Shanika Malcolm is a Jamaican-born author, medicine woman, survivalist, and spiritual mentor devoted to personal and planetary healing.

Her journey began in many ways when she became a mother at just 17 . A path that transformed her life and initiated her into deeper purpose. But it was the death of her first daughter that became a spiritual turning point, cracking open the shell of the world she knew and calling her into a life of conscious healing, soul remembrance, and sacred service.

From that moment on, Shanika committed to healing and liberating herself , physically, emotionally, spiritually, and ancestrally. She gave birth to her next children at home, through powerful free births guided by intuition and trust. These experiences awakened her passion to support other women through physiological, empowered birth — leading her to train as a doula and midwife, walking with women as they reclaim their power and return birth to the sacred.

Over the years, Shanika immersed herself in holistic learning. Studying plant medicine, reflexology, nutrition, spiritual healing, and permaculture, eventually receiving her Permaculture Design Certificate. She also studied vegan and vegetarian culinary arts, uniting food, nature, and healing as a way of life. Her journey has taken her deep into embodiment — not just learning, but living the wisdom she carries.

She is passionate about building regenerative communities and creating ecovillage models that allow humans and nature to live in harmony. Her calling is rooted in reconnection — to the Earth, to the Divine Feminine, to Spirit, and to the truth of who we are.

In 2021, Shanika received the opportunity to participate in the Naked and Afraid survival challenge, making history as the first Afro-Indigenous woman to complete the experience. That moment catalyzed her departure from the United States, and she’s been living in Latin America ever since & raising her three daughters in soul alignment, and building a life they don’t need a vacation from.

She is the founder of The Matri-Essence Collective, a growing movement dedicated to rebuilding the matriarchy and supporting the return of feminine wisdom, regenerative living, and spiritual sovereignty.

Through her transformational program Shedding the Patriarchy, Embracing the Matriarchy, her Source Vital Energy Reports, private healing retreats in Colombia, and gatherings like the Equinox Ecovillage Retreat the Roots & Rhythms Community Festival, Shanika offers a path back to wholeness, alignment, and sacred leadership.

She shares even more of her powerful personal journey — through grief, birth, healing, survival, and visioning the matriarchal future — in her published chapter in the book:
Rebel Ma – Leading in the Time of the Feminine.

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