous system, field — so the dream no longer feels like something they have to wrestle into existence.
It becomes something their whole being can finally hold.
The lineage
Years of study, initiation, and lived devotion.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a double major in social and neural sciences. But the deeper qualification is this: she knows how to translate the mystical into the practical.
Psychology & Neural Sciences (BSc)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Somatic Trauma Work
Nervous System Regulation
Tantra & Tantric Sex Coaching
Taoist Energy Practices
Breathwork Facilitation
Psychic Channeling
Shamanic Meditation
Embodiment & Yoga
Women's Mysteries
Consent-Based Facilitation
Her devotion
She has made a pledge to live in total alignment — even when it is inconvenient.
Even when it requires hard conversations. Even when it asks her to leave places, relationships, identities, offers, or versions of herself that no longer feel true. Even when it makes no logical sense yet.
Her life is not a polished performance of freedom.
It is a living practice. A devotion to truth. A devotion to pleasure. A devotion to the body. A devotion to intuition. A devotion to choosing the path that feels most alive — even when it asks everything.
That is why her work is not theoretical. She does not teach people how to create impossible lives from the sidelines. She lives inside the experiment.
Pleasure as proof
Pleasure is not a reward you earn
after the work is done.
Pleasure is part of the work.
Beauty, travel, dance, food, intimacy, ritual, friendship, money, rest, art, desire, and joy are not decorations on the outside of transformation. They are evidence that the body is beginning to feel safe enough to receive life.
Her life has been built around this devotion: to not merely survive, perform, or achieve — but to actually taste the miracle of being alive.
Because success without aliveness is not freedom. And brilliance without joy is too expensive.
Why Shkoda exists
Shkoda was born for the extraordinary humans who look like they have it all — and secretly know something essential is missing.
Founders.
Artists.
Cultural creators.
Investors.
Private geniuses.
Mystics.
Performers.
Thought leaders.
Visionaries.
Reality-benders.
The ones who have already created something real. Who have proven they can build through force, discipline, obsession, survival, and brilliance.
The ones who are now ready to stop paying for their success with their aliveness.
Because at a certain level, the next breakthrough is not more strategy.
It is coherence. It is nervous system safety. It is joy. It is intuition. It is shadow integration. It is learning how to actually inhabit the life you created.
It is remembering that you were never here just to be impressive. You were here to be alive.
The world she comes from
Born in Russia. Raised in Australia. Built by the space between worlds.
She grew up between cultures, languages, and worlds — shaped by powerful women, migration, scarcity, reinvention, and the deep knowing that reality can change completely.
Her early life taught her that the world is not one fixed thing. There are many ways to live. Many realities to inhabit. Many identities to shed and become.
That became the root of her work.
Because if reality can be rewritten once, it can be rewritten again. And again. And again.
What she believes
Joy is not frivolous. It is the operating system of greatness.
Magic and strategy are not opposites. They are lovers.
The body knows the truth before the mind can explain it.
Your demons are not proof that you are broken. They are doorways.
Your nervous system must be able to hold the life your soul is calling in.
You do not have to sacrifice love for success, pleasure for power, rest for impact, or aliveness for brilliance.
Reality is more malleable than most people dare to admit.
The impossible becomes inevitable when your whole system is finally on your side.
Work with Dasha
The life you built was never meant
to become a cage.
Come home to your body. Reclaim your joy. Let the next impossible thing arrive through coherence, magic, and ease.